jetpack

Maintenance Release

• Release date: June 4, 2019
• Release post: https://wp.me/p1moTy-jgZ

Enhancements

• About Page: remove submenu and add link to page in the footer of Jetpack's dashboard.
• Admin Page: remove Themes card on Plans tab.
• Admin Page: consolidate the look of the different discussion settings.
• Admin Page: add Security Checklist information.
• Business Hours Block: improve the display of Business Hours.
• Business Hours Block: Simplify hours format.
• Comment Form: use HTTP 4xx status codes for comment errors.
• Contact Form Block: improve styles for better display on mobile devices.
• General: introduce a new Jetpack Logo package, to make it easier to share and re-use.
• Multisite: Use modern wp_initialize_site hook when automatically connecting new sites.
• Recurring Payments Block: automatically add button to the post content once you create it.
• Recurring Payments Block: improve the display of the renewal frequency in button list.
• Recurring Payments Block: require a paid plan to use the button.
• Recurring Payments Block: improve the look of the payment modal on mobile devices.
• Search: add new option for cross-site search permissions.
• Sharing: update default sharing settings to include buttons.
• Sitemaps: rename the jetpack_sitemap_generate and jetpack_news_sitemap_generate filters to the more accurate jetpack_sitemap_include_in_robotstxt and jetpack_news_sitemap_include_in_robotstxt.
• Slideshow Block: depending on viewport, display prev/next arrows.
• Slideshow Block: remove outline when focussing on the block.
• Sync: offer posts, comments, and comment meta checksums when providing sync status.
• Tiled Galleries: add srcset in the editor for an improved editing experience.
• WordPress.com Block Editor: allow managing reusable blocks in the WordPress.com interface.
• WordPress.com Toolbar: display hamburger icon in toolbar when in the block editor.
• WordPress.com Toolbar: display a link to exit recovery mode when it is active on the site.

Improved compatibility

• Display Posts Widget: remove overly opinionated CSS.
• General: Jetpack now requires PHP 5.3.2, and will display a notice if your site uses an older version of PHP.
• General: display a notice and log an error if your version of WordPress is not supported by Jetpack.
• General: Update Jetpack::get_content_width() to ensure that only numeric values are used.
• GIF Block: improve compatibility with the AMP plugin.
• Shortcodes: bring more of our shortcodes to meet current WordPress Coding Standards to help us maintain these features in the future.
• Site Health: improve Jetpack errors' messaging in WordPress' new Site Health tools.

Bug fixes

• Admin Page: make sure the Jetpack Dashboard is displayed properly in IE11.
• Admin Page: do not show Plugin Autoupdates card on admin searches.
• Carousel: avoid scrolling back to the top of the page when you close the Carousel view.
• Connect Flow: sanitize from parameter when building connection URL.
• Mobile Themes: fix "View Full Site" and "View Mobile Site" links when WordPress lives in a subdirectory.
• Recurring Payments Block: avoid invalid subscription amounts.
• Recurring Payments Block: allow line breaks in the payment button.
• Related Posts: do not add markup to attachment pages by default.
• SEO Tools: support taxonomy archive pages in page titles.
• Sharing: make sure the Whatsapp button works well in all browsers, including Firefox on desktop.
• Shortcodes: update embed type detection for Medium Collections.
• Social Icons SVG: switch to the presentation role for better accessibility.
• Subscriptions: display checkboxes above the comment submit button.
• Sync: add new WP Cli commands to help in monitoring and updating sync settings.
• Tracks: limit the length of the strings saved for feature searches.
• Unit Tests: add support for testing using VVV 3.0.
• Verification Tools: make sure the feature can be disabled by override.
• WooCommerce Analytics: remove duplicate self-executing anonymous function.
• WordPress.com Interface: make sure navigation menu items match the one available in the WordPress.com interface.
• WordPress.com Toolbar: restore the previous layout.
• WordPress.com Toolbar: ensure you are properly logged out of your WordPress.com account when you sign out of your site using the toolbar.
• WP Cli: ensure that WP Cli commands added by Jetpack include translator comments when necessary, to help with translations.

You too, can help testing this new release by following the testing list here: https://github.com/Automattic/jetpack/blob/branch-7.4-built/to-test.md

Thank you!

Hotfix release for sites that require the WordPress.com Toolbar.

= 7.3.1 =

• Release date: May 14, 2019
• Release post: https://wp.me/p1moTy-jgO

Bug fixes

• Admin Experience: Correct underline location under a dollar sign.
• Deprecated Hooks: Do not offer a replacement for jetpack_json_manage_api_enabled since there isn't an equal replacement.
• Debugger: Clarify labels in the Site Health Info section.
• Likes and Sharing: Remove duplicate control in the block editor for Likes/Sharing. We added a native block editor plugin, but left the old fallback.
• WordPress.com Editor: Redirect to a login page when logging out from the block editor on WordPress.com.
• WordPress.com Toolbar: Add menu icon for smaller screen widths to restore wp-admin navigation menu.

