jetpack

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.
• 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.
• 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

• 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.

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.
• Publicize: avoid errors when DOMDocument is not available.
• 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.

= 5.4 =

• Release date: October 3, 2017
• Release post: http://wp.me/p1moTy-67V

Major Enhancements

• Multiple improvements to the connection process, to allow more people to use the Jetpack plugin, even on very specific server configurations.
• Add a new Welcome screen to guide site owners after they have purchased a Jetpack plan.

Enhancements

• Add Schema.org markup to the Contact Info Widget.
• Add a new "Date" field to the Contact Form.
• Do not show any update notices when in development mode.
• Improve our documentation to help contributors set up a unit testing environment.
• Avoid conflicts between Jetpack's Infinite Scroll and other Infinite Scroll plugins.
• Improvements to the WordPress.com REST API to avoid issues when interacting with your site's categories and tags on WordPress.com.
• Allow third party plugin and theme authors to add new menu items to the WordPress.com toolbar.
• Improve the Content Options panel displayed in the Customizer with certain themes.
• Add architecture for the Jetpack Search feature, available for Jetpack Professional users.
• Simple Payments: improve the display of the payment items when used on your site.
• Ensure a proper display of the Recipe shortcode on sites using an RTL language.
• Improve the display of the Facebook posts, images, and all other Facebook embeds in your posts.
• Synchronize the author information for all published posts.
• Record how Jetpack was discovered and activated to better understand how site owners first discover Jetpack.
• Improve the display and options offered with the Milestone Widget.

Bug fixes

• We fixed layout issues appearing in the admin interface for IE11 users.
• Comment Form: avoid whitespace sometimes appearing below the form with some themes.
• Contact Form: avoid errors in the post editor on sites using RTL languages.
• Toolbar: always display the Toolbar when it's active, regardless of other admin bar settings.
• Widget Visibility: make sure rules are correctly migrated from the old Jetpack image widget to the new WordPress Image Widget.
• Avoid errors showing that Jetpack is out of date on WordPress.com, when running a Multisite network.
• WP CLI: avoid warnings when using the wp jetpack protect whitelist list command to list the whitelisted IP addresses in the Protect feature.
• Avoid displaying raw HTML in the Stats Configuration screen.
• Comment edits are reflected properly in wordpress.com.

Same as https://github.com/Automattic/jetpack/releases/tag/5.4-beta2 but also:

• Fix for author gravatars
• Added GA support for IP/product tracking

Same as https://github.com/Automattic/jetpack/releases/tag/5.4-beta1 but with some fixes for:

• Multisite was fataling with SEO Tools
• Some calypso settings weren't saving properly
• Contact form date field fixes

= 5.4 =

• Release date: October 3, 2017
• Release post: http://wp.me/p1moTy-67V

Major Enhancements

• Multiple improvements to the connection process, to allow more people to use the Jetpack plugin, even on very specific server configurations.
• Add a new Welcome screen to guide site owners after they have purchased a Jetpack plan.

Enhancements

• Add Schema.org markup to the Contact Info Widget.
• Add a new "Date" field to the Contact Form.
• Do not show any update notices when in development mode.
• Improve our documentation to help contributors set up a unit testing environment.
• Avoid conflicts between Jetpack's Infinite Scroll and other Infinite Scroll plugins.
• Improvements to the WordPress.com REST API to avoid issues when interacting with your site's categories and tags on WordPress.com.
• Allow third party plugin and theme authors to add new menu items to the WordPress.com toolbar.
• Improve the Content Options panel displayed in the Customizer with certain themes.
• Add architecture for the Jetpack Search feature, available for Jetpack Professional users.
• Simple Payments: improve the display of the payment items when used on your site.
• Ensure a proper display of the Recipe shortcode on sites using an RTL language.
• Improve the display of the Facebook posts, images, and all other Facebook embeds in your posts.
• Synchronize the author information for all published posts.
• Record how Jetpack was discovered and activated to better understand how site owners first discover Jetpack.
• Improve the display and options offered with the Milestone Widget.

