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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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17 June 2025

17:35:12 GMT+0000

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New Jetpack release

Jetpack 14.7 has been made the default Jetpack version on the VIP Platform.

What is being added or changed?

Enhancements

  • Forms: Add 33% width option to fields and buttons.
  • Forms: Add Google Drive to integrations modal.
  • Forms: Add Google to form integrations endpoint.
  • Forms: Add Integration screen content.
  • Forms: Move responses menu item from Feedback > Forms to Jetpack > Forms.
  • Forms: Move Salesforce to block modal.
  • Forms: Remove Salesforce Form variation.
  • Forms: Replace Landing page with About page.
  • Forms: Update form responses tabs.
  • Forms: Update the email template for feedback responses.
  • My Jetpack: Optimize the images for onboarding slider for faster page load.
  • Search: Highlight search term in returned search results.
  • Social: Add option to add default image to Social Image Generator.

Improved compatibility

  • Blocks: Update useResizeObserver hook usage to meet new API expectations.
  • Crowdsignal: Prevent warnings in error logs when viewing ratings via legacy shortcodes on archive pages.
  • Endpoints: Add checks within the v1.1 post update endpoint to ensure values are defined.
  • Remove Skype since the service no longer exists.
  • Sharing buttons: Prevent PHP warnings in some scenarios, ensuring we only check the post title and ID if posts exist.
  • Sharing service: Prevent warnings in error logs when certain keys are not set.
  • Sitemaps: Disable XMLWriter by default unless enabled by a filter.

Bug fixes

  • AI Chat & Donations blocks: Ensure that all metadata is properly attached to the blocks in the block editor.
  • Carousel: Do not display comment form when comments are closed for a specific media attachment.
  • Fix text wrapping on the stats column heading in non-English languages.
  • Forms: Fix a bug preventing responses dashboard from loading (blank screen).
  • Forms: Fix Akismet spam URL.
  • Forms: Fix double scrollbars for responses.
  • Forms: Preserve responses query parameters.
  • Forms: Show upload progress in File Upload field when reduced motion is enabled.
  • Jetpack: Fix redirect URL on frontend for upgrade nudge.
  • My Jetpack: Fix Onboarding UI responsiveness at 600px.
  • My Jetpack: Fix readability of license activation button on hover.
  • My Jetpack: Hide backup failure notice when backups are deactivated.
  • Open Graph: Prevent PHP warnings when embedding some Vimeo videos.
  • Social: Ensure images load in connections management when concatenating JS.

For more details about this release (including specific changes), please see the release notes.

Questions?

If you have any questions, related to this release, please open a support ticket and we will be happy to assist.

10 June 2025

20:01:51 GMT+0000

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Changed

  • Added wpvip.com to the list of a8c domains.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/6331

Update wp-parsely submodule to version 3.19.2

We updated the wp-parsely submodule (used for local development environments) to version 3.19.2.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/6333

Changed

  • Expired sessions do not count towards the login limit (#4746)

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/6335

Fixed

  • Fixed incorrect image sizes and srcsets for core/image blocks on frontend requests

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5776

Fixed

  • Reduced memory consumption in the VIP File Service plugin when retrieving metadata of a large file.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5554

Changed

  • Renamed global variable that contains the VIP File System endpoint

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/6195

Added

  • Added newrelic_ignore_transaction to some internal endpoints that should not be tracked in New Relic to ensure accuracy of the app stats.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/6279

Update wp-parsely submodule to version 3.19.3

We updated the wp-parsely submodule (used for local development environments) to version 3.19.3.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/6341

Please see the full release on GitHub.

03 June 2025

19:10:54 GMT+0000

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Update wp-parsely submodule to version 3.19.1

We updated the wp-parsely submodule (used for local development environments) to version 3.19.1.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/6316

Added

  • A filter on authenticate to track the type of password used to authenticate: user_pass, app_ass or cookie. This filter will only track authenticated XML RPC requests.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/6275

Added

  • Added a log entry using log2logstash to record detailed information whenever a user is temporarily locked out. This includes the username, lockout duration, lockout reason, IP address, and additional context such as the request URI and HTTP method.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/6302

Added

  • Patch that reduces db calls for “ninja_forms_needs_updates” updates in ninjaforms

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/6303

Changed

  • Enterprise Search: Remove side properly from edge_ngram tokenizer

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/6324

Please see the full release on GitHub.

