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Changelog: VIP MU plugins [Production]

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.

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18 July 2023

14:51:04 GMT+0000

Library updated: VIP Request Block

We’ve updated VIP Request Block library not run in WP-CLI context as that potentially may lead to inability to run CLI commands in case an expression evaluated to true in CLI context.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/4640


Plugin Updated: VIP Helpers

Fixed a CSS bug in the non-prod bar that did not allow clicks to pass through to a portion of the application.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/4646


VIP Integrations fix

We fixed VIP integration activation when used within WPCLI.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/4679


Please see the full release on GitHub.

27 June 2023

18:11:51 GMT+0000

Plugin Updated: Query Monitor

Do not enable for non-prods by default.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/4594


Plugin Updated: Enterprise Search

Fix healing when inspect flag is passed into wp vip-search health validate-contents

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/4551


Site Details Service

We added an alternative endpoint for sending data to the Site Details Service

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/4617


Plugin Updated: Prometheus

Disable Prometheus when WordPress is being installed.

Plugin Updated: VIP Cron Enhancements

Do not load Cron Control if WordPress is not installed

Plugin Updated: VIP Init

Ensure HTTP_HOST is always set to prevent PHP warnings in wp_guess_url()

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/4618


Site Details Service

We added an alternative endpoint for sending data to the Site Details Service

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/4617


Plugin Updated: Query Monitor

Do not enable for non-prods by default.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/4626


Please see the full release on GitHub.

20 June 2023

13:18:00 GMT+0000

Plugin Updated: WP Memcached

When wp_cache_get_multiple() is called with more than 1000 keys, the lookups will be split up into multiple batches. This helps keep the Memcached servers stable, as otherwise the read/response buffers can grow uncontrollably large.


Fix type error when a callable passed to ep_weighting_configuration_for_searchep_query_weighting_fieldsep_weighting_configuration, or ep_weighting_fields_for_post_type is not a method.


Plugin Updated: Query Monitor APCu Cache

Fix broken markup when the APCu cache is not enabled.

13 June 2023

20:08:50 GMT+0000

Plugin Updated: Enterprise Search

Add lock for vip_search_queue_sweeper cron job


Plugin Updated: Jetpack 12.2

All non-pinned sites updated to using Jetpack 12.2

06 June 2023

21:33:09 GMT+0000

Plugin Updated: Jetpack

On non-production environments, we enforce blog_public option in a more robust way.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/4494


Jetpack: Resync privacy settings for private JP sites

We want to resync the privacy settings for JP sites that have been marked as private (via the VIP_JETPACK_IS_PRIVATE constant), so we’re updating the option name that stores this state in order to cause these sites to re-sync.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/4495


Plugin Updated: Private Sites

We respect other alternative methods for achieving privacy via plugins that also leverage blog_public option, but use other values than -1.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/4512


Notice Updated: blog_public option

No longer show notice for sites with their blog_public option if -1 or privacy constant is set. Also updates messaging.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/4520


Plugin Updated: Object Cache

Switched over all environments to using the new object cache drop-in. This drop-in utilizes the Memcached PHP extension, which has support for multiGet() operations that help reduce roundtrips and can notably speed up WordPress page load times.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/4446

09 May 2023

17:51:14 GMT+0000

Plugin Updated: Query Monitor


Plugin Updated: VIP Constants

Assign dbname property in define_db_constants()

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/4376


Plugin Updated: Wp_Cli_Db

WP-CLI: Unblock wp db tables command

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/4361


Plugin Updated: Enterprise Search

Add ability to deactivate in index version management

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/4379


Plugin Updated: Akismet

We upgraded Akismet 4.2.4 to Akismet 5.1.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/4416


Function Updated: vip_strict_sanitize_username()

Return empty string if string not passed in

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/4417

02 May 2023

18:16:02 GMT+0000

Plugin Updated: Query Monitor

Add “Environment” panel to Query Monitor

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/4373


Plugin Updated: Enterprise Search

Improved handling of async queue in scenarios where an index doesn’t exist yet.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/4312


Plugin Updated: VIP Caching

Change wpcom_vip_get_page_by_title to use WP_Query if possible

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/4390

18 April 2023

17:19:31 GMT+0000

Plugin Updated: Two-Factor

We upgraded Two-Factor to 0.8.1

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/4307


Plugin Updated: Query Monitor

Fix PHP error Uncaught TypeError: usort(): Argument #1 ($array) must be of type array, null given in /var/www/wp-content/mu-plugins/qm-plugins/qm-alloptions/class-qm-collector-alloptions.php:38

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/4298


Plugin Updated: Enterprise Search

Updates ElasticPress to include kill_sync() for all hooks in the SyncManager for post Indexable

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/4324

Skip query integration if no active indexes present

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/4327

Add VIP_ELASTICSEARCH_DISABLED killswitch constant

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/4317

Search: Account for failed put_mapping call in add_version()

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/4291


Plugin Updated: Jetpack

Jetpack 12.0 is now the default version for non-pinned applications.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/4360

11 April 2023

16:36:30 GMT+0000

Plugin Updated: Enterprise Search


Plugin updated: wp-parsely

Fixed a fatal error that could occur in the “widget updated” event when attempting to save a custom widget

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/4306

04 April 2023

15:15:10 GMT+0000

Plugin Updated: VIP Client mu-plugins

Do not load client mu-plugins while WordPress is being installed.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/4247


Plugin Updated: Enterprise Search


Plugin Updated: Feature

Add is_disabled_by_ids()

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/4263


Non-production sticker placement updated

Shift sticker “non-production” so it doesn’t block modal after post is updated

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/4269

28 March 2023

16:38:00 GMT+0000

Plugin Updated: Enterprise Search

Add CLI command wp vip-search queue info

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/4231


Caching function updated

Changed the cache key & group for wpcom_vip_get_page_by_path() to avoid unbuo

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/4217


Plugin Updated: Search Dev Tools

If being rate limited, differentiate between two different types: “search” or “indexing”

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/4238


Plugin Updated: VIP Helpers

Updated VIP redirect helper functions to account for being used in client-mu-plugins.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/4230


Library Updated: Feature

We’ve introduced an API to get the bucket the current site is in for %-based feature rollouts.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/4206


Plugin Updated: VaultPress

Stop loading VaultPress plugin by default for all VIP environments

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/4246

21 March 2023

19:41:44 GMT+0000

Plugin Updated: Enterprise Search

Fix accuracy of wp vip-search health validate-counts for the users feature on multi-sites.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/4198


Plugin Updated: Feature

  • Adds two new functions is_enabled_by_env() and get_features()
  • is_enabled() will take into account if the feature is also enabled on an ID-basis or env-basis
  • Adds wp vip-feature CLI commands to check the status of a feature

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/4191


Plugin Updated: Jetpack

Jetpack 11.9 is now the default version for non-pinned applications.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/4205


Plugin Updated: VaultPress

Stop loading VaultPress plugin by default for non-production VIP environments

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/4183

14 March 2023

15:52:26 GMT+0000

Plugin Updated: WP_CLI_DB

Adds back WP_CLI_DB and accounts for both batch containers & dev-env environments

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/4127


Plugin Updated: Query Monitor


wp-parsely default version was upgraded to 3.8

Changed the default version of wp-parsely from 3.7 to 3.8.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/4179

07 March 2023

17:02:50 GMT+0000

Plugin Updated: Enterprise Search


Plugin Updated: Search Dev Tools


Drop-in Updated: Object Cache

Added helper function get_stats()

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/4162


wp-parsely default version was upgraded to 3.7

Changed the default version of wp-parsely from 3.6 to 3.7.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/4164

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