28 April 2021
20:42:15 GMT+0000
Updates on underlying dependencies of VIP Dashboard to address potential security issues.
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.
27 April 2021
20:42:10 GMT+0000
Due to recent code introduced in Jetpack 9.7, which is only to be executed on PHP <=7.2 or PHP >=8.0, some linting jobs are failing when deploying mu-plugins. This PR removes them from the deploy so the process can be completed.
27 April 2021
20:42:01 GMT+0000
We have added a new subtree for Jetpack 9.7, initially containing version 9.7-beta. If you want to try this beta, you can follow the testing guidelines.
As usual, you need to pin your site to use Jetpack 9.7 by adding this line to your vip-config.php:
define( 'VIP_JETPACK_PINNED_VERSION', '9.7' );
27 April 2021
20:41:40 GMT+0000
2/2. Adding vip-dashboard code from submodule as code directly in the vip-go-mu-plugins repository.
27 April 2021
20:41:27 GMT+0000
The IP filter now correctly blocks IPs when the requests goes through multiple proxies.
22 April 2021
12:02:36 GMT+0000
Disable Search if connectivity to elasticsearch isn’t configured. This helps us to avoid having false positive alerts and related issues.
22 April 2021
12:00:18 GMT+0000
Updates automated cron task that runs once a week and validates all the post contents by comparing data in database against the documents in elasticsearch. It will automatically fix any issues it finds. This change increases the amount of sites running this cron to 50% from 25%.
22 April 2021
11:09:06 GMT+0000
We completely removed the gutenberg-ramp submodule and also the gutenberg-ramp.php file from vip-go-mu-plugins as the plugin is deprecated and should no longer be used. We’ve taken steps to ensure that this action will not be disruptive.
22 April 2021
10:24:55 GMT+0000
We have updated some dependencies in vip-dashboard that address multiple security issues.
20 April 2021
09:15:43 GMT+0000
Raise an error when sending and alert that returns a failed response.
16 April 2021
09:27:25 GMT+0000
When changing its own password in the WP admin, the user will be prompted with their current password.
15 April 2021
21:43:47 GMT+0000
We have upgraded Jetpack to the last patch version 9.6.1. You can read the list of changes· here.
13 April 2021
21:58:14 GMT+0000
Add add_role actions during WP CLI requests to address issue with the VIP Support user role not always working in some scenarios
13 April 2021
21:57:25 GMT+0000
We’ve implemented additional logging for Elasticsearch queries to provide the stack trace of where the query has been called from.
13 April 2021
21:56:55 GMT+0000
Disable Gutenberg Ramp plugin for 70% of sites, using the Feature Flags. We will then continue to iterate based on the outcome of this deployment.
08 April 2021
19:04:46 GMT+0000
We have rolled out Jetpack 9.6 to all VIP Go sites (except those that are pinned to a specific version).
You can find here the list of changes in this version.
08 April 2021
10:51:03 GMT+0000
Disable Gutenberg Ramp plugin for 45% of sites, using the Feature Flags. We will then continue to iterate based on the outcome of this deployment.
08 April 2021
10:51:00 GMT+0000
We have upgraded the Jetpack 9.6 subtree to contain the final Jetpack 9.6 release. This will be set as the default for all unpinned sites on Thursday 8th.
01 April 2021
20:39:00 GMT+0000
This will sync the settings defined in code with the ES index settings via cron for all sites. Note that only some settings are synced.
https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2059
#mu-plugins, #search
01 April 2021
20:39:00 GMT+0000
Updates ElasticPress to bring in a small fix for an undefined variable notice.