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  • A new version of WooCommerce Blocks has been released! Version 6.6.0 is now available for download from GitHub and WordPress.org.

    This release rolls out some fixes for the Block based full-site editing templates, fixes some performance issues, improves data sync between cart and draft orders, and improves error handling with the new checkout experience.

    Dev Notes

    1. We’ve been increasing the adoption of TypeScript across the codebase, and in this release, we’ve updated usePaymentMethodInterface to include correct typescript definitions, so if you were importing our typedefs, you’ll need to modify where you pull them from.
    2. The Store API will now sync cart data (on change via a Store API route) to any existing draft order. Additonally, there is now an extra woocommerce_blocks_cart_update_customer_from_request hook should you need to update custom customer data from the customer-update route.

    Changelog

    Bug Fixes

    • “Added By” template column value is user friendly for modified WooCommerce block templates. (5420)
    • Fixed a performance issue with the cart by preventing an extra network request on mount. (5394)
    • Use the themes product archive block template for product category & product tag pages if the theme does not have more specific templates for those. (5380)
    • Cart block: Switch to correct view if inner block is selected. (5358)
    • Respect implicit quantity updates coming from server or directly from data stores. (5352)
    • Fixed a case where payments could fail after validation errors when using saved cards. (5350)
    • Add error handling for network errors during checkout. (5341)
    • Fix cart and checkout margin problem by removing the full-width option. (5315)

    Various

    • Sync draft orders whenever cart data changes. (5379)
    • Removed legacy handling for shipping_phone in Store API. (5326)
    • Site Editor template list: Fix wrong icon displayed on WooCommerce templates after they have been edited. (5375)
    • Fix validation error handling after using browser autofill. (5373)
    • Update loading skeleton animations. (5362)
    • Add error handling to get_routes_from_namespace method. (5319)

  • We are pleased to announce the release of WooCommerce 6.0. This release should be backwards compatible with the previous version.

    Due to internal process changes, the WooCommerce 6.0 release was delayed by one day. This allowed for us to complete some additional testing, and we don’t anticipate a delay for the WooCommerce 6.1 release.

    This release contains:

    As always, we recommend creating a backup of your site and making sure that your theme and any other plugins are compatible before updating. You can check out this update guide for more information.

    What’s new in 6.0?

    • WooCommerce Blocks: We’ve updated to the 6.3.3 version of the feature plugin. See the release posts for 6.3.2 and 6.2.0 to find out what’s new.
    • WooCommerce Admin: We’ve updated to the 2.9.4 version of the feature plugin. See the changelog to find out what’s new.
    • Product Attribute Filtering: With this release, we are entering the final stages of delivering our revamp of product attribute filtering. We have removed the need for a code snippet to show the feature; both the feature flag and system tool is now available for all merchants.
    • Rate Limit Table: In order to address the performance issues caused by storing rate limits in the options table, we have created a new table to hold rate limit entries. See #30960 for more details.

    These are just some of the changes that are included in WooCommerce 6.0. You can find the complete changelog for this release in the changelog.txt file.

    Actions and Filters

    This release adds two actions:

    ActionContext
    woocommerce_product_options_shipping_product_dataAfter the shipping options in the product data metabox. #30876
    woocommerce_after_variations_tableAfter the variations table on the add-to-cart form. #29642

    This release adds two filters:

    FilterDescription
    woocommerce_quantity_input_autocompleteAllows filtering the ‘autocomplete’ attribute for quantity inputs. #31196
    woocommerce_has_block_templateFilters the return value of the block template check. #30997

    Database Changes

    • New woocommerce_rate_limits table. #30960

    Template Changes

    Template FileDescription
    templates/emails/customer-new-account.phpRemoved the generated password and replaced with a reset link.
    templates/emails/plain/customer-new-account.phpRemoved the generated password and replaced with a reset link.
    templates/myaccount/form-login.phpChanged the text informing users that the password will be emailed to them to inform them that a reset link will be sent to them.

