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Developer Advisories

Important alerts and advisories for our developer community. This category houses critical updates, security notices, and essential information that impacts your development workflow with WooCommerce. Keep an eye here to stay informed and ensure your projects remain secure and up-to-date.

  • Product images are now lazy-loaded by default in WooCommerce 10.6

    Product images are now lazy-loaded by default in WooCommerce 10.6

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    karolmanijak

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    Feb 20, 2026


    WooCommerce 10.6 introduces lazy loading for Product Image block by default. Developers can customize this behavior using the new woocommerce_product_image_loading_attr filter. Read more

  • HPOS sync on read to be disabled by default in WooCommerce 10.7

    HPOS sync on read to be disabled by default in WooCommerce 10.7

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    Jorge Torres

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    Feb 16, 2026


    Starting in WooCommerce 10.7, sync on read for High-Performance Order Storage (HPOS) will be disabled by default. Read more

  • WooCommerce 10.5 Release is Delayed

    WooCommerce 10.5 Release is Delayed

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    Brian Coords

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    Feb 3, 2026


    Initially scheduled for Tuesday, February 3, 2026, we’ve are postponing the release of WooCommerce 10.5. Read more

  • Call for testing: Experimental REST API Caching in WooCommerce 10.5

    Call for testing: Experimental REST API Caching in WooCommerce 10.5

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    konamiman

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    Jan 23, 2026


    WooCommerce 10.5 will introduce an experimental caching engine for REST API endpoints, delivering significant performance improvements. Read more

  • Experimental Product Object Caching in WooCommerce 10.5

    Experimental Product Object Caching in WooCommerce 10.5

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    prettyboymp

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    Jan 19, 2026


    WooCommerce 10.5 introduces an experimental Product Object Caching feature that improves performance by caching product instances during each request, preventing duplicate product loads from the database. Read more

  • Add to Cart button disabled by default in variable products in WooCommerce 10.5

    Add to Cart button disabled by default in variable products in WooCommerce 10.5

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    Albert Juhé Lluveras

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    Jan 16, 2026


    WooCommerce will disable the Add to Cart button on variable product pages until the variation script loads, enhancing reliability on slow networks. Read more

  • Removal of the AccessiblePrivateMethods trait in WooCommerce 10.5

    Removal of the AccessiblePrivateMethods trait in WooCommerce 10.5

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    konamiman

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    Jan 15, 2026


    The AccessiblePrivateMethods trait will be removed in WooCommerce 10.5, affecting extensions that incorrectly use it. Developers should adapt their extensions accordingly to ensure compatibility. Read more

  • WC REST API fixes for product variation attributes with special characters in WooCommerce 10.5

    WC REST API fixes for product variation attributes with special characters in WooCommerce 10.5

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    Luigi Teschio

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    Jan 14, 2026


    WooCommerce 10.5 introduces two fixes in WooCommerce REST API to improve handling of product variations with special or non-ASCII characters, enhancing developers’ experience. Read more

  • Product Permalink Changes Coming in WooCommerce 10.5

    Product Permalink Changes Coming in WooCommerce 10.5

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    Darren Ethier

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    Jan 13, 2026


    WooCommerce 10.5 updates product permalink category selection, prioritizing the deepest category for better SEO and consistency in URLs, affecting specific permalink structures only. Read more

  • Variation prices caching improvements in WooCommerce 10.5

    Variation prices caching improvements in WooCommerce 10.5

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    konamiman

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    Jan 8, 2026


    WooCommerce 10.5 introduces improvements to how variation prices are cached, along with a new utility class for working with callbacks. Read more

  • Store API Vulnerability Patched in WooCommerce 8.1+ – What You Need To Know

    Store API Vulnerability Patched in WooCommerce 8.1+ – What You Need To Know

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    Beau Lebens

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    Dec 22, 2025


    A critical vulnerability in WooCommerce 8.1+ has been patched. We strongly recommend updating immediately. Read more

  • Developer Advisory: Lazy Loading of WooCommerce Analytics REST API

    Developer Advisory: Lazy Loading of WooCommerce Analytics REST API

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    Shani Banerjee

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    Dec 10, 2025


    📣 Developer Advisory coming for REST API updates in WooCommerce 10.4.0. Learn more about testing the performance improvements ahead. Read more

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