This release, not made available as a stable release to all Jetpack site owners, addresses a bug that impacts site owners using the WordPress.com Toolbar feature on mobile: #12299

We now display a Hamburger menu on mobile devices within the dashboard, allowing you to easily navigate from page to page.

Jetpack 7.3: Start Strong and Stay Healthy

Read all about it at https://wp.me/p1moTy-ipR

Major Enhancements

• We streamlined the default features of Jetpack to make the "out of the box" experience better.
• WordPress 5.2 will add a new Site Health section to your dashboard. Jetpack already integrates with it, letting you know that your Jetpack features are working!

Enhancements

• Admin Experience: Improve our "just in time messages" and "Recommended Features" for new sites setting up Jetpack for the first time.
• Admin Experience: Add an "About Jetpack" page to let folks know more about Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com and Jetpack.
• Admin Experience: Add a link to the full list of Jetpack features in the footer of Jetpack dashboard pages.
• Backups: Add SSH CLI command for hosting integration support.
• Block Editor: Compose posts with the Block Editor posts via WordPress.com for their Jetpack sites!
• Block Editor: Transform core images to Tiled Galleries or Slideshow blocks and back!
• Block Editor: Provide an option to disable particular extensions.
• Contact Form: Add a "grunion_after_message_sent" hook for after a form submission is e-mailed. Thanks Tim Nolte for contributing to Jetpack!
• Contact Form: Do not prefill for administrators on their own sites.
• Grammar and Spelling: Remove from Jetpack. We've chekced the spelling alot over the years, but now time to retire.
• Membership Block: Add a new block behind the JETPACK_BETA_BLOCKS constant. Stay tuned!
• Photon: Remove jQuery dependency for photon.js. Same Image CDN awesomeness with less overhead.
• Portfolios: Remove the "Portfolio Items" description that would display on some themes.
• Sharing: Add a "sharing_ajax_action" to to allow other plugins and scripts to render sharing buttons. Thanks Darren Cooney!
• Social Icons: Add Stack Overflow support. Welcome to the Jetpack contributor ranks Muhammad Osama Arshad!
• Sync: Report details on what is queued up to sync on the status endpoint.
• Sync: Improve importer detection so we can better handle cases of imported content.
• Sync: Add an option to disable sync for an entire network.
• Sync: Adds new WP-CLI Jetpack Sync commands: settings, enable, disable, reset.
• Testimonials: Sort by menu order to give site owners more flexibility for display. Thanks Felipe Elia!
• Tiled Galleries: Add improved layout for when images are in the process of uploading.
• Tiled Galleries: Add responsive imaging (srcset) support to the Tiled Gallery block.
• WordAds: Add location id (e.g. under the post) to the ad calls.
• WordPress.com API: Add behind the scene improvements to support the WordPress.com site management experience.
• WordPress.com API: Add the public property to the Post Types endpoint response.
• WordPress.com Menu Bar: Redesign to direct navigation items to WordPress.com instead of duplicating experiences.

Improved compatibility

• Blocks: Use the Editor's "BlockIcon" for native placeholder icons instead of custom CSS.
• Blocks: Drop i18n wrapper, use @wordpress/i18n directly. This means it will be easier and faster to provide translated bits of text.
• Blocks: Move block development to the Jetpack repo. You shouldn't see any changes, but this helps us make Jetpack Blocks better faster.
• Block Editor: Improve the experience of using the Block Editor via the WordPress.com dashboard.
• Browser Compatibility: Remove legacy code for Internet Explorer 10.
• Coding Standards: Update our code to match the latest WordPress coding standards in various places.
• Likes and Sharing: Add Likes and Sharing settings as a Block Editor extension.
• Related Posts: Improve the internationalization of the "in X category" text.
• Simple Payments: Easily convert old shortcode-style Simple Payment buttons to a block.

