Changelog: VIP MU plugins [Production]

Fixed

• Sent users with a Jetpack SSO session from before the session-metadata change back through Jetpack SSO, so they regain the WordPress.com two-step exemption without manual steps.

Changed

• Search Dev Tools: Redesigned the panel with a query sidebar, a detail view with editable requests and a collapsible response viewer, light and dark themes, and improved keyboard and screen reader support.
• Updated the wp-parsely submodule (used for local development environments) to version 3.24.3.
• Real-Time Collaboration: Replaced note avatars in the block toolbar with an Add note button that displayed the note count and opened a new note directly.
• Real-Time Collaboration: Preserved unsent note and reply drafts across block, thread, and editor-mode changes, and kept inline drafts attached as their surrounding text changed.
• Real-Time Collaboration: Selected inline notes from the caret position and returned to block-level notes or drafts outside highlighted text.
• Real-Time Collaboration: Removed the divider between the editor canvas and floating notes.
• WordPress MCP: Updated MCP Adapter to 0.7 on WordPress 6.9 and newer, now that it no longer defers to older copies bundled by other plugins.

Fixed

• Two-Factor: Fixed a PHP 8.1+ float-to-int deprecation when masking phone numbers in Twilio Verify error logs
• Updated Jetpack SSO status tracking to use WordPress session metadata.
• Real-Time Collaboration: Kept note anchor updates out of editor undo history so undo no longer detached new notes or restored resolved-note highlights.
• Real-Time Collaboration: Kept inline note highlights aligned when source content contained line breaks or repeated spaces.
• Real-Time Collaboration: Prevented edits while a note or reply was being submitted and allowed notes to be permanently deleted when trash was disabled.
• Real-Time Collaboration: Kept the editor at the selected block when opening a new floating note near the end of a scrolled post.
• Real-Time Collaboration: Kept stale read-only taxonomy fields out of collaborative edits so unchanged categories no longer triggered Save states or unsaved-changes warnings.
• Real-Time Collaboration: Stopped screen readers from announcing the Add note action as a dialog.
• Real-Time Collaboration: Restored spacing above floating notes.
• Enterprise Search: Fixed PHP memory exhaustion when saving a post in a term with a very large number of posts, which could also prevent the page cache from being purged for that save.
• Jetpack Publicize: Do not load on private sites

Added

• Added Clipisode as a VIP Integration Center plugin.
• Real-Time Collaboration: Added emoji reactions to notes with heart, celebration, smile, eyes, and rocket options.
• Real-Time Collaboration: Added selected-text note anchoring for Accordion Heading titles.

Fixed

• Fixed support-form delivery through mail providers that require a verified sender.
• Added server-side support-form mail failure diagnostics with common sensitive values redacted.
• Fixed resetting the support form after a successful submission.
• Fixed bin/test.sh so the test runner always finds the project’s vendor/ directory, regardless of the wp-test-runner image’s home directory.
• None. This changes tests only.
• VIP Feed Cache: Fixed cached feeds never being read back on WordPress 6.7+, which caused a remote request on every fetch_feed() call.
• Real-Time Collaboration: Kept undo and redo working for entities excluded from collaboration when the same editor loaded synchronized entities.
• Enterprise Search: Fixed nested meta query groups with named clauses being dropped, which could return unfiltered results.
• N/A: test-only change.

Changed

• VIP Search: Slow-query warnings now compare the Elasticsearch execution time (took) against vip_search_slow_query_threshold_ms instead of the total HTTP request duration, so network and connection overhead outside Elasticsearch no longer triggers warnings. Requests that are slow end-to-end while transferring at least 1 MiB of data still warn, with guidance to request fewer results or fields.
• VIP Search: The human-readable slow and unbounded query warnings are now prefixed with VIP_SEARCH_QUERY_WARNING: to make them easier to find in application logs.
• None. This changes tests only.
• Real-Time Collaboration: Updated the collaborator avatar stack focus ring to use the editor design system outline.

