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VIP Platform Changelog

The VIP Platform Changelog includes updates made to the functionality and behavior of the platform's tooling (i.e. VIP Dashboard, VIP-CLI), VIP MU plugins, VIP File System, caching layers, and other underlying architecture and software.

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14 April 2026

20:13:58 GMT+0000

Changed

  • Updated Query Monitor to 4.0.0
  • Updates Real-Time Collaboration to use the latest gutenberg build gutenberg-0.2-20260414 built on commit https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/commit/9dd4b0ce7a3ed0bdb5925a42bec5cf84fcab3eae
  • Updated the wp-parsely submodule (used for local development environments) to version 3.23.1.
  • Updated Jetpack to 15.7

Added

  • Query Monitor 4 compatibility fixes.
14 April 2026

19:35:08 GMT+0000

Changed

  • Updated the version of Gutenberg used by VIP Real-Time Collaboration to the latest trunk code as of https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/commit/29e8cdbf75a8515345d72ecc959dcf19ab10011b
  • Update the Gutenberg version used in RTC to be the same as WordPress 7.0
  • Updated the wp-parsely submodule (used for local development environments) to version 3.23.0.
  • Updated the default version of wp-parsely from 3.22 to 3.23.
07 April 2026

18:20:42 GMT+0000

Changed

  • Update the Gutenberg version used in RTC to be the same as WordPress 7.0
  • Updated the wp-parsely submodule (used for local development environments) to version 3.23.0.
  • Updated the default version of wp-parsely from 3.22 to 3.23.
13 March 2026

19:34:19 GMT+0000

Added

  • Added new resource for the new WordPress VIP Customer Hub in the Help Center

Changed

  • Updated outdated links in the Help Center
12 March 2026

11:34:18 GMT+0000

Fixed

  • Directory permissions issues for initOnly containers
  • “Operation not permitted” and “Command not found” in Lando entrypoint scripts
  • Compatibility with mydumper 0.21.3-1
10 March 2026

18:04:52 GMT+0000

Changed

  • Updated Akismet to 5.6.
  • Moved the tooling for purging page cache from a widget to its own screen in the VIP navigation menu group and improved guardrails against accidental purges.

Added

  • WordPress Dashboard widget to clear edge cache (origin responses, VIP File Service uploads, static assets)

Fixed

  • Hardening: improve security of wpcom_vip_get_user_profile()
  • Update TRUE_CLIENT_IP check to also encompass HTTP_CF_CONNECTING_IP
05 March 2026

21:07:03 GMT+0000

Changed

  • Moved the tooling for purging page cache from a widget to its own screen in the VIP navigation menu group and improved guardrails against accidental purges.
03 March 2026

22:28:14 GMT+0000

Changed

  • Application telemetry now uses plain email addresses (instead of hashed values) to identify visitors
  • The Purge Page Cache button in the admin bar is now available to users with the edit_others_posts capability, such as the Editor and Administrator roles.

Added

  • WordPress Dashboard widget to clear edge cache (origin responses, VIP File Service uploads, static assets)
02 March 2026

17:08:44 GMT+0000

Changed

  • Changed wording for the retirement event when the environment name is production
27 February 2026

09:48:27 GMT+0000

Fixed

  • Do not display extra output when vip dev-env exec is run with --quiet