    Much 💜 to all the contributors

    Finally a big thanks to everyone in the community who has contributed via issue reports, fixes, translation, testing, supporting other users, or simply spreading the word.

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    Action Scheduler

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  • A new version of WooCommerce Blocks has been released! Version 6.4.0 is now available for download from GitHub and WordPress.org.

    This release fixes an issue with the Featured Product block search functionality when you have a store with a large (100+) product catalog. In addition to this we also added global styles support for the Product Categories List block.

    Changelog

    Enhancements

    • Added global styles (text color, link color, line height, and font size) to the Product Title block. (5133)

    Bug Fixes

    • Fixed the Featured Product Block search not working for large stores with 100+ products. (5156)

  • We’re excited to announce that the first release candidate for WooCommerce 6.0 is now available. We are currently on track for our planned December 14th release date.

    Changes

    Since the beta release, the follow changes have been made:

    Testing

    If you’d like to dive in and help test this new release, our handy WooCommerce Beta Tester plugin allows you to switch between beta versions and release candidates. You can also download the release from wordpress.org.

    A set of testing instructions has been published on our Wiki page in GitHub. We’ve also posted a helpful writeup on beta testing to help get you started.

    If you discover any bugs during the testing process, please let us know by logging a report in GitHub.

  • As per the start of our December release cycle, WooCommerce 6.0.0’s first beta is now available. You can download directly from WordPress.org, or through our WooCommerce Beta Tester Plugin.

    Highlights

    • WooCommerce Blocks: We’ve updated to the 6.3.2 version of the feature plugin. See the release posts for 6.3.2 and 6.2.0 to find out what’s new.
    • WooCommerce Admin: We’ve updated to the 2.9-rc.2 version of the feature plugin. See the changelog to find out what’s new.
    • Product Attribute Filtering: With this release, we are entering the final stages of delivering our revamp of product attribute filtering. We have removed the need for a code snippet to show the feature; both the feature flag and system tool is now available for all merchants. #31228
    • Rate Limit Table: In order to address the performance issues caused by storing rate limits in the options table, we have created a new table to hold rate limit entries. #30960

    Filters and Actions

    This release adds two filters:

    FilterDescription
    woocommerce_quantity_input_autocompleteAllows filtering the ‘autocomplete’ attribute for quantity inputs. #31196
    woocommerce_has_block_templateFilters the return value of the block template check. #30997

    This release adds two actions:

    ActionContext
    woocommerce_product_options_shipping_product_dataAfter the shipping options in the product data metabox. #30876
    woocommerce_after_variations_tableAfter the variations table on the add-to-cart form. #29642

    Database Changes

    • New woocommerce_rate_limits table. #30960

    Template Changes

    There are no template changes in this release.

    Release Schedule

    VersionRelease
    BetaNovember 23, 2021
    Release CandidateNovember 30, 2021
    Final ReleaseDecember 14, 2021

    Testing

    If you’d like to dive in and help test this new release, our handy WooCommerce Beta Tester plugin allows you to switch between beta versions and release candidates. You can also download the release from WordPress.org.

    A set of testing instructions has been published on our Wiki page in GitHub. We’ve also posted a helpful writeup on beta testing to help get you started.

    If you discover any bugs during the testing process, please let us know by logging a report in GitHub.

  • A new version of WooCommerce Blocks has been released! Version 6.4.0 is now available for download from GitHub and WordPress.org.

    This release fixes some translations missing in the Checkout block, adds and updates some extensibility interfaces for the Cart and Checkout blocks and resolves an issue in the Cart block where manual input was not working on the quantity selectors.

    In addition to that, we gated the functionality to edit WooCommerce templates from the WordPress Site Editor to versions of WooCommerce 6.0 or higher. This is to prevent content on WooCommerce templates from being duplicated. The upcoming WooCommerce release, which is scheduled for mid-December, will address this FSE-related problem.

