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@jeherve jeherve released this 01 Sep 10:56
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  • Release date: September 1, 2020
  • Release post: p1moTy-rAs-p2

Major Enhancements

  • The new Donations Block allows you to easily accept and process donations on your site.
  • You can now preview how your posts will look on Facebook, Twitter, and Google Search Results even before you hit the Publish button.

Enhancements

  • Blocks: add "Edit" button to the Calendly block toolbar.
  • Blocks: add new "Consent" field option to the Form block.
  • Connection: improve the reconnection process when your site is not properly connected to WordPress.com anymore.
  • Connection: improve messaging offered and displayed in the dashboard when there are connection issues between your site and WordPress.com.
  • Contact Form: put feedback that matches the disallowed list in trash.
  • Dashboard: improved legibility across all Jetpack interfaces.
  • External Media: improve keyboard navigation in the media modal.
  • External Media: offer a way to disconnect Google Photos accounts from within the media modal.
  • Sharing: add spacing around customization link.
  • Search: improve styling of expanded results in the Instant Search interface.
  • Shortcodes: remove jQuery dependency from Gist shortcode.

Improved compatibility

  • Anti-Spam: better handle globally-configured Akismet API keys in the Jetpack dashboard.
  • Blocks: update to use latest colors defined by WordPress.
  • Blocks: ensure our External Media option is compatible with other plugins that also make changes to the Media Library options in the block editor.
  • Connection: ensure better compatibility of the Monitor, Protect, Secure Sign In, Stats, and Subscription features with your site's connection to WordPress.com.
  • General: remove references to pre-PHP 5.6 code.
  • Sharing: improve accessibility of the sharing butttons in AMP views.
  • Shortcode Embeds: ensure compatibility of the Instagram embeds with upcoming Instagram API changes.
  • Third-party plugin compatibility: add new compatibility file for the Creative Mail plugin.
  • Third-party plugin compatibility: add Slim SEO to the list of plugins compatible with Jetpack's Open Graph and Twitter Cards Meta tags.

Bug fixes

  • Autoloader: avoid issues when updating plugins using the Autoloader in environments using OPCache.
  • Autoloader: remove the map regeneration that occurs after a plugin update.
  • Activity Log: ensure that theme changes are mentioned in the Activity Log.
  • Blocks: ensure alignment options are respected for the Video block in the editor.
  • Blocks: avoid accidental disconnections of the Payments block in the editor.
  • Blocks: bug fixes and improvement of consistency of block style implementation in the OpenTable block.
  • Blocks: avoid duplicate navigation arrows in the Slideshow block.
  • CLI tools: avoid notices when using Synchronization CLI tools.
  • Connection: ensure that secondary users can connect their own account to their WordPress.com account.
  • Dashboard: fix missing card for Backups in some error cases.
  • Protect: avoid displaying HTML markup on blocked login screen.
  • Protect: avoid Fatal errors when trying to update Protect options from the REST API.
  • Search: ensure that Instant Search options are properly saved in the Customizer.
  • Search: avoid errors when searching for a term and including the "%" symbol.
  • Shortcodes: avoid Fatal errors when receiving unexpected response from Flickr.
  • Theme Tools: resolve a PHP notice in PHP 7.4.
  • Video: ensure that videos uploaded with Jetpack Videos are assigned to the correct author.
  • Widgets: ensure that the Instagram Widget is properly styled when previewed in the customizer.
  • Widgets: do not hide accepted cookie widget to allow visual customization in the Customizer.
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