Title: Staging release – 2022/08/16 Author: WordPress VIP Documentation Published: August 16, 2022 Last modified: August 5, 2025 --- 1. [Changelog](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/) 2. [VIP MU plugins [Staging]](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-staging/) 3. Staging release – 2022/08/16 # Staging release – 2022/08/16 --- 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/_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)