Gutenberg 22.6 is officially released! Visual Revision Tracking + New Icon Blocks + Real-Time Collaboration Gets a Major Upgrade!

February 25th.WordPress Official Block Editor Gutenberg 22.6 Official Release! This update merges a total of 388 Pull RequestsIn addition, there are eight first-time contributors.

The update focuses on "more intuitive, more powerful, and more collaborative" and brings a number of important and useful new features. Of particular interest areIn-Editor Visual Revision Trackingrespond in singingNative Icon BlocksThe addition of WordPress 7.0 (scheduled for release on April 9) will see a number of experimental features converted to stable features, most of which will be pushed out directly to all users.

Here's a breakdown of the core highlights of the update:

1. In-editor revisions: visual change tracking is finally here!

This is a feature that many content creators and team editors dream of!

Now, when viewing the revised version of the article in the editor, you will see theComparison of visual differences in color coding(Visual Diff):

• New text: green + underline
• Delete text: red + strikethrough
• Format or property change: yellow outline highlighting
• Addition or deletion of entire blocks: green/red border markings

You can turn off the visual tracking at any time with a single click to view the clean original content. Colors are automatically adapted to the current theme for a natural and professional visual effect.

This feature dramatically improves the efficiency of team collaboration, content review, and historical traceability, so you no longer have to stare at code Diffs.

2. The new native Icon block is now live!

Gutenberg 22.6 finally brings the official Icon Block!

You can now get the best of the best directly from the selected SVG Insert high-quality vector icons from the icon library without relying on third-party plug-ins or manually pasting code.

Highlights include:

• Based on the new server-side SVG Icon Registration API, icon library updates will not raise block validation errors
• REST API (/wp/v2/icons) support for searching and filtering icons
• The initial icons are from the official WordPress icons package and can be easily extended with third-party icons in the future.

Designers and sites that require heavy use of icons, this is definitely a productivity leap!

3. Navigation Overlay formally stabilized

navigatorThe mobile experience of the block has been upgraded again. It now supports highly customizableOverlay::

• Eye-catching "Create Stacked Layers with One Click" button + multiple beautiful design modes
• Full control of mobile burger menu styles
• Moved from an experimental feature to one that is available to all plugin users

Mobile navigation can finally be made both beautiful and flexible.

4. Client-side media processing formally converted to a stabilization function

Browser-side image processing technology graduated!

Utilizing the browser's native ability to process images brings real benefits:

• AVIF support,WebPAdvanced formats, such as MozJPEG
• Average reduction in size of generated JPEG sub-size files 10-15%(Picture quality not compromised)
• Significantly reduced server load, smoother image upload and processing flow

Image-intensive site speed optimization re-upgraded!

5. Major upgrades to real-time collaboration features

Real-time collaboration is seeing heavy growth:

• exist Settings → Writing New global switch in the center, one-click on/off
• Real-time display of others' cursor positions and selected blocks during collaboration
• Current online collaborator indicator at the top of the editor
• Underlying use of Y.text to synchronize title, body, and abstract for more precise conflict resolution
• Multiple reliability optimizations (disconnect handling, revision recovery, performance enhancements)

The experience of a team editing the same article is getting closer and closer to Google Docs!

6. Gallery block lightboxes support image navigation

The "click to enlarge" lightbox in the Gallery block is now even better: after clicking on any image, the entire gallery can be viewed using the front and back buttons or the keyboard arrow keys, with full support for screen readers ("Xth, Yth") for a consistent and natural user experience.

Other noteworthy improvements

• List view shows viewports with hidden status icons + simplified toolbars
• New shortcut: Cmd+Option+M (Mac) / Ctrl+Alt+M (Windows/Linux) to quickly create block notes
• The Verse block is officially renamed Poetry blockThe name is more apt.
• QuickEdit stabilizes as a modal window in the site editor
• 8 blocks completed standardized text-align support migration
• The article editor forces the use of iframes (see the official instructions for details)

put at the end

Gutenberg 22.6 is the first time that theEditorial experience and collaborative capabilitiesA solid upgrade at its core. Whether you're an individual blogger, a content team or a designer, you'll clearly benefit from this.

Experience the method now::

1. Updates in the WordPress backend Gutenberg Plugin to version 22.6
2. leave for WordPress 7.0 Test Page Participate in Beta Testing

Have you updated to Gutenberg 22.6? What's your favorite new feature? Feel free to share your experience with Gutenberg 22.6 in the comments section! Let's make the WordPress editor better and better together!

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