Changelog

This release is currently a release candidate. You can download it from your account.

rc.1

• Feature: Bulk edit the Type, Applies to properties, and Quick-edit control of selected Design Tokens from one Edit menu
• Feature: Add the generateblocks_default_at_rules PHP filter to define the at-rule presets offered by the Styles Builder
• Tweak: Open the Design panel below the editor header so the post can be saved while it’s open
• Tweak: Offer the editor’s color palette in the Design dashboard’s color pickers
• Tweak: Refine the Design panel’s toolbar icon and header
• Tweak: Move license activation and update checks to updates.generatepress.com
• Fix: Unsaved Design Token values not showing in editor color swatches after closing the Design panel
• Fix: Color swatches showing the light version of light-dark() tokens in a dark editor canvas

beta.1

• Tweak: Open the Design Token editor directly when creating a token.
• Tweak: Improve token field ordering, category creation, and keyboard focus.
• Fix: Warn before discarding incomplete tokens when navigating back, closing the Design Panel, or switching its tabs.
• Fix: Prevent unnamed token drafts from appearing in color palettes.
• Fix: Improve duplicate token-name handling while preserving the entered label.
• Fix: Style Book and Site Preview being blocked by restrictive framing headers.
• Fix: Design dashboard sizing beneath the WordPress admin bar.
• Fix: Menu block previews failing in the editor with large amounts of style data.
• Fix: Color picker sizing and scrolling with large palettes.

alpha.1

• Tweak: Register and render the GenerateBlocks Settings screen directly on GenerateBlocks 2.5.0 and later
• Feature: Introduce Design Tokens — create, organize, and edit your design system from the editor Design panel or the Design dashboard
• Feature: Add a Design panel to the editor with Global Styles and Design Tokens workspaces
• Feature: Add a Design admin menu with Global Styles and Design Tokens entries
• Feature: Redesign the Global Styles dashboard with a live site preview and click-to-edit Style Book
• Feature: Add categories to Global Styles and Design Tokens
• Feature: Add import/export to the Global Styles and Design Tokens dashboard
• Feature: Patterns now automatically include the Design Tokens they use
• Feature: Adjust Design Token colors with OKLCH-powered shade and opacity controls in the color picker
• Tweak: Non-media at-rules order properly in styles object
• Tweak: Stop autoloading the SVG asset library options
• Fix: Condition categories being cleared when switching between conditions in Editor Access
• Fix: Control set usage counts not checking all rule modes before delete
• Fix: Empty inspector when none of a control set’s controls apply to a block — native controls now show instead
• Fix: Private block editor post types missing from the Editor Access scope picker
• Fix: Form manage capability not implying form use
• Fix: Invalid ARIA attributes on carousel progress bar pagination
• Fix: Screen readers announcing shuffled carousel slides during manual navigation in loop mode
• Fix: Overlay accessibility with configurable dialog labels and correct semantics for anchored overlays and mega menus
• Fix: Infinite recursion when a mega menu overlay contains its own menu
• Fix: Menu toggle stealing focus when the viewport crosses the mobile breakpoint
• Fix: Pattern Library providers returning the same collection for different public keys when responses are cached

This release is currently a release candidate. You can download it from your account.

rc.1

• Feature: Add the generateblocks_default_at_rules PHP filter to define the at-rule presets offered by the Styles Builder
• Tweak: Match the Pattern Library toolbar icon to WordPress’s own toolbar icons
• Fix: Color picker swatches showing the light version of light-dark() colors in a dark editor canvas

beta.1

• Fix: Pattern previews not shrinking after expandable content is collapsed.
• Fix: Color picker sizing and scrolling with large palettes.

alpha.1

• Feature: Redesign the Settings page with the GeneratePress design system
• Feature: Allow the global container width to be managed as a Design Token in GenerateBlocks Pro 2.8.0
• Tweak: Always embed page-local block CSS inline and retire its print-method setting, filters, and regeneration endpoint
• Tweak: Update the color picker with support for OKLCH-based color mixing
• Tweak: Isolate pattern library previews in a sandboxed frame with its own security policy
• Tweak: Enforce the editor Query Loop posts cap server-side
• Tweak: Keep dismissed event handler notices hidden for the rest of the editing session
• Fix: Pattern library crash in cross-origin isolated editors
• Fix: Re-fetch pattern library data automatically when a host’s object cache evicts part of the cached set
• Fix: Detect dynamic data markers written with escaped JSON when validating saves
• Fix: Fully strip suppressed dynamic tags when a link-prefixed copy of the same tag exists
• Fix: Event handler notices not appearing for GenerateBlocks Pro blocks
• Fix: Text and Query Page Numbers blocks losing focus when first inserted
• Fix: PHP fatal error when rendering a third-party dynamic tag registered without a supports key

• Security: General security enhancements
• Feature: Use the GeneratePress Design System on the GenerateCloud dashboard
• Feature: Move the GenerateCloud license key field from Settings to the Cloud dashboard
• Fix: Do not save a license key that fails to activate
• Fix: Show every pattern collection when editing a key instead of only the first 10
• Fix: Allow permanent key deletion when WordPress Trash is disabled
• Fix: Avoid updater errors when remote requests fail or multisite update data is missing
• Fix: Reject malformed key and permission values without overwriting existing settings
• Fix: Show key-list loading errors with a retry action
• Fix: Warn when local license removal succeeds but remote deactivation fails
• Fix: Deleting a key no longer triggers PHP warnings
• Fix: Register the updater for WP-CLI update checks
• Tweak: Remove unused editor and autosave support from key records
• Tweak: Use updates.generatepress.com for updates and license actions

• Fix: Restore Global Style specificity in the WordPress 7.1 editor.

• Fix: Editor crash when opening the pattern library on WordPress 7.1 with cross-origin isolation enabled

• Feature: Introduce Editor Access and Control Sets features. Requires GenerateBlocks 2.4.0.
• Feature: Add content-only and read-only support to our blocks
• Tweak: Raise the minimum supported WordPress version to 6.7.
• Tweak: Using forms in the editor now requires the edit_others_posts capability (Editors and above).
• Tweak: Add generateblocks_form_capability filter

• Security: Escape dynamic tag replacements inside HTML attributes
• Feature: Add block inspector slot support for the new Editor Access feature in GenerateBlocks Pro
• Feature: Add content-only and read-only support to our blocks
• Tweak: Users without dynamic data permissions can no longer add or save new dynamic data
• Tweak: Dynamic data no longer renders on pages last saved by a user without dynamic data permissions
• Tweak: Dynamic tags no longer resolve inside inline event handler attributes (onclick, onmouseover, etc.)
• Tweak: Add generateblocks_allow_dynamic_data_in_event_handlers filter
• Tweak: Add editor notices when a save disables or re-enables dynamic data
• Tweak: Improve permissions around dynamic data previews, metadata lookups, and query controls
• Tweak: Refresh the dashboard header design
• Tweak: Raise the minimum supported WordPress version to 6.7

• Fix: Pattern Library insert failing for patterns containing unsynced pattern references
• Fix: Importing a form failing when its configuration matched the default contact form

• Security: Harden Font Library REST API permissions and remote font installation validation.

• Security: Harden legacy dynamic URL output
• Feature: Add support for new Dev Tools feature in Pro
• Feature: Add support for direct CSS editing feature in Pro
• Feature: Add Set/Replace media block toolbar button
• Tweak: Improve Image block selection behavior in editor
• Tweak: Disable core Additional CSS field on GenerateBlocks blocks
• Tweak: Add generateblocks_enable_core_additional_css filter