Recent Features and Bug Fixes to Jetpack by WordPress.com – Problems and Negative Reviews

Greg Johnson

9 years ago

Summary

JetPack Ratings as of 7 Apr 2015

A recent update to the JetPack plugin suite from WordPress caused many people to experience errors when attempting to login to their administrative dashboard. This resulted in a significant increase in very negative 1-star ratings, shown here.

Another problem that people complain about with JetPack is that it slows down site load times. This may be a result of having too many of the JetPack features unnecessarily enabled. Because JetPack isn’t a single plugin, but a collection of plugins, it’s typical for people to select only a few features they’d like to use. This can help speed up load times.

Also, there are features in JetPack and other plug-ins, as well as enhanced themes, that offer enhanced content delivery, such as the improved photo gallery.

Most websites have many plugins. Each plugin incrementally slows down a website. Every request for text, images, or other design elements slows down a website. For this reason, most self-hosted sites will use caching services or plugins like WP Super Cache.

Changelog

Below are the recent changes to the JetPack plugin suite.

3.5.3

Release Date: May 6th, 2015

Security Hardening: Remove Genericons example.html file.

3.5.2

Release Date: May 5th, 2015

Bug Fix: Sharing: Changes Facebook share count endpoint

3.5.1

Release Date: May 5th, 2015

Enhancement: Sharing: Changes Facebook share count method per Facebook API change
Enhancement: General: Remove .po files to reduce plugin size
Bug Fix: General: Remove identity crisis notification
Bug Fix: Subscriptions: Correct required input validation
Security hardening

3.5

Release Date: April 23rd, 2015 Release Post:http://jetpack.me/2016/04/23/jetpack-3-5-menu-management/

Jetpack 3.5 introduces the ability to manage your site’s menus directly from WordPress.com and several bug fixes and enhancements. This upgrade is recommended for all users.

Enhancement: General: Change security reporting to use a transient instead of option to reduce backup load
Enhancement: General: Improve module search
Enhancement: JSON API: Allow users to manage menus through WordPress.com
Enhancement: Sharing: Reduce spam through email sharing
Bug Fix: Custom CSS: Improve recall of CSS revisions
Bug Fix: Extra Sidebar Widgets: Change class name for Contact Info widget
Bug Fix: Extra Sidebar Widgets: Fix errors when adding widgets via the customizer
Bug Fix: Extra Sidebar Widgets: Fix PHP notices in RSS widget
Bug Fix: General: Fix redirect loop on activation
Bug Fix: General: Styling fixes
Bug Fix: Protect: Add IP translation fallback when inet_pton is not available
Bug Fix: Protect: Always allow login from local IDs
Bug Fix: Protect: Sanitize displayed IP after block
Bug Fix: Publicize: Prevent generating Facebook profile links for app-scoped user IDs
Bug Fix: Subscriptions: Improve error handling
Bug Fix: Theme Tools: Include breadcrumb code
Misc: Extra Sidebar Widgets: Remove Readmill Widget

3.4.3

Release Date: April 20th, 2015

Security hardening.

3.4.2

Release Date: April 19th, 2015

Bug Fix: Contact info widget namespacing
Bug Fix: Javascript errors on wp-admin due to stats display code
Bug Fix: Potential fatal error from improperly called function
Bug Fix: Potential fatal error when protect servers are unreachable for WordPress Multisite

3.4.1

Release Date: March 19th, 2015

Bug Fix: General: Modules not displaying properly in non-English installs
Bug Fix: Manage: Some installs showing a transient fatal error
Bug Fix: Protect: Protect module not auto-activating for users who upgrade
Bug Fix: Omnisearch: Some installs not properly reporting WP version number, causing Omnisearch error
Bug Fix: Stats: Top posts/pages widget not loading
Bug Fix: Contact Info Widget: Fix conflict with Avada theme

3.4

Release Date: March 18th, 2015

Release Post: http://jetpack.me/2015/03/17/jetpack-3-4-protect-secure-and-simplify/

