VersionPress 4.0 alpha released

We’re happy to announce that after months of development, VersionPress 4.0-alpha1 is ready and available on GitHub. It brings plugin support which means that even complex sites like WooCommerce shops, large magazines etc. will be able to enjoy version control benefits soon. There are also some other nice features like an awesome Slack-like search, branching & merging visualization, support for Composer workflows and more. VersionPress 4.0 will undergo a full alpha / beta period to gather feedback on the plugin support and this really is the first alpha. Not all planned features are in it but it’s a good start.
Plugin support
To get a good idea what v4 is about, let’s look back at the previous releases:
1.0 was about a basic Git version control. The internals were already prepared to handle database merging but there was no real way to tap into it.
2.0 exposed the DB merging functionality to the users via a set of WP-CLI commands.
3.0 was a large maintenance release, handling things like serialized data, shortcodes and other things much better.
In all these releases, if a plugin added a custom database table or even stored custom data in tables like wp_options or
Source: https://managewp.org/articles/13574/versionpress-4-0-alpha-released

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