jetpack

• Release date: October 9, 2018
• Release post: https://wp.me/p1moTy-aa1

Major Enhancements

• Verification Tools: enable one-click site verification and sitemap.xml registration with Google.

Enhancements

• Admin Interface: update all Jetpack settings screens to use a similar design.
• API: add flags to determine if Jetpack Search is enabled and supported.
• CDN: First Beta version of the Photon CDN -- Speed up sites and increase max concurrent connections through Photon by cloud-hosting Jetpack and WordPress Core scripts, styles, and assets.
• Contact Form: add filters to allow customizing the class attributes of inputs and buttons.
• General: add more constants to error log for the Jetpack test suite.
• Gutenberg: add infrastructure necessary to add new blocks via Jetpack.
• Lazy Images: load the placeholder via the srcset attribute instead of the src attribute.
• Masterbar: add link to Activity Log.
• Publicize: the Path Social Network is closing in October. The option has consequently been removed from the Publicize interface.
• Search: improve the feature activation process.
• Search: update the admin interface to give more information about what the feature does and how it can be used.
• Simple Payments: update all mentions of the product for a more consistent naming convention and less confusion for both site owners and translators.
• Sync: log action when an attachment is added to a post for the first time.
• Sync: add URL details to synchronization requests.
• Sync: detect if a post is saved via Gutenberg when synchronizing post events.

Improved compatibility

• Shortcodes: update Mailchimp shortcode to match the new format offered by Mailchimp.

Bug fixes

• CSS Concatenation: add Authors and Social Icons widgets to concatenated styles.
• Featured Content: avoid registering duplicate Post Types.
• Geo Location: only enqueue Dashicons when necessary.
• Google Analytics: do not output tracking code when the "Enhanced eCommerce" option is active, but the WooCommerce plugin is not.
• Infinite Scroll: add a Privacy Link to the site's footer if a Privacy Policy was set up via WordPress's privacy options.
• Infinite Scroll: fix video playback of VideoPress videos loaded via Infinite Scroll.
• Protect: fix layout of legend that prompts the user to solve the math fallback so it works better in all languages.
• Responsive Videos: avoid PHP notice.
• Sharing: do not record stats if the stats module is disabled.
• Sharing: allow saving sharing button options on media edit page as well.
• Shortcodes: ensure we build minified and RTL stylesheets for slideshows.
• Simple Payments: Stop contributors from creating inaccessible buttons with a "pending" post status.
• Sitemaps: no longer add images attached to non-published posts to the image sitemap.
• Slideshows: ensure arrows point in the right direction for RTL Languages.
• Sync: avoid PHP notices when synchronizing user information.
• VideoPress: avoid duplicate rel attributes in links.
• VideoPress: do not block access to the Video settings for our customers using a 2-year plan.

You can help testing this new release by following the testing list here: https://github.com/Automattic/jetpack/blob/6.6-beta2/to-test.md

Thank you!

= 6.6 Beta =

You too, can help testing this new release by following the testing list here: https://github.com/Automattic/jetpack/blob/6.6-beta/to-test.md

Thank you!

In this Alpha release, we are testing this PR.

Add in CDN hosted versions of Core / Jetpack scripts and styles to speed up sites and better cross-site cacheability.

= 6.5 =

• Release date: September 4, 2018
• Release post: https://wp.me/p1moTy-a7U

Major Enhancements

• WordAds: Added ability to include custom ads.txt entries in the ads module.

Enhancements

• Admin Page: Added ability to disable backups UI by filter when VaultPress is not activated.
• Comments: Moved the Subscription checkboxes on a comment form from after the submit button to before the submit button.
• General: Removed the outdated "Site Verification Services" card in Tools.
• General: Removed jetpack_enable_site_verification filter. We recommend filtering access to verification tools using jetpack_get_available_modules instead.
• General: Simplified the logic of Jetpack's signed HTTP requests code.
• Lazy Images: Updated lazy images to use a default base64 encoded transparent to reduce a network request.

Improved compatibility

• Geo Location: Fixed a compatibility issue with other plugins that added meta attributes to site feeds with the rss2_ns, atom_ns or rdf_ns filters.

