jetpack

Welcome to Jetpack 6.0!

Major Enhancements

• Admin Page: Introduced a new Privacy admin page linked at the bottom of the Jetpack dashboard.
• Admin Page: Introduced a Privacy toggle that allows the user to disable event tracking.
• Widgets: Added new Social Icons widget and deprecated old Social Media Icons widget.

Enhancements

• Activity Log: Started syncing comment untrashed and comment unspammed events.
• Admin Page: Added inline module settings for plan welcome page.
• Admin Page: Removed Javascript patterns previously used in the Admin Page that should improve performance lightly (bind pattern).
• Admin Page: Made Jetpack Monitor setting management easier by adding a simple toggle.
• Admin Page: Moved the button for closing the Jumpstart modal closer to the dialog so it's more visible.
• Admin Page: Updated the "install and activate" link in the Backups card to be a functional link matching the "Set up" button.
• Admin Page: Updated notices style to be more accessible.
• Admin Page: We now show a link to see all plans on small screens.
• Admin Page: Settings in Jetpack dashboard now feature contextual help and a link to learn more about it.
• Ads: Added site id to head meta.
• Comments: Improved accessibility of comments form by adding title attributes.
• Connect: Removed account creation links from below the Set Up Jetpack buttons.
• General: Show correct available status in Jetpack modules list if module is not supported by current plan.
• General: Removed holiday snow module.
• General: Return error in wp-cli if activating a module that is not supported by the current plan.
• Google Translate Widget: Made sure the widget is responsive by default.
• JITM: We now allow specifying that a jitm can be opened in a new window, or the same window.
• JITM: We now don't use all caps for buttons text.
• Likes: Removed Likes from Jumpstart.
• Likes/Sharing: Moved metabox in post editor to the right side for a better fit.
• Masterbar: Made the Sign Out link in the Master always log you out from WordPress.com.
• Publicize: Made styling of Publicize more consistent with wp-admin.
• Protect: Started blocking XML RPC requests when they get marked as blocked by Protect.
• Search: Made the Search widget available whether or not Extra Sidebar Widgets is enabled.
• SEO Tools: Removed SEO Tools from Jumpstart
• Shortcodes: We now load Twitters widget.js over https.
• Subscriptions: We've made it a better experience if you try to subscribe to a site you are already subscribed to.
• Sync: Stopped syncing personal data coming from WooCommerce orders.
• VideoPress: Default to grid view when linking to upload videos
• Warm Welcome: Added Search to the features listed on the Warm Welcome dialog for Professional Plan.
• Widgets: Added rel=noopener attribute to links in the Display WordPress Posts widget if set to open in a new window.

Improved compatibility

• bbPress: Markdown support added for bbPress CPTs.
• PHP 7.1: Fixed an error coming from one of our json-api endpoints.

Bug fixes

• Admin Page: Fixed Dashboard connection card from showing text that overflows the card.
• Admin Page: Fixed directory separator character used when displaying the site URL on the disconnect dialog.
• Admin Page: Fixed an issue by which clicking the back button on a page visited after the Admin Page would result in the Admin Page being rendered with cached data.
• Admin Page: Don't show a Set Up button when searching for modules that are inactive in Jetpack Settings page. The Set Up button is meant for paid features coming from plugins.
• Admin Page: Make it clear when tracking begins in the connetion dialog.
• Admin Page: Hide the date range tabs when the initial dialog is shown.
• Admin Page: Fixed the positioning of popovers in the Jetpack Settings page.
• Admin Page: Fixed a bug with the Ads settings toggle.
• Admin Page: Fixed a display issue for the custom user capability "jetpack_connect".
• Admin Page: Made sure translations are properly applied to several phrases.
• Connection Banner: Updated style to better fit wide screens.
• Connection Banner: Added illustration SVGs.
• Contact Form: Fixed width style of input for Website address.
• Google Analytics: fix PHP notice on search pages.
• Infinite Scroll: Fixed issues where the first was being duplicated on scroll.
• Likes: Made manually enabled likes remain being likeable if Likes are enabled for all posts
• Masterbar: Fixed a javascript error that would pop up with the Grammarly extension enabled on Chrome macOS.
• Search: Added default values for the Search widget so it can be added from the Customizer.
• Settings: Fixed overflow/overlap when there are many ignored phrases in spelling options.
• Settings: Updated SEO/analytics links to avoid unnecessary redirects.
• Stats: Fixed column spacing styling issues in WP Dashboard box for Jetpack stats.
• VaultPress: Remove menu item that links nowhere when Rewind is enabled.
• Widgets: Fixed issue with custom URL choice and selective refresh in the EU Cookie Law widget.
• WooCommerce Analytics: Fixed PHP warning coming from str_replace usage.
• WooCommerce Analytics: Started tracking all possible ways to add a product to a cart.

