WooCommerce 3.8.0 Changelog

3.8.0 – 2019-11-5

• Enhancement – Show error message in “My Account – view order” if order does not exist. #24435
• Enhancement – Add support to allow connect and install for in-app purchase flow. #24451
• Enhancement – Declared support to Unicode CLDR. #24564
• Enhancement – Declared support for PHP 7.4 in CI by removing PHP 7.4 from list of allowed failures. #24668
• Enhancement – Update the recommended PHP version to 7.0 and the recommended WP version to 5.0. #24730
• Enhancement – Change On Boarding Wizard to opt out of usage tracking by default. #24680
• Enhancement – Add Available on backorder message for products available on backorder. #24559
• Tweak – Hide Vietnam’s state field. #24158
• Tweak – Better wording when no downloads are available on My Account > Downloads. #24172
• Tweak – Only consider orders created via checkout to hold stock. #24159
• Tweak – Stop to load order data twice in “View order” screen on “My Account” page. #24437
• Tweak – Prevent PHP warnings in tracker if order doesn’t have a created date yet. #24441
• Tweak – Use wc_get_checkout_url() to get checkout URL. #24544
• Tweak – Maintain value of select fields in credit card form. #24720
• Tweak – Prevent filter per category while exporting product variations. #24517
• Tweak – Better wording for subtotal of items in cart and review order. #24440
• Tweak – Prevent new lines in product quantity in checkout details. #24311
• Tweak – Add a tooltip in the “Coupon expity date” field. #24749
• Tweak – CSS styling changes for WP 5.3. #24832
• Template – Moved HTML for displaying product price filter widget to a new template product price filter widget. #23384
• Accessibility – Make $subtext color darker. #24739
• Dev – Consistent register/login submit button css class names. Preserve old class names as well for backwards compatibility. #23701
• Dev – Added woocommerce_disable_password_change_notification filter, set to false by default. #24154
• Dev – Add filter woocommerce_cart_item_removed_message and woocommerce_cart_product_cannot_be_purchased_message to filter notice content when an item is removed from cart, or when a product cannot be purchased. #24176
• Dev – Prevent fatal error if trying to run wc_load_cart() before before_woocommerce_init. #24198
• Dev – Add woocommerce_get_zone_criteria filter hook to add custom criteria for matching zone ID. #24199
• Dev – Fire actions woocommerce_before_delete_product_variation, woocommerce_delete_product_variation and woocommerce_trash_product_variation appropriately when deleting or trashing product variations. #24239
• Dev – In filter woocommerce_update_product_stock_query use $new_stock instead of $stock_quantity. #24229
• Dev – Introduced woocommerce_prevent_adjust_line_item_product_stock filter. #24279
• Dev – Introduced woocommerce_logout_default_redirect_url filter to allow custom default URL. #24282
• Dev – Added woocommerce_sort_fees_callback filter. #24280
• Dev – Remove deprecated i18n/states directory. #24364
• Dev – Add filter woocommerce_shipping_show_shipping_calculator for showing shipping calculator. #24375
• Dev – Corrected UG states location. #24388
• Dev – Remove deprecations notices with PHP 7.4 by changing parameter order for implode. #24396
• Dev – Add `$this param to email filter for additional_content added in 3.7. #24399
• Dev – Add woocommerce_product_import_process_item_data filter to allow modifying a row before importing. #24412
• Dev – Fixed warnings when error_get_last() returns null. #24442
• Dev – Use brackets instead of braces to avoid deprecation notice in PHP 7.4. #24460
• Dev – Implement Puppeteer’s architecture for running E2E tests locally. #24479
• Dev – Remove call to get_magic_quotes_runtime() as it is deprecated as of PHP 7.4. #24485
• Dev – Return value of $mailer->send() in wc_mail function. #24505
• Dev – Remove Selenium e2e tests & add Puppeteer new product e2e test. #24513
• Dev – Add a filter woocommerce_ajax_add_order_item_validation to allow validations in add_order_item function. #24518
• Dev – Use wc_get_cart_url instead of wc_get_page_permalink( 'cart' ) because former has a filter woocommerce_get_cart_url to allow customization. #24530
• Dev – New woocommerce_product_after_tabs action hook added. #24694
• Dev – Enable append hashes on custom events (like ajax requests) #24665
• Dev – Introduced woocommerce_order_get_formatted_billing_address and woocommerce_order_get_formatted_shipping_address filters. #24677
• Dev – WC_Abstract_Order::recalculate_coupons() is public now. #24740
• Dev – Added ‘applied_coupon’ trigger to checkout.js. #24406
• Dev – Introduced woocommerce_output_cart_shortcode_content filter. #24738
• Dev – Add WPML compatibility to the geolocation URL. #24722
• Dev – Validate server requirements in WCCCOM Site Installer endpoints. #24690
• Dev – Introduced woocommerce_payment_token_class filter. #24542