Bug fixes

• AMP: Fix PHP notice when rendering AMP images with unknown width and height.
• Contact Forms: We fixed an issue where personal data eraser requests didn't erase all requested feedback.
• General: Improves compatibility with the upcoming PHP 7.3.
• General: Updated input validation for meta tags given in site verification.
• Lazy Images: Deprecated jetpack_lazy_images_skip_image_with_atttributes filter in favor of jetpack_lazy_images_skip_image_with_attributes to address typo.
• Sharing: Fixed duplicate rel tags on Sharing links.
• Search: Fixed an issue where a CSS and JavaScript file could be enqueued unnecessarily if the Search module was activated and if the site was using the Query Monitor plugin.
• Shortcodes: Updated Wufoo Shortcode to always load over https and use async form embed.
• Widgets: Fixed excessive logging issue with Twitter Timeline widget.
• Widgets: Removed cutoff date check for Twitter Timeline widget as it is no longer necassary.
• Widgets: Added decimal precision validator to Simple Payments Widget price field on the Customizer for supporting Japanese Yen.

= 6.5 =

• Release date: September 4, 2018
• Release post: https://wp.me/p1moTy-a7U

Major Enhancements

WordAds: Added ability to include custom ads.txt entries in the ads module.

Enhancements

Admin Page: Added ability to disable backups UI by filter when VaultPress is not activated.
Comments: Moved the Subscription checkboxes on a comment form from after the submit button to before the submit button.
General: Removed the outdated "Site Verification Services" card in Tools.
General: Removed jetpack_enable_site_verification filter. We recommend filtering access to verification tools using jetpack_get_available_modules instead.
General: Simplified the logic of Jetpack's signed HTTP requests code.
Lazy Images: Updated lazy images to use a default base64 encoded transparent to reduce a network request.

Improved compatibility

Geo Location: Fixed a compatibility issue with other plugins that added meta attributes to site feeds with the rss2_ns, atom_ns or rdf_ns filters.

Bug fixes

AMP: Fix PHP notice when rendering AMP images with unknown width and height.
Contact Forms: We fixed an issue where personal data eraser requests didn't erase all requested feedback.
General: Improves compatibility with the upcoming PHP 7.3.
General: Updated input validation for meta tags given in site verification.
Lazy Images: Deprecated jetpack_lazy_images_skip_image_with_atttributes filter in favor of jetpack_lazy_images_skip_image_with_attributes to address typo.
Sharing: Fixed duplicate rel tags on Sharing links.
Search: Fixed an issue where a CSS and JavaScript file could be enqueued unnecessarily if the Search module was activated and if the site was using the Query Monitor plugin.
Shortcodes: Updated Wufoo Shortcode to always load over https and use async form embed.
Widgets: Fixed excessive logging issue with Twitter Timeline widget.
Widgets: Removed cutoff date check for Twitter Timeline widget as it is no longer necassary.
Widgets: Added decimal precision validator to Simple Payments Widget price field on the Customizer for supporting Japanese Yen.

= 6.4.2 =

• Release date: August 10, 2018
• Release post: https://wp.me/p1moTy-9pL

Bug Fixes

• Comments: We fixed an error that broke functionality of Social Login for comments.^M

= 6.4.1 =

• Release date: August 8, 2018
• Release post: https://wp.me/p1moTy-9pc

Bug fixes

Comments: We fixed an error that broke functionality of nested comments.

= 6.4 =

• Release date: August 7, 2018
• Release post: https://wp.me/p1moTy-9md

Enhancements

• Connection: Updated connect splash screen with new content.
• Docs: Added documentation for retrieving provision status of a site.
• Shortcodes: Added oEmbed support for flat.io.
• Widgets: Added jetpack_top_posts_widget_layout filter that allows you to create a custom display layout for the Top posts widget.
• Privacy tools: Identify the data export/erasure callbacks for Feedback posts using associative keys, to better match the convention in Core.
• Privacy tools: Added the grunion_contact_form_delete_feedback_post filter hook to allow specific Feedback posts to be bypassed during data erasure requests, similar to the wp_anonymize_comment filter in Core.
• Contact Form: Disabled random table optimizations on core tables.

