Jetpack 9.2
- Release date: December 1, 2020
- Release post: p1moTy-scn-p2
Enhancements
- Connection Flow: clarify error message when the options table is not writable.
- Contact Form Block: display fallback link when the block is rendered in non-WordPress contexts, such as subscription emails.
- Contact Form Block: display the correct default email address and subject in the form block settings.
- Dashboard: clarify language around support options.
- Instagram Embeds: add support for embed parameters supported by Instagram.
- Payments Block: move unreadable notice to the sidebar.
- Pinterest Block: ensure that Pinterest embeds are displayed nicely in non-WordPress contexts, such as subscription emails.
- Podcast Block: display fallback link when the block is rendered in non-WordPress contexts, such as RSS feeds.
- Search: improve URL formatting for the expanded search layout.
- Sharing: ensure the first suitable image found in a post is always the one used in Open Graph Image meta tags.
- Site Health Tools: update description of Synchronization issues for better usability.
- Slideshow Block: ensure that slideshows are displayed nicely in subscription emails.
- Status: improve detection of staging servers.
- Story Block: improve display of the block.
- Synchronization: improve synchronization of comment status, taxononmies, and terms between your site and WordPress.com.
- Tiled Gallery Block: improve rendering when the block is rendered in non-WordPress contexts, such as subscription emails.
- WhatsApp button Block: improve text alignment on mobile devices.
- WordPress.com Toolbar: include admin color in user's REST API output.
Improved compatibility
- Autoloader: support Composer 2.0.7.
- General: continued work towards ensuring that Jetpack is fully compatible with the upcoming version of PHP, PHP 8.
- General: ensure Jetpack's full compatibility with the upcoming WordPress 5.6 release.
- General: update Jetpack's minimum required WordPress version to 5.5, in anticipation of the upcoming WordPress 5.6 release.
- Sharing: disable Open Graph Meta tags added by the Web Stories plugin when Jetpack's tags are active.
- Stats: support Web Stories plugin.
- Synchronization: ensure better synchronization of post meta data (used by Publicize, Subscriptions, Search) in WordPress 5.6.
Bug fixes
- Connection: handle XMLRPC requests when SERVER_PORT is not defined.
- External Media: fix a conflict with CoBlock's image replace feature.
- Dashboard: fix incorrect links to Jetpack credentials form.
- Google Analytics: ensure compatibility with Google Analytics 4 (GA4).
- Sitemaps: ensure that the Home URL is slashed on subdirectory websites.
- Social Icons widget: display only one icon when a URL matches both a domain and the feed URL match.
- Sync: avoid trying to sync when something else disabled syncing a request.
- Whatsapp Button Block: fix Guyana country code metadata.
- WordPress.com REST API: restore post comments when untrashing a post, such as via the mobile apps.