On January 9, 2019, WordPress 5.0.3 was released to the public.
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Summary
From the WordPress 5.0.3 release post, this maintenance release contains 37 bug fixes and 7 performance improvements for the block editor.
For a full list of changes, please consult the list of tickets on Trac or the changelog.
Core Tickets by Component
Component: Bundled Theme (15)
- #45541?– Bundled Themes: Button blocks not respecting settings
- #45679?– Bundled Themes: Bump script and style version numbers
- #45792?– Bundled Themes: Bump version numbers and update changelogs for 5.0.3 release
- #45510?– Twenty Nineteen: Link are triggered on touchstart instead of touchend
- #45689?– Twenty Nineteen: Incorrect opacity and text shadow on submenus when there’s a featured image.
- #45693?– Twenty Nineteen: Update theme description and tags
- #45713?– Twenty Nineteen: Improve menu semantics and keyboard navigation.
- #45715?– Twenty Nineteen: Remove underline from the arrow that follows “Continue reading” links
- #45716?– Twenty Nineteen: Push right-aligned images outside of the text column on the front end
- #45726?– Twenty Nineteen: By default, the hover on outlined buttons is white text on a white background
- #44883?– Twenty Seventeen: Use simple counter rather than uniqid() for generating unique IDs for HTML elements
- #45426?– Twenty Seventeen: Missing colours from blocks.css for editor colour palette
- #45732 – Twenty Fourteen Button block link displayed with underscore
- #44664?– Twenty Fourteen: Video play icon alignment
- #45794 – px/rem order reversed in Twenty Twelve blocks.css
Component: Customize (2)
- #44770 – Customize:
option_{$option}filter applied with a missing parameter - #44809 – Safeguard
has_errors()check in extra Customizer validation
Component: Editor (5)
- #43253 – Insert Link Dialog captures shift+arrow and changes selected item rather than highlighting text
- #44919 – Tooltip for the ‘edit’ button in the Classic Editor has unnecessary suffix
- #45788 – Not translated: “add media” in block classic in WP 5.0.2
- #45814 – Update the WordPress packages for 5.0.3
- #45453 – Block Editor: Add a Message if JavaScript is disabled
Component: I18N (2)
- #45441 – wp_set_script_translations() does not support text domains other than “messages”
- #45769 – Expose JSON translation file paths
Component: Script Loader (1)
- #45535 – Unminified react and react-dom
Component: Upload (1)
- #45615 – CSV Mime Type fails upload
Block Editor Fixes
All these fixes are grouped in #45814.
Performance (7)
- Optimizing the addHook function
- Optimizing the viewport state initialization.
- Splitting the state tree for more performant selectors.
- Partial application of runSelector.
- Optimize selector calls.
- Avoid rendering DropZone children if not necessary.
- Avoid initializing variables if not necessary.
Bug Fixes (11)
- 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.
Core (1)
- Code style fixes and expand the phpcs coverage.
Updated packages
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List of Files Revised
license.txt
wp-admin/about.php
wp-admin/css/common.css
wp-admin/edit-form-blocks.php
wp-admin/post.php
wp-content/themes/twentyeleven/blocks.css
wp-content/themes/twentyeleven/editor-blocks.css
wp-content/themes/twentyeleven/functions.php
wp-content/themes/twentyeleven/languages/twentyeleven.pot
wp-content/themes/twentyeleven/readme.txt
wp-content/themes/twentyeleven/style.css
wp-content/themes/twentyfifteen/css/blocks.css
wp-content/themes/twentyfifteen/css/editor-blocks.css
wp-content/themes/twentyfifteen/functions.php
wp-content/themes/twentyfifteen/readme.txt
wp-content/themes/twentyfifteen/style.css
wp-content/themes/twentyfourteen/css/blocks.css
wp-content/themes/twentyfourteen/css/editor-blocks.css
wp-content/themes/twentyfourteen/css/editor-style.css
wp-content/themes/twentyfourteen/functions.php
wp-content/themes/twentyfourteen/readme.txt
wp-content/themes/twentyfourteen/style.css
wp-content/themes/twentynineteen/functions.php
wp-content/themes/twentynineteen/inc/customizer.php
wp-content/themes/twentynineteen/inc/template-functions.php
wp-content/themes/twentynineteen/js/touch-keyboard-navigation.js
wp-content/themes/twentynineteen/readme.txt
wp-content/themes/twentynineteen/sass/blocks/_blocks.scss
wp-content/themes/twentynineteen/sass/navigation/_menu-main-navigation.scss
wp-content/themes/twentynineteen/sass/site/header/_site-featured-image.scss
wp-content/themes/twentynineteen/sass/site/primary/_posts-and-pages.scss
wp-content/themes/twentynineteen/style-rtl.css
wp-content/themes/twentynineteen/style.css
wp-content/themes/twentynineteen/style.scss
wp-content/themes/twentynineteen/template-parts/header/site-branding.php
wp-content/themes/twentyseventeen/README.txt
wp-content/themes/twentyseventeen/assets/css/blocks.css
wp-content/themes/twentyseventeen/assets/css/editor-blocks.css
wp-content/themes/twentyseventeen/functions.php
wp-content/themes/twentyseventeen/inc/icon-functions.php
wp-content/themes/twentyseventeen/searchform.php
wp-content/themes/twentyseventeen/style.css
wp-content/themes/twentysixteen/css/blocks.css
wp-content/themes/twentysixteen/css/editor-blocks.css
wp-content/themes/twentysixteen/functions.php
wp-content/themes/twentysixteen/readme.txt
wp-content/themes/twentysixteen/style.css
wp-content/themes/twentythirteen/css/blocks.css
wp-content/themes/twentythirteen/css/editor-blocks.css
wp-content/themes/twentythirteen/functions.php
wp-content/themes/twentythirteen/readme.txt
wp-content/themes/twentythirteen/style.css
wp-content/themes/twentytwelve/css/blocks.css
wp-content/themes/twentytwelve/css/editor-blocks.css
wp-content/themes/twentytwelve/functions.php
wp-content/themes/twentytwelve/readme.txt
wp-content/themes/twentytwelve/style.css
wp-includes/class-wp-block-parser.php
wp-includes/class-wp-customize-manager.php
wp-includes/class-wp-customize-widgets.php
wp-includes/class-wp-editor.php
wp-includes/class.wp-scripts.php
wp-includes/functions.php
wp-includes/js/wplink.js
wp-includes/l10n.php
wp-includes/script-loader.php
wp-includes/version.php