Jetpack 10.8-a.1

10.8-a.1 - 2022-03-02

Enhancements

• Payment Blocks: add a unified introduction to payment blocks to make it easier to select the correct one.
• Payment Blocks: add more keywords to payments blocks so they're easier to find.
• Subscribe Block: add pre/post-publish notices.
• Subscribe Block: block setting updates including name change, display of current subscribers, and a new style option.
• Tiled Gallery: add background color block setting.
• Various Blocks: update Contact Info, Markdown, and Tiled Gallery blocks to include margin design tools.

Other changes

• E2E: add tests for clicking link to open overlay.
• E2E: restore plugin update test.
• WAF: include the dependency of the WAF package in the plugin zip.
• Moved site benefits request out of PHP to React, and guard against no connected plugins.
• My Jetpack: do not add My Jetpack action link to plugins page.
• Search E2E: support block themes.
• Sync: changes added to wpcom to Jetpack.
• Sync: integration tests optimization.
• Updated package dependencies.
• WoA: add missing plugins sidebar menu for Atomic site with unsupported plan.

Jetpack 10.7

Enhancements

• Add an AMP-compatible version of the email share button.
• Add transformation from core/buttons to jetpack/recurring-payments block (requires gutenberg >= 11.5.0).
• Blocks: add alignment block option for Form, Mailchimp, Podcast Player, Related Posts, and Repeat Visitor blocks.
• Blocks: add support for color and spacing block options for Form, Mailchimp, Podcast Player, and Related Posts blocks.
• Business Hours: Add support for color & spacing design tool.
• Changed the plan description for invalid plans and added a Warning message for Premium content blocks with invalid plans.
• Dashboard: improve performance of plugins page.
• Dashboard: the Backup banner CTA on the At-a-Glance page will now be replaced with a "Redeem Coupon" CTA when a partner coupon is detected.
• Dashboard: updated the logic for "Activate a Product" button in "My Plan" to be always visible.
• Dashboard: update the Free plan description to consider the currently active products.
• Dashboard: update the links used to purchase plans when in Jetpack settings.
• Payment Block: updated the Payment block Upgrade nudge description to include the plan name that's required to use the block.
• Premium Content Block: remove option to transform a premium content block to a premium content block.
• Premium Content Block: use 'Guest' rather than visitor/Logged-out.
• Subscribe block: various changes, including a name change, how the display for current subscribers is shown, and new styling options and enhancements.

Improved compatibility

• Image CDN: ensure that SVG images added to posts thanks to the SVG Support plugin can be displayed even when Jetpack's Image CDN is active.
• Internet Defense League widget: Widget deprecation.
• My Community widget: Hide widget from the block inserter and Legacy widget block drop-down menu
• Performance: improve performance of Jetpack dashboard for sites without VideoPress enabled.
• Search: Add deprecated class to prevent third-party integrations from failing after 10.6 updates.
• VideoPress: Added title and aria-label to VideoPress iframe embeds for better screen reader support.
• WordAds: deprecate the legacy Ad Widget in favor of the Ad Block when adding new Ad Widgets via the block-based widget editor.

Bug fixes

• Block Editor: cast selectedPlanId to boolean to remove a "0" character after block upgrade nudge.
• Blocks: cron requests are now considered frontend requests, so blocks will no longer be rendered as fallbacks on those.
• Contact Form: ensure form validation uses the correct variable types.
• Dashboard: fix broken image in plan loading placeholder in "My Plan"
• Dashboard: show Jetpack stats Screen Options label properly.
• Fixed several React warnings shown on the console when SCRIPT_DEBUG is active
• Form Block: custom CSS classes added to the block are now applied on the frontend.
• Media Buttons: Fix issue where external medial modal cannot be closed.
• Publicize: fixed bugs when using Publicize with the Classic Editor.
• Search: avoid PHP warning when using Search widget.
• Search: Make debug bar more reliable.
• SSO: fix a bug with SSO not cleaning up wpcom_user_id.
• Subscribe block: address front-end rendering issues.
• Tiled Gallery Block: Fix performance issue affecting page views that use the Tiled Gallery.
• Unroll Twitter Threads: ensure that only contributors can access the endpoint to unroll threads.
• Widget Visibility: ensure role and logged in features are available.
• Widget Visibility: update to match new user query parameter introduced in WordPress 5.9.

