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• Added copy to the plans tab
• Fixed numerous bugs

First beta for 4.5. Includes:

• VideoPress enhancements
• New module "Ads"
• Carousel single image lightbox
• Many new widgets and shortcodes from wordpress.com

WordPress 4.7 compatibility release

Welcome to Jetpack 4.4.2 Beta!

This is mostly a compatibility release that handles WordPress 4.7.

Compatibility changes

• Custom CSS: Made the Custom CSS feature of Jetpack compatible with the CSS Customizer editor coming with WordPress 4.7. #5527
• General: Adapted the code to work with the new hook structure coming in WordPress 4.7. #5787
• Sync: improved compatibility with the wp-missed-schedule plugin. #5723

Enhancements

• Admin: now redirecting users to the legacy settings page if WordPress REST API is disabled using filters. #5775
• Sync: cleared out unneeded scheduled jobs. #5713

Bug fixes

• Featured Content: made sure there is no infinite loop when removing the featured tag from the tag list. #5784
• Admin: made sure help tabs are not being hidden. #5783
• Admin: made At a Glance page works nicely when there is no backup data yet. #5774
• General: corrected spelling of the word "email". #5773
• JSON API: added error handling to the term updation endpoint. #5767
• Sync: now making sure that needed classes are loaded. #5744
• JSON API: made the theme getter endpoint work properly. #5727
• Admin: no longer checking if the site is publicly available to activate a module. #5609

This release contains the following bug fixes:

• Fixed an issue where some users with slower servers would get an error on the Jetpack dashboard when WP_DEBUG was enabled.
• Fixed an issue where users on a Jetpack Professional plan who were paying monthly (as opposed to annually) wouldn’t be able to enable SEO Tools.

Welcome to Jetpack 4.4!

Enhancements in this release:

• Additional unit tests have been added to improve Jetpack's development process and stability.
• Custom post types have been added to the WP REST API output.
• Many of the screenshots throughout the plugin have been replaced by SVGs in order to make Jetpack smaller.
• New endpoints have been added to allow the installation of plugin and theme zip files via the API.
• Twelve new filters to make Jetpack more extensible!
• New widget: "Google Translate" to allow users to translate your site into their own language.
• New widget: "My Community" where you can see who recently interacted with your site.
• One of the biggest issues facing Jetpack users for years now has been difficulties in moving sites from one domain name to another. This update makes strides towards improving that process.
• Photon now uses HTTPS by default. Secure all the things!
• There are now helpful hints throughout the admin interface to make Jetpack easier to use.
• We now allow you to embed pins, boards and profiles from Pinterest.
• We've added a new feature: SEO Tools, available to Jetpack Professional subscribers. You can read more about our plans here: https://jetpack.com/features/
• We've made numerous improvements to the data sync process.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed link to Akismet settings.
• Improved compatibility between Infinite Scroll and WPML.
• Moved email notification settings back with the other email settings in the Discussion Settings.
• Various minor performance/compatibility fixes.

• Fixes the missing front-end CSS files.
• Fixes a bug with some module settings in the foldable cards
• Fixes loading of the css in the Jetpack admin.

The third beta of Jetpack 4.4 introduces several enhancements to the administrator interface, synchronisation mechanism and adds new translations.

Beta 2 fixes a fatal error when activating Beta 1

Welcome to a preview of Jetpack 4.4. In this beta you will find the following changes:

• Brand new SEO Tools module. #5307
• Shortcodes: added Pinterest embeds. #5437
• VideoPress: refreshed admin interface, seamless integration with the core Media manager, tied with Jetpack Plans. #5457

