WooCommerce 3.6.0 Changelog

3.6.0 – 2019-04-17

• Enhancement – Merged WooCommerce Gutenberg Products Block feature plugin. Adds blocks for the new editor, including
• hand picked products, featured products, products by category/attribute, sale products, new products, top rated
• products, and best selling products. #22954
• Enhancement – Only include order erasure bulk action if erasure is enabled in settings. #22354
• Enhancement – Customer notes containing URLs now automatically converts to clickable links. #21927
• Enhancement – Add increase and decrease stock options to bulk edit form. #22475
• Enhancement – Allow states in zones to be searched by country name. #22339
• Enhancement – Added registration success notices to account pages. #22650
• Enhancement – Store notice is visible again if the notice text is changed. #22645
• Enhancement – Add aria-label attribute to shop orderby selector to improve accessibility. #22683
• Enhancement – When adding, editing, and deleting items manually from orders, the corresponding product stock will be
• updated to reflect the event and an order note will log the event. #22329
• Enhancement – Added suggestions for official extensions to Products, Edit Product and Orders screens.
• Enhancement – Store attribute values as post_excerpt for variations to support easier searching for variations. #22083
• Enhancement – Improved username generation and introduced wc_create_new_customer_username function. #23145
• Enhancement – Allow opting out of Marketplace Suggestions 23218
• Tweak – Generalize shipping estimate text on cart page. #22467
• Tweak – Include auto draft orders in order list filters. #22380
• Tweak – Only include the network orders widget on the main site dashboard. #22318
• Tweak – Only show available shipping continents when selecting shipping zone region. #22131
• Tweak – Use Shortcode block on default WooCommerce pages. #21817
• Tweak – Show full category hierarchy in product URLs when term IDs are not sequential. #22526
• Tweak – Make sure account and checkout endpoints only work under account and checkout pages. #22631
• Tweak – Show loading graphic when order form is submitted. #22664
• Tweak – Add alt text to gallery images #22863
• Tweak – Improved display_name generation during checkout. #22786
• Tweak – Send correct calling code and phone number to PayPal standard when using non-US addresses. #22693
• Tweak – Added tooltip to refund-amount input box and made it readonly when taxes are enabled. #22820
• Tweak – Remove admin alert for the WooCommerce Gutenberg Products Block feature plugin. #22982
• Tweak – Setup Wizard: support keyboard navigation to toggle on/off features. #22936
• Tweak – Set reply-to address for all emails. #22979
• Tweak – Setup wizard redirection improvements. #22977
• Tweak – Simplify display of discount amounts within orders. #22949
• Tewak – Remove Marketplace Suggestions from product listing page. #23211
• Template – Moved the order of rememberme checkboxes for accessibility so they tab in order. #21454
• Template – New structure for attributes template, including new woocommerce_display_product_attributes filter. #22480
• Template – Admin cancelled order email reworded. #22971
• Dev – Update action scheduler to version 2.2.2. #23162
• Dev – Update action scheduler to version 2.2.1. #23016
• Dev – Use ActionScheduler for database updates. Improved update notice. #22904
• Dev – Introduce woocommerce_reviews_title filter. #22216
• Dev – Added woocommerce_cheque_process_payment_order_status filter allowing plugins to change the order status to the Cheque gateway. #21402
• Dev – Add the current coupon object to the woocommerce_get_shop_coupon_data filter. #21442
• Dev – New filter woocommerce_gallery_image_html_attachment_image_params for manipulating gallery images. #22005
• Dev – New filter woocommerce_widget_get_current_page_url for manipulating links in widgets. #21537
• Dev – Move wc_get_template filter to allow plugins to register locations for template files that do not exist in WooCommerce core. #21764
• Dev – Add support for custom classes on global/quantity-input.php. #21553
• Dev – Pass product object to woocommerce_add_to_cart_redirect filter where appropriate. #22123
