VIP Platform Changelog

Plugin Updated: http-concat

We’ve addressed a deprecation message Using ${var} in strings is deprecated, use {$var} instead.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/4721

Jetpack AI Assistant

We’ve temporarily disabled Jetpack AI Assistant, we’ll re-instate it in the coming weeks.
If, for any reason, you wish to re-enable it, please drop the following snippet in a clients-mu-plugins

remove_filter( 'jetpack_set_available_extensions', 'vip_set_available_jetpack_extensions', 0 );

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/4722

Plugin Updated: Jetpack 12.4

We upgraded Jetpack to to Jetpack 12.4.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/4738

Please see the full release on GitHub.

Plugin Updated: qm-plugins

Added a “Group Stats” sub-panel for Object Cache to aid in development and debugging.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/4691

Plugin Updated: Role Backup

Add type check handling for php8 array functions for role backup CLI function

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/4707

Extra protections around the “alloptions” functionality

Increases performance and helps ensure stability.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/4711

Please see the full release on GitHub.

Plugin Updated: VIP File Service

Use Image_CDN instead of the deprecated Jetpack_Photon for Jetpack 12.2+

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/4678

Disable “WP-Content Writable” test from Health Checks

WordPress 6.3 adds the ability for failed plugin and theme updates to be automatically rolled back. The feature requires a temp directory in wp-content/ to function.

As part of this feature, a new Health Check is added to ensure that the WordPress content directory is found and writable. On WPVIP updates are managed via GitHub and wp-content is read-only so this check will always fail with a critical error stating “Unable to Locate WordPress Content Directory”.

This change removes the update_temp_backup_writable check from the Health Checks page by default to avoid the confusing, and non-applicable critical health check warning.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/4694

Disable “Available disk space” check added in WordPress 6.3

WordPress 6.3 adds a “Available disk space” check in the site health section. The check assumes self-managed and writeable filesystem. This check was disabled because it is not relevant on the WordPress VIP Platform and gives a bogus result.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/4697

Please see the full release on GitHub.

Plugin Updated: Security

Previous refactor of security plugin unintentionally renamed action triggered on exceeded limit from login_limit_exceeded to login_exceeded. This change corrects back the rename of the action.

add_action( 'login_limit_exceeded', function() {
    // This action will be triggered again          
    ...
});

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/4703

Please see the full release on GitHub.

Library updated: VIP Request Block

We’ve updated VIP Request Block library not run in WP-CLI context as that potentially may lead to inability to run CLI commands in case an expression evaluated to true in CLI context.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/4640

Plugin Updated: VIP Helpers

Fixed a CSS bug in the non-prod bar that did not allow clicks to pass through to a portion of the application.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/4646

VIP Integrations fix

We fixed VIP integration activation when used within WPCLI.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/4679

Please see the full release on GitHub.

Plugin Updated: Jetpack

We updated the default Jetpack to 12.3

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/4645

Please see the full release on GitHub.

VaultPress Deprecation Preparations

Adds a mechanism to prevent loading VaultPress

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/4610

Please see the full release on GitHub.