Jetpack 10.7 Beta 2

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Jetpack 10.7 Beta

10.7-beta - 2022-02-22

Enhancements

• Add an AMP-compatible version of the email share button.
• Add transformation from core/buttons to jetpack/recurring-payments block (requires gutenberg >= 11.5.0).
• Blocks: add alignment block option for Form, Mailchimp, Podcast Player, Related Posts, and Repeat Visitor blocks.
• Blocks: add support for color and spacing block options for Form, Mailchimp, Podcast Player, and Related Posts blocks.
• Business Hours: Add support for color & spacing design tool.
• Changed the plan description for invalid plans and added a Warning message for Premium content blocks with invalid plans.
• Dashboard: improve performance of plugins page.
• Dashboard: the Backup banner CTA on the At-a-Glance page will now be replaced with a "Redeem Coupon" CTA when a partner coupon is detected.
• Dashboard: updated the logic for "Activate a Product" button in "My Plan" to be always visible.
• Dashboard: update the Free plan description to consider the currently active products.
• Dashboard: update the links used to purchase plans when in Jetpack settings.
• Payment Block: updated the Payment block Upgrade nudge description to include the plan name that's required to use the block.
• Premium Content Block: remove option to transform a premium content block to a premium content block.
• Premium Content Block: use 'Guest' rather than visitor/Logged-out.
• Subscribe block: various changes, including a name change, how the display for current subscribers is shown, and new styling options and enhancements.

Improved compatibility

• Image CDN: ensure that SVG images added to posts thanks to the SVG Support plugin can be displayed even when Jetpack's Image CDN is active.
• Internet Defense League widget: Widget deprecation.
• My Community widget: Hide widget from the block inserter and Legacy widget block drop-down menu
• Performance: improve performance of Jetpack dashboard for sites without VideoPress enabled.
• Search: Add deprecated class to prevent third-party integrations from failing after 10.6 updates.
• VideoPress: Added title and aria-label to VideoPress iframe embeds for better screen reader support.
• WordAds: deprecate the legacy Ad Widget in favor of the Ad Block when adding new Ad Widgets via the block-based widget editor.

Bug fixes

• Block Editor: cast selectedPlanId to boolean to remove a "0" character after block upgrade nudge.
• Blocks: cron requests are now considered frontend requests, so blocks will no longer be rendered as fallbacks on those.
• Contact Form: ensure form validation uses the correct variable types.
• Dashboard: fix broken image in plan loading placeholder in "My Plan"
• Dashboard: show Jetpack stats Screen Options label properly.
• Fixed several React warnings shown on the console when SCRIPT_DEBUG is active
• Form Block: custom CSS classes added to the block are now applied on the frontend.
• Media Buttons: Fix issue where external medial modal cannot be closed.
• Search: avoid PHP warning when using Search widget.
• Search: Make debug bar more reliable.
• SSO: fix a bug with SSO not cleaning up wpcom_user_id.
• Subscribe block: address front-end rendering issues.
• Tiled Gallery Block: Fix performance issue affecting page views that use the Tiled Gallery.
• Unroll Twitter Threads: ensure that only contributors can access the endpoint to unroll threads.
• Widget Visibility: ensure role and logged in features are available.
• Widget Visibility: update to match new user query parameter introduced in WordPress 5.9.

Jetpack 10.7-a.5

Enhancements

• Blocks: add support for color and spacing block options for Form, Mailchimp, Podcast Player, and Related Posts blocks.
• Blocks: add alignment block option for Form, Mailchimp, Podcast Player, Related Posts, and Repeat Visitor blocks.
• Dashboard: update the Free plan description to consider the currently active products.

Improved compatibility

• Image CDN: ensure that SVG images added to posts thanks to the SVG Support plugin can be displayed even when Jetpack's Image CDN is active.
• Search: Add deprecated class to prevent third-party integrations from failing after 10.6 updates.

Bug fixes

• Blocks: cron requests are now considered frontend requests, so blocks will no longer be rendered as fallbacks on those.
• Form Block: custom CSS classes added to the block are now applied on the frontend.
• Media Buttons: Fix issue where external medial modal cannot be closed.
• Search: Make debug bar more reliable.
• SSO: fix a bug with SSO not cleaning up wpcom_user_id.

Jetpack 10.6.1

Search: Add deprecated class to prevent third-party integrations from failing after 10.6 updates.

Jetpack 10.7-a.3

Enhancements

• Dashboard: the Backup banner CTA on the At-a-Glance page will now be replaced with a "Redeem Coupon" CTA when a partner coupon is detected.
• Dashboard: updated the logic for "Activate a Product" button in "My Plan" to be always visible.
• Payment Block: updated the Payment block Upgrade nudge description to include the plan name that's required to use the block.
• Premium Content Block: remove option to transform a premium content block to a premium content block.
• Premium Content Block: use 'Guest' rather than visitor/Logged-out.

