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Jetpack 9.3.2

Note: internal release

• Release date: January 19, 2021

Enhancements

• Synchronization: improvements to the way data is synchronized back to WordPress.com.

Jetpack 9.3.1

• Release date: January 14, 2021

Bug fixes

• Multisite: avoid Fatals on sites using the WPMUDEV domain mapping plugin.
• SEO Tools: prevent a PHP notice in some situations involving taxonomy or author pages.

Jetpack 9.3

• Release date: January 12, 2021
• Release post: p1moTy-sgZ-p2

Enhancements

• Autoloader: improve performance by caching known plugins.
• Instant Search: improve compatibility with IE11.
• Related Posts: use the semantic time element when displaying dates.
• Sharing: defer loading of the reCAPTCHA library by default.

Improved compatibility

• AMP: avoid PHP notice on sites using legacy versions of the AMP plugin.
• Dashboard: avoid errors on sites using PHP 8.
• General: use modern JavaScript best practices for loading scripts.
• Infinite Scroll: add compatibility for the TwentyTwentyOne theme.
• Search: improve styling for the TwentyTwenty theme.
• Synchronization: improve integrity of synchronization between your site and WordPress.com.
• WordPress.com Toolbar: iterate on the design and functionality of the toolbar to match the toolbar in use on WordPress.com.

Bug fixes

• Autoloader: resolve symbolic links in active plugin paths.
• Autoloader: ensure deactivating plugins aren't cached.
• Blocks: improve sidebar display in non-fullscreen mode.
• Content Options: do not output CSS when it is not needed.
• Instant Search: improve display of tags and categories in search results.
• Lazy Images: attempt to load all images when printing a post, and inform the user when printing if images haven't been loaded.
• Podcast Player Block: avoid PHP notices in some scenarios.
• Search: limit number of filters automatically set up.
• Slideshow Block: ensure that image captions are always shown, regardless of the theme you're using.
• Subscription Block: display the correct default placeholder and button text strings in the post editor.
• Subscriptions: fix the behavior of the toggle switches for the comment subscription settings.
• Twitter Threads: improve how Twitter Cards are generated for embeds in the thread preview.
• VideoPress: detect aspect ratios rounding to both 1.77 and 1.78 as 16:9.
• Widgets: avoid JavaScript errors when displaying the Cookies & Consent Widget.
• WordPress.com REST API: avoid fatal errors in some scenarios, when updating a post's metadata.

Jetpack 9.3 Beta

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Jetpack 9.2.1

• Release date: December 10, 2020

Improved compatibility

• Site Health Tools: improve PHP 8 compatibility.
• Twenty Twenty One: add support for Jetpack's Content Options.

Bug fixes

• Instant Search: fix layout issues with filtering checkboxes with some themes.
• WordPress.com Toolbar: avoid Fatal errors when the feature is not active.
• WordPress.com Toolbar: avoid 404 errors when loading the toolbar.

Jetpack 9.2

• Release date: December 1, 2020
• Release post: p1moTy-scn-p2

Enhancements

• Connection Flow: clarify error message when the options table is not writable.
• Contact Form Block: display fallback link when the block is rendered in non-WordPress contexts, such as subscription emails.
• Contact Form Block: display the correct default email address and subject in the form block settings.
• Dashboard: clarify language around support options.
• Instagram Embeds: add support for embed parameters supported by Instagram.
• Payments Block: move unreadable notice to the sidebar.
• Pinterest Block: ensure that Pinterest embeds are displayed nicely in non-WordPress contexts, such as subscription emails.
• Podcast Block: display fallback link when the block is rendered in non-WordPress contexts, such as RSS feeds.
• Search: improve URL formatting for the expanded search layout.
• Sharing: ensure the first suitable image found in a post is always the one used in Open Graph Image meta tags.
• Site Health Tools: update description of Synchronization issues for better usability.
• Slideshow Block: ensure that slideshows are displayed nicely in subscription emails.
• Status: improve detection of staging servers.
• Story Block: improve display of the block.
• Synchronization: improve synchronization of comment status, taxononmies, and terms between your site and WordPress.com.
• Tiled Gallery Block: improve rendering when the block is rendered in non-WordPress contexts, such as subscription emails.
• WhatsApp button Block: improve text alignment on mobile devices.
• WordPress.com Toolbar: include admin color in user's REST API output.

Improved compatibility

• Autoloader: support Composer 2.0.7.
• General: continued work towards ensuring that Jetpack is fully compatible with the upcoming version of PHP, PHP 8.
• General: ensure Jetpack's full compatibility with the upcoming WordPress 5.6 release.
• General: update Jetpack's minimum required WordPress version to 5.5, in anticipation of the upcoming WordPress 5.6 release.
• Sharing: disable Open Graph Meta tags added by the Web Stories plugin when Jetpack's tags are active.
• Stats: support Web Stories plugin.
• Synchronization: ensure better synchronization of post meta data (used by Publicize, Subscriptions, Search) in WordPress 5.6.

