Fixed

• Enterprise Search: Fix terms indexing failing from terms_clauses affecting orderby

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/6196

Please see the full release on GitHub.

Changed

• Jetpack: Update to 14.4

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/6189

Please see the full release on GitHub.

Jetpack 14.4 has been made the default Jetpack version on the VIP Platform.

What is being added or changed?

Enhancements

• Connection: Disconnect all other users before disconnecting connection owner account.
• Connection: Display connection status on Users page independent of the SSO module.
• Custom Post Types: do not display testimonials and portfolios on block themes where they are not in use.
• Dashboard: Display connection owner to all users.
• External Media: Add external media modal on the Media Import page.
• Forms: Add support for having multiple forms accross paginated pages.
• Forms: Update field and button blocks to support contentOnly editing.
• Forms block: Add number input.
• Media Page: Enable the "Untangle Calypso" feature.
• My Jetpack: Update the unowned section from a product grid to a product list.
• Newsletter: Add footer widget section.
• Newsletter: Add new newsletter widget.
• Newsletter: Add newsletter widget header row behind a feature flag.
• Newsletter: Add setting to hide category selection modal.
• Post actions: Rename Copy action to Duplicate, which is clearer.
• Social: Update the admin page to be used by Editors and Authors.
• Subscriptions: Pre-select newsletter categories.
• Tiled Gallery block: Add ability to link to custom URLs from each image.
• VideoPress: Add title to the attachment details view.

Improved compatibility

• Custom Content Types: Ensure feature works on Jetpack settings page without using module functionality.

Bug fixes

• External Media: Fix the button size in the editor for Gutenberg 18 or below.
• Fix Social toggles.
• Forms: Ensure non-rendering fields to not trigger validation or show value in form submission response.
• Forms: Fix 404 error when a user submits an invalid form with JavaScript disabled.
• Forms: Fix block style variations not showing in the editor.
• Forms: Fix invalid html IDs.
• Forms: Hide fields without options.
• Forms: Improve the styling of the separator block when placed inside the form block.
• Geo Location: Remove support from default themes to prevent deprecation notice.
• Gravatar Widget: Fix linked accounts not showing.
• Newsletter: Fix post placement not displaying on certain block themes.
• Publicize: Fix disconnect command not working.
• Related Posts: Ensure images using the AVIF format are properly displayed.
• Sharing: Fix possible warnings related to plugin compatibility.
• Social Previews: Fix distorted image for Tumblr preview.
• Stats: Fix a problem where count roles weren't able to be updated.
• Widget Visibility: Fix possible fatal errors for widgets using anonymous functions as callbacks.

For more details about this release (including specific changes), please see the release notes.

Questions?

If you have any questions, related to this release, please open a support ticket and we will be happy to assist.

Changed

• Creating the admin user on single site WordPress installation is impossible.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/6157

Please see the full release on GitHub.

Jetpack 14.3 has been made the default Jetpack version on the VIP Platform.

What is being added or changed?

Enhancements

• Blocks: Improve performance.
• Forms: Add Checkbox and Consent field enter action to create a new block.
• Forms: Allow HTML block within forms.
• Show Infinite Scroll options in Simple Classic.
• Social: Enable Social post UI for WordPress.com sites.
• Social: Post character limits are now dynamic based on selected connections.

Improved compatibility

• Nova Restaurant: ensure that the custom post type is now loaded via the Classic Theme Helper package.
• Open Graph Meta Tags: Do not display Jetpack's tags when the SEOPress plugin is active.
• Social: Remove "Your post" section from previews in favor of newer Social Post UI.

Bug fixes

• Authors widget: Fix saving of unchecked "Display all authors" checkbox in the legacy widget editor.
• Copy Post: Ensure Copy option is still available on all CPTs after quick edit in post list.
• Fix: Newsletter toggle in editor sidebar has a visually broken active state.
• Forms: Fix datepicker appearance on dark themes.
• Forms: Fix dropdown icon style.
• Forms: Fix field spacing and widths.
• Forms: Fix permanent deletion of form reponses via quicklinks.
• Forms: Hide empty radio fields.
• Forms: Keep content as-is when switching Feedback status between spam and publish.
• Forms: Make the icons show up as expected in the style editor.
• Forms: Prevent error in block placeholder when the Forms module is disabled.
• Pages and Posts: Fix the layout on mobile when details are open.
• Photon: Fix double encoding image urls.
• Sharing: Fix the location of the sharing dialog so it is not always the first sharing element on the page.
• Sitemaps: Ensure a valid news sitemap is present even if no posts are eligible.
• Social: Fix profile links for LinkedIn connections.
• Social: Fix Publicize error in the editor due to malformed connections data.
• Social: Fix wordpress.com login error when connecting Social accounts.
• Stats: Fix saving of custom roles settings.
• Testimonials: Fix shortcode-related bug.
• Tiled Gallery block: Ensure icons are visible when selecting image in editor.
• VideoPress: Fix issue with VideoPress block with zero height and width.

For more details about this release (including specific changes), please see the release notes.

Questions?

