Jetpack 13.9-beta

13.9-beta - 2024-09-30

Major Enhancements

• Jetpack plugin: Remove the 'WordPress.com Toolbar' module. [#39406]

Enhancements

• Blocks: Transition from an option to a module to improve caching. [#39449]
• My Jetpack: Visual update to the GlobalNotice component for better mobile presentation. [#39537]
• Performance: Set the concatenated CSS to off by default. The era where this was helpful is passing. [#39486]

Improved compatibility

• Dashboard: Disable portfolio toggle if theme supports portfolio for specific environments. [#39508]

Bug fixes

• Shortcode: Fix the YouTube URL for the /embed type. [#39502]
• Subscriptions: Fix added slashes in the Follow Blog widget. [#39433]

Other changes

• Blocks: Fix 'Division by zero' fatal error in the Story block. [#39577]
• Dashboard: Add icons for all product cards. [#39513]
• Dashboard: Clean and deprecate unused functionality on Jetpack admin pages. [#39547]
• Dashboard: Remove deprecated IDC flag from admin pages. [#39531]
• Dashboard: Remove user connection nudges where they aren't needed. Add user connection nudges where needed. [#39533]
• General: Added test instructions for Jetpack 13.9. [#39481]
• Infinite scroll: Remove unused code. [#39570]
• Jetpack AI: Add the beta flag to support styles dropdown on the logo generator. [#39510]
• Jetpack AI: Pass prop/flag to showStyleSelector on the logo generator modal. [#39530]
• Jetpack AI: Show button label on logo block toolbar if site's logo is empty. [#39550]
• Jetpack WAF: Removed deprecation notice as the firewall feature will not be removed in the next release. [#39568]
• Social: Remove excessive hook from social logos and genericons. [#39564]
• Stats: Remove user connection nudge from Stats module on the dashboard. [#39496]
• Title Optimization: improve button behaviors when handling errors. [#39554]
• Write Brief: Turn spelling mistakes and long sentences on by default when the tool is enabled. [#39495]

Jetpack 13.9-a.7

13.9-a.7 - 2024-09-23

Enhancements

• Jetpack AI: Add AI SEO title optimization. [#39363]

Bug fixes

• Shortcode: Fix the YouTube URL for the private videos. [#39454]
• Social: Fix social previews button sometimes not fitting all the text. [#39430]
• Blocks: Prevent Memberships blocks from being registered when the site is not connected to Jetpack. [#39390]

Other changes

• Blocks: Get active element or selection from target element's document instead of the global document. [#39364]
• Build: Do not ship TypeScript files in the production version of Jetpack. [#39428]
• Connection: Move features enabled rest endpoint into the Jetpack plugin. [#39475]
• Email preview: Fix disabling pointer events preventing scroll in Firefox. [#39457]
• General: Create the 'features/available' REST endpoint. [#39442]
• General: Send non-connected users to a "connect after checkout" flow. [#39444]
• General: Use React properties rather than pass-throughs (e.g. className rather than class). [#39414]
• Jetpack AI: Point upgrade links and buttons to checkout instead of product interstitial. [#39469]
• Jetpack AI: Remove style parameter from image generation requests until we mean it. [#39494]
• Jetpack AI: Use custom placeholders on the Jetpack Form AI extension input component. [#39482]
• Removed launchpad-save-modal. [#39429]
• REST API: Added social share status endpoint for WPCOM. [#39490]
• SubscribeBlock: Fix white-space issues. [#39478]
• Subscription widget: Fix PHP warnings. [#39458]
• WP.com: Ensure portfolios are enabled and working properly on themes that support portfolios. [#39431]

Jetpack 13.9-a.5

13.9-a.5 - 2024-09-16

Enhancements

• Jetpack Stats: Do not check for capabilities if the user is not signed in when deciding whether to show the admin bar widget. [#39402]
• SSO: Remove legacy codebase in favor of the newer SSO codebase introduced in Jetpack 13.5. [#39327]