Bug fixes

• We fixed layout issues appearing in the admin interface for IE11 users.
• Comment Form: avoid whitespace sometimes appearing below the form with some themes.
• Contact Form: avoid errors in the post editor on sites using RTL languages.
• Toolbar: always display the Toolbar when it's active, regardless of other admin bar settings.
• Widget Visibility: make sure rules are correctly migrated from the old Jetpack image widget to the new WordPress Image Widget.
• Avoid errors showing that Jetpack is out of date on WordPress.com, when running a Multisite network.
• WP CLI: avoid warnings when using the wp jetpack protect whitelist list command to list the whitelisted IP addresses in the Protect feature.
• Avoid displaying raw HTML in the Stats Configuration screen.
• Comment edits are reflected properly in wordpress.com.

= 5.3 =

• Release date: September 5, 2017
• Release post: http://wp.me/p1moTy-5Xv

Major Enhancements

• Full PHP 7.1 compatibility.
• It's now possible to preview your site within WordPress.com.

Enhancements

• The Ads feature now gives you more options and control over the ads displayed on your site.
• Increased performance in the admin by cutting back on unnecessary requests.
• Loading comment avatars from Facebook and Twitter through a more secure https.
• Admin UI is much friendlier on initial activation when there are no stats to display.
• You're now able to stop VideoPress from looping a video during autoplay through the shortcode.
• Made some optimizations to the Jetpack connection process which means connecting your site more is more reliable.
• The EU Cookie Law widget got some styling improvements and looks better in any theme.
• There's a new Jetpack CLI command to allow testing of the Jetpack connection.
• Added the Likes and Monitor features to our recommended features list, making it easier to activate for new sites.
• Improvements made that makes sure we have the most up-to-date version of your site when managing from WordPress.com.
• Added a link to view your Comments in the WordPress.com toolbar.
• Lots of minor design improvements to the Jetpack admin area.
• We've found a few places where we were able to optimize the loading of css files.
• Removed the Omnisearch feature.

Bug fixes

• Fixed compatibility issues with plugins using TinyMCE.
• Contact Form submission emails have been fixed for sites hosted on SiteGround.
• Updating WordPress.com themes will no longer have any problems.
• The Sitemaps feature will no longer error with posts/images with special characters in the title.
• There are no more conflicts with the ACF plugin when adding a new custom field.
• Fixed a bug that would cause some plugins to throw warnings with the Shortcode feature.
• We're no longer loading a font on the front-end for the Likes feature, which will also have some performance benefits.
• The Jetpack admin UI had some bugs that were causing some features to not display the correct active status, which are squashed now.
• Cleaned up our markup to avoid XHTML validation errors.
• Brought back a filter for the Widget Visibility feature that was accidentally removed.
• Managing your comments and comment authors more reliable from WordPress.com.

Same as https://github.com/Automattic/jetpack/releases/tag/5.3-beta1 except:

Fixes Contact Form submission emails being sent on SiteGround sites
Fixes to tracks events

Same as https://github.com/Automattic/jetpack/releases/tag/5.3-beta1 except:

• Added sync fixes
• Copy changes
• Small UI fixes

= 5.3 =

• Release date: September 5, 2017
• Release post:

Major Enhancements

• Full PHP 7.1 compatibility.
• It's now possible to preview your site within WordPress.com.

Enhancements

• The Ads feature now gives you more options and control over the ads displayed on your site.
• Increased performance in the admin by cutting back on unnecessary requests.
• Loading comment avatars from Facebook and Twitter through a more secure https.
• Admin UI is much friendlier on initial activation when there are no stats to display.
• You're now able to stop VideoPress from looping a video during autoplay through the shortcode.
• Made some optimizations to the Jetpack connection process which means connecting your site more is more reliable.
• The EU Cookie Law widget got some styling improvements and looks better in any theme.
• There's a new Jetpack CLI command to allow testing of the Jetpack connection.
• Added the Likes and Monitor features to our recommended features list, making it easier to activate for new sites.
• Improvements made that makes sure we have the most up-to-date version of your site when managing from WordPress.com.
• Added a link to view your Comments in the WordPress.com toolbar.
• Lots of minor design improvements to the Jetpack admin area.
• We've found a few places where we were able to optimize the loading of css files.
• Removed the Omnisearch feature.

