Call for Testing: Jetpack 10.9 Beta

Jetpack 10.9-beta is available now and the download link is available here.

Jetpack 10.9 will be deployed to VIP Go on Thursday, May 5, 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

  • Recommendations: Updates to the recommendations flow including adding recommendations for VideoPress, and adding site discounts.
  • Payments Block: Adds property that establishes if the membership is editable by the site editor.
  • Payments Block: Adds additional features to the payment management control block (ability to mark as donation, and enabling customers to pick own amount).
  • Google Fonts: Updated the Google Fonts module to be compatible with the most recent version of the WP_Webfonts API.
  • VideoPress: Increased chunk size to 10Mb for VideoPress resumable uploads to reduce request overhead for faster uploads.

Bug fixes

  • Payments Block: Changes to the sidebar display when clicking ‘add new subscription’, as well as using an external link in the Customizer.
  • Payments Block: Display the product manager on free plan sites connected to Stripe.
  • Payments Block: Removing the dropdown icon from the product management control subscription selector.

Other Changes

  • Added analytics events for enabling conditional recommendations and viewing conditional recommendations.
  • Converted BackupUpgrade and BarChart to TypeScript.
  • E2E tests: add extra checks in connection tests.
  • E2E tests: improve connection tests.
  • Move RecordMeterBar to js-packages.
  • Nav-unification: Update nudge to support Pro plan.
  • Remove code in native files that was causing the rnmobile build to fail.
  • Updated package dependencies.
  • Update package.json metadata.
  • Add checks to eliminate warnings in php log.
  • Fix failing tests because of an editor type mismatch caused by imported packages side-effects.
  • Load block editor styles inline for iframed editors on WoA sites.
  • My Jetpack: Updated to require licensing package when licensing UI enabled.
  • Premium Content blocks: subscription button from emails and notifications opens the checkout dialog (WordPress.com specific).
  • VideoPress: Fixing issue in apiFetch middleware where request bodies were assumed to always be objects with a “file” property; this is only true for requests to the media endpoint.

A full list of changes is available in the release notes and the commit log.

What do I need to do?

We recommend:

  1. Installing the beta release on your non-production sites using these instructions.
  2. Running through the testing flows outlined in the Jetpack Testing Guide.

As you’re testing a few things to keep in mind:

Questions?

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