20 May 2025

20:31:05 GMT+0000

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New Jetpack release

Jetpack 14.6 has been made the default Jetpack version on the VIP Platform.

What is being added or changed?

Major Enhancements

  • General: Update minimum WordPress version to 6.7.

Enhancements

  • Add My Jetpack tour.
  • Admin Menu: Update the icon of WooCommerce for the Woo installation.
  • Button block: Add support for border width, style, and color.
  • Featured Content: Add messaging to clarify that the tag name is case sensitive.
  • Forms: Add custom hooks for integrations.
  • Forms: Add endpoint for all integrations.
  • Forms: Add new integrations setup modal.
  • Forms: Add tabs to forms dashboard.
  • Forms: Close block panels by default.
  • Forms: Reduce default padding in form patterns.
  • Forms: Update default forms view to dataviews.
  • Forms: Update the email notification template.
  • My Jetpack: Update the onboarding UI to show a single button on initial page.
  • Newsletter Widget: Improve the display of links in the Newsletter widget.
  • Replace video embed with VideoPress block in Media & Text block.
  • Sharing buttons: Update legacy Twitter logos to use the X logo.
  • Shortcode: Convert an embed code from Facebook.com to an oEmbeddable URL.
  • Sitemaps: Use XMLWriter for a more performant sitemap generation when available.
  • User: Allow user to delete themselves through the endpoint.

Improved compatibility

  • Add Share status support for WordPress.com sites.
  • Blocks: Ensure all child blocks use the latest version of the Blocks API.
  • Enable the Top Posts block in WP Admin for Simple Sites.
  • Forms: Ensure styles are loaded when expected, preventing console warnings.
  • Sharing: Remove deprecated Skype sharing button.

Bug fixes

  • Add translation context to Search menu item.
  • Block editor: Hide blocks from non-admins when feature is not active.
  • Blogroll block: Prevent console warnings and block validation issues when adding new items to the blogroll.
  • Dashboard: Avoid layout issues with "Apply" button on sites using a localized version of WordPress.
  • Forms: Ensure render_field returns string.
  • Forms: Update form responses link on editor sidebar.
  • Image Compare block: Ensure block does not overlap navigation submenu items.
  • Image Compare block: Ensure sticky menus hide the compare line.
  • JS Packages: Decrease CSS priority of global styles to prevent them from applying within the editor.
  • My Jetpack: Prevent social login from getting stuck when email input is not empty.
  • Open Graph: Ensure scaled images are used when specific registered image files exist on a site.
  • Related Posts: Ensure the block is properly displayed in the editor regardless of user role.
  • Reset access level of the post to everyone when a paywall is removed.
  • Slideshow: Prevent images from appearing stuck to the mouse in block-based themes.
  • Slideshow block: Ensure block preview doesn't generate an invalid API request.
  • Social: Do not load in the Classic editor if module is off.
  • Social: Fix "Start for free" not working when module is OFF.
  • Star Rating: Fix padding and improve panel copy.
  • Stats: Fix PHP TypeError.
  • Subscriptions: Only display the dashboard widget to site admins when the Subscriptions feature is active.
  • VideoPress: Avoid suggesting transforming unsupported Video blocks into VideoPress blocks.

For more details about this release (including specific changes), please see the release notes.

Questions?

If you have any questions, related to this release, please open a support ticket and we will be happy to assist.

29 April 2025

16:10:22 GMT+0000

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Changed

  • Dynamically load the latest version of the RDB plugin

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/6246

Changed

  • Increase upload limit to 4GB

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/6250

Fixed

  • The cleanup process after imports and data sync now currently runs the cleanup on all network sites, not just the first 100.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/6249

wp-parsely default version was upgraded to 3.18

Changed the default version of wp-parsely from 3.17 to 3.18.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/6260

Please see the full release on GitHub.

15 April 2025

15:04:34 GMT+0000

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New Jetpack release

Jetpack 14.5 has been made the default Jetpack version on the VIP Platform.

What is being added or changed?

