Release 1.79.1

[dcalhoun]

Release for Gutenberg Mobile 1.79.1

Related PRs

• Gutenberg: Mobile Release v1.79.1 WordPress/gutenberg#42538
• WPAndroid: Integrate gutenberg-mobile release 1.79.1 WordPress-Android#16925
• WPiOS: n/a (No plan to integrate 1.79.1, as it only contains an Android-specific bug fix.)

Extra PRs that Landed After the Release Was Cut

No extra PRs yet. 🎉

Changes

Change 1

• PR: fix: Workaround Android 12 webview crash WordPress/gutenberg#42517
• Issue: Scrolling to the end of a post containing an Embed block crashes the Android native editor WordPress/gutenberg#42514

Test plan

Once the installable builds of the main apps are ready, test the included changes and Writing Flow on Android.

Release Submission Checklist

• Verify Items from test plan have been completed
• Check if RELEASE-NOTES.txt is updated with all the changes that made it to the release. Replace Unreleased section with the release version and create a new Unreleased section.
• Check if gutenberg/packages/react-native-editor/CHANGELOG.md is updated with all the changes that made it to the release. Replace ## Unreleased with the release version and create a new ## Unreleased.
• Bundle package of the release is updated.

[dcalhoun]

Build: pr16925-5a989bd from wordpress-mobile/WordPress-Android#16925 (comment)
Device: Samsung Galaxy S20, Android 12

🟢 New Changes (Android)

• fix: Workaround Android 12 webview crash WordPress/gutenberg#42517

🟢 Writing Flow checklist (Android)

General

• TC001 - Paste formatted text copied from website
• TC001 - Multiline components
  • Quote block
  • Verse block
  • Preformatted block
  • Code block (DEV only)
  • Pullquote block

Rich Text Format

• TC001 - Bold, Italic, strikethrough buttons
• TC001 - Highlight selected text
• TC001 - Highlight text without selection
• TC002 - Alignment buttons
• TC003 - Alignment Split
• TC004 - Link button works without selection
• TC005 - Link button works with a selected word
• TC006 - Adding a link from a copied URL
• TC007 - Test format detection under the cursor
• TC008 - Test formatting doesn't remove leading or trailing whitespace
• TC009 - Test autocorrection doesn't apply formatting to Heading
• TC010 - Test autocorrection doesn't remove formatting from Heading

Splitting and merging

• TC001 - Merge after writing
  • Paragraph
  • Heading
• TC002 - Merge after selection
  • Paragraph
  • Heading
• TC003 - Merge after deleting text
  • Paragraph
  • Heading
• TC004 - Merge after deleting all
  • Paragraph
  • Heading
• TC005 - Merge multiple blocks
  • Paragraph
  • Heading
• TC006 - Splitting/merge list block

Undo / Redo - Test Cases

• TC001 - Undo/redo block actions
• TC002 - Undo/redo text
• TC003 - Undo/redo text format

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Approved via WordPress/gutenberg#42538 (review)