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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.

  • Compatibility Issue with E2E Environment and WordPress 5.7

    Compatibility Issue with E2E Environment and WordPress 5.7

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    Mar 12, 2021


    tl;dr The built in testing container/server in the @woocommerce/e2e-environment package does not initialize properly with WordPress 5.7. We plan to release an update to the package next week that will include a… Read more

  • WordPress components no longer bundled with WooCommerce Admin

    WordPress components no longer bundled with WooCommerce Admin

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    Feb 12, 2021


    tl;dr As of WooCommerce Admin 1.9, the @wordpress/components package is no longer bundled as part of the WooCommerce Admin codebase. The Details Early on in the development of WooCommerce Admin,… Read more

  • Changes to WooCommerce Versioning Scheme

    Changes to WooCommerce Versioning Scheme

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    Jan 22, 2021


    tl;dr WooCommerce Core and related ecosystem plugins are transitioning away from Semantic Versioning and adopting WordPress versioning. This transition will begin with WooCommerce 5.0, which will be a non-breaking change.… Read more

  • Combating Spam Order Bots

    Combating Spam Order Bots

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    Jan 14, 2021


    tl;dr Stores without any anti-spam or antifraud measures in place may see an increase in spam orders due to a renewed attack from a bot probing sites for vulnerabilities. The… Read more

  • WordPress 5.6 and jQuery 3

    WordPress 5.6 and jQuery 3

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    Nov 17, 2020


    tl;dr WordPress 5.6 will ship with jQuery 3.5.1 and an updated version of jQuery Migrate, which will help you identify potential compatibility issues in your extensions. Developers should ensure extensions… Read more

  • Spam Orders and Accounts from Bots

    Spam Orders and Accounts from Bots

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    Nov 5, 2020


    tl;dr Versions of WooCommerce prior to 4.6.2 contain a vulnerability that allows guest users to create accounts during checkout even when the “Allow customers to create an account during checkout”… Read more

  • Important update: WooCommerce 3.5 will now be released October 23rd.

    Important update: WooCommerce 3.5 will now be released October 23rd.

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    Claudiu Lodromanean

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    Oct 16, 2018


    We have delayed the release of WooCommerce 3.5 by one week in order to do extra testing and QA on the release. The testing regimen for WooCommerce releases is very… Read more

  • The REST API has landed in the master branch!

    The REST API has landed in the master branch!

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    Mike Jolley

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    Nov 19, 2013


    The REST API has landed in the master branch! Max Rice has been going above and beyond in the past month to get the REST API implementation ready for merge into… Read more

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