Gutenberg 24.0 is out, and the release focuses on giving you more control over how content actually looks, not just how it’s structured.
What’s new
According to the release notes on Make WordPress Core, the Gallery block gets the biggest upgrade. A new Grid variation replaces the old flex-based layout with a fully customizable grid. You can now set column count and image cropping separately for each breakpoint, so a gallery can show four columns on desktop and drop to two on tablet without writing any custom CSS.
Post titles also join the visual revision system for the first time. Editors can now see change diffs directly on the title itself, the same way they already see them on body content, so it’s clear exactly when and how a title was renamed.
The Site Title block picked up fit-text support too. Instead of being locked to a fixed point size, a site title can now scale to fill whatever width it’s given.
Smaller improvements round out the release: nearly 100 admin icons were redrawn with a consistent stroke style, Tab and Shift+Tab now indent or outdent multiple selected list items at once, background images can be set from a URL instead of requiring a Media Library upload, and non-breaking spaces are now visible while editing instead of looking identical to regular spaces.
What this means for your site
If your theme or page layouts lean on the Gallery block, the new grid variation is worth a look. Per-breakpoint column and cropping controls solve a common frustration: a gallery that looks right on desktop but cramped or oddly cropped on mobile. The URL-based background image option also saves a step if you already host images elsewhere and don’t want to duplicate them in your Media Library.
Update to Gutenberg 24.0 from your Plugins page to get these changes now. If you run WordPress core without the Gutenberg plugin, these features will arrive in a future core release instead.
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