The result of a couple of Hack Weeks...

• Release date: April 3, 2018
• Release post: https://wp.me/p1moTy-7xM

Major Enhancements

Enhancements

• Activity Log: Started syncing comment untrashed and comment unspammed events.
• Admin Page: Added inline module settings for plan welcome page.
• Admin Page: Removed Javascript patterns previously used in the Admin Page that should improve performance lightly (bind pattern).
• Admin Page: Moved the button for closing the Jumpstart modal closer to the dialog so it's more visible.
• Admin Page: Updated the "install and activate" link in the Backups card to be a functional link matching the "Set up" button.
• Admin Page: Updated notices style to be more accessible.
• Admin Page: We now show a link to see all plans on small screens.
• Admin Page: Introduced a new Privacy admin page linked at the bottom of the Jetpack dashboard.
• Admin Page: Introduced a Privacy toggle that allows the user to disable event tracking.
• Admin Page: Settings in Jetpack dashboard now feature contextual help and a link to learn more about it.
• Ads: Added site id to head meta.
• Comments: Improved accessibility of comments form by adding title attributes.
• Connect: Removed account creation links from below the Set Up Jetpack buttons.
• General: Show correct available status in Jetpack modules list if module is not supported by current plan.
• General: Return error in wp-cli if activating a module that is not supported by the current plan.
• Google Translate Widget: Made sure the widget is responsive by default.
• JITM: We now allow specifying that a jitm can be opened in a new window, or the same window.
• JITM: We now don't use all caps for buttons text.
• Likes: Removed Likes from Jumpstart.
• Likes/Sharing: Moved metabox in post editor to the right side for a better fit.
• Masterbar: Made the Sign Out link in the Master always log you out from WordPress.com.
• Publicize: Made styling of Publicize more consistent with wp-admin.
• Protect: Started blocking XML RPC requests when they get marked as blocked by Protect.
• Search: Made the Search widget available whether or not Extra Sidebar Widgets is enabled.
• SEO Tools: Removed SEO Tools from Jumpstart
• Shortcodes: We now load Twitters widget.js over https.
• Subscriptions: We've made it a better experience if you try to subscribe to a site you are already subscribed to.
• Sync: Stopped syncing personal data coming from WooCommerce orders.
• VideoPress: Default to grid view when linking to upload videos
• Warm Welcome: Added Search to the features listed on the Warm Welcome dialog for Professional Plan.
• Widgets: Added new Social Icons widget and deprecated old Social Media Icons widget.
• Widgets: Added rel=noopener attribute to links in the Display WordPress Posts widget if set to open in a new window.

Improved compatibility

• bbPress: Markdown support added for bbPress CPTs.
• PHP 7.1: Fixed an error coming from one of our json-api endpoints.

Bug fixes

• Admin Page: Fixed Dashboard connection card from showing text that overflows the card.
• Admin Page: Fixed directory separator character used when displaying the site URL on the disconnect dialog.
• Admin Page: Fixed an issue by which clicking the back button on a page visited after the Admin Page would result in the Admin Page being rendered with cached data.
• Admin Page: Don't show a Set Up button when searching for modules that are inactive in Jetpack Settings page. The Set Up button is meant for paid features coming from plugins.
• Admin Page: Make it clear when tracking begins in the connetion dialog.
• Admin Page: Hide the date range tabs when the initial dialog is shown.
• Admin Page: Fixed the positioning of popovers in the Jetpack Settings page.
• Admin Page: Fixed a bug with the Ads settings toggle.
• Admin Page: Fixed a display issue for the custom user capability "jetpack_connect".
• Connection Banner: Updated style to better fit wide screens.
• Connection Banner: Added illustration SVGs.
• Contact Form: Fixed width style of input for Website address.
• Google Analytics: fix PHP notice on search pages.
• Infinite Scroll: Fixed issues where the first was being duplicated on scroll.
• Likes: Made manually enabled likes remain being likeable if Likes are enabled for all posts
• Masterbar: Fixed a javascript error that would pop up with the Grammarly extension enabled on Chrome macOS.
• Search: Added default values for the Search widget so it can be added from the Customizer.
• Settings: Fixed overflow/overlap when there are many ignored phrases in spelling options.
• Settings: Updated SEO/analytics links to avoid unnecessary redirects.
• Stats: Fixed column spacing styling issues in WP Dashboard box for Jetpack stats.
• VaultPress: Remove menu item that links nowhere when Rewind is enabled.
• Widgets: Fixed issue with custom URL choice and selective refresh in the EU Cookie Law widget.
• WooCommerce Analytics: Fixed PHP warning coming from str_replace usage.
• WooCommerce Analytics: Started tracking all possible ways to add a product to a cart.

