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.

06 September 2022

15:22:47 GMT+0000

VIP MU plugins [Staging]

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 beta

We upgraded Jetpack 11.3-beta2 to 11.3-beta3

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3604

01 September 2022

19:07:49 GMT+0000

VIP MU plugins [Staging]

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

31 August 2022

16:06:26 GMT+0000

VIP MU plugins [Staging]

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

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

Updates the Jetpack loader to account for network activated installations of Jetpack.

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

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

Plugin Added: Jetpack 11.3 Beta

Jetpack 11.3-beta has been added to mu-plugins. Users can pin at Jetpack 11.3.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3588

17 August 2022

21:53:26 GMT+0000

VIP MU plugins [Staging]

Plugin Updated: VIP Dashboard

Add a link to the General Ticket Guidelines

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

16 August 2022

17:05:26 GMT+0000

VIP MU plugins [Staging]

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
Add a global timeout parameter for ES post queries: 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

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

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
Remove vip_support role from editable_roles for non-vip_support users: 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

Plugin Updated: VIP Codebase Manager

Fix PHP warning when $menu is not initialized.

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

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
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

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

Filter Updated: _vip_filter_rest_url_for_ssl

Moves the priority up to 100.

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

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

09 August 2022

16:04:11 GMT+0000

VIP MU plugins [Staging]

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
Change to load at earlier hook to utilize remote request logging: https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/3490