Update wp-parsely submodule to version 3.16.4

We updated the wp-parsely submodule (used for local development environments) to version 3.16.4.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5812

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Updated

• Update link to Jetpack Content Distribution Documentation when a non-production site may be public.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5813

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Please see the full release on GitHub.

Changed

• Search: Invalid orderby parameters will not offload to ES

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5797

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Fixed

• Fixed image_downsize filer to be aware of the reserved size medium_large

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5798

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Please see the full release on GitHub.

Jetpack 13.7 has been made the default Jetpack version on the VIP Platform.

What is being added or changed?

Enhancements

• AI Assistant: Add feedback link to the sidebar.
• AI Assistant: Breve UI enhancements.
• AI Assistant: Disable first Breve hover on mobile.
• AI Assistant: Disable long sentences Breve feature by default.
• AI Assistant: Enable Breve for 10% of production sites.
• AI Assistant: Enable Breve for 20% of production sites.
• AI Assistant: Make Jetpack Breve available to general public.
• AI Assistant: The general purpose image generator is now available to all users.
• Blocks: Add the EventCoutdown block.
• Blocks: Add the Timeline block.
• Dashboard: Add a dashboard card for AI Assistant.
• General: Losslessly optimized PNG images.
• Jetpack: Port additional Full Site Editing features from WP Cloud.
• Jetpack AI: Enable the AI Logo generator extension.
• Jetpack Newsletter: Add Jetpack Newsletter menu with preview option.
• Newsletter: Improve the modal overlay.
• Security: Add separate IP allow and block list toggles in Web Application Firewall settings.
• Settings: Add a link to the AI assistant product page.
• Site Editor: Remove extra site editor notices in favor of the ones provided by WordPress directly.
• Social: Added recommendation steps for the Social plan.
• Subscriptions: Add command palette commands for quickly changing post access.
• Subscriptions: Implemented a more dynamic approach to displaying the modal.
• Subscriptions: Improve the Subscribe block loading animation.

Improved compatibility

• Blocks: Changed the use of default parameters in the Map block for React 19 compatibility.
• Contact Form: Ensure checkboxes are properly displayed when using the Twenty Twenty or the Twenty Twenty One theme.
• General: Remove code for compatibility with WordPress versions before 6.5.
• General: Update WordPress version requirements to WordPress 6.5.
• Masterbar: Always show the notification bell.

Bug fixes

• Blocks: Check if the fontFamily block attribute is a string before trying to format.
• Donations Block: Fix undefined array key warnings with old/malformed blocks.
• Jetpack Comments: Fix replying to comments in Chrome when logged in to both WordPress.com and Jetpack.
• Like block: Fix warning displayed when trying to load the Like block on unsupported pages.
• Sharing: Do not include Gravatar images in Open Graph Meta tags.

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

• WP Parse.ly: VIP Support users now have full access to the Parse.ly Content Helper (PCH) features.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5765

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Plugin Updated: Block Data API

We upgraded the Block Data API integration to version 1.3.0, which improves GraphQL data representation and adds a new blocksDataV2 property. See the full release here.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5780

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Update wp-parsely submodule to version 3.16.3

We updated the wp-parsely submodule (used for local development environments) to version 3.16.3

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5781

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Fixed

• Fixed being able to use the wp-admin support form from an outside domain

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5794

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Changed

• Non-prods: If ACL is enabled but no options are explicitly set, we should default to using vip_files_acl_restrict_all_enabled.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5796

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Please see the full release on GitHub.

Fixed

Possibility to enumerate users by abusing the reset password functionality: https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5768

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Fixed

Elasticsearch Integration is disabled while WordPress is installed to prevent local development environment errors: https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5744

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Updated

Updated the wp-parsely submodule (used for local development environments) to version 3.16.2: https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5762

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Updated

Updated the wp-parsely submodule (used for local development environments) to version 3.16.1: https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5726

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Fixed

Fixed debug logs with Logger::log2logstash on local dev envs: https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5727

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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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Please see the full release on GitHub.

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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Please see the full release on GitHub.

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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Please see the full release on GitHub.

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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Please see the full release on GitHub.

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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Please see the full release on GitHub.

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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Please see the full release on GitHub.

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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Please see the full release on GitHub.

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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Please see the full release on GitHub.

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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Please see the full release on GitHub.