--- title: What’s new in Gutenberg 23.5? (July 1, 2026) | daily.dev description: Gutenberg 23.5 has been released with several notable improvements. The Media Editor gains cropping controls including a magnified crop canvas, pixel-snapping... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/what-s-new-in-gutenberg-23-5-july-1-2026--gz01jy8r5 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: What’s new in Gutenberg 23.5? (July 1, 2026) | daily.dev og:description: Gutenberg 23.5 has been released with several notable improvements. The Media Editor gains cropping controls including a magnified crop canvas, pixel-snapping... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/what-s-new-in-gutenberg-23-5-july-1-2026--gz01jy8r5 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/gZ01jY8R5.png og:image:alt: What’s new in Gutenberg 23.5? (July 1, 2026) og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # What’s new in Gutenberg 23.5? (July 1, 2026) **[Make WordPress Core](https://daily.dev/sources/wordpresscore)** · 16 min read · 15 upvotes · 7 comments ## Summary Gutenberg 23.5 has been released with several notable improvements. The Media Editor gains cropping controls including a magnified crop canvas, pixel-snapping handles, and keyboard resizing for locked aspect-ratio crops. The Cover block now supports the Media Editor modal for inline cropping. A unified device preview lets editors drag the canvas to any width rather than being limited to preset breakpoints, with responsive editing controls integrated into the preview dropdown. Other highlights include Global Styles text shadow support, Icon block flip/rotate controls, real-time collaboration that can now be disabled per post type, ThemeProvider exported as a public API from @wordpress/theme, and a minimum WordPress version bump to 6.9. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@shahbaz7** · 2 upvotes > I've built countless websites in the past 12 years. I've yet to use Gutenberg on an actual site, and Gutenberg released in 2018. **@springtofigh** · 0 upvotes > I don't want to be biased, but I feel like Gutenberg is outdated and any effort won't be as good as Elementor. ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [What’s new in Gutenberg 23.6? \(July 22, 2026\)](https://daily.dev/posts/what-s-new-in-gutenberg-23-6-july-22-2026--ryyx3zaim) · Make WordPress Core · 3 upvotes · 0 comments - [What’s new in Gutenberg 23.3? \(03 Jun\)](https://daily.dev/posts/what-s-new-in-gutenberg-23-3-03-jun--itwrdtkmk) · Make WordPress Core · 14 upvotes · 7 comments - [What’s new in Gutenberg 23.7? \(05 August\)](https://daily.dev/posts/what-s-new-in-gutenberg-23-7-05-august--tqv95fney) · Make WordPress Core · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [What’s new in Gutenberg 23.1? \(07 May\)](https://daily.dev/posts/what-s-new-in-gutenberg-23-1-07-may--zla60kyr7) · Make WordPress Core · 4 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#wordpress](https://daily.dev/tags/wordpress), [#ui-design](https://daily.dev/tags/ui-design) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/what-s-new-in-gutenberg-23-5-july-1-2026--gz01jy8r5) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"What’s new in Gutenberg 23.5? 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