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| 325 | 325 | 7. Stunning‑quality video with none of the hassle. Drag and drop videos through the WordPress editor and keep the focus on your content, not the ads. |
| 326 | 326 | |
| 327 | 327 | |
| 328 | 328 | == Changelog == |
| 329 | -### 16.3-a.1 - 2026-09-15 | |
| 329 | +### 16.3-a.5 - 2026-09-28 | |
| 330 | +#### Major Enhancements | |
| 331 | +- Dashboard: Remove the legacy At a Glance dashboard and Recommendations assistant. | |
| 332 | + | |
| 330 | 333 | #### Enhancements |
| 331 | -- Admin Menu: Hide a Jetpack sidebar item when its feature is turned off. | |
| 332 | -- AI: Add ChatGPT and Codex setup instructions to the MCP agent setup page. | |
| 333 | -- AI: Load the "Scheduled tasks" tab only when it is opened, cutting the AI page script by two thirds. | |
| 334 | -- Connection: Show an admin notice and a clearer Site Health result when WordPress.com cannot verify the site's SSL certificate. | |
| 335 | -- Connection: Show every connection error in one notice, each with the account it affects, and link to Site Health when a firewall is blocking WordPress.com. | |
| 336 | -- Likes: Guide block-theme users from legacy Like buttons to the Like block in Jetpack Settings and My Jetpack. | |
| 337 | -- Newsletter: Add a "Freshly Pressed" tab to the Daily Writing Prompt dashboard widget, listing the posts WordPress.com is currently featuring. | |
| 338 | -- Newsletter: Add an Overview dashboard for getting started and finding guides. | |
| 339 | -- Notices: Render Jetpack admin and My Jetpack dashboard notices with the WordPress design system Notice component. | |
| 340 | -- VideoPress: Add a "Learn more" support link to the admin page. | |
| 341 | -- VideoPress: Show video library thumbnails in a 16:9 aspect ratio. | |
| 342 | -- VideoPress: Use the shared in-page player on sites that return `false` from the `jetpack_videopress_player_use_iframe` filter, instead of one inline script per video. | |
| 334 | +- AI: Add a "How it works" guide to the top of the MCP and Connectors tab. | |
| 335 | +- AI: Point the Cursor setup instructions on the MCP agent setup page at the WordPress.com plugin on the Cursor Marketplace. | |
| 336 | +- AI: Point the disconnected-site notice at documentation instead of a connect link when the current user cannot connect the site, as on VIP and multisite. | |
| 337 | +- Likes: Give Comment Likes their own section on Settings > Sharing, and suggest the Like block on block themes even when Comment Likes are on. | |
| 338 | +- My Jetpack: Answer module switch clicks immediately, and explain what happened when a change fails. | |
| 339 | +- My Jetpack: Show the Features tab in place of the Products tab, and link the footer's modules links to its list view. | |
| 340 | +- Newsletter: Format stats metrics and open/click rates with locale-aware number formatters. | |
| 341 | +- Newsletter: List the enabled pop-up, overlay, and floating button below the footer when editing a template in the Site Editor. | |
| 342 | +- Newsletter: Sync the active theme's colors and typography so post emails can match the site's design. | |
| 343 | +- Partner Coupons: Move coupon redemption from the legacy dashboard to My Jetpack. | |
| 344 | +- Plugins page: Ask for optional feedback when deactivating Jetpack. | |
| 345 | +- Search: Show the dashboard in the new rounded admin page frame. | |
| 346 | +- Settings: Move the Settings page to its own admin page in the new Jetpack admin frame; existing links redirect there. | |
| 347 | +- Settings: Open the remaining support links as WordPress.com support docs inside the Help Center on WordPress.com sites. | |
| 348 | +- Sharing: Group "Disable CSS and JS" with the sharing button settings, and hide it while sharing buttons are off. | |
| 349 | +- Sharing settings: Give "Show buttons on" a section of its own. | |
| 350 | +- Sharing settings: Keep the sharing buttons configuration available on block themes, alongside the recommendation to use the Sharing Buttons block. | |
| 351 | +- Sharing settings: Show the Sharing and Like buttons sections whichever features are active, each with its own save button. | |
| 352 | +- Stats: Move the Stats settings to a new Settings tab in the Stats dashboard, and link to it from Jetpack Settings. | |
