Recent posts
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Plan to remove IE 11 support in WooCommerce
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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 most immediate version, WooCommerce 5.4, which is currently in beta and scheduled for June 8th, is expected to support IE11 but no new issues or…
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Improving Analytics Comparisons for Leap Years
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It’s something many of us may not think about every day, but when leap year pops up every so often, the extra day it brings with it can present plenty of challenges and quandaries for us, especially those of us who work in and around computer science. That was the case recently when the unit…
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Coming Soon: WooCommerce Testing Guide
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We recently conducted a survey asking you how we can make the WooCommerce platform better for developers. One of the insights we discovered from the results of that survey is that a majority of respondents feel there could be more information about testing the extensions they build for WooCommerce. We’re excited to share that we…
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Request for comments: Removing the filter to turn off WooCommerce Admin
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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 rely on this filter for various purposes, so we want to capture feedback from you to help guide the decisions we make about how to…
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WooCommerce 5.4 Beta 1
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The release cycle for June’s release of WooCommerce 5.4 has begun! A beta.1 package is available for download directly from WordPress.org or through our WooCommerce Beta Tester Plugin. Highlights jQuery 3 Compatibility: In preparation for WordPress Core’s plan to update jQuery, we have addressed our usage of it accordingly. (#29044) WooCommerce Blocks 5.1.0: The package…
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WooCommerce Payments is adopting a new version support policy
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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 currently supports versions of WordPress back to the 5.4 release and versions of WooCommerce back to the 4.0 release. Starting with its next release on…
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WooCommerce 5.3 Released
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We’re excited to announce that WooCommerce 5.3 is now released. This is the fourth minor release of 2021 and has 352 commits from 30 contributors in WooCommerce Core. 145 commits from 29 contributors in the WooCommerce Admin package. 59 commits from 12 contributors in the WooCommerce Gutenberg Products Block package. This is a minor release,…
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WooCommerce Blocks 5.1.0 Release Notes
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There’s a new version of WooCommerce Blocks available! Version 5.1.0 is now available on WordPress.org and GitHub. This release includes better error reporting for incorrectly registered payment methods and some improvements to the emitEventWithAbort event emitter. There is also a bug fix related to email and phone field values being cleared unexpectedly with certain shopper behaviour. Read on…
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WooCommerce 5.3 Release Candidate 2
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We’re excited to announce that the second release candidate is now available. We are on track for our planned May 11th release date. Note that this is a minor release focusing on bug fixes and performance improvements. Changes WooCommerce Admin has been updated to version 2.2.2. #29791 Fixes an issue where the continue button remained…
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WooCommerce Community News: April 2021
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Howdy, Woo Developer Community! 👋 Here are some updates of recent happenings that you may have missed over the past month. Some items are detailed in previous posts on this blog, and other items are pulled from sources like GitHub. We’ve packaged everything into a digest to help keep everyone in the loop. Developer Resources…
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WooCommerce Blocks 5.0.0 Release Notes
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There’s a new version of WooCommerce Blocks available! Version 5.0.0 is now available on WordPress.org and GitHub. This release mostly contains behind the scenes refactors (as we gradually convert the JavaScript code to TypeScript), but also adds support for Batching in the StoreAPI, and fixes a visual bug with customer addresses on the cart page.…
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Improving releases with automation
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Overview To further streamline the software development lifecycle for WooCommerce and to help ensure a steady frequency of small, stable releases, the WooCommerce core team is taking steps to make the release process smoother, more reliable, and more predictable with the help of various types of of automation. This post is meant to provide a…
