Changelog: VIP MU plugins [Staging]

Fixed

• Enterprise Search: Fixed editing a term with a very large number of posts running out of memory. Terms with more than 10,000 posts are now reindexed in the background.
• Enterprise Search: Fixed later term edits in the same request not being reindexed after a large term was edited.
• Fixed a fatal error in the VIP Search index settings health check when retrieving index settings from Elasticsearch fails.
• Enterprise Search: Fixed PHP memory exhaustion when editing a term attached to a very large number of posts.
• VIP Search: Fixed Jetpack Search staying active on sites where Enterprise Search offloading is enabled through the integration config
• Fixed an order-dependent failure in the Search queue notification unit test.
• No customer-facing changes: CI and e2e tooling only.
• No customer-facing changes: CI and tests only.
• No customer-facing changes: dev dependencies, lint and CI tooling only.
• Prevent revision restores from resetting non-revisioned post metadata, including custom fields, pattern sync status, and collaboration documents.
• Cache Personalization API: Fixed stale Vary_Cache group membership after clearing a user’s last remaining group.
• Cache Personalization API: Fixed Vary_Cache::remove_nocache_for_user() sending a Set-Cookie header (and making the page uncacheable) when the request had no nocache cookie.
• Cache Personalization API: Fixed a fatal error and PHP notices in cache personalization (Vary_Cache) when a request sends the group cookie in array form, such as vip-go-seg[]=x, or a malformed encrypted vip-go-auth cookie.
• Cache Personalization API: Fixed encrypted group cookies being accepted after their embedded expiry, or in a form the VIP cache layer rejects, when PHP decrypts the cookie itself.
• Cache Personalization API: : With encryption enabled, group membership is now read only from the encrypted auth cookie, and a cleared group is no longer restored from a leftover vip-go-seg cookie.
• Jetpack: Hide the Backup dashboard menu added in Jetpack 16.3.
• Cache Personalization API: Fixed users losing their group when Vary_Cache::register_group() or register_groups() is called after init priority 10, or called again for a group that is already registered.
• Cache Personalization API: Fixed is_user_in_group_segment() not matching on later requests when the segment was set or checked as an integer.
• Cache Personalization API: Fixed group and nocache cookies set from REST API routes never being sent. They are now sent on REST requests other than GET, HEAD and OPTIONS.
• Cache Personalization API: Fixed a fatal error when the group cookie contains a space, comma or semicolon, for example from a client-side write with %20 or %2C.
• Enterprise Search: Fixed PHP warnings on taxonomy queries for a term that can’t be found
• Object cache: Fixed a PHP 8.5 deprecation when a cache call passes a null group
• Action Scheduler: Fixed a fatal error on shutdown when the queue batch size is filtered to zero
• Fixed PHP warnings and deprecations from the APCu cache interceptor, old slug redirects, the machine user capability check, site details roles, and attachment URL lookups
• Search Dev Tools: Fixed a fatal error when the REST endpoint receives a non-string query parameter
• Site details: Fixed a fatal error in the sync cron when a theme update entry is an object
• Fixed fatal errors in role capability refreshes before pluggable functions load, REST batch requests, and Jetpack Stats helpers when stats_get_csv() isn’t loaded
• Fixed PHP warnings for incomplete plugin update data, file paths without a scheme, attachment pages without a global post, and filtered image sizes

Changed

• Updated the wp-parsely submodule (used for local development environments) to version 3.24.4.
• Cache Personalization API: Cookies now use the Secure attribute on HTTPS requests to sites with an HTTPS home URL.
• Cache Personalization API: Vary_Cache::set_group_for_user() no longer re-sends the group cookie when the user’s groups are unchanged, so those responses can be cached. Use the vip_vary_cache_refresh_group_cookie filter to keep re-sending it (for example, to extend its expiry).
• Cache Personalization API: Documented cookie attributes, group values, encrypted segmentation and hooks in the cache/README.md reference section.
• Replaced deprecated trigger_error() calls using E_USER_ERROR with thrown errors, for PHP 8.4 compatibility

Added

• Cache Personalization API: Added Vary_Cache::get_group_value() to read the user’s value for a group.

