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  • WooCommerce 6.5 beta 1

    Beta 1 for the May 2022 release of WooCommerce is now available for testing! You can either download it directly from WordPress.org or install our WooCommerce Beta Tester Plugin. Highlights Bumped minimum required PHP version to 7.2+. Introduced new features to secure downloadable products, read more in Approved download directories. WooCommerce Blocks 7.3.0 & 7.4.0…

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  • WooCommerce Blocks 7.4.0, 7.4.1 & 7.4.2 Release Notes

    A new version of WooCommerce Blocks has been released! Version 7.4.2 is now available for download from GitHub and WordPress.org. This release introduces the new Cart & Checkout Inner Blocks architecture and contains a Filter Products by Price improvement, and some bug fixes. Cart & Checkout: Customization & Extensibility In making the Cart & Checkout blocks more customizable,…

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  • WooCommerce 6.4.1 Fix Release

    WooCommerce 6.4.1 is available for download. This release rolls back a change to WooCommerce menu item sorting. It also updates WooCommerce Blocks to 7.2.2 to resolve an error when loading certain assets. What’s new? Reverted #31779. The initial change was in response to a WordPress Core change that never made it to production. (#32623) Updated…

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  • Approved Download Directories

    We plan on including a new Approved Download Directories feature in WooCommerce 6.5 (scheduled for May 10) to give site owners additional control over product downloads. You may be particularly interested in this if you: Maintain a theme, plugin, or service that integrates with product downloads. Operate a site that sells downloadable products. This advisory…

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  • WooCommerce 6.4 Released

    We are pleased to announce the release of WooCommerce 6.4. This release should be backwards compatible with the previous version. This release contains: 277 commits from 37 contributors in WooCommerce Core 110 commits from 15 contributors in WooCommerce Admin 191 commits from 21 contributors in WooCommerce Blocks As always, we recommend creating a backup of…

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  • WooCommerce Blocks Roadmap Update – Q1/Q2 – 2022

    Back in August, I published a peek into the WooCommerce Blocks roadmap and I’m back with another update! This update is a bit later than planned because we’ve been super busy the first part of this year making some organizational changes to help support all the work we’re doing at the intersection of WooCommerce and…

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  • Breaking change notice: woocommerce_emogrifier hook

    As we announced back in January, as of WooCommerce 6.5, to be released in May, the minimum PHP version required will be 7.2. The version bump work is done, and while doing it we noticed that unfortunately we’ll need to introduce a breaking change regarding how the woocommerce_emogrifier hook works. The TLDR is that the…

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  • Removal of ZeroClipboard

    Summary WooCommerce will remove ZeroClipboard (a JQuery plugin used to manage clipboard interactions) from its dependencies in an upcoming release. Plugins, themes and other projects that still use this library are strongly encouraged to find another solution. The details ZeroClipboard is a jQuery plugin designed to support simple copy and paste operations. When it was…

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  • WooCommerce 6.4 RC

    We’re excited to announce that the first release candidate for WooCommerce 6.4 is now available. We are currently on track for our planned April 12th, 2022 release date. Changes Since the beta release, the following change has been made: Updated WooCommerce Admin to 3.3.0-rc.2 Updated WooCommerce Blocks to 7.2.1 Testing If you’d like to dive in and help…

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  • WooCommerce Blocks 7.3.0 Release Notes

    A new version of WooCommerce Blocks has been released! Version 7.3.0 is now available for download from GitHub and WordPress.org. This release contains some changes for Mini Cart Block, WooCommerce block templates and more. Mini Cart This release brings the Mini Cart block to the WooCommerce Blocks Feature Plugin. Meaning with the plugin now installed and activated it…

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  • Store API is now considered stable

    The new Store API is something we’ve been building alongside the Cart and Checkout Blocks for the past two years. It not only powers the new Block based Cart and Checkout experience, but also the various product Blocks as well. As part of WooCommerce Blocks 7.2 (and the upcoming WooCommerce 6.4 release) this API can…

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  • WooCommerce 6.4 Beta 1

    Beta 1 for the April 2022 release of WooCommerce is now available for testing! You can either download it directly from WordPress.org or install our WooCommerce Beta Tester Plugin. Highlights With many of the preliminary decisions made, we’ve started working towards an implementation of custom tables for orders! For all of the changes in this…

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