Gutenberg 19.6 Update Released: Exploring Inline Annotations, Code Optimization, and Bug Fixes

Early this morning (November 6 in the US), Gutenberg 19.6 was released andAvailable for download!

The highlights of this update are mainly in the following three major blocks, which we'll take a look at below!

Experimental inline annotations

Experimental Inline Comments is an experimental feature of Gutenberg. Users will be able to comment at the top of blocks, but only on unpublished posts. To activate this feature, go toGutenberg > Experimentsand enableBlock CommentsCheckbox.

Code quality, bug fixing and build tools

This release has a number of improvements to the overall site editing experience: reduced keyboard shortcuts (66400), clearer layout (66255 ) and the new Color tab in the Stylebook (65692 ).

Client-side media processing has begun (64845), but keep in mind that this new package is private and experimental.

In addition, some React Compiler bugs have been fixed, and packages now use the npm workspace (65681).

Change log

enhancement

ingredient

• Add elevation markers to the storybook. (66122)
• Add foundations:Elevation to Storybook. (66124)
• Add radius bases and tokens to the storybook. (66219)
• ComboBox, FormTokenField: show message when no match found. (66142)
• Storybook: Organize components under Utilities. (66210)
• Tags: public event tag item props, using the ariakit prop type. (66223)
• Tags: remove custom logic. (66097)
• DropdownMenuV2: RenamedMenu. (66289)

Problem fixing

block editor

• blockType.parentBlock inserter: in case of strings, prevents the editor from crashing. ( 66234)
• Block Toolbar: Consider scrollable blocks that affect the position of the block toolbar. (66188)
• Fix extra scroll bar when searching in the inserter. (66229)
• Fix: Show paragraph block changes in rich text inserter. (66318)
• Group: Fix Fill Selection. (65857)
• Link Shortcut: The link shortcut is triggered only when text is selected. (66056)
• Removes the relative position from the Sidebar tabbed panel. (66267)
• Rich Text: Delete empty files. (66553)
• Block Editor: Fix self-nested and circularly nested blocks. (66121)
• Post Editor: Sets the default value of editorTool to edit. (66636)

Here is just a list of some of them, not one by one, more you can see the communityUpdate LogThe