Jetpack 11.0-beta is available now and the download link is available here.
Jetpack 11.0 will be deployed to VIP on Thursday, June 9, 2022*. The upgrade is expected to be performed at 17:00 UTC (1:00PM ET).
*This deployment date and time are subject to change if issues are discovered during testing of the Jetpack release.
What is being added or changed?
Enhancements
- Custom CSS: add support for CSS properties: accent-color, aspect-ratio, gap, text-underline-offset.
- Custom CSS: ensure the Additional CSS sub-menu link displays correctly.
- Email subscriptions: update the default body of the “Confirmation request” email.
- Google Fonts: add additional fonts to the list of available fonts.
- Latest Instagram Posts Block: improve performance of the block by adding lazy load for the images.
- Payments Blocks: refactors the donation block by unifying Stripe Nudge component.
- Payments Blocks: reset form data to default values after creating a subscription.
- Payments Blocks: refactor the product memberships store to reduce complexity and improve speed.
- Sharing: update the email sharing button to use mailto links instead of server submissions.
- VideoPress: add support for automatic seekbar color.
- VideoPress: improve Extensibility of Privacy Setting filter by adding the embedded post id.
- VideoPress: improve help message of VideoPress Privacy Setting at the block level.
- WAF: add settings UI for Jetpack Firewall.
Improved compatibility
- General: improve connection sharing between Jetpack and Jetpack standalone plugins.
- Stats: remove unnecessary type attribute from style element.
Bug fixes
- Assistant: fix unclickable banner dismiss button.
- Comments: update UI to reflect that Google accounts are no longer a sign-in option.
- Custom CSS: avoid PHP notice when using the Sass preprocessor on PHP 7.4+.
- Payments Blocks: ensure payment block can only auto-select an existing product.
- Stats: ensure the Stats column can always be displayed, even when the post type does not support comments.
- Subscriptions: fix typo in confirmation message.
- VaultPress: fixes a bug that caused certain cards in the Dashboard to flicker in some circumstances when VaultPress is active.
- VideoPress: fix validation errors for core video block usage.
- WAF: add activation/deactivation hooks for WAF feature.
- Widget Visibility: avoid PHP warnings when loading widgets in some scenarios.
A full list of changes is available in the release notes and the commit log.
What do I need to do?
We recommend:
- Installing the beta release on your non-production sites using these instructions.
- Running through the testing flows outlined in the Jetpack Testing Guide.
As you’re testing a few things to keep in mind:
- Check your browser’s JavaScript console and see if there are any errors reported by Jetpack there.
- Use “Debug Bar” or “Query Monitor” to help make PHP notices and warnings more noticeable and report anything you see.
Questions?
If you have any questions, related to this release, please open a support ticket and we will be happy to assist.