4.0-alpha1

VersionPress 4.0 introduces support for WordPress plugins and themes. The other significant changes are a much-improved search, staging visualization and Composer workflows support.

This is the first alpha, released on 10th October 2016. Read the release blog post or see the full release notes.

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Note: this is an Early Access release. These warnings and limitations apply.

New in 4.0-alpha1

Plugin support

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Plugins can now be described to VersionPress using a set of plugin definitions in a .versionpress folder. These include:

• actions.yml defining plugin actions
• schema.yml describing how the plugin stores data in the database
• shortcodes.yml defining any new shortcodes the plugin introduces
• hooks.php containing any filters and actions further customizing the functionality

See docs/Plugin-Support.md for more details. Issue: #1036 (PR #1075).

New features

• Significant search improvements – #805
• Branching and merging visualization – #1043
• Composer workflows – #1037

Other significant changes

• MobX introduced as a state management library for the React frontend – #1091
• Frontend generally reviewed and cleaned up (React component structure, code style, etc.) – #1083

Upgrade notes

To upgrade from 3.0 and earlier, please do a full re-activation. The recommended procedure is:

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

System requirements

General system requirements:

• PHP 5.6.0 or later
• WordPress 4.4 or later
• Git 1.9 or later
• proc_open() enabled

System requirements for sync / multi-environment workflows:

• Custom server or VPS is recommended.