If you have any questions, related to this release, please open a support ticket and we will be happy to assist.

Updated

• Query Monitor: Update to 3.17.2
• Jetpack: Update to 14.3

Changed

• WooCommerce: stop trying to regenerate images in background, as it’s redundant on WPVIP platform.

Please see the full release on GitHub.

Changed

• Updated the Two Factor plugin to the latest version (0.11.0): https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/6123
• Query Monitor: Upgrade to 3.17.1: https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/6124

Please see the full release on GitHub.

Fixed

• CSS/JS Concatenation now correctly handles urlencoded values

Changed

• CSS/JS Concatenation automatically breaks assets into smaller groups when reaching a threshold of 150 items in the group rather than simply throwing a 400 Bad Request

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/6108

Please see the full release on GitHub.

Jetpack 14.2 has been made the default Jetpack version on the VIP Platform.

What is being added or changed?

Enhancements

• Social: Improve Jetpack Likes behavior for better theme integration if the post has likes.
• Stats: Allow programatically fetching stats for specific sites when using Jetpack's tools.
• Stats: Enable sparkline chart in the WP Admin bar.
• Stats: Sunset Legacy Stats experience.

Improved compatibility

• Google Photos Picker: Update UX opening picker right after pressing "change selection" CTA.
• Jetpack Testimonials: Ensure feature loads via the Classic Theme Helper package instead of the module.
• SEO: Ensure support for adding an SEO title and description for custom post types.
• WordPress 6.7 Compatibility: Fix notices caused by translation calls happening too early in the load order.

Bug fixes

• Facebook Embeds: Add a white background to embeds to avoid transparent background interfering with readability.
• Form Block: Fix validation of URL input types to allow query strings.
• Google Fonts: Clean up the Google Fonts data if either the Google Fonts module is disabled or Jetpack is disabled.
• Import: Set WP_IMPORTING constant correctly when doing an import.
• SEO: Ensure that SEO fields are not visible when another SEO plugin is active.
• Shortcode embeds: Ensure Instagram reels are properly displayed in AMP views.
• Shortcodes: Prevent conflict with third-party SoundCloud shortcodes.
• Slideshow block: Fix block display when added within a Stack block.
• WooCommerce Analytics: Fix fatal error when WooCommerce cart object is not available.

For more details about this release (including specific changes), please see the release notes.

Questions?

If you have any questions, related to this release, please open a support ticket and we will be happy to assist.

Removed

• Parse.ly plugin < 3.15

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/6064

Changed

• WP-CLI wp vip alloptions find command improvements: add compressed size which is a closer representation of the size Memcached limits get triggered add; swap the custom wp option autoload set for WP-CLI Core’s wp option set-autoload; remove "Total size" line. This doesn’t take into account keys, and is as such not very useful, especially given the size of the full serialized value is also provided.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/6072

Please see the full release on GitHub.

Added

• Introduced the vip_files_acl_is_valid_path_for_site filter to extend the is_valid_path_for_site function. This new filter allows overriding the VIP File System’s validation process for multisite setups, which uses the /wp-content/mu-plugins/files/acl/endpoint-check-file-acl.php endpoint to check permissions for paths under /wp-content/uploads. It enables custom use cases, such as accessing directories outside the default site asset paths (but within the uploads folder) while adhering to other ACL rules. This extends the functionality introduced in PR #1975.
  Warning: Improper use of this filter could expose private data. Developers using it must ensure that the logic they implement enforces proper access control to prevent data leaks between subsites.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/6033

Please see the full release on GitHub.

Added

• Enterprise Search: Add new filter ep_disable_query_logging: https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/6030
• Displaying the source from where Jetpack is loaded from in Plugins list WP-Dashboard UI: https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/6046

Changed

• Enterprise Search: Do not facet feed queries to prevent duplicate posts on display: https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/6030

Fixed

• VIP Parse.ly: Fixed a fatal error that happened in certain conditions within the VIP Parse.ly plugin: https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/6016

• Jetpack: Correct version will display for non-pinned default loading in Plugins listing: https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/6043
• Mitigate paragraph block breakage wpcom-block-editor: https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/6047

Please see the full release on GitHub.

Fixed

• Last changed date after dynamic bulk index: https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/6015

Changed

• Updated ElasticPress: https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/6018

Please see the full release on GitHub.

Jetpack 14.0 has been made the default Jetpack version on the VIP Platform.

What is being added or changed?

Major enhancements

• Newsletters: Add email previews and a floating subscribe button.
• Social: Add support for Bluesky.

Enhancements

• Newsletters: Allow skipping newsletter modals with the "jetpack_skip_subscription_popup" URL query param.
• Newsletters: Update the default "reply to" setting value from not allowed to replies being posted as public comments.
• Performance: Optimize CSS for better page load performance and improve sitemap write efficiency.

