Jetpack 10.2 has been deployed to all VIP sites.

What is being added or changed?

ENHANCEMENTS

• Contact Form: add filter to allow customizing email headers.
• Contact Form: add two filters to improve anti-spam functionality.
• Related Posts: enable lazy loading for images.
• Search: improve filter label formatting for longer text entries.
• Search: title customization improvements.
• SEO Tools: add “Archive Title” option for custom archive page titles.
• SmartFrame Embeds: add support for SmartFrame embed using URLs, embed code, and shortcodes.
• VideoPress: add new VideoPress product and enables VideoPress to be used for free for 1 video upload.
• Widgets: add visibility settings to widgets using the block editor, under the advanced section of the sidebar.

IMPROVED COMPATIBILITY

• External Media: update verbiage around Google Photos to improve compatibility with their UX guidelines.
• Instagram Widget: remove from Legacy Widget block.
• Publicize: replace native text-area with custom/core-based component.
• Search: as IE11 support was removed in Jetpack 10.1, remove an IE11 polyfill.
• VideoPress: file url field now displays the HLS playlist if one was generated. The fragmented mp4 file is not meant to be played on its own. MP4 file will only be displayed as the video url if it was created prior to the HLS update.

BUG FIXES

• Contact Form: make sure the set height of the Spacer block nested inside a Contact Form block is respected.
• Custom Content Type: improve the performance of the Testimonial CPT.
• Dashboard: improve the performance of the query used to display Anti-spam stats.
• Embeds: add allow-popups permission to Google Calendar embed so that links internal to the iFrame will open.
• Publicize: ensure the custom excerpt is used when sharing to Facebook.
• Publicize: improve refreshing connections list.
• Related Posts: avoid errors if main div is not in the DOM.
• Search: ensure Safari input clear button is hidden.
• Search: ensure translations are available for lazy-loaded payloads.
• Search: fix dashboard buttons too big on Safari.
• Sharing: fix the icon position in icon-only button style.
• Shortcodes: remove Hulu from available embeds.
• Slideshow: fix fade transition background.
• Theme Tools: remove unnecessary extra Social Menu added in the Twenty Twenty theme.
• VideoPress: fix a bug related to deleting VideoPress videos.
• Widgets: fix a conflict between various Jetpack blocks and some WordPress core legacy widgets.

For more details about this release (including specific changes), please see the release notes.

Questions?

If you have any questions, related to this release, please open a support ticket and we will be happy to assist.

The beta for Jetpack 10.2 is available now, and the download link is at the top of the beta release notice.

Jetpack 10.2 will be deployed to VIP Go on Thursday, October 7, 2021. The upgrade is expected to be performed at 15:00 UTC (11:00am EDT). This deployment date and time is subject to change if issues are discovered during testing of the Jetpack release.

What is being added or changed?

Widget Visibility

Widget visibility controls have been added for blocks when using the block-based widget editor. To test:

• In Jetpack writing settings /wp-admin/admin.php?page=jetpack#/writing, make sure the Enable widget visibility controls to display widgets only on particular posts or pages setting under “Widgets” is enabled.
• Then access the block-based widget editor, /wp-admin/widgets.php.
• Add any block widget, a Paragraph block will work for example.
• With that block selected, navigate to the block settings panel and open the Advanced options.
• Under Visibility, try adding new visibility rules.
• Visit the frontend of the site to verify your rules are working.

VideoPress

VideoPress is being added as a standalone Jetpack product. This is best tested on a Jetpack connected site without a paid Jetpack plan:

• The VideoPress module can now be activated from the Modules page (even for sites without a paid plan): /wp-admin/admin.php?page=jetpack_modules
• Once VideoPress is activated, on the Jetpack dashboard /wp-admin/admin.php?page=jetpack#/dashboard you will see a VideoPress card that will mention the status such as 1 free video available. Upgrade now to unlock more videos and 1TB of storage. You can toggle the VideoPress module on/off from this card.
• If VideoPress is enabled on a site without a paid Jetpack plan, you are able to upload one free video to VideoPress.
• For uploading videos to VideoPress there are two methods:
  1. From WordPress.com, go to My Site(s) → Media. Drag the video file from your computer into the media library, or click Add New and select the video file from your computer.
  2. From the WP Admin dashboard, go to Media → Library and drag the video file from your computer into the media library. Note: Clicking Media → Add New and selecting the video file in WP Admin will not upload the video to Jetpack. In order to upload video, make sure the grid view (Grid View) in media library is selected, and then you can drag the file into the WP Admin media library, or you can click Add New. Clicking Add New in the list view (List View) in media library will not upload the video to Jetpack.

