WooCommerce 10.6: What’s coming for developers

Hey folks, on Monday, February 16, 2026, we kicked-off our Feature Freeze ahead of the release of WooCommerce 10.6. As we begin the testing phase, and get the release ready, we wanted to share some spoilers and document any updates to the expected release timeline. 

Check back here for more updates ahead of the WooCommerce 10.6 release, scheduled for March 10, 2026. 

What’s coming in 10.6

Performance optimizations continue to deliver measurable improvements

Database efficiency sees notable gains, with checkout pages executing fewer SQL queries through deferred transient deletion #63118, while admin pages benefit from additional query reduction via options priming.

The Recent Reviews widget now loads asynchronously, preventing admin lockout scenarios when review data causes errors #63224. Cache priming has been consolidated across product data stores, reducing redundant queries when loading related and upsell products #62998, #62999.

Additional optimizations include product attribute lookup tables for downloadable product checks #62966, posts cache priming in order retrieval #63006, and streamlined month filter SQL on the orders page #63039.

Product Collection user experience improvements

WooCommerce 10.6 replaces “No products to display” placeholder with immediate, intuitive product selection interfaces. When inserting Hand-picked Products, Products by Category, Products by Tag, or Products by Brand collections, users now see searchable picker interfaces right away instead of empty states #62989, #63023.

Brands now have first-class support through a dedicated collection type with the new ProductBrandControl component #63023.

Builders and theme developers building product grids will find block configuration significantly more intuitive, while extension developers can reference these patterns for creating custom collection types with searchable, hierarchical selection interfaces.

Additional block refinements

Product Filters blocks now support menu order sorting for core taxonomies that allow custom ordering #62940.

The Product Reviews block has been updated to properly display admin replies to reviews #63161.

Cart and Checkout block refinements

Work continues on visual improvements to the block-based Cart and Checkout.

The remove item control has been redesigned as a trash icon positioned to the right of the quantity picker, replacing the previous text link below items #62965. Sale badges now appear inline beside total prices with updated styling instead of below individual line items #63012, while product variations and metadata display inline with separators rather than as vertical lists for more compact presentation #62873.

A new font-x-small-locked CSS mixin leveraging --wp--preset--font-size--x-small provides consistent small text sizing across cart components #62866.

API changes & experimental features

The Add to Cart with Options (Beta) block is now fully integrated with the product store for all product types, ensuring consistent data handling and state management #62880. The block now also includes better support for product variations, including options to handle pre-selected options and disabled options #61389.

Experimental REST API caching improvements
Caching capabilities are being extended to more endpoints. This release adds caching for taxes, currencies, countries, and continents endpoints along with additional validation. Learn more about this beta feature by reading Call for testing: Experimental REST API Caching in WooCommerce 10.5

Experimental block-based email editing improvements
Work on our block-based email editor continues to move forward with key improvements including a new SlotFill for extensibility, full-width alignment support for product images, better Product Collection block rendering with two-column layouts, VideoPress embed support, and fixes for template selection modal responsiveness.

Developer Advisories

Product images are now lazy-loaded by default in WooCommerce 10.6 – WooCommerce 10.6 introduces lazy loading for Product Image block by default. Developers can customize this behavior using the new woocommerce_product_image_loading_attr filter.

Second parameter of woocommerce_get_breadcrumb may be null for Core Breadcrumbs block in WooCommerce 10.6 – WooCommerce 10.6 introduces an integration with the WordPress Core Breadcrumbs block, but developers using this filter may need to add a null check.

Restricting per_page for Product and ProductReview Store API Requests in WooCommerce 10.6 – WooCommerce 10.6 introduces a minimum per_page value of 1 for products StoreAPI endpoints. Developers using per_page=0 will need to implement pagination instead.

Changelog

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Update timeline