13.4.0 RC2

Changelog

Enhancements

Block Library

• Block deprecations: Provide context when blocks.registerBlockType is applied to deprecations. (36628)
• File Block: Makes the button an element button. (41239)
• Gallery: Opt-in to axial (column/row) block spacing controls. (41175)
• Gallery block: Update the gallery gap to load styles in header for block themes. (41015)
• Navigation: Remove unnecessary 'role' attribute. (41360)
• Post Author Name: Add to and from Post Author transformations. (41151)
• Post Comments: Make the button an element button. (41251)
• Search Block - ability to specify additional search query vars. (40585)
• Site Logo: Update/site logo constrain image. (41298)

Components

• Allow removing bottom margin from SelectControl. (41269)
• ColorPicker: Only display detailed inputs. (41222)
• ColorPicker: Strip hash from pasted hex values in ColorPicker. (41223)
• Design updates to the Publish popover (DateTimePicker). (41097)
• Spacer: Add RTL support. (41172)

Global Styles

• Add support for button elements to theme.json. (40260)
• Button Element: Add support to Site Editor. (41246)
• Button Element: Update button element selector. (41240)

Design Tools

• Unify color UI. Refactor panel color gradient settings to use a tools panel. (41091)

Full Site Editing

• Site Editor: Update single default template copy. (41302)
• FSE Templates: Add info to templates created from wp suggestion. (41387)

New APIs

• Move the visible blocks state to the block editor store. (41104)

Bug Fixes

• Fix customizer block toolbar after popover refactor. (41312)
• Get_style_nodes should be compatible with parent method. (41217)

Block Library

• Columns: Add default fallback gap value in block.json, and set to 2em for Columns blocks. (41098)
• Cover: Fix duotone when background is set to fixed. (40554)
• Gallery: Lower the priority of the gallery gap css so it loads after the block layout css. (41423)
• Gallery: Support gaps that define column/row gaps to avoid PHP Warning/Fatal. (41125)
• Group: Check variation is registered before displaying it in the toolbar. (41305)
• Image: Revert error handling. (41221)
• List: List split bugs if the one of the splits is empty. (41283)
• Navigation: Fix broken Page title for pages created inline within in Nav block. (41063)
• Navigation: Remove all references to the navigation areas. (41205)
• Query: Inherit author from global query. (40648)
• Table of Contents: Convert <br> tags to spaces in headings. (41206)
• Table of Contents: Fix list block check. (41351)

Block Editor

• Block Variations: Fix block variation registration when icon is an object and contains transform scope. (41457)
• Handle no variation case in the block transform menu. (41328)
• Update the block popover position as we scroll the container. (41402)
• Writing Flow: Fix browser formatting with shortcuts on multiple selection. (41207)

Components

• BorderBoxControl: Fix right border control alignment on small viewports and RTL styles. (41254)
• ColorPalette: Update label correctly when value is CSS variable. (41461)
• InputControl: Fix undo when changing padding values. (40518)
• Popover, CustomGradientPicker, Dropdown: Fix positioning of popover when used in a dropdown. (41361)
• Style Variations: Set min-width for styles preview. (41198)

CSS & Styling

• Block styles: Account for style block nodes that have no name. (41446)

Site Editor

• Code Editor: Avoid content loss when switching between editors. (41407)
• Fix description in GetTemplateInfo. (41394)
• Navigation Menu Sidebar: Fix vertical alignment of rows in nav panel. (40883)
• Persist new template's description on creation. (41281)

Performance

• Improve autocompleter performance. (41197)
• Load block CSS conditionally. (41160)
• Update React Spring. (41185)

Experiments

• Remove Navigation screen from experiments page. (40878)

Documentation

• Add missing entries to components package CHANGELOG. (41159)
• Added example for getSaveElement. (41211)
• Block support docs: Update blockGap notes. (41225)
• Change 'author' to 'category' in onCategoryChange. (41299)
• Components: Link Storybook in readme. (41182)
• Create Block: Improve block templates. (41273)
• Fix spelling mistake broswer to browser. (41137)
• Improve inline documentation. (41209)
• SlotFill: Remove note about portals being unstable. (41359)
• Update Page URL. (41188)

Code Quality

• Entity configuration types. (40995)
• Remove unused color panel files. (41148)
• Remove the tooltip from the block selection button. (41154)
• Search: Avoid double escaping. (41147)
• Upgrade Rememo to v4. (41415)

Components

• Refactor Autocomplete to pass exhaustive-deps. (41382)
• Refactor BorderControl to pass exhaustive-deps. (41259)
• Refactor ColorPalette to disable exhaustive-deps check for now. (41253)
• Remove 'useCombinedRef' hook. (41186)
• Update @types/react-dates. (41266)
• Refactor AlignmentMatrixControl to pass exhaustive-deps. (41167)
• Surface: Convert component to TypeScript. (41212)
• TextareaControl: Convert component to TypeScript. (41215)

Tools

Build Tooling

• jest-console: Add types directory to "files". (41386)
• Scripts: Convert file extension to js in block.json during build. (41068)
• Scripts: Plugin-zip to include root path files. (41439)

Plugin

• Updates tested up to with 6.0 version. (41272)

Project Management

• Limit my codeowners to the REST API. (41411)

Testing

• CheckboxControl: Add unit tests. (41165)
• Enable iframe-inline-styles end-to-end test. (35171)
• Migrate code block tests to Playwright. (41136)
• Migrate html block test case to Playwright. (41231)
• Migrate preformatted block tests to Playwright. (41128)
• Migrate revert template test to Playwright. (41310)
• Migrate separator block tests to Playwright. (41130)
• Migrate template part test to playwright. (41048)
• Refactor check-local-changes script. (41074)
• Rewrite flaky tests reporter into its own package. (41106)
• Revert "Enable iframe-inline-styles end-to-end test". (41369)
• Upgrade Playwright and use the official role selector engine. (41389)
• Use @testing-library/user-event in BoxControl tests. (41422)
• Use @testing-library/user-event in TimePicker tests. (41270)

wp-env

• Allow skipping setting a configuration value by specifying it as null. (41084)
• Fixed run Argument Passing. (41179)
• Remove explicit git branch fallbacks for wp-env and update readme. (41043)

First time contributors

The following PRs were merged by first time contributors:

• @CWBudde: Added example for getSaveElement. (41211)
• @derekblank: (40334)
• @ObliviousHarmony: Env: Fixed run Argument Passing. (41179)
• @pooja-muchandikar: Migrate html block test case to Playwright. (41231)
• @xconsau: Change 'author' to 'category' in onCategoryChange. (41299)

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@aaronrobertshaw @adamziel @aduth @amustaque97 @andrewserong @aristath @chad1008 @ciampo @CWBudde @dd32 @derekblank @draganescu @ethitter @fluiddot @geriux @getdave @glendaviesnz @gvgvgvijayan @gziolo @jameskoster @jorgefilipecosta @jostnes @JustinyAhin @kevin940726 @Mamaduka @matiasbenedetto @mirka @noisysocks @ntsekouras @ObliviousHarmony @pooja-muchandikar @ramonjd @SavPhill @scruffian @SiobhyB @stokesman @t-hamano @talldan @tellthemachines @TimothyBJacobs @tomasztunik @torounit @walbo @xconsau @youknowriad @ZebulanStanphill