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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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07 February 2023

18:09:18 GMT+0000

Plugin Removed: Debug Bar

We removed Debug Bar. Please see https://lobby.vip.wordpress.com/2022/12/14/deprecation-notice-debug-bar-january-31-2023/ for more details.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3979


Updated: Wp-admin

Add reminder to test out Enterprise Search upgrade

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/4079


Added: Workaround for Contact Form 7 upload file cleanup

An action was added to conditionally disable the wpcf7_cleanup_upload_files shutdown action, if the tmp directory path returned by wpcf7_upload_tmp_dir() does not match the value in WPCF7_UPLOADS_TMP_DIR.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/4044

24 January 2023

22:54:40 GMT+0000

Cleanup Jetpack-related cron events when JP is disabled

When Jetpack is disabled, make sure all the cron events are also disabled/removed.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/4039


Plugin Updated: Query Monitor (VIP Panel)

Fix URL to not display target attribute

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/4046


Plugin Updated: Search Dev Tools

Display current search algorithm version

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/4047


Plugin Updated: Enterprise Search


Plugin Updated: Cron Control

Pulls in a fix to resolve a php deprecation notice that starts at php 8.1+.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/4057


Plugin Updated: VIP Helpers

Added a patch for core bug #51058 in our wpcom_vip_attachment_url_to_postid() caching helper function. Thanks to our friends at Yoast for the information and the fix.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/4052

17 January 2023

16:42:33 GMT+0000

Plugin Updated: VIP_Request_Block

Adds VIP_Request_Block::ua_partial_match

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/4001


Plugin Updated: Query Monitor

Added panel for DB Connections and only load qm-plugins if user has QM capability

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/4035


Plugin Updated: Enterprise Search

Add ElasticPress version to footer text

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/4036


Plugin Updated: wp-parsely

Changed the default version of wp-parsely from 3.5 to 3.6.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/4037

10 January 2023

22:45:24 GMT+0000

Plugin Updated: lightweight-term-count-update

Fixes bug where the cache of the taxonomies of multiple terms were not properly being cleared.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3969


Plugin Updated: Debug Bar

We added a deprecation notice to debug bar if it is set to be enabled.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3980


Plugin Updated: 000-vip-init.php

Add ‘local’ as valid value in switch statement for defining WP_ENVIRONMENT_TYPE

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3990

13 December 2022

17:39:47 GMT+0000

Plugin Updated: Enterprise Search


Plugin Updated: Feature

Feature percentage roll out will take into account a multisite’s subsites to ensure not all subsites are rolled out together at once.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3946


Plugin Updated: Query Monitor

Adds a “VIP” panel with display of stacks information

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3924

15 November 2022

18:33:15 GMT+0000

Plugin Updated: VIP Go Feed Cache

Fix incompatibility with wp-rss-aggregator plugin

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3825


Plugin Updated: Enterprise Search

Adds the newest version of ElasticPress. Can be tested by defining constant VIP_SEARCH_USE_NEXT_EP to true.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3814


Plugin Updated: Query Monitor

Add APCU Cache panel to Query Monitor

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3826


Plugin Updated: Codebase Manager

Workaround related to search unescaping in wp-admin.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3818


Plugin Updated: Query Monitor

We added a panel to display cron events.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3832


Plugin Updated: VIP Utils

Add vip_get_hyper_servers() method.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3846


Plugin Updated: VIP Prometheus

Added is_opcache_available() method to OpCache_Collector

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3848


Plugin Updated: VIP Helpers

Added workaround for a Yoast bug resulting in the “Illegal offset type in isset or empty” error.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3849

07 November 2022

15:28:19 GMT+0000

Plugin Updated: JS Concat

In wp-admin, JS assets will no longer be concatenated.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3793


Plugin Updated: 2FA

2FA: Fix warning generated on a site with no path in home_url()

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3803


Plugin Removed: Jetpack 10.X.

We have recently switched to source jetpack plugin from vip-go-mu-plugins-ext. This change removes now unused jetpack plugins from vip-go-mu-plugins repository.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3810

18 October 2022

19:08:57 GMT+0000

Plugin Removed: Jetpack 9.4.