Bug fixes

• Connection: handle XMLRPC requests when SERVER_PORT is not defined.
• External Media: fix a conflict with CoBlock's image replace feature.
• Dashboard: fix incorrect links to Jetpack credentials form.
• Google Analytics: ensure compatibility with Google Analytics 4 (GA4).
• Sitemaps: ensure that the Home URL is slashed on subdirectory websites.
• Social Icons widget: display only one icon when a URL matches both a domain and the feed URL match.
• Sync: avoid trying to sync when something else disabled syncing a request.
• Whatsapp Button Block: fix Guyana country code metadata.
• WordPress.com REST API: restore post comments when untrashing a post, such as via the mobile apps.

Jetpack 9.2 Beta 2

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Jetpack 9.2 Beta

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Jetpack 9.1

• Release date: November 10, 2020
• Release post: p1moTy-s0E-p2

Enhancements

• Button Block: add a center alignment option to all Jetpack button blocks.
• Content Options: add new filter to allow theme and plugin authors to disable featured image removal for their Custom Post Types.
• Dashboard: improve the display of dates in the Jetpack Plan screen and in the Stats graph.
• Dashboard: improve the display of numbers in all languages.
• Donations Block: improve the display of the block outside WordPress (in subscription emails, for example).
• Embeds: update Loom logo.
• External Media: add feature to the Cover block.
• Google Calendar Block: improve the display of the block in the editor.
• Image Compare Block: accessibility improvements.
• Instant Search: improve accessibility of the Search modal.
• Likes: remove jQuery dependency where possible.
• Pay with PayPal Block: improve the styling of the buttons in subscription emails.
• Pay with PayPal Block: improve the display of currencies.
• Podcast Player Block: add option to hide the episode title.
• Podcast Player Block: display more helpful error messages when a podcast cannot be embedded.
• Publicize: improve the usability of the Twitter thread options.
• REST API: support needed capabilities in Jetpack REST API endpoints that allow site based authentication.
• Social Menu & Social Media Icons: add support for Telegram profiles.
• Synchronization: improve reliability of synchronization of theme changes.
• WhatsApp Block: add option to change the alignment of the button.
• Widget Visibility: improve performance on sites with a large number of pages.
• WordPress.com Block Editor: add option to add metadata to a post indicating the last editor used.
• WordPress.com REST API: remove outdated code that allowed non-secure requests to the API, as such requests are no longer accepted.

Improved compatibility

• Comments: avoid AMP validation errors when using Jetpack's Comments feature and the AMP plugin.
• Dashboard: better support all states available when using one of Jetpack's Security solutions.
• Embeds: improve compatibility between Jetpack's Instagram embed and WordPress' own embed.
• Embeds: ensure Facebook Embeds work well with the AMP plugin.
• External Media: update iconography and improve forward compatibility.
• General: better detect local development environments.
• Google Analytics: add support for the AMP plugin to track WooCommerce events.
• OpenTable Block: ensure full compatibility with the AMP plugin.
• Pay with PayPal Block: ensure full compatibility with the AMP plugin.
• Sharing: add support for the Google Web Stories plugin.
• Slideshow Block: ensure that the block can be displayed using the Full Width alignment setting when using the Gutenberg plugin.
• Widget Visibility: avoid performance impact it may have on the block editor when used with the Gutenberg plugin.
• YouTube embeds: ensure that all YouTube video embeds work well when using the AMP plugin.

Bug fixes

• Calendly and Eventbrite Blocks: fix layout issue when selecting block styles in the editor.
• Contact Form: selection widgets, radio buttons, and checkboxes can now use commas, brackets, and backslashes in the labels and values without breaking the form.
• Donations / Payments Block: fix visual bug in Stripe connection banner.
• Embeds: ensure Facebook videos are centered properly with the Twenty Twenty theme.
• Google Analytics: support updated Google Analytics 4 properties.
• Image CDN: the CDN will now ignore attempts to specify percentages for width or height in an image tag.
• Infinite Scroll: ensure the number of posts loaded when using Infinite Scroll respects posts per page settings.
• Latest Instagram Posts Block: avoid PHP warning when no images can be retrieved from Instagram.
• Lazy Images: attempt to load all images when printing a post, and inform the user when printing if images haven't been loaded.
• Pay with PayPal Block: add default price value.
• Pay with PayPal Block: ensure currencies are displayed properly in the editor.
• Protect: fix handling of IPv6 addresses.
• Publicize: ensure that custom messages can be saved when using the Portfolio Custom Post Type.
• Publicize: ensure that tweets consisting only of whitespace aren't added to Twitter threads.
• Publicize: when generating Twitter threads, allow text to be split at line breaks where appropriate.
• Security / Contact Form: add additional checks before checking submitted forms for spam.
• Security / WordPress.com REST API: improve authentication checks when making proxied requests to a site's API endpoints.
• Slideshow Block: fix a bug that prevented the first and last images from displaying when the slideshow loops.
• Stats: no longer incorrectly report a term ID as a post ID in some rare cases.
• Videos: ensure Jetpack videos use the correct aspect ratio in both the editor and the frontend, even when used within column blocks.
• WhatsApp Block: fix issue when the text color would not be correct.