23.5.0 RC1

Changelog

Enhancements

• Style Engine: Export public TypeScript types. (79079)
• Widget Primitives: Decouple discovery from a hardcoded endpoint. (79322)
• Widget Primitives: Make @types/react an optional peer dependency. (79272)

Components

• Add corner radius presets to ThemeProvider. (78816)
• Autocomplete: Add Group and GroupLabel primitives. (78901)
• Base Styles: Add wpds-var Sass helper for design token fallbacks. (78698)
• BaseControl: add text-wrap: Pretty. (79112)
• BoxControl: Hard deprecate 40px default size. (79419)
• Components, DataViews: Adopt --wpds-dimension-size-* tokens. (79093)
• ESLint, UI, Components: Mark Tooltip from @wordpress/ui as recommended. (78693)
• Popover: Add open/close motion and fix close re-anchor. (78885)
• Theme: Add Figma scopes to element size tokens. (79032)
• Theme: Add disabled variants for brand and error interactive color tokens. (79124)
• Theme: Add stroke-surface tokens for the caution tone. (79198)
• Theme: Apply ThemeProvider styles inline (I2). (78678)
• Theme: Differentiate --wpds-color-fg-interactive-{brand,error}-active vs resting state tokens. (79151)
• Theme: Enforce sRGB seed-color input contract for ThemeProvider. (79148)
• Theme: Provide design-system token defaults without a runtime <ThemeProvider>. (78664)
• Theme: Skip serializing data-wpds-root-provider="false" on non-root providers. (79253)
• Theme: forward ThemeProvider cornerRadius preset to :Root for root providers. (79153)
• UI Field.Description: add text-wrap: Pretty. (79143)
• UI: Disable instant overlay popup transitions. (79432)
• UI: Simplify focus ring styles. (78823)
• UI: Use isomorphic layout effects for SSR. (79458)
• Update @ariakit/react to 0.4.29. (79055)
• [DataViewsPicker]: DataViewsPicker.BulkActionToolbar now renders only the bulk-selection info and action buttons. (79180)
• theme: Rename bg/fg design token groups to background/foreground. (79098)

Block Library

• Add support for aspect ratio and related controls in viewport states. (78795)
• Audio: Apply inert directly instead of wrapping in Disabled. (79423)
• Classic Block: Port PHPUnit coverage for hiding it from the inserter. (79434)
• Cover block: Add media editor modal. (79258)
• File Block: Combine audio/video/image to file transforms. (79242)
• File Block: Replace on-mount downloadButtonText effect with a default variation. (79236)
• Icon Block: Add flip and rotate transformation controls. (77017)
• Icon block: Default to core/info via block.json instead of an insert-time effect. (79212)
• Icon block: Move flip controls to toolbar group. (79192)
• Icons block: Insert an icon by default. (79111)
• Math format: Seed LaTeX input from the current selection. (79052)
• Pullquote: Migrate to text-align block support. (79225)
• Remove orphaned convertToListItems util. (79400)
• Search block: Add opt-in support for the semantic element. (78485)
• Tabs: Simplify layout and prune redundant block supports. (77646)
• Try: Remove Tab (Tab list item) block. (77439)
• Video: Apply inert directly instead of wrapping in Disabled. (79371)

Post Editor

• Block Editor: Allow overriding disableContentOnlyForTemplateParts setting. (79191)
• Editor: Hide cmd palette shortcut in document bar when admin bar is shown. (79060)
• Feature: Need to add “Show More” / “Show Less” toggle in Note. (77446)
• Notes: Simplify 'Show more/less' collapse logic. (79261)
• Rename Toolbar in editor experiment to match iteration issue. (79074)
• Revisions screen with picker-activity layout. (77333)
• Style states: Use symbols for property keys to avoid clashes. (79210)

Site Editor

• Add xl border radius token for page shell surfaces. (78913)
• Change 'Identity' nav item position. (79292)
• Handle aria-current natively in SidebarNavigationItem. (79305)
• Introduce isHidden prop for SidebarNavigationItem. (79352)
• Omnipresent toolbar: Show site icon instead of dashicon if set. (79049)
• Update spelling within the welcome tour. (53028)