Bug fixes

• Dashboard: Display the yearly Stats plan in the Jetpack dashboard immediately after you've purchased the plan. [#39326]
• Help Center: Fix the icon color when previewing color scheme. [#39371]
• Shortcode: Fix the YouTube URL embedding failure due to the trailing question mark of the ID. [#39309]

Other changes

• A4A: Add is_a4a_dev_site to jetpack_response_field_additions. [#39373]
• Content Options: Ensure the feature is loaded via the Classic Theme Helper package instead of Jetpack module. [#39210]
• Custom Content Types: Require feature along with portfolios from the Classic Theme Helper package. [#39268]
• Jetpack AI: Fix checkout URL redirect to the right yearly product. [#39323]
• Jetpack AI: Remove ai-image and ai-paragraph block code since they are not used and never made it to an actual functional block. [#39304]
• Launchpad: Support Launchpad experiment. [#39237]
• General: Move leading and trailing spaces out of i18n messages. Use en-dash for numeric ranges in i18n messages. [#39305]
• SEO: Open SEO upsell post in help center. [#39339]
• Social: Cleaned up media auto-conversion backend logic. [#38587]
• Social: Migrated useAdminUiV1 feature flag to new script data. [#39137]
• Styles: Update styling for external links. [#39337]
• Terms of Service: optimize initialization. [#39286]
• Title Optimization: Handle enter/return key to trigger a generation when they are pressed. [#39399]
• Title Optimization: Properly handle errors and show the correct UI for each. [#39340]
• Updated package dependencies. [#39332]

Jetpack 13.8.1

13.8.1 - 2024-09-10

Bug Fixes

• Contact Form: Prevent unexpected payload contents from causing fatal errors. [#39271]
• General: Silence noisy warnings. [#39270] [#39272]
• Jetpack AI: Update default_content filter to not enforce the second parameter type to prevent fatal errors. [#39276]
• REST API: Fix missing requirement in admin-menu endpoint which could lead to a broken admin menu. [#39256]
• Web Application Firewall: Prevent incorrect parsing of unsupported HTTP content types. [#39262]

Jetpack 13.9-a.3

13.9-a.3 - 2024-09-10

Bug fixes

• WooCommerce Analytics: Check whether a constant is defined before attempting to use it, for compatibility with WooCommerce <8.4.0. [#39306]

Other changes

• Premium Content: Remove checks for deprecated function. [#39319]
• Updated package dependencies. [#39302]

Jetpack 13.9-a.1

13.9-a.1 - 2024-09-09

Bug fixes

• AI Assistant: Remove autofocus on extended blocks while previewing. [#39216]
• Ai Assistant: Do not show Jetpack AI excerpt UI outside of correct context. [#39248]
• AI Assistant: Fix Write Brief highlight position on spelling mistake following ignored special word. [#39282]
• AI Content Lens: Fix the feature of the AI Content Lens is gone. [#39292]
• Hosting Configuration: Make the menu title under the settings the same as the destination. [#39183]
• Jetpack REST API: Fix missing requirement in admin-menu endpoint. [#39256]
• Sidebar: Show correct product name for "VaultPress Backup". [#39203]