More enhancements

• Admin Page: added a filter to manage if the newly connected user should go to WordPress.com or not. #5319
• Admin Page: added links to pages where users can fix problems with Akismet and update plugins. #5176
• Admin Page: added helpful hints to make Jetpack easier to use. #5479
• Admin Page: redesign Development mode banner. #5186
• Admin Page: removed unnecessarily loaded theme compatibility files. #5454
• Admin Page: when user is non admin, Protect module is inactive and they have no access to Stats, don't break the UI trying to go to At a Glance which isn't accessible by them and instead display Apps tab. #5395
• Admin Page: use SVGs instead of raster images to improve performance. #5419
• Admin Page: improve design when Development mode is active. #5186
• Admin Page: improve contrast for better accessibility. #5236
• Carousel: moved close icon location to the top right. #5237
• Carousel: change the behavior of the browser's back button after closing a gallery. #5168
• Contact Form: add horizontal line between message content and meta data. #5270
• Custom Post Types: added custom posts to the output of the WordPress REST API. #5434
• Custom Post Types: made Nova post markup more flexible by adding new filters. #1542
• Debug Page: add information about Development mode. #5225
• Documentation: Improvements to README.md sections about development workflow and clarification about Node versions required for the build tasks. #5428
• Development: added tests for Jetpack API endpoints for the WordPress REST API. #5310
• Development: added tests for various constants in use by Jetpack. #5350
• General: improve the display of the connection banners to explain to site owners why they should connect to WordPress.com. #5473
• JSON API: add new API endpoint to allow installing a plugin via the API, from a zip file. #5507
• JSON API: add new API endpoint to allow installing a theme via the API. #5537
• JSON API: customize the theme endpoint to allow installing WordPress.com themes. #5392
• Markdown: add new filter to allow site owners to parse content inside shortcodes. #5573
• Photon: now using HTTPS to retrieve images by default. #5534
• Protect: added a filter to skip IP address checking in favor of another security check. #5369
• Publicize: only trigger Publicize for Post Types that support it. #5381
• Related Posts: add posts to the WP REST API Post Response. #3425
• Sharing / Likes: add new filter to customize the heading HTML. #5011
• Sharing: better video tags for Video posts including VideoPress videos. #3853
• Site Icon: added the site icon property to the output of the settings API endpoint. #5282
• SSO: Extend logged in expiration to 1 year. #5259
• Sync: added an API endpoint to examine the current state of scheduled sync jobs. #5324
• Sync: improve synchronization on sites with a custom implementation of Cron.
• Sync: disable Sync via Cron. #5528
• Tests: introduce GUI tests for the React components in Jetpack. #5496
• Tiled Galleries: add filter to override the default Tiled Gallery template files. #5090
• Widgets: new 'My Community' widget displaying people who recently interacted with your site. #3358
• Widgets: new Google Translate widget. #5386
• Widgets: new Flickr option in the Social Media Icons Widget. #5250
• Widgets: new 'WordPress.org' option in the Social Media Icons Widget. #5183
• Widgets: add new jetpack_top_posts_widget_permalink filter to the permalinks in Top Posts Widget. #4881
• Widgets: remove title attributes from the Social Media Icons Widget. #5286
• Widget Visibility: add a filter to the get_taxonomies arguments. #5222

Improved Compatibility:

• Infinite Scroll: improve compatibility with WPML and language slugs in permalinks. #4953
• Open Graph: add SEO by Squirrly TM to the list of conflicting plugins. #5365
• Sharing: fix conflict between the Email button and the Autoptimize plugin. #5291
• Sync: avoid conflicts with the Photo Gallery plugin. #5412
• Several improvements to avoid issues when cloning / duplicating sites, creating staging sites, or changing your site URL.

Bug Fixes:

