
Jetpack 11.1 is now the default version on VIP.
What is being added or changed?
Enhancements
- Dashboard: add “Getting started with Jetpack Backup” video to Assistant and “At a glance” dashboard.
- Recipe Block (beta): introduce a new Recipe block to display an easy to read recipe anywhere on your site. Currently a JETPACK_BETA_BLOCKS feature.
- VideoPress: enable blocks with VideoPress markdown to be previewed within the mobile app.
- VideoPress Block (beta): introduce VideoPress block currently in beta status.
Improved compatibility
- Blocks: add Jetpack block elements to WPML configuration so they can be translated.
- Connection: update connection banner to use updated Emerald styling.
- Publicize: configure Publicize only when the module is active.
- VideoPress: update non-iframe player to latest version for sites using the
jetpack_videopress_player_use_iframefilter.
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 Block: ensure Payments Block can only auto-select an existing product.
- VideoPress: remove strict comparison to fix average color parameter.
- 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: fix 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.
For more details about this release (including specific changes), please see the release notes.