Changelog

5.1

• Release date: July 5th, 2017
• Release post: https://jetpack.com/2017/07/05/jetpack-5-1-comment-likes/

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.

5.0

• Release date: June 6th, 2017
• Release post: http://jetpack.com/2017/06/06/jetpack-5-0-spring-clean/

Enhancements

• Several changes to the Jetpack dashboard and notices: alignment tweaks, code refactor, text simplification, and more.
• Changes to the communication layer between your site and WordPress.com, to improve performance and allow you to do more to manage your site from WordPress.com.
• Social menu gets icons for Etsy, Meetup, 500px, and Goodreads.
• Jetpack data sync now better supports WordPress updates, themes changes, widgets, and multisite networks.
• Video is updated to be fully compatible with the upcoming Media Widget.
• Force secure WordPress.com API requests for request body, remove deprecated stats methods, and add new endpoints for post listing and user invitations.
• Jetpack’s Command Line tools can now output information about the primary Jetpack site owner. Try wp jetpack status!
• Custom CSS now supports the animation-fill-mode, fill, and stroke properties.
• Remove the “Menus” item from the WordPress.com toolbar for parity with the toolbar on WordPress.com.
• Improve the display of the Omnisearch results page on sites using an RTL language.
• Trim any white space when adding new email address in the Contact Info Widget.
• Improve the look of your recipes in search engine result pages, when you use the Recipe shortcode.

Compatibility Improvements

• Improve the connection process for end users and hosts.
• Improve compatibility of Jetpack data sync with WooCommerce and Pet Manager plugins.
• Make sure Jetpack’s SEO Tools don’t conflict with other SEO plugins that may already be active on the site, like Yoast SEO or All In One SEO Pack.

Bug Fixes

• Add a “Set Up” button when a Personal plan is purchased, but VaultPress isn’t active yet.
• When the Ads feature is active, do not display Ads in RSS feeds.
• Comments do not use Photon for Facebook and Twitter avatars and now avoid non-secure warnings when submitting comments on a HTTP site in Safari.
• Contact form emails are now sent in a way that ensures they are correctly rendered as HTML.
• Properly print the full list of modules when using the sync command in Jetpack’s Command Line Interface (CLI).
• Avoid errors when reordering a lot of Restaurant menu items at once.
• Add a mechanism to detect broken connection states and resolve them.
• Autosaves can now be restored as Markdown.
• Photon no longer conflicts with Facebook’s CDN, local images, and plugins that customize reponsive images.
• Avoid potential PHP notice in Publicize.
• Fix bad jQuery selector in Presentations shortcode.
• Avoid fatal errors for Social Links on sites running PHP 7.1.
• Properly escape button attribute in spellchecker.
• Avoid PHP notices for stats on some sites when user roles are not attributed properly.
• No longer attempt to sync options that do not exist and avoid fatal errors when de/activating plugins.
• Avoid errors when Social Menu functions have already been defined in the theme or in another plugin.
• VideoPress media items now always return their unique ID, and do not trigger any PHP notice.
• Fix style of the EU Cookie Law Widget on themes with specific positioning.
• Use correct time constant to define an hour in Upcoming Events Widget.
• Avoid HTML encoding issues in sitemaps.