| 353 | +- Stats: Recognize the standalone Jetpack Stats plugin in My Jetpack, and install it when Stats is activated there. | |
| 354 | +- Tooltips: Keep focus on information icons when their tooltips open, and announce the content to screen readers. | |
| 355 | +- Tooltips: Show a focus ring on information icons after clicking them. | |
| 356 | +- VideoPress: Add a Latest Videos Playlist block that plays the site's newest VideoPress videos, with the number of videos set in the block settings. | |
| 357 | +- VideoPress: Add an All Playlists block that lists every Video Playlist published on the site as a grid or a list. | |
| 358 | +- VideoPress: Add title and description settings to the Video Playlist block. | |
| 359 | +- VideoPress: Match the inline player's play button to the player's own, and show a loading spinner from the click until the player loads. | |
| 360 | +- Zoom Scheduler: Add a block that embeds Zoom Scheduler booking pages, available on all plans. | |
| 343 | 361 | |
| 344 | 362 | #### Bug fixes |
| 345 | -- Admin: Match the Jetpack menu logo's first paint to the active admin color scheme. | |
| 346 | -- Charts: Fix unreadable axis labels in high-contrast (forced colors) mode. | |
| 347 | -- Charts: Return keyboard focus to line and area charts after closing a tooltip with Escape. | |
| 348 | -- Charts: Stop the first and last dates on a chart's horizontal axis from being cut off. | |
| 349 | -- Connection: Fix a stale connection error notice that could persist on healthy sites. | |
| 350 | -- Connection: Hide connection error notices from users who cannot fix the connection. | |
| 351 | -- Editor: Stop offering to activate the legacy Likes and Sharing buttons modules on block themes, where the corresponding blocks should be added to a template instead. | |
| 352 | -- Forms: Prevent extra forms from being created when the block placeholder is clicked more than once. | |
| 353 | -- Goodreads: Fix the block rendering empty on the front end of WordPress.com Simple sites. | |
| 354 | -- Likes: Hide the "Loading…" placeholder from the widget itself, so it disappears even when the Likes stylesheet fails to load. | |
| 355 | -- Likes: Load like buttons that a late page reflow brings into view, instead of waiting for the reader to scroll. | |
| 356 | -- Modules: Show other plugins' admin notices above the module list instead of inside it. | |
| 357 | -- My Jetpack: Offer to activate Search, rather than to buy a plan, when the site already owns it and the module is switched off. | |
| 358 | -- Reader: Show the body of a reposted comment instead of an empty quote. | |
| 359 | -- Search: Fix AI Search errors showing a generic server error instead of the real cause. | |
| 360 | -- Search: Fix a leaked scroll handler in Instant Search that could trigger stray page loads after several searches. | |
| 361 | -- Search: Show an upgrade prompt when editing the AI Search block on sites without a paid Search plan. | |
| 362 | -- Sharing: Open the post template instead of the template list when linking to the Site Editor. | |
| 363 | -- Sharing Buttons block: Use an unpredictable name for share popups, matching the classic sharing buttons. | |
| 364 | -- VideoPress: Fix selecting thumbnail frames from private videos and prefer browser-compatible video renditions. | |
| 363 | +- Admin: Hide masthead links when My Jetpack is unavailable. | |
| 364 | +- AI: Avoid an unnecessary request when loading the editor. | |
| 365 | +- AI: Disable feature toggles when custom code forces AI off. | |
| 366 | +- AI: Show the "Learn more" link when SEO settings are unavailable. | |
| 367 | +- AI: Turn off AI SEO and Search AI Answers when the `jetpack_ai_enabled` filter returns false. | |
| 368 | +- Blocks: Align the premium block upgrade banner with its text on narrow screens. | |
| 369 | +- Connection: Let users without admin access reconnect their own broken account from the connection error notice. | |
| 370 | +- Connection: Report a broken connection on My Jetpack's connection card instead of claiming everything looks good. | |
| 371 | +- Connection: Show a connection break only its owner can repair as a warning to other users, not an error. | |