Changed

• WordPress MCP: Pinned MCP Adapter to 0.6 on WordPress 6.9 and newer while a compatibility issue in 0.7 is resolved.

Fixed

• Dev-env: Allow local SQL cleanup when Jetpack is unavailable and remove imported service connection options.
• Skip incompatible local Jetpack candidates before initialization and guard Connection Pilot cleanup when its integration is unavailable.

Fixed

• Enterprise Search: Prevent cross-site and persistent post-cache contamination from search results.

No customer-visible Real-Time Collaboration changes were identified between the deployed baseline and the new artifact.

Fixed

• Fixed Cron Control REST access checks to use the resolved route and effective request method.

Changed

• Updated the wp-parsely submodule (used for local development environments) to version 3.24.1.

Added

• Include plugin Update URI metadata in site details sent to the platform.

Fixed

• Real-Time Collaboration: Prevented stale collaboration state from overwriting newer saved content by disabling collaboration for post types that could not persist its CRDT document.

Removed

• Removed the unused Parsedown development dependency.

Changed

• HyperDB: Updated to the latest upstream version.
• Real-Time Collaboration: Moved collaboration and its bundled HTTP polling provider behind one opt-in Gutenberg experiment, disabled by default, while allowing plugins to replace the default provider.
• Real-Time Collaboration: Enabled Gutenberg’s unified real-time collaboration experiment by default and moved its control from Gutenberg’s Experiments page to the VIP Real-Time Collaboration settings page.
• Updated the default version of wp-parsely to 3.24.

Added

• Real-Time Collaboration: Added session-scoped Anonymous User identities so authorized collaborators could continue editing when WordPress user profiles were unavailable.
• Real-Time Collaboration: Added an emergency fallback setting that disabled collaboration and the VIP WebSocket provider together.
• Real-Time Collaboration: Added an admin notice when the installed Gutenberg version was older than the required 23.8.0.

Fixed

• Real-Time Collaboration: Prevented misplaced collaborator cursors, selections, and highlights inside collapsed content, showed presence on the nearest visible container, and revealed collapsed Details content when navigating to a collaborator.

Added

• It is possible to use vip config envvar set to configure AI Connectors in WordPress

Changed

• Real-Time Collaboration: Rendered empty editors and containers with their actual default block so its client ID, DOM element, and caret persisted when editing began, without saving the placeholder before entry.

Fixed

• Fatal error during configuration of AI Connectors

Changed

• Real-Time Collaboration: Avoids showing a newer-autosave warning when the autosaved content is already confirmed in the shared document, while retaining the warning when content may be missing because a user edited alone or the collaboration backend was unavailable. See WordPress/gutenberg#80539.
• Real-Time Collaboration: Compacts the CRDT snapshot when serializing it for persistence, preventing deleted editing history from continually inflating post meta without removing the live session’s undo history. See WordPress/gutenberg#80707.
• Real-Time Collaboration: Retains the inner-template synchronization fix from WordPress/gutenberg#79021. The VIP RTC plugin version is unchanged at v0.3.2.
• Updated the wp-parsely submodule (used for local development environments) to version 3.23.5.
• Real-Time Collaboration: Created block templates synchronously during insertion so connected peers received a single complete block without duplicate template contents.

Fixed

• Real-Time Collaboration: Prevents derived updates from controlled blocks such as Navigation from intercepting a collaborator’s first undo or clearing redo. See WordPress/gutenberg#80503.
• Post Preview: When RTC is disabled, uses WordPress Core’s autosave handling so reverting a title to its published value does not leave Preview showing stale autosave content. See WordPress/gutenberg#80769.
• Real-Time Collaboration: Displayed collaborator selections that spanned mixed text and non-text blocks, whole-block keyboard selections, and entire posts.
• Real-Time Collaboration: Cleared the post’s dirty state after successfully saving edited post metadata.
• Real-Time Collaboration: Wrapped long usernames and mentions in the notes sidebar so the text remained readable.