Welcome to Jetpack 5.9!

• Release date: March 6, 2018
• Release post: https://wp.me/p1moTy-7mW

Major Enhancements

• WooCommerce Analytics: Added a new module for WooCommerce analytics that will use Jetpack's analytics functionality to help you track activity on your WooCommerce store.
• Custom Content Types: Added support for excerpts on Testimonial and Portfolio.

Enhancements

• Activity Log: Improved the way we show failed login attempts in Jetpack's Activity Log.
• Admin Page: We now hide settings for Lazy Images and Photon in the Admin page when the modules are not enabled due to being filtered out by jetpack_get_available_modules.
• Admin Page: Now we only show the dismissal button in Apps card of the Jetpack Dashboard for admin users.
• Build: Added a pre-commit hook for linting the Jetpack Admin Page source code. This aids in finding common syntax and style problems before having to wait for automated tests to run.
• JSON API: We removed an obsolete endpoint for updating invites.
• Onboarding: Added the ability to configure the country for a business address the using the Onboarding functionality of Jetpack.
• Onboarding: Added the ability to enable the stats module when using the Onboarding functionality.
• Onboarding: We now delete the onboarding token when the site gets connected.
• Jetpack Start: Updated scripts for partners allowing to pass a tracking ID when provisioning or cancelling a plan which will help in debugging.
• Jetpack Start: Improved the documentation for partners so they're now able to get them right on the Jetpack's Github repository under the docs/partners directory.
• Plans: Correctly forward the client IP address for currency localization.
• Plans: Updated the copy-text on Jetpack's Admin page for plans to be more concise on the features of each plan.
• REST API: Added a plans endpoint to Jetpack's REST API to better handle the features of each Jetpack plan internally.
• Search Implicitly activate Jetpack Search when attempting to add the Jetpack Search widget.
• Search: Updated the Jetpack Search settings card to be more helpful in setting up the widget.
• Search: We made the "Add Jetpack Search Widget" link in the Search module settings card open the widgets section of the customizer.
• Search: Move any active search widgets to the inactive list if you disable the search module.
• Search: Only log mysql and ES query times that are less than 60 seconds. There are some outliers that mess up our stats.
• Sync: Improved the way widget titles are synchronized to WordPress.com servers when widgets are saved or updated.
• Twitter Cards: Added new jetpack_twitter_image_default filter to allow themes and plugins to customize twitter:image when no suitable image is found automatically.
• We updated the way we handle Jetpack's green color in out stylesheets for better compatibility with Jetpack's new logo.

Improved compatibility

• Admin Page: Jetpack's Admin Page javascript code is now fully compatible with React 16.
• JSON API: Updated the modules endpoint Jetpack's JSON API to reply with a new property override that indicates if a module was either enabled or disabled by a filter.
• Lazy Images: Updated the library used as IntersectionObserver for Lazy Images. We now use the W3C IntersectionObserver polyfill.
• Lazy Images: Jetpack now allows the lazy images module to skip images with the skip-lazy css class or any given class of your choice by using the jetpack_lazy_images_blacklisted_classes filter.
• Masterbar: Updated the sign out button behaviour of the Masterbar to not sign you out of WordPress.com when you sign out of your site for regular Jetpack sites.
• REST API: Updated the modules endpoint in Jetpack's REST API to be aware of modules that have been filtered through option_jetpack_active_modules allowing for better compatibility with custom Jetpack installation where the administrator decides to filter out specific Jetpack modules.
• Sync: Added the jetpack_sync_action_before_enqueue action that's done when anything gets enqueued before being synchronized to WordPress.com servers.

Bug fixes

• Admin Page: Removed all linting warnings for the JS code of the Admin page. These were only shown in development builds.
• Connect: Fixed an issue that sometimes resulted in a notice being shown about another user already having connected a Jetpack site when attempting to connect your site to WordPress.com
• General: Added suppress_filters param to get_posts / get_children function calls.
• Markdown: Updated WordAds code to not use create_function which is getting deprecated in PHP 7.2.
• Sync: Fixed a problem in Jetpack Sync code when trying to get property of non-object in the post syncing file.
• Sync: Stopped synchronizing the sitemap post types to WordPress.com servers as it was an issue given the size of these.
• Tracks events: Track events are logged now only if the user has accepted ToS and not just if Jetpack is connected.
• Widget Visibility: Added a decodeEntities function in widget-conditions.js to handle entity decoding for the minor conditions dropdown.
• WordAds: Updated WordAds code to not use create_function which is getting deprecated in PHP 7.2.

Welcome to Jetpack 5.9!

