Tracking all Dev Notes from Gutenberg plugin releases 16.8 - 17.7

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• 🗓 Deadline March 4th, 2024

Not all developer-related information needs to be in a separate DevNote on the Make Core blog for the field guide. We can group related information. We can already make decisions on some features if it warrants a stand-alone blog post or if the information will be part of a group post.

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The list is incomplete. We are in the process of reviewing plugin release changelogs and add them as we progress on the task.

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needs dev note and has dev note

If you worked on a feature/module/component that definitely needs a dev note, please assign the label needs dev note If you already added the Dev Note to the make blog on draft or as a comment on the PR, please label it has dev note

To Do

• Removing Reakit Composite implementation #58620 @andrewhayward
• Add: Footnotes support for other CPT's. #57353 @jorgefilipecosta
• Fix broken list markup in navigation block when 3rd party blocks are used as decendants of navigation block #55551 @fabiankaegy
• [Create Block] Introduce the transformer property. #55423 @ryanwelcher
• Editor: Introduce PluginPostExcerpt slot #55200 @retrofox
• Deprecating isPressed in Button component #54740 @andrewhayward

viewScriptModule: dev note preview - Published

• Blocks: Add handling for block.json viewScriptModule #58731 @sirreal
• WP Scripts: Build block.json viewModule #57461 @sirreal
• Blocks: Add handling for block.json viewModule #57437 @sirreal

Site editor and page editor unification: dev note preview

• Editor: Move and unify the inserter and list view states #57158 @youknowriad
• Editor: Move the panel visibility state from the edit-post to the editor package #57012 @youknowriad
• Site Editor: use EditorProvider instead of custom logic #56000 @youknowriad

Deprecate outer margins: dev note draft

• FontSizePicker: Hard deprecate bottom margin #58702 @mirka
• GradientPicker: Hard deprecate outer margins #58701 @mirka
• AnglePickerControl: Hard deprecate bottom margin #58700 @mirka
• CustomGradientPicker: Hard deprecate outer margins #58699 @mirka 👈 Dev Note for all 4 PRs consolidated here
• CustomSelectControl: Hard deprecate constrained width #58974 @mirka
• Components: Remove deprecation warnings for __next36pxDefaultSize #58703 @mirka

Font Library: dev note draft

• Font Library: disable font library UI using a PHP filter #57818 @matiasbenedetto
• Font Library: singularize install font families endpoint #57569 @matiasbenedetto
• Font Library: unregister font collection #54701 @matiasbenedetto

Misc Dev Notes: post draft

• Background image: Add backgroundSize and repeat features #57005 @andrewserong
• Dimensions: Add Aspect Ratio block support #56897 @andrewserong
• Add block gap support to Quote block. #56064
• Search Block: Remove unused buttonBehavior attribute #53467 @t-hamano
• Pullquote Block: Add padding and margin support #45731 @t-hamano
• DependencyExtractionWebpackPlugin: Drop webpack4 and node<18 #57303 @sirreal
• Enable Block Renaming support for (almost) all blocks #54426
• Block editor: Stabilise RecursionProvider and useHasRecursion APIs #58120 @mcsf
• Add allowedBlocks field to block.json to specify allowed children #58262 @jsnajdr
• Revisions: add new selectors to fetch entity revisions #54046 @ramonjd
• Add useSettings hook for reading multiple settings at once #55337 @jsnajdr

Block Hooks - Published

• https://make.wordpress.org/core/?p=111613&preview=1&_ppp=a72624fc45

Block Bindings - Published

• https://make.wordpress.org/core/2024/03/06/new-feature-the-block-bindings-api/