Fixed

• Enterprise Search: Fixed editing a term with a very large number of posts running out of memory. Terms with more than 10,000 posts are now reindexed in the background.
• Enterprise Search: Fixed later term edits in the same request not being reindexed after a large term was edited.
• Fixed a fatal error in the VIP Search index settings health check when retrieving index settings from Elasticsearch fails.
• Enterprise Search: Fixed PHP memory exhaustion when editing a term attached to a very large number of posts.
• VIP Search: Fixed Jetpack Search staying active on sites where Enterprise Search offloading is enabled through the integration config
• Fixed an order-dependent failure in the Search queue notification unit test.
• No customer-facing changes: CI and e2e tooling only.
• No customer-facing changes: CI and tests only.
• No customer-facing changes: dev dependencies, lint and CI tooling only.
• Prevent revision restores from resetting non-revisioned post metadata, including custom fields, pattern sync status, and collaboration documents.

Changed

• Updated the wp-parsely submodule (used for local development environments) to version 3.24.4.

Fixed

• Enterprise Search: Fixed editing a term with a very large number of posts running out of memory. Terms with more than 10,000 posts are now reindexed in the background.
• Enterprise Search: Fixed later term edits in the same request not being reindexed after a large term was edited.
• Fixed a fatal error in the VIP Search index settings health check when retrieving index settings from Elasticsearch fails.
• Enterprise Search: Fixed PHP memory exhaustion when editing a term attached to a very large number of posts.
• VIP Search: Fixed Jetpack Search staying active on sites where Enterprise Search offloading is enabled through the integration config

Fixed

• Sent users with a Jetpack SSO session from before the session-metadata change back through Jetpack SSO, so they regain the WordPress.com two-step exemption without manual steps.

Changed

• Updated the wp-parsely submodule (used for local development environments) to version 3.24.3.
• Real-Time Collaboration: Replaced note avatars in the block toolbar with an Add note button that displayed the note count and opened a new note directly.
• Real-Time Collaboration: Preserved unsent note and reply drafts across block, thread, and editor-mode changes, and kept inline drafts attached as their surrounding text changed.
• Real-Time Collaboration: Selected inline notes from the caret position and returned to block-level notes or drafts outside highlighted text.
• Real-Time Collaboration: Removed the divider between the editor canvas and floating notes.
• WordPress MCP: Updated MCP Adapter to 0.7 on WordPress 6.9 and newer, now that it no longer defers to older copies bundled by other plugins.

Added

• Real-Time Collaboration: Added emoji reactions to notes with heart, celebration, smile, eyes, and rocket options.
• Real-Time Collaboration: Added selected-text note anchoring for Accordion Heading titles.

Fixed

• Real-Time Collaboration: Kept note anchor updates out of editor undo history so undo no longer detached new notes or restored resolved-note highlights.
• Real-Time Collaboration: Kept inline note highlights aligned when source content contained line breaks or repeated spaces.
• Real-Time Collaboration: Prevented edits while a note or reply was being submitted and allowed notes to be permanently deleted when trash was disabled.
• Real-Time Collaboration: Kept the editor at the selected block when opening a new floating note near the end of a scrolled post.
• Real-Time Collaboration: Kept stale read-only taxonomy fields out of collaborative edits so unchanged categories no longer triggered Save states or unsaved-changes warnings.
• Real-Time Collaboration: Stopped screen readers from announcing the Add note action as a dialog.
• Real-Time Collaboration: Restored spacing above floating notes.
• Enterprise Search: Fixed PHP memory exhaustion when saving a post in a term with a very large number of posts, which could also prevent the page cache from being purged for that save.
• Jetpack Publicize: Do not load on private sites

Changed

• Search Dev Tools: Redesigned the panel with a query sidebar, a detail view with editable requests and a collapsible response viewer, light and dark themes, and improved keyboard and screen reader support.

Fixed

• Two-Factor: Fixed a PHP 8.1+ float-to-int deprecation when masking phone numbers in Twilio Verify error logs
• Updated Jetpack SSO status tracking to use WordPress session metadata.

Added

• Added Clipisode as a VIP Integration Center plugin.

