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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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30 October 2025

23:51:31 GMT+0000

VIP File System performance improvements

We have improved the performance speeds of VIP File System PUT and DELETE requests. Uploads are now up to 5X faster and delete operations are up to 4X faster.

In addition, new global helper functions were added to a8c-files.php in VIP MU plugins: wpvip_fs_local_file_addwpvip_fs_local_file_remove, and wpvip_fs_local_file_list. These helper functions can be used by WordPress applications to mark files to be handled by the PHP stream wrapper in the local temporary directory rather than being uploaded to the VIP File System.

29 October 2025

18:29:41 GMT+0000

Changed

  • Update the IP Allow list warning to properly signify that empty allow list is ineffective.
28 October 2025

18:14:53 GMT+0000

Changed

  • Updated Rewrite Rules Inspector from 1.4.0 to 1.5.1.

Fixed

  • Search Dev Tools now correctly shows the version when the migration is not in progress.
  • Improve support for reverse proxies when checking if a request is coming from a Jetpack server.
  • Search Dev Tools incorrectly identifying ES version when version is 8 but the migration mode is still enabled.

Added

  • Added API to mark a file path/mask as local, effectively skipping upload to VIP File Service
24 October 2025

16:55:16 GMT+0000

Added

  • Added API to mark a file path/mask as local, effectively skipping upload to VIP File Service

Fixed

  • Search Dev Tools incorrectly identifying ES version when version is 8 but the migration mode is still enabled.
23 October 2025

16:50:58 GMT+0000

Added

  • Real-Time Collaboration integration can be toggled for individual network sites.
21 October 2025

20:30:47 GMT+0000

Cache personalized responses now respect `max-age` values set at origin

Applications that leverage the cache personalization API can now specify a max-age value in the Cache-Control header returned by origins.

This value will be honored by the VIP edge, which will return a Cache-Control header with the private directive, to make sure only private caches can store the response, and the max-age directive containing the value set at origin.

Changed

Cache-Control headers for responses that leverage cache personalization now include the max-age value sent from origin, if available, instead of only specifying private.

21 October 2025

18:45:02 GMT+0000

Changed

  • Updated Rewrite Rules Inspector from 1.4.0 to 1.5.1.

Fixed

  • Search Dev Tools now correctly shows the version when the migration is not in progress.
  • Improve support for reverse proxies when checking if a request is coming from a Jetpack server.
21 October 2025

18:12:04 GMT+0000

Updated

  • Jetpack 15.1

Changed

  • Updated the default version of wp-parsely from 3.20 to 3.21.
  • Updated the wp-parsely submodule (used for local development environments) to version 3.21.1.
  • Updated Query Monitor from 3.18.0 to 3.20.0. This fixes some invalid HTML, resolves a JavaScript global object clash, and improves compatibility with PHP 8.5.
14 October 2025

17:26:07 GMT+0000

Added

  • Search Dev Tools: show current version of Elasticsearch in-use.

Removed

  • Search Dev Tools: remove algorithm version
  • Query Monitor – add ES version to VIP panel

Fixed

  • Improved stability during metrics collection in the Prometheus internal plugin.
  • Flush operation on files open in read-only mode does not generate warnings.

Changed

  • Release Integrations API publicly.
  • Updated the wp-parsely submodule (used for local development environments) to version 3.20.8.
  • Per-request and per-session ES migration testing is not limited to admin users anymore
14 October 2025

17:25:34 GMT+0000

Updated

  • Jetpack 15.1

Changed

  • Updated the default version of wp-parsely from 3.20 to 3.21.
  • Updated the wp-parsely submodule (used for local development environments) to version 3.21.1.
  • Updated Query Monitor from 3.18.0 to 3.20.0. This fixes some invalid HTML, resolves a JavaScript global object clash, and improves compatibility with PHP 8.5.
14 October 2025

15:07:15 GMT+0000

Fixed

  • The title of the confirmation dialog when upgrading any version of software in the Software Management panel now matches the software being updated.
07 October 2025

18:14:38 GMT+0000

Added

  • Search Dev Tools: show current version of Elasticsearch in-use.

Removed

  • Search Dev Tools: remove algorithm version
  • Query Monitor – add ES version to VIP panel

Fixed

  • Improved stability during metrics collection in the Prometheus internal plugin.
  • Flush operation on files open in read-only mode does not generate warnings.

Changed

  • Release Integrations API publicly.
  • Updated the wp-parsely submodule (used for local development environments) to version 3.20.8.
  • Per-request and per-session ES migration testing is not limited to admin users anymore
01 October 2025

16:52:15 GMT+0000

Added

  • Released Google Cloud Storage option for Database Backup Shipping
01 October 2025

12:58:29 GMT+0000

Lossy compression for lossless images

Changed

When requesting a lossless image from the VIP File System and specifying a quality value lower than 100, the image is now returned compressed in a lossy manner, instead of ignoring the quality request.

Added

The allow_lossy=1 query parameter has been added to opt-in to lossy compression for lossless images without having to specify a quality value. The VIP File System will tune compression based on the image and context.