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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.

  • The Woo Blocks Merge to the Monorepo is complete (along with Monorepo Tool Enhancements)

    The Woo Blocks Merge to the Monorepo is complete (along with Monorepo Tool Enhancements)

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    Dec 11, 2023


    Over the weekend, WooCommerce Blocks was merged into the WooCommerce Monorepo. This brings with it a more streamlined development process and enhances collaboration across our community. As previously announced, this… Read more

  • The Legacy REST API will move to a dedicated extension in WooCommerce 9.0

    The Legacy REST API will move to a dedicated extension in WooCommerce 9.0

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    Oct 3, 2023


    Update 2023-12-01: The dedicated Legacy REST API extension is now available. See the announcement post. Update 2023-10-27: This post has been extended to include information about legacy webhooks. The details… Read more

  • WooCommerce Vulnerability Reintroduced from 7.0.1

    WooCommerce Vulnerability Reintroduced from 7.0.1

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    Sep 16, 2023


    Background Last year we were alerted to a security issue (thanks to David Anderson) that would potentially allow users with specific capabilities (and, by default, this would include the Shop… Read more

  • Developer Advisory: Changes in WooCommerce Core Beta Release Cycle

    Developer Advisory: Changes in WooCommerce Core Beta Release Cycle

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    Sep 5, 2023


    We are making an adjustment to the release cycle of WooCommerce Core Beta. Specifically, we’re shortening the Beta period from two weeks to one week. Monthly releases will remain on… Read more

  • WooCommerce Beta Tester Plugin — Vulnerability Found

    WooCommerce Beta Tester Plugin — Vulnerability Found

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    Aug 23, 2023


    We have recently discovered a vulnerability in the WooCommerce Beta Tester Plugin that allows an attacker to execute arbitrary queries if they have the Shop Manager or Administrator roles. Since… Read more

  • Introducing the New Documentation Folder in the WooCommerce Monorepo

    Introducing the New Documentation Folder in the WooCommerce Monorepo

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    Aug 23, 2023


    We’re excited to announce a significant step forward in enhancing the WooCommerce experience for our community. We have just launched a brand-new documentation folder within the WooCommerce monorepo, bringing us… Read more

  • Cart and Checkout Blocks: Becoming the Default Experience

    Cart and Checkout Blocks: Becoming the Default Experience

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    Aug 18, 2023


    This post was updated on November 15, 2023, to include instructions on declaring incompatibility with the new experience. In today’s highly competitive business landscape, merchants need a streamlined and optimized… Read more

  • WooCommerce Blocks 10.7: Update to Utilize Block-specific Stylesheets

    WooCommerce Blocks 10.7: Update to Utilize Block-specific Stylesheets

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    Jul 19, 2023


    tl;dr As part of our initiative to enhance the Store Editing experience to allow for no-code customization, we are making some improvements to the way WooCommerce Blocks enqueues its stylesheets.… Read more

  • Best practices for the use of the “cart fragments” API

    Best practices for the use of the “cart fragments” API

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    Jun 16, 2023


    Beginning with WooCommerce 7.8, we implemented a change that disables the cart fragments script from being enqueued on all page routes of a WooCommerce store by default. Responsible for updating… Read more

  • Vulnerability patched in several WooCommerce Extensions for payment processing

    Vulnerability patched in several WooCommerce Extensions for payment processing

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    Jun 14, 2023


    What you need to know Update: This post was updated June 15, 2023 to add all updated, backported versions of the WooCommerce Stripe Gateway. On April 16, 2023, a vulnerability… Read more

  • New Requirement for WooCommerce 8.2: PHP 7.4+

    New Requirement for WooCommerce 8.2: PHP 7.4+

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    Jun 5, 2023


    The details The minimum PHP version required for WooCommerce was bumped from 7.2 to 7.3 in WooCommerce 7.7 in May 2023. As part of that announcement, we mentioned that during… Read more

  • Developer Advisory: pnpm 8 update

    Developer Advisory: pnpm 8 update

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    Apr 27, 2023


    We recently updated the major version of pnpm to version 8+. Developers will need to update pnpm in their environments in order to build WooCommerce. The details Due to instability in early… Read more

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