Enhancement : Config Settings: provide a notification for users that update features settings
Enhancement : Config Settings: provide a notification for users that update features settings
Enhancement : Contact Form: Use the predefined $title variable in the anchor tag in grunion contact form button
Enhancement : Contact Form: Use the predefined $title variable in the anchor tag in the button on admin
Enhancement : Custom Content Type: Add all Custom Post Types to Omnisearch
Enhancement : Custom Content Type: Add option to add Testimonial Custom Content Type in admin
Enhancement : Custom Content Type: bring consistency between the portfolio and testimonial shared codebase
Enhancement : Custom Content Type: code cleanup
Enhancement : Custom Content Type: register namespaced ‘jetpack_portfolio’ shortcode/use a prefix for shortcode for Portfolio
Enhancement : Custom Content Type: set shortcode image size to ‘large’ and add jetpack_portfolio_thumbnail_size filter to allow themes to set their own size for Portfolio
Enhancement : Custom Content Type: testimonial shortcode enhancement
Enhancement : Extra Sidebar Widgets: Add subscription widget wildcard
Enhancement : Extra Sidebar Widgets: Likes and Sharing Shortcodes
Enhancement : Extra Sidebar Widgets: Minor fixes to Facebook widget plugin for SSL
Enhancement : Fix/update jetpack version
Enhancement : General: Add DNS Prefetching
Enhancement : General: Add Jetpack admin dashboard widget
Enhancement : GlotPress: Update GP_Locales and GP_Locale classes
Enhancement : Improved control over Nova Theme Menu output markup
Enhancement : Infinite Scroll: Adds a button wrapper for the infinity handle.
Enhancement : Infinite Scroll: Check for response.html before using indexOf
Enhancement : Integrate BruteProtect for protection against Brute Force attacks
Enhancement : JSON API Manage: Added Mock Jetpack Option to Sync options that don’t have to live in the Database
Enhancement : JSON API: Add/empty trash days option to sync
Enhancement : Jump Start: Add “Jump Start” interface for new users
Enhancement : Manage: Add “modified_before” and “modified_after” parameters to /sites/%s/posts/ via JSON API
Enhancement : Mobile Theme: Add filter for choosing mobile theme menu
Enhancement : Notifications: Changes to load the new notifications client.
Enhancement : Protect: Add a filter so that user can add thier own bots
Enhancement : Protect: Add security reporting
Enhancement : Protect: Add/whitelist endpoints via JSON API for Jetpack Protect
Enhancement : Publicize: update connection confirmation message
Enhancement : Sharing: Add custom service name as a class
Enhancement : Sharing: display name of custom service in link title
Enhancement : Sharing: Remove default post types for showing share links
Enhancement : Sharing: use Jetpack version number when enqueing sharing.js
Enhancement : Shortcodes Team Partnerships: Backport fixes from SoundCloud 2.3.1 through 3.0.2
Enhancement : Shortlinks: use HTTPS when possible
Enhancement : Stats: Make loading of stats async
Enhancement : Subscriptions: Added settings field for comment sub text
Enhancement : Subscriptions: Hide Form After Submit
Enhancement : Subscriptions: remove label from widget title
Enhancement : Subscriptions: Update subscriptions.php
Bug Fix : Contact form: Increase CSS specificity for Contact Forms in widgets
Bug Fix : Custom Content Type: Testimonial Custom Content Type: use core WP_Customize_Image_Control instead of custom…
Bug Fix : Extra Sidebar Widgets: add missing & to if statement for widget visibility
Bug Fix : Extra Sidebar Widgets: Don’t require height/width values in the Twitter Timeline widget
Bug Fix : Extra Sidebar Widgets: Upload images from the customizer/Extra Sidebar Widgets Tiled Galleries for Gallery Widget
Bug Fix : General: Fix bug that was preventing modules from displaying properly
Bug Fix : Manage: When calling /sites/%s/posts/ include all attachments not just the first five via JSON API
Bug Fix : Mobile Theme: Minileven; Start after DOM ready
Bug Fix : Sharing: Open sharing in same window
Bug Fix : Stats language
Bug Fix : Subscritpions: fix invalid field when no email address

3.3.2

Release Date: February 19th, 2015

Enhancement: Updated translation files.
Enhancement: Heartbeat: Correctly stat new datasets.
Bug Fix: Widget Visibility: Correct some caching of visibility results that may get evaluated too soon.
Bug Fix: Contact Form: Hardening.
Bug Fix: Photon: Make sure our gallery filter can parse array inputs as well as the default html.

3.3.1

Release Date: February 11th, 2015

Bug Fix: JSON API: Minor versioning data.
Bug Fix: Markdown: Re-run KSES after processing to account for syntax changes.
Bug Fix: Media Extractor: Don’t call a gallery a gallery if it hasn’t got any pictures!
Bug Fix: Module Management: Handle a core api change for folks running trunk.
Bug Fix: Related Posts: CSS — better clear rows.
Bug Fix: Sharing: Including sharing account on Pinterest unofficial buttons as well.
Bug Fix: Sharing: Properly version external assets by Jetpack release version.
Bug Fix: Shortcodes: Soundcloud: Backport API compatibility fixes.
Bug Fix: Shortcodes: Flickr: Tidy up our regex url pattern matching.
Bug Fix: Subscriptions: Don’t add ‘Email Address’ as the value — we have placeholders!
Bug Fix: Widgets: Gallery Widget: Allow folks to upload images from the widget area in the customizer.

3.3

Release Date: December 15th, 2014 Release Post:http://jetpack.me/2014/12/16/jetpack-3-3-a-single-home-for-all-your-wordpress-sites/

Enhancement: Adds responsive video support to BuddyPress.
Enhancement: Custom Content Types: Added ‘order’ and ‘orderby’ options to portfolio shortcode.
Enhancement: Display notice when Jetpack Development Mode is on.
Enhancement: General: Update compatibility with Twenty Fifteen.
Enhancement: Image URL can now be overwritten with thejetpack_images_fit_image_url_override filter after dimensions are set by Photon.
Enhancement: JSON API: Add Endpoint for trigger Plugin Autoupdates.
Enhancement: JSON API: General Improvements. Documentation onhttp://developer.wordpress.com/
Enhancement: Likes: Updated the code to accept arbitrary CPTs.
Enhancement: Related Posts: Allow filter by post_format.
Enhancement: Sharing: add new jetpack_sharing_counts filter for option to turn off sharing counts.
Enhancement: Sharing: Use the Site Logo Theme Tool and the Site Icon as fallbacks for image tags.
Enhancement: Shortcodes: Made the code more readable by using output buffers instead of string concatenation.
Enhancement: Site Logo: Add alias functions to provide backward compatibility for themes expecting the old function calls.
Enhancement: Slideshow: Add title and alt text to images.
Enhancement: Subscription Form: Do not display the logged in user’s email address by default.
Enhancement: Top Posts Widget: Refactor to allow conditional loading of the css.
Enhancement: Top Posts: Add jetpack_top_posts_widget_countfilter to control number of displayed posts.
Bug Fix: Change subscribe_text from p to div so that it can contain block-level elements.
Bug Fix: Fonts: Change path to look for the svg in the right directory.
Bug Fix: Increase CSS specificity for Contact Forms in widgets.
Bug Fix: JSON API: Plugins Update: Make sure the plugin doesn’t get deactivated.
Bug Fix: Likes: Fixes issues where likes don’t load, load master iframe after scripts are loaded.
Bug Fix: Notes Module: Avoid a PHP Notice in cli scripts when the request doesn’t contain a User-Agent header.
Bug Fix: Nova Menu CPT: fix notice when we have no taxonomies.
Bug Fix: Nova Menus: Use current instance to maintain object context.
Bug Fix: Related Posts: Add filter for _enabled_for_request().
Bug Fix: Sharing: Prevent duplicate @ in shared Tweets.
Bug Fix: Site Logo: get_site_logo() now properly returns the site logo ID when provided in the $show argument.
Bug Fix: Site Logo: Correct evaluation of the Display Header Text in Customizer preview.

