29 June 2021
11:42:54 GMT+0000
Removed some redundant checks.
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.
29 June 2021
11:42:51 GMT+0000
We’ve disabled the new VIP_PHPMailer implementation on WordPress installs older than 5.5.
29 June 2021
11:42:48 GMT+0000
Upgraded test infrastructure for VIP Support.
29 June 2021
11:42:45 GMT+0000
This change upgrades validate contents health check to also trigger on missing keys.
28 June 2021
15:38:47 GMT+0000
Makes async indexing queue more resilient to deadlocked jobs, by enhancing their processing.
24 June 2021
21:53:27 GMT+0000
We’ve disabled the new VIP_PHPMailer implementation on WordPress installs older than 5.5.
23 June 2021
20:45:34 GMT+0000
We’ve updated a code comment in VIP_Request_Block to clarify the fact that the library is meant to be used to block abusive clients at the origin and not edge locations.
23 June 2021
20:45:29 GMT+0000
We’ve addressed an edge case that could potentially result in a fatal error in Automattic\VIP\Search::disable_apc_for_ep_enabled_requests pre_get_posts callback
23 June 2021
20:45:23 GMT+0000
Allow VIP File System uploads as email attachments
23 June 2021
20:44:43 GMT+0000
We’ve released a compatibility fix for PHPMailer and VIP Filesystem so that VIP Filesystem attachments are allowed to be sent with an email.
Currently, it requires define( 'USE_VIP_PHPMAILER', true ); in vip-config.php
22 June 2021
15:17:08 GMT+0000
Changes the search link in the Help Center to show results from the `docs.wivip.com` site
22 June 2021
09:08:17 GMT+0000
Improving reliability of Jetpack Connection Pilot to check if the site is connected.
22 June 2021
09:08:14 GMT+0000
Tweaked Jetpack Connection cron jobs schedules to improve auto connection times.
21 June 2021
13:53:54 GMT+0000
VIP_Request_Block used to block specific request uses now 403 instead of 410 http code. 410 code could lead to unintended caching.
18 June 2021
08:31:22 GMT+0000
17 June 2021
13:07:04 GMT+0000
Adds wp vip-search get-index-settings command. This tool enables validation of mapping file and other settings of an index.
17 June 2021
13:07:00 GMT+0000
Rolling out Connection Pilot autoconnection to some additional sites.
17 June 2021
12:41:11 GMT+0000
Adds a confirmation step before removing the previous index version when using automatic reindexing using versions.
17 June 2021
12:41:06 GMT+0000
Removes legacy DB index cleanup that is no longer needed.
17 June 2021
12:41:03 GMT+0000
We enabled Search Dev Tools on 25% of sites and all non-production sites.