• Release date: March 6, 2018
• Release post: https://wp.me/p1moTy-7mW

Major Enhancements

• WooCommerce Analytics: Added a new module for WooCommerce analytics that will use Jetpack's analytics functionality to help you track activity on your WooCommerce store.
• Custom Content Types: Added support for excerpts on Testimonial and Portfolio.

Enhancements

• Activity Log: Improved the way we show failed login attempts in Jetpack's Activity Log.
• Admin Page: We now hide settings for Lazy Images and Photon in the Admin page when the modules are not enabled due to being filtered out by jetpack_get_available_modules.
• Admin Page: Now we only show the dismissal button in Apps card of the Jetpack Dashboard for admin users.
• Build: Added a pre-commit hook for linting the Jetpack Admin Page source code. This aids in finding common syntax and style problems before having to wait for automated tests to run.
• JSON API: We removed an obsolete endpoint for updating invites.
• Onboarding: Added the ability to configure the country for a business address the using the Onboarding functionality of Jetpack.
• Onboarding: Added the ability to enable the stats module when using the Onboarding functionality.
• Onboarding: We now delete the onboarding token when the site gets connected.
• Jetpack Start: Updated scripts for partners allowing to pass a tracking ID when provisioning or cancelling a plan which will help in debugging.
• Jetpack Start: Improved the documentation for partners so they're now able to get them right on the Jetpack's Github repository under the docs/partners directory.
• Plans: Correctly forward the client IP address for currency localization.
• Plans: Updated the copy-text on Jetpack's Admin page for plans to be more concise on the features of each plan.
• REST API: Added a plans endpoint to Jetpack's REST API to better handle the features of each Jetpack plan internally.
• Search Implicitly activate Jetpack Search when attempting to add the Jetpack Search widget.
• Search: Updated the Jetpack Search settings card to be more helpful in setting up the widget.
• Search: We made the "Add Jetpack Search Widget" link in the Search module settings card open the widgets section of the customizer.
• Search: Move any active search widgets to the inactive list if you disable the search module.
• Search: Only log mysql and ES query times that are less than 60 seconds. There are some outliers that mess up our stats.
• Sync: Improved the way widget titles are synchronized to WordPress.com servers when widgets are saved or updated.
• Twitter Cards: Added new jetpack_twitter_image_default filter to allow themes and plugins to customize twitter:image when no suitable image is found automatically.
• We updated the way we handle Jetpack's green color in out stylesheets for better compatibility with Jetpack's new logo.

Improved compatibility

• Admin Page: Jetpack's Admin Page javascript code is now fully compatible with React 16.
• JSON API: Updated the modules endpoint Jetpack's JSON API to reply with a new property override that indicates if a module was either enabled or disabled by a filter.
• Lazy Images: Updated the library used as IntersectionObserver for Lazy Images. We now use the W3C IntersectionObserver polyfill.
• Lazy Images: Jetpack now allows the lazy images module to skip images with the skip-lazy css class or any given class of your choice by using the jetpack_lazy_images_blacklisted_classes filter.
• Masterbar: Updated the sign out button behaviour of the Masterbar to not sign you out of WordPress.com when you sign out of your site for regular Jetpack sites.
• REST API: Updated the modules endpoint in Jetpack's REST API to be aware of modules that have been filtered through option_jetpack_active_modules allowing for better compatibility with custom Jetpack installation where the administrator decides to filter out specific Jetpack modules.
• Sync: Added the jetpack_sync_action_before_enqueue action that's done when anything gets enqueued before being synchronized to WordPress.com servers.

Bug fixes

• Admin Page: Removed all linting warnings for the JS code of the Admin page. These were only shown in development builds.
• Connect: Fixed an issue that sometimes resulted in a notice being shown about another user already having connected a Jetpack site when attempting to connect your site to WordPress.com
• General: Added suppress_filters param to get_posts / get_children function calls.
• Markdown: Updated WordAds code to not use create_function which is getting deprecated in PHP 7.2.
• Sync: Fixed a problem in Jetpack Sync code when trying to get property of non-object in the post syncing file.
• Sync: Stopped synchronizing the sitemap post types to WordPress.com servers as it was an issue given the size of these.
• Tracks events: Track events are logged now only if the user has accepted ToS and not just if Jetpack is connected.
• Widget Visibility: Added a decodeEntities function in widget-conditions.js to handle entity decoding for the minor conditions dropdown.
• WordAds: Updated WordAds code to not use create_function which is getting deprecated in PHP 7.2.

Welcome to Jetpack 5.8!

