6.2.0 RC1

Enhancements

• Introduce Link Target support in Button block.
• Limit the maximum height of the HTML block.
• Show the preview button on mobile viewports.
• Remove nested block restrictions from the Cover and Media & Text blocks.
• A11y: Improving and standardize the block styles focus and active states.
• Always collapse block alignment toolbars.

Bug Fixes

• Fix using the Classic block in nested contexts.
• Fix lost nested blocks if the container block is missing.
• Fix pasting content into nested blocks.
• Fix race condition in the block moving animation causing blocks to overlap.
• A11y: Make the Table block accessible at high zoom levels.
• A11y: Change the font size picker markup to use select.
• A11y: Match the primary button disabled state to Core's color contrast.
• Fix the z-index of the block toolbars for blocks following wide aligned blocks.
• Hide the columns count control when the columns block placeholder is shown.
• Prevent the block movers from disappearing on middle breakpoints for full/wide blocks.
• Slimmer top/bottom spacing inside notices shown outside the editor canvas.
• Fix converting video shortcode into video blocks when file type sources are used.
• Localize the read more link in the latest posts block.
• Fix issue with inconsistent nesting appender.
• Fix styling of IconButton used in ButtonGroup components.
• Remove Change Permalinks button when permalink is not editable.
• Fix aspect ratio typo and recalculate padding in embed block.
• Ensure hour/minute fields are always shown left to right in RTL languages.
• Refactor the empty line padding in the RichText component. This fixes padding issues in the list block in Firefox.
• Improve the stability of the RichText placeholder.
• Add custom placeholder support for the button block.
• Show the image size labels on the block-based widget screen.

Documentation

• Clarify the block title and description conventions.
• Add RichText component documentation to the Block Editor Handbook.
• Improve the repository triage docs.
• Adds documentation for the PluginDocumentSettingPanel SlotFill.
• Tweaks and typos: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 , 13, 14.

Divers

• Add a simple API to register block style variations on the server.
• Allow alternative blocks to be used to handle Grouping interactions.
• Fix Travis instability by waiting for MySQL availability before install the plugin.
• Continue the generic RichText component refactoring.
• Remove the usage of the editor store from the block editor module.
• Update the MilestoneIt Github action to read the plugin version from master.
• Refactor the post meta block attributes to use a generic custom sources mechanism.
• Expose position prop in DotTip component.
• Avoid docker containers automatic restart.
• Bump Lodash dependencies to 4.17.14.
• Fix the build command on Windows environments.
• Add allowedFormats and withoutInteractiveFormats props to the RichText component to control the available formats per RichText.
• Remove inappropriate executable permissions from core-data package files.
• ESLint Plugin: Exempt React hooks from no-unused-vars-before-return.
• Use React Portal based slots for the block toolbar.
• Use combineReducers utility from the data module instead of redux.
• Support hideLabelFromVision prop in all control components.
• Adds missing babel-jest and core-js dependencies to the scripts package.

Mobile

• Tapping on an empty editor area creates a new paragraph block.
• Fix video uploads when the connection is lost and restored.
• Track unsupported block list.
• Insert new block below the post title if the post title is selected.
• Run the mobile tests in the Gutenberg CI server.
• Replace use of deprecated componentWillReceiveProps in ImageEdit.
• Show placeholder when adding block from the post title.
• Blur post title any time another block is selected.
• Inserting block from the post title replaces empty blocks.
• Update Video caption placeholder color to match other placeholder text styles.
• Move the post title selection state to the store.