Changelog

5.0

• Release date: June 6th, 2017
• Release post: http://wp.me/p1moTy-5hK

Enhancements

• Several changes to the Jetpack dashboard and notices: alignment tweaks, code refactor, text simplification, and more.
• Changes to the communication layer between your site and WordPress.com, to improve performance and allow you to do more to manage your site from WordPress.com.
• Social menu gets icons for Etsy, Meetup, 500px, and Goodreads.
• Jetpack data sync now better supports WordPress updates, themes changes, widgets, and multisite networks.
• Video is updated to be fully compatible with the upcoming Media Widget.
• Force secure WordPress.com API requests for request body, remove deprecated stats methods, and add new endpoints for post listing and user invitations.
• Jetpack’s Command Line tools can now output information about the primary Jetpack site owner. Try wp jetpack status!
• Custom CSS now supports the animation-fill-mode, fill, and stroke properties.
• Remove the “Menus” item from the WordPress.com toolbar for parity with the toolbar on WordPress.com.
• Improve the display of the Omnisearch results page on sites using an RTL language.
• Trim any white space when adding new email address in the Contact Info Widget.
• Improve the look of your recipes in search engine result pages, when you use the Recipe shortcode.

Compatibility Improvements

• Improve the connection process for end users and hosts.
• Improve compatibility of Jetpack data sync with WooCommerce and Pet Manager plugins.
• Make sure Jetpack’s SEO Tools don’t conflict with other SEO plugins that may already be active on the site, like Yoast SEO or All In One SEO Pack.

Bug Fixes

• Add a “Set Up” button when a Personal plan is purchased, but VaultPress isn’t active yet.
• When the Ads feature is active, do not display Ads in RSS feeds.
• Comments do not use Photon for Facebook and Twitter avatars and now avoid non-secure warnings when submitting comments on a HTTP site in Safari.
• Contact form emails are now sent in a way that ensures they are correctly rendered as HTML.
• Properly print the full list of modules when using the sync command in Jetpack’s Command Line Interface (CLI).
• Avoid errors when reordering a lot of Restaurant menu items at once.
• Add a mechanism to detect broken connection states and resolve them.
• Autosaves can now be restored as Markdown.
• Photon no longer conflicts with Facebook’s CDN, local images, and plugins that customize reponsive images.
• Avoid potential PHP notice in Publicize.
• Fix bad jQuery selector in Presentations shortcode.
• Avoid fatal errors for Social Links on sites running PHP 7.1.
• Properly escape button attribute in spellchecker.
• Avoid PHP notices for stats on some sites when user roles are not attributed properly.
• No longer attempt to sync options that do not exist and avoid fatal errors when de/activating plugins.
• Avoid errors when Social Menu functions have already been defined in the theme or in another plugin.
• VideoPress media items now always return their unique ID, and do not trigger any PHP notice.
• Fix style of the EU Cookie Law Widget on themes with specific positioning.
• Use correct time constant to define an hour in Upcoming Events Widget.
• Avoid HTML encoding issues in sitemaps.

4.9

• Release date: May 2nd, 2017
• Release post: http://wp.me/p1moTy-4Rl

Major Enhancements

• New “EU Cookie Law Banner”, Flickr, and “Internet Defense League” widgets.

Slightly Less Exciting Enhancements

• Success notices are automatically dismissed after a short period.
• Removed unused code from “My Jetpack” interface and deprecated an XML-RPC method.
• Contact Form now adds display names to email addresses in the To header.
• Updated multiple unit tests to increase code coverage.
• Development mode now also shows module list.
• Updated the list of locales available in Jetpack.
• Plugin auto-updates only triggered from WordPress.com and now trigger WordPress’ maintenance mode.

Performance Improvements

• Record comment content modifications and moderation events to make sure comments are always up to date on WordPress.com.
• Sync post deletions, changes to sidebar, user events (addition, removal, and update) and theme installation.
• We now distinguish between a new and an updated attachment.
• Sync plugin and theme names when a related event is triggered including theme updates.

Compatibility Improvements

• Protect avoid conflicts with other plugins hooking into the log in form.
• Contact Form not auto-activated when Ninja Forms is active.
• WordPess.com REST API now allows HTTP PUT requests.
• Ensure that Jetpack’s Image Widget is fully compatible with the Media Widget soon to be available in WordPress 4.8.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed wording in Post By Email button when no email address has been generated.
• Fixed a notice in the subscription widget in PHP 7.1
• Properly display VaultPress notices in the Jetpack dashboard.
• VideoPress now included in search results for “video” and fixed positioning of search icon on mobile screens.
• Protect supports IPv6 addresses properly.
• Dashboard avoids API requests being cached on some hosts and avoids errors when Spellchecker is inactive.
• Contact Form message content type is now set properly to restore compatibility with email plugins.
• Ads not displayed in the portfolio projects custom content type.
• Display all sites available in a network, even on large multisite installations.
• Featured Image is always used in tweets posted via Publicize.
• Avoid fatal errors when the exclusion parameter in Related Posts is not a string.
• Allow the removal of all custom title settings in the SEO feature.
• Make sure images are not distorted when Tiled Galleries uses Photon.
• Avoid PHP warnings and errors in the Stats dashboard on Multisite.
• Avoid errors when the Jetpack plugin is deleted.