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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. Background A few years…
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WooCommerce Blocks 4.3 Release Notes
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…
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WooCommerce 5.0 Beta 1
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…
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WooCommerce 4.9.1 fix release
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…
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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 Details In November of…
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Adopting Standardized Labeling Principles
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…
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WooCommerce 4.9.0 Released
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…
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WooCommerce 4.9.0 RC2
We have released a second release candidate for WooCommerce 4.9 and are still on track for our planned release tomorrow (January 12th). Changes This release candidate includes following changes: Reverts a part of performance…
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Brexit and Changes to WooCommerce Core Code
tl;dr While there are still many unknowns for eCommerce merchants as they pass across the January 01, 2021 Brexit transition deadline, the WooCommerce Core team is taking steps to ensure the platform continues to…
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WooCommerce Blocks 4.2 Release Notes
There’s a new version of WooCommerce Blocks! Version 4.2.0 is now available on WordPress.org and GitHub. This release includes a fix for an issue that was preventing completing checkout using saved payment methods in some circumstances. This…
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Storefront 3.1.0 release notes
Today we released Storefront 3.1.0. The new version can be downloaded from WordPress.org and GitHub. This release contains a compatibility fix for users who choose to disable the new WooCommerce admin interface, and some general improvements which…
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WooCommerce 4.9.0 RC1
We are excited to announce that first release candidate is now available for WooCommerce 4.9! We are on track for our planned January 12th release date. Changes This release candidate includes some minor fixes…
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WooCommerce Additional Variation Images 1.8.0 Release Notes
We released a new version of WooCommerce Additional Variation Images, this version packs some changes to the behavior, if you’re writing code that integrates with this plugin, read along. The 1.8.0 fix release changes the way…
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WooCommerce Blocks 4.1 Release Notes
A new version of WooCommerce Blocks has been released! Version 4.1.0 is now available for download from GitHub and WordPress.org. This release introduces full compatibility with WordPress 5.6, validation for Checkout block (client and server-side) and a…
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WooCommerce 4.9 Beta 1
WooCommerce 4.9.0 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 focussing on bug fixes and performance improvements.…
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Storefront 3.0.0 release notes
Today we have released Storefront 3.0.0. The new version can be downloaded from WordPress.org and GitHub. The highlight of this release is the removal of our big admin notice presented to the user after the installation of…
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WooCommerce 4.8 is now available!
We’re excited to announce that WooCommerce 4.8 is now publicly available! It has been in development since November 2020 and Core contributions include about 257 commits from 29 contributors! This is a minor release, which…
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WooCommerce Blocks 4.0 Release Notes
A new version of WooCommerce Blocks has been released! Version 4.0.0 is now available for download from GitHub and WordPress.org. This release includes some fixes for the Cart and Checkout blocks, and the Store API which powers…
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December 9th: Community Chat
Our next Community Chat is going to take place on Wednesday, December 9, 2020 at 17:00 UTC in the #core channel of the WooCommerce Community Slack. If you don’t already have access to the…
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WooCommerce 4.8.0 Release Candidate 2
We’ve got a second release candidate for you today! We are still on track for our planned December 8th release date. Changes This release candidate includes additional fixes for the Twenty Twenty-One theme. Testing…
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WooCommerce Blocks 3.9 Release Notes
A new version of WooCommerce Blocks has been released! Version 3.9.0 is now available for download from GitHub and WordPress.org. This release includes a number of fixes for the Cart and Checkout blocks. Thanks again to all…
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WooCommerce 4.8.0 Release Candidate
We’re very excited to announce that the release candidate is now available! We are on track for our planned December 8th release date! Changes This release candidate includes some fixes in WooCommerce Admin as…
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WooCommerce 4.7.1 fix release
This release introduces several small compatibility improvements and fixes for taxonomy templates changed in WooCommerce 4.7. Also, based on user feedback, we decided to introduce a fix to prevent variations without attributes from being…
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Introducing a New Order Status: checkout-draft
tl;dr There is a new order status coming to WooCommerce. While no immediate action is necessary, developers should familiarize themselves with it now because they may need to update their code to support it.…
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WooCommerce 4.8.0 Beta 1
WooCommerce 4.8.0 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? The WooCommerce 4.8 release contains an updated version of WooCommerce Admin 1.7.0,…