• Release date: February 6, 2018
• Release post: https://wp.me/p1moTy-731

Major Enhancements

• Lazy Images: after a Beta period, you can now enable this new feature from Jetpack > Settings in your dashboard.
• Elasticsearch-powered search: also out of Beta! We've improved the way data is indexed behind the scenes, and made changes to the Search widget and its filters. (Elasticsearch is a trademark of Elasticsearch BV, registered in the U.S. and in other countries.)

Enhancements

• Comment moderation tools: moderation emails now point to WordPress.com when using the edit_links_calypso_redirect option.
• Custom CSS: add CSS Grid Layout support.
• Dashboard: update list of features available in Paid plans.
• Dashboard: improve the display of notices inside the Jetpack dashboard.
• Dashboard: update content displayed in the Jetpack dashboard when not connected to WordPress.com.
• Development mode: improve the display of the development notice.
• General: add a new filter, jetpack_active_modules, allowing site owners to filter the list of active modules.
• Notices: add rel tags to notice links to avoid issues when links open in a new window.
• Onboarding: add functionality for saving Business Address in the Contact Info widget.
• Onboarding: save site type during site setup process.
• Onboarding: enable loading of specific modules when using the Onboarding process.
• Post Images: allow passing size when searching for images in HTML.
• REST API: update the plugin installation process to use a new library.
• REST API: allow changing the number of posts displayed in the RSS feed, and whether feeds display full text or a summary.
• REST API: simplify our invites endpoint.
• Sharing: make sure the Whatsapp button works on mobile and on desktop.
• Sharing: add new filter, wp_sharing_email_send_post_subject, to allow modifying the email sharing subject line.
• Shortcodes: update the GettyImages shortcode to use the new format required by GettyImages.
• Site Settings: add support for site language and timezone settings.
• Sync: improve synchronization of user actions, theme and plugin edits / updates, post status, updates on Multisite networks, Protect events, and WooCommerce's meta data.
• WordAds: enable the Ads in the header by default.
• WordAds: add filters so site owners can control the display of the ads via code as well.

Improved compatibility

• Lazy Images: fix issues with the Gazette theme.
• Open Graph: add Open Graph Metabox to the list of conflicting plugins.
• Masterbar: fix incompatibility with BeaverBuilder plugin.
• PHP 7.2: fix issues when running Jetpack with PHP 7.2.

Bug fixes

• Carousel: fix PHP Notice with images using custom meta.
• Dashboard: make sure all links to WordPress.com point to the right site's settings on WordPress.com.
• Dashboard: update links to the plugin interface on WordPress.com to load the full plugin management page.
• General: fix images shown in the dashboard when Jetpack is installed in a directory different than jetpack.
• Lazy Images: make sure Lazy Load can be triggered even when images are added to the content very late.
• Stats: make sure the Stats script is XHTML compliant.
• Widgets: Mailchimp - avoid conflicts with jQuery UI.

This release improves and fixes several problems with the features that Jetpack Beta 1 has introduced.

Welcome to Jetpack 5.8 Beta!

• Planned release date: February 6, 2018

Major Enhancements

• Lazy Images: after a Beta period, you can now enable this new feature from Jetpack > Settings in your dashboard.
• Search: Jetpack's Search feature is now out of Beta! We've improved the way data is indexed behind the scenes, and made changes to the Search widget and its filters.

Enhancements

• Comment moderation tools: moderation emails now point to WordPress.com when using the edit_links_calypso_redirect option.
• Custom CSS: add CSS Grid Layout support.
• Dashboard: update list of features available in Paid plans.
• Dashboard: improve the display of notices inside the Jetpack dashboard.
• Dashboard: update content displayed in the Jetpack dashboard when not connected to WordPress.com.
• Development mode: improve the display of the development notice.
• General: add a new filter, jetpack_active_modules, allowing site owners to filter the list of active modules.
• Notices: add rel tags to notice links to avoid issues when links open in a new window.
• Onboarding: add functionality for saving Business Address in the Contact Info widget.
• Onboarding: save site type during site setup process.
• Onboarding: enable loading of specific modules when using the Onboarding process.
• Post Images: allow passing size when searching for images in HTML.
• REST API: update the plugin installation process to use a new library.
• REST API: allow changing the number of posts displayed in the RSS feed, and whether feeds display full text or a summary.
• REST API: simplify our invites endpoint.
• Sharing: make sure the Whatsapp button works on mobile and on desktop.
• Sharing: add new filter, wp_sharing_email_send_post_subject, to allow modifying the email sharing subject line.
• Shortcodes: update the GettyImages shortcode to use the new format required by GettyImages.
• Site Settings: add support for site language and timezone settings.
• Sync: improve synchronization of user actions, theme and plugin edits / updates, post status, updates on Multisite networks, Protect events, and WooCommerce's meta data.
• WordAds: enable the Ads in the header by default.
• WordAds: add filters so site owners can control the display of the ads via code as well.

