Changed

Divi: Added disabling of Divi Caching by default: https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5597

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Jetpack 13.6 has been made the default Jetpack version on the VIP Platform.

What is being added or changed?

Enhancements

• AI Assistant: Hide input when user types on extended block.
• Goodreads Block: provide support for additional profile URLs.
• Newsletter: Add ability to manage the newsletter byline appearance.
• Newsletter: Adding a new toggle to control the newsletter author line.
• Newsletter: Email replies can become comments on your blog.
• Social: Add Threads preview to Social Previews.
• Tiled Gallery: Increase accessibility of Tiled Gallery carousel images.

Improved compatibility

• Block Editor: Ensure that no Jetpack features are displayed in the site editor's sidebar when not necessary.
• General: indicate compatibility with the upcoming version of WordPress – 6.6.
• Offline Mode: do not display Jetpack's outbound SSL notice when in Offline mode.

Bug fixes

• AI Assistant: Disable extensions when AI Assistant block is hidden.
• External Media: Do not display External Media options in the Caption edit field.
• External media: Ensure connect URL has the correct blog ID and verification values.
• Like block: Fix editor styling.
• Publicize: Fix a race condition with refreshing the active social connections.
• Slideshow: Ensure whole block is selectable in the editor.
• User Content Link Tracking: Check domain before redirecting to subscribe.wordpress.com.

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

• Use ID over object in current_user_can()

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5695

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Fixed

• Filesystem: Fix indicated upload size limit to be actual value of 2GB

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5696

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Update wp-parsely submodule to version 3.16.0

We updated the wp-parsely submodule (used for local development environments) to version 3.16.0

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5697

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wp-parsely default version was upgraded to 3.15

Changed the default version of wp-parsely from 3.15 to 3.16.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5698

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Added

• checks to is_automattician() to prevent fatal errors and ensure that it is called when the current user is known.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5678

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Fixed

• Filenames with special characters no longer throw an error and are now are being sent to the Files Service

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5664

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Jetpack 13.5 has been made the default Jetpack version on the VIP Platform.

What is being added or changed?

Enhancements

• AI Assistant: Add AI Assistant to Paragraph, Heading, List, and List Item blocks.
• Newsletters: Add "From" and "Reply to" name settings.
• Social: Add connection management to editor.
• Social: Add the new Jetpack Social plan.
• Subscribe Block: Add button-only style.
• Subscribe Block: Allow to be placed inside the Navigation block.
• Subscriptions: Add a toggle to automatically add Subscribe block to site navigation.
• WordAds: Allow inline ads to be added within post content.

Improved compatibility

• Notifications: Update notification icon to match WordPress.com.
• SSO: Improve accessibility of tooltips on WP Admin users page.
• Stats: Deprecate old Stats experience.

Bug fixes

• External Media: Ensure the connect URL has the correct blog ID and verification values.
• Slideshow: Ensure autoplay works correctly.
• WordAds: Prevent fatal error when post content is null.

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 deprecated “Async Publish Actions” plugin: https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5537
• Remove jetpack-force-2fa plugin from shared-plugins folder, as it is included now in SSO module for Jetpack 12.7+. Use add_filter( 'jetpack_force_2fa', '__return_true' ); to enable: https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5582
• Added an option to suppress logging for requests blocked by VIP_Request_Block: https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5478

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Changed

• Jetpack default version is now 13.4: https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5551
• We updated the wp-parsely submodule (used for local development environments) to version 3.14.5: https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5553

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Added

• It is now possible to customize the cookie path and domain for the cookies set by the Vary Cache plugin. To achieve that, we introduced two new filters: vip_vary_cache_cookie_path and vip_vary_cache_cookie_domain: https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5552

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Fixed

• Filename sanitization during ACL validation in VIP Restricted Files plugin: https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5548

• Updates ElasticPress to make PHPCS happy: https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5558

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Plugin Updated: VIP Enterprise Search

Fixed a bug when setting the number of shards in the index settings for the user indexable.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5499

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Plugin Updated: Enterprise Search

Disable using define( 'VIP_SEARCH_USE_NEXT_EP', false );. There will only be one version of ElasticPress.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/4607

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Fixed

• Address Enterprise Search potential prolonged rate-limiting in high concurrency scenarios.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5524

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Plugin Updated: VIP Init

Fix vip_reset_local_object_cache() to address the deprecation of dynamic properties in PHP 8.2.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5475

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Plugin Updated: Enterprise Search

Do not attempt to re-build a new index if there isn’t one that exists and clean-up the existing locks.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5450

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Plugin Updated: VIP Mail

As per the timeline, we’ve removed the fallback mechanism that allowed bounced emails sent from domains that were not mapped to VIP sites, to be retried using the default email address.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5412

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Plugin Updated: Block Data API

We upgraded the Block Data API integration to version 1.2.1, which supports WordPress 6.5 rich-text attribute parsing.

