Changelog

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 should prevent confusion and provide a more seamless upgrade experience to all users who upgrade to 4.9.2.

The warnings in the plugin and System Status screens are thus are no longer relevant and have been removed:

Changelog

This release contains only a single change:

• Deactivate untested plugins’ notices on major releases. #28840

You can download the latest release of WooCommerce here or visit Dashboard → Updates to update the plugin from your WordPress admin screen.

As usual, if you spot issues in WooCommerce core, please log them in detail on GitHub. Found a security issue? Please submit a report via HackerOne.

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 fix release.

You can download the latest release of WooCommerce here or visit Dashboard → Updates to update the plugin from your WordPress admin screen.

As usual, if you spot issues in WooCommerce core, please log them in detail on GitHub. Found a security issue? Please submit a report via HackerOne.

We’re excited to announce that WooCommerce 4.9 is now released! This is the first minor release of 2021 and has

1. 387 commits from 30 contributors in WooCommerce core.
2. 169 commits from 25 contributors in the WooCommerce admin package.
3. 91 commits from 14 contributors in the WooCommerce Blocks package.

This is a minor release, which means everything is backward compatible with the previous version.

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

What’s new in 4.9?

WooCommerce Admin 1.8.3

This release updates the WooCommerce admin package to 1.8.3 from 1.7.0. Mostly bugfixes and stability improvements are included in this update, including:

1. Multiple compatibility changes are added for IE 11 including fixing an issue where sometimes the admin screen won’t render.
   
2. Stock management and reviews management panels have been moved to the WooCommerce home screen. These used to be accessed via icons on the right side of the navigation bar.
   
3. For stores based in India, another payment option Razorpay has been included in the onboarding task list.
   
4. We are introducing a new customer survey utility to gather feedback from users around various product features. This will only be shown to users who have opted in to share usage data with us.
   

WooCommerce Blocks 4.0.0

WooCommerce blocks package has been updated to 4.0.0 in this release from 3.8.1. This update contains changes to behind the scenes logic in checkout flow so that the flow in which data is processed is more logical, along with some other bugfixes and improvements.

You can also view detailed release notes for WooCommerce Blocks 4.0.0.

Notable fixes and improvements

1. API performance improvements: WooCommerce REST API responses have been made faster for product and order endpoints. To make use of increased speed, make sure to add the _fields parameter in the API call to specify only what you need, and WooCommerce will try to optimize internal SQL queries to reduce the load on the database. #27335
   
   Note that we have reverted a part of this enhancement that was earlier included in the Beta after a bug was reported. We are intending to add this back in a future release after fixing the bug. #28745
   
2. UK and Isle of Man removed from EU VAT zones: As a part of the Brexit effort, we have removed UK and IM from EU VAT zones. If you or your client’s store deal with EU taxes, then make sure to consult your accountant as just this change might not be enough. #28538
   
   We have also published a guide for navigating Brexit here: Ready for Brexit: A Guide for WooCommerce Store Owners
   
3. Stock management fixes: Fixes have been made to make stock management more robust and prevent duplicate stock reduction. Thanks to all for reporting those issues promptly and in great detail. #28620
   
4. Product review count: An issue related to incorrect review count has also been fixed. If you were impacted by this bug, then add/remove a product review manually to correct the review count. We are also working on another fix to update the product review count retro-actively for convenience. Again, thanks to all for reporting this issue promptly and in detail. #28624
   
5. Better coupon error messages: When the coupon usage limit is reached after an incomplete or failed payment where the coupon was used, we will show better error messages. If the users are logged in, we will ask them to go to the MyAccount page (if enabled) to cancel or pay for the orders and recover/utilize the coupon. #28592

You can find the complete changelog for this release in the changelog.txt file.

Database Changes

This release does not introduce any changes to the database.

Template Changes

This release does not introduce any changes to template files.

Filters and actions

We have added two new actions in this release

Action	Description
woocommerce_variation_before_set_stock	Action to signal that the value of ‘stock_quantity’ for a variation is about to change. #27558
woocommerce_product_before_set_stock	Action to signal that the value of ‘stock_quantity’ for a product is about to change.#27558

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

vedanshujain	jonathansadowski	rrennick	roykho	ObliviousHarmony	rodrigoprimo

Konamiman	zhongruige	claudiosanches	peterfabian	tammullen	szepeviktor

aheckler	idofri	sorensd	lsinger	codestor4	tyrann0us

jlavoie13	bordoni	joelclimbsthings	paulochang	tanvirulhaque	psealock

tivnet	samueljseay	garyc40	mikejolley	timmyc	pjv

OlegApanovich	zzap	abhishek-pokhriyal	nerrad	mathiasdb

WooCommerce Admin

joshuatf	moon0326	psealock	jeffstieler	becdetat	louwie17

adrianduffell	samueljseay	octaedro	mattsherman	joelclimbsthings	ilyasfoo

leewillis77	timmyc	LevinMedia	Aljullu	Krovatkin	millerf

elizaan36	vbelolapotkov	tomalec	chickenn00dle

WooCommerce Blocks

Aljullu	mikejolley	nerrad	opr	senadir	haszari

budzanowski	LevinMedia	MohammedFaragallah	dependabot[bot]	ettoredn

Action Scheduler

Konamiman	roykho