Improved compatibility

• Lazy Images: fix issues with the Gazette theme.
• Open Graph: add Open Graph Metabox to the list of conflicting plugins.
• Masterbar: fix incompatibility with BeaverBuilder plugin.
• PHP 7.2: fix issues when running Jetpack with PHP 7.2.

Bug fixes

• Carousel: fix PHP Notice with images using custom meta.
• Dashboard: make sure all links to WordPress.com point to the right site's settings on WordPress.com.
• Dashboard: update links to the plugin interface on WordPress.com to load the full plugin management page.
• General: fix images shown in the dashboard when Jetpack is installed in a directory different than jetpack.
• Lazy Images: make sure Lazy Load can be triggered even when images are added to the content very late.
• Stats: make sure the Stats script is XHTML compliant.
• Widgets: Mailchimp - avoid conflicts with jQuery UI.

• Release date: January 16, 2018
• Release post: https://wp.me/p1moTy-7aS

Bug Fixes

• Protect: Fixed the math problem fallback for logging into Multisite installations.
• Settings: Made sure that the Security tab is no longer constantly updating the displayed information.

= 5.7 =

• Release date: January 2, 2018
• Release post: https://wp.me/p1moTy-6FR

Enhancements

• Added ability to create revisions of Portfolio Projects.
• Users hosting their sites with our Pressable partner who have Rewind access can now jump from the new Activity card in the Jetpack dashboard to the Activity Log in WordPress.com and restore or download backups for the site.
• Comments: Edit links for comments in the frontend can redirect to calypso if the Jetpack option edit_links_calypso_redirect is enabled.
• Protect: Updated the styling of the Protect page for recovering access to your site when you're locked out of it.
• Search: Improved the UI for customizing the Search widget.

Improved compatibility

• Comments: Updated our filtering behavior for Jetpack comments so other plugins appending html to the comments section are able to do it instead of being filtered out by Jetpack.
• Widgets: We updated Goodreads URLs to support https schema.
• Masterbar: We now hide the Masterbar settings card in Jetpack’s Admin Page for sites that are set to always show the Masterbar.
• Lazy Images: Added a callback for processing image attributes array when attempting to lazy load images are loaded via wp_get_attachment_image.
• Search: Added hooks to the search filters widget so that other plugins/themes can hook in and change its output.

Bug fixes

• REST API: Added a check for avoiding a fatal error when attempting to include Akismet class files in case the Akismet plugin files are present but the permissions on the files there are set to be not readable
• Markdown: Fixed bug where code inside shortcodes wasn't correctly restored from the hash.
• Search: Fixed the link that acts as a month and year filter removal toggle.

= 5.7 =

• Release date: January 2, 2018
• Release post: https://wp.me/p1moTy-6FR

Enhancements

• Added ability to create revisions of Portfolio Projects.
• Users hosting their sites with our Pressable partner who have Rewind access can now jump from the new Activity card in the Jetpack dashboard to the Activity Log in WordPress.com and restore or download backups for the site.
• Comments: Edit links for comments in the frontend can redirect to calypso if the Jetpack option edit_links_calypso_redirect is enabled.
• Protect: Updated the styling of the Protect page for recovering access to your site when you're locked out of it.
• Search: Improved the UI for customizing the Search widget.

Improved compatibility

• Comments: Updated our filtering behavior for Jetpack comments so other plugins appending html to the comments section are able to do it instead of being filtered out by Jetpack.
• Widgets: We updated Goodreads URLs to support https schema.
• Masterbar: We now hide the Masterbar settings card in Jetpack’s Admin Page for sites that are set to always show the Masterbar.
• Lazy Images: Added a callback for processing image attributes array when attempting to lazy load images are loaded via wp_get_attachment_image.
• Search: Added hooks to the search filters widget so that other plugins/themes can hook in and change its output.

Bug fixes

• REST API: Added a check for avoiding a fatal error when attempting to include Akismet class files in case the Akismet plugin files are present but the permissions on the files there are set to be not readable
• Markdown: Fixed bug where code inside shortcodes wasn't correctly restored from the hash.
• Search: Fixed the link that acts as a month and year filter removal toggle.

This is a copy of the 5.6.1 release plus some UI updates to take care of VaultPress and Rewind conflicts.

Includes:
#8378
#8392
#8382
#8389
#8387
#8388
#8380
#8366

= 5.6.1 =

• Release date: December 14, 2017
• Release post: https://wp.me/p1moTy-6Jk

Enhancements

• Sharing: Bumped the character limit to 280 when sharing a post to Twitter.

