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#  Changelog: VIP MU plugins [Production]

The release window for [VIP MU plugins](https://docs.wpvip.com/vip-go-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](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/).

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 07 September 2021

15:17:26 GMT+0000

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We are dropping support for WordPress 5.4 or lower in mu-plugins.

[https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2402](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2402)

 07 September 2021

15:17:24 GMT+0000

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Adding internal tooling for releasing mu-plugins versions.

[https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2403](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2403)

 07 September 2021

15:17:22 GMT+0000

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 * Fixed “Use of undefined constant” notice.
 * Improved styling of alert notices.

[https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2401](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2401)

 07 September 2021

15:17:19 GMT+0000

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Fetching the lastest version of two-factor from master.

[https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2404](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2404)

 07 September 2021

15:17:17 GMT+0000

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We have updated `wp vip-search health validate-counts` command to only validate 
active Indexables.

[https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2384](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2384)

 03 September 2021

19:12:27 GMT+0000

 [ VIP Dashboard ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-dashboard/) [ VIP MU plugins [Production] ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-production/)

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We’re defining the release process for our VIP Dashboard in order to implement a
standardized process and schedule for any changes to our Dashboard. This will help
prepare the team and our customers to monitor any newly deployed changes for possible
incidents.

 02 September 2021

18:01:43 GMT+0000

 [ VIP Dashboard ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-dashboard/) [ VIP MU plugins [Production] ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-production/)

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 * Only organization admins now can update the IP Allow List

### Dashboard: Basic Authentication permission changes

 * Only organization admins now can add or remove Basic Auth users

 02 September 2021

10:18:29 GMT+0000

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Internal code optimizations

[https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2393](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2393)

 02 September 2021

10:18:26 GMT+0000

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 * Fixes and tweaks related to the indexing CLI procedure. Especially these situations
   were enhanced:
 *     ```
       wp vip-search index --include=1
       wp vip-search index --indexables=user 
       ```
   

[https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2395](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2395)

 02 September 2021

10:18:22 GMT+0000

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We have added a jetpack 10.1-beta. If you want to try this beta, you need to pin
your site to use Jetpack 10.1 by adding this line to your `vip-config.php`:

    ```
    define( 'VIP_JETPACK_PINNED_VERSION', '10.1' );
    ```

[https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2394](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2394)

 31 August 2021

20:13:40 GMT+0000

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Running `wp index --setup --skip-confirm` no longer prompts for the second prompt.

[https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2381](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2381)

 31 August 2021

20:13:33 GMT+0000

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We upgraded ElasticPress to 3.6.2. EP is internally used by Enterprise Search.

[https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2386](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2386)

 31 August 2021

20:13:21 GMT+0000

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 * Remove network-wide lock as it prevents indexing of separate subsites at the 
   same time – [https://github.com/Automattic/ElasticPress/pull/102](https://github.com/Automattic/ElasticPress/pull/102)
 * Force fetching ep_wpcli_sync_interrupted transient from remote to allow for more
   reliable remote interruption [https://github.com/Automattic/ElasticPress/pull/108](https://github.com/Automattic/ElasticPress/pull/108)

[https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2387](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2387)

 31 August 2021

08:51:52 GMT+0000

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The resulting metric has been changed from `a8c_vip_vip_search_query_rate_limiting`
to `a8c_vip_search_query_rate_limiting`.

[https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2379](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2379)

 31 August 2021

08:51:50 GMT+0000

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We removed the Enterprise Search UI Widget code.

[https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2385](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2385)

 26 August 2021

22:06:06 GMT+0000

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We’ve implemented some improvements that should help speed up the processing of 
index queue.

[https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2382](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2382)

 26 August 2021

21:56:52 GMT+0000

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We’ve implemented some improvements that should help speed up the processing of 
index queue.

[https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2382](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2382)

 26 August 2021

18:43:54 GMT+0000

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We’ve implemented some improvements that should help speed up the processing of 
index queue.

[https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2382](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2382)

 26 August 2021

11:45:52 GMT+0000

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Example for a plugin upgrade:

Add more information to the alert about stale async queue:

New message:

    ```
    Average index queue wait time for application 200508 - http://vip-local.vipdev.lndo.site is currently 768 seconds. There are 2 items in the queue and the oldest item is 969 seconds old"
    ```

[https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2374](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2374)

 26 August 2021

11:45:49 GMT+0000

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 * Rename edgeNgram to edge_ngram in Elasticsearch index mappings to avoid a deprecation
   warning
 * Rename the EP Facets widget

[https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2378](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2378)

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