WooCommerce 5.3 Released

We’re excited to announce that WooCommerce 5.3 is now released. This is the fourth minor release of 2021 and has

1. 352 commits from 30 contributors in WooCommerce Core.
2. 145 commits from 29 contributors in the WooCommerce Admin package.
3. 59 commits from 12 contributors in the WooCommerce Gutenberg Products Block package.

This is a minor release, which means everything is backward compatible with the previous version.

As always, we recommend creating a backup of your site and making sure that the themes and plugins are compatible before updating. You can check out this update guide for more information.

What’s new in 5.3?

1. WooCommerce Blocks 4.9.1: Blocks package has been updated to 4.9.1. Please take a look at the release posts for 4.8.0, 4.9.0, and 4.9.1 to see what’s new and improved.
2. WooCommerce Admin 2.2.6: WooCommerce Admin package has also been updated to 2.2.6 with this release of WooCommerce. This new package contains lots of bug fixes and stability improvements. The list of changes in the versions of WooCommerce Admin included since WooCommerce 5.2 can be found here.

You can find the complete changelog for this release in the changelog.txt file.

Filters and actions

This release has one new and one updated filter.

New Filter

Filter	Description
woocommerce_cart_product_not_enough_stock_already_in_cart_message	Filters message about product not having enough stock accounting for what’s already in the cart. #29304

Updated Filter

Filter	Description
woocommerce_logger_log_message	Added the ability to specify a handler object, such as WC_Log_Handler_File. #29572

Database changes

This release does not introduce any database changes.

Template changes

This release does not introduce any changes to templates.

Much 💜 to all the contributors

Finally a big thanks to everyone in the community who has contributed via issue reports, fixes, translation, testing, supporting other users, or simply spreading the word.

WooCommerce core

roykho	rrennick	jonathansadowski	Konamiman	veljkho	zhongruige

joshuatf	vedanshujain	barryhughes	claudiosanches	bgrgicak	ObliviousHarmony

gracie	WPprodigy	Aljullu	tammullen

WooCommerce Admin

louwie17	samueljseay	jeffstieler	joshuatf	octaedro	psealock

hsingyuc	moon0326	tomalec	ilyasfoo	becdetat	adrianduffell

timmyc	Aljullu	joelclimbsthings	jonathansadowski	xristos3490	NeosinneR

rrennick	mikkamp	waclawjacek	ismaeldcom

WooCommerce Blocks

opr	mikejolley	senadir	nerrad	ralucaStan	Aljullu