Bug fixes

• Fixed compatibility issues with plugins using TinyMCE.
• Updating WordPress.com themes will no longer have any problems.
• The Sitemaps feature will no longer error with posts/images with special characters in the title.
• There are more conflicts with the ACF plugin when adding a new custom field.
• Fixed a bug that would cause some plugins to throw warnings with the Shortcode feature.
• We're no longer loading a font on the front-end for the Likes feature, which will also have some performance benefits.
• The Jetpack admin UI had some bugs that were causing some features to not display the correct active status, which are squashed now.
• Cleaned up our markup to avoid XHTML validation errors.
• Brought back a filter for the Widget Visibility feature that was accidentally removed.
• Managing your comments and comment authors more reliable from WordPress.com.

Bug fixes

• Solves an issue that caused widgets to lose their content when saved in WP Admin or Customizer.

Major Enhancements

• Contact Forms now sports a fancy new interface that allows you to visually compose your form in the editor.
• We have a new and slick way to showcase and explain the features we recommend to activate to new users.

Enhancements

• Reduced 500kb from plugin zip file, which means faster updates.
• Refactored and reduced code for Comment Likes so it's faster and lighter.

Bug fixes

• An inconsistency experienced in WordPress.com dashboard when Related Posts settings were set in the local site's WP Admin is now fixed.
• Fixed a 404 when loading Open Sans font from a stylesheet plus now it's only enqueued if it will be used.
• Solve PHP warnings when Image widget wasn't migrated.

Major Enhancements

• Contact Forms now sports a fancy new interface that allows you to visually compose your form in the editor.
• We have a new and slick way to showcase and explain the features we recommend to activate to new users.

Enhancements

• Reduced 500kb from plugin zip file, which means faster updates.
• Refactored and reduced code for Comment Likes so it's faster and lighter.

Bug fixes

• An inconsistency experienced in WordPress.com dashboard when Related Posts settings were set in the local site's WP Admin is now fixed.
• Fixed a 404 when loading Open Sans font from a stylesheet plus now it's only enqueued if it will be used.
• Solve PHP warnings when Image widget wasn't migrated.

Major Enhancements

• You and your readers can now show appreciation to particularly clever comments with the new Comment Likes feature.

Enhancements

• Quickly visit your current site's front-end directly from the Masterbar's new "View Site" item.
• Site data fetch from /me/sites REST API endpoint now includes blog_public in the list of returned options.
• The Flickr widget now automatically displays images in a grid if there's enough room.
• E-mail sharing is now disabled by default unless it's explicitly enabled by a filter or Akismet is active.

Compatibility Improvements

• Updated instructions in Flickr widget to reflect recent changes to the Flickr UI.

Bug fixes

• EU Cookie Law Banner cookie no longer cached.
• WP Admin menu can now be accessed in mobile when Masterbar is displayed.
• We now sync the order_id for order_items in older WooCommerce versions.
• UI now handles VaultPress connection or registration problems gracefully.
• Photon now works correctly with images uploaded before WordPress 2.7.

Major Enhancements

• You and your readers can now show appreciation to particularly clever comments with the new Comment Likes feature.

Enhancements

• Quickly visit your current site's front-end directly from the Masterbar's new "View Site" item.
• Site data fetch from /me/sites REST API endpoint now includes blog_public in the list of returned options.
• The Flickr widget now automatically displays images in a grid if there's enough room.
• E-mail sharing is now disabled by default unless it's explicitly enabled by a filter or Akismet is active.

Compatibility Improvements

• Updated instructions in Flickr widget to reflect recent changes to the Flickr UI.