• Dev – Add support for post type count to system status report. #24536
• Dev – Check for max discount to be -ve to prevent overwriting refunded fee amount. #24341
• Dev: Add filter woocommerce_european_union_countries to the method WC_Countries::get_european_union_countries(). #24741
• Dev – Allow WC_Product_Query sort products by include order. #24294
• Dev – Removed duplicated include of WC_Admin_Importers. #24751
• Dev – Refactor minimum requirement notice to use constant for easier changes in the future. #24830
• Dev – Fixed number of arguments in filters on WC_Emails class. #25312
• Fix – Clean products transients when term is removed. #23991
• Fix – Only add the image node to structured data if product has image. #24191
• Fix – Product attribute terms endpoint in legacy REST API v3 by converting attribute_id to int. #24203
• Fix – Prevent duplicate processing/stock reduction when IPN or PDT notifications are enabled by checking if order is not already in processing or completed status. #24249
• Fix – Position of ID section in mobile rows actions when displaying the list of products in the admin. #24277
• Fix – Endpoints URLs to follow slashes preferences from WordPress permalinks. #24283
• Fix – Ensure that postcode validation doesn’t return any whitespace on beginning and end of a postcode. #24284
• Fix – Shipping classes sort under products alphabetically. #24291
• Fix – Shipping rates layout in admin settings. #24327
• Fix – Retain the focus on the select box when product variation is changed. #24339
• Fix – Prevent PHP notice in WC_Order_Item_Data_Store::get_order_item_type() when there is no entry in the database for the order item ID passed. #24353
• Fix – Add translation in class-wc-shipping.php for matching zone message. #24366
• Fix – Previewing email template. #24380
• Fix – Check if order exist before generate hash for downloads. #24384
• Fix – Ensure WC_Product_Data_Store_CPT::is_existing_sku() return boolean. #24385
• Fix – function_exists check for wc_hex_is_light(). #24391
• Fix – Removed Emoji from default additional email content due problem on some database that doesn’t allow Emojis. #24450
• Fix – Fixed escaping on an attribute in class-wc-admin-menus.php. #24466
• Fix – Add translation for image alt attribute text in multiple places. #24467, #24468, #24469
• Fix – Uneven padding in the input field with class “location-input” in on boarding wizard. #24476
• Fix – Duplicate id in pages settings. #24478
• Fix – Use esc_attr_e instead of esc_html_e for escaping an attribute in multiple places. #24481, #24520, #24521, #24522, #24523, #24524
• Fix – Use esc_attr__ instead of esc_html__ in escaping attributes string. #24525, #24529
• Fix – Typo fix in payment captured error message. #24501
• Fix – Documentation URL in failed order email content. #24535
• Fix – “Add to cart” links in feed. #24545
• Fix – Escaping in Storefront banner. #24546
• Fix – Use wp_kses_post to allow certain html tags in extensions page. #24589
• Fix – Escape $prefix in item download links. #24601
• Fix – Use esc_attr instead of esc_html in multiple places for proper escaping. #24613, #24614
• Fix – Use esc_html instead of esc_attr in multiple places for proper escaping. #24616
• Fix – Use esc_html_e instead of _e in multiple places for proper escaping. #24615, #24618, #24630
• Fix – Use esc_html__ instead of esc_html for proper escaping and some typo fixes. #24639
• Fix – Add no-store and remove max-age header (no longer needed). #24652
• Fix – Use correct meta value for downloadable column in product lookup table regenerate function. #24681
• Fix – Admin sub-menus becoming unaligned when scrolling down in the orders page when there are no orders. #24688
• Fix – OWB country and sell in person alignment. #24700
• Fix – Domain replacement script now replaces both double and single quoted woo-gutenberg-products-block with woocommerce in both PHP and JavaScript files. #24696
• Fix – Convert current_user_id to string in some places to prevent unnecessary session database updates. #24016
• Fix – Fixed description of failed order emails. #24737
• Fix – Fixed Photoswipe styles. #24296
• Fix – Also consider refunded item when updating order and adjusting stocks. #24745
• Fix – Handle 0 attribute value for variations correctly. #24750
• Fix – Fixed spaces in form fields of External Products. #24295
• Fix – Removed links to downloadable products from refund emails. #24952
• Fix – Fixed button HTML element in the OBW. #25056
• Localization – Add Zambia’s Provinces to the list of states. #24307
• Localization – Adaptation of the order of last name and first name and addresses in Japan. #24336
• Localization – Fixed Namibian dollar symbol. #24438
• Localization – Change localization tag action-scheduler to woocommerce. #24474
• Localization – Fixed missing US Minor Outlying Islands states. #24826
• 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.