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Jetpack – WP Security, Backup, Speed, & Growth v16.3-beta
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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.5 - 2026-09-28
329 +### 16.3-beta - 2026-10-05
330 330 #### Major Enhancements
331 331 - Dashboard: Remove the legacy At a Glance dashboard and Recommendations assistant.
332 332
333 333 #### Enhancements
334 +- Activity Log: Make it a Jetpack module so it can be turned on and off from My Jetpack, hiding the sidebar entry when off.
335 +- Activity Log: Show the connection error notice only when a connection error has been recorded.
336 +- Admin Menu: Hide feature menu items from sidebar when features are turned off.
334 337 - AI: Add a "How it works" guide to the top of the MCP and Connectors tab.
338 +- AI: Add ChatGPT and Codex setup instructions to the MCP agent setup page.
339 +- 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.
340 +- AI: Load the "Scheduled tasks" tab only when it is opened, cutting the AI page script by two thirds.
335 341 - AI: Point the Cursor setup instructions on the MCP agent setup page at the WordPress.com plugin on the Cursor Marketplace.
336 342 - 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.
343 +- AI: Serve the Jetpack AI page through the standard Jetpack admin frame.
344 +- AI: Show one notice explaining why Jetpack AI is unavailable, worded the same on the Overview and AI Features tabs.
345 +- AI: Use WordPress Design System colors in the AI admin, assistant, and image generator.
346 +- Backup: Add a Backup module, so the Backup dashboard and its menu item can be turned off from My Jetpack.
347 +- Backup: Show the VaultPress Backup dashboard in wp-admin, instead of linking out to Jetpack Cloud.
348 +- Charts: Show Stats, Newsletter, Social, Podcast and VideoPress chart tooltips on the dark WordPress design system tooltip surface.
349 +- Comments: Add a setting to turn blocks in comments on or off, on the Discussion settings page and in Jetpack settings.
350 +- Connection: Show an admin notice and a clearer Site Health result when WordPress.com cannot verify the site's SSL certificate.
351 +- 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.
352 +- Daily Writing Prompt: Stop offering the Write editor after a switch to the Block editor.
353 +- Donations Form: Replace the "Accept Donations with Stripe" modal with a link to Stripe's donation requirements.
354 +- External Media: Update the Pexels logo in the media source menu.
355 +- 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.
356 +- Forms: Make the Delete spam button act on selected responses or the current filter, show how many responses will be deleted, and empty large spam or trash folders in chunks with progress.
357 +- Forms: Reopen the dashboard on the last tab used instead of always the default.
358 +- Forms: Show or hide a field based on the answer to another field. On WordPress.com, this requires a Business plan or higher.
337 359 - Likes: Give Comment Likes their own section on Settings > Sharing, and suggest the Like block on block themes even when Comment Likes are on.
360 +- Likes: Guide block-theme users from legacy Like buttons to the Like block in Jetpack Settings and My Jetpack.
338 361 - My Jetpack: Answer module switch clicks immediately, and explain what happened when a change fails.
362 +- My Jetpack: Show product cards flat, without a drop shadow.
363 +- My Jetpack: Show the dashboard in the new rounded admin page frame.
339 364 - My Jetpack: Show the Features tab in place of the Products tab, and link the footer's modules links to its list view.
365 +- My Jetpack: Show the Jetpack menu notification badge when a connection error is detected.
366 +- Newsletter: Add a "Freshly Pressed" tab to the Daily Writing Prompt dashboard widget, listing the posts WordPress.com is currently featuring.
367 +- Newsletter: Add a Days, Weeks, Months, and Years control to the subscribers chart, with arrows to move through earlier periods.
368 +- Newsletter: Add an Overview dashboard for getting started and finding guides.
340 369 - Newsletter: Format stats metrics and open/click rates with locale-aware number formatters.
370 +- Newsletter: List the Action Bar in the Site Editor's "Added by Newsletter settings" note, and show the note when a page or post is shown inside its template.
341 371 - Newsletter: List the enabled pop-up, overlay, and floating button below the footer when editing a template in the Site Editor.
372 +- Newsletter: Pick readable text, link and heading colors to go with the email background you choose.
373 +- Newsletter: Redesign the Jetpack Newsletter sidebar with Email, Newsletter categories, and Audience panels.
374 +- Newsletter: Show the email itself in the email design canvas, and limit editing there to the Styles panel.
