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  • WooCommerce 3.3.1 fix release notes

    WooCommerce 3.3.1 is now available. This release fixes conflicts with a handful of themes running template files from 3.2.x that were thus incompatible with the 3.3.0 update. You may have seen that 3.3.0 was removed from WordPress.org soon after release; this was to give the team time to look deeper into the conflicts being reported…

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  • WooCommerce 3.3.1 status update

    As you may have seen, 3.3.0 was removed from WordPress.org soon after release on Wednesday; this was to give the team time to look deeper into some theme conflicts being reported and to avoid more users running into the same issues. The severity of the issue was relatively low, however, the volume of users running…

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  • WooCommerce 3.3 has been released

    Today we’re excited to release WooCommerce 3.3 into the wild! 3.3 has been in development since October, and has had over 1581 commits from 80 contributors. 3.3 is a minor update. All changes should be backwards compatible with sites running any version of WooCommerce since 3.0, but we do still recommend ensuring extensions and themes…

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  • WooCommerce 3.3 RC2

    WooCommerce 3.3.0 RC2 is available for testing. This includes some fixes for issues identified during RC1. To test WooCommerce 3.3.0 RC2, you can use our WooCommerce Beta Tester plugin or you can download the release candidate here (zip). Think you’ve found a bug? Please post in detail to Github. The final version of 3.3 is…

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  • February 6th: Dev chat #18

    The next chat will be on February 6th at 17:00 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 at the bottom of the WooCommerce developers page. Here is the agenda for the chat: Open forum for 3.3 post-launch feedback,…

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  • Storefront 2.2.7 release notes

    Storefront 2.2.7 has been tagged for release and uploaded to WordPress.org. Here’s what’s changed pulled directly from the changelog: * Fix – Reverted Chromium overflow fix introduced in 2.2.6 due to incompatibility with other Storefront products. * Fix – Jetpack Google Translate widget styling. * Tweak – Improved Grouped products table styling. * Dev – Added filters;…

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  • Storefront 2.2.6 release notes

    Storefront 2.2.6 has been tagged for release and uploaded to WordPress.org. Here’s what’s changed pulled directly from the changelog: * Fix – Price slider widget styling. * Fix – Apply styles to `a.woocommerce-store-notice__dismiss-link` instead of all links in the store notice. * Fix – Fix hidden content when there are no reviews. * Fix -…

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  • Performance: Switching to post_author to store order customer IDs

    WooCommerce core uses a post meta called _customer_user to store the customer ID for orders. Since the meta_value field of the wp_postmeta table is not indexed, this means that all the queries that need to filter orders by customer ID are very slow. To address this, in PR #17895, we are exploring the idea of…

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  • WooCommerce 3.3 RC1

    Today, the release candidate for WooCommerce 3.3 is available! 3.3 is a minor release with several improvements and some new features.

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  • January 16th: Dev chat #17

    The next chat will be on January 16th at 17:00 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 at the bottom of the WooCommerce developers page. Here is the agenda for the chat: 3.3 Release Candidate Modernizing the WooCommerce…

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  • WooCommerce 3.3 beta 2

    WooCommerce 3.3 beta 2 is now available. This beta release has a whole host of bug fixes and is ready for testing! To test WC 3.3 beta 2 you can use our beta tester plugin or download the release here. WooCommerce 3.3 will be released January 30th. The beta post explains all of the new…

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  • WooCommerce 3.2.6 fix release notes

    WooCommerce 3.2.6 is now available. This fixes various minor issues, and includes some more improvements to cart rounding. ~50 commits made it into this release. The full changelog is below. * Fix – CSV Importer – Fix ID mapping to existing IDs. * Fix – CSV Importer – Unslash header fields to avoid extra slashes.…

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