Blockly v9.2.0 available (2022 Q4 release)

[Christopher Allen]

Hello block builders!

The 2022 Q4 release of Blockly, v9.2.0, is out.  Highlights in this release:

• The getWorkspace on Flyouts, and getToolbox and getFlyout methods on Workspaces are now public.
• There's a new destroy lifecycle hook on blocks, allowing you to clean up resources associated with a block when it is deleted.
  
• We fixed more bugs, including one that prevented users from setting text fields to empty.

Full release notes are below.  As always, we welcome bug reports and pull requests.

On behalf of the Blockly team: happy holidays,

Christopher Allen

v9.2.0

What's Changed

New features ✨

• feat: add firing of procedure events. by @BeksOmega in #6604
• feat: refactor event serialization to use static fromJson method by @BeksOmega in #6614
• feat(test): Miscellaneous improvements to test_tasks.js by @cpcallen in #6615
• feat: add option to disable modal inputs on mobile by @maribethb in #6625
• feat: add running procedure events by @BeksOmega in #6650
• feat: make getWorkspace, getFlyout, and getToolbox public by @NeilFraser in #6666
• feat: make the variable map return early for noops by @BeksOmega in #6674
• feat: add destroy lifecycle hook to blocks by @BeksOmega in #6678
• feat: procedure event serialization by @BeksOmega in #6669
• feat: Display a 'wait' cursor when opening trashcan by @NeilFraser in #6699

Bug fixes 🐛

• fix(renamings): Small correction to renaming of Blockly.utils.global by @cpcallen in #6599
• fix: Rename Mutator#workspace back to workspace_ for compatibility with library blocks by @rachel-fenichel in #6634
• fix: Add redirects to old demos. by @NeilFraser in #6657
• fix: Fix the compiler test, and check if it worked. by @NeilFraser in #6638
• fix(deps): update json schema validation by @BeksOmega in #6637
• fix(appengine): Restore build products to previous location by @cpcallen in #6687
• fix: set default field to any and fix validator function return type by @btw17 in #6690
• fix: don't reopen dropdownDiv if it was already open by @maribethb in #6688
• fix: Don't spellcheck number fields. by @NeilFraser in #6698
• fix(tests): Fix bootstrapping of generators in compressed mode by @cpcallen in #6703
• fix: not being able to set field values to empty by @BeksOmega in #6702

Cleanup ♻️

• refactor: Migrate to PointerEvents by @gonfunko in #6598
• docs(messages): Add a msg/json/README.md by @cpcallen in #6635
• docs: Add notice to use unpkg instead of demos. by @NeilFraser in #6667

Other changes

• ci: clang format version bump by @piwysocki in #6640
• release: v9.2.0 by @cpcallen in #6711

New Contributors

• @piwysocki made their first contribution in #6640

Full Changelog: blockly-v9.1.1...blockly-v9.2.0