Plugin Updated: Options API

Compatibility with WordPress 6.6.

Function Deprecated: wpcom_vip_get_page_by_title

Deprecate wpcom_vip_get_page_by_title() because WP 6.2 deprecates get_page_by_title. Please use WP_Query instead.

Update wp-parsely submodule to version 3.14.3

We updated the wp-parsely submodule (used for local development environments) to version 3.14.3.

Plugin Updated: Options API

Harden pre_wp_load_alloptions_protections() function.

Plugin Updated: VIP Jetpack

Introduce new Attendant class for managing the Jetpack connection’s primary user.

Plugin Updated: Jetpack 13.2

We upgraded Jetpack to 13.2

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5326

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cleaner_jp_pbe_options uses pre_update_option_post_by_email_address* (where is the current user ID) to prevent creation of unused NULL `post_by_email_address` options (by returning the old_value in place of NULL, which in this case is no option at all).

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5311

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Update wp-parsely submodule to version 3.14.0

We updated the wp-parsely submodule (used for local development environments) to version 3.14.1.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5334

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Removed extraneous text from vipsupport command description

When running wp help vipsupport, an out-of-place text would appear after the command description: Class command.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5335

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Plugin Updated: Akismet to 5.3.1

We upgraded Akismet 5.3 to Akismet 5.3.1.

This version contains the following changes:

• Make the plugin more resilient when asset files are missing (as seen in WordPress Playground).
• Add a link to the ‘Account overview’ page on akismet.com.
• Fix a minor error that occurs when another plugin removes all comment actions from the dashboard.
• Add the akismet_request_args filter to allow request args in Akismet API requests to be filtered.
• Fix a bug that causes some contact forms to include unnecessary data in the comment_content parameter.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5321

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Use a custom font directory for the new Font Library

WordPress 6.5 introduces the Font Library, which allows you to upload and manage your own font files from the site editor. We have used the new font_dir filter to set the font upload directory to wp-content/uploads/fonts to get this feature working with the VIP Filesystem.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5265

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Update wp-parsely submodule to version 3.14.2

We updated the wp-parsely submodule (used for local development environments) to version 3.14.2.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5346

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Update wp-parsely submodule to version 3.14.0

We updated the wp-parsely submodule (used for local development environments) to version 3.14.0.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5323

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wp-parsely default version was upgraded to 3.14

Changed the default version of wp-parsely from 3.13 to 3.14.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5322

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Email Deliverability Changes

We’ve disabled auto email resend from our donotreply@wpvip.com if we detect that the From: field contains a domain that the current SMTP credentials are not allowed to use.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5274

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Plugin Updated: VIP Jetpack

The enhanced-distribution Jetpack module will no longer be activated by default.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5308

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VIP Helper Function Deprecated: wpcom_vip_get_page_by_path

Deprecate wpcom_vip_get_page_by_path since WP 6.1 introduces caching in get_page_by_path().

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5224

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Update wpcom-vip-two-factor remove deprecated filter

This change replaces two-factor-user-options- with two_factor_user_options_ in VIP’s SMS two factor provider as the former was deprecated in 0.7.0 of the upstream Two Factor Plugin.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5238

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Feature added: MIME types caching for the media library

Cache MIME types via the pre_get_available_post_mime_types() filter introduced in WordPress 6.4.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/4953

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Functions Deprecated: wp_startswith, wp_endswith, and wp_in`

We deprecated the helper functions wp_startswith, wp_endswithandwp_inin favour of the PHP equivalentsstr_starts_with,str_ends_with, andstr_contains`

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5131

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wp-parsely default version was upgraded to 3.13

Changed the default version of wp-parsely from 3.12 to 3.13.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5176

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Plugin Updated: Jetpack 13.0

We upgraded Jetpack 12.9 to Jetpack 13.0

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5142

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Plugin Updated: Jetpack 13.0

We upgraded Jetpack 12.9 to Jetpack 13.0

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5142