#45885: Update the WordPress packages for 5.1
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Reporter: jorgefilipecosta | Owner: (none)
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: Awaiting Review
Component: Editor | Version: trunk
Severity: normal | Keywords: has-patch
Focuses: |
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Here's the full list of the fixes and performance improvements included in
this patch:
**Performance**
* Improve page initialization time by optimizing the addHook function and
the viewport state initialization.
* Improve typing performance by splitting the state tree.
* Optimize partial application of runSelector.
* Move selector calls to the event handles to avoid useless component
rerenders.
* Render DropZone children only when dragging elements over it.
* Initialize variables only when needed.
**Enhancements**
* Add error messages to the image block on upload failures.
* Merge similar i18n strings.
* Disable clipboard button in file block during upload.
* Persist alignment when transforming a gallery to an image and vice-
versa.
* Copy enhancement to the embed block help text.
* Improve the scrolling of the WordPress navigation menu.
**Bug Fixes**
* Fix RTL support for the DatePicker component.
* Change the header level in the BlockCompare component.
* Show all the taxonomies in the sidebar.
* Fix the latest posts date className.
* Fix the “align center” button in Latest Posts block in the backend.
* Fix block height when DropCap is used.
* Fix converting caption shortcode with link.
* Fix edge case in addQueryArgs function.
* Don’t return the permalink if the CPT is not publicly viewable.
* Fix error when saving non public CPTs.
* Properly disable the Publish button when saving is disabled.
**Various**
* Show a message in the browser’s console when in Quirks Mode.
* Improvements to the wordpress/scripts package: A new a check-engines
command, a lint-style command and an update to lint-js.
**Documentation**
* Add a getting started with JavaScript tutorial.
* Document the blocks’ setup states in the design guidelines.
* Add content to Contributors index page.
* Improve the components documentation:
* The MenuItem component.
* The RadioControl component.
* The ServerSideRender component.
* Organise the documentation assets in a dedicated folder.
* Clarify immutability of the block attributes.
* Fix the metabox back compat code example.
* Fix incorrect data module example.
* Improve the plugin release docs.
* Remove useless property from the colors code example.
* Improve the contributing documentation.
* Fix npm README links.
* Update the design resources link.
* More, more, more, more, more, more, more, more, more, more and more
typo fixes.
**Chore**
* Run e2e tests with popular plugins enabled.
* Add new e2e tests:
* The permalink panel.
* The categories panel.
* Blocks with meta attributes.
* Update node-sass to fix Node 11 support.
* Move the dev dependencies to the root package.json.
* Improve the Pull Request Template.
* More logs to the CI jobs.
* Code style fixes and expand the phpcs coverage.
* Disable fragile e2e tests.
* Avoid PHP notices when running the e2e tests in debug mode.
**Mobile**
* Make a simple version of DefaultBlockAppender.
* Stop using classname-to-style autotransform in react native.
* Fix SVG styles.
* Implement Enter press to add a default block.
* Hide keyboard when non textual block is selected.
* Fix undo/redo on new blocks.
* Pass the blockType prop to RNAztecView.
* Expose unregisterBlockType.
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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/45885>
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