WordPress Cluster 6.56.1

  • Developers
    • Fix phpmd.phar unavailability by localizing it.
    • db backup must be in place for the db restore to continue

Note: To switch to the updated environment recreate your web box:

vagrant destroy web -f
vagrant up

PR: https://github.com/dc-thomson/wordpress/pull/1901

WordPress Cluster 6.56.0

  • New Plugins
    • WP All Import PRO 4.5.5
    • WPAI acf-add-on 3.2.0
  • MU Plugin update
    • Advertising 1.2.1
      • Advertising stop panel changed to editor permission level and above
  • Optimize Wordfence Firewall [CORE-1938]
    • php.ini on webservers needs additional step:
      • auto_prepend_file = ‘/srv/wpcluster/src/wp-content/wordfence-waf.php’
    • Network WordFence settings page should now read
      • Protection Level

        Extended Protection: All PHP requests will be processed by the firewall prior to running.

        If you’re moving to a new host or a new installation location, you may need to temporarily disable extended protection to avoid any file not found errors. Use this action to remove the configuration changes that enable extended protection mode or you can remove them manually.

  • Developers
    • Vagrant environment upgrade to Ubuntu 18.04
    • Upgrade to PHP 7.3

Note: To switch to the updated environment recreate your web box:

vagrant destroy web -f
vagrant up

PR: https://github.com/dc-thomson/wordpress/pull/1866, 1890 1892 1897

WordPress Cluster 6.55.0

  •  Plugins Updated
    • AMP 1.1.0
    • Mailchimp for WP  4.5.1
    • Bulk Delete 6.0.2
    • Yoast SEO 11.0
    • Redirection 4.2.3
  • Themes Updated
    • Hueman  3.4.19

PR:

  • https://github.com/dc-thomson/wordpress/pull/1870

WordPress Cluster 6.54.0

  • Plugin Updates
    • ACF Pro 5.7.13
    • Redirection 4.2
    • WordPress SEO 10.1.3
  • Developer
    • Unit Testing Fixtures (partial)
    • From this commit onwards developers can skip initiating a dev conversion manually after bringing up a web+deb environment, as this now happens automatically.
Post Deploy

@sandervandragt to update https://confluence.dctdigital.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=26345736 with the devconversion changes.

PR: https://github.com/dc-thomson/wordpress/pull/1848

WordPress Cluster 6.53.3

  • Themes added:
    • Bauchan
    • SNS
      • A child theme of Bauchan for Scottish Newspaper Society.
        • Makes use of ACF modifications to the parent theme by removing blocks which are not required and adding in site specific blocks.
  • MU Plugins:
    • ACF
      • Added controls for modifying flexible content layouts within a child theme.
      • Added function to get a field group by name.
    • Added function to remove pages marked as private from navigation menus from users without permission to access them.

WordPress Cluster 6.53

  • Plugins Updated
    •  debug-bar-elasticpress 1.4 (from 1.3)
    •  elasticpress 2.8.2 (from 2.8.1)
    •  mailchimp-for-wp 4.5.0 (from 4.3.3)
    •  redirection 4.1.1 (from 3.7.3)
    •  rollbar 2.6.0 (from 2.5.1)
    •  user-switching 1.5.0 (from 1.4.2)
    • wordfence 7.2.4 (from 7.2.2)
    • wordpress-seo 10.0.1 (from 9.7)
  • Themes updated:
    •  hueman 3.4.17 (from 3.4.14)
    • Delete Sunday Post 2016 (unused)
    • Delete Youth Squads (archived)
    • Delete Reader Panel (unused)
  • Developers
    • tools/updater  – WPC Updater 1.0
      • This tool is a semi-automation of the routine task of updating Plugins, Themes, Core and Core Language

 

PR:

  • https://github.com/dc-thomson/wordpress/pull/1820
  • https://github.com/dc-thomson/wordpress/pull/1821