The release window for VIP MU plugins is currently Tuesdays between 08:00 and 22:00 UTC (09:00 and 23:00 UTC when Daylight Saving Time is in effect in North America).
VIP MU plugins is open source and development can be followed in the VIP MU plugins GitHub repository.
21 July 2026
17:20:26 GMT+0000
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.
14 July 2026
17:13:52 GMT+0000
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
02 July 2026
14:35:08 GMT+0000
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.
30 June 2026
17:53:11 GMT+0000
Changed
- WP Memcached: Updates version
23 June 2026
16:21:30 GMT+0000
Changed
- WP Memcached: Updates version
09 June 2026
18:16:23 GMT+0000
Added
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- Added the
vip_get_device_class() to return the device type ('desktop', 'smart', 'dumb', or 'tablet') based on the X-Mobile-Class HTTP header.
02 June 2026
19:05:14 GMT+0000
Changed
- Updated RTC to use Gutenberg 23.1.1
- Updated RTC to use Gutenberg 23.2.0
- Updated the wp-parsely submodule (used for local development environments) to version 3.23.2.
Fixed
- Fixed OPCache status in Site Health incorrectly reporting as disabled on VIP environments
12 May 2026
20:25:59 GMT+0000
Fixed
- Fixed
unknown --skip-confirm parameter in the wp vip cache purge command
05 May 2026
18:32:02 GMT+0000
Changed
- Updated Query Monitor to 4.0.6
28 April 2026
16:50:17 GMT+0000
Changed
- Updated Query Monitor to 4.0.0
- Updates Real-Time Collaboration to use the latest gutenberg build
gutenberg-0.2-20260414 built on commit https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/commit/9dd4b0ce7a3ed0bdb5925a42bec5cf84fcab3eae
- Updated the wp-parsely submodule (used for local development environments) to version 3.23.1.
- Updated Jetpack to 15.7
- Updated Query Monitor to 4.0.6
Added
- Query Monitor 4 compatibility fixes.
14 April 2026
19:35:08 GMT+0000
Changed
- Updated the version of Gutenberg used by VIP Real-Time Collaboration to the latest
trunk code as of https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/commit/29e8cdbf75a8515345d72ecc959dcf19ab10011b
- Update the Gutenberg version used in RTC to be the same as WordPress 7.0
- Updated the wp-parsely submodule (used for local development environments) to version 3.23.0.
- Updated the default version of wp-parsely from 3.22 to 3.23.
31 March 2026
18:03:15 GMT+0000
Fixed
- Agentforce: Respect network-site specific integration config on multisite when defining
VIP_AGENTFORCE_CONFIGS and selecting the configured version.
Added
- Log all successful unbans (
wp vip security unban) to Logstash
Changed
24 March 2026
19:19:58 GMT+0000
Fixed
- Agentforce: Respect network-site specific integration config on multisite when defining
VIP_AGENTFORCE_CONFIGS and selecting the configured version.
Added
- Log all successful unbans (
wp vip security unban) to Logstash
Changed
17 March 2026
17:22:39 GMT+0000
Added
wp vip security unban ip and wp vip security unban user commands to allow for self-serve user unlock
10 March 2026
18:04:52 GMT+0000
Changed
- Updated Akismet to 5.6.
- Moved the tooling for purging page cache from a widget to its own screen in the VIP navigation menu group and improved guardrails against accidental purges.
Added
- WordPress Dashboard widget to clear edge cache (origin responses, VIP File Service uploads, static assets)
Fixed
- Hardening: improve security of
wpcom_vip_get_user_profile()
- Update
TRUE_CLIENT_IP check to also encompass HTTP_CF_CONNECTING_IP
03 March 2026
22:28:14 GMT+0000
Changed
- Application telemetry now uses plain email addresses (instead of hashed values) to identify visitors
- The Purge Page Cache button in the admin bar is now available to users with the
edit_others_posts capability, such as the Editor and Administrator roles.
Added
- WordPress Dashboard widget to clear edge cache (origin responses, VIP File Service uploads, static assets)
24 February 2026
19:13:13 GMT+0000
Changed
- Application telemetry now uses plain email addresses (instead of hashed values) to identify visitors
17 February 2026
13:35:06 GMT+0000
Changed
- Jetpack: Updates to latest version 15.5 for WordPress 6.8+ applications
Fixed
- Two Factor: OTP Authentication URL is rendered correctly.
- Converted inline scripts into external components to allow for Content-Security-Policy without
unsafe-inline.
- Exit after redirect in Two Factor
Added
- Email address is now included in Pendo visitor telemetry data
10 February 2026
20:29:27 GMT+0000
Fixed
- The vip-real-time-collaboration integration loading issues.
Changed
- Updated the Two Factor plugin from 0.13.0 to 0.14.2
03 February 2026
18:09:36 GMT+0000
Fixed
- Enterprise Search: Fix get-indexes –active=true to properly retrieve term indexes in MS environments
- An intermittently failing test related to telemetry integration.
- The vip-real-time-collaboration integration loading issues.
Changed
- Added double-write support for Elasticsearch migrations to continue mirroring writes to ES7 after upgrading to ES8, enabling safe rollbacks during the post-migration window
- Update
vip-real-time-collaboration to version 0.2 and Gutenberg to version 22.4.1-f48ad9c.
- Updated Gutenberg version string for the Real-Time Collaboration integration
Added
- Automatically enable Two-Factor Email authentication when creating VIP support users via WP-CLI
- Add support for staged roll-out of the Real-Time Collaboration integration