chore(deps-dev): bump the wordpress group with 13 updates

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Bumps the wordpress group with 13 updates:

Package	From	To
@wordpress/api-fetch	7.55.0	7.56.0
@wordpress/block-editor	17.1.0	18.0.0
@wordpress/blocks	16.0.0	16.1.0
@wordpress/browserslist-config	6.55.0	6.56.0
@wordpress/components	40.1.0	41.0.0
@wordpress/data	10.55.0	10.56.0
@wordpress/e2e-test-utils-playwright	2.0.0	2.1.0
@wordpress/element	8.7.0	8.8.0
@wordpress/env	11.15.0	11.16.0
@wordpress/eslint-plugin	26.0.0	27.0.0
@wordpress/hooks	4.55.0	4.56.0
@wordpress/i18n	6.28.0	6.29.0
@wordpress/scripts	35.0.0	36.0.0

Updates @wordpress/api-fetch from 7.55.0 to 7.56.0

Changelog

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7.56.0 (2026-09-23)

Commits

• 56d8058 chore(release): publish
• 9ff3f0e Update changelog files
• f905a64 Merge changes published in the Gutenberg plugin "release/24.1" branch
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Updates @wordpress/block-editor from 17.1.0 to 18.0.0

Changelog

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18.0.0 (2026-09-23)

Breaking Changes

• InspectorControls: Remove the __experimentalGroup prop from the fill and the slot. It was deprecated in WordPress 6.2 in favour of group, with removal scheduled for 6.4 (#83171).

New Features

• Add a text shadow block support and its control in the typography panel (#79584).
• Stabilize getStyleForState and setStyleForState, for reading and writing block style values for a given viewport or pseudo state, and stabilize the getSelectedBlockStyleState and hasSelectedBlockStyleState(renamed from hasSelectedStyleState) store selectors. (#82741).

Enhancements

• Remove the react-autosize-textarea dependency. PlainText and the block "Edit as HTML" field now auto-grow with CSS field-sizing: content. Browsers without support use scrollable fields. PlainText consumers should use CSS height constraints instead of rows (#64208).
• BlockCard: Migrate the block-type badge from the private Components Badge to @wordpress/ui Badge. (#82503).
• Inspector controls in the standard block-supports panels (Typography, Dimensions, Border, Color, Background, Filters) reflect the value a block inherits from Global Styles when nothing is set on the block. The gutenberg-global-styles-inheritance-ui experiment now gates only the indicators for that value: the dotted underline on an inherited label, and the dot that resets a local override (#82840).
• TypographyPanel: Setting a text color starts an unset link color tracking it whenever no link color is set on the block or inherited from Global Styles. Previously the link color was left alone (#82840).
• LinkControl, LinkPicker: migrate the link preview badges from the private @wordpress/components Badge to @wordpress/ui Badge (#82684).
• BlockQuickNavigation: Highlight a block on the canvas while its item is hovered or focused, matching the List View. This affects the inspector Content tab, the pattern overrides panel, and the template and template part content panels (#83049).
• Inserter and pattern search: rank title matches above keyword and description matches, and rank a word in the title that starts with the search term above a substring match (#83312).
• ViewportVisibilityInfo: Migrate the block visibility badge from the private @wordpress/components Badge to @wordpress/ui Notice component (#82670).