3.2.1

Release Date: November 14th, 2014

Enhancement: Updated translation files.
Enhancement: JSON API: More object vars passed back to some queries. Documentation on http://developer.wordpress.com/
Bug Fix: JSON API: Pass back correct author in me/posts data.
Bug Fix: JSON API: Don’t check if a post is freshly pressed on remote Jetpack sites where the function doesn’t exist.
Bug Fix: Site Logo: Add backward-compatible template tags to match the standalone release.
Bug Fix: Don’t use DIR — it’s 5.3+ only, and WordPress supports back to 5.2.
Bug Fix: Retool how we remove the source styles when using the concatenated version.
Bug Fix: Shortcodes: TED: Correct default language code from engto en.
Bug Fix: Gallery Widget: Add a default background color.
Bug Fix: Subscription Notifications: Remove the label.
Bug Fix: Sharing: enqueue Genericons on static front page as well if selected.

3.2

Release Date: October 29, 2014 Release Post:http://jetpack.me/2014/11/03/jetpack-3-2/

Enhancement: Speed Improvements (woohoo!).
Enhancement: Add site icons: an avatar for your blog.
Enhancement: Improvements to API endpoints.
Enhancement: Add oEmbed sources (Twitter, SoundCloud, Instagram, DailyMotion, Vine).
Enhancement: Add indicators to make it easier to see which modules are active.
Enhancement: Improve debug tool.
Enhancement: Add new ‘Site Logos’ code to theme tools, for themes that opt in to support it.
Enhancement: Improved caching for related posts.
Enhancement: Added “Remember Me” functionality to Single Sign On.
Enhancement: Improved accessibility.
Enhancement: Added additional filters to Widget Visibility.
Bug Fix: Fixed PHP Notice errors for Likes, Widget Visibility.
Bug Fix: Improvements to the testimonials CPT.
Bug Fix: Improved RTL on VideoPress admin.
Bug Fix: Removed Google+ Authorship module (discontinued by Google).
Bug Fix: Fixed use of deprecated function in mobile theme.
Bug Fix: Various fixes to Tiled Galleries.
Bug Fix: Various fixes to Contact Form.
Bug Fix: Various fixes to oEmbed.
Bug Fix: Various fixes to Single Sign On.
Bug Fix: Fixed styles in ShareDaddy.
Bug Fix: Better match protocols (http/https) to the site.

3.1.1

Release Date: August 7, 2014

Enhancement: Update translation files for strings that had been submitted/approved since release.
Bug Fix: Social Links: Add a function check to better degrade if Publicize isn’t around.
Bug Fix: Open Graph: Add WordPress SEO back to the blacklist, until they update how they opt us out.
Bug Fix: Asset Minification: Add another caveat ( empty $plugin ) to short out on.
Bug Fix: Deprecated Hooks: Fixing our expectations where something that should be an array occasionally wasn’t.
Bug Fix: Custom CSS: Add extra whitelist rule for -o-keyframe rules.

3.1

Release Date: July 31, 2014 Release Post:http://jetpack.me/2014/07/31/jetpack-3-1-portfolio-custom-post-types-a-new-logo-and-much-more/

Enhancement: New Custom Content Types module.
Enhancement: New Jetpack Logo.
Enhancement: New optional JSON API endpoints for viewing updates and managing plugins and themes.
Enhancement: New Custom Post Type: Portfolio!
Enhancement: Rearranged buttons on the modules modals for easier management.
Enhancement: Jetpack Settings have improved keyboard accessibility.
Enhancement: Improved RTL support for After the Deadline, Carousel, Contact Form, Comics CPT, Custom CSS, Omnisearch, Publicize, Related Posts, Slideshow short code, Tiled Gallery, Widget-Visibility and Widgets Gallery.
Enhancement: Contact Form: Add an “Empty Spam” option.
Enhancement: i18n: Change the priority of where plugin_textdomain is hooked so that the plugins can better translate Jetpack.
Enhancement: Monitor: Displays how often the site is checked for downtime.
Enhancement: Shortcode: Added Mixcloud shortcode and oEmbed support.
Enhancement: Social Links: Improved handling of customizer hooks in non-admin context.
Enhancement: Stats: The smiley image is gone by default.
Enhancement: Stats: Added link to the configure page for stats so that the stats settings page is easier to find.
Enhancement: Theme Tools: Added the responsive videos to theme tools so that themes can support responsive videos more easily.
Update: Updated Genericons to version 3.1, new icons for website, ellipsis, foursquare, x-post, sitemap, hierarchy and paintbrush.
Bug Fix: Contact Form: Prefix function to avoid conflicts with other plugins.
Bug Fix: Custom CSS: Admin UI has a responsive layout.
Bug Fix: Custom CSS: Custom $content_width value doesn’t overwrite theme’s $content_width.
Bug Fix: Contact Form: Feedback link takes you to the form page.
Bug Fix: Carousel: Confirms an avatar is returned by get_avatar before displaying.
Bug Fix: Featured Content: Don’t remove setting validation.
Bug Fix: Infinite Scroll: Google Universal Analytics support added.
Bug Fix: Multisite: Add message when updating multisite settings.
Bug Fix: Photon: Photon will no longer upscale images larger than the original size.
Bug Fix: Photon: Check that the image exists before rewriting the image URL to utilize Photon.
Bug Fix: Sharing: Pinterest adds attribute to display share count.
Bug Fix: Sharing: Respect an empty sharing title.
Bug Fix: Sharing: Share buttons now appear in the bbPress forms.
Bug Fix: Sharing: Support for multiple meta html tag og:image values.
Bug Fix: Single Sign On: Logout allows override of forcing Single Sign On.
Bug Fix: Single Sign On: Remove the lost password link on auto-forward logout.
Bug Fix: Social Links: Do not use anonymous function for compatibility with PHP 5.2.
Bug Fix: Tiled Galleries: Update jQuery mouseover caption effect to reduce flickering.
Bug Fix: Widgets Visibility: Works better in the customizer admin view.

