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Changelog: VIP MU plugins [Production]

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.

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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.
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
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.
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)
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
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