Fixed

• Fixed support-form delivery through mail providers that require a verified sender.
• Added server-side support-form mail failure diagnostics with common sensitive values redacted.
• Fixed resetting the support form after a successful submission.
• Fixed bin/test.sh so the test runner always finds the project’s vendor/ directory, regardless of the wp-test-runner image’s home directory.
• None. This changes tests only.
• VIP Feed Cache: Fixed cached feeds never being read back on WordPress 6.7+, which caused a remote request on every fetch_feed() call.
• Real-Time Collaboration: Kept undo and redo working for entities excluded from collaboration when the same editor loaded synchronized entities.
• Enterprise Search: Fixed nested meta query groups with named clauses being dropped, which could return unfiltered results.

Changed

• VIP Search: Slow-query warnings now compare the Elasticsearch execution time (took) against vip_search_slow_query_threshold_ms instead of the total HTTP request duration, so network and connection overhead outside Elasticsearch no longer triggers warnings. Requests that are slow end-to-end while transferring at least 1 MiB of data still warn, with guidance to request fewer results or fields.
• VIP Search: The human-readable slow and unbounded query warnings are now prefixed with VIP_SEARCH_QUERY_WARNING: to make them easier to find in application logs.
• None. This changes tests only.
• Real-Time Collaboration: Updated the collaborator avatar stack focus ring to use the editor design system outline.

Changed

• WordPress MCP: Pinned MCP Adapter to 0.6 on WordPress 6.9 and newer while a compatibility issue in 0.7 is resolved.

Fixed

• Dev-env: Allow local SQL cleanup when Jetpack is unavailable and remove imported service connection options.
• Skip incompatible local Jetpack candidates before initialization and guard Connection Pilot cleanup when its integration is unavailable.

Omitted while the feature remains restricted to an internal rollout.

Fixed

• Enterprise Search: Prevent cross-site and persistent post-cache contamination from search results.

No customer-visible Real-Time Collaboration changes were identified between the deployed baseline and the new artifact.

Fixed

• Fixed Cron Control REST access checks to use the resolved route and effective request method.

No customer-visible Real-Time Collaboration changes were identified between the deployed baseline and the new artifact.

Changed

• Updated the wp-parsely submodule (used for local development environments) to version 3.24.1.

Added

• Include plugin Update URI metadata in site details sent to the platform.

Fixed

• Real-Time Collaboration: Prevented stale collaboration state from overwriting newer saved content by disabling collaboration for post types that could not persist its CRDT document.

Removed

• Removed the unused Parsedown development dependency.

Changed

• Updated the default version of wp-parsely to 3.24.

Changed

• HyperDB: Updated to the latest upstream version.
• Real-Time Collaboration: Moved collaboration and its bundled HTTP polling provider behind one opt-in Gutenberg experiment, disabled by default, while allowing plugins to replace the default provider.
• Real-Time Collaboration: Enabled Gutenberg’s unified real-time collaboration experiment by default and moved its control from Gutenberg’s Experiments page to the VIP Real-Time Collaboration settings page.

Added

• Real-Time Collaboration: Added session-scoped Anonymous User identities so authorized collaborators could continue editing when WordPress user profiles were unavailable.
• Real-Time Collaboration: Added an emergency fallback setting that disabled collaboration and the VIP WebSocket provider together.
• Real-Time Collaboration: Added an admin notice when the installed Gutenberg version was older than the required 23.8.0.

Fixed

• Real-Time Collaboration: Prevented misplaced collaborator cursors, selections, and highlights inside collapsed content, showed presence on the nearest visible container, and revealed collapsed Details content when navigating to a collaborator.

Fixed

• Fatal error during configuration of AI Connectors

Added

• It is possible to use vip config envvar set to configure AI Connectors in WordPress

Changed

• Real-Time Collaboration: Rendered empty editors and containers with their actual default block so its client ID, DOM element, and caret persisted when editing began, without saving the placeholder before entry.

Changed

• Real-Time Collaboration: Created block templates synchronously during insertion so connected peers received a single complete block without duplicate template contents.

Fixed

• Real-Time Collaboration: Displayed collaborator selections that spanned mixed text and non-text blocks, whole-block keyboard selections, and entire posts.
• Real-Time Collaboration: Cleared the post’s dirty state after successfully saving edited post metadata.
• Real-Time Collaboration: Wrapped long usernames and mentions in the notes sidebar so the text remained readable.