Block Editor

• Add flex vertical alignment tool to block inspector layout panel. (79426)
• Correct behaviour of flex child fixed width and introduce max width option. (79073)
• Global Styles: Add textShadow style support. (73320)
• List View block support: Hide list tab when allowedBlocks is empty, with no children. (78932)
• Pattern editing: Show root block identity when editing pattern sections. (79417)

Media

• Media Editor Modal: Add a loading and simple error state. (79101)
• Media Editor: Magnify the crop to fill the canvas. (79044)
• Media Fields: Ensure the current post is always included in the initial options. (79467)
• Media editor: Snap crop handles to source pixels. (79139)

Data Layer

• RTC: Allow disabling collaboration by post type. (78984)
• TextControl: Hard deprecate 40px default size. (79386)
• View Config: Request a subset of properties with the _fields parameter. (79355)

Client Side Media

• Media: Rename HEIC companion metadata key to source_image. (79307)
• Upload Media: Add error taxonomy, localized messages, and dev diagnostics. (74917)
• Vips: Inline WASM with compact UTF-8 binary encoding instead of base64. (79188)

Dashboard

• Boot: Run page init modules in initSinglePage. (79394)
• Widget Dashboard: Extract into @wordpress/widget-dashboard. (79268)

npm Packages

• Grid: Prepare @wordpress/grid for npm publishing as experimental 0.1.0. (79071)
• Widget Primitives: Extract into @wordpress/widget-primitives. (79134)

DataViews

• View configuration API and REST Endpoint: Make them core ready. (79347)

Plugin

• Bump minimum required WordPress version to 6.9. (79196)

Global Styles

• Global styles revisions...

23.4.0

Changelog

Features

Post Editor

• Show media upload progress in a snackbar. (77249)

Client Side Media

• Revert client-side media processing plugin-only gate. (76751)

Enhancements

• Tooltip migration: Boot consumers + shell-level Tooltip.Provider (5/5). (78692)
• Tooltip migration: Fields + media-editor + media-fields + global-styles-ui (4/5). (78691)
• Migrate the browserlintrc file to packages/postcss-plugins-preset. (78764)

Components

• Combobox: Add primitives. (78399)
• Compose: Support React 19 ref callback cleanups in useMergeRefs. (78685)
• DataViewsPicker: Add a new pickerActivity layout. (78941)
• Storybook: Enhance Theme Provider example with admin-ui Page. (78814)
• Theme package: Add element size design tokens. (76545)
• Theme: Drop density support from @wordpress/theme. (78741)
• Theme: Increase stroke1 contrast target to 2.9. (77599)
• Tooltip: Use md border radius for portaled popups. (78983)
• UI: Update CSS cascade layers to use nesting. (78959)
• UI: Update @base-ui/react to 1.5.0. (78448)

Block Library

• Add playlist track length setting. (78954)
• Blocks: Allow the Loginout block as an inner block in the Navigation Submenu block. (75497)
• Hide paragraph Drop Cap and Fit Text controls when a state is selected. (78672)
• Icons: Rename timeToRead to time. (78804)
• Playlist Block: Add visualization style selector. (76147)
• Try allowing transforms to a variation of another block. (78713)

Media

• Media Editor Modal: Reorder details fields so the editable regular layout fields appear at the top. (78792)
• Media Editor: Add aspect ratio control to mobile toolbar. (78935)
• Media Editor: Refactor modal layout. (78896)
• Media Editor: Replace the zoom slider with +/- buttons. (78928)
• Media editor: Tweak paddings and margins. (79009)

Dashboard

• Move layout settings to customize toolbar. (78738)
• Opinionated grid columns with container breakpoints. (78732)
• Promote WidgetRender into widget-primitives. (78821)
• Replace grid row height controls with size presets. (78735)
• Use Howdy greeting for page title. (78740)

Post Editor

• UI: Tooltip.Provider — forward upstream closeDelay and timeout props. (78642)
• Upload Media: Add retry with exponential backoff and network resilience. (76765)
• Use search_columns=post_title for parent page selector REST API searches. (78683)

Data Layer

• RTC: Add separate doc persistence endpoint. (78891)
• RTC: Re-render collaborators overlay when the block tree changes. (78636)

Collaboration

• RTC: Prevent slower polling filters. (78811)
• RTC: Return forbidden rooms together. (78748)

Site Editor

• Apply the user's admin color scheme. (78397)
• Post list: Remove close button from Quick Edit drawer. (78730)

