Title: Changelog: VIP MU plugins [Staging] · Page 9 of 9 · WordPress VIP Documentation --- 1. [Changelog](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/) 2. VIP MU plugins [Staging] # Changelog: VIP MU plugins [Staging] The release window for [VIP MU plugins](https://docs.wpvip.com/vip-go-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](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pulls?q=label%3A%22%5BStatus%5D+Deployed+to+staging%22+) 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. [ RSS  ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-staging/feed/) Search Showing page 9 of 9 20 September 2022 19:30:13 GMT+0000 [ VIP MU plugins [Staging] ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-staging/) [ Permalink ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-staging/staging-release-2022-09-20/) ### Plugin Updated: Query Monitor 3.10.1 We upgraded Query Monitor from 3.9.0 to 3.10.1. [Changelog](https://github.com/johnbillion/query-monitor/compare/3.9.0...3.10.1) Release notes: * [3.10.1](https://github.com/johnbillion/query-monitor/releases/tag/3.10.1) * [3.10.0](https://github.com/johnbillion/query-monitor/releases/tag/3.10.0) [https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3649](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](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](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3667) 13 September 2022 20:18:33 GMT+0000 [ VIP MU plugins [Staging] ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-staging/) [ Permalink ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-staging/staging-release-2022-09-13/) ### 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](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](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](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](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](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](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](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3580) --- 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](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](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3639) #jetpack, #mu-plugins, #parse-ly, #search, #site-details 06 September 2022 15:22:47 GMT+0000 [ VIP MU plugins [Staging] ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-staging/) [ Permalink ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-staging/staging-release-2022-09-06/) ### 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](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](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3600) --- ### Plugin Updated: Jetpack 11.3 beta We upgraded Jetpack 11.3-beta2 to 11.3-beta3 [https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3604](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3604) 01 September 2022 19:07:49 GMT+0000 [ VIP MU plugins [Staging] ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-staging/) [ Permalink ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-staging/staging-release-2022-09-01/) ### Plugin Updated: Jetpack 11.3 We upgraded Jetpack 11.3 beta to Jetpack 11.3 beta2 [https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3595](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3595) 31 August 2022 16:06:26 GMT+0000 [ VIP MU plugins [Staging] ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-staging/) [ Permalink ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-staging/staging-release-2022-08-31/) ### Plugin Updated: VIP Helpers Add a workaround for Yoast SEO’s `WPSEO_Role_Manager_VIP::add_role()`. [https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3561](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3561) --- ### Plugin Updated: VIP_Files_CLI_Command Use vip_inmemory_cleanup over deprecated stop_the_insanity [https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3573](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3573) --- Updates the Jetpack loader to account for network activated installations of Jetpack. [https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3574](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3574) --- ### Plugin Updated: Jetpack: VIP Specific Changes Roll out filter pre_jetpack_is_mobile to 50% of production sites, which accounts for X-Mobile-Class header in `jetpack_is_mobile()` [https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3579](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3579) --- ### Plugin Updated: Debug Bar Fix fatal “Cannot declare class Debug_Bar, because the name is already in use” [https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3581](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3581) --- ### Plugin Added: Jetpack 11.3 Beta Jetpack 11.3-beta has been added to mu-plugins. [Users can pin at Jetpack 11.3](https://docs.wpvip.com/how-tos/test-jetpack-on-vip-go/#h-pinning-to-a-version). [https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3588](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3588) 17 August 2022 21:53:26 GMT+0000 [ VIP MU plugins [Staging] ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-staging/) [ Permalink ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-staging/staging-release-2022-08-17/) ### Plugin Updated: VIP Dashboard Add a link to the General Ticket Guidelines [https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3546](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3546) --- ### Plugin Updated: VIP Jetpack Loader We implemented a safeguard against potentially loading Jetpack classes from different paths. [https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3543](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3543) 16 August 2022 17:05:26 GMT+0000 [ VIP MU plugins [Staging] ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-staging/) [ Permalink ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-staging/staging-release-2022-08-16/) ### Plugin Updated: Enterprise Search * Add filter__ep_enable_do_weighting to optimize search requests not utilizing weighting: [https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3496](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3496) * Add a global timeout parameter for ES post queries: [https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3497](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3497) --- ### Mark the vip_files_acl_file_visibility` filter as available for use [https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3502](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3502) --- ### Removed the retrieval of unprefixed VIP environment variables VIP environment variables, enabled through the dashboard or CLI, will now always be prefixed with a VIP string. This will not affect the use of environment variables currently used, but aims to prevent collisions between VIP environment variables and constants that may be defined elsewhere. [https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3498](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3498) --- ### Plugin Updated: VIP Support * Add additional validation checks before adding support user and account for existing support user with different e-mail: [https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3504](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3504) * Remove vip_support role from editable_roles for non-vip_support users: [https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3508](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3508) --- ### Plugin Updated: WPCOM_VIP_CLI_Command Deprecate `stop_the_insanity()` in favour of `vip_inmemory_cleanup()`. [https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3505](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3505) --- ### Plugin