Bug fixes

• Admin Dashboard: Improve headings when searching for Jetpack features.
• Admin Dashboard: Remove legacy views no longer used in Jetpack.
• Blocks: Fix some design oddities in Form and Contact Info blocks.
• Carousel: Allow any title to be displayed. We used to try to be smart about default file names, but that caused some problems.
• Development Mode: Display fewer sections of the Admin Dashboard. Some simply don't apply in Development Mode.
• Google Plus: Remove from Social Icons and Sharing since the service has retired.
• Internationalization: Translate various sections missed, such as "just in time messages" and block search keywords.
• Manage: Remove Manage as an independent module. These features have been fully integrated for a few versions now.
• Multisite: Restore ability to connect subsites via the Network Admin.
• Open Graph Tags: Prevent a PHP notice on some author pages.
• Sharing: Improve accessibility of sharing buttons by increasing contrast ratio. Props https://titan.as
• Sharing: Fix the alignment of the official buttons for LinkedIn and Pinterest.
• Shortcodes: Retire the Google Video, Jetpack Subscribe, and Digg shortcodes.
• Slideshow: Fix a JavaScript error that occurs when block is first added.
• Slideshow: Add slideshow images to Open Graph tags when using the Slideshow block.
• Social Icons: Remove Google+, uses the generic Google now.
• Subscriptions: Correct conflicts that were possible with the checkboxes after a comment submission form.
• Theme Tools: Ensure Featured Content tag is retained on a post after saving. Thanks Anis Ladram, you're a Jetpack contributor now!
• Uninstalling Jetpack: Prevent notice about JETPACK__PLUGIN_DIR already being defined when programmatically uninstalling Jetpack. (But why would you uninstall?)
• Widgets: Remove the Cookies & Consents Banner (not just hide it) after consenting. Thanks Tony Tettinger!

This release is branched off 7.2.1, and only includes 7.2.1 and the fix offered in #12011

• Release date: April 04, 2019

• Release post: https://wp.me/p1moTy-h7o

• Feature Hints: display suggestions only for features available under the site's current plan.

• Feature Hints: improve visual display to make more distinct from search results.

• Feature Hints: disable hints once administrators have dismissed three hints.

• Slideshow Block: resolve an issue that broke navigating between images.

• Release date: April 02, 2019
• Release post: https://wp.me/p1moTy-foe

Major Enhancements

• Adds a Repeat Visitor block that controls block visibility based on how often a visitor has viewed the page.
• New option to disable Ads blocks for visitors on mobile devices.

Enhancements

• Admin Dashboard: improve text and design to make your administration experience all the better.
• Jumpstart: streamline what features are suggested to be activated when setting up Jetpack for the first time.
• Password Checker: adds a password checker class that will help Jetpack let you know if you're using a weak password. More about this coming in a future release!
• Plans: refactor how Jetpack Plans are coded within Jetpack to improve performance and help prevent any future bugs.
• Post Images: provide the image itself when requesting an attachment's post image.
• REST API: Enable Likes and Sharing meta field for all post types.
• Related Posts: improve HTML markup for related posts, with emphasis on accessibility.
• Search: add an easy way to see the raw Jetpack Search query results in the search page's source code.
• Shortcodes: allow links in Quiz shortcode explanations.
• Widgets: improve the text for the Blog Stats widget when stats data can not be retrieved from WordPress.com.

Improved compatibility

• General: require WordPress 5.0! To celebrate, we cleaned out some compatibility code that supported older versions. We know how to party.
• General: update various parts of Jetpack to fully align with WordPress coding standards to make developing Jetpack easier!
• Connection: notify site owners when a plugin or theme is double-encoding URL redirects.
• Shortcodes: update the Ustream shortcode to use the HTML5 player for a better experience on all browsers.
• Shortcodes: add AMP support for Crowdsignal polls and shortcodes.
• Sitemaps: add thumbnails to video sitemaps to improve compatibility with Google Search Console. Props Adam Heckler!
• Sync: improve performance when using the VIP Legacy Redirect plugin.
• Twenty Nineteen Compatibility: prevent sharing buttons overlapping with the Like button. Props Torres!
• VideoPress: update right-to-left language CSS to remove extra styles only used on browsers no longer supported.
• Widgets: improve rendering of Contact Info widget map when using the AMP plugin.

Bug fixes

• Admin Dashboard: fix an error that you'd see in the console when changing your Carousel settings.
• Blocks: fix an issue where sometimes we would attempt to register a particular block twice. I'm looking at you, Related Posts.
• Blocks: display all Business Hours details, even if they're the default set.
• Blocks: fix an error that occurred when loading some translations in the Block Editor.
• Blocks: resolve a conflict between the Ads block and infinite scroll that would cause new posts to sometimes not load.
• General: ensure the proper Jetpack plan is reflected throughout Jetpack and the administrative dashboard.
• Plugin Search: display Akismet and VaultPress plugin cards when WordPress.org suggests them.
• Publicize: remove unused assets, like images and JavaScript that aren't needed anymore.
• Related Posts: restore use of the jetpack_relatedposts_filter_options filter.
• Security: Improvements to the Likes feature and the Slideshow block.
• Sharing: update WhatsApp to be more consistent with the other sharing buttons.
• Shortcodes: remove Lytro service, which closed in March.
• Stats: properly handle an error from the REST API that sometimes caused issues with the Stats Dashboard.
• Widgets: display all characters in an address from Contact Info correctly when sometimes we encoded those that we'd expect in an URL.
• Widgets: improve the performance of the Contact Info widget by eliminating unused JavaScript.

