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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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07 May 2024

17:46:45 GMT+0000

VIP MU plugins [Production]
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Plugin Updated: VIP Enterprise Search

Fixed a bug when setting the number of shards in the index settings for the user indexable.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5499

Plugin Updated: Enterprise Search

Disable using define( 'VIP_SEARCH_USE_NEXT_EP', false );. There will only be one version of ElasticPress.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/4607

Fixed

  • Address Enterprise Search potential prolonged rate-limiting in high concurrency scenarios.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5524

Please see the full release on GitHub.

07 May 2024

07:48:09 GMT+0000

VIP Dashboard
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  • Replaces the "Requests" tab under the Organization Usage screen with "Visitors Stats" tab for organizations billed on monthly unique visitors
  • The new "Visitors Stats" tab show a graph and table for monthly unique visitors on site level and aggregate organization level.
03 May 2024

00:38:56 GMT+0000

VIP Dashboard
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  • Fixed a bug preventing event markers from showing at the correct location on Insights & Metrics charts
01 May 2024

21:17:07 GMT+0000

v2.39.4

VIP-CLI
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Recent changes to official MySQL image resulted in inability to start database containers due to disabling mysql-native-password auth plugin.

If you’re affected, please update your VIP-CLI install via npm i -g @automattic/vip. On the next Local Dev Env start your Landofile will be upgraded to a version that has incompatibility addressed. Your existing Landofile will be backed up as .lando.backup.ymlprior to the upgrade.

30 April 2024

21:56:21 GMT+0000

VIP Dashboard
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  • Removed the inaccessible deploy commit link to GitHub on the main dashboard page, which is also more consistent with other usages of the component and commit hash in the dashboard.
23 April 2024

17:17:52 GMT+0000

VIP MU plugins [Production]
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Plugin Updated: Enterprise Search

Do not attempt to re-build a new index if there isn’t one that exists and clean-up the existing locks.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5450

Plugin Updated: VIP Mail

As per the timeline, we’ve removed the fallback mechanism that allowed bounced emails sent from domains that were not mapped to VIP sites, to be retried using the default email address.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5412

Please see the full release on GitHub.

16 April 2024

21:09:38 GMT+0000

VIP MU plugins [Production]
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Plugin Updated: Block Data API

We upgraded the Block Data API integration to version 1.2.1, which supports WordPress 6.5 rich-text attribute parsing.

Plugin Updated: Options API

Compatibility with WordPress 6.6.

Function Deprecated: wpcom_vip_get_page_by_title

Deprecate wpcom_vip_get_page_by_title() because WP 6.2 deprecates get_page_by_title. Please use WP_Query instead.

Update wp-parsely submodule to version 3.14.3

We updated the wp-parsely submodule (used for local development environments) to version 3.14.3.

Plugin Updated: Options API

Harden pre_wp_load_alloptions_protections() function.

Plugin Updated: VIP Jetpack

Introduce new Attendant class for managing the Jetpack connection’s primary user.

16 April 2024

21:07:43 GMT+0000

VIP MU plugins [Staging]
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Plugin Updated: Enterprise Search

Do not attempt to re-build a new index if there isn’t one that exists and clean-up the existing locks.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5450

Plugin Updated: Jetpack 13.3.1

We upgraded Jetpack 13.2 to 13.3.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5453

Plugin Updated: VIP Mail

As per the timeline, we’ve removed the fallback mechanism that allowed bounced emails sent from domains that were not mapped to VIP sites, to be retried using the default email address.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5412

11 April 2024

15:11:28 GMT+0000

VIP Dashboard
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  • Fixed a bug when editing existing Org-level notifications (which target environments in the Org across multiple applications) that caused the Application and Environment fields of the edit form to lose their values.
10 April 2024

00:25:52 GMT+0000

VIP Dashboard
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  • Adding a badge to the user profile in settings to share which auth method was used for the current session.
09 April 2024

13:45:41 GMT+0000

VIP MU plugins [Staging]
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Plugin Updated: Block Data API

We upgraded the Block Data API integration to version 1.2.1, which supports WordPress 6.5 rich-text attribute parsing.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5409

Plugin Updated: Options API

Function Deprecated: wpcom_vip_get_page_by_title

Deprecate wpcom_vip_get_page_by_title() because WP 6.2 deprecates get_page_by_title. Please use WP_Query instead.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5343

Update wp-parsely submodule to version 3.14.3

We updated the wp-parsely submodule (used for local development environments) to version 3.14.3.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5408

Plugin Updated: VIP Jetpack

Introduce new Attendant class for managing the Jetpack connection’s primary user.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5318

28 March 2024

18:56:27 GMT+0000

VIP Dashboard
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  • Adds an additional badge in the user navigation sidebar to show which authentication method was used for the current session.
26 March 2024

19:14:15 GMT+0000

VIP Dashboard
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  • Fixed bug in the My Applications page, "Last Updated" column to show the proper timeframe the application was last updated, rather than "Never updated".
26 March 2024

15:43:08 GMT+0000

VIP MU plugins [Staging]
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Update default upload size limit

We updated the default upload_size_limit from 1 GB to 5 GB.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5382

Plugin Updated: Enterprise Search

Fixes wp vip-search health validate-users-count getting killed for large user dataset.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5363

Bugfix: prevent PHP warnings when composing $request_url_for_logging in Search class.

Ensure that variables referenced are actually defined when building the $request_url_for_logging for logging.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5391

26 March 2024

15:32:03 GMT+0000

VIP MU plugins [Production]
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Plugin Updated: Jetpack 13.2

We upgraded Jetpack to 13.2

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5326

cleaner_jp_pbe_options uses pre_update_option_post_by_email_address* (where is the current user ID) to prevent creation of unused NULL `post_by_email_address` options (by returning the old_value in place of NULL, which in this case is no option at all).

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5311

Update wp-parsely submodule to version 3.14.0

We updated the wp-parsely submodule (used for local development environments) to version 3.14.1.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5334

Removed extraneous text from vipsupport command description

When running wp help vipsupport, an out-of-place text would appear after the command description: Class command.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5335

Plugin Updated: Akismet to 5.3.1

We upgraded Akismet 5.3 to Akismet 5.3.1.

This version contains the following changes:

  • Make the plugin more resilient when asset files are missing (as seen in WordPress Playground).
  • Add a link to the ‘Account overview’ page on akismet.com.
  • Fix a minor error that occurs when another plugin removes all comment actions from the dashboard.
  • Add the akismet_request_args filter to allow request args in Akismet API requests to be filtered.
  • Fix a bug that causes some contact forms to include unnecessary data in the comment_content parameter.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5321

Use a custom font directory for the new Font Library

WordPress 6.5 introduces the Font Library, which allows you to upload and manage your own font files from the site editor. We have used the new font_dir filter to set the font upload directory to wp-content/uploads/fonts to get this feature working with the VIP Filesystem.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5265

Update wp-parsely submodule to version 3.14.2

We updated the wp-parsely submodule (used for local development environments) to version 3.14.2.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5346

Please see the full release on GitHub.