Easy Digital Downloads Changelog

• New (Pro): Users can now install and activate extensions from the WordPress admin.
• New (Pro): Geolocation has been added to checkout.
• New (Pro): Downloads can be duplicated without an extension.
• New – Blocks (Pro): Users can add a search form to the new User Downloads block.
• New: New installations will be directed to an onboarding wizard to help set up key features and get new stores up and running more quickly.
• New: Users with an active pass can manage extensions with one license key and easily upgrade to Easy Digital Downloads (Pro).
• New – Stripe: Our Stripe integration now uses the Universal Payment Elements and Link support. Legacy users are encouraged to opt in.
• New – Blocks: A new EDD User Downloads block has been registered to show users the files they can download.
• Improvement: Trashed orders can now be deleted in bulk.
• Improvement: EDD’s metaboxes have been moved up in priority when editing a download.
• Improvement: Reports styling has been updated to account for different graph types.
• Improvement: The Product Sales export tool has been added back to the Reports > Export screen.
• Improvement: EDD telemetry tracking has been completely rewritten to anonymize data collection.
• Improvement: The extensions licensing screen has been updated to improve messaging and the license management experience.
• Improvement: Querying for a customer by email address has been improved to include all email addresses.
• Improvement: The PayPal Commerce connection error messaging has been updated to give users more information to help troubleshoot before contacting support.
• Improvement: Improved performance when using order related functions which have been updated to accept the order object directly.
• Improvement: EDD admin screens now show only EDD notices.
• Improvement – Blocks: New installs will automatically use the checkout block instead of the legacy shortcode.
• Improvement – Blocks: The Login Page and Login Redirect Page settings have been reordered.
• Improvement – Blocks: When adding the EDD Buy Button to a download, the current download is set as the default.
• Improvement – Blocks: Additional security has been added to the checkout, login, and register blocks.
• Fix: Report charts could group orders by date incorrectly when dates spanned a change in Daylight Savings.
• Fix: In some cases, the customer database table was not getting the updates needed.
• Fix: An additional security check has been added to the system info file download form.
• Fix: The ajax spinner could be duplicated on the checkout screen for stores which collect taxes.
• Fix: Stores with quantities enabled could experience unexpected behavior on checkout.
• Fix – Stripe: Support links have been updated.
• Fix – Blocks: Some themes/plugins caused the checkout forms script to not be enqueued.
• Dev: The new minimum WordPress version is 5.4.
• Dev: The new minimum PHP version is 7.1.
• Dev: The `edd_sanitize_amount` function has been updated for PHP8 compatibility.
• Dev: Notifications are now registered as an EDD component.
• Dev: Notifications can now be registered locally.
• Dev: Additional debugging has been added if a legacy payment cannot be migrated due to invalid payment metadata.
• Dev: The discounts HTML is now always filterable, even if there are no discounts applied.
• Dev: Code for the legacy WordPress media loader has been removed.

• Important: This version of the Stripe Pro Gateway requires:
  • Easy Digital Downloads 3.1 or greater
  • WordPress 5.4 or greater
  • PHP 7.1 or greater
• New: Introducing the new Payment Elements for faster, more secure, and more reliable payment processing.
• New: Apple Pay and Google Pay are integrated directly with Buy Now and Checkout.
• New: Adds Link by Stripe for more secure saved cards.
• New: More improved detection of theme styles to make Stripe feel part of your site.
• Fix: Improved the payment processing to be more reliable with Payment Elements.
• Fix: Billing details are now sent via the Payment Elements for more reliable customer information in Stripe.
• Fix: Documentation links have been updated to avoid any 404s and redirects.
• Note: Have you customized your checkout? Be sure to follow this guide to switch to the new Payment Elements.
• Note: Users upgrading from previous versions will remain on the Legacy Card Elements during this transition and can change to Payment Elements with the ‘Elements Mode’ setting within Downloads > Settings > Payments > Stripe.

• Important: This version of the Stripe Pro Gateway requires:
  • Easy Digital Downloads 3.1 or greater
  • WordPress 5.4 or greater
  • PHP 7.1 or greater
• New: Introducing the new Payment Elements for faster, more secure, and more reliable payment processing.
• New: Apple Pay and Google Pay are integrated directly with Buy Now and Checkout.
• New: Adds Link by Stripe for more secure saved cards.
• New: More improved detection of theme styles to make Stripe feel part of your site.
• Fix: Improved the payment processing to be more reliable with Payment Elements.
• Fix: Billing details are now sent via the Payment Elements for more reliable customer information in Stripe.
• Fix: Documentation links have been updated to avoid any 404s and redirects.
• Note: Have you customized your checkout? Be sure to follow this guide to switch to the new Payment Elements.
• Note: Users upgrading from previous versions will remain on the Legacy Card Elements during this transition and can change to Payment Elements with the ‘Elements Mode’ setting within Downloads > Settings > Payments > Stripe.

