Changed

• Enterprise Search: Updated es-wp-query to 0.5.2
  https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/6356
• We updated the wp-parsely submodule (used for local development environments) to version 3.20.0.
  https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/6369

Added

• Added get_child_configs() and get_child_env_configs() methods to IntegrationVipConfig and Integration classes to get the configs for child integrations
• Pass the data source configs to the remote-data-blocks plugins from the integrations framework via the REMOTE_DATA_BLOCKS_CONFIGS constant

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/6318

Please see the full release on GitHub.

Jetpack 14.8 has been made the default Jetpack version on the VIP Platform.

What is being added or changed?

Enhancements

• Add archives endpoint support.
• AI Assistant: Add support for file upload field on Forms extension.
• Forms: Improve the error validation animation.
• Forms: Add "undo" to all post-action alerts in Inbox.
• Forms: Add Akismet refresh status button.
• Forms: Add MailPoet integrations nudge.
• Forms: Make emails clickable in Inbox.
• Forms: Make it possible to preview file by visiting the URL.
• Forms: Release new file uploads field.
• Forms: Show central integrations dashboard.
• Forms: Stop translate product name in the sidebar.
• Forms: Use interactivity API for form validation.
• My Jetpack: Update Stats card to include a chart for better analytics.
• Sharing: Add ability to count sharing events on sharing buttons blocks.
• Sharing: Improve the performance of Open Graph Meta Image tags.
• Write Brief: Enhance local custom dictionary with more known terms.
• Write Brief: Enhance typo detection dictionary.

Improved compatibility

• Search: Replace the Core Search widget instead of adding a new widget to the main sidebar in classic themes.
• Tiled Gallery: Ensure accessibility properties are added only when needed, as well as preventing block validation errors.

Bug fixes

• Connection: Redirect to the proper place when clicking the block "Connect" banner on Multisites.
• Display Critical CSS status correctly on the WordPress.com Complete plan.
• Endpoints: Prevent warnings in logs when attempting to add external media from some sources.
• Flickr shortcode: Prevent errors in logs when requested data does not exist.
• Forms: Fix an error with poorly-formatted POST data.
• Forms: Fix dropdown field background color on Windows.
• Forms: Hide legacy Feedback menu from newly-connected sites.
• Forms: Remove the broken step transformation.
• Jetpack Media Library: Prevent PHP warnings related to unexpected array offsets and undefined array keys in some cases.
• JITM: Fix ineffective caching due to expired plugin sync transient.
• Likes: Do not register the Like block when a site is not connected to WordPress.com.
• Newsletter: Ensure subscriber stats links are correct in the dashboard widget, even when you do not use Stats feature.
• Prevent JavaScript errors when using the editor.
• Prevent non-string currentday parameters from causing errors in infinite scroll AJAX requests.
• Recipe shortcode: Prevent errors in logs due to checking for theme color properties that may not exist.
• Security: Prevent errors with array-type parameters in carousel comment submissions.
• Settings: Show Backup and Account Protection modules only with relevant search terms.
• Slideshow block: Reduce layout shifts during page load.
• Social Previews: Prevent text overflow issues with Mastodon.
• Update Jetpack_Newsletter_Dashboard_Widget to not be added with an anonymous function.

For more details about this release (including specific changes), please see the release notes.

Questions?

If you have any questions, related to this release, please open a support ticket and we will be happy to assist.

Changed

• Jetpack: Upgrade to 14.7

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/6344

Fixed

• A warning when the file requested by get_file() did not exist.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/6353

Please see the full release on GitHub.

Jetpack 14.7 has been made the default Jetpack version on the VIP Platform.

What is being added or changed?

Enhancements

• Forms: Add 33% width option to fields and buttons.
• Forms: Add Google Drive to integrations modal.
• Forms: Add Google to form integrations endpoint.
• Forms: Add Integration screen content.
• Forms: Move responses menu item from Feedback > Forms to Jetpack > Forms.
• Forms: Move Salesforce to block modal.
• Forms: Remove Salesforce Form variation.
• Forms: Replace Landing page with About page.
• Forms: Update form responses tabs.
• Forms: Update the email template for feedback responses.
• My Jetpack: Optimize the images for onboarding slider for faster page load.
• Search: Highlight search term in returned search results.
• Social: Add option to add default image to Social Image Generator.

Improved compatibility

• Blocks: Update useResizeObserver hook usage to meet new API expectations.
• Crowdsignal: Prevent warnings in error logs when viewing ratings via legacy shortcodes on archive pages.
• Endpoints: Add checks within the v1.1 post update endpoint to ensure values are defined.
• Remove Skype since the service no longer exists.
• Sharing buttons: Prevent PHP warnings in some scenarios, ensuring we only check the post title and ID if posts exist.
• Sharing service: Prevent warnings in error logs when certain keys are not set.
• Sitemaps: Disable XMLWriter by default unless enabled by a filter.

Bug fixes

• AI Chat & Donations blocks: Ensure that all metadata is properly attached to the blocks in the block editor.
• Carousel: Do not display comment form when comments are closed for a specific media attachment.
• Fix text wrapping on the stats column heading in non-English languages.
• Forms: Fix a bug preventing responses dashboard from loading (blank screen).
• Forms: Fix Akismet spam URL.
• Forms: Fix double scrollbars for responses.
• Forms: Preserve responses query parameters.
• Forms: Show upload progress in File Upload field when reduced motion is enabled.
• Jetpack: Fix redirect URL on frontend for upgrade nudge.
• My Jetpack: Fix Onboarding UI responsiveness at 600px.
• My Jetpack: Fix readability of license activation button on hover.
• My Jetpack: Hide backup failure notice when backups are deactivated.
• Open Graph: Prevent PHP warnings when embedding some Vimeo videos.
• Social: Ensure images load in connections management when concatenating JS.