Contact Form Custom Email Headers

There is a new filter available for customizing the email headers for Jetpack contact forms. For testing, try:

• Add a new Jetpack contact form to a test page.
• Add the following snippet to your site using a functionality plugin:

add_filter(
	'jetpack_contact_form_email_headers',
	function ( $headers, $comment_author, $reply_to_addr, $to ) {
		$headers .= 'Bcc: ' . $reply_to_addr . "\r\n";
		return $headers;
	},
	10,
	4
);

• Make a test submission to the form you created.
• An email should be sent to the email address specified in the added snippet.
• Warning: DO NOT add headers or header data from the form submission without proper escaping and validation, or you’re liable to allow abusers to use your site to send spam. Especially DO NOT take email addresses from the form data to add as CC or BCC headers without strictly validating each address against a list of allowed addresses.

SEO Tools Archive Title

For custom Archive page titles a new Archive Title option replaces the Date option. To test:

• At /wp-admin/admin.php?page=jetpack#/traffic make sure Customize your SEO settings is enabled.
• Click on Expand to customize the page title structures of your site.
• For Archives use the buttons to insert each token presented (Site Title, Tagline, and Archive Title).
• The live preview should show “Example Archive Title/Date” for the inserted Archive Title
• Save the SEO settings.
• Check a custom post type archive page. For example you can enable Jetpack’s custom Portfolio type, then view that archive at example.com/portfolio/. In the <title> you should see “Projects” replacing the Archive Title" inserted via button.
• Check a date archive (e.g. example.com/2019/09). You should see the appropriate date replacing the Archive Title inserted via button.

A full list of changes is available in the release notes and the commit log.

What do I need to do?

We recommend:

1. Installing the beta release on your non-production sites using these instructions.
2. Running through the testing flows outlined in the Jetpack Testing Guide.

As you’re testing a few things to keep in mind:

• Check your browser’s JavaScript console and see if there are any errors reported by Jetpack there.
• Use “Debug Bar” or “Query Monitor” to help make PHP notices and warnings more noticeable and report anything you see.

Questions?

If you have testing feedback or questions related to this release (or Jetpack in general), please open a support ticket and we will be happy to assist.

Jetpack 10.1 has been deployed to all VIP sites.

What is being added or changed?

Enhancements

• Carousel: photo info and comment sections stay open once toggled on.
• Carousel: show image info icon even if Exif metadata option is off.
• Carousel: use photo description as caption if caption and title fields are blank.
• Form Block: scroll to subscription message after submitting the form.
• Secure Sign On: remove additional redirect during sign in process.
• Shortcodes: allow wrapping quizzes together with the Quiz shortcode.
• Spotify Shortcode: add lazy loading support.
• Stats: add the ability to collapse the nudges UI.
• Tiled Gallery Block: ensure it can be used when in Offline Mode.
• Widget Visibility: rename taxonomy label “All Pages” in dropdown.

Improved compatibility

• Browser Compatibility: allow use of new JavaScript features not supported by Internet Explorer 11.
• Mailchimp Block: updates terminology to use “Audience” instead of “Lists”.
• Related Posts: allow shortcodes in Related Posts titles.

Bug fixes

• Blocks: fix HTML markup of buttons added to blocks.
• Carousel: fix a bug that changes the cursor to a pointer over all nested blocks.
• Carousel: fix bug preventing user from swiping in gallery when images are configured to link to Attachment Page.
• Carousel: hide UI controls in the carousel for single images.
• Contact Form: disable the Block Editor for contact form submissions.
• Custom CSS: ensure that short CSS is added inline instead of via an external file.
• Dashboard: add a new message to the backup card if the site is too new to have an accurate status.
• Facebook Page Widget: fix a bug that prevented widget from being added in the wp-admin widget editor.
• Form Block: fix form button alignment in editor.
• Slideshow Block: fix intermittent issue where next/prev buttons sometimes don’t respond to clicks.
• Social Icons: fix being unable to remove icons from widget.
• Social Icons Widget: fix issue in wp-admin widget editor where icons don’t save on refresh.
• Stats: allow better translations of page view counts in the Stats widget.
• Video Block: fix resizing so that video block doesn’t display black bars on the sides.

For more details about this release (including specific changes), please see the release notes.

Questions?

If you have any questions, related to this release, please open a support ticket and we will be happy to assist.