Changelog: VIP MU plugins [Production]

We have rolled out Jetpack 9.4 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.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/1971

As a part of code style cleanup, we need to rename class-health-job.php => class-healthjob.php. This is the last step removing to now unused class-health-job.php.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/1969

As a part of code style cleanup, we need to rename class-health-job.php => class-healthjob.php. This is the second step switching all the references class-health-job.php => class-healthjob.php.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/1968

In order to make future migration from Jetpack search easier, we implemented support for a jetpack_sync_post_meta_whitelist filter.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/1951

We have upgraded the Jetpack 9.4 subtree to contain the final Jetpack 9.4 release. This will be set as the default for all unpinned sites on Thursday 4th.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/1967

We added inactive index detection. This will detect all the inactive index versions if there was no change in active/non-active index versions for more than a month. This is the first step towards having an automated cleanup of these non-used index versions.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/1957

Phpcs cleanup of class-health-job.php.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/1960

#mu-plugins, #search, #code-standards

As a part of code style cleanup, we need to rename class-health-job.php => class-healthjob.php. This is the first step introducing class-healthjob.php which is a full copy of class-health-job.php as a new file.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/1962

This change makes it easier for us to detect if/when the changelog automation fails to create a draft post.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/1966

There’s now the option to skip loading VaultPress code entirely, which can be useful if it’s not being used.

Some considerations need to be taken to disable VaultPress if it has been used before. So in case you are interested, please open a support ticket to get more information.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/1965

#mu-plugins, #vaultpress

We have removed some Jetpack versions (8.8, 8.9, 9.2) from vip-go-mu-plugins, that were no longer in use by any VIP Go site. Every included version takes space in the repository, so this is a needed maintenance task.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/1964

#mu-plugins, #jetpack

We updated changelog automation to support tags. Some Github labels will automatically be converted to the changelog tags.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/1961

Updated to the latest version of VIP Search. The only change is bringing search/elasticpress/includes/classes/Indexable/Post/Post.php in line with our coding standards.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/1952

We updated ElasticPress dependency for VIP Search to enhance the data format about the post author stored in ElasticSearch.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/1949

When a VIP Search query fails, it gets logged to Logstash so we can investigate the problems. Now we are also logging the full query sent to ElasticSearch and the PHP backtrace, so we can have much more detailed information about the root cause.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/1954

This allows us to restrict access to files based on different signals from the request (e.g. inherited post status, user permissions, etc.). More technical details and discussion available here.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/1902

#mu-plugins, #file-access-control, #security

Code style cleanup of search/includes/classes/class-versioning.php.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/1950

#mu-plugins, #search, #code-standards

We partially implemented Files ACL restriction functionality. This code is not enabled in production just yet.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/1948

#mu-plugins, #file-access-control, #security

Since the changelog generation is now automated, we’ve made some changes to the pull request template to reflect that. We removed links to pull requests from the examples since they’re no longer needed and edited the changelog checklist item to be inclusive. The expectation is that everyone fills out a proper changelog description and this is now reflected properly in the pull request template.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/1953

As the last part of phpcs cleanup, we renamed iputils.php file to adhere to our naming standards. To increase the safety of this change was done in 3 steps. This is the last step in that process including the removal of the now unused file under the original name.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/1947

#mu-plugins #code-standards