| 372 | +- Content Guidelines: Fix the AI button alignment and the loading shimmer after recent Gutenberg changes. | |
| 373 | +- Copy Post: Fix footnotes containing links being lost when duplicating a post. | |
| 374 | +- CRM: Keep the site owner on My Jetpack after activating Jetpack CRM, instead of sending them to CRM's full-screen setup wizard. | |
| 375 | +- Dashboards: Show Jetpack in-dashboard messages on the modernized product dashboards again. | |
| 376 | +- Donations: Fix the donate button rendering as a cross shape on themes that apply block-level styles to `.wp-block-button__link`. | |
| 377 | +- External Media: Fix the width of the Select Media button in narrow block placeholders, such as the Media & Text block. | |
| 378 | +- Firewall: Avoid a fatal error for visitors on the IP block list when the firewall runs before WordPress. | |
| 379 | +- Firewall: Fix blank Jetpack admin pages when the standalone mode bootstrap loads from an older copy of the plugin. | |
| 380 | +- Footer: Hide the "Products" and "Help" links when My Jetpack is unavailable. | |
| 381 | +- Forms: Cap the rating scale when rendering a form or a response so a malformed value cannot exhaust memory. | |
| 382 | +- Forms: Detect Jetpack CRM installs that use a custom plugin folder or file name. | |
| 383 | +- Google Fonts: Detect fonts followed by fallback families so selected fonts render on the front end. | |
| 384 | +- Modules: Report an error instead of success when WP-CLI or the REST API switches a module the host or site administrator has forced on or off. | |
| 385 | +- My Jetpack: Fix the layout of the connection screen for right-to-left languages. | |
| 386 | +- My Jetpack: Fix the page failing to load for users who can edit posts but have no Jetpack menu, such as editors on unconnected sites. | |
| 387 | +- My Jetpack: Point users who cannot connect the site at an administrator, instead of an onboarding screen they cannot complete. | |
| 388 | +- My Jetpack: Show each notice once instead of twice. | |
| 389 | +- My Jetpack: Stretch the tab content background to the full height of the page. | |
| 390 | +- Newsletter: Show the earliest subscription date for subscribers with both an email and a WordPress.com subscription. | |
| 391 | +- Newsletter: Show the warning when no site owner is connected to WordPress.com. | |
| 392 | +- Podcast: Draw the daily downloads chart's gridlines at the same days as its labels. | |
| 393 | +- Search: Keep the AI Answers preview hidden when answers are turned off. | |
| 394 | +- Search: Require a paid Search plan to enable and display Site Chat. | |
| 395 | +- Search: Stop offering Search blocks in the Overlay search sidebar's widget inserter, and flag any already there. | |
| 396 | +- SEO: Fix Sitemap and Canonical URLs status to reflect the active modules. | |
| 397 | +- SEO: Respect excerpt filters in generated `llms.txt` summaries. | |
| 398 | +- Social: Show each number on the traffic chart's value axis once when visit counts are small. | |
| 399 | +- Stats: Draw the My Jetpack stats chart's gridlines only at whole numbers when counts are small. | |
| 400 | +- Stats: Prevent bar charts from flickering between the hovered bar and the keyboard-selected bar. | |
| 401 | +- Stats: Stop the pricing grid from coming back for up to 5 minutes after choosing "Start for free". | |
| 402 | +- Tooltips: Make information tooltips open from the keyboard and close on Escape. | |
| 403 | +- VideoPress: Fix a just-uploaded video briefly showing up a second time as a local video in the Library. | |
| 404 | +- VideoPress: Fix private video playback on sites using WPML. | |
| 405 | +- VideoPress: Keep the dashboard views trend chart's comparison lines distinguishable, including for color-blind viewers. | |
| 406 | +- VideoPress: Prevent the empty library prompt from appearing while videos are loading. | |
| 407 | +- VideoPress: Show the poster of private videos in the inline player before they are played, instead of a black box. | |
| 365 | 408 | |
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| 367 | 410 | |
| 368 | 411 | [See the previous changelogs here](https://github.com/Automattic/jetpack/blob/trunk/projects/plugins/jetpack/CHANGELOG.md#changelog) |
