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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.
19:09:30 GMT+0000
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.
17:27:02 GMT+0000
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.
17:26:57 GMT+0000
Update to the alert message received for validate-contents search cron. This change adds site URL and switches from detailed to summary report.
17:26:36 GMT+0000
intermediate_image_sizes_advanced filter by adding the attachment_id third parameter21:52:56 GMT+0000
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.
21:52:36 GMT+0000
Update ElasticPress to avoid warnings due to deprecated operation in ElasticSearch 7.X and higher.
21:52:14 GMT+0000
Adds an interruption recovery mechanism to the validate content feature.
10:00:43 GMT+0000
Changes WordPress.com VIP to WordPress VIP in the "Powered by" footer message.
10:00:39 GMT+0000
Replaces http header for concatanated javascript files from application/x-javascript to application/javascript.
10:00:35 GMT+0000
Adds a locking mechanism to wp vip-search health validate-contents command. This makes sure that there is only one validation happening at one time. This will enable to make this into automated check in the future as well as avoid potential race condition issues with self-healing if differences.
19:14:54 GMT+0000
Enables the automatic monitoring of inconsistent index settings for all sites (previously limited to 25%).
19:14:04 GMT+0000
This change adds support for automatically updating an index’s settings to match the desired state, enabled on only a subset of sites. This provides the ability to easily control index settings both per-site and across the VIP platform.
NOTE – this is currently not enabled on any sites.
19:10:54 GMT+0000
Update the reference to the wp-memcached submodule to the version running in production (v3.2.2)
19:08:08 GMT+0000
We keep improving the site details data we are gathering from all sites to have more information about multiple runtime variables. This time, we are including the list of plugins enabled sitewide on multisite installations, as we were only considering plugins enabled locally for a site.
19:07:17 GMT+0000
We updated the way the latin1 -> utf8mb4 conversion command retrieves the current DB name to utilize this command on more environments.
19:06:07 GMT+0000
Adds additional sanitization of the username/email during login attempts to normalize the value and ensure more accurate rate limiting.
https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2016
19:03:52 GMT+0000
Enables Debug mode when WP_ENVIRONMENT_TYPEis defined and set to local:
define( 'WP_ENVIRONMENT_TYPE', 'local' );https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2005
#local-development, #mu-plugins
19:02:02 GMT+0000
This change adds a new task to Search’s health cron job that detects and reports any discrepancies between the desired and actual settings for each index.
18:19:03 GMT+0000
We have upgraded Jetpack to the last patch version 9.5.2. There are just a few bugfixes and improvements, as you can read here.
16:23:11 GMT+0000
This updates the ElasticPress submodule to da9e58e, which adds utility functions for getting and updating an index’s settings.