Jetpack 9.6

• Release date: April 6, 2021
• Release post: https://wp.me/p1moTy-vdU

Enhancements

• Beautiful Math: remove title attribute from generated image.
• Blocks: add width option to buttons in Subscriptions, Revue, Form, Calendly, and Payments blocks.
• Blocks: improve reliability of all blocks via unit tests.
• Dashboard: add new options to customize SEO settings.
• Dashboard: add new option to input license key.
• Dashboard: update recommmendations notice to improve accessibility.
• General: allow the use of some Jetpack features without connecting to a WordPress.com account.
• Instant Search: add a new result format layout, for sites using WooCommerce.
• Instant Search: improve performance thanks to lazily loading.
• Instant Search: only use site accelerator for displaying images if it is enabled on the site.
• Instant Search: update the search modal design.
• Jetpack Videos: improve the display of transcoding status for newly uploaded videos.
• Podcast Player Block: improve fetching of the podcast description.
• Syncrhonization: add new sync/health endpoint to allow update of the sync health options.

Improved compatibility

• Auto-updates: respect auto-update constant/filters in plugin API endpoints.
• Autoloader: fix uninstallation fatal.
• General: update colors to match dashboard color changes in WordPress 5.7.
• Gravatar Hovercards: fix compatibility with the AMP plugin for Pingbacks and Trackbacks.
• Latest Instagram Posts Block: improve compatibility with Gutenberg 10.1.0.
• Markdown: avoid processing URLs that may include Markdown syntax.
• Opentable Block: improve compatibility with Gutenberg 10.1.0.
• Podcast Player Block: fix compatibility with the AMP plugin in the Customizer preview.
• Podcast Player Block: improve compatibility with Gutenberg 10.1.0.
• Synchronization: avoid issues with themes or plugins using anonymous functions within hooks.

Bug fixes

• Connection Flow: resolve issue that prevented connections from the Opera browser.
• Custom Content Types: fix inline quick editing of Restaurant menu items.
• Instant Search: ensure Escape key always closes search modal.
• Instant Search: fix an issue that led to a PHP notice for undefined index.
• Instant Search: Fix modal opening bug within the Customizer.
• Instant Search: fix handling of Customizer controls using refresh.
• Instant Search: fix visibility of filter checkboxes in Safari on Twenty Twenty and Twenty Twenty One themes.
• Instant Search: hide "filters" menu on mobile if there are no filters to display.
• Instant Search: prevent IE11 from spawning overlay on load.
• Publicize: avoid notices as embeds are added to a post.
• Recommendations: when enabling Site Accelerator, also enable Tiled Galleries.
• Sharing: omit Open Graph description tag from posts with Premium Content.
• Site Logo: fix issues when updating logo in the Customizer.
• Star Rating Block: allow 0 stars to be selected.
• Subscriptions Block: allow block to override color styles, falling back to theme defaults.
• Tiled Gallery: prevent block validation errors for mosaic and column layouts.
• Video Block: display fallback when fetching videos that have been deleted.
• WordPress.com Block Editor: disable if all Jetpack blocks are disabled via a filter.
• WordPress.com REST API: make sure post metadata is always an array.

Jetpack 9.6 Beta

You too, can help testing this new release by following the testing list here: https://github.com/Automattic/jetpack/blob/jetpack/branch-9.6/to-test.md

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Jetpack 9.5.2

Internal release

• Release date: March 16, 2021

Improved compatibility

• Block Editor: avoid conflicts between multiple Jetpack blocks and Gutenberg version 10.1.0.

Bug fixes

• Instant Search: prevent IE11 from spawning overlay on load.
• WordPress.com Toolbar and customizations: fix multiple issues causing navigation panel discrepancies between the WP-Admin dashboard and the WordPress.com dashboard.

Jetpack 9.5.1

Internal release

• Release date: March 4, 2021

Bug fixes

• Sharing: avoid potential conflicts with the Blog Posts Block from Newspack.
• Subscriptions Block: avoid validation errors when customizing font size on a site using the Gutenberg plugin.

Jetpack 9.5

• Release date: March 2, 2021
• Release post: https://wp.me/p1moTy-uSv

Enhancements

• Carousel: improve the experience on mobile devices by allowing touch events (pinch, zoom).
• Instant Search: improve the design of the Search modal.
• Instant Search: open search result links in the current window rather than opening a new one.
• Podcast Player Block: allow filtering the number of tracks returned when fetching new podcast episodes.
• Podcast Player Block: add publication date to the data returned when fetching new podcast episodes.
• Recommendations: add a dashboard banner to help users discover the best Jetpack features.
• Related Posts: improve performance by removing jQuery dependency.
• SEO Tools: make the feature available for all sites.
• Social Icons Widget: add new icons.
• Social Menu: add new icons.
• Synchronization: improve reliability of data by excluding blocked taxonomies.
• Tiled Galleries: improve performance by removing jQuery dependency.
• Video Block: add support for custom video player progress bar colors.
• Widgets: display notice in the customizer when one needs to connect their account before using the Instagram widget.

