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- WordPress.com REST API: remove outdated code that allowed non-secure requests to the API, as such requests are no longer accepted.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.