Jetpack – WP Security, Backup, Speed, & Growth

Ownership

Held by Automattic throughout, with no change of ownership observed since daily tracking began on 02 Aug 2026.

Full observed history, including every field transition

Committing accounts

Read from the plugin’s public release log, so these predate this registry. A committing account is not an owner. Thirty accounts commit to WooCommerce and it has never changed hands.

This registry did not observe a transfer; it read these names off a public log. Whether that reflects a change of ownership is not something the directory publishes.

Adoption

How widely the plugin is installed, and what the people running it think of it. WordPress.org rounds install figures to one significant digit, so they describe an order of magnitude rather than a headcount.

Very widely adopted: 3,000,000+ active installs. In the top tier of the directory by install count.

482,394 downloads a day over the last 7 days, rising 765% against the 7 days before. Downloads are counted exactly and without a ceiling, so they show movement the rounded install figure cannot.

Every field we record, one column per observation. Fields that never moved are named once rather than repeated across every column. A row of identical numbers would be padding.

Unchanged throughout: active installs (3,000,000+)

37 days of observation, most recent 14 shown.

Maintenance

When it was last released, and how far its declared compatibility has drifted from current WordPress.

History

Everything dated that this registry holds about the plugin, most recent first. Releases carry the author’s own release date; everything else is dated to when it was observed.

Entries marked from the release log predate this registry, and daily observation began 02 Aug 2026. They were read from the plugin’s public SVN history after the fact, not watched as they happened. Everything else was observed directly.

1. 01 Sep 20266 days ago
   Version 16.1.3 released
2. 20 Aug 202618 days ago
   Version 16.1.2 released
3. 11 Aug 202627 days ago
   Version 16.1.1 released
4. 10 Aug 202628 days ago
   Version 16.1 released
5. 04 Aug 20261 month ago
   Version 16.1-beta releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Adnan007.
6. 04 Aug 20261 month ago
   Version 16.1-beta.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Adnan007.
7. 04 Aug 20261 month ago
   Version 16.1-beta.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Adnan007.
8. 02 Aug 20261 month ago
   First observed by PluginPediaDaily snapshots of this plugin’s directory record begin here. Everything above this line is observed; anything before it comes from fields the API itself reports.
9. 27 Jul 20261 month ago
   Version 16.1-a.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Adnan007.
10. 20 Jul 20262 months ago
    Version 16.1-a.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by bjorsch.
11. 15 Jul 20262 months ago
    Version 16.0.1 released
12. 14 Jul 20262 months ago
    Version 16.1-a.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by robertsa8c.
13. 07 Jul 20262 months ago
    Version 16.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by robertsa8c.
14. 06 Jul 20262 months ago
    Version 16.0-beta releasedfrom the release logCommitted by robertsa8c.
15. 29 Jun 20262 months ago
    Version 16.0-a.7 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by robertsa8c.
16. 25 Jun 20262 months ago
    Version 16.0-a.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by robertsa8c.
17. 24 Jun 20262 months ago
    Version 15.9.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by robertsa8c.
18. 22 Jun 20263 months ago
    Version 16.0-a.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by robertsa8c.
19. 01 May 20188 years ago
    422 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 01 May 2018 and 15 Jun 2026. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
20. 20 Jan 201115 years ago
    Added to the WordPress.org directoryReported by the plugin API as the date this plugin was added.

What we know, and what we don’t

Everything on this page in one place, including the gaps, so that nothing here is mistaken for a clean bill of health.

Every record on this site, this one included, works under the same limits. We read what WordPress.org publishes about a plugin, never the plugin’s own code, so nothing here says whether a plugin is well built or safe. Install counts reach us already rounded; a change smaller than a band step doesn’t show. We don’t track security advisories yet. For anything older than our first observation we rely on the plugin’s public release log, where one exists. What this registry can and cannot see

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