Changelog

3.7.1 – 2019-10-09

• Security – Add an exit after the redirect when checking author archive capabilities for customers.
• Security – Ensure 404 pages with single product urls cannot be exploited using Open Redirect.

3.7.0 – 2019-08-12

• Enhancement – Added table ENGINE to system status report for debugging purposes. #23101
• Enhancement – Format empty cart message as information notice. #23152
• Enhancement – Add taxonomy-specific classes to active filters widget. #23122
• Enhancement – Allow emails Thanks wording to be modified via the email settings. #22927
• Enhancement – Move tax classes from WordPress Options to a new wc_tax_rate_classes table. #23093
• Enhancement – Make WooCommerce shop roles translatable. #23150
• Enhancement – Prevent the Cart, Checkout and My Account pages from being set to the same pages. #23479
• Enhancement – New coupon code generate button on the coupon page. #24069
• Enhancement – Add tag_operator paramater to the [products] shortcode for use with the tag paramater ie. [products tag='tag1,tag2' tag_operator='AND']. #24111
• Tweak – When cleaning up variations due to product type change, force delete them instead of trashing. #23478
• Tweak – Change wording on the link to change the address so reflect if an address is already present or not. #23532
• Tweak – If variations are missing prices, show a notice in the product data panel. #23133
• Tweak – Use determine_locale() to properly load custom translation files. #23785
• Tweak – OBW: Switch shipping labels and shipping zones placement. #23781
• Tweak – Show the quantity refunded on customer facing order screens. #23038
• Tweak – CSV product import now allows true/false values for the published field, as well as the original 0 (private), -1 (draft), 1 (publish) values. #23207
• Tweak – Update product attribute sorting tooltip to clarify usage. #23222
• Tweak – Store tax rate percentage in the tax line items on orders. #23268
• Tweak – Remove the left and right margin from the logo in emails. #23360
• Tweak – Use the high res version of the WP spinner in the coupon Block UI. #23364
• Tweak – Improve user registration validation messages. #23468
• Tweak – Auto generate a new username when a username is blacklisted by WordPress. #23672
• Tweak – Guest cart sessions now gets deleted when a user logs in, preventing duplicate cart sessions. #23687
• Tweak – Include the store’s base postcode and city when calculating order taxes. #23695
• Tweak – Update the generate username setting description label to reflect how the username is actually generated. #23911
• Tweak – OBW: Adjust plugin highlight container sizes to avoid overlap. #23997
• Tweak – Round tax amounts late when the round at subtotal level setting is enabled to reduce rounding errors. #24024
• Tweak – OBW: Now includes WooCommerce Admin as a recommended plugin. #24058
• Template – Review and update all template files escaping. #23460
• Template – Remove mention of shipping section from the checkout/form-login.php template as shipping is not always a requirement for an order. #23941
• Template – Add new filter woocommerce_before_thankyou to the checkout/thankyou.php template. #23538
• Template – Add new woocommerce_widget_shopping_cart_total hook to replace hardcoded subtotal in cart/mini-cart.php template. #24145
• Template – Add new woocommerce_widget_shopping_cart_after_buttons hook in cart/mini-cart.php template. #24145
• Template – Add new woocommerce_before_cart_collaterals hook in cart/cart.php template. #24145
• Template – Correct the plural forms usage in loop/result-count.php template. #24005
• Dev – Introduce new PHP 5.6 minimum requirement. #23924
• Dev – Introduce new WordPress 4.9 minimum requirement. #24156
• Dev – Move the settings save functionality from the settings_page_init function to the wp_loaded action so it is not saved after the settings page renders. #23091
• Dev – Add quantity input action hooks woocommerce_before_add_to_cart_quantity and woocommerce_after_add_to_cart_quantity. #23166
• Dev – Add $this parameter to email class filters. #23250
• Dev – Add new WC_Abstract_Order::get_coupons() method for returning all coupon line item objects on an order. #23663
• Dev – Added new action woocommerce_product_read to WC_Product_Data_Store_CPT::read(). #23181
• Dev – Add new filter woocommerce_admin_order_buyer_name to the WC_Admin_List_Table_Orders::render_order_number_column() method to change the buyer name in orders list screen. #23741
• Dev – Add new actions to WC_Helper class for when WooCommerce.com Product Subscription statuses change woocommerce_helper_subscription_activate_success, woocommerce_helper_subscription_activate_error, woocommerce_helper_subscription_deactivate_success, and woocommerce_helper_subscription_deactivate_error. #23041
• Dev – Extend usage and event tracking (if opted in) to system status, admin order and admin coupon pages. #23190 #23189 #23883
• Dev – Add woocommerce_after_X_object_save actions, and passed objects to woocommerce_new_x and woocommerce_update_x actions. #23338
• Dev – Update customer order and lifetime spend totals in wc_update_new_customer_past_orders() to trigger customer.updated webhooks for paid orders. #23402
• Dev – Preserve the State field’s custom css classes when selecting an option from the Country dropdown. #23433
• Dev – Add new woocommerce_product_related_posts_shuffle filter in wc_get_related_products() to enable/disable related product shuffling, defaults to true. #23562
• Dev – Deprecate the WC_Abstract_Order::get_used_coupons() method and replace it with a new method WC_Abstract_Order::get_coupon_codes(). #23689
• Dev – Add new woocommerce_prices_include_tax filter in the wc_prices_include_tax() function. #23697
