WooCommerce 5.5.0 Released

WooCommerce 5.5.0 is a minor release, and everything included should be backwards compatible with the previous version.

This release contains:

As always, we recommend creating a backup of your site and making sure that the themes and plugins are compatible before updating. You can check outย this update guideย for more information.

Whatโ€™s new in 5.5?

  1. Action Scheduler 3.2.0 and 3.2.1. We have updated AS library from 3.1.6 to 3.2.1 in this release. This release comes with lots of fixes, along with an additional database index to speed up performance for sites with heavy traffic.
  2. PayPal standard will be hidden on new installs, please use ourย new extension PayPalย instead. This change is only applicable for new installs, exisiting sites will continue to work as expected.ย Read our developer advisory about this change for more details.
  3. IE 11 support will not be available from this version.
  4. We have refactored the settings page infrastructure to allow for features like import/export of settings in future releases. Pleaseย check the related developer advisory.

These are just some of the changes included in this release. You can find more details in theย WooCommerce 5.5.0 Beta 1ย post, and complete changelog for all the packages inย the changelog file.

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