07 September 2021
15:17:26 GMT+0000
We are dropping support for WordPress 5.4 or lower in mu-plugins.
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.
07 September 2021
15:17:24 GMT+0000
Adding internal tooling for releasing mu-plugins versions.
07 September 2021
15:17:22 GMT+0000
- Fixed “Use of undefined constant” notice.
- Improved styling of alert notices.
07 September 2021
15:17:19 GMT+0000
Fetching the lastest version of two-factor from master.
07 September 2021
15:17:17 GMT+0000
We have updated wp vip-search health validate-counts command to only validate active Indexables.
03 September 2021
19:12:27 GMT+0000
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
- 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
Internal code optimizations
02 September 2021
10:18:26 GMT+0000
- 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
02 September 2021
10:18:22 GMT+0000
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' );
31 August 2021
20:13:40 GMT+0000
Running wp index --setup --skip-confirm no longer prompts for the second prompt.
31 August 2021
20:13:33 GMT+0000
We upgraded ElasticPress to 3.6.2. EP is internally used by Enterprise Search.
31 August 2021
20:13:21 GMT+0000
- Remove network-wide lock as it prevents indexing of separate subsites at the same time – 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
31 August 2021
08:51:52 GMT+0000
The resulting metric has been changed from a8c_vip_vip_search_query_rate_limiting to a8c_vip_search_query_rate_limiting.
31 August 2021
08:51:50 GMT+0000
We removed the Enterprise Search UI Widget code.
26 August 2021
22:06:06 GMT+0000
We’ve implemented some improvements that should help speed up the processing of index queue.
26 August 2021
21:56:52 GMT+0000
We’ve implemented some improvements that should help speed up the processing of index queue.
26 August 2021
18:43:54 GMT+0000
We’ve implemented some improvements that should help speed up the processing of index queue.
26 August 2021
11:45:52 GMT+0000
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"
26 August 2021
11:45:49 GMT+0000
- Rename edgeNgram to edge_ngram in Elasticsearch index mappings to avoid a deprecation warning
- Rename the EP Facets widget