Bug Fixes

• BlockAlignmentControl: Hide the control again when none of a block's alignments are available. Paragraph, Heading, List and other blocks that support only wide and full were showing a menu of unavailable options that could not change anything (#83265).
• Inline images in rich text are selected by clicking them again. A block captures a drag that starts on its own image through the dragstart target instead of the pointer-events: none rule that also kept the image from any click (#83370).
• RichText: The edit UI of a format follows the active object when the selection moves from one object straight to another, for example from one inline image to the next, so the popover shows the attributes of that object at its position (#83370).
• FontAppearanceControl: List only the weights inside a variable font's range, reading both ends of the range as whole numbers or as the keywords normal and bold (#83128).
• LinkControl: Only label pages as the front page or blog home. Posts, terms and media are separate tables and can share an id, so an unscoped search could label a term "Front page" (#83082).
• InnerBlocks: Resolve a container's legacy layout markup (inherit: true, or a bare contentSize / wideSize with no type) to a constrained layout for its inner blocks, so they are offered the wide and full alignments. Previously only the container's styles honoured the legacy form, and the inner blocks resolved to the flow layout (#82637).
• Block Patterns, Block Visibility, and Block Lock: Preserve the intended colors of icons converted to strokes. (#82540, #82754)
• Layout: Treat a missing spacing.blockGap setting as no block gap support, as the server does. A theme that does not opt into block gap has the setting stored as null, which the block settings resolve to undefined, so per-block layout styles applied block gap values the front end never renders. An editor that never provides the setting must set it to true to keep rendering block gap values (#82401).
• Block Toolbar: Show the parent block selector for blocks inside patterns and contentOnly locked blocks. It selects the nearest parent shown in List View and the breadcrumb (#82912).
• In-between inserter: Show the inserter between blocks on a wrapped line of a horizontal container, such as the Buttons, Row, Gallery and Navigation blocks (#83276).
• In-between inserter: Resolve the hovered block through the block refs rather than the container's DOM children, so the inserter also appears in lists whose blocks apply their block props to an inner element, such as Social Icons (#83327).
• In HEIC-only upload mode, route files to the HEIC conversion by what they contain rather than by the MIME type the browser infers from their name, so a HEIC photo saved as .jpg or .png is no longer handed to a server-side path that cannot convert it either (#81737).

Internal

• Color/gradient dropdown: replace experimental ZStack overlapping indicators with CSS, use Stack from @wordpress/ui for the toggle row, and use public Tabs instead of the private Components API (#83062).
• Replace experimental ZStack, HStack, Flex, and FlexItem around the Duotone labeled swatch in the Filters panel (#83061).
• Remove the crossorigin MutationObserver. Under Document-Isolation-Policy: isolate-and-credentialless cross-origin resources load without the attribute, and adding it broke any resource served without CORS headers (#82614).
• Block bindings and variation transforms: Use the public Menu from @wordpress/ui instead of the private Components API. (#81925)
• Layout hooks: Use normalizeLegacyLayout in useLayoutClasses, useLayoutStyles, the block layout styles wrapper and isAxialBlockGapAllowed, replacing four inline copies of the legacy inherit / size check (#82710).
• Extract the populated pattern category computation from usePatternCategories into a getPopulatedCategories util, and expose it and searchItems through private APIs for reuse by the start page options modal (#81396).
• Inserter: Minor performance optimization when sorting items by frecency (#83443).

Commits

• 56d8058 chore(release): publish
• 9ff3f0e Update changelog files
• f905a64 Merge changes published in the Gutenberg plugin "release/24.1" branch
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Updates @wordpress/blocks from 16.0.0 to 16.1.0

Changelog

Sourced from @​wordpress/blocks's changelog.

16.1.0 (2026-09-23)

New Features

• Add support for the text shadow style property (#79584).

Commits

• 56d8058 chore(release): publish
• 9ff3f0e Update changelog files
• f905a64 Merge changes published in the Gutenberg plugin "release/24.1" branch
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Updates @wordpress/browserslist-config from 6.55.0 to 6.56.0

Changelog

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6.56.0 (2026-09-23)

Commits

• 56d8058 chore(release): publish
• 9ff3f0e Update changelog files
• f905a64 Merge changes published in the Gutenberg plugin "release/24.1" branch
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Updates @wordpress/components from 40.1.0 to 41.0.0

Changelog

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41.0.0 (2026-09-23)

Breaking Changes

• Components that compose Emotion style fragments with cx() should pass source-order-dependent fragments in a single css() call. Passing separate fragments can change override order after the following components stopped rendering styles through Emotion:
  • BoxControl (#82570)
  • Grid (#82571)
  • Elevation (#82572)

Enhancements

• CheckboxControl: Match the @wordpress/ui default border, hover, and disabled icon colors (#83271).
• SelectControl: Mark as not recommended for use in a WordPress environment, in favour of SelectControl from @wordpress/ui (#83030).
• PaletteEdit: Use standard menu semantics and keyboard navigation for palette option actions through Menu from @wordpress/ui (#82768).
• CheckboxControl: Match the @wordpress/ui checkmark size and disabled fill (#82555).
• Snackbar: Show the action's focus ring with the design system's outline instead of a legacy dotted outline, and let Button/ExternalLink own the ring (#82640).
• CircularOptionPicker: Updated to show outline via design system's mixin for focus ring instead of previous border implementation (#82521).
• Autocomplete: Show focus ring with the design system's outline instead of previous box-shadow implementation (#82766).
• CustomGradientPicker: Show the control point's focus ring with the design system's outline and a contrasting backing to separate it from the gradient (#82834).