Bug fixes

• EU Cookie Law Banner cookie no longer cached.
• WP Admin menu can now be accessed in mobile when Masterbar is displayed.
• We now sync the order_id for order_items in older WooCommerce versions.
• UI now handles VaultPress connection or registration problems gracefully.
• Photon now works correctly with images uploaded before WordPress 2.7.

Major Enhancements

• You and your readers can now show appreciation to particularly clever comments with the new Comment Likes feature.

Enhancements

• Quickly visit your current site's front-end directly from the Masterbar's new "View Site" item.
• Site data fetch from /me/sites REST API endpoint now includes blog_public in the list of returned options.
• The Flickr widget now automatically displays images in a grid if there's enough room.
• E-mail sharing is now disabled by default unless it's explicitly enabled by a filter or Akismet is active.

Compatibility Improvements

• Updated instructions in Flickr widget to reflect recent changes to the Flickr UI.

Bug fixes

• EU Cookie Law Banner cookie no longer cached.
• WP Admin menu can now be accessed in mobile when Masterbar is displayed.
• We now sync the order_id for order_items in older WooCommerce versions.
• UI now handles VaultPress connection or registration problems gracefully.
• Photon now works correctly with images uploaded before WordPress 2.7.

Enhancements

• Several changes to the Jetpack dashboard and notices: alignment tweaks, code refactor, text simplification, and more.
• Changes to the communication layer between your site and WordPress.com, to improve performance and allow you to do more to manage your site from WordPress.com.
• Social menu gets icons for Etsy, Meetup, 500px, and Goodreads.
• Jetpack data sync now better supports WordPress updates, themes changes, widgets, and multisite networks.
• Video is updated to be fully compatible with the upcoming Media Widget.
• Force secure WordPress.com API requests for request body, remove deprecated stats methods, and add new endpoints for post listing and user invitations.
• Jetpack's Command Line tools can now output information about the primary Jetpack site owner. Try wp jetpack status!
• Custom CSS now supports the animation-fill-mode, fill, and stroke properties.
• Remove the "Menus" item from the WordPress.com toolbar for parity with the toolbar on WordPress.com.
• Improve the display of the Omnisearch results page on sites using an RTL language.
• Trim any white space when adding new email address in the Contact Info Widget.
• Improve the look of your recipes in search engine result pages, when you use the Recipe shortcode.

Compatibility Improvements

• Improve the connection process for end users and hosts.
• Improve compatibility of Jetpack data sync with WooCommerce and Pet Manager plugins.
• Make sure Jetpack's SEO Tools don't conflict with other SEO plugins that may already be active on the site, like Yoast SEO or All In One SEO Pack.

Bug Fixes

• Add a "Set Up" button when a Personal plan is purchased, but VaultPress isn't active yet.
• When the Ads feature is active, do not display Ads in RSS feeds.
• Comments do not use Photon for Facebook and Twitter avatars and now avoid non-secure warnings when submitting comments on a HTTP site in Safari.
• Contact form emails are now sent in a way that ensures they are correctly rendered as HTML.
• Properly print the full list of modules when using the sync command in Jetpack's Command Line Interface (CLI).
• Avoid errors when reordering a lot of Restaurant menu items at once.
• Add a mechanism to detect broken connection states and resolve them.
• Autosaves can now be restored as Markdown.
• Photon no longer conflicts with Facebook's CDN, local images, and plugins that customize reponsive images.
• Avoid potential PHP notice in Publicize.
• Fix bad jQuery selector in Presentations shortcode.
• Avoid fatal errors for Social Links on sites running PHP 7.1.
• Properly escape button attribute in spellchecker.
• Avoid PHP notices for stats on some sites when user roles are not attributed properly.
• No longer attempt to sync options that do not exist and avoid fatal errors when de/activating plugins.
• Avoid errors when Social Menu functions have already been defined in the theme or in another plugin.
• VideoPress media items now always return their unique ID, and do not trigger any PHP notice.
• Fix style of the EU Cookie Law Widget on themes with specific positioning.
• Use correct time constant to define an hour in Upcoming Events Widget.
• Avoid HTML encoding issues in sitemaps.

