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
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.
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.
31 March 2021
21:03:50 GMT+0000
Increases validate-contents cron for search from 10% to 25% of deployments.
31 March 2021
21:03:37 GMT+0000
This increases the percentage of sites that receive automated index settings from 10% to 50%
31 March 2021
21:03:33 GMT+0000
- 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.
30 March 2021
21:53:42 GMT+0000
This feature, enabled on 10% of sites, will automatically update some index settings if they are found to be inconsistent with the desired state.
30 March 2021
21:07:26 GMT+0000
Modifies the default index replica count in preparation for changing the index shard allocation settings.
30 March 2021
21:07:09 GMT+0000
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.
30 March 2021
21:05:45 GMT+0000
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.
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' );
30 March 2021
13:04:04 GMT+0000
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.
30 March 2021
13:03:54 GMT+0000
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.
30 March 2021
13:03:49 GMT+0000
This change adds an option flag for temporarily suppressing alloptions alerts, along with supporting WP-CLI commands to manage the flag.
30 March 2021
13:03:36 GMT+0000
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.
25 March 2021
21:04:40 GMT+0000
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.