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{Insert greeting},

The {Insert Month and Year} release is out! In this release:

{List major features in both core and samples}

🎉 Kudos 🎉

Third Party Plugins

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See internal doc}

Core contributions

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• jschanker
  • (#4999) Enforce connection preconditions for setParent
  • (#4941) Permit single field disabling (4932)
  • (#4876) Fix 4830 for getting/setting unnamed fields
  • (#4873) Remove row healing for block deletion 4832
• lauraharker
  • (#4760) Stop overriding @Protected methods with @Private
• ywwhack
  • (#4753) fix: Fix typing error of generators
• oboshto
  • (#4750) Fix menu setHighlighted not scrolling to the menuItem

Samples contributions

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• lazy-geek
  • (#790) fixed deprecated method warning in turtle field demo
  • (#789) fixed Custom fields in React demo call deprecated getColourBorder
  • (#775) removed opt_ prefix from optional parameters and gave them default value in plugins
• himanshu007-creator
  • (#781) Update WorkspaceSearch.js
  • (#720) replaced var with const
• joshcai
  • (#765) Add a function to allow removing generators in the playground
• ShiroRyokoshi
  • (#722) Updated CONTRIBUTING.md file to point at dev sites insead of GitHub wiki sites.
• Harshita-Kanal
  • (#714) Solve Custom fields in React demo are marked as EDITABLE but not also SERIALIZABLE warning
• 2torus
  • (#682) Bundling Blockly with Parcel
• amir-arad
  • (#652) fix link to theme-extension-identifier codelab
• ricknjacky
  • (#648) Using the testHelper from 637 inside of navigation_modify_test
  • (#637) Add captureWarnings to dev-tools plugin

Full release notes are below. As always, we welcome bug reports and pull requests!

Cheers,
{Insert Your Name}

In this release (Q2 2021)

This is a major release. Notable changes:

• IDeletable was renamed to IDragTarget
• variableDB_ was renamed to nameDB_
• compile.sh was removed
• Some scrollbar constants were renamed

For a full list of pull requests in this release see #4976

API Changes

• Adding IDragTarget support. (#4852)
• Rename Blockly..variableDB_ to .nameDB_ and add .nameDB_.getUserNames('VARIABLE') and .nameDB_.getUserNames('PROCEDURE') (#4845)
• Remove compile.sh (#4779)
• Update Flyout metrics and implement adjustable margin for scrollbars. (#4763)

Issues Closed

• Scrollbars Look Chunky on ChromeOS (#4953)
• Consider Renaming the project. (#4943)
• GoogleFI compatibility issues (#4942)
• Viewport change events causing out of memory error (#4916)
• Flyouts do not recalculate delete area (#4912)
• Escape no longer reverts field edits (#4910)
• Error to generate blocks on complex input (#4891)
• Add hook for getting id of component registered on ComponentManager (#4881)
• .blocklyDraggable refers to blockly-demo.appspot.com (#4864)
• translation incorrect (Korean) (#4859)
• Context menu Delete X blocks preview does not match behavior (#4832)
• Calling getField/getFieldValue/setFieldValue without supplying name gets/changes (value of) first unnamed field (#4830)
• Connecting orphan block does not do type checks in correct order (#4826)
• Editing text field impossible on iPad while external keyboard connected (#4818)
• Invisible toolbox still reports delete area (#4811)
• Compatibility blockly with Franka version 4.1+ (#4810)
• Can I provide an interface to directly obtain the fast overall configuration of JSON (#4795)
• Why doesn't code generator give priority to Java (#4794)
• Blockly Developer Tools preview unavailable (#4768)
• Use captureWarning helper from dev-tools (#4761)
• Typo in custom blocks JSON vs. JS (#4759)
• Dynamically generated blocks output is being lost after last lib update (#4757)
• The xml of dynamic appendField block is not included (#4752)
• Cron job to delete expired data in appengine demos (#4751)
• JavaScript APIs (#4749)
• javascript.d.ts exports Blockly.Generator itself instead of its instance (#4742)
• Add an option allowing to select and drag multiple blocks at the same time (#4739)
• I cannot use text input field in blockly to set a dynamic dropdown (#4732)
• Click event should include access to thing being clicked (#4729)
• Zoom reset not centering workspace (#4724)
• Blocks unexpectedly scrolled up or down (reopened) (#4678)
• Toolbox and flyout metrics should report appropriate height and width (#4594)
• Allow the workspace to be panned when a block is dragged near the edge (#4570)
• Travis not properly reporting typing errors (#4546)
• Copying in Safari makes an error sound even if copy works (#4537)
• Workspace Comment Change event does not serialize/deserialize correctly (#4527)
• Very old deprecated functions (#4475)
• Consider adding get/setMetrics to the options struct when creating a workspace (#4377)
• Refactor event grouping to allow for nested groups (#4216)
• Fields don't group edits (#4189)
• Update Toolbox Events (#4187)
• Data retention enhancements needed for 3 blockly demos (code, cloud storage and block) (#3899)
• Create a Public Metrics Method (#3746)
• lastConnectionInRow inconsistent with lastConnectionInStack (#3656)
• Suspicious @Suppress (#3517)
• Typings not split into files (#3213)
• Script to bump version and tag release on master (#3210)
• Script for publishing blockly-demo to app engine (#3209)
• Keyboard Nav: Field Cursor Should be correct size (#3026)
• wrong variable scope (#2799)
• Undoing connecting a collapsed block causes positioning issues (#2675)
• Clearing workspace while dragging with insertion marker crashes (#2338)
• UI Event Handling API (#2253)
• Proposal: Mouse Wheel Behavior, Scrolling vs Zooming (#2205)
• Refactor Field validation (#2169)
• WorkspaceSVG: Better APIs to get and set workspace scroll and zoom. (#2145)
• Add finishedLoading event (#2142)
• Recenter issue with a horizontal toolbox (#2036)
• Long press broken on Playground and Multi-Playground (#1955)
• field_label modified in dynamic category resets when dragged onto workspace (#1954)
• Flyout getMetrics causes a reflow and style recalculation (#1303)