3.0.2

Release Date: June 17, 2014

Enhancement: General: Make module categories filter more visible when active.
Enhancement: General: Updated translation files with more strings added since the last release.
Enhancement: General: Allow deep-linking to the Contact Support form.
Bug Fix: General: RTL Jetpack Admin UI looks better.
Bug Fix: General: Fixed PHP warning when bulk deactivating modules.
Bug Fix: General: Removed an unnecessary description.
Bug Fix: General: Resolved an SSL error on Jetpack Admin UI.
Bug Fix: General: Fix error comparing signatures when the WordPress installation is using site_url filters (applied mostly to WPEngine sites).
Bug Fix: General: Resolved PHP strict error on the mobile menu.
Bug Fix: General: Fix timing of conditional checks, so that calling developer mode via a plugin works again.
Bug Fix: General: Main page categories tab now properly translates module names.
Bug Fix: Related Posts: Fix a typo, the “more info” link now works.
Bug Fix: Likes: Improve button styling.
Bug Fix: Likes: Remove unused UI for Reblog settings on social settings page.
Bug Fix: Contact Form: Updated to no longer use a deprecated Akismet function.
Bug Fix: Contact Form: Sends email to the administrator that is not marked as spam again.
Bug Fix: Open Graph: Resolved PHP warning on open graph gallery pages when the gallery is empty.

3.0.1

Release Date: May 22, 2014

Bug Fix: AtD: A wpcom-only function got synced by mistake and caused a few errors. Fixed.
Bug Fix: Post By Email: Add static keyword to a function.
Bug Fix: ShareDaddy: In the admin-side configuration of sharing links, we used a Path icon instead of Pinterest. Oops!
Bug Fix: ShareDaddy: We inadvertently appended via @jetpack to some twitter shares. This is no longer the case.
Bug Fix: Related Posts: Tidying up and relocation of the resyncbutton formerly on the more info modal.
Bug Fix: Infinite Scroll: Work better with core’s MediaElement.js
Bug Fix: Heartbeat: Undeclared variable fixed.

3.0

Release Date: May 20, 2014 Release Post:http://jetpack.me/2014/05/20/jetpack-3-0/

New User Interface for managing modules and settings
New Module: Verfication Tools
Enhancement: New look for the Sharing module
Enhancement: Multiple improvements on which Twitter handle a Twitter card will display
Enhancement: Add option to hide Google+ Authorship banner while still receiving the benefits
Enhancement: Many Infinite Scroll enhancements to improve performance
Enhancement: Infinite Scroll will use your CPT’s display name instead of “Older Posts”
Enhancement: JSON API added /media/new endpoint
Enhancement: Added filter to assign new default image for Open Graph tags
Enhancement: New [jetpack-related-posts] shortcode to add Related Posts to page instead of default placement
Enhancement: Added SSO option to turn off login form completely, to use WordPress.com login exclusively
Enhancement: The shortcode allows for Google Maps Engine
Enhancement: YouTube shortcode allows HD playback
Enhancement: Smoother, Faster Tiled Galleries!
Enhancement: New languages! Use Jetpack in Irish, Fulah, and Tigrinya
Bug Fix: Use your browser’s Back and Forward buttons when naviagating a Carousel
Bug Fix: Various Related Posts fixes and improvements for added flexibility
Bug Fix: WordPress 3.9: Restores ability to edit Contact Forms
Bug Fix: WordPress 3.9: Restores Gallery Widget compatability
Bug Fix: Ensure Markdown is kept when Bulk Editing posts
Bug Fix: Improved Jetpack’s Multisite Network Admin page for networks with a large number of sites
Bug Fix: Ensure Sharing settings persist when Bulk Editing a post
Bug Fix: Various other shortcode improvements

2.9.3

Release Date: April 10, 2014

Important security update. CVE-2014-0173

2.9.2

Release Date: March 17, 2014

Bug Fix: Publicize: When publishing from a mobile app or third-party client, Publicize now works again.

2.9.1

Release Date: March 6, 2014

Bug Fix: After the Deadline: Fix a Javascript glitch that could prevent publishing of posts.
Bug Fix: SSO: Disable the implementation of an option that had been removed before release. This would have only been an issue if a site administrator had enabled the module during an early beta of 2.9.

