--- title: What’s new in Gutenberg 24.1? (30 September) | daily.dev description: Gutenberg 24.1 ships roughly 140 PRs focused on design tool consistency, extending background image/gradient, shadow, border, color, typography, and... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/what-s-new-in-gutenberg-24-1-30-september--pgimdgqdl twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: What’s new in Gutenberg 24.1? (30 September) | daily.dev og:description: Gutenberg 24.1 ships roughly 140 PRs focused on design tool consistency, extending background image/gradient, shadow, border, color, typography, and... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/what-s-new-in-gutenberg-24-1-30-september--pgimdgqdl og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/PgImdGqdl.png og:image:alt: What’s new in Gutenberg 24.1? (30 September) 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 24.1? (30 September) **[Make WordPress Core](https://daily.dev/sources/wordpresscore)** · 27 min read · 3 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Gutenberg 24.1 ships roughly 140 PRs focused on design tool consistency, extending background image/gradient, shadow, border, color, typography, and text-column controls to nearly every core block. A new text-shadow control debuts alongside expanded theme.json support for text shadows in the Paragraph and Heading blocks. The Cover and Media & Text blocks gain a media selection panel matching Image and Site Logo. Other highlights include pattern modal category filtering and search, template descriptions in the Add Template modal, parent selectors for blocks inside patterns, clearer alignment menu states, per-viewport position controls, and completion of the icon stroke redraw (238 icons converted). The changelog also lists numerous component migrations (Emotion to SCSS modules, deprecations of Divider/ResponsiveWrapper/Scrollable/ZStack), bug fixes across blocks and the editor, accessibility and performance improvements, documentation updates, and tooling changes including a Vitest migration and dependency upgrades (React 19.3.0, Base UI 1.8.0, Ariakit 0.4.39). ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What new design tools were added to WordPress blocks in Gutenberg 24.1? Gutenberg 24.1 extends background image, size, and gradient controls, shadow support, border support, link/heading/button color controls, typography, and text columns to nearly every core block, spanning about 140 pull requests. It also introduces a new text-shadow control and adds media selection sections to the Cover and Media & Text block inspector panels, matching the Image and Site Logo blocks. _Track new WordPress editor capabilities like these as you plan theme and block updates on daily.dev._ ### How does text shadow support work in Gutenberg 24.1 compared to when it was introduced? Text shadow, originally introduced in Gutenberg 23.5, is now fully supported by theme.json, has its own panel in Global Styles, and is available on the Paragraph and Heading blocks as of Gutenberg 24.1. This completes the rollout beyond the initial limited implementation. _Following incremental feature rollouts like this helps developers time theme.json updates confidently via daily.dev._ ### What is the minimum WordPress version required by the Gutenberg plugin now? The Gutenberg plugin bumped its minimum required WordPress version to 7.0 in the 24.1 release. This means sites running older WordPress core versions cannot install or update to this Gutenberg release. _Developers planning WordPress core upgrades can watch plugin compatibility shifts like this on daily.dev._ ## 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 22.4? \(20 January\)](https://daily.dev/posts/what-s-new-in-gutenberg-22-4-20-january--1f7onh02r) · Make WordPress Core · 6 upvotes · 0 comments - [What’s new for developers? \(September 2026\)](https://daily.dev/posts/what-s-new-for-developers-september-2026--hj9hpdpts) · WordPress Developer · 4 upvotes · 0 comments - [What’s new in Gutenberg 23.0? \(22 April\)](https://daily.dev/posts/what-s-new-in-gutenberg-23-0-22-april--psbdovgvc) · Make WordPress Core · 5 upvotes · 3 comments --- Tags: [#css](https://daily.dev/tags/css), [#wordpress](https://daily.dev/tags/wordpress), [#design-systems](https://daily.dev/tags/design-systems) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/what-s-new-in-gutenberg-24-1-30-september--pgimdgqdl) ```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 24.1? 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