Improved compatibility

• Embed Blocks: Append 'Embed' to Facebook and Instagram embed blocks' titles.
• Filters: Update "plugin_action_links" filter parameter to avoid conflicts with other plugins.
• General: Ensure correct display of notices when running an old version of WordPress.
• General: Indicate compatibility with WordPress 6.7.
• Image Block: Make the external media picker button consistent with other Image Block buttons.
• Image CDN: URL encode image path parts for RSS feed compatibility.
• Related Posts: Allow Related Posts on non-post CPTs where the block is already able to be used.

Bug fixes

• AI Assistant: Fix false-positive spelling errors in Write Brief.
• Carousel: Further improve accessibility by being more selective over which images to apply attributes to.
• Contact Form: Ensure that submitted forms can only be accessed by logged in users allowed to view form submissions.
• General: Include wp-polyfill as a script dependency only when needed.
• Goodreads Block: Avoid PHP warnings caused by missing attributes when rendering.
• Google Fonts: Fix module not fully loading in certain scenarios.
• Map Block: Prevent overlap with other blocks placed below.
• Newsletters: Fix "Enable featured image on your new post emails" and "Use excerpt" settings.
• Sharing: Ensure the sharing settings can be accessed even when the user is not connected to WordPress.com.
• Slideshow Block: Ensure the block renders correctly inside an iframe editor.
• Social: Fix the maximum video length for Instagram Business reels.
• Social: Prevent share status styles from causing text overflow or affecting other elements on the page.
• Stats: Fix top post card on the Insights page.
• Subscribe Block: Fix styling for the number of subscribers in the post editor sidebar.

For more details about this release (including specific changes), please see the release notes.

Questions?

If you have any questions, related to this release, please open a support ticket and we will be happy to assist.

Changed

• WordPress Importer: Updated to 0.8.3: https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5967
• Requests to VIP File Service via the Stream Wrapper will not cause as webp => jpg transform anymore: https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5975
• Updated wp-parsely to 3.17.0: https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5983

Fixed

• Enterprise Search: Allow syncmanager to support multisite context for queues: https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5969
• WP Parse.ly: Fixed how Support Users are detected in the Parse.ly plugin: https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5965

Please see the full release on GitHub.

Fixed

• A bug with registering organization ID in our tracks integration.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5921

Changed

• Jetpack: Updated default version to 13.9.1

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5935

Added

• Jetpack 13.5+: Display admin notice for users using deprecated standalone plugin

Fixed

• Jetpack 13.9+: Add shim for users using deprecated standalone plugin to prevent fatal errors

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5937

Please see the full release on GitHub.

Updated all versions of Jetpack in use on the platform, back-porting the 13.9.1 security fix. More information: https://jetpack.com/blog/jetpack-13-9-1-critical-security-update/

Fixed

• Deprecations: fix the WP version number for the deprecation of wpcom_vip_get_page_by_path() to use get_page_by_path().

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5868

Please see the full release on GitHub.

Jetpack 13.8 has been made the default Jetpack version on the VIP Platform.

What is being added or changed?

Major Enhancements

• Custom CSS: Remove feature in favor of WordPress core implementation.
• Embeds: Remove YouTube and Vimeo embeds in favor of WordPress core implementation.
• WordPress.com Toolbar: The feature has been removed.

Enhancements

• Admin Menu: Update order of Jetpack sub-menu items.
• AI Assistant: Add spelling mistakes check for English language.
• Newsletters: Add the plugin icon to the Block Editor header, with a dedicated sidebar with an email preview feature.
• Social: Display Fediverse creator meta tag when a post has an active Mastodon connection.

Improved compatibility

• Sharing Block: Improve performance when hooking the block into single post templates.
• Tiled Galleries: Defer loading of the Tiled Gallery script for improved performance.

Bug fixes

• AI Assistant: Disable Write Brief for free plan users when AI Assistant block is disabled.
• AMP: Avoid fatal errors when using Jetpack's classic slideshows on a site where Jetpack blocks are disabled.
• Blocks: Ensure the stylesheets for Contact Info and Payment Button blocks are loaded correctly.
• Blocks: Fix the editor freeze after inserting a pattern with the Donations block.
• Mailchimp Block: Do not attempt to fetch groups when a site is not connected to Mailchimp yet.
• REST API: Avoid PHP warnings in the comment endpoint when the parent comment does not exist.
• Social Icons Widget: Ensure the social network icons display correctly.
• Subscriptions: Prevent the subscribe modal from automatically turning on when discussion settings are saved.

For more details about this release (including specific changes), please see the release notes.

Questions?

If you have any questions, related to this release, please open a support ticket and we will be happy to assist.

Removed

• Removed the VaultPress plugin and associated code. The plugin has been disabled across the platform since July 2023: https://lobby.vip.wordpress.com/2023/07/11/completed-vaultpress-deprecation/

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5767

Fixed

• Enterprise Search: CLI command wp vip-search health validate-contents, if protected_content feature is not enabled, do not mark as missing

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5837

• Enterprise Search: Adds null type checking to additional date fields being indexed on post preparation

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5838

Plugin Updated: Block Data API

We upgraded the Block Data API integration to version 1.4.0, which adds support for block bindings and synced patterns in WordPress content.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5839

Please see the full release on GitHub.