Block Editor

• Changed labels to consistently use Patterns in favor of Block patterns. (56880)
• List View: Remove redundant visibilityLabel compoutation. (78640)
• Add React 19 as an experimental flag. (79077)

Icons

• Maintain absolute stroke-width regardless of icon-size. (78774)

Font Library

• Fix Update button staying active when changes are reverted. (78567)

Client Side Media

• Media: Add UltraHDR (ISO 21496-1) gain map support. (74873)

New APIs

Extensibility

• Extract entity view configuration into a filterable API. (78977)

Bug Fixes

• Build: Document the hooks generated by the wp-build page templates. (78826)
• Scripts: Use require.resolve for SVG webpack loaders to fix pnpm compatibility. (78777)
• [Content Types]: Fix extra Page padding causing vertical scrollbar. (78661)
• env: Replace extract-zip with adm-zip to fix hang on Node 24.16. (78828)
• wp-build: Fix black flash on wp-admin pages before hydration. (78493)

Block Library

• Common CSS: Avoid false-positive border-style on custom properties. (77476)
• Fix playlist metadata edits recreating player. (78876)
• Fix type of $block_instance parameter in block_core_image_render_lightbox(). (78790)
• Paragraph: Strip stale block-support classes from className during align attribute migration. (78731)
• Prevent font-size propagation in Navigation items causing em compounding. (77419)
• Shortcode block: Fix editor crash when selecting transform menu. (78770)
• Writing flow: Delete at end of nested list item should merge into next block. (78742)
• Image block: Don't show crop icon while image is uploading. (79103)

Media

• Media Editor: Fix media editor sidebar close button label. (78895)
• Media Editor: Fix sidebar overflowing the modal between the small and medium breakpoints. (78931)
• Media Editor: Keep crop handles operable on large images. (79011)
• Media Editor: Remove lag when toggling the sidebar. (79024)
• Media Editor: Small tweak to gutters. (79168)

Components

• Button.Icon: Fix clipped icons. (78614)
• Compose: Fix SSR crash in useMediaQuery and useViewportMatch. (78725)
• ColorPalette: Don't render when custom colors disabled and no colors passed. (72402)
• ui/AlertDialog: Fix footer layout style override. (78953)

Global Styles

• Elements: Align class name parsing with custom CSS implementation. (79023)
• Elements: Guard against non-string className in render filter. (78841)

Block Editor

• Inserter: Use forwardRef for refs. (79006)
• Preserve nested list when deleting a selection across sibling list items. (78776)

Client Side Media

• Media: Skip cross-origin isolation on the classic-theme site editor home route. (78404)
• Upload Media: Gate very large images out of client-side processing. (78949)

Plugin

• Fix Gutenberg plugin assuming its directory is named "gutenberg". (78705)
• Fix experiments page form layout with box-sizing and width. (78910)

Data Layer

• RTC:...

23.4.0 RC1

Changelog

Features

Post Editor

• Show media upload progress in a snackbar. (77249)

Client Side Media

• Revert client-side media processing plugin-only gate. (76751)

Enhancements

• Tooltip migration: Boot consumers + shell-level Tooltip.Provider (5/5). (78692)
• Tooltip migration: Fields + media-editor + media-fields + global-styles-ui (4/5). (78691)
• Migrate the browserlintrc file to packages/postcss-plugins-preset. (78764)

Components

• Combobox: Add primitives. (78399)
• Compose: Support React 19 ref callback cleanups in useMergeRefs. (78685)
• DataViewsPicker: Add a new pickerActivity layout. (78941)
• Storybook: Enhance Theme Provider example with admin-ui Page. (78814)
• Theme package: Add element size design tokens. (76545)
• Theme: Drop density support from @wordpress/theme. (78741)
• Theme: Increase stroke1 contrast target to 2.9. (77599)
• Tooltip: Use md border radius for portaled popups. (78983)
• UI: Update CSS cascade layers to use nesting. (78959)
• UI: Update @base-ui/react to 1.5.0. (78448)

Block Library

• Add playlist track length setting. (78954)
• Blocks: Allow the Loginout block as an inner block in the Navigation Submenu block. (75497)
• Hide paragraph Drop Cap and Fit Text controls when a state is selected. (78672)
• Icons: Rename timeToRead to time. (78804)
• Playlist Block: Add visualization style selector. (76147)
• Try allowing transforms to a variation of another block. (78713)