Deprecations

• ZStack: Deprecate the component, planned for removal in WordPress 7.4. Write your own CSS instead (#83344).
• ResponsiveWrapper: Deprecate the component, planned for removal in WordPress 7.4. Use the CSS aspect-ratio property instead (#83347).
• Scrollable: Deprecate the component, planned for removal in WordPress 7.4 (#83273).
• Elevation: Deprecate the component, planned for removal in WordPress 7.4 (#83269).
• Divider: Deprecate the component, planned for removal in WordPress 7.4 (#83040).

Bug Fixes

• BaseControl, CheckboxControl, RadioControl, ToggleControl: Use the design system foreground color for labels so they stay the correct color instead of inheriting the surrounding text color (#83318).
• FocalPointPicker: Keep a surrounding scroll container from gaining a horizontal scrollbar when the focal point sits on an edge, without clipping the handle (#68915).
• Card: Keep shadow radii aligned with the Card's actual radius regardless of render order (#82572).
• SelectControl: Stop forcing a fill on the chevron icon, so the stroke-based chevron renders as a line again instead of a filled shape (#82949).
• BorderBoxControl: Restore the split borders layout. The top and bottom controls are centred across the row and the right control sits at the end of its column again, after BorderControl's own margin: 0 began overriding both (#82939).
• PaletteEdit: Separate adjacent header action buttons so their focus rings do not overlap (#82768).
• Draggable: Render __experimentalDragComponent only while a drag is in progress, so long lists of draggables such as the block inserter no longer render a hidden drag preview per item (#83423).
• Flex, Grid: Stop watching the viewport for props that are given a single value rather than an array of breakpoint values. Each instance previously called window.matchMedia() and subscribed a resize listener that could never change its result (#83423).

Internal

• Update Ariakit to 0.4.40 (#83278).
• Remove obsolete Jest test dependencies and types (#82975).
• Remove the obsolete Jest console test dependency and matcher types (#82843).
• Update Ariakit to 0.4.39 and run affected interaction coverage in Browser Mode (#82831).
• Notice: Remove dismiss button style overrides that now duplicate Button defaults, and drop an unused Sass import (#82640).
• Run Components interaction tests in Vitest Browser Mode (#80995).

Commits

• 56d8058 chore(release): publish
• 9ff3f0e Update changelog files
• f905a64 Merge changes published in the Gutenberg plugin "release/24.1" branch
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Updates @wordpress/data from 10.55.0 to 10.56.0

Changelog

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10.56.0 (2026-09-23)

Enhancements

• Optimized store listener registration and execution (#82842).
• Resolvers can define getResolutionArgs to derive the resolution arguments from the selector arguments, letting several selector calls share a single resolution (#82638).
• Stabilize the __unstableNormalizeArgs selector property as normalizeArgs. The old name still works (#83067).
• Optimized registry.subscribe behavior when the subscribed store doesn't yet exist (#83346).
• useSelect: async-mode subscribers share a single store subscription per store and are notified at idle time instead of inside the dispatch (#82821).

Commits

• 56d8058 chore(release): publish
• 9ff3f0e Update changelog files
• f905a64 Merge changes published in the Gutenberg plugin "release/24.1" branch
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Updates @wordpress/e2e-test-utils-playwright from 2.0.0 to 2.1.0

Changelog

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2.1.0 (2026-09-23)

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• 56d8058 chore(release): publish
• 9ff3f0e Update changelog files
• f905a64 Merge changes published in the Gutenberg plugin "release/24.1" branch
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Updates @wordpress/element from 8.7.0 to 8.8.0

Changelog

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8.8.0 (2026-09-23)

Commits

• 56d8058 chore(release): publish
• 9ff3f0e Update changelog files
• f905a64 Merge changes published in the Gutenberg plugin "release/24.1" branch
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Updates @wordpress/env from 11.15.0 to 11.16.0

Changelog

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11.16.0 (2026-09-23)

Bug Fixes

• Wait for lifecycle script output streams to close before reporting command failures, so their error output is not lost (#82735).

Commits

• 56d8058 chore(release): publish
• 9ff3f0e Update changelog files
• f905a64 Merge changes published in the Gutenberg plugin "release/24.1" branch
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Updates @wordpress/eslint-plugin from 26.0.0 to 27.0.0

Changelog

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27.0.0 (2026-09-23)

Breaking Changes

• Switch test-unit from Jest to @vitest/eslint-plugin recommended rules with explicit imports at the 27.0.0 boundary. Jest consumers must configure eslint-plugin-jest directly. (#82843).