• Dev – Add support for forgetting the cart contents and user session when switching between accounts using the User Switching plugin. #21991
• Dev – Added a consistent form class to the Track Order Form. #21991
• Dev – Add $orderby and $order params to filter woocommerce_get_catalog_ordering_args. #22257
• Dev – Add new pre query filter to WC_Product_Data_Store_CPT::search_products(). #22165
• Dev – Added additional parameters to the woocommerce_variation_option_name filter. #21153
• Dev – Added new filter woocommerce_get_min_max_price_meta_query. #22255
• Dev – Added a filter to WC_REST_CRUD_Controller::get_collection_params method to allow developers to change params in
• the same way as WP_Rest_Posts_controller::get_collection_params. #21562
• Dev – Add $zone param to woocommerce_shipping_zone_before_methods_table and woocommerce_shipping_zone_after_methods_table actions. #21961
• Dev – Added woocommerce_geolocation_ajax_get_location_hash filter. #22350
• Dev – Added woocommerce_variation_prices_array filter. #21003
• Dev – Added wc_emptied_cart javascript event when cart is emptied. #22469
• Dev – Switched woocommerce_ordered_again hook to ref_array. #22425
• Dev – woocommerce_checkout_before_order_review_heading action added in checkout form template. #22481
• Dev – Added woocommerce_variation_header hook in variations list. #21341
• Dev – Add a filter, woocommerce_current_user_can_edit_customer_meta_fields, to bypass manage_woocommerce when editing customer meta fields. #22277
• Dev – Adds filter on the return value of function ‘get_item_tax_rates’. This gives developers the possibility to
• prevent the mandatory caching of tax rates. #22488
• Dev – Add filters for mail callback in WC_Email::send method. #22394
• Dev – Add an instance method to WC_Admin_Taxonomies. #21884
• Dev – Added woocommerce_order_is_pending_statuses filter and wc_get_is_pending_statuses function. #22409
• Dev – Filter save_payment_method_checkbox to allow “Save to account” checkbox to be removed from the checkout form. #21859
• Dev – Added triggers to the gallery script to allow 3rd parties to run scripts before and after initialization. #22501
• Dev – Added woocommerce_add_to_cart_qty_html filter. #21069
• Dev – Prevent extract from polluting hook arguments in wc_get_template(). #21722
• Dev – Add woocommerce_pre_remove_cart_item_from_session hook to allow removal of cart items when the cart is loaded from the session. #22290
• Dev – Add $attribute to woocommerce_product_option_terms filter. #21648
• Dev – Added error handling and timeout to cart fragment ajax call. #21043
• Dev – Remove unused legacy ‘woocommerce_lock_down_admin’ option and use filter only instead. #17796
• Dev – Allow custom settings sections in the Shipping tab. #21719
• Dev – Update Emogrifier library to 2.1. #22342
• Dev – Moved core state codes to a single file. #22339
• Dev – Adds filter for product categories displayed by product_categories shortcode. #22571
• Dev – Moves cart hash calculation to WC_Cart class. #21050
• Dev – Removed deprecated Simplify gateway. #22410
• Dev – Added woocommerce_paypal_force_one_line_item filter to control how items are sent to PayPal. #22653
• Dev – Added woocommerce_update_product_stock_query to filter the direct sql query to update product stock. #22672
• Dev – Added woocommerce_product_loop_title_classes filter to modify product title loop classes. #22717
• Dev – Delay woocommerce_loaded hook until all plugins are loaded. #22536
• Dev – Added woocommerce_product_price_class filter to modify product price classes. #22748
• Dev – woocommerce_product_stock_status_options filter added for stock status options. #22834
• Dev – woocommerce_before_cart_emptied action before cart is emptied. #22846
• Dev – Added filters for shipping options – woocommerce_shipping_ID_option and woocommerce_shipping_ID_instance_option. #22771
• Dev – Refactor comment/rating update functions. #22909
• Dev – Introduced wc_sanitize_phone_number() function. #22962
• Dev – Added woocommerce_get_product_subcategories_cache_key filter to allow the cache to be renamed if for instance
• the site runs in multiple languages and needs a unique cache per language. #22915