Media

• Media Editor Modal: Reorder details fields so the editable regular layout fields appear at the top. (78792)
• Media Editor: Add aspect ratio control to mobile toolbar. (78935)
• Media Editor: Refactor modal layout. (78896)
• Media Editor: Replace the zoom slider with +/- buttons. (78928)
• Media editor: Tweak paddings and margins. (79009)

Dashboard

• Move layout settings to customize toolbar. (78738)
• Opinionated grid columns with container breakpoints. (78732)
• Promote WidgetRender into widget-primitives. (78821)
• Replace grid row height controls with size presets. (78735)
• Use Howdy greeting for page title. (78740)

Post Editor

• UI: Tooltip.Provider — forward upstream closeDelay and timeout props. (78642)
• Upload Media: Add retry with exponential backoff and network resilience. (76765)
• Use search_columns=post_title for parent page selector REST API searches. (78683)

Data Layer

• RTC: Add separate doc persistence endpoint. (78891)
• RTC: Re-render collaborators overlay when the block tree changes. (78636)

Collaboration

• RTC: Prevent slower polling filters. (78811)
• RTC: Return forbidden rooms together. (78748)

Site Editor

• Apply the user's admin color scheme. (78397)
• Post list: Remove close button from Quick Edit drawer. (78730)

Block Editor

• Changed labels to consistently use Patterns in favor of Block patterns. (56880)
• List View: Remove redundant visibilityLabel compoutation. (78640)

Icons

• Maintain absolute stroke-width regardless of icon-size. (78774)

Font Library

• Fix Update button staying active when changes are reverted. (78567)

Client Side Media

• Media: Add UltraHDR (ISO 21496-1) gain map support. (74873)

New APIs

Extensibility

• Extract entity view configuration into a filterable API. (78977)

Bug Fixes

• Build: Document the hooks generated by the wp-build page templates. (78826)
• Scripts: Use require.resolve for SVG webpack loaders to fix pnpm compatibility. (78777)
• [Content Types]: Fix extra Page padding causing vertical scrollbar. (78661)
• env: Replace extract-zip with adm-zip to fix hang on Node 24.16. (78828)
• wp-build: Fix black flash on wp-admin pages before hydration. (78493)

Block Library

• Common CSS: Avoid false-positive border-style on custom properties. (77476)
• Fix playlist metadata edits recreating player. (78876)
• Fix type of $block_instance parameter in block_core_image_render_lightbox(). (78790)
• Paragraph: Strip stale block-support classes from className during align attribute migration. (78731)
• Prevent font-size propagation in Navigation items causing em compounding. (77419)
• Shortcode block: Fix editor crash when selecting transform menu. (78770)
• Writing flow: Delete at end of nested list item should merge into next block. (78742)

Media

• Media Editor: Fix media editor sidebar close button label. (78895)
• Media Editor: Fix sidebar overflowing the modal between the small and medium breakpoints. (78931)
• Media Editor: Keep crop handles operable on large images. (79011)
• Media Editor: Remove lag when toggling the sidebar. (79024)

Components

• Button.Icon: Fix clipped icons. (78614)
• Compose: Fix SSR crash in useMediaQuery and useViewportMatch. (78725)
• ColorPalette: Don't render when custom colors disabled and no colors passed. (72402)
• ui/AlertDialog: Fix footer layout style override. (78953)

Global Styles

• Elements: Align class name parsing with custom CSS implementation. (79023)
• Elements: Guard against non-string className in render filter. (78841)

Block Editor

• Inserter: Use forwardRef for refs. (79006)
• Preserve nested list when deleting a selection across sibling list items. (78776)

Client Side Media

• Media: Skip cross-origin isolation on the classic-theme site editor home route. (78404)
• Upload Media: Gate very large images out of client-side processing. (78949)

Plugin

• Fix Gutenberg plugin assuming its directory is named "gutenberg". (78705)
• Fix experiments page form layout with box-sizing and width. (78910)

Data Layer

• RTC: Fix CRDT deferred updates resulting in jumbled typing. (78756)
• RTC: Fix Yjs undo manager to update UI state when undo stack changes. (78864)

Post Editor

• Editor: Fix keyboard activation of the template action...

