Redesigned Placements screen for Advertising
The Advertising → Placements screen has been redesigned to make managing placements faster and more direct. Instead of opening a modal to configure each placement, settings now expand inline within the placement card — fewer clicks to get to the options you need, and easier to compare configurations across placements at a glance.
Display name now required to post comments
Readers can register on a Newspack site with just an email address. When they do, their display name defaults to the handle portion of the email — fine for internal purposes, but not something that should appear as a public byline on a comment.
This release adds a new required field in the comment form that prompts logged-in readers to set a proper display name before posting, if they haven’t set one already. Readers who already have a display name on file are unaffected.
Other changes:
- [FEAT] Add five new reader data fields to the Reader Data library
- [FEAT] Improved reader data reconciliation for returning users
- [FEAT] Regression testing added for the in-editor Newsletter CPT check
- [FIX] Add regression testing to the check for the Newsletter editor
- [FIX] Replace custom favorite_categories matching with default matching attribute
- [FIX] Password reset email when Audience Management has not been completed
- [FIX] Segment by referrer now applies to first view on arriving from an external source, as documented
- [FIX] Addressed false “update your payment method” alerts in My Account
- [FIX] Prevented checkout notices from auto-hiding
- [FIX] Network: handle memberships transfers
- [FIX] Allow legacy integrations to continue to write to
is_donor - [FIX] Allow embeds in Tabs/Tabs Item blocks
- [FIX] Republication Tracker Tool: Serve pixel gif regardless of GA4 query param — was serving as text/html
- [FEAT] Reenabled Newspack’s custom GA params by default. They are added to the sitekit JS snippet.
Hotfixes:
In-between official releases, we’ve pushed updates to fix the following issue:
- [FIX] Newsletters: display all the correct saved segments for ActiveCampaign