2.9

Release Date: February 26, 2014 Release Post:http://jetpack.me/2014/02/26/jetpack-2-9/

Added Multisite network functionality
New Module: Related Posts
Enhancement: Single Sign On
Enhancement: Mixcloud shortcode and oEmbed
Enhancement: Gist shortcode and oEmbed
Enhancement: Modify Facebook Like Box widget to support new Facebook parameters
Enhancement: Rolled the Push Notifications module into the Notes module
Enhancement: Update kses with Markdown
Enhancement: Adding keyboard accessibility to sharing buttons config page
Enhancement: Pull WordPress testing bits from the new official git mirror at WordPress.org
Bug Fix: Widget Visibility
Bug Fix: Revisions box in Custom CSS
Bug Fix: Fix several bugs in the WordPress Posts Widget so that it correctly updates
Bug Fix: Limit Login Attempts no longer generates false positives from xmlrpc.
Bug Fix: Clear max_posts transient on theme switch.
Bug Fix: Lower priority of sync to allow all CPTs to be registered.
Bug Fix: Contact form fields emailed in correct order.
Other bugfixes and enhancements athttps://github.com/Automattic/jetpack/commits/2.9

2.8

Release Date: January 31, 2014 Release Post:http://jetpack.me/2014/01/31/jetpack-2-8-introducing-markdown-and-improving-monitor/

New Module: Markdown
Module Update: Jetpack Monitor
Enhancement: Infinite Scroll: Keep track of $current_day between requests so the_date() works well.
Enhancement: Embeds: New filter to turn off embeds in comments.
Enhancement: Contact Form: Add placeholder support.
Enhancement: Widget: Gravatar Profile: Added filters to allow users to customize headings and fixed output of personal links.
Enhancement: Facebook OG Tags: Add published_time,modified_time, and author if the post type supports it.
Enhancement: Sharing: Display buttons on CPT archive pages.
Enhancement: Sharing: Add get_share_title function and filter.
Enhancement: Sharing: Add filter sharing_display_link.
Enhancement: Twitter Timeline: Flesh out tweet limit option.
Enhancement: Social Links: Add Google+ to the list of supported services.
Enhancement: Stats: Improve dashboard styles in 3.8.
Enhancement: Stats: No longer use Quantcast.
Enhancement: Top Posts: Add jetpack_top_posts_days filter.
Enhancement: AtD: Add TinyMCE 4 compatibility for its pending arrival in WordPress 3.9
Enhancement: Genericons: Update to v3.0.3
Enhancement: Tiled Galleries: Add alt attributes to images.
Enhancement: Shortcode: YouTube: Accept protocol-relative URLs.
Enhancement: Shortcode: Slideshow: Add white background option.
Enhancement: Shortcode: YouTube: Add support for the two closed-caption arguments.
Enhancement: Shortcode: Vimeo: Update the regex to support the new embed code.
Enhancement: Shortcode: Google Maps: Update the regex to handle new format for embeds.
Enhancement: Likes: Avoid a PHP Notice when $_POST[‘post_type’] is not set in meta_box_save.
Enhancement: Smush images to save on file size.
Enhancement: Publicize: Enable opt-in publicizing of custom post types.
Bug Fix: Random Redirect: Further namespace to avoid conflicts.
Bug Fix: Twitter Timeline: Resolve undefined index notice.
Bug Fix: Featured Content: Add extra class_exists() check to be extra careful.
Bug Fix: Facebook OG Tags: Change OG type of Home and Front Page to ‘website’
Bug Fix: Widget Visibility: Add support for old-style single use widgets.
Bug Fix: Google Authorship: Support apostrophe in author names.
Bug Fix: Media Extractor: Assorted graceful failure caveats.
Bug Fix: Carousel: ‘Link to None’ bug fixed.
Bug Fix: Embeds: Bandcamp: Switch escaping function for album and track IDs to handle (int)s greater than PHP_INT_MAX
Bug Fix: Some plugins trying to catch brute-force attacks mistakenly flagged the Jetpack connection as one.

2.7

Release Date: December 11, 2013 Release Post:http://jetpack.me/2013/12/11/jetpack-2-7-publicize/

Enhancement: Google+ Publicize
Enhancement: Add Cloudup as an oEmbed provider
Enhancement: Subscriptions: Add subscribe_field_id filter to allow updated ids when using multiple widgets
Enhancement: Infinite Scroll: TwentyFourteen Support
Bug Fix: Contact Form: Fix warning when form is called outside the loop
Bug Fix: Featured Content: Moving Settings to Customizer, provide option to set default tag as fallback, specify all supported post-types rather than just additional ones. Description Updates
Bug Fix: Featured Content: Compat with ‘additional_post_types’ theme support argument. Comment updates
Bug Fix: Featured Content: Make sure $term is an object before we treat it as one
Bug Fix: GlotPress: Merge with latest GlotPress
Bug Fix: Infinite Scroll: prevent Undefined index notice that can cause IS to fail when user has WP_DEBUG set to true
Bug Fix: Infinite Scroll: Improved compatibility with Carousel, Tiled Galleries, VideoPress, and the
and

shortcodes
Bug Fix: Likes: Stop manually including version.php and trust the global. Some whitespace fixes, and if it’s an attachment, follow the post_status of the parent post
Bug Fix: Mobile Theme: Display password field for Gallery format protected posts
Bug Fix: Sharing: Add new translation width for share button, and Google Plus icons
Bug Fix: Shortcodes: Support Ineternational Google domains for maps
Bug Fix: Shortcodes: Facebook Embeds: Register alternate permalink.php URL for posts
Bug Fix: Subscriptions: Moved inline styles from widget email input to separate css file
Bug Fix: Theme Tools: Fix glitch where random-redirect.php also showed as a plugin being deleted if you were deleting Jetpack
Bug Fix: Misc: Internationalization & RTL updates
Bug Fix: Misc: Prevent collisions with ‘Facebook Featured Image & OG Meta Tags’ plugin

