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Changelog: VIP MU plugins [Staging]

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).  Changes made and deployed to the VIP MU plugins Staging branch are labeled [Status] Deployed to staging and visible in a filtered VIP MU plugins pull request view.

By default, the staging branch of VIP MU plugins is deployed to one non-production environment for all applications. This allows customers to test changes before they are released to production environments. This also provides time for the VIP Team to observe errors and test for bugs across a wider variety of applications.

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23 July 2026

19:23:17 GMT+0000

Changed

  • VIP Image Resize: Add the vip_image_resize_use_theme_json_layout_widths filter to opt out of using theme.json layout widths.

Fixed

  • VIP Image Resize: Fixed full-size image requests returning theme-constrained dimensions instead of the original attachment dimensions.
21 July 2026

18:20:59 GMT+0000

Fixed

  • Fixed admin_url() resolving to the production hostname on sandboxes, which caused cross-origin request failures for AJAX calls using admin-ajax.php.
  • Real-Time Collaboration: Preserved collaborators’ unsaved content and post meta when another user saves, prevented redundant empty autosave revisions, and restored undo and redo when plugins with incompatible meta boxes disable collaboration.
  • Real-Time Collaboration: Disabled Quick Edit for posts with active collaborative sessions and improved remote cursor and selection positioning while resizing the browser window.

Changed

  • Real-Time Collaboration: Updated the bundled Gutenberg integration from the 0.2-20260706-pr79021 build based on Gutenberg 23.5.0 to the 0.2-20260720-pr79021 build based on the July 20 Gutenberg trunk snapshot. The VIP RTC plugin remains at v0.3.2.
  • Real-Time Collaboration: Added independent controls for collaborator join, leave, and post-update notifications, and avoided synchronous CRDT updates while editing alone to reduce typing latency outside active collaboration.
  • Updated the wp-parsely submodule (used for local development environments) to version 3.23.4.
14 July 2026

17:35:50 GMT+0000

Changed

  • VIP Image Resize: Respect theme.json layout contentSize and wideSize when determining resize widths for block themes without $content_width.

Removed

  • Removed the retired VIP Featured Technology Partners display from Plugins admin screens.
07 July 2026

17:40:21 GMT+0000

Added

  • (Enterprise Search) Add filters in User’s query_db method
  • (Enterprise Search) Add support of include, lower_limit_object_id, and upper_limit_object_id for User Indexable
  • (Enterprise Search) Add a more detailed stack trace into the Search Dev Tools query log

Fixed

  • (Enterprise Search) Fix ordering user queries by meta key/value
02 July 2026

13:59:32 GMT+0000

Changed

  • Secure MCP: MCP requests whose authenticated email does not match a WordPress user now return a 401 error instead of silently declining authentication.
30 June 2026

17:55:46 GMT+0000

Fixed

  • Fixed Safe Publish config loading on multisite so site-level and network-site-level settings are available together.

Removed

  • WP-CLI: Removed the already-disabled Async_Scheduler_Command class
09 June 2026

18:57:53 GMT+0000

Changed

  • Updated the wp-parsely submodule (used for local development environments) to version 3.23.3.
  • Real-Time Collaboration: Updated the integration to load plugin version 0.3.
26 May 2026

19:06:42 GMT+0000

Changed

  • Updated RTC to use Gutenberg 23.1.1
  • Updated RTC to use Gutenberg 23.2.0
  • Updated the wp-parsely submodule (used for local development environments) to version 3.23.2.

Fixed

  • Fixed OPCache status in Site Health incorrectly reporting as disabled on VIP environments
14 April 2026

20:13:58 GMT+0000

Changed

  • Updated Query Monitor to 4.0.0
  • Updates Real-Time Collaboration to use the latest gutenberg build gutenberg-0.2-20260414 built on commit https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/commit/9dd4b0ce7a3ed0bdb5925a42bec5cf84fcab3eae
  • Updated the wp-parsely submodule (used for local development environments) to version 3.23.1.
  • Updated Jetpack to 15.7

Added

  • Query Monitor 4 compatibility fixes.
07 April 2026

18:20:42 GMT+0000

Changed

  • Update the Gutenberg version used in RTC to be the same as WordPress 7.0
  • Updated the wp-parsely submodule (used for local development environments) to version 3.23.0.
  • Updated the default version of wp-parsely from 3.22 to 3.23.