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8.8

• Release date: August 4, 2020
• Release post: https://wp.me/p1moTy-rs2

Enhancements

• Blocks: update categories to improve discoverability.
• Connection Flow: improve experience of any additional users of your site that may want to link their WordPress.com account.
• Dashboard: add Jetpack Anti-spam to the product list in the dashboard.
• External Media: add ability to show google photos for a specific month or year.
• Infinite Scroll: improve accessibility of the “Load More” behavior.
• Instant Search: add support for excluding certain post types from search results.
• Mailchimp Block: show error message on email validation error.
• Markdown block: improve handling of long links with custom characters, as well as em- and en- dashes.
• Payments block: add extra customization options to the Submit button.
• Performance: use WordPress-provided wp_resource_hints for DNS prefetching.
• Podcast Player block: start saving content in post content for better compatibility with non-WordPress tools.
• Sharing: add direct link to share button customization for logged-in admins.
• Widgets: introduce new Instagram Widget.
• Widgets: add additional options to the Twitter Timeline widget.
• Widgets: add the rel attribute to links with target=”_blank” in the Social Icons widget.
• WordAds: update ad units to be more flexible and dynamic.

Improved compatibility

• Blocks: add default text color to all buttons in AMP mode.
• Connection Flow: improve the display of any connection errors, and provide more tools to help fix those connection errors.
• Contact Form: updates based on language improvements in WordPress 5.5.
• Deprecated hooks: Use native WordPress functionality for deprecated hooks.
• Deprecation Notices: provide more information about deprecated files and functions.
• General: ensure Jetpack’s full compatibility with the upcoming WordPress 5.5 release.
• General: update Jetpack’s minimum required WordPress version to 5.4, in anticipation of the upcoming WordPress 5.5 release.
• General: update Jetpack to support new environment type features introduced in WordPress 5.5.
• Infinite Scroll: fix layout issue when used with the P2 theme.
• Latest Instagram Posts block: fix layout when used with the AMP plugin.
• Synchronization: improve stability of the connection between your site and WordPress.com.
• WordPress.com REST API: adjust API response based on language improvements in WordPress 5.5.

Bug fixes

• Asset CDN: avoid returning a directory when setting the local path for translation files.
• Carousel: ensure jQuery is loaded when using the Carousel feature.
• Contact Form: fix alignment of radio and checkbox items.
• Connection: ensure the connection flow can be completed when third-party cookies are disabled.
• External Media: ensure that images inserted from Pexels or Google Photos are attached to the post you’re composing.
• General: avoid issues on sites hosted on a Windows server environment.
• General: avoid PHP notices when managing your site via the WordPress Desktop app.
• Gathering Tweetstorms: don’t enable the Unroll button until after a Twitter URL has been entered and verified.
• Latest Instagram Posts block: stop showing cached galleries after the Instagram connection has been deleted.
• Likes: resolve a potential PHP notice.
• Media Tools: resolve potential PHP notice.
• OpenTable block: ensure additional CSS classes are populated correctly.
• Subscriptions block: Stop saving localized attributes defaults in the block content.
• Tiled Gallery block: do not load the block when your site is not connected to WordPress.com.
• Twitter Cards: resolve potential PHP notice.

See the previous changelogs here.