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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](https://docs.wpvip.com/vip-dashboard/),
[VIP-CLI](https://docs.wpvip.com/vip-cli/)), [VIP MU plugins](https://docs.wpvip.com/vip-go-mu-plugins/),
[VIP File System](https://docs.wpvip.com/vip-file-system/), [caching layers](https://docs.wpvip.com/caching/),
and other underlying architecture and software.

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 27 April 2021

20:41:27 GMT+0000

 [ VIP MU plugins [Production] ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-production/)

 [ Permalink  ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-production/support-for-mutiple-ips-in-http_x_forwarded_for/)

The IP filter now correctly blocks IPs when the requests goes through multiple proxies.

[https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2080](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2080)

 22 April 2021

12:02:36 GMT+0000

 [ VIP MU plugins [Production] ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-production/)

 [ Permalink  ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-production/plugin-updated-search-20/)

Disable Search if connectivity to elasticsearch isn’t configured. This helps us 
to avoid having false positive alerts and related issues.

[https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2046](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2046)

 22 April 2021

12:00:18 GMT+0000

 [ VIP MU plugins [Production] ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-production/)

 [ Permalink  ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-production/plugin-updated-search-19/)

Updates automated cron task that runs once a week and validates all the post contents
by comparing data in database against the documents in elasticsearch. It will automatically
fix any issues it finds. This change increases the amount of sites running this 
cron to 50% from 25%.

[https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2074](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2074)

 22 April 2021

11:09:06 GMT+0000

 [ VIP MU plugins [Production] ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-production/)

 [ Permalink  ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-production/plugin-removed-gutenberg-ramp/)

We completely removed the `gutenberg-ramp` submodule and also the `gutenberg-ramp.
php` file from `vip-go-mu-plugins` as the plugin is deprecated and should no longer
be used. We’ve taken steps to ensure that this action will not be disruptive.

[https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2075](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2075)

 22 April 2021

10:24:55 GMT+0000

 [ VIP MU plugins [Production] ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-production/)

 [ Permalink  ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-production/vip-dashboard-updated-dependencies/)

We have updated some dependencies in vip-dashboard that address multiple security
issues.

[https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2076](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2076)

 20 April 2021

09:15:43 GMT+0000

 [ VIP MU plugins [Production] ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-production/)

 [ Permalink  ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-production/handle-failed-status-codes-on-alerts/)

Raise an error when sending and alert that returns a failed response.

[https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2070](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2070)

 16 April 2021

09:27:25 GMT+0000

 [ VIP MU plugins [Production] ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-production/)

 [ Permalink  ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-production/require-current-password-for-changing-it/)

When changing its own password in the WP admin, the user will be prompted with their
current password.

[https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2067](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2067)

 15 April 2021

21:43:47 GMT+0000

 [ VIP MU plugins [Production] ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-production/)

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We have upgraded Jetpack to the last patch version 9.6.1. You can read the list 
of changes· [here](https://github.com/Automattic/jetpack-production/releases/tag/9.6.1).

[https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2072](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2072)

 13 April 2021

21:58:14 GMT+0000

 [ VIP MU plugins [Production] ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-production/)

 [ Permalink  ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-production/bump-vip-support-submodule-to-7f39c46/)

Add add_role actions during WP CLI requests to address issue with the VIP Support
user role not always working in some scenarios

[https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2065](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2065)

 13 April 2021

21:57:25 GMT+0000

 [ VIP MU plugins [Production] ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-production/)

 [ Permalink  ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-production/search-updated-dependencies/)

We’ve implemented additional logging for Elasticsearch queries to provide the stack
trace of where the query has been called from.

[https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2068](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2068)

 13 April 2021

21:56:55 GMT+0000

 [ VIP MU plugins [Production] ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-production/)

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Disable Gutenberg Ramp plugin for 70% of sites, using the Feature Flags. We will
then continue to iterate based on the outcome of this deployment.

[https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2069](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2069)

 08 April 2021

19:04:46 GMT+0000

 [ VIP MU plugins [Production] ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-production/)

 [ Permalink  ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-production/plugin-updated-jetpack-9-6-2/)

We have rolled out Jetpack 9.6 to all VIP Go sites (except those that are pinned
to a specific version).

You can find [here](https://github.com/Automattic/jetpack-production/releases/tag/9.6)
the list of changes in this version.

[https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2066](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2066)

 08 April 2021

10:51:03 GMT+0000

 [ VIP MU plugins [Production] ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-production/)

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Disable Gutenberg Ramp plugin for 45% of sites, using the Feature Flags. We will
then continue to iterate based on the outcome of this deployment.

[https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2064](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2064)

 08 April 2021

10:51:00 GMT+0000

 [ VIP MU plugins [Production] ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-production/)

 [ Permalink  ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-production/plugin-updated-jetpack-9-6/)

We have upgraded the Jetpack 9.6 subtree to contain the final Jetpack 9.6 release.
This will be set as the default for all unpinned sites on Thursday 8th.

[https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2063](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2063)

 01 April 2021

20:39:00 GMT+0000

 [ VIP MU plugins [Production] ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-production/)

 [ Permalink  ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-production/seach-enable-index-setting-auto-updates-on-all-sites/)

This will sync the settings defined in code with the ES index settings via cron 
for all sites. Note that only [some settings are synced](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/blob/342572fd4d0d4c044939d5a640744f22cff95535/search/includes/classes/class-health.php#L34-L38).

[https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2059](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2059)

#mu-plugins, #search

 01 April 2021

20:39:00 GMT+0000

 [ VIP MU plugins [Production] ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-production/)

 [ Permalink  ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-production/search-update-elasticpress-submodule/)

Updates ElasticPress to bring in a small fix for an undefined variable notice.

[https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2060](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2060)

 01 April 2021

20:39:00 GMT+0000

 [ Permalink  ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/uncategorized/new-vip-cli-command-update-domain-and-path-of-a-subsite-in-wp_blogs/)

## New VIP CLI command: Update domain and path of a subsite in wp_blogs

We have added a new `wp vip subsites update-wp-blogs` command, which updates the
domain and path values for a subsite in wp_blogs.

[https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2058](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2058)

 31 March 2021

21:03:50 GMT+0000

 [ VIP MU plugins [Production] ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-production/)

 [ Permalink  ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-production/plugin-updated-search-18/)

Increases validate-contents cron for search from 10% to 25% of deployments.

[https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2048](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2048)

 31 March 2021

21:03:37 GMT+0000

 [ VIP MU plugins [Production] ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-production/)

 [ Permalink  ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-production/search-enable-index-setting-automation-on-50-of-sites/)

This increases the percentage of sites that receive automated index settings from
10% to 50%

[https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2054](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2054)

 31 March 2021

21:03:33 GMT+0000

 [ VIP MU plugins [Production] ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-production/)

 [ Permalink  ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-production/plugin-updated-search-17/)

`- index.max_result_window` is a setting that controls the maximum number of documents
that can be paginated through. This change limits the maximum number to be 9000.

[https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2051](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2051)

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