Added

• RTC: Added configuration support for the multiplexed WebSocket transport.

Fixed

• Fixed admin_url() resolving to the production hostname on sandboxes, which caused cross-origin request failures for AJAX calls using admin-ajax.php.
• Real-Time Collaboration: Preserved collaborators’ unsaved content and post meta when another user saves, prevented redundant empty autosave revisions, and restored undo and redo when plugins with incompatible meta boxes disable collaboration.
• Real-Time Collaboration: Disabled Quick Edit for posts with active collaborative sessions and improved remote cursor and selection positioning while resizing the browser window.
• VIP Image Resize: Fixed full-size image requests returning theme-constrained dimensions instead of the original attachment dimensions.

Changed

• Real-Time Collaboration: Updated the bundled Gutenberg integration from the 0.2-20260706-pr79021 build based on Gutenberg 23.5.0 to the 0.2-20260720-pr79021 build based on the July 20 Gutenberg trunk snapshot. The VIP RTC plugin remains at v0.3.2.
• Real-Time Collaboration: Added independent controls for collaborator join, leave, and post-update notifications, and avoided synchronous CRDT updates while editing alone to reduce typing latency outside active collaboration.
• Updated the wp-parsely submodule (used for local development environments) to version 3.23.4.
• VIP Image Resize: Add the vip_image_resize_use_theme_json_layout_widths filter to opt out of using theme.json layout widths.

Fixed

• Fixed admin_url() resolving to the production hostname on sandboxes, which caused cross-origin request failures for AJAX calls using admin-ajax.php.
• Real-Time Collaboration: Preserved collaborators’ unsaved content and post meta when another user saves, prevented redundant empty autosave revisions, and restored undo and redo when plugins with incompatible meta boxes disable collaboration.
• Real-Time Collaboration: Disabled Quick Edit for posts with active collaborative sessions and improved remote cursor and selection positioning while resizing the browser window.
• VIP Image Resize: Fixed full-size image requests returning theme-constrained dimensions instead of the original attachment dimensions.

Changed

• Real-Time Collaboration: Updated the bundled Gutenberg integration from the 0.2-20260706-pr79021 build based on Gutenberg 23.5.0 to the 0.2-20260720-pr79021 build based on the July 20 Gutenberg trunk snapshot. The VIP RTC plugin remains at v0.3.2.
• Real-Time Collaboration: Added independent controls for collaborator join, leave, and post-update notifications, and avoided synchronous CRDT updates while editing alone to reduce typing latency outside active collaboration.
• Updated the wp-parsely submodule (used for local development environments) to version 3.23.4.
• VIP Image Resize: Add the vip_image_resize_use_theme_json_layout_widths filter to opt out of using theme.json layout widths.

Changed

• VIP Image Resize: Respect theme.json layout contentSize and wideSize when determining resize widths for block themes without $content_width.

Removed

• Removed the retired VIP Featured Technology Partners display from Plugins admin screens.

Added

• (Enterprise Search) Add filters in User’s query_db method
• (Enterprise Search) Add support of include, lower_limit_object_id, and upper_limit_object_id for User Indexable
• (Enterprise Search) Add a more detailed stack trace into the Search Dev Tools query log

Fixed

• (Enterprise Search) Fix ordering user queries by meta key/value

Fixed

• Fixed Safe Publish config loading on multisite so site-level and network-site-level settings are available together.

Removed

• WP-CLI: Removed the already-disabled Async_Scheduler_Command class

Changed

• Secure MCP: MCP requests whose authenticated email does not match a WordPress user now return a 401 error instead of silently declining authentication.

Changed

• WP Memcached: Updates version

Changed

• WP Memcached: Updates version

Added

• • Added the vip_get_device_class() to return the device type ('desktop', 'smart', 'dumb', or 'tablet') based on the X-Mobile-Class HTTP header.