342 375 - Newsletter: Sync the active theme's colors and typography so post emails can match the site's design.
376 +- Notices: Render Jetpack admin and My Jetpack dashboard notices with the WordPress design system Notice component.
343 377 - Partner Coupons: Move coupon redemption from the legacy dashboard to My Jetpack.
378 +- PayPal Payment Buttons: Keep the product image on the site instead of sending it to PayPal.
379 +- PayPal Payment Buttons: Link sellers to their PayPal transactions and to PayPal's refund instructions from the block's account menu and the Payment Links admin page.
380 +- PayPal Payment Buttons: Route PayPal calls through WordPress.com, so no API credentials are stored on the site.
381 +- PayPal Payment Buttons: Show PayPal's debug ID in API error messages so failed requests can be traced with PayPal support.
382 +- PayPal Payment Buttons: Use PayPal's official logos, unmodified, and match the connect wizard to the design.
383 +- PayPal Payment Buttons: Warn in the editor when the PayPal account cannot receive payments or lacks required permissions, and refuse connections without them.
344 384 - Plugins page: Ask for optional feedback when deactivating Jetpack.
385 +- Premium Analytics: Add a Download CSV action to more widgets that saves the full report for the selected dates.
386 +- Premium Analytics: Add drill-down from a region to its cities in Top locations.
387 +- Premium Analytics: Add the weekly chart interval to year-long date ranges such as Last 12 months.
388 +- Premium Analytics: Add video thumbnails to the Videos report, drop "report" from report headings, and label the export button "Download CSV".
389 +- Premium Analytics: Download the full report from the Top pages widget instead of the rows on screen, and add the download to its Archives view.
390 +- Premium Analytics: Keep Top locations on screen while drilling into a country or region.
391 +- Premium Analytics: Offer adding and removing widgets on the dashboard.
392 +- Premium Analytics: Open post and video details on All time, return to the previous date range from the breadcrumbs, and rearrange the Email clicks tab to match the design.
393 +- Premium Analytics: Show load errors and missing items on author, post, and video details in a notice, and stop offering Retry when access is denied.
394 +- Premium Analytics: Show Posts & Pages and Videos report titles in bold beside a fixed-size thumbnail.
395 +- Premium Analytics: Show the Earnings History widget's adjustments link as text with a count badge.
396 +- 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.
345 397 - Search: Show the dashboard in the new rounded admin page frame.
398 +- Search: Skip the $0 checkout when activating the free Search plan.
346 399 - Settings: Move the Settings page to its own admin page in the new Jetpack admin frame; existing links redirect there.
400 +- Settings: Open the Instagram Business help link as the WordPress.com support doc inside the Help Center on WordPress.com sites.
347 401 - Settings: Open the remaining support links as WordPress.com support docs inside the Help Center on WordPress.com sites.
402 +- Settings: Show the updated Settings page to sites in right-to-left languages.
348 403 - Sharing: Group "Disable CSS and JS" with the sharing button settings, and hide it while sharing buttons are off.
349 404 - Sharing settings: Give "Show buttons on" a section of its own.
350 405 - Sharing settings: Keep the sharing buttons configuration available on block themes, alongside the recommendation to use the Sharing Buttons block.
351 406 - Sharing settings: Show the Sharing and Like buttons sections whichever features are active, each with its own save button.
407 +- Stats: Hide WordPress admin notices on the Stats dashboard, and let hosts show or hide the Stats sidebar entry.
352 408 - Stats: Move the Stats settings to a new Settings tab in the Stats dashboard, and link to it from Jetpack Settings.
353 409 - Stats: Recognize the standalone Jetpack Stats plugin in My Jetpack, and install it when Stats is activated there.
354 410 - Tooltips: Keep focus on information icons when their tooltips open, and announce the content to screen readers.
355 411 - Tooltips: Show a focus ring on information icons after clicking them.
412 +- VideoPress: Add a "Learn more" support link to the admin page.
413 +- VideoPress: Add a "Show player" setting to the playlist blocks; when off, clicking a video opens it on VideoPress.
356 414 - 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.
357 415 - VideoPress: Add an All Playlists block that lists every Video Playlist published on the site as a grid or a list.
416 +- VideoPress: Add a setting to render players from one shared player script instead of one frame per video.
417 +- VideoPress: Add a setting to turn off sharing for every video on the site.
418 +- VideoPress: Add support for editing video details while uploads are in progress.