Enhancements

• Several changes to the Jetpack dashboard and notices: alignment tweaks, code refactor, text simplification, and more.
• Changes to the communication layer between your site and WordPress.com, to improve performance and allow you to do more to manage your site from WordPress.com.
• Social menu gets icons for Etsy, Meetup, 500px, and Goodreads.
• Jetpack data sync now better supports WordPress updates, themes changes, widgets, and multisite networks.
• Video is updated to be fully compatible with the upcoming Media Widget.
• Force secure WordPress.com API requests for request body, remove deprecated stats methods, and add new endpoints for post listing and user invitations.
• Jetpack's Command Line tools can now output information about the primary Jetpack site owner. Try wp jetpack status!
• Custom CSS now supports the animation-fill-mode, fill, and stroke properties.
• Remove the "Menus" item from the WordPress.com toolbar for parity with the toolbar on WordPress.com.
• Improve the display of the Omnisearch results page on sites using an RTL language.
• Trim any white space when adding new email address in the Contact Info Widget.
• Improve the look of your recipes in search engine result pages, when you use the Recipe shortcode.

Compatibility Improvements

• Improve the connection process for end users and hosts.
• Improve compatibility of Jetpack data sync with WooCommerce and Pet Manager plugins.
• Make sure Jetpack's SEO Tools don't conflict with other SEO plugins that may already be active on the site, like Yoast SEO or All In One SEO Pack.

Bug Fixes

• Add a "Set Up" button when a Personal plan is purchased, but VaultPress isn't active yet.
• When the Ads feature is active, do not display Ads in RSS feeds.
• Comments do not use Photon for Facebook and Twitter avatars and now avoid non-secure warnings when submitting comments on a HTTP site in Safari.
• Contact form emails are now sent in a way that ensures they are correctly rendered as HTML.
• Properly print the full list of modules when using the sync command in Jetpack's Command Line Interface (CLI).
• Avoid errors when reordering a lot of Restaurant menu items at once.
• Add a mechanism to detect broken connection states and resolve them.
• Autosaves can now be restored as Markdown.
• Photon no longer conflicts with Facebook's CDN, local images, and plugins that customize reponsive images.
• Avoid potential PHP notice in Publicize.
• Fix bad jQuery selector in Presentations shortcode.
• Avoid fatal errors for Social Links on sites running PHP 7.1.
• Properly escape button attribute in spellchecker.
• Avoid PHP notices for stats on some sites when user roles are not attributed properly.
• No longer attempt to sync options that do not exist and avoid fatal errors when de/activating plugins.
• Avoid errors when Social Menu functions have already been defined in the theme or in another plugin.
• VideoPress media items now always return their unique ID, and do not trigger any PHP notice.
• Fix style of the EU Cookie Law Widget on themes with specific positioning.
• Use correct time constant to define an hour in Upcoming Events Widget.
• Avoid HTML encoding issues in sitemaps.

Enhancements

• Several changes to the Jetpack dashboard and notices: alignment tweaks, code refactor, text simplification, and more.
• Changes to the communication layer between your site and WordPress.com, to improve performance and allow you to do more to manage your site from WordPress.com.
• Social menu gets icons for Etsy, Meetup, 500px, and Goodreads.
• Jetpack data sync now better supports WordPress updates, themes changes, widgets, and multisite networks.
• Video is updated to be fully compatible with the upcoming Media Widget.
• Force secure WordPress.com API requests for request body, remove deprecated stats methods, and add new endpoints for post listing and user invitations.
• Jetpack's Command Line tools can now output information about the primary Jetpack site owner. Try wp jetpack status!
• Custom CSS now supports the animation-fill-mode, fill, and stroke properties.
• Remove the "Menus" item from the WordPress.com toolbar for parity with the toolbar on WordPress.com.
• Improve the display of the Omnisearch results page on sites using an RTL language.
• Trim any white space when adding new email address in the Contact Info Widget.
• Improve the look of your recipes in search engine result pages, when you use the Recipe shortcode.