• Admin Page: fix URL to Akismet Settings. #5332
• Admin Page: do not load unnecessary file on connection page. #5284
• Admin Page: avoid errors when page is loaded by secondary users. #5366
• Admin Page: update the Create Account link from the Admin Page's dashboard to direct the user into a connect screen that asks them to sign up by being aware that the user clicked the Create Account instead of just the connect button. #5382
• Admin Page: for non-admin users, when site is in Dev Mode, a Jetpack link leading to a blank page with a message "Sorry, you are not allowed to access this page." is no longer displayed. #5396
• Admin Page: fix PHP warning when roles allowed to see Stats don't exist or haven't been saved yet. #5432
• Admin Page: fix issue where certain administrative page actions would fail with sites using index permalinks. #5345
• Contact Forms: fixed shortcode properties passing when using do_shortcode. #3188
• Contact Forms: restricted access to feedback posts from the WordPress REST API. #5408
• JSON API: avoid errors when the Sharing module isn't available. #5423
• Likes: move email notification settings back with the other email settings in the Discussion Settings. #4987
• Site Icon: not using a site icon as fallback version if it is too small. #3515
• SSO: remove unnecessary styles for nonexistent profile UI. #5289
• Sitemaps: make sure sitemaps always use absolute paths for images. #5375
• Sync: avoid counting users on very large networks. #5575
• Subscriptions: fix PHP warnings when user subscribes to comments. #4897
• Widgets: fixed Instagram widget minimum width rule to actually use the minimum instead of maximum. #5316

• Release date: October 13, 2016

Enhancements

• Unsaved changes were getting lost when users were navigating away from settings so we put in a confirmation message to prevent this from happening.
• We've stopped counting carousel views in stats by default, you can use the jetpack_enable_carousel_stats filter to enable counting them again.
• Stats are now responding faster.
• There were several improvements and repairs made to sync including additional endpoints, performance enhancements, whitelisted data, better decision making around when to sync information, and more.
• Markdown now has a CSS class on footnotes.

Improved Compatibility:

• We've improved compatibility with Kinsta by automatically turning on Staging Mode for Jetpack when in a staging environment.

Bug Fixes:

• Several fixes have been made to sync to repair issues with Publicize, Notifications, and Subscriptions.
• We removed PHP warnings by checking to make sure json language files like jetpack-en_US.json are readable before we load them.
• We found an unused option in Gravatar Hovercard settings and removed it.
• The correct support link is now being used to make it easier for you to connect with the Jetpack team if you need us.
• The permissions check for plugin information retrieval was fixed as well.
• Some plugins were adding content on outbound http requests causing an infinite loop we fixed this right up.
• We removed some warnings that were occurring when translations didn't exist by adding a fallback.
• We've added Moroccan Arabic translations, and switched to language packs for Croatian, Spanish (Chile) and Greek.
• Sync was running into issues so we've limited dequeue time to 1/3 of PHP's max execution time, which has unclogged the problem.
• We're now sending full and incremental queues separately so that a failure in one doesn't block the other.
• There was a JavaScript enqueuing error with our Sharing feature that has been repaired.
• The Top Posts widget now includes the ability to list attachment (media) pages.
• We weren't building CPT links correctly resulting in bad navigation, which is now fixed.
• We removed the form legend for default Tiled Gallery settings as it doesn't relate.
• With shortcodes we now return early from processing them if no string is passed, as they are required.

Addresses a number of issues around data sync

= 4.3.1 =

• Release date: September 7, 2016

Enhancements

• Sync data on the host being used by any given site so that we can provide better support when things break.
• Update inline docs to match version numbers. #5089

Bug Fixes:

• Admin Page: fix error when Admin Page resources could not be fetched with wp_remote_get due to unique host configurations.
• Admin Page: fix error when Post By Email could not be enabled when the browser's dev console was enabled.
• Admin Page: make sure all translated strings are encoded properly.
• Admin Page: only use POST requests for updating the state of Jetpack, to avoid issues on servers not allowing PUT requests.
• General: Improve random number generation for compatibility with more hosts.
• General: Add deprecated PHP file (class.jetpack-landing-page.php) back as an empty file, to avoid generating fatal errors on sites with aggressive caching.
• General: Ensure concatenated CSS is generated for RTL languages.
• Security: Ensure that all options are included on the security tab.
• Stats: fix display for sites with pretty permalinks disabled.
• Subscriptions: ensure that no email is sent when updating a published post.
• Sync: To improve performance, add snapTW to the list of post meta data that won't be synchronized for each post.
• Verification Tools: in the Settings card, use appropriate link for each service.

Release date: September 6th, 2016
Exciting Performance and UI Improvements:

We have launched the all new React powered interface, a year in the making, designed to give you better control of your favorite Jetpack features.

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