• Dev – Add new woocommerce_admin_after_product_gallery_item filter in the WC_Meta_Box_Product_Images::output() method for adding additional markup after product gallery items. #23743
• Dev – Remove unused images assets/images/klarna-white.png and assets/images/square-white.png. #23748
• Dev – Move Free Shipping method JavaScript code from outputting on all shipping setting pages to just the Free Shipping page using the admin_footer hook. #23776
• Dev – Prevent PHP fatal error while throwing exceptions in woocommerce_rest_insert_{post_type}_object hooks. #23793
• Dev – Add new woocommerce_enforce_password_strength_meter_on_checkout filter in the WC_Frontend_Scripts::get_script_data() method to allow enforcing the password strength meter on checkout. #23811
• Dev – Add new woocommerce_search_products_post_statuses filter in the WC_Product_Data_Store_CPT::search_products() method for controlling what post statuses to include in product searches. #23838
• Dev – Allow filtering woocommerce_order_formatted_shipping_address even when no shipping address is defined. #23859
• Dev – Change the query in the WC_Product_Data_Store::find_matching_product_variation() method to always respect the ordering of variations. #23881
• Dev – Move all feature plugin features out from the WooCommerce codebase and utilize composer and an autoloader for including it in WooCommerce core, affects WC REST API and WC Blocks. #23957
• Dev – Allow displaying multiple error messages through the registration validation. #23968
• Dev – Add new woocommerce_cart_item_removed_notice_type, woocommerce_cart_updated_notice_type and woocommerce_add_to_cart_notice_type filters for changing the default notice types for cart notices. #24021
• Dev – Add namespaced support for Jetpack 7.5 tracking library. #24140
• Dev – Add support for an improved WooCommerce.com Marketplace browse and purchase experience (in progress). #24075 #24123
• Dev – Added $order and $product as parameters to the woocommerce_ajax_order_item filter in WC_Ajax::add_order_item(). #24108
• Dev – Add new woocommerce_product_import_image_separator filter in WC_Product_CSV_Importer::parse_images_field() for adjusting the product images seperator. #24120
• Dev – Add new woocommerce_widget_shopping_cart_subtotal() template function that hooks into the woocommerce_widget_shopping_cart_total action to output the mini cart subtotal. #24145
• Dev – Deprecate the woocommerce_before_cart_item_quantity_zero action from WC_Cart::restore_cart_item() in favor of existing woocommerce_cart_item_removed action. #23112
• Dev – Deprecate WC_Tax::maybe_remove_tax_class_rates which hooked into the WP Options update hook for taxes in favor of new function WC_Tax::delete_tax_class_by which works on the new tax classes table. #24213
• Fix – Use version_compare for determining the maximum WooCommerce database version number. #23092
• Fix – Missing space and closing <strong> tag in WooCommerce.com disconnect message. #24073
• Fix – CSV Importer – Skip rows during update if a SKU column exists, but the value is empty. #23262
• Fix – Allow matching Any attributes when calling WC_Product_Data_Store::find_matching_product_variation(). #23067
• Fix – Switch coupon amount validation based on decimal seperator setting. #23137
• Fix – Show the correct results for shortcodes on static homepages when sorting. #23159
• Fix – Queue AJAX add to cart events to avoid overwriting session data. #23293
• Fix – Wrong subtotals when changing tax classes via the woocommerce_product_get_tax_class filter. #23344
• Fix – Fatal error on plain text order emails where products were deleted. #23754
• Fix – Do not pass the no_shipping argument to PayPal when the order contains shippable items. #23773
• Fix – Product review form does respects the require_name_email WordPress core option. #23786
• Fix – Do not cache expired sessions, negative expiry causes errors in some caching modules. #23863
• Fix – WC_Log_Handler_DB logs now uses the same timestamp format as text logs, Y-m-d H:i:s. #23863
• Fix – Display line breaks for customer notes in emails, and order details. #23969
• Fix – Correct plural forms usage in WC_Admin_Report class. #24020
• Fix – System status database info section throwing a PHP notice on some DB environments. #24023
• Fix – On the system status database info section display a message informing users that WooCommerce was unable to get database information instead of an error, when a database sharding plugin is active. #24034
• Fix – Usage and event tracking (if opted in) was not working correctly in the OBW. #24056
• Fix – Fatal error on downloads report when some download files were missing. #24118
• Fix – Prevents the taxes columns from being removed when the order is no longer editable in admin. #23884
• Fix – State field overwritten with blank value when saving orders via wp-admin. #24301
• Performance – Improve the speed of the admin dashboard by only updating transients once per class. #23011
• Performance – Reduce number of queries needed to populate variations data by priming post caches. #23272
• Performance – Persistant cart improvements, only update the persistent cart if the cart items actually change. #23112
• Performance – Exclude action_log comment types from wp_count_comments. #24071
• Localization – Added validation for Italian postcodes. #23269
• Localization – Remove unused tax locale defaults since we now promote auto tax services instead. #23431
• Localization – Define correct address format for Uganda. #23178
• Localization – Hide the postcode and update the state label to “Province” for Mozambique. #23764
• Localization – OBW: Make postal code optional based on locale data. #23915
• Localization – Add new currency for São Tomé, Príncipe dobra and Mauritanian ouguiya. #23950
• Localization – Change Canada poscode label to Postal code. #23740

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