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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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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
27 January 2026

20:48:14 GMT+0000

Changed

  • Enterprise Search: Disallow use of ngram filters in mapping
  • Enterprise Search: Only active indices get healed
  • Added additional checks before the inclusion of an admin-facing telemetry library.

Fixed

  • Enterprise Search: Fix CLI command wp vip-search get-index-settings
20 January 2026

18:16:42 GMT+0000

Fixed

  • Enterprise Search: Fixes PHP 8 Warning: Undefined array key “image/svg+xml” when requesting media endpoint
  • Fixes active parameter in vip-search get-indexes command to have a high limit instead of default 100

Changed

  • Dynamically load the latest version of the VIP Block Data API and VIP Governance plugins
  • Updated the wp-parsely submodule (used for local development environments) to version 3.22.0.
  • Updated the default version of wp-parsely from 3.21 to 3.22.
  • Jetpack: Update to latest version 15.4
  • Enterprise Search: Only active indices get healed
13 January 2026

20:50:46 GMT+0000

Fixed

  • Fixes active parameter in vip-search get-indexes command to have a high limit instead of default 100

Changed

  • Query Monitor: Update to 3.20.2
  • Search: Fix race condition causing duplicate key errors in the search index queue by adding a status WHERE condition to prevent concurrent updates of the same job.
25 November 2025

18:26:29 GMT+0000

Added

  • Added wpvip_get_app_name, wpvip_get_app_environment, and wpvip_get_app_alias helper functions, which return the application name, app environment and full alias. E.g. example, develop and example.develop respectively

Fixed

  • Enterprise Search: prevent parse_query hooks from corrupting CLI wp vip-search health validate-counts

Changed

  • Search: Disable query logging during CLI contexts to prevent memory leaks
24 November 2025

15:42:03 GMT+0000

As the holiday season approaches, we want to ensure everyone has the chance to relax and enjoy this special time with their loved ones. Therefore, there won’t be any scheduled MU-Plugins releases from December 17th to January 5th.

During this period, no new feature or maintenance code will be pushed to the production branch on MU-plugins. As always, should the need arise, be it a security mitigation or other critical time-sensitive fix, we will deploy those.

We wish you all a wonderful holiday break!

28 October 2025

18:14:53 GMT+0000

Changed

  • Updated Rewrite Rules Inspector from 1.4.0 to 1.5.1.

Fixed

  • Search Dev Tools now correctly shows the version when the migration is not in progress.
  • Improve support for reverse proxies when checking if a request is coming from a Jetpack server.
  • Search Dev Tools incorrectly identifying ES version when version is 8 but the migration mode is still enabled.

Added

  • Added API to mark a file path/mask as local, effectively skipping upload to VIP File Service
21 October 2025

18:12:04 GMT+0000

Updated

  • Jetpack 15.1

Changed

  • Updated the default version of wp-parsely from 3.20 to 3.21.
  • Updated the wp-parsely submodule (used for local development environments) to version 3.21.1.
  • Updated Query Monitor from 3.18.0 to 3.20.0. This fixes some invalid HTML, resolves a JavaScript global object clash, and improves compatibility with PHP 8.5.