Improved compatibility

• AMP: Improved AMP compatibility for Comments iframe.
• General: The SEO Framework is no longer a conflicting Open Graph plugin and is now better compatible with Jetpack.

Bug fixes

• Shortcodes: Removed extra black bars from YouTube embeds as controls are inside the container now.
• Simple Payments: Fixed the custom post type bug that affected Simple Payments widget for 2 year subscriptions.
• Simple Payments: Fixed site failure which happens on Multisite installation with Simple Payments widget.
• Simple Payments: Fixed syntax and misc compatibility issues with Simple Payments widget on PHP 5.2.
• Simple Payments: Added warning for admin users if Simple Payments is not enabled but there are products published on pages/posts as a widget.
• Lazy Images: Fixed an issue with images not loading while updating quantity in WooCommerce shopping cart.
• Lazy Images: Fixed centered images that do not crop properly when no JavaScript is enabled.
• General: Fixed auto scrolling to top when following the Quick Tour buttons.
• General: Removed ability to set custom name for Site Identity section.
• General: Added advanced control capabilities to image extraction from posts.

= 6.4 =

• Release date: August 7, 2018
• Release post: https://wp.me/p1moTy-9md

Enhancements

• Connection: Updated connect splash screen with new content.
• Sharing: Sharing section in wp-admin will now redirect to Calypso instead.
• Docs: Added documentation for retrieving provision status of a site.
• Shortcodes: Added oEmbed support for flat.io.
• Widgets: Added jetpack_top_posts_widget_layout filter that allows you to create a custom display layout for the Top posts widget.
• Privacy tools: Identify the data export/erasure callbacks for Feedback posts using associative keys, to better match the convention in Core.
• Privacy tools: Added the grunion_contact_form_delete_feedback_post filter hook to allow specific Feedback posts to be bypassed during data erasure requests, similar to the wp_anonymize_comment filter in Core.
• Contact Fork: Disabled random table optimizations on core tables.

Improved compatibility

• AMP: Improved AMP compatibility for Comments iframe.
• General: The SEO Framework is no longer a conflicting Open Graph plugin and is now better compatible with Jetpack.

Bug fixes

• Shortcodes: Removed extra black bars from YouTube embeds as controls are inside the container now.
• Simple Payments: Fixed the custom post type bug that affected Simple Payments widget for 2 year subscriptions.
• Simple Payments: Fixed site failure which happens on Multisite installation with Simple Payments widget.
• Simple Payments: Fixed syntax and misc compatibility issues with Simple Payments widget on PHP 5.2.
• Simple Payments: Added warning for admin users if Simple Payments is not enabled but there are products published on pages/posts as a widget.
• Lazy Images: Fixed an issue with images not loading while updating quantity in WooCommerce shopping cart.
• Lazy Images: Fixed centered images that do not crop properly when no JavaScript is enabled.
• General: Fixed auto scrolling to top when following the Quick Tour buttons.
• General: Removed ability to set custom name for Site Identity section.
• General: Added advanced control capabilities to image extraction from posts.

= 6.3.3 =

• Release date: July 30, 2018
• Release post: https://wp.me/p1moTy-9n0

Facebook API Maintenance

On the 1st of August, 2018 Facebook sunsets its API allowing to post updates to your Profile Page. Only the API allowing to post to Facebook Pages will remain. This required several changes to Jetpack that we are presenting in this release:

• Publicize: making sure we are handling existing connections gracefully.
• Publicize: using logo font instead of images to make the UI up to date and mobile ready.
• Publicize: removing the ability to select Facebook Profile connections in the UI.

Bug fixes

• General: properly handle Jetpack connection owner transition process.

= 6.3.2 =

• Release date: July 4, 2018
• Release post: https://wp.me/p1moTy-96E

Bug fixes

• Simple Payment: Fix compatibility issues with PHP versions 5.3 and below

= 6.3 =

• Release date: July 3, 2018
• Release post: https://wp.me/p1moTy-8ag

Major Enhancements

• Simple Payment: Added Simple Payment Products as Widgets, with the option to manage them via the Customizer.

