WooCommerce Maintenance Release

WooCommerce 5.5.2 is available now. This release resolves performance degradation issues and fixes several bugs identified in 5.5.0 and 5.5.1. These updates are unrelated to the recent security vulnerability that was solved by WooCommerce 5.5.1.

Here’s what’s new:

1. Solved: Non-performant query in 5.5.1 causing performance issues in admin pages.
2. Solved: Search query not showing expected results with few themes and plugins.
3. New: Added a fallback for shops to use redirect download method as well in case force download method did not work.
4. Solved: $screen null fatal with few plugins.

Important: With the release of this new version, the auto-update process for WooCommerce 5.5.1 mentioned in this blog post has been discontinued. If you are still running a version of WooCommerce that is not on the patched versions list, please update immediately to the highest version available in your release branch.

You can download the latest release of WooCommerce here or visit Dashboard → Updates to update the plugin from your WordPress admin screen.

As usual, if you spot issues in WooCommerce core, please log them in detail on GitHub. Found a security issue? Please submit a report via HackerOne.

Reposted from WooCommerce

Following today’s developer advisory, this release focuses on resolving issues caused as a result of the migration to jQuery 3.

Changelog

• Fix – Update jQuery compatibility changes to trim functions to work with types other than string. (#30074)
• Fix – Restores the option to load and copy addresses to orders edited in the dashboard. (#30076)

You can download the latest release of WooCommerce here or visit Dashboard → Updates to update the plugin from your WordPress admin screen.

Reported from WooCommerce

This release fixes a bug that prevented granting download permissions from the order details page (clicking the “Grant access” button caused the UI to hang on a never ending spinner, since the request had actually failed with a 500 status code).

Changelog

This release contains only one change:

• Fix: can’t grant permission to downloadable product from order. #29691

Thanks to everyone for reporting this issue promptly and helping out with the fix release.

You can download the latest release of WooCommerce here or visit Dashboard → Updates to update the plugin from your WordPress admin screen.

Reposted from WooCommerce

This release updates the WooCommerce Blocks package to version 4.7.2, which fixes an issue that appears when trying to use the Elementor plugin in PHP 8 (a Fatal error: Uncaught TypeError: array_diff() is thrown; in PHP 7 this appears as just a warning). This error is caused by a change introduced in Blocks 4.7.0 which assumes that the $wp_scripts global is never going to change, but in fact Elementor replaces it.

Additionally, some changes that were meant to be included in WooCommerce 5.3.0 had accidentally been included in 5.2.0; these are excluded from the 5.2.1 release.

Changelog

This release contains these changes:

• Update WooCommerce Blocks version to 4.7.2. #29660
• Remove some changes that were intended to be included in WooCommerce 5.3.0 (none of these had been included in the changelog for 5.2.0).

Thanks to everyone for reporting this issue promptly and helping out with the fix release.

You can download the latest release of WooCommerce here or visit Dashboard → Updates to update the plugin from your WordPress admin screen.

Reposted from WooCommerce

This fix release is a preparation for the upcoming 5.0 release and corrects the messaging of update notices to align them with the recently adopted versioning schema. Since going from 4.9 to 5.0 is not considered a breaking or major release anymore, we’ve decided to remove the extra warnings WooCommerce core previously added. Thus, it should prevent confusion and provide a more seamless upgrade experience to all users who upgrade to 4.9.2.

The warnings in the plugin and System Status screens are thus are no longer relevant and have been removed:

Changelog

This release contains only a single change:

• Deactivate untested plugins’ notices on major releases. #28840

You can download the latest release of WooCommerce here or visit Dashboard → Updates to update the plugin from your WordPress admin screen.

This release reverts a change that was added with 4.9.0 and was causing issues with mail being sent out for few extensions.

Changelog

This release contains only a single change:

• Reverts #28204 to ensure compatibility with extensions using legacy do_action calls. #28835

Thanks to everyone for reporting this issue promptly and helping out with the fix release.

You can download the latest release of WooCommerce here or visit Dashboard → Updates to update the plugin from your WordPress admin screen.