Other changes

• AI Assistant: Optimize repeated requests for unavailable WPCOM. [#39218]
• AI Assistant: Remove dead code from transformative extensions. [#39245]
• AI Assistant: Update empty help text for Write Brief. [#39204]
• Akismet/Anti-spam: Always use Akismet logo in plugin header. [#39047]
• Custom CSS: Remove outdated link from admin menu. [#39169]
• Dashboard: Only display the Jetpack menu for contributor roles and above. [#39081]
• Dashboard: Enable Users -> Profile on all sites. [#39181]
• Deprecated Jetpack Onboarding system. [#39229]
• Dashboard: Make dashboard gracefully fail when user data fetch failed. [#39179]
• Jetpack sync: Gutenberg footnotes meta. [#38878]
• General: Replace error triggering with thrown exceptions for PHP 8.4 compatibility. [#39187]
• General: Updated connection js to load its bundle via connection package. [#38877]
• Newsletters: UI changes to a not yet released feature. [#39079]
• Site Settings API: Include is_fully_managed_agency_site site option in the response, and allow for its modification. [#39223]
• Social: Added a way to reshare in an asynchronous way. [#39227]
• Stats: Fix the 'invalid date' error on new site stats. [#39284]
• Subscriptions: Fix Subscribe Modal spacing. [#39199]
• Subscriptions: Hook the Subscribe block only after single post content. [#39188]
• Subscriptions: Make Subscription overlay dismiss cookie a session cookie. [#39097]
• Updated package dependencies. [#39176] [#39278] [#39288]
• Updated to not check for onboarding option from the frontend. [#39246]

Jetpack 13.8

13.8 - 2024-09-04

Major Enhancements

• Custom CSS: Remove feature in favor of WordPress core implementation. [#38865]
• Embeds: Remove YouTube and Vimeo embeds in favor of WordPress core implementation. [#39096]
• WordPress.com Toolbar: The feature has been removed. [#38804]

Enhancements

• Admin Menu: Update order of Jetpack sub-menu items. [#39095]
• AI Assistant: Add spelling mistakes check for English language. [#39174]
• Newsletters: Add the plugin icon to the Block Editor header, with a dedicated sidebar with an email preview feature. [#39039]
• Social: Display Fediverse creator meta tag when a post has an active Mastodon connection. [#38809]

Improved compatibility

• Sharing Block: Improve performance when hooking the block into single post templates. [#38727]
• Tiled Galleries: Defer loading of the Tiled Gallery script for improved performance. [#38928]

Bug fixes

• AI Assistant: Disable Write Brief for free plan users when AI Assistant block is disabled. [#38743]
• AMP: Avoid fatal errors when using Jetpack's classic slideshows on a site where Jetpack blocks are disabled. [#38744]
• Blocks: Ensure the stylesheets for Contact Info and Payment Button blocks are loaded correctly. [#39018] [#39018]
• Blocks: Fix the editor freeze after inserting a pattern with the Donations block. [#38961]
• Mailchimp Block: Do not attempt to fetch groups when a site is not connected to Mailchimp yet. [#38901]
• REST API: Avoid PHP warnings in the comment endpoint when the parent comment does not exist. [#39102]
• Social Icons Widget: Ensure the social network icons display correctly. [#38965] [#38966]
• Subscriptions: Prevent the subscribe modal from automatically turning on when discussion settings are saved. [#38805]

13.8-beta2: Update plugin dependencies

13.8-beta2 - 2024-09-03

Bug fixes

• Fix a fatal error in the image-cdn package. [#39208]

Jetpack 13.8-beta

13.8-beta - 2024-09-02

Major Enhancements

• Custom CSS: Remove feature in favor of WordPress core implementation. [#38865]
• Embeds: Remove YouTube and Vimeo embeds in favor of WordPress core implementation. [#39096]

Enhancements

• Admin Menu: Update order of Jetpack sub-menu items. [#39095]
• AI Assistant: Add spelling mistakes check for English language. [#39174]

Bug fixes

• Mailchimp Block: Do not attempt to fetch groups when a site is not connected to Mailchimp yet. [#38901]
• REST API: Avoid PHP warnings in the comment endpoint when the parent comment does not exist. [#39102]

Jetpack 13.8-a.7

13.8-a.7 - 2024-08-26

Enhancements

• Newsletters: Adds Gutenberg plugin icon to the header, with a plugin sidebar with email preview feature. [#39039]

Bug fixes

• Blocks: Ensure that the Contact Info stylesheet is properly loaded. [#39018]
• Blocks: Fix the editor freeze after inserting a pattern with the Donations block. [#38961]
• Blocks: Ensure that the Payment Button stylesheet is properly loaded. [#39018]