Improved compatibility

• Internet Defense League widget: Widget deprecation.
• VideoPress: Added title and aria-label to VideoPress iframe embeds for better screen reader support.
• WordAds: deprecate the legacy Ad Widget in favor of the Ad Block when adding new Ad Widgets via the block-based widget editor.

Bug fixes

• Block Editor: cast selectedPlanId to boolean to remove a "0" character after block upgrade nudge.
• Contact Form: ensure form validation uses the correct variable types.
• Dashboard: fix broken image in plan loading placeholder in "My Plan"
• Tiled Gallery Block: Fix performance issue affecting page views that use the Tiled Gallery.
• Unroll Twitter Threads: ensure that only contributors can access the endpoint to unroll threads.
• Widget Visibility: update to match new user query parameter introduced in WordPress 5.9.

Jetpack 10.7-a.1

Enhancements

• Add an AMP-compatible version of the email share button.
• Add transformation from core/buttons to jetpack/recurring-payments block (requires gutenberg >= 11.5.0).
• Business Hours: Add support for color & spacing design tool.
• Changed the plan description for invalid plans and added a Warning message for Premium content blocks with invalid plans.
• Dashboard: update the links used to purchase plans when in Jetpack settings.

Improved compatibility

• My Community widget: Hide widget from the block inserter and Legacy widget block drop-down menu

Bug fixes

• Fixed several React warnings shown on the console when SCRIPT_DEBUG is active
• Search: avoid PHP warning when using Search widget.
• Widget Visibility: ensure role and logged in features are available.

Jetpack 10.6

Enhancements

• Contact Info and Markdown Blocks: add color, typography and spacing features.
• Dashboard: support Beta versions of Automattic plugins in plugin cards.
• Search: improve accessibility via headings hierarchy and aria roles.
• Tiled Gallery Block: improve the block so it can be used within the mobile applications.

Improved compatibility

• Instant Search: synchronize more meta data so the search feature can be used with more third-party plugins.
• Sharing / AMP plugin: avoid adding sharing's CSS on AMP pages when the sharing feature is not active.

Bug fixes

• Backups: hide backup preparation message for sites without backup.
• Connection: correctly request list of active features so they can be activated on a reconnection.
• Pay with Paypal Block: properly display the card icons below the button.
• Scan: avoid PHP notice when non-admin users access the dashboard.
• Search: Initialize debug bar using correct class
• Widget Visibility: ensure it remains possible to edit visibility for legacy widgets in the block-based widget editor.

Other changes

• Add a comment to explain the reasoning behind an empty scss file.
• Change usage of filter_var to filter_input in markdown file.
• Comment: phpcs linting cleanup.
• Cover block: avoid the block's placeholder rendering on top of other blocks.
• Dashboard: update CTAs (wording, layout) in the At A Glance section.
• Fixed development mode prop type warning in UserLicenseActivationNotice component.
• Fix PHPCS sniffs in root classes.
• PHPCS fixes for site verification tools.
• phpcs fixes for the markdown module
• Search: add E2E tests for Customberg
• Search: added E2E tests for the search dashboard
• Updated package dependencies.
• Use new Visitor class for determining IP address.

Jetpack 10.6 Beta

Enhancements

• Dashboard: support Beta versions of Automattic plugins in plugin cards.
• Contact Info and Markdown Blocks: add color, typography and spacing features.
• Tiled Gallery Block: improve the block so it can be used within the mobile applications.
• Search: improve accessibility via headings hierarchy and aria roles.

Improved compatibility

• Sharing / AMP plugin: avoid adding sharing's CSS on AMP pages when the sharing feature is not active.
• Instant Search: synchronize more meta data so the search feature can be used with more third-party plugins.

Bug fixes

• Backups: hide backup preparation message for sites without backup.
• Connection: correctly request list of active features so they can be activated on a reconnection.
• Pay with Paypal Block: properly display the card icons below the button.
• Scan: avoid PHP notice when non-admin users access the dashboard.
• Widget Visibility: ensure it remains possible to edit visibility for legacy widgets in the block-based widget editor.

Other changes

• Add a comment to explain the reasoning behind an empty scss file.
• Comment: phpcs linting cleanup.
• Cover block: avoid the block's placeholder rendering on top of other blocks.
• Dashboard: update CTAs (wording, layout) in the At A Glance section.
• Fixed development mode prop type warning in UserLicenseActivationNotice component.
• Fix PHPCS sniffs in root classes.
• PHPCS fixes for site verification tools.
• phpcs fixes for the markdown module
• Search: add E2E tests for Customberg
• Search: added E2E tests for the search dashboard
• Updated package dependencies.
• Use new Visitor class for determining IP address.