2.6.1

Release Date: December 3, 2013

Bug Fix: minor styling fix in pre- and post-MP6/3.8 UI changes.
Bug Fix: Stats: spinner gif url fix when the user is viewing it over https.
Bug Fix: Stats: Switch to esc_html from htmlspecialchars in error message — better to be native
Bug Fix: Media Extractor: some hosts don’t compile unicode for preg_match_all, so we temporarily removed the block that depended on it.
Bug Fix: Media Extractor: Add in some error handling for malformed URLs.
Bug Fix: Twitter Cards: treat single-image galleries as a photo-type.
Bug Fix: Update conflicting plugins for OG tags and Twitter Cards.
Bug Fix: Correct max supported version number — had been 3.6, update to 3.7.1

2.6

Release Date: November 28, 2013 Release Post:http://jetpack.me/2013/11/26/new-release-jetpack-2-6/

Enhancement: WPCC / now called SSO: refactored.
Enhancement: Monitor: new module which will notify you if your site goes down(http://jetpack.me/support/monitor/).
Enhancement: Custom CSS: replace Ace editor with Codemirror.
Enhancement: Widgets: new “Display Posts” widget.
Enhancement: WP-CLI: add commands to disconnect a site and manage modules.
Enhancement: Contact Form: new filters,grunion_contact_form_field_html andgrunion_should_send_email.
Enhancement: Custom Post Types: new restaurant post type.
Enhancement: Genericons: update to version 3.0.2.
Enhancement: Infinite Scroll: many improvements and fixes.
Enhancement: Likes: performance improvements.
Enhancement: MP6: Jetpack icons are now compatible with WordPress 3.8.
Enhancement: Open Graph: better descriptions, fallback images, and media extraction from video posts.
Enhancement: Publicize: new background token tests for connected publicize services and display problems on settings sharing and add new post.
Enhancement: Shortcodes: updated Bandcamp shortcode to support the tracklist and minimal attributes, as well as moreartwork attribute values.
Enhancement: Shortlinks: add Custom Post Type support.
Enhancement: Subscriptions: add more ways to customize the subscriptions widget.
Enhancement: Twitter Cards: better media management and card type detection, and better handling of conflicts with other Twitter Cards plugins.
Enhancement: better handling of conflicts with other plugins.
Bug Fix: After the Deadline: add a typeof check fortinyMCEPreInit.mceInit to prevent js errors.
Bug Fix: Carousel: speed improvements and several bugfixes.
Bug Fix: Contact Form: remove nonce creating issues with caching plugins.
Bug Fix: Custom Post Types: Testimonials: return if featured image is empty so it can be removed after it’s been set.
Bug Fix: Featured Content: add additional post type support through the additional_post_types argument.
Bug Fix: Google Authorship: support apostrophes in Google+ profiles.
Bug Fix: Google Authorship: use a regexp Instead of usingmb_convert_encoding, which doesn’t enjoy universal support.
Bug Fix: Heartbeat: ensure that it never triggers more than once per week.
Bug Fix: JSON API: add new ?meta= parameter that allows you to expand the data found in the meta->links responses.
Bug Fix: JSON API: add new is_private response to the sites endpoint and global_ID response to the reader and post endpoints.
Bug Fix: Mobile Theme: allow small images to display inline.
Bug Fix: Mobile Theme: fix fatal errors for missingminileven_header function.
Bug Fix: Photon: fix errors when an image is not uploaded properly.
Bug Fix: Shortcodes: improvements to Archives, Google+, Presentations, Vine and Youtube.
Bug Fix: Tiled Galleries: improve display of panoramic images and fix errors when an image is not uploaded properly.

2.5

Release Date: September 19, 2013 Release Post:http://jetpack.me/2013/09/19/jetpack-2-5/

Enhancement: Connect your Google+ profile and WordPress site to prove authorship of posts.
Enhancement: Improved sharing buttons display.
Enhancement: Comment on your posts using Google+ to signin.
Enhancement: Embed Google+ posts into your posts.
Enhancement: Added event logging capabilities for debugging
Enhancement: LaTeX is now available in dev mode
Enhancement: Introduced gallery widget
Enhancement: Added new module: VideoPress
Enhancement: Updated identity crisis checker
Enhancement: Tiled Gallery widget added
Enhancement: Google +1 button changed to Google+ Share button, to avoid confusion
Enhancement: Added check to ensure Google+ authorship accounts have disconnected properly
Enhancement: Updated identity crisis checker
Enhancement: Tiled Gallery widget added
Enhancement: Google +1 button changed to Google+ Share button, to avoid confusion
Enhancement: Added the ability to embed Facebook posts
Bug Fix: Redirect issue with G+ authorship when WordPress is not in the root directory
Enhancement: Better security if carousel to prevent self-XSS
Enhancement: Better handling of cookies for subsites on multisite installs
Bug Fix: Check for post in G+ authorship before accessing it

