Title: Changelog: VIP MU plugins [Production] · Page 34 of 40 · WordPress VIP Documentation --- 1. [Changelog](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/) 2. VIP MU plugins [Production] # 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/). [ RSS  ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-production/feed/) Search Showing page 34 of 40 31 March 2021 21:03:50 GMT+0000 [ VIP MU plugins [Production] ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-production/) [ Permalink ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-production/plugin-updated-search-18/) Increases validate-contents cron for search from 10% to 25% of deployments. [https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2048](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2048) 31 March 2021 21:03:37 GMT+0000 [ VIP MU plugins [Production] ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-production/) [ Permalink ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-production/search-enable-index-setting-automation-on-50-of-sites/) This increases the percentage of sites that receive automated index settings from 10% to 50% [https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2054](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2054) 31 March 2021 21:03:33 GMT+0000 [ VIP MU plugins [Production] ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-production/) [ Permalink ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-production/plugin-updated-search-17/) `- index.max_result_window` is a setting that controls the maximum number of documents that can be paginated through. This change limits the maximum number to be 9000. [https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2051](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2051) 30 March 2021 21:53:42 GMT+0000 [ VIP MU plugins [Production] ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-production/) [ Permalink ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-production/search-enable-automatic-index-setting-management-for-10-of-sites/) This feature, enabled on 10% of sites, will automatically update some index settings if they are found to be inconsistent with the desired state. [https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2053](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2053) 30 March 2021 21:07:26 GMT+0000 [ VIP MU plugins [Production] ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-production/) [ Permalink ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-production/search-update-index-replica-counts/) Modifies the default index replica count in preparation for changing the index shard allocation settings. [https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2031](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2031) 30 March 2021 21:07:09 GMT+0000 [ VIP MU plugins [Production] ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-production/) [ Permalink ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-production/update-allocate-search-indexes-in-sites-origin-datacenter/) Rather than allowing index shards to be distributed around the cluster, this change ensures that indexes are placed in a site’s origin datacenter to be closer to the web containers. This will only affect new indexes at first – existing indexes will be modified at a later time. [https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/1983](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/1983) 30 March 2021 21:05:45 GMT+0000 [ VIP MU plugins [Production] ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-production/) [ Permalink ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-production/added-jetpack-9-6-beta/) We have added a new subtree for Jetpack 9.6, initially containing version 9.6-beta. If you want to try this beta, you can follow the [testing guidelines](https://github.com/Automattic/jetpack/blob/jetpack/branch-9.6/to-test.md). As usual, you need to pin your site to use Jetpack 9.6 by adding this line to your` vip-config.php`: ``` define( 'VIP_JETPACK_PINNED_VERSION', '9.6' ); ``` [https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2052](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2052) 30 March 2021 13:04:04 GMT+0000 [ VIP MU plugins [Production] ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-production/) [ Permalink ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-production/improvement-options-size-monitoring/) We have systems in place that alert us when the size of the options grows too big to fit into a Memcached server entry to prevent increased pressure on the Memcached server and limit potential performance degradation. We made changes to alerting logic to prevent false positives. [https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2047](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2047) 30 March 2021 13:03:54 GMT+0000 [ VIP MU plugins [Production] ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-production/) [ Permalink ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-production/effectively-remove-gutenberg-ramp-for-25-of-sites/) Disable Gutenberg Ramp plugin for 25% of sites, using the Feature Flags. We will then continue to iterate based on the outcome of this deployment. [https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2045](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2045) 30 March 2021 13:03:49 GMT+0000 [ VIP MU plugins [Production] ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-production/) [ Permalink ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-production/added-alloptions-suppression-flag/) This change adds an option flag for temporarily suppressing alloptions alerts, along with supporting WP-CLI commands to manage the flag. [https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2026](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2026) 30 March 2021 13:03:36 GMT+0000 [ VIP MU plugins [Production] ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-production/) [ Permalink ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-production/search-domains-in-wp-admin-multisite-site-search/) This change improves multisite site search within WP Admin by filtering `site_search_columns` to add `domain` to the columns to search in a `WP_Site_Query` search query. [https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2044](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2044) 25 March 2021 21:04:40 GMT+0000 [ VIP MU plugins [Production] ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-production/) [ Permalink ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-production/update-support-environment-variable-based-sandbox-cli-batch-container-detection/) Switches to the new Environment class for determining sandbox and CLI container status, which can now come from environment variables in addition to the hostname. [https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2042](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2042) 25 March 2021 19:09:30 GMT+0000 [ VIP MU plugins [Production] ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-production/) [ Permalink ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-production/utils-add-environment-utility-class-for-determining-characteristics-of-current-environment/) This adds a new `Automattic\VIP\Environment` utility class for determining details about the current environment (like if this is a sandbox or CLI/Batch container). This will replace existing logic that is hardcoded into 000-vip-init.php, making it testable. [https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2043](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2043) 25 March 2021 17:27:02 GMT+0000 [ VIP MU plugins [Production] ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-production/) [ Permalink ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-production/effectively-remove-gutenberg-ramp-for-10-of-sites/) This Pull-Request will disable Gutenberg Ramp plugin for 10% of sites, using the Feature Flags. When merged and if everything looks good, we will disable it for further 10%, and so forth. [https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2039](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2039) 25 March 2021 17:26:57 GMT+0000 [ VIP MU plugins [Production] ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-production/) [ Permalink ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-production/plugin-updated-search-16/) Update to the alert message received for validate-contents search cron. This change adds site URL and switches from detailed to summary report. [https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2041](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2041) 25 March 2021 17:26:36 GMT+0000 [ VIP MU plugins [Production] ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-production/) [ Permalink ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-production/files-improved-compatibility-with-core-filters/) * fixes the `intermediate_image_sizes_advanced` filter by adding the attachment_id third parameter [https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2036](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2036) 24 March 2021 21:52:56 GMT+0000 [ VIP MU plugins [Production] ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-production/) [ Permalink ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-production/plugin-updated-search-15/) Adds automated cron task that will run once a week and will validate all the post contents by comparing data in database against the documents in elasticsearch. It will automatically fix any issues it finds. [https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2040](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2040) 24 March 2021 21:52:36 GMT+0000 [ VIP MU plugins [Production] ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-production/) [ Permalink ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-production/plugin-updated-search-14/) Update ElasticPress to avoid warnings due to deprecated operation in ElasticSearch 7.X and higher. [https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2038](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2038) 24 March 2021 21:52:14 GMT+0000 [ VIP MU plugins [Production] ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-production/) [ Permalink ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-production/plugin-updated-search-13/) Adds an interruption recovery mechanism to the validate content feature. [https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2037](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2037) 18 March 2021 10:00:43 GMT+0000 [ VIP MU plugins [Production] ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-production/) [ Permalink ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-production/update-text-change-for-powered-by-footer/) Changes WordPress.com VIP to WordPress VIP in the "Powered by" footer message. 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