23.3.2

Changelog

Bug Fixes

Data Layer

• Revert React 19 upgrade. (78940)

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@jsnajdr

23.3.1

Changelog

Bug Fixes

• Element: Add polyfills for render, hydrate, unmountComponentAtNode. (78899)
• React: Add ReactCurrentOwner polyfill. (78923)
• Revert "wp-build: Replace getter-based exports with data properties". (78917)

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@gigitux @jsnajdr

23.3.0

Changelog

Features

Post Editor

• Notes: Support multiple note threads per block. (75147)

Enhancements

Components

• DataViews: Adopt @wordpress/theme design tokens. (75204)
• Draggable: Scope the clone's fallback z-index to non-slot placements. (78354)
• Navigation: Hard deprecate component. (78529)
• Overlays: Extend positioner slot pattern to Popover, Select, Autocomplete. (78168)
• Tabs, TabPanel: Align styles with wp-ui. (78418)
• Tooltip migration: Dataviews consumers (3/5). (78470)
• UI Button: Optimize overflow styles. (78300)
• UI Card: Full bleed as header hero image and content cover. (77856)
• Visually align Notice from @wordpress/components with Notice from @wordpress/ui. (78231)
• [components] Draggable: Migrate clone wrapper to wp compat overlay slot. (78183)
• [ui] Add internal wp compat overlay slot helper. (77851)
• [ui] Autocomplete: Default portal container to the wp compat overlay slot. (78375)
• [ui] Select: Default portal container to the wp compat overlay slot. (78372)
• [ui] Tooltip: Default portal container to the wp compat overlay slot. (78095)
• design-system-mcp: Add server instructions for client usage guidance. (78186)
• design-system-mcp: Update get_components to optionally support multiple names. (78185)

Block Editor

• Add support for layout responsive styles. (78543)
• Add supports for pseudo states on single block instances. (76491)
• Block Inserter: Animate inserter button icon to signal open state. (78306)
• Hide block variation selector when style state is selected. (78658)
• Hide wrap by default in flex layout panel. (78269)
• Integrate slug-based color selection in color panel. (78048)
• Migrate pattern list item titles to Text from @wordpress/ui. (77656)
• Refactor: Add extractPresetSlug as a generalized function to extract slugs. (78328)
• Tooltip migration: Block-editor + block-directory consumers (1/5). (78411)
• Validate additional CSS on mount. (78682)

Block Library

• Block Style States: Show only supported inspector controls when selecting a style state. (78280)
• Columns: Remove redundant Skip option from layout picker. (78405)
• Home Link: Add missing controls. (76672)
• Move Layout panel into styles tab so it sits next to Dimensions. (77922)
• Responsive block instance styles. (78384)

Post Editor

• Collab Sidebar: Swap near-identical pink for red in avatar palette. (78299)
• Media Editor: Make the modal the default crop experience. (78653)
• RTC: Provide PROTOCOL_MISMATCH error handling. (76991)
• Tooltip migration: Editor + edit-post + edit-site consumers (2/5). (78466)

Dashboard

• Add custom widget dashboard resize handle styling. (78236)
• Dashboard Widgets: Adapt Quick Draft to its tile size with a recent drafts list. (78572)
• Widget dashboard: Skip tile hover elevation while resizing. (78234)

Font Library

• Clarify active variant state in Library tab. (78501)

Guidelines

• Refine access policy. (78296)

Connectors

• Restyle AI plugin callout with pastel background and beak. (78243)

Media

• Media Editor Modal: Update the rotation ruler to use a vertical line marker. (78704)

Client Side Media

• Add dimension validation to sideload endpoint. (74903)

Data Layer

• Upgrade to React 19. (61521)

Bug Fixes

Components

• @wordpress/ui: Compat overlay slot — viewport-sized containing block. (78441)
• DataViews: Fix wrapper height resolution in flex layouts. (76945)
• DataViewsPicker Table: Fix first-click row selection. (78423)
• Fix FormTokenField validation preventing default behavior. (77181)
• IconButton: Fix focusableWhenDisabled default. (78526)
• Popover: Don't close when focus moves into the @wordpress/ui compat overlay slot. (78407)
• UI Button: Fix disabled cursor style. (78479)
• UI: Fix item popup typography. (78403)
• UI: Update Autocomplete clear disabled state. (78520)
• useCopyToClipboard: Always call onSuccess callback. (78387)
• useDialog: Handle Escape via React onKeyDown so cascade works through portals. (78433)

