Title: VIP Platform Changelog · Page 58 of 64 · WordPress VIP Documentation --- # 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. [ RSS  ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/feed/) Search Showing page 58 of 64 30 March 2021 21:53:42 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-automatic-index-setting-management-for-10-of-sites/) This feature, enabled on 10% of sites, will automatically update some index settings if they are found to be inconsistent with the desired state. [https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2053](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2053) 30 March 2021 21:07:26 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-index-replica-counts/) Modifies the default index replica count in preparation for changing the index shard allocation settings. [https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2031](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2031) 30 March 2021 21:07:09 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/update-allocate-search-indexes-in-sites-origin-datacenter/) Rather than allowing index shards to be distributed around the cluster, this change ensures that indexes are placed in a site’s origin datacenter to be closer to the web containers. This will only affect new indexes at first – existing indexes will be modified at a later time. [https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/1983](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/1983) 30 March 2021 21:05:45 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/added-jetpack-9-6-beta/) We have added a new subtree for Jetpack 9.6, initially containing version 9.6-beta. If you want to try this beta, you can follow the [testing guidelines](https://github.com/Automattic/jetpack/blob/jetpack/branch-9.6/to-test.md). As usual, you need to pin your site to use Jetpack 9.6 by adding this line to your` vip-config.php`: ``` define( 'VIP_JETPACK_PINNED_VERSION', '9.6' ); ``` [https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2052](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2052) 30 March 2021 13:04:04 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/improvement-options-size-monitoring/) We have systems in place that alert us when the size of the options grows too big to fit into a Memcached server entry to prevent increased pressure on the Memcached server and limit potential performance degradation. We made changes to alerting logic to prevent false positives. [https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2047](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2047) 30 March 2021 13:03:54 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/effectively-remove-gutenberg-ramp-for-25-of-sites/) Disable Gutenberg Ramp plugin for 25% 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/2045](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2045) 30 March 2021 13:03:49 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/added-alloptions-suppression-flag/) This change adds an option flag for temporarily suppressing alloptions alerts, along with supporting WP-CLI commands to manage the flag. [https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2026](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2026) 30 March 2021 13:03:36 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/search-domains-in-wp-admin-multisite-site-search/) This change improves multisite site search within WP Admin by filtering `site_search_columns` to add `domain` to the columns to search in a `WP_Site_Query` search query. [https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2044](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2044) 25 March 2021 21:04:40 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/update-support-environment-variable-based-sandbox-cli-batch-container-detection/) Switches to the new Environment class for determining sandbox and CLI container status, which can now come from environment variables in addition to the hostname. [https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2042](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2042) 25 March 2021 19:09:30 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/utils-add-environment-utility-class-for-determining-characteristics-of-current-environment/) This adds a new `Automattic\VIP\Environment` utility class for determining details about the current environment (like if this is a sandbox or CLI/Batch container). This will replace existing logic that is hardcoded into 000-vip-init.php, making it testable. [https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2043](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2043) 25 March 2021 17:27:02 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/effectively-remove-gutenberg-ramp-for-10-of-sites/) This Pull-Request will disable Gutenberg Ramp plugin for 10% of sites, using the Feature Flags. When merged and if everything looks good, we will disable it for further 10%, and so forth. [https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2039](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2039) 25 March 2021 17:26:57 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-16/) Update to the alert message received for validate-contents search cron. This change adds site URL and switches from detailed to summary report. [https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2041](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2041) 25 March 2021 17:26:36 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/files-improved-compatibility-with-core-filters/) * fixes the `intermediate_image_sizes_advanced` filter by adding the attachment_id third parameter [https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2036](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2036) 24 March 2021 21:52:56 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-15/) Adds automated cron task that will run once a week and will validate all the post contents by comparing data in database against the documents in elasticsearch. It will automatically fix any issues it finds. [https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2040](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2040) 24 March 2021 21:52:36 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-14/) Update ElasticPress to avoid warnings due to deprecated operation in ElasticSearch 7.X and higher. [https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2038](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2038) 24 March 2021 21:52:14 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/plugin-updated-search-13/) Adds an interruption recovery mechanism to the validate content feature. [https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2037](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2037) 18 March 2021 10:00:43 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/update-text-change-for-powered-by-footer/) Changes WordPress.com VIP to WordPress VIP in the "Powered by" footer message. [https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/1838](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/1838) 18 March 2021 10:00:39 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-http-concat/) Replaces http header for concatanated javascript files from `application/x-javascript` to `application/javascript`. [https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2022](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2022) 18 March 2021 10:00:35 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-12/) Adds a locking mechanism to `wp vip-search health validate-contents` command. This makes sure that there is only one validation happening at one time. This will enable to make this into automated check in the future as well as avoid potential race condition issues with self-healing if differences. [https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/1990](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/1990) 16 March 2021 19:14:54 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-settings-monitoring-for-all-sites/) Enables the automatic monitoring of inconsistent index settings for all sites (previously limited to 25%). [https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2030](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2030) --- * [Previous](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/page/57/?output_format=md) * [Page 1](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/?output_format=md) * … * [Page 55](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/page/55/?output_format=md) * [Page 56](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/page/56/?output_format=md) * [Page 57](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/page/57/?output_format=md) * Page 58 * [Page 59](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/page/59/?output_format=md) * [Page 60](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/page/60/?output_format=md) * [Page 61](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/page/61/?output_format=md) * … * [Page 64](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/page/64/?output_format=md) * [Next](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/page/59/?output_format=md)