• Fixed: The necessary scripts may not have loaded when viewing a wish list template.

• New: Recurring now registers subscription specific capabilities to allow for better role management and access to subscriptions.
• Improvement: Allow dates to be defined when adding a new renewal order.
• Improvement: Software Licensing discount calculations have been revised to be correct and work with cart discounts.
• Fix: Currencies were not always properly displayed in the order details on sites with multiple currencies.
• Fix: Renewal orders were not always linked to the correct email after a customer updated their email address.
• Fix: The subscription order status has been added to the list of deliverable order items statuses.
• Fix: An error could occur on the order details screen if orders were considered part of a subscription but a subscription did not exist.
• Fix: The license renewal link on the subscription details screen did not display correctly.
• Dev: An unneeded legacy filter for PDF Invoices has been removed.

• Improvement: The PayPal Backup IPN now sends the payment date when handling a renewal from Recurring Payments.
• Improvement: Further improve the AJAX download search.
• Fix: Improved reliability with the PayPal API.
• Fix: Some plugins could conflict with the login URL filter to customize the login page.
• Fix: It is now possible to deselect a page in the settings after it’s been set.
• Fix: All documentation links have been updated to use the new locations.
• Fix: Some passwords could not be validated when using the login form on the checkout page.
• Fix: The orders export did not allow only orders with a specific status to be exported.

• New: Store owners can now set a minimum custom deposit amount.
• Fix: Emails for admin deposits/withdrawals might have referenced incorrect data.
• Fix: It was possible to deposit a custom amount even if custom amounts were disabled.
• Fix: Decimal amounts can now be deposited/withdrawn from the admin.
• Dev: Updated for EDD 3.0 compatibility.
• Dev: The minimum PHP version is now 5.6.
• Dev: The minimum WordPress version is 4.9.

• Improvement: New customer report tiles now only count customers with purchases.
• Improvement: The email address field at checkout now adheres to the database schema and limits to 100 characters.
• Improvement: Further improve the AJAX download search to be more accurate.
• Fix: Earnings exports report now accounts for partially refunded orders.
• Fix: Added validation to prevent duplicate order addresses from being inserted.
• Fix: When saving a non-variable product, an empty post meta value was being saved.
• Improvement – Blocks: Updating the wording for the Disable Redownload setting if the block is available.
• Fix – Blocks: Added sanitization to the ‘additional classes’ block setting before rendering the block.

• Improvement: The cart performance has been improved by disabling tax rate lookups when a customer address is supplied, but taxes are disabled.
• Improvement: Reports now factor in order item adjustments like negative fees.
• Improvement: The Downloads list table now loads faster on sites with a large number of download categories.
• Improvement: The Sales REST API Endpoint was updated to respect the new order statuses in EDD 3.0.
• Improvement: Improve semantic markup by not allowing two of the same ID attribute for redirect to checkout buttons.
• Improvement: Discount code lookup performance has been improved when looking up a discount by the discount code.
• Fix: Looking up payments with a Download ID that was a string or integer would return incorrect or no orders.
• Fix: Reduced the number of HTTP calls that the notifications API can make per day.
• Fix: Avoid the “Request-URI Too Long” error when performing multiple actions in a row on list tables.
• Fix: Negative fee amounts are now properly considered when determining an item’s final price in the cart.
• Fix: PayPal: Arabic characters in download names could cause an unexpected error during checkout.
• Fix: PayPal: The backup IPN is not loaded if the PayPal integration is not connected.
• Fix: PayPal: The payment_date field was assumed to be present when processing the backup IPN.
• Fix: The edd_get_payment_amount function could improperly return an empty string instead of a float value.
• Fix: Add to cart buttons were not using the token values to improve caching compatibility.
• Fix: When many items were purchased at once, some order item download links were not working due to an improper status.
• Fix: Hardened the search query for the AJAX endpoint for searching for downloads by title.

• Fix: Resolved the pass expiration code exiting early.
• Fix: An valid start time that isn’t a date/time string could cause a fatal error.

