Releases: Automattic/jetpack
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Jetpack 9.3.2
Note: internal release
- Release date: January 19, 2021
Enhancements
- Synchronization: improvements to the way data is synchronized back to WordPress.com.
Jetpack 9.3.1
- Release date: January 14, 2021
Bug fixes
- Multisite: avoid Fatals on sites using the WPMUDEV domain mapping plugin.
- SEO Tools: prevent a PHP notice in some situations involving taxonomy or author pages.
Jetpack 9.3
- Release date: January 12, 2021
- Release post: p1moTy-sgZ-p2
Enhancements
- Autoloader: improve performance by caching known plugins.
- Instant Search: improve compatibility with IE11.
- Related Posts: use the semantic time element when displaying dates.
- Sharing: defer loading of the reCAPTCHA library by default.
Improved compatibility
- AMP: avoid PHP notice on sites using legacy versions of the AMP plugin.
- Dashboard: avoid errors on sites using PHP 8.
- General: use modern JavaScript best practices for loading scripts.
- Infinite Scroll: add compatibility for the TwentyTwentyOne theme.
- Search: improve styling for the TwentyTwenty theme.
- Synchronization: improve integrity of synchronization between your site and WordPress.com.
- WordPress.com Toolbar: iterate on the design and functionality of the toolbar to match the toolbar in use on WordPress.com.
Bug fixes
- Autoloader: resolve symbolic links in active plugin paths.
- Autoloader: ensure deactivating plugins aren't cached.
- Blocks: improve sidebar display in non-fullscreen mode.
- Content Options: do not output CSS when it is not needed.
- Instant Search: improve display of tags and categories in search results.
- Lazy Images: attempt to load all images when printing a post, and inform the user when printing if images haven't been loaded.
- Podcast Player Block: avoid PHP notices in some scenarios.
- Search: limit number of filters automatically set up.
- Slideshow Block: ensure that image captions are always shown, regardless of the theme you're using.
- Subscription Block: display the correct default placeholder and button text strings in the post editor.
- Subscriptions: fix the behavior of the toggle switches for the comment subscription settings.
- Twitter Threads: improve how Twitter Cards are generated for embeds in the thread preview.
- VideoPress: detect aspect ratios rounding to both 1.77 and 1.78 as 16:9.
- Widgets: avoid JavaScript errors when displaying the Cookies & Consent Widget.
- WordPress.com REST API: avoid fatal errors in some scenarios, when updating a post's metadata.
Jetpack 9.3 Beta
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Jetpack 9.2.1
- Release date: December 10, 2020
Improved compatibility
- Site Health Tools: improve PHP 8 compatibility.
- Twenty Twenty One: add support for Jetpack's Content Options.
Bug fixes
- Instant Search: fix layout issues with filtering checkboxes with some themes.
- WordPress.com Toolbar: avoid Fatal errors when the feature is not active.
- WordPress.com Toolbar: avoid 404 errors when loading the toolbar.
Jetpack 9.2
- Release date: December 1, 2020
- Release post: p1moTy-scn-p2
Enhancements
- Connection Flow: clarify error message when the options table is not writable.
- Contact Form Block: display fallback link when the block is rendered in non-WordPress contexts, such as subscription emails.
- Contact Form Block: display the correct default email address and subject in the form block settings.
- Dashboard: clarify language around support options.
- Instagram Embeds: add support for embed parameters supported by Instagram.
- Payments Block: move unreadable notice to the sidebar.
- Pinterest Block: ensure that Pinterest embeds are displayed nicely in non-WordPress contexts, such as subscription emails.
- Podcast Block: display fallback link when the block is rendered in non-WordPress contexts, such as RSS feeds.
- Search: improve URL formatting for the expanded search layout.
- Sharing: ensure the first suitable image found in a post is always the one used in Open Graph Image meta tags.
- Site Health Tools: update description of Synchronization issues for better usability.
- Slideshow Block: ensure that slideshows are displayed nicely in subscription emails.
- Status: improve detection of staging servers.
- Story Block: improve display of the block.
- Synchronization: improve synchronization of comment status, taxononmies, and terms between your site and WordPress.com.
- Tiled Gallery Block: improve rendering when the block is rendered in non-WordPress contexts, such as subscription emails.
- WhatsApp button Block: improve text alignment on mobile devices.
- WordPress.com Toolbar: include admin color in user's REST API output.
Improved compatibility
- Autoloader: support Composer 2.0.7.
- General: continued work towards ensuring that Jetpack is fully compatible with the upcoming version of PHP, PHP 8.
- General: ensure Jetpack's full compatibility with the upcoming WordPress 5.6 release.
- General: update Jetpack's minimum required WordPress version to 5.5, in anticipation of the upcoming WordPress 5.6 release.
- Sharing: disable Open Graph Meta tags added by the Web Stories plugin when Jetpack's tags are active.
- Stats: support Web Stories plugin.
- Synchronization: ensure better synchronization of post meta data (used by Publicize, Subscriptions, Search) in WordPress 5.6.
Bug fixes
- Connection: handle XMLRPC requests when SERVER_PORT is not defined.
