build(deps-dev): bump @wordpress/block-editor from 16.1.0 to 18.0.0

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Bumps @wordpress/block-editor from 16.1.0 to 18.0.0.

Changelog

Sourced from @​wordpress/block-editor's changelog.

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).

17.1.0 (2026-09-10)

New Features

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Commits

• 56d8058 chore(release): publish
• 9ff3f0e Update changelog files
• f905a64 Merge changes published in the Gutenberg plugin "release/24.1" branch
• 485f42a chore(release): publish
• c89dd70 Update changelog files
• a55a0d7 Merge changes published in the Gutenberg plugin "release/24.0" branch
• d06b010 chore(release): publish (#82084)
• 0790fa5 Update changelog files
• 098e3ba Merge changes published in the Gutenberg plugin "release/23.9" branch
• 989764d chore(release): publish
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[AnuragVasanwala]

Included in #23.

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