Changelog

5.3

• Release date: September 5, 2017
• Release post: http://wp.me/p1moTy-5Xv

Major Enhancements
* Full PHP 7.1 compatibility.
* It’s now possible to preview your site within WordPress.com.

Enhancements
* The Ads feature now gives you more options and control over the ads displayed on your site.
* Increased performance in the admin by cutting back on unnecessary requests.
* Loading comment avatars from Facebook and Twitter through a more secure https.
* Admin UI is much friendlier on initial activation when there are no stats to display.
* You’re now able to stop VideoPress from looping a video during autoplay through the shortcode.
* Made some optimizations to the Jetpack connection process which means connecting your site more is more reliable.
* The EU Cookie Law widget got some styling improvements and looks better in any theme.
* There’s a new Jetpack CLI command to allow testing of the Jetpack connection.
* Added the Likes and Monitor features to our recommended features list, making it easier to activate for new sites.
* Improvements made that makes sure we have the most up-to-date version of your site when managing from WordPress.com.
* Added a link to view your Comments in the WordPress.com toolbar.
* Lots of minor design improvements to the Jetpack admin area.
* We’ve found a few places where we were able to optimize the loading of css files.
* Removed the Omnisearch feature.

Bug fixes
* Fixed compatibility issues with plugins using TinyMCE.
* Contact Form submission emails have been fixed for sites hosted on SiteGround.
* Updating WordPress.com themes will no longer have any problems.
* The Sitemaps feature will no longer error with posts/images with special characters in the title.
* There are no more conflicts with the ACF plugin when adding a new custom field.
* Fixed a bug that would cause some plugins to throw warnings with the Shortcode feature.
* We’re no longer loading a font on the front-end for the Likes feature, which will also have some performance benefits.
* The Jetpack admin UI had some bugs that were causing some features to not display the correct active status, which are squashed now.
* Cleaned up our markup to avoid XHTML validation errors.
* Brought back a filter for the Widget Visibility feature that was accidentally removed.
* Managing your comments and comment authors more reliable from WordPress.com.

5.2.1

• Release date: August 2, 2017
• Release post: https://jetpack.com/?p=22686

Bug fixes
* Solves an issue that caused widgets to lose their content when saved in WP Admin or Customizer.

5.2

• Release date: August 1, 2017
• Release post: https://jetpack.com/?p=22509

Major Enhancements
* Contact Forms now sports a fancy new interface that allows you to visually compose your form in the editor.
* We have a new and slick way to showcase and explain the features we recommend to activate to new users.

Enhancements
* Reduced 500kb from plugin zip file, which means faster updates.
* Refactored and reduced code for Comment Likes so it’s faster and lighter.

Bug fixes
* An inconsistency experienced in WordPress.com dashboard when Related Posts settings were set in the local site’s WP Admin is now fixed.
* Fixed a 404 when loading Open Sans font from a stylesheet plus now it’s only enqueued if it will be used.
* Solve PHP warnings when Image widget wasn’t migrated.

5.1

• Release date: July 5th, 2017
• Release post: https://jetpack.com/?p=20888

Major Enhancements
* You and your readers can now show appreciation to particularly clever comments with the new Comment Likes feature.

Enhancements
* Quickly visit your current site’s front-end directly from the Masterbar’s new “View Site” item.
* Site data fetch from /me/sites REST API endpoint now includes blog_public in the list of returned options.
* The Flickr widget now automatically displays images in a grid if there’s enough room.
* E-mail sharing is now disabled by default unless it’s explicitly enabled by a filter or Akismet is active.

Compatibility Improvements

• Updated instructions in Flickr widget to reflect recent changes to the Flickr UI.

Bug fixes

• EU Cookie Law Banner cookie no longer cached.
• WP Admin menu can now be accessed in mobile when Masterbar is displayed.
• We now sync the order_id for order_items in older WooCommerce versions.
• UI now handles VaultPress connection or registration problems gracefully.
• Photon now works correctly with images uploaded before WordPress 2.7.