Block Library

• Block/Tabs: Fix editor dirty state on reload by removing unnecessary mount-time attribute init. (78339)
• Breadcrumbs block: Hide separator from screen readers. (78524)
• Fix 'Invalid Date' when clicking on Now in DateTimePicker on Date Block. (78284)
• Fix Tabs block losing added tabs when the editor is reopened. (78250)
• Image: Preserve width/height when converting Classic blocks to blocks. (78610)
• Navigation Link: Preserve custom labels during link updates. (77186)
• Navigation: Restore block_core_navigation_submenu_render_submenu_icon() as deprecated shim. (78484)
• Prevent images from appearing squished when only one dimension is set. (70575)
• Fix: Discard unsaved HTML block changes on cancel. (78580)

Post Editor

• Editor: Disable Visual Revisions when classic meta boxes are present. (78249)
• Editor: Fix Visual Revisions meta keys overlap. (78156)
• Editor: Use _n() for revisions count aria-label. (78382)
• Fix image upload crashes. (76707)
• Fix: Register user-defined taxonomies after user-defined post types. (78497)
• Fix: Show collaborators when the top toolbar is active. (78049)
• Global styles revisions: Ensure stylebook shows revision previews. (78490)
• Script Loader: Defer single-page admin init until DOMContentLoaded (Trac #65103). (78136)
• Upload Media: Render srcset on the front end for client-side-media uploads. (78359)

Data Layer

• Core Data: Avoid duplicate ID-less entity permission requests. (78262)
• Fix: Disable collab sync when incompatible meta boxes are present. (78145)
• RTC: Fix cursor awareness and presence bug in nested rich text elements. (77673)
• RTC: Fix block refresh on every update when a peer edits within the code editor. ([...

23.3.0 RC2

Changelog

Enhancements

Block Library

• Hide Cover overlay controls for viewport states. (78763)
• Hide image dimension tools when a state is selected. (78670)

Media

• Image cropper: Round zoom control values and display as percentages. (78757)
• Media Editor: Remove resize handles toggle from crop panel. (78758)

Bug Fixes

Block Editor

• Unset grid span defaults with viewport states enabled. (78709)

Accessibility

Post Editor

• Image Editor: Focus return after closing image crop modal. (78711)

Experiments

Media

• Media Editor Modal: Try placing the save and cancel buttons in the footer. (78708)

Tools

Build Tooling

• Update browserslist. (78840)

Testing

• e2e-test-utils-playwright: Add src to published NPM files. (78847)
• Tests: Temporarily disable REST index output-format assertions pending Core fix. (78788)

23.3.0 RC1

Changelog

Features

Post Editor

• Notes: Support multiple note threads per block. (75147)

Enhancements

Components

• DataViews: Adopt @wordpress/theme design tokens. (75204)
• Draggable: Scope the clone's fallback z-index to non-slot placements. (78354)
• Navigation: Hard deprecate component. (78529)
• Overlays: Extend positioner slot pattern to Popover, Select, Autocomplete. (78168)
• Tabs, TabPanel: Align styles with wp-ui. (78418)
• Tooltip migration: Dataviews consumers (3/5). (78470)
• UI Button: Optimize overflow styles. (78300)
• UI Card: Full bleed as header hero image and content cover. (77856)
• Visually align Notice from @wordpress/components with Notice from @wordpress/ui. (78231)
• [components] Draggable: Migrate clone wrapper to wp compat overlay slot. (78183)
• [ui] Add internal wp compat overlay slot helper. (77851)
• [ui] Autocomplete: Default portal container to the wp compat overlay slot. (78375)
• [ui] Select: Default portal container to the wp compat overlay slot. (78372)
• [ui] Tooltip: Default portal container to the wp compat overlay slot. (78095)
• design-system-mcp: Add server instructions for client usage guidance. (78186)
• design-system-mcp: Update get_components to optionally support multiple names. (78185)

Block Editor

• Add support for layout responsive styles. (78543)
• Add supports for pseudo states on single block instances. (76491)
• Block Inserter: Animate inserter button icon to signal open state. (78306)
• Hide block variation selector when style state is selected. (78658)
• Hide wrap by default in flex layout panel. (78269)
• Integrate slug-based color selection in color panel. (78048)
• Migrate pattern list item titles to Text from @wordpress/ui. (77656)
• Refactor: Add extractPresetSlug as a generalized function to extract slugs. (78328)
• Tooltip migration: Block-editor + block-directory consumers (1/5). (78411)
• Validate additional CSS on mount. (78682)