Enhancements

• Connection: Added a new connect splash screen content.
• Jetpack Dashboard: We removed the labels reading 'PAID' in order to introduce a better way to remark paid features.
• General: Added support to display geo-location data added to posts and pages with Calypso.

Improved compatibility

• Protect: We solved an issue related to interaction with bbPress when trying to log in via a bbPress login widget. You would get redirected a few times to log in again after solving the math puzzle.

Bug fixes

• Comments: Implemented Core WordPress' Comment Cookie Consent Checkbox in Jetpack Comments.
• General: We solved an issue that arised when using the Front End Editor feature plugin. A fatal error wass thrown due to us assuming the enter_title_here filter would only run within wp-admin.
• General: Fixed a compatibility problem between WordPress TinyMCE and Jetpack Markdown when visiting the WordPress Dashboard.
• Lazy Images: Fixed behaviour for when JavaScript is disabled.
• Markdown: We fixed the naming of the class used for code blocks that specify a language.
• Simple Payments: Fixed an error when the user had published Simple Payment Products but their Professional Subscription had expired.
• Sitemap: We fixed the format of the date shown for videos on the video sitemap.
• Stats: We fixed the width of the Stats page for wide screens.

= 6.3 =

• Release date: July 3, 2018
• Release post: https://wp.me/p1moTy-8ag

Major Enhancements

• Simple Payment: Added Simple Payment Products as Widgets, with the option to manage them via the Customizer.

Enhancements

• Connection: Added a new connect splash screen content.
• Jetpack Dashboard: We removed the labels reading 'PAID' in order to introduce a better way to remark paid features.
• General: Added support to display geo-location data added to posts and pages with Calypso.

Improved compatibility

• Protect: We solved an issue related to interaction with bbPress when trying to log in via a bbPress login widget. You would get redirected a few times to log in again after solving the math puzzle.

Bug fixes

• Comments: Implemented Core WordPress' Comment Cookie Consent Checkbox in Jetpack Comments.
• General: We solved an issue that arised when using the Front End Editor feature plugin. A fatal error wass thrown due to us assuming the enter_title_here filter would only run within wp-admin.
• General: Fixed a compatibility problem between WordPress TinyMCE and Jetpack Markdown when visiting the WordPress Dashboard.
• Lazy Images: Fixed behaviour for when JavaScript is disabled.
• Markdown: We fixed the naming of the class used for code blocks that specify a language.
• Simple Payments: Fixed an error when the user had published Simple Payment Products but their Professional Subscription had expired.
• Sitemap: We fixed the format of the date shown for videos on the video sitemap.
• Stats: We fixed the width of the Stats page for wide screens.

= 6.2.1 =

• Release date: June 8, 2018
• Release post: https://wp.me/p1moTy-8am

Bug fixes

• AMP: We fixed the rendering of the stats pixel for legacy, non-paired, non-canonical AMP pages.
• Shortcodes: Fixed a fatal coming form the VR shortcode when using the Gutenberg editor in the frontend.

= 6.2 =

• Release date: June 5, 2018
• Release post: https://wp.me/p1moTy-88v

Major Enhancements

• Shortcodes: Added Gutenberg block for the [vr] shortcode.

Enhancements

• AMP: Allow Jetpack features to work on AMP pages, and prevent Jetpack features from rendering to the front end at all.
• Content Options: We now exclude Custom Post Types like Portfolio and Testimonial when we toggle content/excerpt via the Blog Display option in the customizer.
• Cookies & Consent Widget: Added a "top" option for the cookie widget position. The existing bottom of the screen position is the default.
• Tiled Galleries: use Photon if active when a Tiled Gallery links to media file.

Improved compatibility

• Widgets: Deprecated the use of Widget IDs in the Twitter Timeline Widget given that Twitter deprecates Widget IDs on July, 27th 2018.