Enhancements

  • Add page view count in the post and page list.
  • Add the Account Protection module toggle.
  • AI Assistant: Add image block extension with alt text and caption generation.
  • AI Assistant: Use base64 on image extension requests.
  • Connection: Add modal for disconnecting owner account in Dashboard.
  • Connection: Allow pre-selected login providers.
  • Feature suggestions: Improve the design of cards to better match WordPress Core's design.
  • Forms: Add Akismet panel to Form Block.
  • Forms: Add block integrations modal with feature flag.
  • Forms: Add quick link in the admin bar for form entries.
  • Forms: Add third-party integration endpoint.
  • Improve the onboarding experience of Jetpack.
  • My Jetpack: Introduce a new onboarding screen to provide clear, step-by-step instructions for new users connecting to Jetpack.
  • Newsletter Dashboard Widget: Remove feature flag and enable widget.
  • Publicize Components: Add a schedule button.
  • Sharing block: Improve the description of the "Native Share" feature.
  • Social: Add "Schedule" functionality to the Share Post modal.
  • Social: Move resharing into the Share Post modal.

Improved compatibility

  • AI Assistant: Improve performance by optimizing state management in the AI feature hook.
  • Carousel: Enable core lightbox on single image blocks.
  • Components: Prevent deprecation notices by adding __next40pxDefaultSize to controls.
  • Components: Update controls to prevent more deprecation notices.
  • VideoPress: Add block sidebar notice to transform embed into a block.

Bug fixes

  • Add a default value for the error param in the wp_login_failed action callback.
  • Admin Color Scheme: Fix colors in the Aquatic color scheme.
  • Button: Fix contrast checker for user-specified colors.
  • Fix display name when listing gravatar accounts.
  • Fix error with videos uploaded through the Video block.
  • Fix potential wp_login_failed action conflicts.
  • Forms: Add a default label for textarea fields.
  • Forms: Fix core list bullets not showing.
  • Forms: Remove default padding around form block.
  • Forms: Remove Google Drive beta badge.
  • Forms: Remove Salesforce beta badge.
  • Forms: Update the variation previews to match the current structures.
  • Map block: Increase compatibility of components, preventing console warnings.
  • Newsletter: Ensure aria-label attribute on dashboard welcome message section is correctly spelled.
  • Newsletter: Ensure external links are marked as such in the Newsletter widget.
  • Search: Ensure the count of returned results is shown after searching.
  • Site Badge: Update styles of the Coming Soon badge.
  • Site Verification: Fix auto-verification via Google when Social is disabled.
  • Slideshow: Fix misaligned controls in site editor.
  • Social: Resolve connection issues with LinkedIn company pages and Tumblr additional blogs.
  • Stats: Ensure the Stats widget is automatically disabled when the Stats module is disabled.
  • Stats: Fix date processing for "At a Glance" chart.
  • Story block: Avoid PHP warnings when using video files.
  • Twitter Timeline Widget: Prevent broken links when using Twitter's deprecated data-widget-id approach.
  • Video: Fix auto-reload after upload completes.
  • VideoPress Block: Fix broken undo functionality.
  • VideoPress Block: Fix error in the core Video block.

For more details about this release (including specific changes), please see the release notes.

Questions?

If you have any questions, related to this release, please open a support ticket and we will be happy to assist.

18 March 2025

14:04:00 GMT+0000

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New Jetpack release

Jetpack 14.4 has been made the default Jetpack version on the VIP Platform.

What is being added or changed?

Enhancements

  • Connection: Disconnect all other users before disconnecting connection owner account.
  • Connection: Display connection status on Users page independent of the SSO module.
  • Custom Post Types: do not display testimonials and portfolios on block themes where they are not in use.
  • Dashboard: Display connection owner to all users.
  • External Media: Add external media modal on the Media Import page.
  • Forms: Add support for having multiple forms accross paginated pages.
  • Forms: Update field and button blocks to support contentOnly editing.
  • Forms block: Add number input.
  • Media Page: Enable the "Untangle Calypso" feature.
  • My Jetpack: Update the unowned section from a product grid to a product list.
  • Newsletter: Add footer widget section.
  • Newsletter: Add new newsletter widget.
  • Newsletter: Add newsletter widget header row behind a feature flag.
  • Newsletter: Add setting to hide category selection modal.
  • Post actions: Rename Copy action to Duplicate, which is clearer.
  • Social: Update the admin page to be used by Editors and Authors.
  • Subscriptions: Pre-select newsletter categories.
  • Tiled Gallery block: Add ability to link to custom URLs from each image.
  • VideoPress: Add title to the attachment details view.