358 419 - VideoPress: Add title and description settings to the Video Playlist block.
420 +- VideoPress: Give every video its own page for themes that support it, and add a "Show the video being viewed" option to the video block.
359 421 - 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.
422 +- VideoPress: Show the Video Playlist block's title as an editable heading above the playlist, with a setting to turn it off.
423 +- VideoPress: Show video library thumbnails in a 16:9 aspect ratio.
424 +- 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.
425 +- VideoPress: Warn in the caption manager when a private video's preview may not play.
360 426 - Zoom Scheduler: Add a block that embeds Zoom Scheduler booking pages, available on all plans.
361 427
362 428 #### Bug fixes
429 +- Admin: Hide default WordPress admin notices and load design tokens on Jetpack pages that non-admin users open before the site is connected or while it is in offline mode.
363 430 - Admin: Hide masthead links when My Jetpack is unavailable.
431 +- Admin: Match the Jetpack menu logo's first paint to the active admin color scheme.
364 432 - AI: Avoid an unnecessary request when loading the editor.
365 433 - AI: Disable feature toggles when custom code forces AI off.
434 +- AI: Hide feature links when code turns AI features off, as when the site owner turns them off.
435 +- AI: Keep the Jetpack AI menu item when AI is switched off, so the MCP and Connectors tab stays reachable.
366 436 - AI: Show the "Learn more" link when SEO settings are unavailable.
367 437 - AI: Turn off AI SEO and Search AI Answers when the `jetpack_ai_enabled` filter returns false.
438 +- AI blocks: Show a consistent placeholder in the editor when Jetpack AI is turned off.
368 439 - Blocks: Align the premium block upgrade banner with its text on narrow screens.
440 +- Blocks: Show the selected style in the Calendly and Eventbrite style pickers.
441 +- Blocks: Show upgrade nudges for paid blocks and SEO settings in the editor's brand colors instead of pink.
442 +- Calendly: Make the block preview interactive in the editor once the block is selected.
443 +- Charts: Fix keyboard focus and tooltip selection.
444 +- Charts: Fix unreadable axis labels in high-contrast (forced colors) mode.
445 +- Charts: Return keyboard focus to line and area charts after closing a tooltip with Escape.
446 +- Charts: Stop the first and last dates on a chart's horizontal axis from being cut off.
447 +- Comments API: Return the real total in `found` when a post's comments are filtered by type or date, instead of -1.
448 +- Connection: Fix a stale connection error notice that could persist on healthy sites.
449 +- Connection: Hide connection error notices from users who cannot fix the connection.
369 450 - Connection: Let users without admin access reconnect their own broken account from the connection error notice.
451 +- Connection: Reconnect only the owner's account instead of disconnecting every user, and clear the broken-connection notice on the first attempt.
370 452 - Connection: Report a broken connection on My Jetpack's connection card instead of claiming everything looks good.
371 453 - Connection: Show a connection break only its owner can repair as a warning to other users, not an error.
454 +- Connection: Stop Site Health from reporting false connection failures, and stop prompting a reconnect when the WordPress.com connection test is inconclusive.
455 +- Connection: Stop users who cannot set up the site connection from becoming the connection owner when the owner's connection is missing.
372 456 - Content Guidelines: Fix the AI button alignment and the loading shimmer after recent Gutenberg changes.
373 457 - Copy Post: Fix footnotes containing links being lost when duplicating a post.
374 458 - CRM: Keep the site owner on My Jetpack after activating Jetpack CRM, instead of sending them to CRM's full-screen setup wizard.
375 459 - Dashboards: Show Jetpack in-dashboard messages on the modernized product dashboards again.
460 +- Dashboards: Stop the frame from flashing while loading and when switching admin pages.
376 461 - Donations: Fix the donate button rendering as a cross shape on themes that apply block-level styles to `.wp-block-button__link`.
462 +- 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.
377 463 - External Media: Fix the width of the Select Media button in narrow block placeholders, such as the Media & Text block.
464 +- External Media: Make the featured image picker fill the sidebar width.
378 465 - Firewall: Avoid a fatal error for visitors on the IP block list when the firewall runs before WordPress.
379 466 - Firewall: Fix blank Jetpack admin pages when the standalone mode bootstrap loads from an older copy of the plugin.
467 +- Fix Jetpack admin pages and Jetpack blocks in the editor failing to load on WordPress.com-hosted sites.