Bug Fixes

• Widget Visibility: Fixed a bug that disabled "saving" the widget when removing a Widget Visibility rule.
• Contact Forms: Hardened security in Contact Form processing.

= 5.6 =

• Release date: December 5, 2017
• Release post: https://wp.me/p1moTy-6zt

Major Enhancements

• Google Analytics: Add support for universal analytics for WooCommerce.
• Performance: minify all JavaScript files used in the plugin.
• Performance: add new Lazy Images module.
• Protect: add new mechanism allowing you to send yourself an email with a link to the form when you are locked out of your site.

Enhancements

• Custom CSS: add new set of font properties that can be used in the CSS editor.
• Photon: do not remove width and height attributes from image tags when known.
• Sitemaps: add CLI commands to purge and built the sitemaps.
• Sitemaps: only display the reporter log success messages if JETPACK_DEV_DEBUG is defined.
• WordPress.com API: add new endpoints to allow for better comment management in third party interfaces like WordPress.com.
• WordPress.com Toolbar: prevent dns prefetching for logged out users.

Improved compatibility

• Stats: remove function deprecated in PHP 7.2.

Bug fixes

• Comment Likes: make sure Like text is properly translated.
• General: only load stats code when necessary.
• Related Posts: allow site owners to exclude multiple blog posts from the list of Related Posts.
• Sharing: remove inline JavaScript used in the email sharing form.
• Search: Maintain ordering of the search filters in the widget.
• Sync: avoid PHP notices during the synchronization process.
• WordPress.com Toolbar: avoid broken link when using the sign out button.

Same as https://github.com/Automattic/jetpack/releases/tag/5.6-beta1 but with some fixes for:

• Universal Analytics code for the settings endpoint that was fataling if Woo was inactive and Advanced eCommerce was active while running Beta1.
• Partner hosts to override home and siteurl via partner provisioning scripts.
• Plugin info to be synced back after being updated via the API.

=5.6=

• Release date: December 5, 2017
• Release post: https://wp.me/p1moTy-6zt

Major Enhancements

• Google Analytics: Add support for universal analytics for WooCommerce.
• Performance: minify all JavaScript files used in the plugin.
• Performance: add new Lazy Images module.
• Protect: add new mechanism allowing you to send yourself an email with a link to the form when you are locked out of your site.

Enhancements

• Custom CSS: add new set of font properties that can be used in the CSS editor.
• Photon: do not remove width and height attributes from image tags when known.
• Sitemaps: add CLI commands to purge and built the sitemaps.
• Sitemaps: only display the reporter log success messages if JETPACK_DEV_DEBUG is defined.
• WordPress.com API: add new endpoints to allow for better comment management in third party interfaces like WordPress.com.
• WordPress.com Toolbar: prevent dns prefetching for logged out users.

Improved compatibility

• Stats: remove function deprecated in PHP 7.2.

Bug fixes

• Comment Likes: make sure Like text is properly translated.
• General: only load stats code when necessary.
• Related Posts: allow site owners to exclude multiple blog posts from the list of Related Posts.
• Sharing: remove inline JavaScript used in the email sharing form.
• Search: Maintain ordering of the search filters in the widget.
• Sync: avoid PHP notices during the synchronization process.
• WordPress.com Toolbar: avoid broken link when using the sign out button.

• Release date: November 21, 2017
• Release post: https://wp.me/p1moTy-6Bd

Bug fixes

• In Jetpack 5.5 we made some changes that created errors if you were using other plugins that added custom links to the Plugins menu. This is now fixed.
• We have fixed a problem that did not allow to upload plugins using API requests.
• Open Graph links in post headers are no longer invalid in some special cases.
• We fixed warnings happening when syncing users with WordPress.com.
• We updated the way the Google+ button is loaded to match changes made by Google, to ensure the button is always displayed properly.
• We fixed conflicts between Jetpack's Responsive Videos and the updates made to Video players in WordPress 4.9.
• We updated Publicize's message length to match Twitter's new 280 character limit.

Jetpack 5.5 built + #8201 to be served in Pressable

Welcome to Jetpack 5.5!

• Release date: November 7, 2017
• Release post: https://wp.me/p1moTy-6rk

Major Enhancements

• Jetpack is now fully compatible with WordPress's new Gallery Widget. Your old Gallery widgets powered by Jetpack will switch to the new Widget when you update to WordPress 4.9.

