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  • 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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    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!

  • Hi all!

    We’re happy to announce a new version of the Action Scheduler library is out now! It brings you more stability, configuration options, and performance improvements.

    Changes

    UI

    You can now change how many actions to display per page in WordPress Admin Tools > Scheduled Actions. (#771)

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    Performance

    To improve performance, you can now filter the ORDER BY portion of the SQL query that claims actions. In case you can be sure you don’t really care about strict ordering of planned overdue actions, you can e.g. remove ordering by scheduled_time_gmt, which considerably improves the speed of execution of the query and reduces the probability of deadlocks (#773).

    In addition, after extensive testing, we’ve decided to drop claim_id index, as it was causing slowdowns and was superfluous since we recently added a composite index that covers claim_id column (#774).

    API

    When the execution limit is set to 0 (i.e. no limit), then calling ActionScheduler_Compatibility::raise_time_limit( $new_limit ) for $new_limit > 0 won’t set the limit, as it would be imposing a new limit rather than raising it. (#755)

    Initialization

    There are several problems that might arise during version reconciliation when multiple plugins use Action Scheduler. By applying #731, we’re solving one class of those problems by not triggering autoload of AS classes when testing for the existence of the ActionScheduler and ActionScheduler_Versions classes.

    Code gardening

    PHP CS fixes and improvements:

    Contributors ❤️

    Thanks to all the contributors who improved Action Scheduler, tested the PRs and provided their input!

    Please test the new version on your staging environment before going into production and let us know on GitHub if you find any problems.

  • A new version of WooCommerce Blocks has been released!

    Version 6.2.0 is now available for download from GitHub and WordPress.org.

    The highlight of this release is the updated Cart Block! In addition, the release includes two enhancements as well as several bug fixes.

    The new Cart block

    The new iteration takes the existing design of the Cart Block and converts it to use Inner Blocks. For the user, this means that they are no longer constrained by a fixed layout but are instead given a cart constructed out of many smaller blocks, with more control over each individual block.

    As an example, look at the Order Summary section in the current Cart Block. All options are shown at the Cart Block level, including options related to the order summary:

    Now, the Order Summary has become its own block, with its own settings:

    The List view provides a good picture of the block’s new structure:

    This more flexible approach for example allows for some blocks like the Accepted Payment Methods to be repositioned. Additionally, it means the user can insert other blocks to the Cart without code:

    Changelog

    Enhancements

    • Cart v2: The cart block, like checkout block, now supports inner blocks that allow for greater customizability. (4973)
    • BlockTemplateController: Adds the ability to load and manage block template files. (4981)
    • Improve accessibility for the editor view of the Product search block. (4905)

    Bug Fixes

    • Fix custom classname support for inner checkout blocks. (4978)
    • Fix a bug in free orders and trial subscription products. (4955)
    • Remove duplicate attributes in saved block HTML. (4941)
    • Fix render error of Filter by Attribute block when no attribute is selected. (4847)
    • Store API – Ensure returned customer address state is valid. (4844)

  • We’re excited to announce that the first release candidate of WooCommerce 5.9 is now available. We are on track for our planned November 9th release date.

    Changes

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

    • WooCommerce Admin is now 2.8.0 RC 3. See the changelog to know what’s new in 2.8.0, or this commit for the changes from RC 2 to RC 3.
    • We fixed a small issue in the fix for the tax location adjustment when adding line items to an order via admin that was included in the beta. #31015
    • We have renamed a transient used when showing featured content in the marketplace page, since the old name was already in use. #31002
    • New visual style for promoted cards in the marketplace page. #30861
    • #30862 (update Storefront banner width and track links in the marketplace page) was supposed to be included in the beta, and was even listed in the changelog, but by mistake it wasn’t; it’s included in the RC.

    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.