Jetpack by WordPress.com was updated to version 5.5, from version 5.4. Changelog:
- Jetpack is now fully compatible with WordPress’s new Gallery Widget. Your old Gallery widgets powered by Jetpack will switch to the new Widget when you update to WordPress 4.9.
- We have improved the performance when loading the Jetpack Settings in the dashboard by optimizing the number of calls made when loading the page.
- We have updated the plugin to do a better job of cleaning up after itself whenever you decide to remove Jetpack from your site.
- We made some changes to reduce the number of connection issues that may happen on a site when switching from HTTP to HTTPs.
- We made some performance improvements to the Jetpack dashboard interface, to make sure your options and settings are loaded faster there.
- Error messages are also better in the Jetpack Dashboard; whenever you can’t update settings, Jetpack will provide you with more information about why.
- We improved the Jetpack update process to make sure updating Jetpack does not stress your database during it, even on high-traffic sites.
- The next version of WordPress, 4.9, will be released very soon and will include a lot of changes to its code editors. Jetpack’s Custom CSS will be fully compatible with the new editors and their syntax highlighting feature.
- We also made changes to make sure Jetpack was fully compatible with the role and capability changes in WordPress 4.9.
- We have made some performance improvements to the Carousel feature.
- Contact Form: do not process shortcodes in widgets when WordPress itself does, starting in 4.9.
- Contact Form: we have improved the “website” field to display better error messages when you don’t supply a URL. We have also improved the look of the date picker for the date field.
- Contact Form: avoid duplicate slashes when loading editor style.
- Masterbar: update the “Plugins” menu item to match the updated design on WordPress.com.
- Open Graph: do not display images smaller than Facebook’s required size.
- Sharing: use Google’s minified libraries to improve performance when loading Google buttons.
- Sharing: update Open Graph Image tags appearing on the home page to offer better alternatives based on your site settings in Appearance > Customize.
- We improved the way sitemaps are built so they do not consume too much memory when they are generated.
- WP.me Shorlinks: those links will now always use HTTPS.
- Spellchecker: we improved the admin interface to make it more clear when adding ignored phrases and saving them.
- Subscriptions: we added a filter so third party developers can track comment subscription activations.
- Sync: synchronize plugin action links to add that information to WordPress.com.
- Sync: improvements to better track theme and widget changes.
- VideoPress: we removed Jetpack version locking for directly embedded VideoPress videos to ensure all users receive the newest version of the player.
- We added a new filter (jetpack_google_translate_widget_layout) to the Google Translate Widget to allow you to change its layout.
- WordPress.com REST API: improve comment management for all roles, including post authors.
- WordPress.com REST API: allow site owners to manage comments on attachment pages from WordPress.com.
- WordPress.com REST API: improve the response from the API when WordPress’ autoupdates are disabled.
- You can now use Jetpack’s contact form and Yoast SEO’s Focus keywords on the same page without any issues in the editor.
- Top Posts Widget: avoid Fatal Errors when the widget is used on a site using WPML, and when a popular post cannot be found by WPML.
- Sync: add more Custom Post Types from third-party plugins to the list of things we do not synchronize with WordPress.com, to improve sync performance.
- Sharing: since Press This is now a plugin and not part of WordPress itself, we removed the Press This sharing button if you are not using the plugin.
- We now avoid displaying notices to user roles that cannot benefit or act based on the info in the notices.
- Gravatar Hovercards: avoid PHP Notices when the user info is an object.
- Infinite Scroll: avoid PHP notices when a site customizes galleries thanks to the post_gallery filter.
- Mailchimp: make sure subscription forms can still be embedded in posts and pages.
- Mailchimp: do not require the use of the shortcodes feature to use the Mailchimp widget.
- Mailchimp: fix issue where Mailchimp form code could not be added to the Mailchimp widget.
- Masterbar: avoid JavaScript errors by always loading jQuery.
- Post By Email: do not display any content in the email address field if no email address has ever been set before.
- Publicize: avoid errors when DOMDocument is not available.
- Publicize: we now hide the feature activation toggle if you are not allowed to manage Jetpack features.
- Search: make sure module cannot be activated when the site does not use a Plan.
- SEO Tools: do not output any custom meta tags if another SEO plugin is already active.
- Sharing: make sure Twitter Cards can be displayed even when a post does not include a title.
- Sharing: fix alignment of sharing buttons in the admin preview when using custom sharing buttons.
- Sitemaps: wait a minute before to generate sitemaps when the feature is activated, to avoid performance issues.
- Sync: avoid synchronization issues on Multisite networks using custom domains.
- Top Posts Widget: display the default title when it is set to empty.
- Milestone Widget: make sure the widget is displayed properly and can easily be translated into other languages.
- Verification Tools: avoid notices when saving changes on a Multisite network admin page.
- VideoPress: avoid missing file warning in the editor when using an RTL language.
- Upcoming events Widget: avoid PHP notices on sites using a custom timezone setting.
- WordPress.com REST API: avoid errors when installing plugins via the WordPress.com API.