2.4.2

Release Date: September 5, 2013

Enhancement: Converted to module headers to detect Auto-Activating modules.
Enhancement: WPCC: Added ‘Close’ link to deactivate WPCC in the admin nag.
Enhancement: JSON API: Add User Nicename to the user data.
Bug Fix: Contact Form: Stopped using a short tag.
Bug Fix: Changed CSS selector to catch MP6 stylings.
Bug Fix: Dropped FILE references in class.jetpack.php in favor of JETPACK__PLUGIN_DIR constant, now code that deactivates the plugin from the connect nag works again.
Bug Fix: Random Redirect: Add random-redirect to the plugins overriden list, in case someone is using Matt’s Random Redirect plugin.
Bug Fix: Tiled Gallery: Revert r757178 relating to tiled gallery defaults.
Bug Fix: Return false, not zero, if $GLOBALS[‘content_width’] isn’t defined.
Bug Fix: WPCC: Don’t call wp_login_url() in the constructor — if someone is running a custom login page, that can break things if their plugin runs get_permalink as a filter before init.
Bug Fix: Tiled Gallery: Add fallback if post_parent == 0 due to infinite_scroll_load_other_plugins_scripts.
Bug Fix: Custom CSS: Set the ACE gutter z-index to 1.
Bug Fix: Custom Post Types: Switch from wp_redirect() to wp_safe_redirect().
Bug Fix: Likes: Set overflow:hidden; on the likes adminbar item.
Bug Fix: Mobile Theme: Migrate where/when the custom header stuff is included.
Bug Fix: Slideshow Shortcode: Add a height of 410px.

2.4.1

Release Date: September 4, 2013

Enhancement: Don’t auto-activate WPCC.

2.4

Release Date: August 30, 2013 Release Post:http://jetpack.me/2013/09/04/jetpack-2-4-widget-visibility-and-wpcc-and-more/

Enhancement: WordPress.com Connect (WPCC): New Module.
Enhancement: Widget Visibility: New Module.
Enhancement: Shortcode: Addition of new Twitter Timeline shortcode.
Enhancement: Shortcode: Addition of new Presentation shortcode.
Enhancement: Shortcode: Addition of new Vine shortcode.
Enhancement: Custom Post Types: CPTs are available.
Enhancement: Subscriptions: Add ‘jetpack_is_post_mailable’ filter.
Enhancement: OpenGraph: Add Twitter Cards meta tags as well.
Enhancement: Custom CSS: Update lessc and scssc preprocessors to 0.4.0 and 0.0.7 respectively.
Enhancement: Omnisearch: Add Media results.
Enhancement: Likes: Use a protocol-agnostic iframe, instead of forced HTTPS.
Enhancement: Top Posts: Increase post limit.
Enhancement: Publicize: Updated JS and UI.
Enhancement: Photon: New filter to let site admins/owners enable photon for HTTPS urls.
Enhancement: New jetpack_get_available_modules filter.
Enhancement: Subscriptions: Antispam measures.
Bug Fix: Add inline style to keep plugins/themes from inadvertently hiding the Connect box.
Bug Fix: Custom CSS: Respect the new wp_revisions_to_keep filter.
Bug Fix: Photon: Only hook jetpack_photon_url into the filter if the user has Photon active.
Bug Fix: Heartbeat: Used wrong object, occasinally fatal-erroring out for the cron.
Bug Fix: Add an empty debug.php file to the /modules/ folder, to solve some update issues where it never got deleted.

2.3.5

Release Date: August 12, 2013

Enhancement: Added Path support to Publicize.

2.3.4

Release Date: August 6, 2013

Bug Fix: Correct when output occurs with CSV export for feedback.
Bug Fix: Tidy up the Heartbeat API.
Enhancement: User Agent: Improve detecting of bots.
Enhancement: Genericons: Make sure we’re pulling the freshest version from genericons.com on each release.
Enhancement: JSON API: Open up replies/new endpoints so that users can comment on blogs that are not in their access token.
Enhancement: Photon: Apply to get_post_gallery() function as well.
Enhancement: Tiled Galleries: Add a default bottom margin to be more robust out of the box.
Translations: Adding in fresher translation files.
Deprecation: Removing the retinization code for 3.4, as it was included in WordPress trunk from 3.5 onwards.

2.3.3

Release Date: July 26, 2013

Bug Fix: We were inadvertently overwriting cron schedules with our Jetpack heartbeat. This should now be fixed.
Enhancement: New Facebook Sharing icons.
Enhancement: Minor update to the Minileven stylesheet.

2.3.2

Release Date: July 25, 2013

Bug Fix: Fixed an issue where Facebook Pages were not available when connecting a Publicize account.
Bug Fix: For some web hosts, fixed an issue where ‘Jetpack ID’ error would occur consistently on connecting to WordPress.com.
Enhancement: Adding some new stats and heartbeat checking to Jetpack.

2.3.1

Release Date: July 2, 2013

Enhancement: Social Links: Retooling the class for better consistency and performance behind the scenes.
Enhancement: Omnisearch: Make it easier to search Custom Post Types. No longer need to extend the class, if all you want is a basic display. Just call new Jetpack_Omnisearch_Posts( 'cpt' );
Enhancement: Sharing Buttons: LinkedIn: Use the official button’s sharing link on the Jetpack implementation for a more consistent sharing experience and produce better results on LinkedIn’s end.
Enhancement: Debug / Connection: Better logic in determining whether the server can use SSL to connect to WPCOM servers.
Enhancement: Sharing: Twitter: Calculate the size of the Tweet based on the short URL rather than the full URL size.
Enhancement: Debug: More readable and understandable messages.
Enhancement: Likes: Including some MP6 styles.
Enhancement: Comments: Add new core classes to comment form. See http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/24525
Bug Fix: Omnisearch: Don’t load everything initially, run the providers off admin_init, and then issue an action for folks to hook into.
Bug Fix: Omnisearch: Modify some child class functions to match the parent’s parameters and avoid strict notices in newer versions of PHP.
Bug Fix: Omnisearch: Hide the search form in the module description if the current user can’t use it.
Bug Fix: Comment Form: Use edit_pages, not edit_page (fixes glitch in previous beta, never publicly released).
Bug Fix: Twitter Timeline Widget: Additional testing of values and casting to default if they are nonconforming.
Bug Fix: Sharing: Pinterest: Make the button wider if there’s a count to avoid overlapping with others.
Bug Fix: Post By Email: Change configuration_redirect to static.
Bug Fix: Likes: Don’t call configuration_redirect as a static, do it as a method.
Bug Fix: Add some further security measures to module activation.