Enhancements

• Update use-recommended-components deprecation message for __experimentalZStack to point to writing CSS (#83344).
• Update use-recommended-components deprecation message for ResponsiveWrapper to point to the CSS aspect-ratio property (#83347).
• Update use-recommended-components deprecation message for __experimentalScrollable to point to writing CSS (#83273).
• Update use-recommended-components deprecation message for __experimentalDivider to point to Separator subcomponents and design tokens (#83040).
• Update use-recommended-components rule to mark Select and SelectControl from @wordpress/ui as recommended (#83030).
• recommended: Apply the TypeScript rules and parser to .mts and .cts files (#83071).
• recommended: Resolve imports through .mjs, .cjs, .mts and .cts, and exempt .d.mts and .d.cts from the TypeScript resolver settings alongside .d.ts (#83071).
• recommended: Report type-only imports of undeclared packages in import/no-extraneous-dependencies (#83336).
• no-i18n-in-save: Recognise the .mjs, .cjs, .mts and .cts spellings of save and deprecated (#83071).

Commits

• 56d8058 chore(release): publish
• 9ff3f0e Update changelog files
• f905a64 Merge changes published in the Gutenberg plugin "release/24.1" branch
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Updates @wordpress/hooks from 4.55.0 to 4.56.0

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4.56.0 (2026-09-23)

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• 56d8058 chore(release): publish
• 9ff3f0e Update changelog files
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Updates @wordpress/i18n from 6.28.0 to 6.29.0

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6.29.0 (2026-09-23)

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• 56d8058 chore(release): publish
• 9ff3f0e Update changelog files
• f905a64 Merge changes published in the Gutenberg plugin "release/24.1" branch
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Updates @wordpress/scripts from 35.0.0 to 36.0.0

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36.0.0 (2026-09-23)

Breaking Changes

• Switch test-unit-js to consumer-installed Vitest 5 and Vite 7/8 at the 36.0.0 boundary. Run once by default, discover consumer Vitest/Vite config, and use Vitest lint defaults for test/spec files. Keep test-unit-jest as a maintenance-only adapter for consumer-installed Jest, with no scheduled removal. Remove the bundled Jest dependencies, preset config, Babel transformer, and GitHub Actions reporter. Retire the Jest preset and console package source; published versions remain available. Jest projects must install their own dependencies and configure the published preset if needed. See the migration guide. (#82843).

• Require Node.js ^22.22.2 || ^24.15.0 || >=26.0.0 and update the bundled markdownlint-cli from ^0.31.1 to ^0.49.1, which moves markdownlint from 0.25 to 0.41. lint-md-docs now runs the rules added since then (MD051 through MD060) by default, so projects may see new reports. The header rule aliases (for example header-increment) no longer work in configuration files; use the heading names (#81917).

• lint-style: Use stylelint's resolveConfig for config detection instead of a static extension list, supporting all current and future config file formats without manual maintenance overhead. Note that resolveConfig also searches ancestor directories and the global config directory (~/.config/stylelint), so a project with no local config may now pick up an unrelated config found there instead of the bundled default (#79280).

Enhancements

• check-engines: Check only the tools listed in engines, instead of always passing --node and --npm. Without an engines field in the project, it now checks only the Node.js version (#83326).
• lint-md-docs: Detect .markdownlint.jsonc so the bundled default config is not used when one is present (#81917).
• format: Format .cjs and .mjs files when expanding a directory (#82731).
• format: Format .cts and .mts files when expanding a directory (#83071).
• The default ESLint config now lints .jsx, .ts, .tsx, .mts and .cts files, which ESLint's own file discovery skips (#83071).
• build and start: Discover .cjs, .cts and .mts entry points, resolve them from extensionless imports, and transpile .cjs and .cts modules (#83071).
• The bundled wp-prettier dependency has been upgraded from 3.0.3 to 3.9.6 (#82731).

Bug Fixes

• Update the bundled webpack to ^5.111.0, which fixes a code-generation regression in webpack 5.110.3 that can make production bundles fail at startup (#82698).

Commits

• 56d8058 chore(release): publish
• 9ff3f0e Update changelog files
• f905a64 Merge changes published in the Gutenberg plugin "release/24.1" branch
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