The Gutenberg Editor Updates: Gutenberg 4.3 Released

Gutenberg 4.3 Released

Gutenberg 4.3 – the newest version of Gutenberg has been released with an array of refinements and bug fixes. The new version was released on November 12, 2018.

This update has included many fixes, refinements, performance improvements and other updates for a better user experience. It has also included many accessibility tasks as well. Gutenberg 4.3 has included features like always show the block icon in the toolbar, allow toggling to core custom fields meta box, added an API to handle annotations, and more.

Let’s have a quick detailed look at the refinements in Gutenberg 4.3 release.

The new version allows you to always show the block icon in the toolbar, regardless of whether the block has transformations or styles. Prior to this change, blocks that didn’t have transformations or styles registered would not show the block icon in the left side of the block toolbar when the block was selected (for example, the columns block).

Gutenberg 4.3 allows you to toggle the core custom fields meta box. It has added an option that allows the user to enable the existing ‘postcustom’ meta box included in WordPress. With this feature, you can reuse the existing ‘postcustom’ meta box and the ‘postcustom’ assets are not loaded unless the option is enabled.

Similarly, another new feature added in Gutenberg 4.3 is a newly added API to handle annotations across blocks and rich text fragments. It also allows plugins like Jetpack or Yoast SEO to highlight certain parts of the text to make their feedback more contextual and actionable.

Here are other notable changes in Gutenberg 4.3.

You can check out the full list of changes in Gutenberg 4.3 here.

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