For more details about this release (including specific changes), please see the release notes.

Questions?

If you have any questions, related to this release, please open a support ticket and we will be happy to assist.

Changed

• Added wpvip.com to the list of a8c domains.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/6331

Update wp-parsely submodule to version 3.19.2

We updated the wp-parsely submodule (used for local development environments) to version 3.19.2.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/6333

Changed

• Expired sessions do not count towards the login limit (#4746)

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/6335

Fixed

• Fixed incorrect image sizes and srcsets for core/image blocks on frontend requests

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5776

Fixed

• Reduced memory consumption in the VIP File Service plugin when retrieving metadata of a large file.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5554

Changed

• Renamed global variable that contains the VIP File System endpoint

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/6195

Added

• Added newrelic_ignore_transaction to some internal endpoints that should not be tracked in New Relic to ensure accuracy of the app stats.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/6279

Update wp-parsely submodule to version 3.19.3

We updated the wp-parsely submodule (used for local development environments) to version 3.19.3.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/6341

Please see the full release on GitHub.

Update wp-parsely submodule to version 3.19.1

We updated the wp-parsely submodule (used for local development environments) to version 3.19.1.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/6316

Added

• A filter on authenticate to track the type of password used to authenticate: user_pass, app_ass or cookie. This filter will only track authenticated XML RPC requests.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/6275

Added

• Added a log entry using log2logstash to record detailed information whenever a user is temporarily locked out. This includes the username, lockout duration, lockout reason, IP address, and additional context such as the request URI and HTTP method.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/6302

Added

• Patch that reduces db calls for “ninja_forms_needs_updates” updates in ninjaforms

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/6303

Changed

• Enterprise Search: Remove side properly from edge_ngram tokenizer

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/6324

Please see the full release on GitHub.

wp-parsely default version was upgraded to 3.19

Changed the default version of wp-parsely from 3.18 to 3.19.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/6310

Fixed

• Improved compatibility for Woocommerce Downloadable product and VIP File service

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/6304

Please see the full release on GitHub.

Jetpack 14.6 has been made the default Jetpack version on the VIP Platform.

What is being added or changed?

Major Enhancements

• General: Update minimum WordPress version to 6.7.

Enhancements

• Add My Jetpack tour.
• Admin Menu: Update the icon of WooCommerce for the Woo installation.
• Button block: Add support for border width, style, and color.
• Featured Content: Add messaging to clarify that the tag name is case sensitive.
• Forms: Add custom hooks for integrations.
• Forms: Add endpoint for all integrations.
• Forms: Add new integrations setup modal.
• Forms: Add tabs to forms dashboard.
• Forms: Close block panels by default.
• Forms: Reduce default padding in form patterns.
• Forms: Update default forms view to dataviews.
• Forms: Update the email notification template.
• My Jetpack: Update the onboarding UI to show a single button on initial page.
• Newsletter Widget: Improve the display of links in the Newsletter widget.
• Replace video embed with VideoPress block in Media & Text block.
• Sharing buttons: Update legacy Twitter logos to use the X logo.
• Shortcode: Convert an embed code from Facebook.com to an oEmbeddable URL.
• Sitemaps: Use XMLWriter for a more performant sitemap generation when available.
• User: Allow user to delete themselves through the endpoint.

Improved compatibility

• Add Share status support for WordPress.com sites.
• Blocks: Ensure all child blocks use the latest version of the Blocks API.
• Enable the Top Posts block in WP Admin for Simple Sites.
• Forms: Ensure styles are loaded when expected, preventing console warnings.
• Sharing: Remove deprecated Skype sharing button.

Bug fixes

• Add translation context to Search menu item.
• Block editor: Hide blocks from non-admins when feature is not active.
• Blogroll block: Prevent console warnings and block validation issues when adding new items to the blogroll.
• Dashboard: Avoid layout issues with "Apply" button on sites using a localized version of WordPress.
• Forms: Ensure render_field returns string.
• Forms: Update form responses link on editor sidebar.
• Image Compare block: Ensure block does not overlap navigation submenu items.
• Image Compare block: Ensure sticky menus hide the compare line.
• JS Packages: Decrease CSS priority of global styles to prevent them from applying within the editor.
• My Jetpack: Prevent social login from getting stuck when email input is not empty.
• Open Graph: Ensure scaled images are used when specific registered image files exist on a site.
• Related Posts: Ensure the block is properly displayed in the editor regardless of user role.
• Reset access level of the post to everyone when a paywall is removed.
• Slideshow: Prevent images from appearing stuck to the mouse in block-based themes.
• Slideshow block: Ensure block preview doesn't generate an invalid API request.
• Social: Do not load in the Classic editor if module is off.
• Social: Fix "Start for free" not working when module is OFF.
• Star Rating: Fix padding and improve panel copy.
• Stats: Fix PHP TypeError.
• Subscriptions: Only display the dashboard widget to site admins when the Subscriptions feature is active.
• VideoPress: Avoid suggesting transforming unsupported Video blocks into VideoPress blocks.

For more details about this release (including specific changes), please see the release notes.

Questions?

If you have any questions, related to this release, please open a support ticket and we will be happy to assist.

Changed

• Jetpack: Update to 14.6 for WP 6.7+

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/6288

Added

• Ability to bypass mark certain files as local and store them in temporary folder to not make any remote requests to VIP File Service.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/6277

Please see the full release on GitHub.

Update wp-parsely submodule to version 3.18.1

We updated the wp-parsely submodule (used for local development environments) to version 3.18.1.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/6266

Please see the full release on GitHub.