• Dev – Inactive, MU, Dropin plugins and WooCommerce.com account connection status added to System Status Report. #22887
• Dev – Make error handling consistent in payment processing for pay page and checkout. #22916
• Dev – Improved usage and event tracking (if opted in). #22955
• Dev – Pass class context to woocommerce_email_styles filter. #23027
• Fix – Use correct address for taxes when applying/removing coupons. #22802
• Fix – Hide ratings on the shop page when reviews are disabled. #22476
• Fix – Fix W3C validation of single product page quantity input. #22333
• Fix – Give product variations a unique guid after creation. #22324
• Fix – Deduct correct refunded amounts in calculated net daily sales export CSV. #22518
• Fix – Country sorting for stores which use a language that uses a lot of accented characters, e.g. Spanish. #22417
• Fix – Customer VAT exempt status now carries through to order when placed via checkout. #22458
• Fix – Handle full refunds for taxes by code report. #21843
• Fix – Option “Used for variations” should show only for variable products when saving attributes. #22524
• Fix – Allow pa_ in product attribute slugs. #22112
• Fix – Fix customer creation dates in API. #22269
• Fix – Get widget instance setting defaults so it shows in customiser before save. #22345
• Fix – PR state codes. #22339
• Fix – Allow selecting states from the Country / State drop-down for your store address when you have the option
• enabled to sell to specific countries. #22339
• Fix – Restrict the price filter widget to filtering the main product query. #22621
• Fix – Default placeholder image resizing. #22443
• Fix – HTML tags should be stripped from description in Structured Data of Product. #22596
• Fix – For logged in customers, pull default address fields from customer object, not session object, to avoid incorrect mixes of data. #22392
• Fix – Misc tax rounding improvements. #22420
• Fix – Respect shop page subcategories setting when page/N/ is added to the URL. #22589
• Fix – Check for decoded taxonomy name when unsetting product terms. #22740
• Fix – If date paid is not set but payment complete status has passed, set it. #22735
• Fix – Prevent webhooks for drafts, and correct create vs updated for manual orders. #22731
• Fix – Ignore invalid default customer locations. #22357
• Fix – The state select field was missing a placeholder. #22357
• Fix – Fix state field rendering when customer address is not in a valid selling country. #22357
• Fix – Correctly handle negative fees when using the REST API. #22782
• Fix – Make sure local_pickup taxes do not hang around when local_pickup is not available for the selected location during checkout. #22826
• Fix – Remove Plugin and Theme background installer hooks, cannot run as there are no events scheduled for it. #22799
• Fix – Trigger zoom if moving cursor over image quickly in product gallery. #22784
• Fix – PayPal: Add meta data, before changing order status. #22892
• Fix – Make price filter widget tax aware when you have excl prices entered but show prices incl of tax. #22540
• Fix – Loop attribute panels to disable options rather than look at values to prevent notices. #22891
• Fix – When deleting zone methods, also remove setting options. #22867
• Fix – Correctly show state fields after posting the edit address form. #22948
• Fix – Validate coupon usage limit for manual orders correctly before order is saved. #22980
• Fix – Make coupon code sanitization match post_title sanitization. #22945
• Fix – Ensure WC_Helper sees plugin activation events via CLI. #22972
• Fix – Setup wizard redirection improvements. #22977
• Fix – Correctly show stock status for products when manually creating an order in the admin. #22997
• Fix – After logging in update customer session ID. #23001
• Fix – Narrow viewport css in setup wizard. #23033
• Fix – Allow entering of date only ( no time ) when placing a singular product on sale. #22973
• Fix – Download link URL in helper. #23146
• Fix – Completed email wording update. #23128
• Fix – REST API: Allow filtering by future status #23138
• Fix – Update refund reason to make it clear process is manual. #23149
• Fix – Hide stock status for variations when the parent is managing stock. #23069
