WooCommerce 2.6.2 Fix Release Notes

The WooCommerce 2.6.2 fix release is now available. You can download it on WordPress.org or as an automatic update in your administration panel.

~140 commits made it into this release fixing several minor issues and making some smaller tweaks. The main fixes/updates are as follows.

  • We’ve made the password reset process redirect to the form and set a cookie containing the reset token and username to prevent password tokens being leaked via the page’s referer headers.
  • Some users didn’t like the change showing ‘in stock’ when not managing stock levels. Due to this we’ve made it so ‘in stock’ in hidden when not managing stock levels, but ‘out of stock’ is shown when that status is explicitly set.
  • We’ve improved the coupon logic so that product coupons not valid for the current cart are not applied, rather than just having no discount value.
  • We’ve made some tweaks the descriptions on the zones screen, and made it so zones can match postcodes without having a country assigned to them. Also, if no locations are set on a zone, it will now be listed as being for ‘everywhere’.
  • To allow my account page tabs to be disabled without code, you can now set the endpoint value to a blank string.

The full changelog for 2.6.2 is below.

* Fix - Set max index length on woocommerce_payment_tokenmeta table for utf8mb4 support.
* Fix - is_available check for legacy shipping methods.
* Fix - wc_add_to_cart_message() when non-array is passed.
* Fix - Maximum coupon check should allow the 'maximum' value.
* Fix - Product coupon logic to avoid applying non-applicable coupons.
* Fix - Potential notices when leaving out 'default' field for shipping instances.
* Fix - wp_cache_flush after term meta migration/update.
* Fix - wc_add_to_cart_message() when non-array is passed.
* Fix - woocommerce_redirect_single_search_result type check was incorrect.
* Fix - Javascript show/hide of option in free shipping method.
* Fix - Convert ellipsis to three periods when saving postcodes.
* Fix - Prevent get_terms returning duplicates.
* Fix - Removed non-existent country (Netherlands Antilles) from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1.
* Fix - Grouped product range display when child is free.
* Fix - Remove discount when checking free shipping min amount.
* Fix - Prevent blocking the same element multiple times on cart page.
* Fix - Don't sync ratings right after a new comment to prevent rating sync whilst rating meta does not exist yet.
* Fix - Fix product RSS feeds when using shop base.
* Fix - woocommerce_local_pickup_methods comparison by stripping instance IDs before the check.
* Fix - During password resets, use cookie to store reset key and user login to avoid them being exposed in the URL/referer headers.
* Dev - API - Fixed variable product stock at product level.
* Dev - CLI - Introduces woocommerce_cli_get_product_variable_types filter.
* Dev - Allow notices to be grouped on checkout after certain events.
* Tweak - Made customer pay link display if order needs_payment() rather than checking pending status.
* Tweak - Zones - Wording clarifications.
* Tweak - Zones - Match zones with postcodes but no country.
* Tweak - Zones - Match zones with no regions as 'everywhere'.
* Tweak - Added view_admin_dashboard cap for disabling the admin access restriction in custom roles.
* Tweak - Revised stock display based on feedback to hide 'in stock' message if stock management is off and only show available on backorder if notifying customer.
* Tweak - Allow external product SKUs.
* Tweak - PT (Portugal) and JP (Japan) postcode formats.
* Tweak - Sort products from the [product_category] shortcode by menu order.
* Tweak - Improve wc_orders_count() performance by running a query to count only posts of the given status.
* Tweak - To allow my account page tabs to be disabled without code, you can now set the endpoint value to a blank string.

If you spot any further issues, please report them to us in detail on Github so the development team can review – comments on this post are closed.


3 responses to “WooCommerce 2.6.2 Fix Release Notes”

  1. Hi,
    What is “* Tweak – Allow external product SKUs.”

    1. External products had their SKU field hidden.

  2. I noticed that regardless of if you sell downloads or not this tab is still shown in the account screen – it also does not degrade for mobile.. Surly it would make more sense to have the a mobile version shown depending of how the user is browsing the site.

    Just my two cents – otherwise still an exceptional plugin.

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