380 468 - Footer: Hide the "Products" and "Help" links when My Jetpack is unavailable.
381 469 - Forms: Cap the rating scale when rendering a form or a response so a malformed value cannot exhaust memory.
382 470 - Forms: Detect Jetpack CRM installs that use a custom plugin folder or file name.
471 +- Forms: Open the Forms tab when it is requested directly instead of falling back to Responses.
472 +- Forms: Prevent extra forms from being created when the block placeholder is clicked more than once.
473 +- Forms: Start the Delete permanently and Mark as spam confirmations on Cancel, so pressing Enter no longer permanently deletes a form or marks a response as spam.
474 +- Forms: Start the Empty trash and Delete spam confirmations on Cancel and show Delete in red, so pressing Enter no longer permanently deletes every response in that folder.
475 +- Goodreads: Fix the block rendering empty on the front end of WordPress.com Simple sites.
383 476 - Google Fonts: Detect fonts followed by fallback families so selected fonts render on the front end.
477 +- Google Fonts: Preserve theme and user font sources and process only needed catalogue font faces on the front end.
478 +- Google Photos: Show an error with a retry option when the picker cannot be opened, instead of loading indefinitely.
479 +- Heartbeat: Prevent fatal errors when another plugin loads an older Connection package.
480 +- Jetpack Manage: Only show the sidebar link to agency accounts.
481 +- Likes: Hide the "Loading…" placeholder from the widget itself, so it disappears even when the Likes stylesheet fails to load.
482 +- Likes: Let Comment Likes be turned on for a single post in the block editor while Like buttons are off.
483 +- Likes: Load like buttons that a late page reflow brings into view, instead of waiting for the reader to scroll.
484 +- Mailchimp: Save the chosen audience right away, so the block works without also saving the Writing settings.
485 +- Mailchimp: Show progress and explain what is missing when re-checking the connection from the block.
384 486 - 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.
487 +- Modules: Show other plugins' admin notices above the module list instead of inside it.
488 +- My Jetpack: Fix overlapping and misaligned stats on the Protect card.
385 489 - My Jetpack: Fix the layout of the connection screen for right-to-left languages.
386 490 - 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.
491 +- My Jetpack: Offer to activate Search, rather than to buy a plan, when the site already owns it and the module is switched off.
387 492 - My Jetpack: Point users who cannot connect the site at an administrator, instead of an onboarding screen they cannot complete.
493 +- My Jetpack: Restore the link from the stats card heading and chart to the Stats page.
494 +- My Jetpack: Show a switch instead of a purchase link for a product you own whose module is turned off.
388 495 - My Jetpack: Show each notice once instead of twice.
389 496 - My Jetpack: Stretch the tab content background to the full height of the page.
497 +- Newsletter: Fix a fatal error when a theme's preset list is a single value instead of a list.
498 +- Newsletter: Fix the Send a test email modal stacking its address field above the Send button.
499 +- Newsletter: Open settings links on the Settings tab.
500 +- Newsletter: Remove the stray "Session expired" message from the email design canvas.
501 +- Newsletter: Restrict posts to subscribers when a Paywall block is saved outside the block editor.
502 +- Newsletter: Show an error with a retry button when subscriber details fail to load.
390 503 - Newsletter: Show the earliest subscription date for subscribers with both an email and a WordPress.com subscription.
391 504 - Newsletter: Show the warning when no site owner is connected to WordPress.com.
505 +- PayPal Payment Buttons: Keep keyboard focus on the PayPal onboarding overlay while it is open, return it to the Connect button on close, and hide Close once the seller has finished at PayPal.
506 +- PayPal Payment Buttons: Spell "PayPal" with its own capitalization in the connect wizard headings and the wordmark's alt text.
507 +- PayPal Payment Buttons: Stop collecting a shipping address once shipping is turned off, instead of keeping the hidden checkbox ticked.
508 +- PayPal Payment Buttons: Tell the merchant when a payment link could not be loaded from PayPal, instead of silently showing stale details.
509 +- PayPal Payment Buttons: Tell the merchant when the browser blocks PayPal's onboarding window, instead of failing silently, and let the next Connect click open it.
392 510 - Podcast: Draw the daily downloads chart's gridlines at the same days as its labels.
511 +- Premium Analytics: Fix the Latest comments widget counting pingbacks and trackbacks in its remaining comments count.
512 +- Premium Analytics: Fix the post comments count, the most popular time, and unnamed countries showing wrong values when Stats has no data for them.