    Changelog

    Enhancements

    • Pass to payment methods a wrapper component that handles the loading state. (5135)

    Bug Fixes

    • Gate WC template editing (FSE) to versions of WC 6.0 or higher. (5210)
    • Fix manual entry within Quantity Inputs in Cart block. (5197)
    • Correctly align Terms and Conditions block checkbox in Checkout block. (5191)
    • Add support for decimal and thousand separators in the formatPrice function. (5188)
    • Reduce the size of the checkbox component label to prevent accidental input. (5164)
    • Lazy load missing translation files on frontend to ensure that all visible texts are translatable. (5112)

  • A new version of WooCommerce Blocks has been released!
    Version 6.3.2 is now available for download from GitHub and WordPress.org.

    Wait! What happened to version 6.3.0 and 6.3.1? Don’t worry. You did not miss them. After releasing version 6.3.0, we noticed a few hiccups, which we addressed in two minor releases.

    Changes

    With WordPress 5.9 around the corner, we started converting classic WooCommerce templates, such as the single-product.php template, into block templates. These new block-based Store Editing Templates will eventually enable merchants to fully customize their templates with blocks in themes optimized for Full Site Editing.

    As an intermediary step towards this goal, this first iteration of the feature renders the existing WooCommerce templates while allowing customization by adding additional blocks around them.

    Let’s take a look at the new Store Editing Templates:

    • The new WooCommerce Product Archive Template
    • The new WooCommerce Product Tag Template
    • The new WooCommerce Product Taxonomy Template
    • The new WooCommerce Single Product Template

    In addition, we addressed various bugs and improved the accessibility of the WooCommerce Blocks plugin.

    Changelog

    Enhancements

    • Add placeholder text when modifying product search input in the editor. (5122)
    • FSE: Add basic product archive block template. (5049)
    • FSE: Add basic taxonomy block templates. (5063)
    • FSE: Add single product block template. (5054)
    • FSE: Remove the do_action( 'woocommerce_sidebar' ); action from the LegacyTemplate.php block. (5097)
    • Fix duplicate queries in product grids. (5002)
    • FSE: Add abstract block legacy template for core PHP templates. (4991)
    • FSE: Add render logic to BlockTemplateController. (4984)
    • Improve accessibility by using self-explaining edit button titles. (5113)
    • Improve readability of terms and condition text by not displaying the text justified. (5120)
    • Improve rendering performance for Single Product block. (5107)
    • Improve the product images placeholder display by adding a light gray border to it. (4950)
    • Deprecate the __experimental_woocommerce_blocks_checkout_update_order_from_request action in favor of woocommerce_blocks_checkout_update_order_from_request. (5015)
    • Deprecate the __experimental_woocommerce_blocks_checkout_update_order_meta action in favor of woocommerce_blocks_checkout_update_order_meta. (5017)
    • Deprecate the __experimental_woocommerce_blocks_checkout_order_processed action in favor of woocommerce_blocks_checkout_order_processed. (5014)

    Bug Fixes

    • Fix ‘Country is required’ error on the Cart block when updating shipping address (5129)
    • Fix label alignment of the product search in the editor. (5072)
    • Fix sale badge alignment on smaller screen. (5061)
    • Fix state validation to compare state codes, and only validate if a country is given (5132)
    • FSE: Fix missing is_custom property for WooCommerce block template objects. (5067)
    • Make order note block removable (5139)
    • Replace incorrect with correct text domain. (5020)
    • Scripts using wc-settings or script that depend on it would be enqueued in the footer if they’re enqueued in the header. (5059)

  • We are pleased to announce the release of WooCommerce 5.9. This is a minor release and everything should be backwards compatible with the previous version.

    This release contains:

    As always, we recommend creating a backup of your site and making sure that your theme and any other plugins are compatible before updating. You can check out this update guide for more information.

    What’s new in 5.9?

