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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.3 - 2026-09-21 | |
| 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 | -- Activity Log: Make it a Jetpack module so it can be turned on and off from My Jetpack, hiding the sidebar entry when off. | |
| 332 | -- AI: Hide the legacy AI panel once a site is eligible to turn on the WordPress Agent, and offer to open or enable the Agent in its place. | |
| 333 | -- AI: Serve the Jetpack AI page through the standard Jetpack admin frame. | |
| 334 | -- AI: Show one notice explaining why Jetpack AI is unavailable, worded the same on the Overview and AI Features tabs. | |
| 335 | -- Daily Writing Prompt: Stop offering the Write editor after a switch to the Block editor. | |
| 336 | -- Donations Form: Replace the "Accept Donations with Stripe" modal with a link to Stripe's donation requirements. | |
| 337 | -- Forms: Add a Done button to the conditional logic rules dialog, and open the Conditional logic panel by default on a field that has conditions. | |
| 338 | -- Forms: Reopen the dashboard on the last tab used instead of always the default. | |
| 339 | -- My Jetpack: Show the dashboard in the new rounded admin page frame. | |
| 340 | -- My Jetpack: Show the Jetpack menu notification badge when a connection error is detected. | |
| 341 | -- Newsletter: Show the email itself in the email design canvas, and limit editing there to the Styles panel. | |
| 342 | -- Search: Show each of the No Results block's empty-state messages as it will appear to visitors while editing, and tell the messages apart by name when browsing the page structure. | |
| 343 | -- Settings: On WordPress.com sites, open the "Learn more" links in the Help Center as WordPress.com support docs. | |
| 344 | -- Stats: Hide WordPress admin notices on the Stats dashboard, and let hosts show or hide the Stats sidebar entry. | |
| 345 | -- VideoPress: Add a setting to render players from one shared player script instead of one frame 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. | |
| 346 | 361 | |
| 347 | 362 | #### Bug fixes |
| 348 | -- Charts: Fix keyboard focus and tooltip selection. | |
| 349 | -- Dashboards: Stop the frame from flashing while loading and when switching admin pages. | |
| 350 | -- Fix Jetpack admin pages and Jetpack blocks in the editor failing to load on WordPress.com-hosted sites. | |
| 351 | -- Forms: Open the Forms tab when it is requested directly instead of falling back to Responses. | |
| 352 | -- Heartbeat: Prevent fatal errors when another plugin loads an older Connection package. | |
| 353 | -- Jetpack Manage: Only show the sidebar link to agency accounts. | |
| 354 | -- My Jetpack: Restore the link from the stats card heading and chart to the Stats page. | |
| 355 | -- SEO: Fix the Settings tab failing to load after a page title structure was cleared from WordPress.com. | |
| 356 | -- Site Verification: Reject invalid verification codes instead of reporting a successful save. | |
| 357 | -- Social: Pre-fill the Bluesky handle field when reconnecting an account. | |
| 358 | -- Social: Show contextual messages on the dashboard again. | |
| 359 | -- VideoPress: Keep the video editor footer at the bottom of the page. | |
| 360 | -- VideoPress: Show specific validation messages for chapters entered in video descriptions. | |
| 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. | |
| 361 | 408 | |
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| 363 | 410 | |
| 364 | 411 | [See the previous changelogs here](https://github.com/Automattic/jetpack/blob/trunk/projects/plugins/jetpack/CHANGELOG.md#changelog) |