Bug fixes

• Contact Form: Fixed an issue with undefined variables and a warning being logged when submitting the Contact Form.
• Contact Form: Fixed scrolling/height for very large contact forms.
• Widgets: Fixed Cookies & Consent Widget's bottom margin for themes that set a specific margin for forms.
• Related Posts: Made it not try to fetch related posts for an unpublished post.
• Sharing: Fixed an issue that resulted in wrong URLs for sharing on WhatsApp.
• Sharing: Fixed the way we check if akismet is active and has a valid key by caching the result of the verification.
• Shortcodes: Fixed the Facebook shortcode in wp-admin.
• Widget Visibility: Widget Visibility: Fixed styling for MS Edge.
• Widgets: Removed .widget class from Cookies and Consent widget styles since .widget is not used in every theme.

= 6.2 =

• Release date: June 5, 2018
• Release post: https://wp.me/p1moTy-88v

Major Enhancements

• Shortcodes: Added Gutenberg block for the [vr] shortcode.

Enhancements

• AMP: Allow Jetpack features to work on AMP pages, and prevent Jetpack features from rendering to the front end at all.
• Content Options: We now exclude Custom Post Types like Portfolio and Testimonial when we toggle content/excerpt via the Blog Display option in the customizer.
• Cookies & Consent Widget: Added a "top" option for the cookie widget position. The existing bottom of the screen position is the default.
• Tiled Galleries: use Photon if active when a Tiled Gallery links to media file.

Bug fixes

• Contact Form: Fixed an issue with undefined variables and a warning being logged when submitting the Contact Form.
• Contact Form: Fixed scrolling/height for very large contact forms.
• Widgets: Fixed Cookies & Consent Widget's bottom margin for themes that set a specific margin for forms.
• Related Posts: Made it not try to fetch related posts for an unpublished post.
• Sharing: Fixed an issue that resulted in wrong URLs for sharing on WhatsApp.
• Shortcodes: Fixed the Facebook shortcode in wp-admin.
• Widget Visibility: Widget Visibility: Fixed styling for MS Edge.
• Widgets: Removed .widget class from Cookies and Consent widget styles since .widget is not used in every theme.
• Widgets: Deprecated the use of Widget Ids in the Twitter Timeline Widget given that Twitter deprecates Widget IDs on July, 27th 2018.

= 6.1.1 =

• Release date: May 22, 2018
• Release post: https://wp.me/p1moTy-85t

Enhancements

• Ads: Added new setting for Banner consent expiration. Added new filter jetpack_disable_eu_cookie_law_widget, which can be used to disable the banner.
• Ads: Added a new personalized-ads-consent cookie for ads-enabled sites.
• Ads: Added requirement and notice, and button-click opt-in for ads module users.
• Ads: When a user site has a Privacy Policy page set (introduced in 4.9.6), we now default to using that privacy policy as a custom policy URL.
• GDPR: A new warning is displayed while configuring an instance of the EU Cookie Law widget: "Caution: The default policy URL only covers cookies set by Jetpack. If you're running other plugins, custom cookies, or third-party tracking technologies, you should create and link to your own cookie statement."
• GDPR: Added Feedback data (i.e., Contact Form Submissions) to the Personal Data exported and/or erased by the latest version of WordPress core.

Bug fixes

• Ads: We updated Ads behaviour to not show unless the visitor is on the main query within the loop.
• General: We fixed a bug that resulted in an alert box showing for sites set to languages deriving from main ones.
• Lazy Images: Fixed a bug where images would disappear when scrolling.
• Sharing: make sure JS files can be loaded on development sites.
• Sharing: Added check for validating Akismet key before allowing sharing by email.
• WooCommerce Analytics: Fixed PHP warning when attemping to get a list of plugins.

Welcome to Jetpack 6.1 !

• Release date: May 1, 2018
• Release post: https://wp.me/p1moTy-7Sj

Major Enhancements

• WordAds: Introduced shortcode for inline Ad placement.
• WordAds: Added support for the ads.txt file.

Enhancements

• Dashboard: We improved the styles of status numbers so it doesn't look like floating.
• JSON API: Added support for Google My Business integration available on WordPress.com.
• Masterbar: We removed the Next Steps link from the Account sidebar.
• Publicize: Let the user now that we are going to send emails to subscribers and publicize to the different accounts.
• Settings: Added "Privacy Information" links to each Jetpack module/feature card.
• Shortcodes: Mixcloud shortcode now uses oEmbed.
• Stats: Added a new filter jetpack_honor_dnt_header_for_stats, which if enabled would not track stats for visitors with DNT enabled.
• Sync: Removed requirement for gzencode.
• Widgets: always load script via HTTPS for Gravatar Hovercards.

