Title: Staging release – 2024/04/30
Author: WordPress VIP Documentation
Published: April 30, 2024
Last modified: August 5, 2025

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 1. [Changelog](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/)
 2. [VIP MU plugins [Staging]](https://docs.wpvip.com/changelog/vip-mu-plugins-staging/)
 3. Staging release – 2024/04/30

# Staging release – 2024/04/30

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 30 April 2024

18:23:43 GMT+0000

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### Plugin Updated: VIP Enterprise Search

Fixed a bug when setting the number of shards in the index settings for the `user`
indexable.

[https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5499](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/5499)

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### Plugin Updated: Enterprise Search

Disable using `define( 'VIP_SEARCH_USE_NEXT_EP', false );`. There will only be one
version of ElasticPress.

[https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/4607](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/4607)