Improved compatibility

• Block Editor: update all blocks to be fully compatible with WordPress 5.7.
• General: Jetpack now requires WordPress 5.6, and is fully compatible with WordPress 5.7.
• Protect: ensure that the blocked login page is fully compatible with the Robots API changes introduced in WordPress 5.7.

Bug fixes

• Autoloader: prevent transitive plugin execution.
• Carousel: ensure that the Carousel view is available regardless of your gallery's link settings.
• Comments: improve respect for the Core moderation option in particular cases.
• Connection flow: ensuring Jetpack Dashboard successfully loads after reconnect.
• Cookies & Consent Widget: ensure the widget can be edited from the new block-based widget editor.
• Custom Content Types: allow Newspack's Blog Posts block to display Testimonial and Portfolio posts.
• Dashboard: improve performance by reducing excessive API calls.
• Dashboard: improve product upgrade flow for non-connected Jetpack users.
• Instant Search: fix closing of the overlay using the Escape key in IE11.
• Instant Search: improve compatibility with browser forward/back navigation.
• Instant Search: avoid issues when changes made in customizer would not immediately appear in preview.
• Jetpack Videos: fix responsiveness of Video poster images.
• Map Block: avoid issues when resize event listener was not removed when the component was unmounted.
• Markdown: avoid filters loading too early when creating a new site within a Multisite network.
• Payments Block: avoid layout issues when setting up a new payment plan.
• Pay With Paypal Block: ensure that line breaks can be used in product description.
• Secure Sign On: improve the connection flow when users first log in via SSO.
• Sharing: avoid displaying block content in Open Graph Meta tags when not needed.
• Sharing: ensure that sharing popup opens properly in Firefox.
• Shortcodes: use arguments provided by shortcode attributes for the Instagram embeds.
• Video Block: avoid potential PHP notice when working with Jetpack Videos.
• WhatsApp block: adjust width of block options toolbar.

Jetpack 9.5 Beta

You too, can help testing this new release by following the testing list here: https://github.com/Automattic/jetpack/blob/jetpack/branch-9.5/to-test.md

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Jetpack 9.4.1

• Release date: February 16, 2021

Bug fixes

• Carousel: ensure that the Carousel view is available regardless of your gallery's link settings.
• Dashboard: improve performance by reducing excessive API calls.
• Payments Block: avoid layout issues when setting up a new payment plan.

Jetpack 9.4

• Release date: February 2, 2021
• Release post: https://wp.me/p1moTy-tOv

Enhancements

• Dashboard: add new Recommendations page to help you get started with recommended features of Jetpack.
• Dashboard: change the development notice link to an external link.
• Podcast Player Block: add skip back/forward buttons.
• Podcast Player Block: improve RSS feed detection.
• Sharing: remove jQuery dependency to improve performance of the sharing buttons.
• Sharing: improve performance of the Email Sharing button by lazy-loading the Google reCAPTCHA when necessary.
• Social Menu: add Patreon icon.
• Synchronization with WordPress.com: improve the validation of field names when calculating checksums on tables.
• Synchronization Performance: reduce concurrency of requests by implementation of Retry-After for concurrent requests.
• Widgets: add Patreon icon to Social Icons Widget.
• WordPress.com REST API: add new Cloudflare Analytics field option.

Improved compatibility

• Form Block: avoid display issues when submitting a form within an AMP view.
• Instant Search: improve support for older browsers such as Internet Explorer 11.
• Secure Sign On: support custom login page plugins such as WPS Hide Login.
• Tiled Gallery Block: add additional CSS classes to improve compatibility with the Core Gallery block.

Bug fixes

• Autoloader: resolve inconsistencies when including a cache supporting autoloader from one without cache support.
• Contact Form: prevent post status transition actions from firing twice when the post status is changed.
• Crowdsignal: avoid issues when using a Crowdsignal shortcode in the block editor.
• Jetpack Video Block: avoid block validation errors when editing existing content.
• Jetpack Video Block: add missing alignment classes.
• Publicize: allow clearing Publicize custom message if a post title has been set.
• Stats: update dashboard widget to respect new dashboard widget markup.
• Subcriptions Block: avoid errors when displayed within a Disabled context, such as a block or pattern preview.
• Synchronization with WordPress.com: avoid PHP warnings.
• Synchronization with WordPress.com: fix potential PHP notices when making XMLRPC requests.
• WordPress.com REST API: fix PHP notice when fetching user connection data without a connection owner.

Jetpack 9.4 Beta

You too, can help testing this new release by following the testing list here: https://github.com/Automattic/jetpack/blob/jetpack/branch-9.4/to-test.md

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