VIP Platform Changelog

We updated ElasticPress dependency for VIP Search to enhance the data format about the post author stored in ElasticSearch.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/1949

When a VIP Search query fails, it gets logged to Logstash so we can investigate the problems. Now we are also logging the full query sent to ElasticSearch and the PHP backtrace, so we can have much more detailed information about the root cause.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/1954

This allows us to restrict access to files based on different signals from the request (e.g. inherited post status, user permissions, etc.). More technical details and discussion available here.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/1902

#mu-plugins, #file-access-control, #security

Code style cleanup of search/includes/classes/class-versioning.php.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/1950

#mu-plugins, #search, #code-standards

We partially implemented Files ACL restriction functionality. This code is not enabled in production just yet.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/1948

#mu-plugins, #file-access-control, #security

Since the changelog generation is now automated, we’ve made some changes to the pull request template to reflect that. We removed links to pull requests from the examples since they’re no longer needed and edited the changelog checklist item to be inclusive. The expectation is that everyone fills out a proper changelog description and this is now reflected properly in the pull request template.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/1953

As the last part of phpcs cleanup, we renamed iputils.php file to adhere to our naming standards. To increase the safety of this change was done in 3 steps. This is the last step in that process including the removal of the now unused file under the original name.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/1947

#mu-plugins #code-standards

This change adds a circleCI job, that runs on master after each merge. It finds the latest closed PR and create a Changelog record draft based on the PR description.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/1940

#mu-plugins

We updated ElasticPress dependency for VIP Search to better handle machine user-initiated actions, move indexing locks on a per-site basis for multisite installs, plus coding standards cleanup and enforcement.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/1946

Presently there’s potential for a race condition between setting / unsetting attachment as an indexable post type. To combat this and meet the expectations previously set, we should add attachment as an indexable post type in VIP Search when protected content is enabled. This is done with priority PHP_INT_MAX - 1 so that PHP_INT_MAX can be used to remove attachment from the indexable post types if needed in some situations.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/1943

After reviewing logs from our corrupted index detection, we are confident in enabling the self-healing. This change enables the self-healing and shortens the interval between checks.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/1934

We upgraded Jetpack 9.3 to Jetpack 9.3.1.

Not a lot of significant changes in this patch release, just a couple of bugfixes:

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/1942

As part of the project to obtain Site Details from all VIP sites (to gather data such as the enabled plugins and their versions, Jetpack status, VIP search status…), we are now increasing the frequency of generation, from 4 hours to 30 minutes.

This will allow us to fetch data in a more reliable and predictable way while we keep developing the project.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/1944

As the last part of phpcs cleanup, we plan to rename iputils.php file to adhere to our naming standards. To increase the safety of this change the previous change only introduced the new file. This change starts using it, before the final follow-up change that will remove the old file.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/1939

We have upgraded Jetpack 9.3 to the final Jetpack 9.3 release.

Although this new version will be rolled out to all sites on Thursday 14th, remember you can start testing it in your site by adding this constant to your vip-config.php file:

define( 'VIP_JETPACK_PINNED_VERSION', '9.3');

We upgraded Akismet to v4.1.8 (previously 4.1.7)

This release includes two fixes:

• Fixed missing fields in submit-spam and submit-ham calls that could lead to reduced accuracy.
• Fixed usage of deprecated jQuery function.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/1928

As the last part of phpcs cleanup, we plan to rename the file iputils.php to adhere to our naming standards. To increase the safety of this change, it only adds the new file. Next changes will actually start using the new file. This is a follow-up of a previous cleanup where this file was cleaned up.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/1937

#mu-plugins #code-standards

We have updated the VIP Dashboard Page to include the current correct links to wpvip.com and docs.wpvip.com

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/1931

We have updated the gutenberg-ramp plugin, that is now obsolete, to show an admin notice on sites where it’s still enabled. More information on this:

Removing Gutenberg Ramp

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/1930

log2logstash runs fastcgi_finish_request during its shutdown hook function. Doing this before query monitor is finished causes query monitor to not load any panels.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/1927