woocommerce 5.0 has been released on Tuesday 2021-02-09
with a lot of major updaes like the following :
Enhancement – Create
- additional download permissions for simple downloadable products that are converted to variable products provided that there are variations offering the same files. #28521
- Enhancement – Export SASS variables as CSS variables. #28709
- Tweak – Added “Store management insights” option. #28712
- Tweak – Styling for dismiss link of the store notice for Twenty Twenty and Twenty Twenty One themes. #28790
- Tweak – Notice to deprecate legacy reports in favor of the newer analytics page. #28799
- Tweak – Ability to create new tags for products when creating a product via the REST API. #28723
- Tweak – Disable untested plugin’s notice from System Status and Plugin’s page. #28840
- Tweak – Use wp_robots_no_robots() when available to support WP 5.7. #28993
- Fix – Improves the logic for deleting variations when a product type is changed. #27137
- Fix – Use ‘setlocale’ in ‘wc_ascii_uasort_comparison’ for compatibility with PHP 8. #27844
- Fix – Normalize end of lines in log-handler-email tests for compatibility with PHP 8. #27844
- Fix – Invert if statement to reduce nesting level in \WC_Shipping::calculate_shipping_for_package. #28558
- Fix – Changed value for speak to fix css3 validation issue. #28607
- Fix – Check if Cart and Checkout pages are using block instead of shortcode for the Status check. #28679
- Fix – Attributes on Edit Product page – “Select all” not working after “Select none” used. #28681
- Fix – Ensure the orders and products statuses are reverted correctly when restoring them. #28690
- Fix – Add checks to make sure session is initialised before loading the data store. #28692
- Fix – Update featured extensions API endpoint on WooCommerce/Extensions page. #28719
- Fix – Add Authorization header to the features extensions and search requests made to the marketplace. #28719
- Fix – Duplicate New Order emails being sent when changing order status. #28809
- Fix – Add migration to fix existing product review count. #28814
- Fix – Fixed issues with empty prices in PHP 8. #28900
- Dev – Increased WordPress minimum version to 5.4 according to WooCommerce’s L-2 support policy. #28977
- Dev – Use a custom fork of PHPUnit 7 in PHP 8 to workaround compatibility issues. #27844
- Dev – Introduced woocommerce_activated_plugin hook. #28698
- Dev – Clean up the WC_Shipping_Zone_Data_Store::read() method, documenting the woocommerce_shipping_zone_loaded hook. #28801
- Dev – Updated the Jetpack Autoloader to 2.9.1. #29057
- Localization – Adding states for Dominican Republic. #28713
- Localization – Restored list of Serbia districts #28778
- Localization – Update Indian state name from Orissa to Odisha. #28740
- Localization – Remove post code requirement for Guatemala. #28706
- Localization – Fixed name for state in Guatemala. #28706
WooCommerce Admin – 1.9.0
- Fix – Add Customer Type column to the Orders report table. #5820
- Fix – Product exclusion filter on Orders Report.
- Fix – Typo in Variation Stats DataStore context filter value.
- Fix – support custom attributes in Attribute advanced report filter.
- Fix – Don’t show Stock and Reviews Homescreen panels too early.
- Tweak – Remove deprecated use of Jetpack in shipping label banner. #5929
- Fix – Undefined $collate variable when database does not have collation capability. #5992
- Tweak – Remove visit_count from track, and update task count logic. #5996
- Fix – Moved certified owner label for review to title. ##5877
- Fix – Move collapsible config to panels object, to allow for more control. #5855
- Enhancement – Show Help panel tooltip when user visits unfinished task more then once. #5826
- Tweak – Fix inconsistent REST API paramater name for customer type filtering.
- Enhancement – Tasks extensibility in Home Screen. #5794
- Enhancement – Add page parameter to override default wc-admin page in Navigation API. #5821
- Fix – Invalidate product count if the last product was updated in the list. #5790
- Fix – Updating (non wordpress user) customer with order data
- Dev – Add documentation for filter woocommerce_admin_pages_list and wc_admin_register_page #5844
- Dev – Revert work done in #4857 for automated shipping after OBW is completed #5971
- Add – Welcome modal when coming from Calypso #6004
- Enhancement – Add an a/b experiment for installing free business features #5786
- Dev – Add onChangeCallback feature to the wc-admin <Form> component #5786
- Fix – Generate JSON translation chunks on plugin activation #6028
- Dev – Add merchant email notifications #5922
- Add – Email note to add first product. #6024
- Add – Note for users coming from Calypso. #6030
- Enhancement – Add an “unread” indicator to inbox messages. #6047
- Add – Manage activity from home screen inbox message. #6072
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