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2.2 Release Notes

Compatibility release with WordPress 4.4 – support for termmeta table.

Released on 15-Dec-2015.

Note: this is an EAP release

Early Access is a period during which VersionPress is reasonably stable but still young, limited in scope and an external backup is recommended at all times. Learn more about EAP.

New in 2.2

  • Support for term meta (#553). After many years, WordPress added a new database table in its 4.4 release. The core itself doesn't use it in any way but plugins will so we added support for that.
  • Tests for sync workflows introduced in VersionPress 2.0. As usual, when we don't have something covered by tests, there are bugs in it so it was time to patch this. (#557)
  • Terms and term taxonomies are now stored similarly to other entities. During the past few releases, we've put some effort into unifying our internal structures so that they all follow the same scheme. Terms (#554) and term taxonomies (#578) were the last ones to join.
  • Fixed several bugs:
    • Count of posts related to a term_taxonomy is not updated during synchronization (#590)
    • Deleting category or menu with children doesn't update children's parent (#562)
    • Bug report didn't work (#569)
  • Other smaller improvements:
    • "void" VPID references (WordPress left-overs in the database) are now stored as zeros and are not excluded from our data structures. This helps when restoring the site from VersionPress repo. (#597)
    • If initialization fails, VersionPress now cleans up after itself properly (#585)
    • Better timeout handling in Initializer (#575)
    • Process timeout increased from the Symfony-hardcoded 60 seconds to one hour (#574)
    • Tests updated for WordPress 4.4 (#595) and back-fixed to work for WP 4.3 and below (pre-termmeta) (#594)
    • wporg_favorites usermeta is no longer tracked (#598)
    • IniSerializer was simplified – old code working with hierarchies removed (#596)
    • .idea folder excluded from version control (internal dev thing) (#507)

Also, during this release, we introduced a new support repo versionpress/support on GitHub which is now a preferred way to open support tickets. We'll be experimenting with this.

Upgrade notes

VersionPress 2.2 is not directly upgradable from 2.1.x and previous versions, full re-activation is required. The recommended procedure is:

  1. Put the site under maintenance mode
  2. Deactivate VersionPress (just deactivate, do not uninstall)
  3. Delete the contents of wp-content/plugins/versionpress and extract current VersionPress there
  4. Activate & initialize the plugin again
  5. Disable maintenance mode

System requirements

General system requirements:

  • PHP 5.3.4 or later
  • WordPress 4.1 or later (should work on 3.9+ but it's only officially tested on 4.1+)
  • Git 1.9 or later
  • proc_open() enabled on the server

System requirements for sync / multi-instance workflows:

  • For 2.x, we recommend custom server / VPS as most hosting providers will pose further restrictions on creating site clones.