WooCommerce 10.6: Enhanced blocks and a faster dashboard Release Posts

WooCommerce 10.6 has been released on March 10, 2026. This post highlights what’s new in this version of WooCommerce.

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Other important information:

📀 This release does include a database update.
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Current Stable Tag

👉 WooCommerce 10.6.0

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✅ Backwards compatible
Commits: 299
Contributors: 80

What’s Coming in 10.6

What’s Coming in 10.6
Product Collections get more intuitive
Visual refinements on Cart and Checkout Blocks
Our commitment to improving performance continues
More new features and updates
API Updates
Other important information
Database updates
Changelog
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Product Collections get more intuitive

Product Collection: Handpicked Products should start with product picker #62989
Products by Brand: journey starts with brand picker #63023
Products by Tag/Category: journey starts with taxonomy picker #62993

User interface displaying options to select types of products to showcase, including Featured Products, New Arrivals, On Sale Products, and more.

User interface for product selection in a clothing collection, showing options like cashmere and wool sweaters.

New updates to Product Collections include more collection options (including Products by Brand) and a better interface for selecting products, categories, or other configurations when adding a new collection to a page.

Visual refinements on Cart and Checkout Blocks

Position the remove button to the right of the quantity picker and use trash icon instead of text #62965
Move product sale badge alongside individual prices in cart and update design #63012

The Cart and Checkout Blocks continue to get design polish and improvements, including a new trash icon for removing items from the cart, cleaner font sizes and spacing for more compact product meta information, and an updated price savings badge.

Our commitment to improving performance continues

Recent Reviews widget: address slow SQL query (take 2) #63224
Products: reduce the number of SQLs when rendering related/upsell products. #63006
Admin: optimize SQL fetching dates for month filter on orders page #63039
and many others

Database efficiency improves across the board in WooCommerce 10.6. Checkout and admin pages execute fewer SQL queries through smarter caching and deferred cleanup tasks. The Recent Reviews widget now loads asynchronously to prevent admin lockouts, while product pages benefit from consolidated cache management that reduces redundant queries for related and upsell products.

More new features and updates

Menu Order Sorting for Product Filters

Taxonomy Filters: add option to order terms by menu_order #62940

Product Filters blocks now respect custom taxonomy ordering, allowing merchants to display categories and brands in the exact order they’ve set via drag-and-drop in the WordPress admin.

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Tax calculations can now include shipping costs for stores needing compliance

Add filter for tax-inclusive shipping prices #62944

A new filter enables tax-inclusive shipping pricing for EU compliance, allowing merchants to display fixed shipping costs that remain constant regardless of VAT rate—essential for meeting consumer protection laws in Germany, Switzerland, and other EU countries.

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Use the filter to always return true, or else add custom logic based on the customer’s location:

add_filter( 'woocommerce_shipping_prices_include_tax', '__return_true' );

API Updates

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

Other important information

WooCommerce 10.6 included a number of important 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.

For more, read our post breaking down important changes for developers in WooCommerce 10.6.