Compatibility Improvements

• Improve the connection process for end users and hosts.
• Improve compatibility of Jetpack data sync with WooCommerce and Pet Manager plugins.
• Make sure Jetpack's SEO Tools don't conflict with other SEO plugins that may already be active on the site, like Yoast SEO or All In One SEO Pack.

Bug Fixes

• Add a "Set Up" button when a Personal plan is purchased, but VaultPress isn't active yet.
• When the Ads feature is active, do not display Ads in RSS feeds.
• Comments do not use Photon for Facebook and Twitter avatars and now avoid non-secure warnings when submitting comments on a HTTP site in Safari.
• Contact form emails are now sent in a way that ensures they are correctly rendered as HTML.
• Properly print the full list of modules when using the sync command in Jetpack's Command Line Interface (CLI).
• Avoid errors when reordering a lot of Restaurant menu items at once.
• Add a mechanism to detect broken connection states and resolve them.
• Autosaves can now be restored as Markdown.
• Photon no longer conflicts with Facebook's CDN, local images, and plugins that customize reponsive images.
• Avoid potential PHP notice in Publicize.
• Fix bad jQuery selector in Presentations shortcode.
• Avoid fatal errors for Social Links on sites running PHP 7.1.
• Properly escape button attribute in spellchecker.
• Avoid PHP notices for stats on some sites when user roles are not attributed properly.
• No longer attempt to sync options that do not exist and avoid fatal errors when de/activating plugins.
• Avoid errors when Social Menu functions have already been defined in the theme or in another plugin.
• VideoPress media items now always return their unique ID, and do not trigger any PHP notice.
• Fix style of the EU Cookie Law Widget on themes with specific positioning.
• Use correct time constant to define an hour in Upcoming Events Widget.
• Avoid HTML encoding issues in sitemaps.

Jetpack 4.9 + https://github.com/Automattic/jetpack/pull/7072 to be served in Pressable

Major Enhancements

• New "EU Cookie Law Banner", Flickr, and "Internet Defense League" widgets.

Slightly Less Exciting Enhancements

• Success notices are automatically dismissed after a short period.
• Removed unused code from "My Jetpack" interface and deprecated an XML-RPC method.
• Contact Form now adds display names to email addresses in the To header.
• Added an updated multiple unit tests increasing code coverage.
• Development mode now also shows module list.
• Updated the list of locales available in Jetpack.
• Plugin auto-updates only triggered from WordPress.com and now trigger WordPress' maintenance mode.

Performance Improvements

• Record comment content modifications and moderation events to make sure comments are always up to date on WordPress.com.
• Sync post deletions, changes to sidebar, user events (addition, removal, and update) and theme installation.
• We now distinguish between a new and an updated attachment.
• Sync plugin and theme names when a related event is triggered including theme updates.

Compatibility Improvements

• Protect avoid conflicts with other plugins hooking into the log in form.
• Contact Form not auto-activated when Ninja Forms is active.
• WordPess.com REST API now allows HTTP PUT requests.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed wording in Post By Email button when no email address has been generated.
• Fixed a notice in the subscription widget in PHP 7.1
• Properly display VaultPress notices in the Jetpack dashboard.
• VideoPress now included in search results for "video" and fixed positioning of search icon on mobile screens.
• Protect supports IPv6 addresses properly.
• Dashboard avoids API requests being cached on some hosts and avoids errors when Spellchecker is inactive.
• Contact Form message content type is now set properly to restore compatibility with email plugins.
• Ads not displayed in the portfolio projects custom content type.
• Display all sites available in a network, even on large multisite installations.
• Featured Image is always used in tweets posted via Publicize.
• Avoid fatal errors when the exclusion parameter in Related Posts is not a string.
• Allow the removal of all custom title settings in the SEO feature.
• Make sure images are not distorted when Tiled Galleries uses Photon.
• Avoid PHP warnings and errors in the Stats dashboard on Multisite.
• Avoid errors when the Jetpack plugin is deleted.