    • WooCommerce Blocks 6.1: Blocks package have been updated to 6.1. Please take a look at the release posts for 6.0.1, 6.0.2 and 6.1.0 to see what’s new and improved.
    • WooCommerce Admin 2.8.0: WooCommerce Admin package has also been updated to 2.8.0 with this release of WooCommerce. See the changelog for details on what’s new in this version (and also on previous versions 2.7.1 and 2.7.2)
    • Marketplace page redesign: The WooCommerce marketplace page shows a refreshed look, and app cards shows additional bits of information like icons, ratings and reviews. See #30900 and #30840.
    • Variable product price caching fix: There was a caching issue that caused incorrect variable product prices to be displayed when VAT exemption was involved. #30889
    • Empty billing email via REST API: It is now possible to specify an empty billing email to remove it from an order via REST API. #30850
    • Unpaid order cancellation scheduling fix: When the scheduled action to cancel an unpaid order failed it wasn’t re-scheduled for retry. #30830
    • Tax location when adding products via admin fix: When a product was added to an order via admin, and the woocommerce_adjust_non_base_location_prices filter was set to return false (to calculate taxes based on the customer locattion, not thee shop location), the location for the taxes was being taken from the admin user, not from the user who performed the order. #30692
    • We have reverted a change that prepended the currency-info.php file name with a path in locale-info.php, that extra path wasn’t really needed and was causing issues in 3rd party applications. #31036
    • We have improved the handling of downloadable files hosted on the server to better enforce file type check.

    These are just some of the changes that are included in WooCommerce 5.9. You can find the complete changelog for this release in the changelog.txt file.

    Actions and Filters

    There are no new actions or filters in this release.

    Database changes

    There are no database changes in this release.

    Template changes

    There are no template changes in this release.

    Much 💜 to all the contributors

    Finally a big thanks to everyone in the community who has contributed via issue reports, fixes, translation, testing, supporting other users, or simply spreading the word.

    WooCommerce Core

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    WooCommerce Blocks

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    Action Scheduler

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  • We are proud to announce a new version of the Facebook For WooCommerce plugin.

    This release includes the long-awaited fix for the feed file generator. Currently available as an opt-in experimental feature from the Settings Debug section:

    The new memory improved feed generator option.

    After an initial testing period over a course of release or two, the new feed file generator will be enabled for everyone and the option will be removed.

    In the new process, the products catalog is processed in batches and the whole process is orchestrated by the Action Scheduler framework. This allowed avoiding out-of-memory issues that were happening for large catalogs and also improved the admin panel performance during the generation process.

    Another big improvement is the addition of internal product validation before attempting to synchronize the product to the Facebook catalog. If the code detects any issues it displays the information in the Facebook metabox in the product edit screen. For example:

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    Other shipped updates:

    • Improved compatibility with the Gutenberg Checkout Block
    • Improved ( more concise ) logs format
    • Default variation selection algorithm only selects published variations
    • New tracked variables: new feed enabled and feed generation time
    • Couple of small code refactors and cleanups preparing ground for future updates

    Please visit the plugin documentation page to read more about the new feed generator and meta box sync functionality.

    The plugin can be downloaded from woo.com and from wordpress.org.

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  • We have released a second release candidate for WooCommerce 5.9 and are still on track for our planned release November 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

    • We have fixed a bug in the handling of remote file names for downloadable files.
    • We have reverted a change that prepended the currency-info.php file name with a path in locale-info.php, that extra path wasn’t really needed and was causing issues in 3rd party applications. #31036

    Testing

    If you’d like to dive in and help test this new release, our handy WooCommerce Beta Tester plugin allows you to switch between beta versions and release candidates. You can also download the release from wordpress.org.

    A set of testing instructions has been published on our Wiki page in GitHub. We’ve also posted a helpful writeup on beta testing to help get you started.

    If you discover any bugs during the testing process, please let us know by logging a report in GitHub.

    Thanks to all of our testers and contributors!