WooCommerce 9.8.3: Dot release

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WooCommerce 9.8.3 has been released

WooCommerce 9.8.3 addresses two targeted issues: one related to scheduled actions for product-related transients, and another affecting postcode field validation in the Checkout block.

Current Stable Tag

🚀 WooCommerce 9.8.3

  • Release April 30th, 2025

What’s in this release

🛠️ Check for existing scheduled action before scheduled related product transient deletion #57592

This PR improves the efficiency and reliability of the wc_delete_product_transients() function by preventing duplicate scheduling of the wc_delete_related_product_transients_async action for the same product.

Fix: Prevent validation of hidden postcode fields in the Checkout block

🛠️ Don’t validate hidden postcodes in Checkout block #57594

Addresses an issue introduced in 9.8.2 where hiding the postcode field while marking it as “not required” caused the checkout process to silently fail. When affected, clicking “Place Order” would do nothing; no error messages were shown, and no logs were generated. This fix ensures that hidden, non-required postcode fields are excluded from validation, restoring expected checkout behavior.

10 responses to “WooCommerce 9.8.3: Dot release”

  1. Karla C Avatar
    Karla C

    This latest update completely crashed my site – not even able to get in through WordPress and had to access through the hosting platform to disable all plugins and get back in. Something is clearly wonky with this update. Definitely test when it’s not a high traffic time.

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    1. Brent MacKinnon Avatar
      Brent MacKinnon

      Hey Karla, thanks for letting us know

      That sounds really frustrating. We haven’t seen many crash reports with this update, so I’d like to figure out what happened in your case.

      Can you tell me what version you upgraded from and what other plugins you’re running? If you send those details through our support portal, we can look into it right away.

      https://woocommerce.com/my-account/contact-support/

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      1. John Avatar
        John

        Will try to find some time to go through support, but just dropping a note to say same here — all other plug-ins removed, reverted to default Twenty Twenty Five theme, and site crashes entirely as soon as WooCommerce is put on, have to FTP in to delete the directory just to get it back up. Site’s been down a lot over the last month and have been trying to figure out what was responsible, now with everything stripped it’s pretty clear it’s WooCommerce. Currently working my way backward through releases and 9.6.2 is a really weird edge one in that I get the “there has been a critical error on this website” message trying to get to the admin pages but the front end works. (9.7.* crashes everything too so not just 9.8.3)

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        1. John Avatar
          John

          Managed to get things up and running again. 9.4.3 was the last version of WooCommerce that worked with my site as it was. Had to edit the wp_config file to define WP_HOME and increase the site’s memory limit to get newer versions working (and now working up to 9.8.3). Despite giving the site more memory, things are running really slow… but at least they’re running now!

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  2. Dan Gillison Avatar
    Dan Gillison

    Cart page slowed to a crawl (+50s) load after updating to 9.8.3.

    I have a staging instance running 9.8.2 and the cart page is fine, but the action scheduler had many past-due actions for product transients (which 9.8.3 was addressing).

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  3. Brent MacKinnon Avatar
    Brent MacKinnon

    Hey John, thanks for sharing. I’m so sorry you’re experiencing this. If you’re in the Woo Slack Community, send me a note. I’d love to ask a few Q’s about your setup and connect to the right teams to investigate the performance issues you’re seeing.

    https://woocommerce.com/community-slack/

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  4. Jon Synder Avatar
    Jon Synder

    This is killing my website with significant increase on Google Maps API charges since the update.

    I’m using Distance Rate Shipping as well and it’s calling the API 20x more than before and caused me to incurred significant charges when it didn’t previously.

    Maybe something to do with the checkout block changes?

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  5. Craig Halliday Avatar
    Craig Halliday

    My client noticed today their products don’t show on the frontend. I clicked on the default shop page and got “No products were found matching your selection.”

    But when I log into the admin and I can see all the products. I tried resetting the permalinks – it didn’t work. I don’t see any script errors in Google Inspect. We are using version 9.8.3. Astra theme and Elementor Pro. Is this a known issue?

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  6. Christopher Duncan Avatar
    Christopher Duncan

    As soon as I updated the plugin to 9.8.3 it crashed my entire backend. Removing WooCommerce from the plugins folder brought everything back. WTF?

    Reply
    1. Brian Coords Avatar
      Brian Coords

      Hey Christopher,

      Sorry for the issue on your site. Please update WooCommerce to 9.8.4. For more information on this issue, please review the release post: https://developer.woocommerce.com/2025/05/06/woocommerce-9-8-4-dot-release/

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