Improved compatibility

  • Custom Content Types: Ensure feature works on Jetpack settings page without using module functionality.

Bug fixes

  • External Media: Fix the button size in the editor for Gutenberg 18 or below.
  • Fix Social toggles.
  • Forms: Ensure non-rendering fields to not trigger validation or show value in form submission response.
  • Forms: Fix 404 error when a user submits an invalid form with JavaScript disabled.
  • Forms: Fix block style variations not showing in the editor.
  • Forms: Fix invalid html IDs.
  • Forms: Hide fields without options.
  • Forms: Improve the styling of the separator block when placed inside the form block.
  • Geo Location: Remove support from default themes to prevent deprecation notice.
  • Gravatar Widget: Fix linked accounts not showing.
  • Newsletter: Fix post placement not displaying on certain block themes.
  • Publicize: Fix disconnect command not working.
  • Related Posts: Ensure images using the AVIF format are properly displayed.
  • Sharing: Fix possible warnings related to plugin compatibility.
  • Social Previews: Fix distorted image for Tumblr preview.
  • Stats: Fix a problem where count roles weren't able to be updated.
  • Widget Visibility: Fix possible fatal errors for widgets using anonymous functions as callbacks.

For more details about this release (including specific changes), please see the release notes.

Questions?

If you have any questions, related to this release, please open a support ticket and we will be happy to assist.

19 February 2025

18:02:40 GMT+0000

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New Jetpack release

Jetpack 14.3 has been made the default Jetpack version on the VIP Platform.

What is being added or changed?

Enhancements

  • Blocks: Improve performance.
  • Forms: Add Checkbox and Consent field enter action to create a new block.
  • Forms: Allow HTML block within forms.
  • Show Infinite Scroll options in Simple Classic.
  • Social: Enable Social post UI for WordPress.com sites.
  • Social: Post character limits are now dynamic based on selected connections.

Improved compatibility

  • Nova Restaurant: ensure that the custom post type is now loaded via the Classic Theme Helper package.
  • Open Graph Meta Tags: Do not display Jetpack's tags when the SEOPress plugin is active.
  • Social: Remove "Your post" section from previews in favor of newer Social Post UI.

Bug fixes

  • Authors widget: Fix saving of unchecked "Display all authors" checkbox in the legacy widget editor.
  • Copy Post: Ensure Copy option is still available on all CPTs after quick edit in post list.
  • Fix: Newsletter toggle in editor sidebar has a visually broken active state.
  • Forms: Fix datepicker appearance on dark themes.
  • Forms: Fix dropdown icon style.
  • Forms: Fix field spacing and widths.
  • Forms: Fix permanent deletion of form reponses via quicklinks.
  • Forms: Hide empty radio fields.
  • Forms: Keep content as-is when switching Feedback status between spam and publish.
  • Forms: Make the icons show up as expected in the style editor.
  • Forms: Prevent error in block placeholder when the Forms module is disabled.
  • Pages and Posts: Fix the layout on mobile when details are open.
  • Photon: Fix double encoding image urls.
  • Sharing: Fix the location of the sharing dialog so it is not always the first sharing element on the page.
  • Sitemaps: Ensure a valid news sitemap is present even if no posts are eligible.
  • Social: Fix profile links for LinkedIn connections.
  • Social: Fix Publicize error in the editor due to malformed connections data.
  • Social: Fix wordpress.com login error when connecting Social accounts.
  • Stats: Fix saving of custom roles settings.
  • Testimonials: Fix shortcode-related bug.
  • Tiled Gallery block: Ensure icons are visible when selecting image in editor.
  • VideoPress: Fix issue with VideoPress block with zero height and width.

For more details about this release (including specific changes), please see the release notes.

Questions?

If you have any questions, related to this release, please open a support ticket and we will be happy to assist.