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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.

  • Improving API Queries for Low Stock Products

    Improving API Queries for Low Stock Products

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    Aug 3, 2021


    tl;dr Recent improvements to the REST API fix slow queries for products with low stock. There is a new REST endpoint that affected developers should adopt. The Details There was… Read more

  • New Download Handling May Cause Errors

    New Download Handling May Cause Errors

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    Jul 28, 2021


    tl;dr Recent updates that improve security around the handling of downloadable products may cause unexpected errors in some environments. The details WooCommerce currently supports three different download methods for downloadable… Read more

  • Announcing a change to the WooCommerce Blocks Version Support Policy

    Announcing a change to the WooCommerce Blocks Version Support Policy

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    Jul 27, 2021


    To enable more efficient and effective development of experimental features powered by the WordPress Gutenberg project, the support policy for WooCommerce Blocks is switching from L2 to L0. This effectively… Read more

  • WooCommerce 5.6 Release Schedule

    WooCommerce 5.6 Release Schedule

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    Jul 19, 2021


    About a year ago, we announced that we would be shifting to a monthly release cycle for WooCommerce core. As we mentioned in the past, this shift was part of… Read more

  • Critical Vulnerability in Multiple Versions of WooCommerce

    Critical Vulnerability in Multiple Versions of WooCommerce

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    Jul 15, 2021


    tl;dr A critical vulnerability was detected in multiple versions of WooCommerce and the WooCommerce Blocks feature plugin.  Patches for each impacted version have been created and deployed automatically to vulnerable… Read more

  • WooCommerce 5.5 and WordPress 5.8

    WooCommerce 5.5 and WordPress 5.8

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    Jul 13, 2021


    tl;dr WordPress 5.8, expected for July 20th, will include many new features which will serve as a first step towards full site editing (or FSE). In this post, we will… Read more

  • PayPal standard will be hidden on new installs

    PayPal standard will be hidden on new installs

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    Jul 12, 2021


    Notice: The workaround mentioned in this post is only available for use up to WooCommerce 8.8.3. You can read more about this change in the 8.9 release post. Only for… Read more

  • Settings Page Infrastructure Refactor

    Settings Page Infrastructure Refactor

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    Jun 18, 2021


    tl;dr WooCommerce 5.5 will include an extensive refactoring of the settings pages infrastructure. While there are no breaking changes, there’s a new preferred way of structuring settings pages classes, and… Read more

  • WooCommerce 5.4 Temporarily Unavailable

    WooCommerce 5.4 Temporarily Unavailable

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    Jun 9, 2021


    tl;dr The recent release of WooCommerce 5.4 has been pulled from availability to limit the impact of a jQuery-related bug until a fix is available in version 5.4.1. The details… Read more

  • Plan to remove IE 11 support in WooCommerce

    Plan to remove IE 11 support in WooCommerce

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    May 24, 2021


    tl;dr In parallel to WordPress, WooCommerce core and all WooCommerce projects maintained by Automattic will be removing IE11 support in their subsequent versions. In the case of WooCommerce core, the… Read more

  • Request for comments: Removing the filter to turn off WooCommerce Admin

    Request for comments: Removing the filter to turn off WooCommerce Admin

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    May 18, 2021


    Overview We are plotting a path that will eventually eliminate the ability for developers to programmatically disable WooCommerce Admin via the woocommerce_admin_disabled filter. We understand that many stores and extensions… Read more

  • WooCommerce Payments is adopting a new version support policy

    WooCommerce Payments is adopting a new version support policy

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    May 12, 2021


    tl;dr Beginning with its next release, WooCommerce Payments will begin transitioning to a new version support policy that aligns with WooCommerce’s overarching L-2 version support policy. The details WooCommerce Payments… Read more

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