Jetpack 10.3 has been deployed to all VIP sites.
What is being added or changed?
Enhancements
- Dashboard: add a new screen to provide more information about the VideoPress feature.
- Dashboard: add a new view that shortly summarizes available Jetpack products and facilitates the purchase process.
- Dashboard: optimize the size of all product images displayed in the dashboard, to improve overall performance.
- Instagram Widget: improve the connection flow when the widget has not been connected to WordPress.com yet.
- Instant Search: always show the save button on the mobile view of the Search Settings dashboard.
- Map Block: Add address attribute to the block.
- Publicize editor settings: refactor, improve layout and wording in preparation for the addition of RePublicize.
- Secure Sign On: add new filter allowing one to customize the explanation displayed next to the SSO button.
- Social Icons Widget: Added Strava icon to Social Icons Widget.
- Stats: add information about the VideoPress feature at the bottom of the page.
- Stats: remove some upgrade notifications.
- VideoPress: add tooltips to video block settings in the block editor.
- VideoPress: improve the display of upload errors in the Media Library and the block editor.
- VideoPress: remove X-18 rating from the block settings.
- WordAds: update handling and setting CCPA related cookies.
Improved compatibility
- Contact Info & Map widget: allow transforming this widget into a block in Block-based widget editor.
- General: ensure that no notices are output when Jetpack is used alongside plugins that modify the output of core comments.
- Jetpack Backup: improve the display of the different plugin menus when using both Jetpack and Jetpack Backup.
- Subscriptions: add an option to transform the Legacy Subscription Widget into a Subscription Block in the new block-based Widget editor.
- Social Icons Widget: deprecate widget and offer the option to transform into a Social Links block.
- VideoPress: improve handling of Video files when using a third-party video player.
Bug fixes
- Calendly block: fix the preview in the block inserter.
- Dashboard: ensure feature cards display the right information when the site uses Jetpack’s Offline mode.
- Dashboard: fix the display of currencies to be based on user WordPress.com preferences.
- Eventbrite Block: improve the event URL detection and avoid errors when using links without an event ID.
- External Media block options: fix a bug where the external media modal collapsed on larger screens and did not leave enough whitespace.
- General: avoid PHP notices that may happen when installing the plugin.
- Instant Search: fix the display of filters when there are no results to display for a query.
- Instant Search: fix the preview of the infinite scroll option in the Search Settings dashboard.
- Instant Search: reduce browser history noise as search is being typed in the form.
- Markdown: add title attributes to footnotes to improve accessibility.
- Publicize: fix visual issue when the panel shows in the pre publish step of the post.
- Publicize: refresh connections only when the post publishes.
- Stats: remove extra request to WordPress.com that occurs when the stats feature is first activated.
- VideoPress: add a “cover” option to the VideoPress iframe and shortcode to handle video resizing to its container.
- Widgets: fix styles of the Milestone widget fields.
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.
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