Automattic shipped Jetpack 16.3 on October 6, 2026 — a publishing-and-creator-site update that adds two VideoPress playlist blocks, a Zoom booking block, smarter forms, a redesigned newsletter sidebar, and a cleaner Jetpack AI setup.
2026-10-09 · by Moe Ameen
Automattic released Jetpack 16.3, the WordPress plugin suite, on October 6, 2026. It is a broad, creator-facing update that mostly improves how a WordPress site hosts video, collects responses, sends email, and reports on itself, rather than one marquee feature.
The most visible additions are three new blocks. Two are for VideoPress: a Latest Videos Playlist block that keeps itself filled with a site's newest videos (you choose how many, up to 20, and new uploads appear at the top automatically with no post editing), and an All Playlists block that lists every playlist on the site as a grid or a list. The third is a Zoom Scheduler block: paste in a Zoom Scheduler booking-page URL and visitors can book time directly from a post or page, on every plan including free. VideoPress also gained a shared-player option that loads one player per page instead of one per video — in Jetpack's own test, a post with four videos went from four player downloads to one — along with a global "allow sharing" toggle and the ability to edit video details during upload.
Elsewhere, Forms gained conditional logic, so fields can appear or hide based on earlier answers, and destructive confirmations now default to Cancel to guard against accidental deletions. The newsletter editor sidebar was redesigned into separate Email, Audience, and newsletter-category sections. A new Features tab replaces the old Products tab in My Jetpack, putting every feature in one place with on/off switches, filters (including "Included in plan"), and search. Jetpack Stats settings moved into the Stats dashboard so standalone Stats users can reach them, and connection monitoring was improved to cut false "connection problem" warnings in Site Health, with reconnecting now repairing only the owner's account instead of disconnecting every user.
For the AI-minded, the Jetpack AI setup page for MCP (Model Context Protocol) now covers ChatGPT and Codex alongside Claude, Cursor, and VS Code, with a new "how it works" guide. The release also removed the legacy At a Glance dashboard and the Recommendations assistant, made tooltips and charts easier to use with a keyboard and screen readers, and patched several security issues. Confirm any specific plan availability against Jetpack's own pages before relying on it; some features are free and others are tied to paid products.
Jetpack 16.3 is a solid update, but notice what it improves: your WordPress site. Better video playlists, a cleaner newsletter sidebar, stats, and Jetpack Social to auto-share a new post — all of it assumes WordPress is the hub and the work radiates out from a single page. That is exactly the half of the workflow [Kompozy](/) is built to feed and extend. Kompozy generates the content that fills the hub — Blog Articles that publish straight to WordPress, where 16.3's new VideoPress playlists, newsletter categories, and Stats then do their job — and turns the same idea into a short, a carousel, a quote card, an X thread, and an email before scheduling them.
The gap it closes is distribution. Jetpack Social shares your post as a link or a short excerpt to connected accounts; it does not re-cut that post into a vertical [Persona Short](/glossary/persona-shorts), size it per feed, or write a native caption for each platform. Kompozy does, across the eight social platforms plus blog and email, governed by a [Persona Brief](/glossary/persona-brief) that keeps every output in your voice and a per-post review gate inside [Autopilot](/glossary/autopilot). Run Jetpack for the WordPress site it makes better; run Kompozy to generate what goes on it and to reach the platforms a plugin was never meant to publish to natively.
Jetpack 16.3 was released on October 6, 2026 by Automattic. The official write-up of the release was published the following day. It is a free plugin update, though some of the features it exposes are tied to paid Jetpack products.
Three: a Latest Videos Playlist block and an All Playlists block for VideoPress, plus a Zoom Scheduler block that lets visitors book a meeting from a post or page. The Latest Videos Playlist auto-fills with your newest videos (up to 20) and updates when you upload, with no post editing needed.
Through Jetpack Social, Jetpack can auto-share a published post to connected accounts. That is a share of the post, not a per-platform native format — it does not turn a blog post into a vertical video, a carousel, or a platform-specific caption. For that, Kompozy generates those formats from one source and publishes them natively across eight social platforms plus blog and email, and can still publish blog articles back into WordPress.