Jetpack 9.8

Enhancements

• Contact Form: the "Feedback > Export CSV" submenu entry has been removed. The export functionality is still available in "Feedback > Form Responses".
• Form block: allow replacing the "Message Sent" heading with custom phrase.
• Instagram Reel: add oEmbed support for Instagram Reel posts.
• Instant Search: add 'open when visitor submits the form' overlay trigger.
• Instant Search: apply configured highlight color to text highlights.
• Site Verification Tools: adds an option for Facebook domain verification.
• Story Block: add new block that enables you to use photos and videos to create engaging and tappable fullscreen slideshows.

Improved compatibility

• Blocks: ensure blocks are compatible with upcoming Full Site Editor feature.
• Blocks: ensure tiled gallery and slideshow blocks do not output invalid CSS when used with AMP plugin.
• Dashboard: hide Settings page for non-admin users when in site-only connection.
• Instant Search: ensure search input is the correct width if an input max-width has been specified in the theme.
• Related Posts: add height attribute to post images for better compatibility with page performance analysis tools.
• Related Posts: avoid Fatal Errors when using plugins that may interact with WordPress' customizer in specific ways.
• SEO Tools: ensure Jetpack SEO does not conflict with SEOPress.
• Story Block: Improve accessibility and resolve z-index issues when playing in fullscreen.

Bug fixes

• Carousel: harden fetching comments in Carousel view.
• Contact Form: remove double quotes from names in email headers to improve compatibility with different emailing solutions for WordPress.
• Dashboard: display the Sharing settings tab when editors only need to customize Publicize settings for their own account.
• Dashboard: do not display Protect card for non-admin users while in site-only connection.
• Dashboard: do not show multiple connection prompts in the Publicize settings card.
• Dashboard: ensure connected user details properly displayed.
• Dashboard: ensure that the Jetpack settings page can be accessed when using Jetpack's Offline mode.
• Fixed regression introduced in posts page icon notification WP-Admin edit.php page.
• General: ensures that the send_auth_cookies filter is respected.
• Instant Search: don't photon-ize SVG images as they're not supported by Photon
• Instant Search: fixes for design conflicts.
• Instant Search: prevent standard sidebar widgets ending up in the search modal sidebar when switching themes.
• Social Previews: don't show duplicate buttons when a featured image is selected.
• Stats: fixes the date used to fetch the Top posts in the Top posts dashboard widget.

Jetpack 9.8 Beta

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Jetpack 9.7

2021-05-04

Enhancements

• Blocks: improve test coverage for better reliability of each one of Jetpack's blocks.
• Carousel: improve general performance.
• Dashboard: add explanation when a feature is unavailable.
• Dashboard: improve the display of buttons in the update modal.
• Jetpack Videos: add "Play Inline" setting to play a video inline instead of full-screen on mobile devices when enabled.
• SEO Tools: improve usability of settings interface.
• Widgets: improve message displayed in Blog Stats Widget when there are no stats to display.
• WordAds: add Global Privacy Control (GPC) support to CCPA.

Improved compatibility

• Blocks: continous work to ensure full compatibility between Jetpack's Blocks and WordPress' upcoming Full Site Editing feature.
• Featured Content: avoid PHP warnings when terms are fetched without a taxonomy to filter by.
• Feature Hints: avoid Fatal errors when other plugins filter the plugin list.
• General: improvements to bring multiple features up to WordPress coding standards.
• Publicize: update Twitter text processing library to avoid errors when using PHP 8.
• Sharing: avoid broken sharing icons when using IE11 and the legacy AMP plugin's theme.

Bug fixes

• Image CDN: correct image URLs in srcset in certain cases.
• Instant Search: enable link filtering on built-in WordPress taxonomies.
• Instant Search: fix handling of customizer controls using refresh.
• Instant Search: fix race condition for API responses.
• Instant Search: improve settings interface usability.
• Instant Search: prevent excluding all post types.
• Instant Search: set the number of returned posts using the query's posts_per_page value.
• Markdown: fix regression that broke links with single-quoted href attributes.
• Sharing / Publicize: properly encode URLs in Open Graph tags.

Jetpack 9.7 Beta 2

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Jetpack 9.7 Beta

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Jetpack 9.6.1

9.6.1 - 2021-04-13

Bug fixes

• Connection tools: safeguard cleanup tool against accidental option removal.
• Dashboard: fix loading indicator styles by deprecating our custom solution in favor of WordPress Core's Spinner.
• Instant Search: fix Customizer and styling bugs introduced in 9.6.
• Instant Search: Handle pagination edge-case with excluded post types.
• Sharing: ensure the feature can be used when Jetpack is used in Offline mode.
• Stats: Fix time period selection on the stats page.

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

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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.