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Settings Page Infrastructure Refactor
tl;dr WooCommerce 5.5 will include an extensive refactoring of the settings pages infrastructure. While there are no breaking changes, there’s a new preferred way of structuring settings pages classes, and… Read more
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WooCommerce 5.4 Temporarily Unavailable
tl;dr The recent release of WooCommerce 5.4 has been pulled from availability to limit the impact of a jQuery-related bug until a fix is available in version 5.4.1. The details… Read more
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Plan to remove IE 11 support in WooCommerce
tl;dr In parallel to WordPress, WooCommerce core and all WooCommerce projects maintained by Automattic will be removing IE11 support in their subsequent versions. In the case of WooCommerce core, the… Read more
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Request for comments: Removing the filter to turn off WooCommerce Admin
Overview We are plotting a path that will eventually eliminate the ability for developers to programmatically disable WooCommerce Admin via the woocommerce_admin_disabled filter. We understand that many stores and extensions… Read more
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WooCommerce Payments is adopting a new version support policy
tl;dr Beginning with its next release, WooCommerce Payments will begin transitioning to a new version support policy that aligns with WooCommerce’s overarching L-2 version support policy. The details WooCommerce Payments… Read more
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Compatibility Issue with E2E Environment and WordPress 5.7
tl;dr The built in testing container/server in the @woocommerce/e2e-environment package does not initialize properly with WordPress 5.7. We plan to release an update to the package next week that will include a… Read more
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WordPress components no longer bundled with WooCommerce Admin
tl;dr As of WooCommerce Admin 1.9, the @wordpress/components package is no longer bundled as part of the WooCommerce Admin codebase. The Details Early on in the development of WooCommerce Admin,… Read more
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Changes to WooCommerce Versioning Scheme
tl;dr WooCommerce Core and related ecosystem plugins are transitioning away from Semantic Versioning and adopting WordPress versioning. This transition will begin with WooCommerce 5.0, which will be a non-breaking change.… Read more
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Combating Spam Order Bots
tl;dr Stores without any anti-spam or antifraud measures in place may see an increase in spam orders due to a renewed attack from a bot probing sites for vulnerabilities. The… Read more
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WordPress 5.6 and jQuery 3
tl;dr WordPress 5.6 will ship with jQuery 3.5.1 and an updated version of jQuery Migrate, which will help you identify potential compatibility issues in your extensions. Developers should ensure extensions… Read more
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Spam Orders and Accounts from Bots
tl;dr Versions of WooCommerce prior to 4.6.2 contain a vulnerability that allows guest users to create accounts during checkout even when the “Allow customers to create an account during checkout”… Read more
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Important update: WooCommerce 3.5 will now be released October 23rd.
We have delayed the release of WooCommerce 3.5 by one week in order to do extra testing and QA on the release. The testing regimen for WooCommerce releases is very… Read more
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Breaking changes, deprecations, security patches, and compatibility notices that affect your code.
