Starting with today’s plugin and theme releases, we will be publishing release notes as separate posts so they can be more easily syndicated. You can view all release notes here. Release notes from deployments prior to July 13, 2021 can be found on this legacy page.

Blocks

• Several bug fixes in preparation for the upcoming release of WordPress 5.8.

Theme

• Added a new option on pages to display Jetpack’s share buttons, if enabled.
• Added a new Customizer option to display footer widgets in columns or vertically stacked.

Newsletters

• Added a new “manual” service provider option in global settings. When selected, “sending” a newsletter will provide formatted HTML for you to manually copy into the email service provider of your choice.

Ads

• Fixed a bug that prevented certain ad units from ever being displayed on the front-end.