• Fix – Force variation product type in WC_Ajax::add_variation. #23131
• Fix – WooCommerce writes current_theme_supports_woocommerce option on every regular page view. #23035
• Fix – Update the rating request text in the footer to be friendlier for screen reader users. #23039
• Fix – Null check variable before accessing its properties on checkout page. #23047
• Fix – Recognize all input fields with ID for checkout fields. #23050
• Fix – Avoid regenerating thumbnails on every page load. #21800
• Fix – Changed ‘private’ methods on WC_Breadcrumb class to ‘protected’. #23057
• Fix – Jumping to top of page when dismissing store notice. #23066
• Fix – Backwards compatibility issues with wc_get_template #23197
• Fix – Remove date restriction of Facebook Plugin feature in OBW #23210
• Fix – Updates to usage tracking logic #23231
• Fix – Add get_post_status helper method and ensure prefix gets added for most statuses #23203
• Fix – Add link to suggstions management #23229
• Fix – Make usage tracking opt-out text more clear #23216
• Fix – CSS Issues with suggestions display #23241
• Fix – Product search may fail to return valid results when using the ‘include’ flag to search within a limited set.
• Fix – Change aria-labelledby to aria-label on quantity input. #23186
• Performance – Product meta data lookup table used for sorting and slow queries. #22718
• Performance – Prime caches when reading variations. #22587
• Performance – Only include REST API classes and objects during rest_api_init hook. #22615
• Performance – Improved how versioned transients are set/cleanup to avoid cron. #22511
• Performance – Optimized product CSS class functions to avoid multiple product reads and duplication. #22610
• Performance – Improved caching of template loader, product types, and layered nav widget. #22612
• Performance – Remove external lookup of IP addresses on localhost. #22608
• Performance – Improved speed of the find_matching_product_variation variation lookup function. #22423
• Performance – Prevent frontend code from being loaded during REST API. #21090
• Performance – Load only active webhooks on pages and allow limits to be set by developers. #22760
• Performance – Index on downloadable_product_permissions to improve speed when fetching downloads for customers. #22906
• Performance – Improved term ordering queries, making the sorting apply by default via the DB query rather than sorting
• all terms with PHP. Removed legacy term meta table usage. #22570
• Performance – Use day, not time, in status widget for caching. #22950
• Performance – Improve slow term ordering by using queries instead of php. #22570
• Performance – Removes legacy woocomerce_termmeta table and swap out all calls to legacy term meta functions to the new WP ones. #22570
• Performance – Apply term sorting using get_terms_defaults hook instead of custom parameters. #22570
• Performance – Use pre_get_terms hook to detect menu_order sorting param and apply to the term query. Meta sorting is now possible through WP. #22570
• Performance – Use terms_clauses hook to support numeric name sorting and to improve the menu order sorting so it works if meta is missing. #22570
• Performance – Added caching to System Status Report. #22887
• Performance – Delete empty meta on update in data-stores. #22773
• Performance – Image regeneration edge cases. #22818
• Performance – Don’t query for an order count unnecessarily. #22984
• Performance – Add caching to attribute functions. #22938
• Performance – Add ability to run product lookup table updates via WP CLI. #23031
• Localization – Modify administrative regions of Greece to default to their english ISO 3166-2 names, instead of using the native GR names. #21945
• Localization – Added US Minor Outlying Islands as states to avoid confusion with US. #22468
• Localization – Dutch postcode validation. #22316
• Localization – Made municipality address field optional for Latvia. #22487
• Localization – Added new Venezuelan currency Bs S. #22435
• Localization – Added Danish locale. #22495
• Localization – Update Peruvian currency. #22602
• Localization – Update CA address format. #22692
• Localization – Updated JP field order. #22774