- External Media: fix a conflict with CoBlock's image replace feature.
- Dashboard: fix incorrect links to Jetpack credentials form.
- Google Analytics: ensure compatibility with Google Analytics 4 (GA4).
- Sitemaps: ensure that the Home URL is slashed on subdirectory websites.
- Social Icons widget: display only one icon when a URL matches both a domain and the feed URL match.
- Sync: avoid trying to sync when something else disabled syncing a request.
- Whatsapp Button Block: fix Guyana country code metadata.
- WordPress.com REST API: restore post comments when untrashing a post, such as via the mobile apps.
Jetpack 9.2 Beta 2
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Jetpack 9.2 Beta
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Jetpack 9.1
- Release date: November 10, 2020
- Release post: p1moTy-s0E-p2
Enhancements
- Button Block: add a center alignment option to all Jetpack button blocks.
- Content Options: add new filter to allow theme and plugin authors to disable featured image removal for their Custom Post Types.
- Dashboard: improve the display of dates in the Jetpack Plan screen and in the Stats graph.
- Dashboard: improve the display of numbers in all languages.
- Donations Block: improve the display of the block outside WordPress (in subscription emails, for example).
- Embeds: update Loom logo.
- External Media: add feature to the Cover block.
- Google Calendar Block: improve the display of the block in the editor.
- Image Compare Block: accessibility improvements.
- Instant Search: improve accessibility of the Search modal.
- Likes: remove jQuery dependency where possible.
- Pay with PayPal Block: improve the styling of the buttons in subscription emails.
- Pay with PayPal Block: improve the display of currencies.
- Podcast Player Block: add option to hide the episode title.
- Podcast Player Block: display more helpful error messages when a podcast cannot be embedded.
- Publicize: improve the usability of the Twitter thread options.
- REST API: support needed capabilities in Jetpack REST API endpoints that allow site based authentication.
- Social Menu & Social Media Icons: add support for Telegram profiles.
- Synchronization: improve reliability of synchronization of theme changes.
- WhatsApp Block: add option to change the alignment of the button.
- Widget Visibility: improve performance on sites with a large number of pages.
- WordPress.com Block Editor: add option to add metadata to a post indicating the last editor used.
- WordPress.com REST API: remove outdated code that allowed non-secure requests to the API, as such requests are no longer accepted.
Improved compatibility
- Comments: avoid AMP validation errors when using Jetpack's Comments feature and the AMP plugin.
- Dashboard: better support all states available when using one of Jetpack's Security solutions.
- Embeds: improve compatibility between Jetpack's Instagram embed and WordPress' own embed.
- Embeds: ensure Facebook Embeds work well with the AMP plugin.
- External Media: update iconography and improve forward compatibility.
- General: better detect local development environments.
- Google Analytics: add support for the AMP plugin to track WooCommerce events.
- OpenTable Block: ensure full compatibility with the AMP plugin.
- Pay with PayPal Block: ensure full compatibility with the AMP plugin.
- Sharing: add support for the Google Web Stories plugin.
- Slideshow Block: ensure that the block can be displayed using the Full Width alignment setting when using the Gutenberg plugin.
- Widget Visibility: avoid performance impact it may have on the block editor when used with the Gutenberg plugin.
- YouTube embeds: ensure that all YouTube video embeds work well when using the AMP plugin.
Bug fixes
- Calendly and Eventbrite Blocks: fix layout issue when selecting block styles in the editor.
- Contact Form: selection widgets, radio buttons, and checkboxes can now use commas, brackets, and backslashes in the labels and values without breaking the form.
- Donations / Payments Block: fix visual bug in Stripe connection banner.
- Embeds: ensure Facebook videos are centered properly with the Twenty Twenty theme.
- Google Analytics: support updated Google Analytics 4 properties.
- Image CDN: the CDN will now ignore attempts to specify percentages for width or height in an image tag.
- Infinite Scroll: ensure the number of posts loaded when using Infinite Scroll respects posts per page settings.
- Latest Instagram Posts Block: avoid PHP warning when no images can be retrieved from Instagram.
- Lazy Images: attempt to load all images when printing a post, and inform the user when printing if images haven't been loaded.
- Pay with PayPal Block: add default price value.
- Pay with PayPal Block: ensure currencies are displayed properly in the editor.
- Protect: fix handling of IPv6 addresses.
- Publicize: ensure that custom messages can be saved when using the Portfolio Custom Post Type.
- Publicize: ensure that tweets consisting only of whitespace aren't added to Twitter threads.
- Publicize: when generating Twitter threads, allow text to be split at line breaks where appropriate.
- Security / Contact Form: add additional checks before checking submitted forms for spam.
- Security / WordPress.com REST API: improve authentication checks when making proxied requests to a site's API endpoints.
- Slideshow Block: fix a bug that prevented the first and last images from displaying when the slideshow loops.
- Stats: no longer incorrectly report a term ID as a post ID in some rare cases.
- Videos: ensure Jetpack videos use the correct aspect ratio in both the editor and the frontend, even when used within column blocks.
- WhatsApp Block: fix issue when the text color would not be correct.