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From time to time, Easy Digital Downloads and specific extension or theme updates will require that we disclose a bit more information about the nature of the update. The Release Notes posts are a great source of that information.

If you are a developer, you should also consider following our Development Blog where we post more detailed, in-depth notes about changes in the codebase across the ecosystem.

Easy Digital Downloads 2.6 released

After more than six months in development, we are thrilled to announce that Easy Digital Downloads version 2.6 has been released! This is a major release that includes numerous significant improvements, which we would like to show you now.

The Recurring Payments logo.
The new Recurring Payments extension

Three years ago, soon after the very first version of Easy Digital Downloads launched, we released our Recurring Payments extension. The extension quickly became one of the most popular and widely used of all the extensions in our catalogue. Today, I am excited to announce that the new Recurring Payments is here. And it’s awesome.

The Recurring Payments EDD extension.
A Preview of Recurring Payments 2.4

Recurring Payments has been a staple in our extensions catalogue since it was released almost exactly three years ago. When first released, it provided some of the basic and necessary functions for processing recurring subscriptions through Easy Digital Downloads. It was not, however, without its limitations and shortcomings. We would like to show you a preview of the next version of the Recurring Payments extension that is the result of reevaluating the platform from the ground up and building the plugin how we wished it had been built from the beginning.

Version 2.5 released

Easy Digital Downloads version 2.5 has been released! This update is a culmination of six months of development and the work of 14 different developers. We’re thrilled to bring this release to you today; let’s take a quick look at what is new.

Important information for Frontend Submissions and WordPress 4.4

WordPress 4.4 is going to be released in approximately 3 weeks, on or around December 12, 2015. With this release will be included a change that has an adverse effect on certain versions of our Frontend Submissions extension.

Latest extension releases and updates for November, 2015

The Easy Digital Downloads team works tirelessly to get features, new extensions, improvements, and bug fixes released to the public and you, our wonderful users. Over the last month, several important updates were released and a few great new extensions published.

Frontend Submissions version 2.3 released

Frontend Submissions is one of our premier extensions that allows you to transform your Easy Digital Downloads store into a full-fledged marketplace, similar to ThemeForest, Etsy, Creative Market and other online marketplaces. Today we are thrilled to announce the long-awaited release of version 2.3 of Frontend Submissions. This release has been in development for more than a year and includes a huge number of significant improvements.

Version 2.4.7 released with changes to translation system

Easy Digital Downloads version 2.4.7 was released a few minutes ago to resolve a couple of small issues and also introduce a change that will make the platform more accessible to more languages around the world.

The EDD Recommended Products extension to recommend products to customers in WordPress.
Recommended Products 1.2.6 Released

In eCommerce, data rules everything. Being able to track how and where your sales are coming from should drive the decisions you make going forward. With that idea, we are happy to announce that the Recommended Products extension has been updated to support tracking sales made that were purchased via the recommendations supplied to visitors.

Connect Easy Digital Downloads to Sendy

Sendy lets you send email newsletters 100x cheaper than many of the competing newsletter platforms available. It is a self-hosted email newsletter application that uses Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) to send reliable emails at a fraction of the cost you would pay elsewhere. Earlier this week, we launched an extension that lets you easily connect your Easy

Changes to our support system

Here at Easy Digital Downloads, we have always strived to provide top-notch support for all our users. Over the last three years, our support system has been powered by a public forum that runs on bbPress, an excellent forums plugin for WordPress, and this has worked out very well for us. On June 3rd, 2015, we are making some changes to our system to help us provide you even better support.

Version 2.3 released!

From everyone here at Easy Digital Downloads, we are thrilled to announce that version 2.3 has been released to the world!

EDD Amazon S3 version 2.1 released with support for Frontend Submissions

Today I am thrilled to announce the long-awaited update to our Amazon S3 extension that introduces integration support for our popular Frontend Submissions extension. Version 2.1 is now available and can be downloaded via automatic update or from your account page. Along with added support for Frontend Submissions, version 2.1 introduces a dramatically improved UI for browsing

How to generate customer invoices

Are you tired of manually generating custom invoices for your customers? The new EDD Invoices extension is here to help you solve that problem. Often due to VAT compliance or strict accounting departments, customers may request an invoice with additional details that you simply cannot collect during the checkout process at least not without making

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