Title: Staging release – 2024/02/06
Author: WordPress VIP Documentation
Published: February 6, 2024
Last modified: August 5, 2025

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 3. Staging release – 2024/02/06

# Staging release – 2024/02/06

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 06 February 2024

22:53:25 GMT+0000

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### Functions Deprecated: wp_startswith, wp_endswith, and wp_in

We deprecated the helper functions `wp_startswith`, `wp_endswith` and `wp_in` in
favour of the PHP equivalents: `str_starts_with`, `str_ends_with`, and `str_contains`.

[https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5131](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5131)