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WooCommerce 5.0 RC 2
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We have released a second release candidate for WooCommerce 5.0 and are still on track for our planned release February 9th. Note that this is a minor release focusing on bug fixes and performance improvements. See more details of our versioning changes in Developer Advisory: Changes to WooCommerce Versioning Scheme. Changes Fixed deprecated notices in…
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WooCommerce 5.0 Release Candidate
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We’re excited to announce that the release candidate is now available! We are on track for our planned February 9th release date. Note that this is a minor release focusing on bug fixes and performance improvements. See more details of our versioning changes in Developer Advisory: Changes to WooCommerce Versioning Scheme. Changes This release candidate doesn’t…
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January 28: Community Chat
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Our next Community Chat is going to take place on January 28, 2021 at 18:00 UTC in the #core channel of the WooCommerce Community Slack. If you don’t already have access to the group, you can request an invite here. Our agenda for this chat includes: Developer Resources WooCommerce Core WooCommerce Admin WooCommerce Blocks Storefront…
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WooCommerce 4.9.2 fix release
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This fix release is a preparation for the upcoming 5.0 release and corrects the messaging of update notices to align them with the recently adopted versioning schema. Since going from 4.9 to 5.0 is not considered a breaking or major release anymore, we’ve decided to remove the extra warnings WooCommerce core previously added. Thus, it…
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WooCommerce 5.0 Beta 2
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WooCommerce 5.0 beta 2 is now available for testing! This version adds in the WooCommerce Admin version 1.9.0.You can either download it directly from WordPress.org or install our WooCommerce Beta Tester Plugin. This is a minor release focusing on bug fixes and performance improvements. See more details of our versioning changes in Developer Advisory: Changes to WooCommerce…
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Changes to WooCommerce Versioning Scheme
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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. Background A few years ago, WooCommerce adopted a Semantic Versioning (SemVer) scheme for its releases. This adoption marked an improvement from what had been a…
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WooCommerce Blocks 4.3 Release Notes
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There’s a new version of WooCommerce Blocks! Version 4.3.0 is now available on WordPress.org and GitHub. This release includes a fix to how our components are styled. Before the change, the UI inputs were difficult to see when the user was using a dark background. After the fix, the inputs are clearly visible. The rest of the changes…
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WooCommerce 5.0 Beta 1
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WooCommerce 5.0 is now available for beta testing! You can either download it directly from WordPress.org or install our WooCommerce Beta Tester Plugin. What’s new? This is a minor release focusing on bug fixes and performance improvements. Just like other minor releases, this release also aims to be backward compatible with previous WooCommerce releases. Versioning Previous to…
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WooCommerce 4.9.1 fix release
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This release reverts a change that was added with 4.9.0 and was causing issues with mail being sent out for few extensions. Changelog This release contains only a single change: Reverts #28204 to ensure compatibility with extensions using legacy do_action calls. #28835 Thanks to everyone for reporting this issue promptly and helping out with the…
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Combating Spam Order Bots
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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 Details In November of 2020, we shared an advisory for developers encouraging them to update to the latest version of WooCommerce due to a vulnerability…
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Adopting Standardized Labeling Principles
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As the number of developers building with WooCommerce continues to grow rapidly, we’re putting an increasing amount of effort into measures that will provide an easier onboarding experience for developers who are new to the platform and which will reduce the development friction for seasoned WooCommerce veterans. One recent initiative we’ve undertaken is an effort…
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WooCommerce 4.9.0 Released
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We’re excited to announce that WooCommerce 4.9 is now released! This is the first minor release of 2021 and has 387 commits from 30 contributors in WooCommerce core. 169 commits from 25 contributors in the WooCommerce admin package. 91 commits from 14 contributors in the WooCommerce Blocks package. This is a minor release, which means everything…