2.3

Release Date: June 19, 2013 Release Post:http://jetpack.me/2013/06/19/jetpack-2-3/

Enhancement: Omnisearch: Search once, get results from everything! Omnisearch is a single search box that lets you search many different things
Enhancement: Debugger: this module helps you debug connection issues right from your dashboard, and contact the Jetpack support team if needed
Enhancement: Social Links: this module is a canonical source, based on Publicize, that themes can use to let users specify where social icons should link to
Enhancement: It’s now easier to find out if a module is active or note, thanks to the new Jetpack::is_module_active()
Enhancement: Contact Form: You are now able to customize the submit button text thanks to the submit_button_text parameter
Enhancement: Comments: We’ve added a filter to let users customize the Comment Reply label, and users can now also customize the prompt on the comment form again.
Enhancement: Mobile Theme: Add genericons.css and registering it so it’s easily accessible to other modules that may want it
Enhancement: Tiled Galleries: You can now customize the captions, thanks to the jetpack_slideshow_slide_caption filter
Enhancement: Widgets: Twitter Timeline: Add the noscrollbar option
Enhancement: Widgets: Facebook Like Box Widget: add a show_border attribute
Enhancement: Widgets: FB Like Box: let Jetpack users override the iframe background color set in an inline style attribute by using the jetpack_fb_likebox_bg filter
Bug Fix: Carousel: Fix a bug where double-clicking a gallery thumbnail broke the carousel functionality
Bug Fix: Comments: Change “must-log-in” to class from ID
Bug Fix: Contact Form: Make the Add Contact Form link a button, ala Add Media in core
Bug Fix: Contact Form: Fix encoding of field labels
Bug Fix: Contact Form: Remove references to missing images
Bug Fix: Fix 2 XSS vulnerabilities
Bug Fix: JSON API: Minor fixes for bbPress compatibility
Bug Fix: JSON API: Fix metadata bugs
Bug Fix: JSON API: Add a new hook that is fired when a post is posted using the API
Bug Fix: JSON API: Prefork/REST: update path normalizer to accept versions other than 1
Bug Fix: JSON API: Remove extra parenthesis in CSS
Bug Fix: Custom CSS: Move content width filters higher up so that they’re active for all users, not just logged-in admins.
Bug Fix: Custom CSS: All CSS properties that accept images as values need to be allowed to be declared multiple times so that cross-browser gradients work
Bug Fix: Infinite Scroll: Allow themes to define a custom function to render the IS footer
Bug Fix: Infinite Scroll: Fix up Twenty Thirteen styles for RTL and small viewports.
Bug Fix: Likes: Fix ‘Call to undefined function’
Bug Fix: Likes: Add scrolling no to iframe to make sure that like button in admin bar does not show scrollbars
Bug Fix: Likes: Remove setInterval( JetpackLikesWidgetQueueHandler, 250 ) call that was causing heavy CPU load
Bug Fix: Mobile Theme: Remove unused variable & function call
Bug Fix: Publicize: Fix LinkedIn profile URL generation
Bug Fix: Publicize: Better refresh handling for services such as LinkedIn and Facebook
Bug Fix: Shortcodes: Audio shortcode: Treat src as element 0. Fixes audio shortcodes created by wp_embed_register_handler when an audio url is on a line by itself
Bug Fix: Bandcamp: Updates to the Bandcamp shortcode
Bug Fix: Stats: Fix missing function get_editable_roles on non-admin page loads
Bug Fix: Widgets: Twitter Timeline: Fix HTML links in admin; set default values for width/height; change some of the sanitization functions
Bug Fix: Widgets: Top Posts Widget: Exclude attachments
Bug Fix: Widgets: Top Posts Widget: fix data validation for number of posts
Bug Fix: Fix PHP warnings non-static method called dynamically
Bug Fix: Fixed an issue in image extraction from HTML content
Bug Fix: Open Graph: Change default minimum size for og:image too 200×200
Note: The old Twitter widget was removed in favour of Twitter Timeline widget
Note: Add is_module_active() to make it easier to detect what is and what isn’t
Note: Compressing images via lossless methods
Note: Tidying up jetpack’s CSS
Note: Set the max DB version for our retina overrides that were meant to stop for WordPress 3.5
Note: Updating spin.js to the current version, and shifting to the canonical jquery.spin.js library
Note: Adding Jetpack_Options class, and abstracting out options functions to it

2.2.5

Release Date: May 1, 2013

Enhancement: Stats: Counting of registered users’ views can now be enabled for specific roles
Bug Fix: Security tightening for metadata support in the REST API
Bug Fix: Update the method for checking Twitter Timeline widget_id and update coding standards
Bug Fix: Custom CSS: Allow the content width setting to be larger than the theme’s content width
Bug Fix: Custom CSS: Fix possible missing argument warning.

2.2.4

Release Date: April 26, 2013

Bug Fix: JSON API compat file include was not assigning a variable correctly, thus throwing errors. This has been resolved.

2.2.3