New Release: Jetpack 9.9

Jetpack 9.9.

Jetpack 9.9 has been deployed to all VIP sites.

What is being added or changed?

Major Enhancements

  • Carousel: improve carousel usability, performance, accessibility, mobile friendliness.
  • Carousel: improve stability, fixes multiple bugs.

Enhancements

  • Blocks: additional automated tests to improve reliability.
  • Carousel: Add comment indicator icon to carousel comments icon.
  • Dashboard: provide more useful information and an option to contact support when there are display issues in the Jetpack dashboard.
  • Editor: added Social Preview panel to the pre-publish sidebar to increase visibility.

Improved compatibility

  • Blocks: make sure connection notices in blocks work with the widget and customizer block editors.
  • Carousel: Ensure refactored carousel is compatible with Twenty Nineteen theme styles.
  • Full Site Editing: disable admin bar in Jetpack notifications to prevent keystroke hijacking in the Site Editor.
  • Podcast Block: Ensure compatibility with latest version of Gutenberg plugin and WordPress 5.8.
  • Shortcode Embeds: enable compatibility with WordPress’ “Lazy Loading”.
  • Site Logo: improve compatibility with WordPress 5.8’s new Site Logo block.
  • Slideshow Block: update icon.

Bug fixes

  • AMP: Fix top AMP ad unit from being cropped on mobile devices
  • Blocks: GIF block supports the widget editor and customizer preview pane.
  • Carousel: Fix intermittent issue with unresponsive prev button.
  • Carousel: Fix image quality on carousel zoom.
  • Carousel: Set pagination font weight to normal to avoid conflicts with theme styles.
  • Carousel: disable transitions on prev/next images to prevent flash effect on pinch, zoom and swipe.
  • Custom CSS: allow leading decimal zeros.
  • Inline PDFs: Fix height of PDF embeds for greater theme compatability.
  • Payments Block: prevent hiding block configuration instructions when block is nested.
  • Shortcode Embeds: correctly handle YouTube URLs that include a start time.
  • Story Block: improve navigation, fix issues with long press to pause and exiting story on last tap.
  • Widgets: avoid PHP notice when using the Milestone Widget within the upcoming widget management screen in WordPress 5.8.
  • WordPress.com API: properly allow requests to upgrade a plugin outside of autoupdates.

Questions?

If you have any questions, related to this release, please open a support ticket and we will be happy to assist.