What’s new in Jetpack: August 2025 Update

Quick Summary

✅ Major security enhancements – WAF account recovery flow and simplified threat fixing without credentials.
✅ Submit forms without page reload – Smoother experience with instant form submission.
✅ MyJetpack for multisites: My Jetpack now works on WordPress Multisite installations.

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Full Details

Major security enhancements protect your website

Web Application Firewall (WAF) account recovery: New account recovery flow helps you regain access if you’re accidentally locked out by blocking your own IP address, removing the frustration of being locked out from your own website.

Simplified threat fixing: Jetpack Protect now removes threats without requiring FTP or SSH credentials, making security management accessible to all site owners regardless of technical expertise.

Forms experience gets major improvements

Submit without page reload: Forms now process submissions instantly without requiring page refresh, creating a much smoother visitor experience.

Better visual design:

Gravatars in responses: Profile pictures appear next to form submissions for easier identification.
Refreshed dashboard: Forms response area is redesigned for better readability.
Enhanced email handling: Improved copying email addresses.

Comprehensive spam and trash management:

Empty trash system: Complete workflow for managing unwanted submissions with dedicated empty trash functionality.
Automatic cleanup: Spam submissions are automatically deleted after 15 days with clear notifications.

New interactive form fields enhance data collection

Enhanced phone fields: Phone numbers are now clickable on mobile devices, enabling calling directly from form responses – turning form submissions into immediate business opportunities.

Mobile enhancements: Forms integration dashboard and modal are also improved for small screen display.

My Jetpack multisite and design updates

Multisite compatibility: My Jetpack now works on WordPress Multisite installations.

Unified connection experience: Streamlined user connection process aligns user connection and reconnection pages.

Better plan handling: Improved expiration notices, especially for customers with bundle subscriptions.

Performance improvements across the platform

Sitemap generation: Reduced memory usage when creating XML sitemaps.
Various behind the scenes package optimisations.

Better social media integration

Enhanced Open Graph support:

New fallback images: Better social media previews when no featured image is set.
Site logo integration: Automatically uses your site logo in social media previews when pages lack featured images.
Cleaner social previews: Removes unwanted Query Loop block content from social media descriptions for more relevant previews.

Enhanced admin experience

Streamlined interface: Removed redundant Dashboard link for cleaner navigation.

Reliability improvements

Forms stability:

Better error handling for network request failures.

Media enhancements:

VideoPress thumbnails generate more reliably with proper completion warnings.
Carousel lightbox correctly handles image optimisation settings.
Slideshow blocks work properly when displaying single images.

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Coming soon

MailPoet integration for Forms: Automatically add form submissions to your email marketing lists with seamless MailPoet connection, eliminating manual subscriber management.

More interactive form fields: slider and new rating field variation.