Title: Staging release – 2024/04/09
Author: WordPress VIP Documentation
Published: April 9, 2024
Last modified: August 5, 2025

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 3. Staging release – 2024/04/09

# Staging release – 2024/04/09

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 09 April 2024

13:45:41 GMT+0000

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### Plugin Updated: Block Data API

We upgraded the Block Data API integration to version `1.2.1`, which supports WordPress
6.5 `rich-text` attribute parsing.

[https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5409](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5409)

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### Plugin Updated: Options API

 * Compatibility with WordPress 6.6: [https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5415](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5415)
 * Harden `pre_wp_load_alloptions_protections()` function: https://github.com/Automattic/
   vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5436

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### Function Deprecated: wpcom_vip_get_page_by_title

Deprecate `wpcom_vip_get_page_by_title`() because WP 6.2 deprecates `get_page_by_title`.
Please use WP_Query instead.

[https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5343](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5343)

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### Update wp-parsely submodule to version 3.14.3

We updated the wp-parsely submodule (used for local development environments) to
version 3.14.3.

[https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5408](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5408)

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### Plugin Updated: VIP Jetpack

Introduce new `Attendant` class for managing the Jetpack connection’s primary user.

[https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5318](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5318)