Block Library

• Block Style States: Show only supported inspector controls when selecting a style state. (78280)
• Columns: Remove redundant Skip option from layout picker. (78405)
• Home Link: Add missing controls. (76672)
• Move Layout panel into styles tab so it sits next to Dimensions. (77922)
• Responsive block instance styles. (78384)

Post Editor

• Collab Sidebar: Swap near-identical pink for red in avatar palette. (78299)
• Media Editor: Make the modal the default crop experience. (78653)
• RTC: Provide PROTOCOL_MISMATCH error handling. (76991)
• Tooltip migration: Editor + edit-post + edit-site consumers (2/5). (78466)

Dashboard

• Add custom widget dashboard resize handle styling. (78236)
• Dashboard Widgets: Adapt Quick Draft to its tile size with a recent drafts list. (78572)
• Widget dashboard: Skip tile hover elevation while resizing. (78234)

Font Library

• Clarify active variant state in Library tab. (78501)

Guidelines

• Refine access policy. (78296)

Connectors

• Restyle AI plugin callout with pastel background and beak. (78243)

Media

• Media Editor Modal: Update the rotation ruler to use a vertical line marker. (78704)

Client Side Media

• Add dimension validation to sideload endpoint. (74903)

Data Layer

• Upgrade to React 19. (61521)

Bug Fixes

Components

• @wordpress/ui: Compat overlay slot — viewport-sized containing block. (78441)
• DataViews: Fix wrapper height resolution in flex layouts. (76945)
• DataViewsPicker Table: Fix first-click row selection. (78423)
• Fix FormTokenField validation preventing default behavior. (77181)
• IconButton: Fix focusableWhenDisabled default. (78526)
• Popover: Don't close when focus moves into the @wordpress/ui compat overlay slot. (78407)
• UI Button: Fix disabled cursor style. (78479)
• UI: Fix item popup typography. (78403)
• UI: Update Autocomplete clear disabled state. (78520)
• useCopyToClipboard: Always call onSuccess callback. (78387)
• useDialog: Handle Escape via React onKeyDown so cascade works through portals. (78433)

Block Library

• Block/Tabs: Fix editor dirty state on reload by removing unnecessary mount-time attribute init. (78339)
• Breadcrumbs block: Hide separator from screen readers. (78524)
• Fix 'Invalid Date' when clicking on Now in DateTimePicker on Date Block. (78284)
• Fix Tabs block losing added tabs when the editor is reopened. (78250)
• Image: Preserve width/height when converting Classic blocks to blocks. (78610)
• Navigation Link: Preserve custom labels during link updates. (77186)
• Navigation: Restore block_core_navigation_submenu_render_submenu_icon() as deprecated shim. (78484)
• Prevent images from appearing squished when only one dimension is set. (70575)
• Fix: Discard unsaved HTML block changes on cancel. (78580)

Post Editor

• Editor: Disable Visual Revisions when classic meta boxes are present. (78249)
• Editor: Fix Visual Revisions meta keys overlap. (78156)
• Editor: Use _n() for revisions count aria-label. (78382)
• Fix image upload crashes. (76707)
• Fix: Register user-defined taxonomies after user-defined post types. (78497)
• Fix: Show collaborators when the top toolbar is active. (78049)
• Global styles revisions: Ensure stylebook shows revision previews. (78490)
• Script Loader: Defer single-page admin init until DOMContentLoaded (Trac #65103). (78136)
• Upload Media: Render srcset on the front end for client-side-media uploads. (78359)

Data Layer

• Core Data: Avoid duplicate ID-less entity permission requests. (78262)
• Fix: Disable collab sync when incompatible meta boxes are present. (78145)
• RTC: Fix cursor awareness and presence bug in nested rich text elements. (77673)
• RTC: Fix block refresh on every update when a peer edits within the code editor. ([...

23.2.2

Changelog

Bug Fixes

• Fix registered post meta scope. (78531)

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@alecgeatches

23.2.1

Changelog

Bug Fixes

Guidelines

• Fix fatal when rest_api_init fires before init (cherry-pick #78350). (78477)

Contributors

The following contributors merged PRs in this release:

@xavier-lc, @paulopmt1