513 +- Premium Analytics: Keep the numbers inside traffic heatmap cells readable on mid-tone colors.
514 +- Premium Analytics: Open the date menus on the applied option instead of the first one.
515 +- Premium Analytics: Show report load errors in a notice across the report, without Retry when access is denied.
516 +- Premium Analytics: Show the "No data found" state on every report with no rows, and stop the table search and settings from showing while an empty report loads.
517 +- Premium Analytics: Show the traffic chart with the type chosen in the previous Stats, or as bars by default.
518 +- Premium Analytics: Show views per visitor and the number of posts published in the Traffic chart tooltip.
519 +- Premium Analytics: Use the default chart interval when switching to a different date preset, instead of keeping the previous preset's.
520 +- Reader: Show the body of a reposted comment instead of an empty quote.
521 +- Search: Fix AI Search errors showing a generic server error instead of the real cause.
522 +- Search: Fix a leaked scroll handler in Instant Search that could trigger stray page loads after several searches.
393 523 - Search: Keep the AI Answers preview hidden when answers are turned off.
394 524 - Search: Require a paid Search plan to enable and display Site Chat.
525 +- Search: Show an upgrade prompt when editing the AI Search block on sites without a paid Search plan.
526 +- Search: Show the AI Answer disabled notice when the host turns off AI, and hide the block from the inserter whenever Jetpack AI is off.
527 +- Search: Show the connection error at the top of the dashboard on every tab.
528 +- Search: Start the experience switch and Restore default confirmations on Cancel, so pressing Enter no longer switches the search experience or deletes a customized template.
395 529 - Search: Stop offering Search blocks in the Overlay search sidebar's widget inserter, and flag any already there.
396 530 - SEO: Fix Sitemap and Canonical URLs status to reflect the active modules.
531 +- SEO: Fix the Settings tab failing to load after a page title structure was cleared from WordPress.com.
397 532 - SEO: Respect excerpt filters in generated `llms.txt` summaries.
533 +- Settings: Keep the Copy button on the left and show the start of URLs in copy fields for right-to-left languages.
534 +- Sharing: Open the post template instead of the template list when linking to the Site Editor.
535 +- Sharing Buttons block: Use an unpredictable name for share popups, matching the classic sharing buttons.
536 +- Site Verification: Reject invalid verification codes instead of reporting a successful save.
537 +- Social: Fix publishing failing with a share message database error, which also prevented newsletters and social shares from being sent.
538 +- Social: Let a Facebook or Instagram connection with no Page or account saved pick one when reconnecting.
539 +- Social: Pre-fill the Bluesky handle field when reconnecting an account.
540 +- Social: Show contextual messages on the dashboard again.
398 541 - Social: Show each number on the traffic chart's value axis once when visit counts are small.
399 542 - Stats: Draw the My Jetpack stats chart's gridlines only at whole numbers when counts are small.
400 543 - Stats: Prevent bar charts from flickering between the hovered bar and the keyboard-selected bar.
544 +- Stats: Stop showing free-plan paywalls in wp-admin on a site whose plan already includes those stats.
401 545 - Stats: Stop the pricing grid from coming back for up to 5 minutes after choosing "Start for free".
402 546 - Tooltips: Make information tooltips open from the keyboard and close on Escape.
547 +- VideoPress: Ask before deleting videos, and warn before leaving the page while an upload is running.
403 548 - VideoPress: Fix a just-uploaded video briefly showing up a second time as a local video in the Library.
404 549 - VideoPress: Fix private video playback on sites using WPML.
550 +- VideoPress: Fix selecting thumbnail frames from private videos and prefer browser-compatible video renditions.
551 +- VideoPress: Fix upgrades on WordPress.com sites by offering the Business plan.
552 +- VideoPress: Keep the "Learn more" support link up to date through the redirect service.
405 553 - VideoPress: Keep the dashboard views trend chart's comparison lines distinguishable, including for color-blind viewers.
554 +- VideoPress: Keep the video editor footer at the bottom of the page.
555 +- VideoPress: Offer an upgrade action in the video block when uploads require a paid plan.
406 556 - VideoPress: Prevent the empty library prompt from appearing while videos are loading.
557 +- VideoPress: Show specific validation messages for chapters entered in video descriptions.
407 558 - VideoPress: Show the poster of private videos in the inline player before they are played, instead of a black box.
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