We have recently switched to source jetpack plugin from vip-go-mu-plugins-ext. This change starts to remove now unused plugins from vip-go-mu-plugins repository.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3724


Plugin Updated: Admin Notice

Notices are displayed only for super admins if no Capability_Conditions have been defined.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3729


Plugin Updated: Enterprise Search

Better error handling in list_indexes() since remote_request() can return a WP_Error.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3731


Plugin Updated: Jetpack


Plugin Updated: Search Dev Tools

Add query-src-box and query-result-box to classes

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3757

18 October 2022

10:29:42 GMT+0000

When adding a domain on the Domains List Page

  • Replace floating notification with persistent notice.
  • Include information about delay for load balancer config reload.
11 October 2022

16:16:59 GMT+0000

Update wp-parsely 3.5 branch to 3.5.2

We updated the wp-parsely 3.5 branch to version 3.5.2.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3710


Lockout Update

Updated the copy of the admin notices and made them visible to VIP Support users.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3718


Plugin Updated: Enterprise Search

The VIP Platform will cache existence of Custom Search Results and will not use filter__ep_enable_do_weighting if Custom Search Results are used

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3708


Plugin Updated: Jetpack loader

We made Jetpack loader more resilient as it now validates existence of Jetpack class, before proceeding to load more related logic.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3717


Plugin Updated: Enterprise Search

Search: Fix commands get-indexes and get-mapping

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3711

04 October 2022

15:00:04 GMT+0000

wp-parsely default version was upgraded to 3.5

Changed the default version of wp-parsely from 3.3 to 3.5.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3661


Plugin Updated: VIP Init

Define DB_NAME, DB_HOST, DB_USER, DB_PASSWORD if not defined.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3677


Plugin Updated: VIP File Service

Fix bugs in the code which generate PHP warnings.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3664


Plugin Updated: VIP Mailer

Add the ability to remove the wp_mail_from filter.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3646


Plugin Updated: wp-admin

Display current wp-admin notices only for users with super administrator capability.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3689


Plugin Updated: Enterprise Search

Do not use filter__ep_enable_do_weighting if Custom Search Results present

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3690


Plugin Updated: Enterprise Search

Do not use filter__ep_enable_do_weighting if Custom Search Results present

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3690


Plugin Updated: VIP Support

Fix warning “Undefined variable $user”

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3695


Plugin Updated: Two-Factor

We upgraded Two-Factor to 7.2

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3719

27 September 2022

19:07:55 GMT+0000

Plugin Updated: Query Monitor 3.10.1

We upgraded Query Monitor from 3.9.0 to 3.10.1.

Changelog

Release notes:

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3649


Update wp-parsely 3.5 branch to 3.5.1

We updated the wp-parsely 3.5 branch to version 3.5.1.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3648


Two-factor phone number field

We removed the misleading placeholder attribute value from the phone number field.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3667

20 September 2022

18:54:41 GMT+0000

Plugin Updated: Enterprise Search

When a weighting config exists, do not assume we should be applying weighting via filter__ep_enable_do_weighting.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3616


Plugin Updated: Jetpack: VIP Specific Changes

Add filter vip_jetpack_is_mobile which accounts for X-Mobile-Class header in jetpack_is_mobile()

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3617


Plugin Updated: VIP Prometheus

Bug fix: fix soft 404 on /metrics endpoint

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3628


Plugin Removed: Jetpack 10.3

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3629


Plugin Removed: Jetpack 10.8

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3630


Plugin Updated: wp-admin

Update PHP 8 warning with more recent information and links.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3633


Plugin Updated: VIP Init (non-production environments only)

Define DB_NAME, DB_HOST, DB_USER, DB_PASSWORD if not defined.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3580


Plugin Updated: Parsely

Information about how a site uses the parse.ly plugin has been added to the Site Details Index. The bundled version of wp-parsely plugin now loads on the plugins_loaded hook rather than on muplugins_loaded when enabled.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3542


Plugin Updated: Enterprise Search

We updated internally used Elasticpress in order to:

  • Avoid a warning when counting documents during wp vip-search validate-counts
  • Fix saved synonyms disappearing after re-index
  • Users should only be showing up for the blogs they are assigned to

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3639

#jetpack, #mu-plugins, #parse-ly, #search, #site-details

13 September 2022

16:34:43 GMT+0000

Plugin Updated: Advanced Post Cache

Flush the post cache if post metadata has been added, updated, or deleted.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3598


Plugin Updated: Jetpack: VIP Specific Changes

Roll out pre_jetpack_is_mobile filter to 75% of production sites, which accounts for X-Mobile-Class header in jetpack_is_mobile()

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3600


Plugin Updated: Jetpack 11.3.1

Jetpack 11.3.1 is now the default version if not pinned.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3632