Updated: VIP Codebase Manager Fix PHP warning when `$menu` is not initialized. [https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3512](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3512) --- ### Plugin Updated: VIP Init Respect `WPMU_PLUGIN_DIR`/`WPMU_PLUGIN_URL` constants if they are defined early, before the sunrise code is loaded. [https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3515](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3515) --- ### Plugin Updated: Jetpack * Changed the behavior of jetpack_is_mobile() to account for X-Mobile-Class header: [https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3499](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3499) * We upgraded jetpack loader logic which chooses what version of JP should be loaded. This change provides one extra fallback in case the default version of JP is not included in the mu-plugins: [https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3503](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-staging/page/_wp_link_placeholder?output_format=md) --- ### Add wp-parsely 3.5.0 We added wp-parsely 3.5.0 plugin as a (non-default) option to sites. [https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3516](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3516) --- ### Filter Updated: _vip_filter_rest_url_for_ssl Moves the priority up to 100. [https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3522](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3522) --- ### Plugin Updated: Search Dev Tools Do not use `preact-habitat` package; use native `render()` instead. [https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3525](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3525) --- ### Plugin Updated: VIP Mail Do not override the SMTP server in `phpmailer_init` if it has already been set by another plugin. [https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3526](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3526) 09 August 2022 16:04:11 GMT+0000 [ VIP MU plugins [Staging] ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-staging/) [ Permalink ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-staging/staging-release-2022-08-09/) ### Bugfix: Debug Bar * Fix a filter priority issue in our Debug Bar loader that caused some panels to be missing: [https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3461](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3461) * Change to load at earlier hook to utilize remote request logging: https://github. com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3490 --- ### Plugin Updated: Enterprise Search Two ElasticPress bug fixes: * format_hits_as_terms() will return with a WP_Term object instead of stdClass * Protected Content feature will take into account posts that are autosaved only [https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3483](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3483) --- ### Lockout: Adds VIP_ACCOUNT_STATUS constant to control the notice/locking functionalities Adds a new `VIP_ACCOUNT_STATUS` that can be used to set the site’s account status, and warn/lock the application, if required. [https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3481](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3481) --- ### Plugin Updated: VIP Prometheus Added a collector for: * post statistics: [https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3489](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3489) * Enterprise Search: [https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3488](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-staging/page/_wp_link_placeholder?output_format=md) --- ### Plugin Updated: Object Cache Load object-cache.php from MU-plugins version. [https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3491](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3491) 04 August 2022 19:17:01 GMT+0000 [ VIP MU plugins [Staging] ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-staging/) [ Permalink ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-staging/staging-release-2022-08-04/) ### Plugin Updated: Debug Bar ElasticPress We upgraded to 2.1.1 [https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3471](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3471) ### Plugin Updated: Jetpack 11.2 We set Jetpack 11.2 as the default version of Jetpack on the VIP platform. All unpinned sites will now be using Jetpack 11.2 [https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3473](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3473) 02 August 2022 17:09:42 GMT+0000 [ VIP MU plugins [Staging] ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-staging/) [ Permalink ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-staging/staging-release-2022-08-02/) ### Plugin Updated: Search Dev Tools We’ve updated Search Dev Tools to include CSS fixes to prevent the “COPY” button from potentially being invisible to the user. [https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3440](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3440) 18 July 2022 15:59:59 GMT+0000 [ VIP MU plugins [Staging] ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-staging/) [ Permalink ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-staging/staging-release-2022-07-18/) ### Plugin Updated: Jetpack 11.1 We upgraded Jetpack 11.1.1 to 11.1.2 [https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3398](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3398) 13 July 2022 17:31:58 GMT+0000 [ VIP MU plugins [Staging] ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-staging/) [ Permalink ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-staging/staging-release-2022-07-13/) ### Plugin Updated: Enterprise Search Fix Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Undefined constant “qa” in /var/www/wp-content/ mu-plugins/search/includes/classes/class-search.php on line 2346 [https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3372](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3372) 12 July 2022 15:30:38 GMT+0000 [ VIP MU plugins [Staging] ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-staging/) [ Permalink ](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-staging/staging-release-2022-07-12/) ### Plugin Updated: VIP Helpers Do not hardcode Jetpack IPs; instead, retrieve them from the official API endpoint. [https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3297](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3297) --- ### Plugin Updated: Enterprise Search Search: Add filter_ep_enable_do_weighting to reduce ES payload if weighting is not used [https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3340](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3340) --- ### Plugin Updated: Search Development Tools * Update preact from 10.8.2 to 10.9.0 [https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3342](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3342) --- ### Plugin Updated: Admin notice Remove Jetpack Search wp-admin notice and update PHP 8 one [https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3353](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3353) --- * [Previous](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-staging/page/8/?output_format=md) * [Page 1](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-staging/?output_format=md) * … * [Page 6](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-staging/page/6/?output_format=md) * [Page 7](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-staging/page/7/?output_format=md) * [Page 8](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-staging/page/8/?output_format=md) * Page 9