WooCommerce 4.3 Release Candidate 2

Hi all! Last week, we published the first release candidate for WooCommerce 4.3 and thing has been working quite well and we’ve also seen a couple of bug reports, mostly for features related to the WooCommerce Admin package. To keep the feedback loop for testers tight, we’re bringing you the second release candidate today.

We are still on track for our planned July 7th final release date.

Changes

Please find below the list of changes from RC1:

WooCommerce core

Tweak – Fix redundant setting of object cache when attribute taxonomies are not being used. #26518

WooCommerce Admin

Tweak – Tweak the embed page CSS so the top content sits better. #4622
Tweak – Update summary number placeholder styles. #4682
Fix – Check that the possibly_add_note function exists before calling it. #4680
Fix – Remove unnecessary rest_api_init action that caused incompatibility issues with other plugins. #4691
Fix – Fix dashboard task list menu placement. #4664
Fix – Added styles to the unread notes counter in the inbox panel. #4690
Fix – Fix spacing between stats overview and store management cards. #4681

Testing

If you’d like to dive in and help test this new release, our handy WooCommerce Beta Tester plugin allows you to switch between beta versions and release candidates. You can also download the release from wordpress.org.

A set of testing instructions has been published on our Wiki page in GitHub. We’ve also posted a helpful writeup on beta testing to help get you started.

If you discover any bugs during the testing process, please let us know by logging a report in GitHub.

Thanks to all of our testers and contributors!

Keep yourself in the loop!

6 responses to “WooCommerce 4.3 Release Candidate 2”

jkohlbach

June 30, 2020

Thanks Peter, for future ones it would be super helpful on these updates if we could get a link to the changelog between RC1 and RC2. Saves us digging through Github 🙂

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1. Peter Fabian
  
  July 1, 2020
  
  Great idea, thanks! I’ve updated the post.
  
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  1. jkohlbach
    
    July 2, 2020
    
    Cheers Peter!
    
    Just a follow-up, we’ve had all sorts of issues with the changes around admin notes in this 4.3 release.
    
    Seems 4.3 removed columns for icons and layout which has cause all sorts of issues with backwards compatibility.
    
    One we couldn’t overcome was an issue we found with admin notes on installs downgrading a 4.3 instance back to 4.2 because the icons don’t exist for notes created in 4.3. The result is PHP fatals on any page using WC admin.
    
    https://github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce-admin/issues/4736
    
    Looking forward to admin notes functionality getting more stable as we go on, looks like more and more third party devs (like us) are starting to actively use them.
    
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    1. Peter Fabian
      
      July 2, 2020
      
      Thanks for testing! I’ll make sure we fix the problem you found.
      
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Daniel

July 1, 2020

Submitted bugs after upgrading from wc4.2.2 to 4.3rc2(getting warnings and notices in Apache logs, related to wc automatic cron: wc_admin_daily (every 24hs or if you execute it manually). See: https://github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce/issues/26929
Tbanks in advance!!

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1. Peter Fabian
  
  July 2, 2020
  
  Thanks for testing Daniel! We’ll try to get all warnings cleared in the final release.
  
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WooCommerce 4.3 Release Candidate 2

Changes

Testing

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Keep yourself in the loop!

6 responses to “WooCommerce 4.3 Release Candidate 2”