Improved compatibility

• Social Icons Widget: Improved support on screen reader text for themes that do not provide support out of the box.
• Sharing: Removed the sharing and like display functionality from Cart, Checkout, and Account WooCommerce pages.

Bug fixes

• Admin Page: We fixed the internationalization of the plans page.
• Ads: We fixed a problem that impeded Premium Plan customers to activate Google Analytics.
• Auto Updates: We fixed a warning being thrown due to a bad concatenation of strings.
• General: Fixed a warning that was being logged due to attempting to use in_array() over a variable that didn't always contain an array.
• General: Fixed Warning: count(): Parameter must be an array or an object that implements Countable showing on PHP 7.x.
• JSON API: Fixed internationalization on embed endpoint.
• Theme Tools: Show featured images in WooCommerce pages when Display on blog and archives is turned off for Themes that support this feature.
• Publicize: Avoid adding Publicize post meta when a post transitions to publish and it is not a publicize-able post type.
• Settings: Settings: Fixed the icon representing the minimum plan needed for SEO and Google Analytics features.
• Slideshow: Fixed a Invalid argument supplied for foreach() warning.
• SSO: We fixed the name of a filter which contained a typo before. The filter is now named: jetpack_sso_auth_cookie_expiration.
• SSO: Fixed some cases where we were not handling secure cookies for sites running over https.
• Sync: Fixed Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach().
• Sync: Fixed Warning: Warning: json_encode(): recursion detected.
• WooCommerce Analytics: fixed broken Remove From Cart link.

• Release date: May 1, 2018
• Release post: https://wp.me/p1moTy-7Sj

Major Enhancements

• WordAds: Introduced shortcode for inline Ad placement.
• WordAds: Added support for the ads.txt file.

Enhancements

• Dashboard: We improved the styles of status numbers so it doesn't look like floating.
• JSON API: Added support for Google My Business integration available on WordPress.com.
• Masterbar: We removed the Next Steps link from the Account sidebar.
• Publicize: Let the user now that we are going to send emails to subscribers and publicize to the different accounts.
• Settings: Added "Privacy Information" links to each Jetpack module/feature card.
• Shortcodes: Mixcloud shortcode now uses oEmbed.
• Stats: Added a new filter jetpack_honor_dnt_header_for_stats, which if enabled would not track stats for visitors with DNT enabled.
• Sync: Removed requirement for gzencode.
• Widgets: always load script via HTTPS for Gravatar Hovercards.

Improved compatibility

• Social Icons Widget: Improved support on screen reader text for themes that do not provide support out of the box.
• Sharing: Removed the sharing and like display functionality from Cart, Checkout, and Account WooCommerce pages.

Bug fixes

• Admin Page: We fixed the internationalization of the plans page.
• Ads: We fixed a problem that impeded Premium Plan customers to activate Google Analytics.
• Auto Updates: We fixed a warning being thrown due to a bad concatenation of strings.
• General: Fixed a warning that was being logged due to attempting to use in_array() over a variable that didn't always contain an array.
• General: Fixed Warning: count(): Parameter must be an array or an object that implements Countable showing on PHP 7.x.
• JSON API: Fixed internationalization on embed endpoint.
• Theme Tools: Show featured images in WooCommerce pages when Display on blog and archives is turned off for Themes that support this feature.
• Publicize: Avoid adding Publicize post meta when a post transitions to publish and it is not a publicize-able post type.
• Settings: Settings: Fixed the icon representing the minimum plan needed for SEO and Google Analytics features.
• Slideshow: Fixed a Invalid argument supplied for foreach() warning.
• SSO: We fixed the name of a filter which contained a typo before. The filter is now named: jetpack_sso_auth_cookie_expiration.
• SSO: Fixed some cases where we were not handling secure cookies for sites running over https.
• Sync: Fixed Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach().
• Sync: Fixed Warning: Warning: json_encode(): recursion detected.
• WooCommerce Analytics: fixed broken Remove From Cart link.