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New Release: Jetpack 14.6


20 May 2025

20:31:05 GMT+0000

New Jetpack release

Jetpack 14.6 has been made the default Jetpack version on the VIP Platform.

What is being added or changed?

Major Enhancements

  • General: Update minimum WordPress version to 6.7.

Enhancements

  • Add My Jetpack tour.
  • Admin Menu: Update the icon of WooCommerce for the Woo installation.
  • Button block: Add support for border width, style, and color.
  • Featured Content: Add messaging to clarify that the tag name is case sensitive.
  • Forms: Add custom hooks for integrations.
  • Forms: Add endpoint for all integrations.
  • Forms: Add new integrations setup modal.
  • Forms: Add tabs to forms dashboard.
  • Forms: Close block panels by default.
  • Forms: Reduce default padding in form patterns.
  • Forms: Update default forms view to dataviews.
  • Forms: Update the email notification template.
  • My Jetpack: Update the onboarding UI to show a single button on initial page.
  • Newsletter Widget: Improve the display of links in the Newsletter widget.
  • Replace video embed with VideoPress block in Media & Text block.
  • Sharing buttons: Update legacy Twitter logos to use the X logo.
  • Shortcode: Convert an embed code from Facebook.com to an oEmbeddable URL.
  • Sitemaps: Use XMLWriter for a more performant sitemap generation when available.
  • User: Allow user to delete themselves through the endpoint.

Improved compatibility

  • Add Share status support for WordPress.com sites.
  • Blocks: Ensure all child blocks use the latest version of the Blocks API.
  • Enable the Top Posts block in WP Admin for Simple Sites.
  • Forms: Ensure styles are loaded when expected, preventing console warnings.
  • Sharing: Remove deprecated Skype sharing button.

Bug fixes

  • Add translation context to Search menu item.
  • Block editor: Hide blocks from non-admins when feature is not active.
  • Blogroll block: Prevent console warnings and block validation issues when adding new items to the blogroll.
  • Dashboard: Avoid layout issues with "Apply" button on sites using a localized version of WordPress.
  • Forms: Ensure render_field returns string.
  • Forms: Update form responses link on editor sidebar.
  • Image Compare block: Ensure block does not overlap navigation submenu items.
  • Image Compare block: Ensure sticky menus hide the compare line.
  • JS Packages: Decrease CSS priority of global styles to prevent them from applying within the editor.
  • My Jetpack: Prevent social login from getting stuck when email input is not empty.
  • Open Graph: Ensure scaled images are used when specific registered image files exist on a site.
  • Related Posts: Ensure the block is properly displayed in the editor regardless of user role.
  • Reset access level of the post to everyone when a paywall is removed.
  • Slideshow: Prevent images from appearing stuck to the mouse in block-based themes.
  • Slideshow block: Ensure block preview doesn't generate an invalid API request.
  • Social: Do not load in the Classic editor if module is off.
  • Social: Fix "Start for free" not working when module is OFF.
  • Star Rating: Fix padding and improve panel copy.
  • Stats: Fix PHP TypeError.
  • Subscriptions: Only display the dashboard widget to site admins when the Subscriptions feature is active.
  • VideoPress: Avoid suggesting transforming unsupported Video blocks into VideoPress blocks.

For more details about this release (including specific changes), please see the release notes.

Questions?

If you have any questions, related to this release, please open a support ticket and we will be happy to assist.