WooCommerce 3.9.0 Changelog

3.9.0 – 2020-01-21

• Enhancement – Added a “Show” button next to the password field on the login fields. #24915
• Enhancement – New WooCommerce Onboarding experience (shows to only 10% of new users). #24991
• Enhancement – Introduced Payment Gateway API to support “pay button”. #25000
• Enhancement – Includes WooCommerce Blocks 2.5.3, introducing an “All Products” block, a new block listing products using client side rendering (requires WordPress 5.3), and more. #25181
• Tweak – Updated PayPal standard “Thank you” page message to comply with PayPal Guidelines. #24756
• Tweak – Account for non-EU countries that collect VAT and rename tax to VAT on the frontend. #24999
• Tweak – Cache checkout fragments and update DOM on change only. #24227
• Tweak – Eliminate extra update order AJAX request on checkout page load. #24271
• Tweak – Prevent billing address from being updated on shipping update. #24374
• Tweak – Added a tooltip in the “Coupon expity date” field. #24749
• Tweak – Make phone numbers clickable in emails. #24786
• Tweak – Prevent PHP warnings in tracker if order doesn’t have a created date yet. #24846
• Tweak – Capitalize “T” in “Move to Trash” phrase on order page in wp-admin to be consistent with product and coupon pages. #24867
• Tweak – Changed wp_cache invalidation from using increment to using microtime. #24961
• Tweak – Made the usage tracking link on the setup wizard more transparent. #25026
• Tweak – Fixed menu highlight of My Account page when browsing “Add payment method” page. #25041
• Tweak – Prevent creating products before registering related post types and taxonomies. #25049
• Tweak – Include processing orders in tracker data when opted in. #25071
• Tweak – Centralize check for default themes to fix Storefront appearance in the Setup Wizard. #25216
• Tweak – Adds a WordPress version check before recommending the WooCommerce Admin plugin during setup. #25260
• Fix – Added license key support recent changes from MaxMind GeoLite2. #25378
• Fix – Honor tax rounding preference in edit item and refund flows. #24208
• Fix – Prevent incorrect number of decimal points in prices. #24281
• Fix – Fixed initial support for Gutenberg’s Experimental Legacy Widget block. #24292
• Fix – Fix overriding of query when using orderby on archives with a static homepage. #24683
• Fix – Use of wp_unslash() function when escaping admin settings values. #24793
• Fix – Do not set the tracking cookie when doing ajax requests. #24798
• Fix – Display button to delete images from product galleries in the admin when using a mobile device. #24840
• Fix – Fixed order note’s date format. #24843
• Fix – Refactored WC_Order_Factory::get_order() to remove function deprecated in PHP 7.0. #24852
• Fix – Fixed product stock status changes on Bulk Edit save when “Enable stock management” is disabled. #24876
• Fix – Fixed default country code fallback in wc_get_customer_default_location(). #24884
• Fix – Fixed misleading message for Shipping options in cart. #24914
• Fix – Customizer not loading when viewing from WordPress.com. #24935
• Fix – Prevent notice when a variable product has no images. #24986
• Fix – Adjusted the slug generation for duplicated variable products to prevent performance degradation when using templates. #25064
• Fix – Added appropriate minification to photoswipe.css. #25074
• Fix – Corrected the sorting behavior for the “products” shortcode when manually sorting products. #25084
• Fix – Fixed invalid backlinks for in-app purchases. #25098
• Fix – Corrected the media element player initialization for product variation descriptions. #25103
• Fix – Enable WooCommerce.com Site API on installations not using permalink. #25131
• Fix – WooCommerce.com Site API now returns success if the plugin was previously installed. #25140
• Fix – WooCommerce.com Site API checks to move_product case to make sure result array contains folder_exists item and doesn’t return a warning. #25160
• Fix – Ensure that categories containing only private products are selectable in the product exporter. #25132
• Fix – Prevent variable product parents from being added to orders. #25162
• Fix – Use sorting settings as a default to product shortcodes. #25180
• Fix – Applied setup wizard CSS fixes to the respective WP versions. #25197
• Fix – Fixed “account erasure request” URL in WordPress 5.3. #25208
• Fix – Ensure all cache get removed on webhook deletion. #25164
• Fix – Adjusted the checkout email validation regex to be more accurate. #25251
• Template – Introduced woocommerce_product_related_products_heading filter. #25059
• Template – Introduced woocommerce_before_lost_password_confirmation_message and woocommerce_after_lost_password_confirmation_message hooks. #25096
• REST API – Fixed date_created and date_created_gmt for customers v2. #25181
• REST API – Fixed Restored “Total post count” section on System Status endpoint v2 and v3. #25181
• REST API – Filter empty objects from results before loop. #25181
• Dev – Introduce new PHP 7.0 minimum requirement.
• Dev – Introduce new WordPress 5.0 minimum requirement.
• Dev – Check for max discount to be “-ve” to prevent overwriting refunded fee amount. #24341
• Dev – Add unload event to the checkout page to prevent reloading during checkout after placing an order. #24609
• Dev – Only toggle form field description if element exists. #24752
• Dev – Introduced woocommerce_{$export_type}_export_delimiter filter to change separator string while exporting CSV files. #24759
• Dev – Introduced woocommerce_after_order_refund_item_name hook. #24760
• Dev – Introduced woocommerce_kses_notice_allowed_tags filter. #24849
• Dev – Introduced woocommerce_shipping_not_enabled_on_cart_html filter. #24914
• Dev – Introduced woocommerce_show_invalid_variations_notice filter. #24934
• Dev – Introduced woocommerce_upsells_order filter. #25017
• Dev – Introduced woocommerce_before_settings_{current_tab} and woocommerce_after_settings_{current_tab} hooks. #25028
• Dev – Included third parameter $order to woocommerce_order_get_formatted_billing_address and woocommerce_order_get_formatted_shipping_address filters. #24870
• Dev – Pass the $clear_persistent_cart variable to the woocommerce_before_cart_emptied and woocommerce_cart_emptied actions. #24930
• Dev – Made variables in assets/css/_variables.scss default. #24822
• Dev – Refactor to use the same rounding logic in orders and cart. #24828
• Dev – Add order note immediately after status change before the `woocommerce_order_status_changed action. #24879
• Dev – Added support for custom attributes in wc_placeholder_img(). #24937
• Dev – Added initial support for inline notices on checkout. #25001
• Dev – Introduced wc_get_product_object() helper. #25031
• Dev – Pass the correct $this->updated_props variable to the woocommerce_coupon_object_updated_props action’s second paramater. #25077
• Dev – Remove a few calls to func_get_args() and call_user_func_array() with the spread operator for better code legibility and performance gains. #25101
• Dev – New woocommerce_valid_order_statuses_for_payment hook that triggers when an order is paid. Use this new hook instead of woocommerce_order_status_changed or woocommerce_order_status_{old_status}}_to_{new_status} to trigger code for payment completion. #25158
• Dev – Ability to exclude certain product types from product search calls. #25162
• Dev – Raise exception when WC_Product_Variation is instantiated with an ID that belongs to an object that is not a variation. #25178
• Localization – Add subdivisions of Laos. #24765
• Localization – Fixed translatable string in WooCommerce’s libraries. #24892 #24894
• Localization – Fixed translatable string comments for translators. #24928
• Localization – Add postcode validation for Slovenia. #25174