REST API: Ensure a sidebar's widgets property is a list.

When a widget is removed from a sidebar, if it was removed from the middle of the list, the widgets property would become an object with numeric keys.

The sidebars controller now forces the widgets property to be a list.

Props walbo, timothyblynjacobs.
Merges [51377] to the 5.8 branch.
Fixes #53612.
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wp-includes/rest-api/endpoints/class-wp-rest-sidebars-controller.php

@@ -304,7 +304,7 @@ class WP_REST_Sidebars_Controller extends WP_REST_Controller {
 				}
 			);
 
-			$sidebar['widgets'] = $widgets;
+			$sidebar['widgets'] = array_values( $widgets );
 		}
 
 		$schema = $this->get_item_schema();

wp-includes/version.php

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
  *
  * @global string $wp_version
  */
-$wp_version = '5.8-RC2-51384';
+$wp_version = '5.8-RC2-51385';
 
 /**
  * Holds the WordPress DB revision, increments when changes are made to the WordPress DB schema.