Includes updated language for the Returning Visitor block and a fix for a WordAds block issue.

Updates since beta 1:

• Fixed issue with language pot/json file creation, so this beta has the expected language files.

• Release date: March 06, 2019
• Release post: https://wp.me/p1moTy-foJ

Bug fixes

• General: avoid conflicting with other plugins when suggesting Jetpack features on the Plugins screen.
• Publicize: avoid errors when the feature is not active on a site.
• Widgets: improve performance of the Top Posts and the Blog Stats widgets on high-traffic sites.
• Subscriptions: fix an issue that prevented displaying subscribers count in the subscription forms.
• Tiled Galleries / Slideshows: ensure they can be displayed properly in Internet Explorer 11.

• Release date: March 05, 2019
• Release post: https://wp.me/p1moTy-e9x

Major Enhancements

• Block Editor: this release introduces 6 new blocks:
  • the Ads block allows you to insert different ads from our WordAds program within your posts and pages.
  • the Mailchimp block allows your readers to easily subscribe to your Mailchimp newsletter.
  • the Video block supports VideoPress videos if you've purchased our Premium or Professional plan.
  • the Slideshow block allows you to insert beautiful slideshows in your posts and pages.
  • The Business Hours blocks is useful for companies who want to display their business's Opening Hours on their site.
  • The Contact Info block is useful for any business who may want to display useful information on a post or page.

Enhancements

• Admin Page: move Carousel settings from Performance to Writing section.
• Ads: include search results pages under the Archive toggle.
• Block Editor: improve block registration structure for better management of block availability.
• General: remove IE8 support fallbacks.
• General: add feature suggestions to the plugin search screen.
• Image CDN: add new mode that disables the creation of resized images, thus saving disk space.
• Instagram: update embed to support Instagram TV URLs.
• Post Images detection: add support for alt text.
• Plans: clarify upgrade prompts in the Jetpack dashboard's Plans page.
• Publicize: remove the Google+ interface as the Social Network is now deprecated.
• Related Posts: update block to allow for up to 6 related posts.
• Social Menus & Icons: add Discord Support.
• Support: add additional tests to check when Jetpack isn't working as expected and ensures all current debugging platforms use the same testing list.
• Simple Payments: add generic currency fallback symbol.
• Sync: further performance improvements in PHP 7+ environments.
• Woocommerce Analytics: include product type with analytics data.

Improved compatibility

• General: replace all .dev TLD references by .test as the .dev TLD will soon become available for registration.
• PHP 7.3: introduce automated testing for PHP 7.3.
• Site Accelerator: ensure compatibility with the AMP plugin.
• Twenty Nineteen: fix Top Posts and Pages Widget image list margins.
• WordPress 5.1 Compatibility: update usage of wp_schedule_single_event to match changes in WordPress.

Bug fixes

• Copy Post: ensure the feature can be used when using non-standard post formats.
• Infinite Scroll: fix vertical spacing for new posts loaded with Infinite Scroll.
• Internationalization: fix minor problem affecting translations in the block editor.
• Mobile Theme: fix PHP notices when trying to display gallery images.
• Mobile Theme: fix redirection issues when clicking on the "Desktop version" links.
• Photon: add paypalobjects.com to the list of banned domains, as this domain already relies on a CDN.
• Publicize / Subscriptions: do not show message at the top of the editor when creating a private post.
• Spelling / Grammar: fix error when spellchecking the contents of a Classic block in the block editor.
• Top Posts: allow fetching posts from a long timeframe when using the jetpack_top_posts_days filter.
• Related Posts: avoid display a dulplicated set of related posts when using the Related Posts block.
• REST API: fix a bug causing Likes settings on a post to sometimes be flipped.
• Security: avoid bypassing Protect's Math Fallback challenge.
• Security: fix an XSS vulnerability in the "My Community" widget.
• Site Stats: do not show the Jetpack logo in the Stats dashboard widget title in the Screen Options tab.
• Theme Tools: support alternative Pinterest domain extensions in the Social Menus tool.
• Widgets: support alternative Pinterest domain extensions in the Social Icons Widget.
• Widgets: update the Cookies & Consents Banner to be fully accessible on mobile devices.

You too, can help testing this new release by following the testing list here: https://github.com/Automattic/jetpack/blob/branch-7.1-built/to-test.md

Thank you!

You too, can help testing this new release by following the testing list here: https://github.com/Automattic/jetpack/blob/branch-7.1-built/to-test.md

Thank you!