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Version 2.8.0

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By Robin Cornett
  • New: Added support for Apple Pay and Google Pay “Payment Request” buttons.
  • New: Added a “Buy Now” modal purchase flow for inline purchases. This acts as a replacement for the old Stripe Checkout modal.
  • New: Added an option to disallow prepaid credit cards.
  • New: Added an option to show “split” credit card fields in checkout.
  • Improvement: Improved Stripe Connect flow and current account feedback.
  • Improvement: Allow error messages returned by Stripe to be translated.
  • Improvement: Automatically set default Payment Method if one has not previously been set.
  • Improvement: Hide “Billing Address” in “Profile Editor” if using saved cards and no other payment gateways.
  • Improvement: Improve appearance of saved cards in “Profile Editor” and on Checkout.
  • Improvement: Include customer name when creating a new Stripe Customer record.
  • Fix: Automatically create a new Stripe Customer record if previous has been deleted or cannot be found.
  • Fix: Ensure $0.00 purchases automatically log in newly created users with Auto Register.
  • Fix: Ensure only card Payment Methods are shown in “Profile Editor”.
  • Fix: Ensure cards with matching fingerprints are surfaced in the correct order.
  • Fix: Use longhand CSS property names for better browser compatibility.
  • Dev: Update stripe/stripe-php to 7.47.0
  • Dev: Use Stripe API version 2020-03-02.
  • Dev: Easy Digital Downloads 3.0 compatibility.
  • Dev: Rename stripe-js script handle to sandhills-stripe-js-v3
  • Dev: Log invalid JSON responses in console.
  • Dev: Add edds_pre_stripe_api_request hook to run before API requests.
  • i18n: Fix incorrect text domains.

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