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Last updated: 14 December 2021

🔺 Blocker for 5.9 Beta (must be fixed before Beta1)
⚠️ Blocker for 5.9 Release (can be fixed after Beta1, must be fixed before RC preferably by Beta 4 to ensure included in a beta release)
🧪 Needs testing and feedback

The issues within each section are ordered by priority; contributors are welcome to pick issues from top to bottom in their area of expertise/interest.

Site editing experience

• Load the template list within the Site Editor without page reloads #37075 🧪
• Add templates list page for site editor #36379 🔺
• Implement "Add New" for templates list in Site Editor #36592 🔺
• [Site Editor] Templates list screen overview #36597 ⚠️
• Ensure links to the Customizer send users to an appropriate destination in 5.9 ⚠️
• Update the Dashboard welcome banner for 5.9 ⚠️
• Rework the default template for a better first experience twentytwentytwo#243 ⚠️

General interface

• Try: Make appender fixed position. #36037 ⚠️
• Make appender fixed position to avoid jumps in the UI #36605 ⚠️
• Full Site Editing: Ensure that the site editor canvas loads only after the global styles are ready. #36594 ⚠️

Navigation block

• Page List block shows loading state often, doesn't seem to cache page data #36502 ⚠️
• Deprecate navigation areas #36727 ⚠️
• Provide suitable frontend fallback for the Navigation block when no Menu is selected #36721 ⚠️
• Add page list to navigation direct insert conditions #36591 ⚠️
• As a contributor / author navigation block only shows a spinner #36286

Global styles & Design tools

• [Components - FontSizePicker]: Use incremental sequence of numbers as labels for the available font-sizes at the segmented control (conditionally) #37038 ⚠️
• Color palette: Design updates #36543 ⚠️
• Global Styles: Iterations on the user global styles endpoint. #36644 ⚠️

Theme blocks

• Apply Site Logo placeholder treatment to Featured Image block #36136 ⚠️
• Reusable blocks can't be inserted in the Site Editor #30669 ⚠️
• Template Part block should not be available in the Post Editor inserter #30668 ⚠️
• Inserter: Reorder blocks in the Theme & Design sections #36547 ⚠️