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@jeherve jeherve released this 10 Nov 11:29
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  • 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  • WordPress.com REST API: remove outdated code that allowed non-secure requests to the API, as such requests are no longer accepted.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.