Changelog: VIP MU plugins [Production]

Lower the max backoff time for connection attempts, and unregister the cron job when it’s not needed.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2639

Updates wp vip-search validate-contents to correctly delete posts that are extra in ElasticSearch index.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2632

Pull in latest version with changes for fixing broken JSON from duplicate term values and removing wpcom-vip adapter

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2637

We’ve implemented minor improvements that will help minimize potential race conditions on the job scheduling.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2584

Getting rid of some custom code regarding Akismet messaging.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2609

We are adding the change from https://github.com/Automattic/ElasticPress/pull/131.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2621

• Bug fix: get_error_message() called on Exception object instead of getMessage()
• Bug fix: when get_error_message() was called on a uninitialized variable in wp-cli commands

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2623

Fix PHP warning in Health::diff_document_and_prepared_document()

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2624

Do not load Jetpack customizations in case a main Jetpack file was not included properly.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2601

We’ve implemented early loading of vip_get_env_var so that it’s available in vip-config.php

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2583

Add new flags to the list-due-batch orchestrator CLI.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2612

We enabled Parse.ly telemetry for all sites that have Parse.ly enabled.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2607

Fix PHP warning in Health::diff_document_and_prepared_document()

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2603

To ensure the integrity of our clusters.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2577

Added function: vip_get_env_var as a shortcut to requiring Automattic\VIP\Environment::get_var

$my_env_var = vip_get_env_var( 'FOO',  'BAR' );

If the key, for the custom environment variable ("FOO") does not exist, the default value ( "BAR" ) will be returned.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2539

Fix typo of md_rand to mt_rand

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2582

We’ve implemented a delay between validation batches to minimize the chances of causing a resource strain during periodic content validation.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2579

Update development dependencies to fix security issues:

• bump @babel/eslint-parser from 7.15.8 to 7.16.0
• bump eslint-plugin-import from 2.24.2 to 2.25.2
• bump eslint-config-wpvip to Automattic/eslint-config-wpvip#d0aa883793f9fb9030112b8f60c947fbc3052e3a
• update ansi-regex to 5.0.1 (fix CVE-2021-3807)
• update glob-parent to 5.1.2 (fix CVE-2020-28469)
• update lodash to 4.17.21 (fix CVE-2021-23337)
• update path-parse to 1.0.7 (fix CVE-2021-23343)

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2595

Internal dependency – ElasticPress was updated to v3.6.4 from v3.6.2.

The see all the changes please see EP release page

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2589

Improve cacheability of the static assets.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2596