Enhancements

• We have improved the performance when loading the Jetpack Settings in the dashboard by optimizing the number of calls made when loading the page.
• We have updated the plugin to do a better job of cleaning up after itself whenever you decide to remove Jetpack from your site.
• We made some changes to reduce the number of connection issues that may happen on a site when switching from HTTP to HTTPs.
• We made some performance improvements to the Jetpack dashboard interface, to make sure your options and settings are loaded faster there.
• Error messages are also better in the Jetpack Dashboard; whenever you can't update settings, Jetpack will provide you with more information about why.
• We improved the Jetpack update process to make sure updating Jetpack does not stress your database during it, even on high-traffic sites.
• The next version of WordPress, 4.9, will be released very soon and will include a lot of changes to its code editors. Jetpack's Custom CSS will be fully compatible with the new editors and their syntax highlighting feature.
• We also made changes to make sure Jetpack was fully compatible with the role and capability changes in WordPress 4.9.
• We have made some performance improvements to the Carousel feature.
• Contact Form: do not process shortcodes in widgets when WordPress itself does, starting in 4.9.
• Contact Form: we have improved the "website" field to display better error messages when you don't supply a URL. We have also improved the look of the date picker for the date field.
• Contact Form: avoid duplicate slashes when loading editor style.
• Masterbar: update the "Plugins" menu item to match the updated design on WordPress.com.
• Open Graph: do not display images smaller than Facebook's required size.
• Sharing: use Google's minified libraries to improve performance when loading Google buttons.
• Sharing: update Open Graph Image tags appearing on the home page to offer better alternatives based on your site settings in Appearance > Customize.
• We improved the way sitemaps are built so they do not consume too much memory when they are generated.
• WP.me Shorlinks: those links will now always use HTTPS.
• Spellchecker: we improved the admin interface to make it more clear when adding ignored phrases and saving them.
• Subscriptions: we added a filter so third party developers can track comment subscription activations.
• Sync: synchronize plugin action links to add that information to WordPress.com.
• Sync: improvements to better track theme and widget changes.
• VideoPress: we removed Jetpack version locking for directly embedded VideoPress videos to ensure all users receive the newest version of the player.
• We added a new filter (jetpack_google_translate_widget_layout) to the Google Translate Widget to allow you to change its layout.
• WordPress.com REST API: improve comment management for all roles, including post authors.
• WordPress.com REST API: allow site owners to manage comments on attachment pages from WordPress.com.
• WordPress.com REST API: improve the response from the API when WordPress' autoupdates are disabled.

Improved compatibility

• You can now use Jetpack's contact form and Yoast SEO's Focus keywords on the same page without any issues in the editor.
• Top Posts Widget: avoid Fatal Errors when the widget is used on a site using WPML, and when a popular post cannot be found by WPML.
• Sync: add more Custom Post Types from third-party plugins to the list of things we do not synchronize with WordPress.com, to improve sync performance.
• Sharing: since Press This is now a plugin and not part of WordPress itself, we removed the Press This sharing button if you are not using the plugin.

Bug fixes

• We now avoid displaying notices to user roles that cannot benefit or act based on the info in the notices.
• Gravatar Hovercards: avoid PHP Notices when the user info is an object.
• Infinite Scroll: avoid PHP notices when a site customizes galleries thanks to the post_gallery filter.
• Mailchimp: make sure subscription forms can still be embedded in posts and pages.
• Mailchimp: do not require the use of the shortcodes feature to use the Mailchimp widget.
• Mailchimp: fix issue where Mailchimp form code could not be added to the Mailchimp widget.
• Masterbar: avoid JavaScript errors by always loading jQuery.
• Post By Email: do not display any content in the email address field if no email address has ever been set before.
• Publicize: avoid errors when DOMDocument is not available.
• Publicize: we now hide the feature activation toggle if you are not allowed to manage Jetpack features.
• Search: make sure module cannot be activated when the site does not use a Plan.
• SEO Tools: do not output any custom meta tags if another SEO plugin is already active.
• Sharing: make sure Twitter Cards can be displayed even when a post does not include a title.
• Sharing: fix alignment of sharing buttons in the admin preview when using custom sharing buttons.
• Sitemaps: wait a minute before to generate sitemaps when the feature is activated, to avoid performance issues.
• Sync: avoid synchronization issues on Multisite networks using custom domains.
• Top Posts Widget: display the default title when it is set to empty.
• Milestone Widget: make sure the widget is displayed properly and can easily be translated into other languages.
• Verification Tools: avoid notices when saving changes on a Multisite network admin page.
• VideoPress: avoid missing file warning in the editor when using an RTL language.
• Upcoming events Widget: avoid PHP notices on sites using a custom timezone setting.
• WordPress.com REST API: avoid errors when installing plugins via the WordPress.com API.

This release improves compatibility with Yoast:

• Editing Focus Keywords in the post editor will no longer make a Contact Form appear.

This beta addresses the following problems:

• The filter that forces the Gallery widget availability now has correct logic.
• The built beta branch on GitHub now has built files so the zip can be used in a WordPress installation.