Release v1.27.0-rc.1 · GoogleForCreators/web-stories-wp

What's Changed

Media Recording: Improve settings dialog by @timarney in #12548
Dashboard: Add global Page Advancement setting by @miina in #12460
Add "Copy story data" button to error boundary screen by @timarney in #12554
Global Page Advancement: use global values when creating templates by @miina in #12577

Design System: Ensure WP toolbar access when dialogs are open by @timarney in #12545
Editor: Remove errant 'Edit' option from media menu by @timarney in #12561
Block: Fix carousel width & whitespace issues by @swissspidy in #12564
Correctly use registered option defaults by @swissspidy in #12602
Video Trimming: Avoid crash due to missing tracks property by @spacedmonkey in #12556
Story Locking: Ensure author users and below correctly see information by @spacedmonkey in #12559
Slug: allow unicode characters by @miina in #12603
Correctly filter revision fields for story revisions by @swissspidy in #12611
Fix Karma tests by @merapi in #12623
Fix Story Duration Default by @merapi in #12645
Autosaves: Delete local backup after auto-saving to DB by @miina in #12578

Update Composer dependencies by @swissspidy in #12565
Code Quality: Move prepare_links() to its own method in taxonomies controller by @spacedmonkey in #12569
E2E tests: Ready for 6.1 by @spacedmonkey in #12567
Run unit tests only against PHP 7.4+ by @spacedmonkey in #12607
Tests: don't mark PHP 8.1 & 8.2 tests as experimental by @spacedmonkey in #12609
E2E Tests: Run against WordPress 5.9+ by @timarney in #12606
Run unit tests against WordPress 5.9+ by @spacedmonkey in #12608
Unit tests: use PHP 8.0 for coverage report by @swissspidy in #12617
Remove scaling properties from non-media elements by @miina in #12605
TypeScript: story-editor config provider by @miina in #12619
TypeScript: dashboard config provider by @miina in #12627
Update doc block link to amp var substitutions by @freibergerb in #12647

Also thanks to the following people for their contributions:

Full Changelog: v1.26.0...v1.27.0-rc.1