• Fix: Send customer first and last name if present when creating Stripe customer.
• Fix: Avoid using deprecated agree to terms scripts in EDD 3.0+.
• Dev: Improved handling of Stripe connection process.

• Fix: Corrects an issue where commissions were incorrectly calculated when discounts pro was being used.

• Improved: Updated to improve compatibility with caching.
• Improved: Updated the Facebook button to be a Share instead of a Like.
• Fix: Wish List buttons only worked on single product views.
• Fix: Deprecation notice was being thrown on PHP 8.
• Fix: Corrected alignment issues with the Tweet button.
• Fix: It was possible for a theme to override Wish List modal CSS, preventing the ability to add an item to a Wish List.
• Fix: Removed Google+ from the social networks.
• Dev: Updating the license activation for more stability and compatibility with EDD Core.

• New – EDD 3.0+: Reports have been updated to support new EDD 3.0 report views and tiles.
• New – EDD 3.0+: Commission reports can now be filtered by commission status.
• Improvement: Payout file generation performance has been improved.
• Fix: Generating payout files in two different tabs/windows could result in incorrect file generation and amounts.
• Fix: Generating a payout file did not communicate if progress was being made.
• Fix: Deleting a commission from the list table was not properly deleting the commission record.
• Fix – EDD 3.0+: Refunding an order with a commission was not always marking the commission as revoked.
• Dev: The commissions database class now supports querying by the price_id column.
• Dev: The final deliverable package now excludes development packages.

• Improvement: Retrieving the customer pass object has been updated to be more efficient.
• Fix: Included price variations did not always appear to have saved correctly.
• Dev: Unnecessary files have been removed from the final build package.
• Dev: A new filter edd_all_access_use_persistent_cache has been added. The default value is false, for the time being.

• Improvement: It is now possible to manually add a subscription with a $0 initial amount.
• Fix: The Stripe express checkout could cause PHP notices when Recurring loaded.
• Fix: The discount check could error in EDD 2.x.
• Fix: The updated admin script might not have loaded due to caching.
• Fix: The Stripe gateway could cause a fatal error with one time trials.
• Dev: Unnecessary files have been removed from the vendors directory.

• New: Subscriptions can now be exported to a CSV file.
• New: The subscriptions table now has a filter bar to filter by product or subscription status.
• New: The subscription_details email tag has been registered for purchase receipt emails.
• New: subscription_details, subscription_period, and subscription_term email tags have been registered for the renewal and expiration emails.
• New: One time discounts can be enabled on an individual discount basis.
• Improvement: The admin subscription forms have been completely rewritten to be more accessible, responsive, and intuitive.
• Improvement: The subscriptions tables have been updated to be more consistent with WordPress and EDD.
• Improvement: Subscriptions now have their own tab when viewing customer details.
• Fix: In EDD 3.0, updating the customer for an order did not update the related subscription.
• Fix: The Content Restriction integration could have had an undefined variable.
• Fix: In certain cases, the order items migration appeared to never stop, even though it was done.
• Fix: It is now possible to purchase a product with a free trial using PayPal Commerce.
• Fix: When erasing a customer’s data, active subscriptions are now cancelled automatically.
• Dev: The minimum PHP version is now 5.6; the minimum EDD version is 2.9.
• Dev: How the plugin loads has been updated.

This is a minor release to fix compatibility with EDD 3.0/3.1, improve EDD core blocks support, FES, PHP 8.1 and improve shipping calculation rates.

• New: In EDD 3, the orders table can now be filtered based on orders with shipping and/or shipping status.
• New: Extension is now fully integrated and compatible with EDD core blocks.
• Improvement: Shipping tracking details have been added to the order receipt.
• Fix: When cart is recovered, shipping was not always correctly calculated.
• Fix: When placing an order and canceling the purchase flow, user was redirected back to the checkout page and shipping could be incorrectly calculated.
• Fix: The correct shipping rate was not always calculated for FES vendor products.
• Fix: When using FES 2.7, the Shipping field did not appear as an available field.
• Dev: PHP 8.1 compatibility.
• Dev: The FES integration requires a minimum FES version of 2.3.

• Fix: Optimized and improved renewal payment discovery to make Pass renewals more reliable.
• Fix: Discounts that required ‘Any Pass’ was not saving the discount properly, and may not properly validate discount codes.

• Improvement: Remove unneeded files from the final build.
• Fix: For customers with active subscriptions for a pass, show a message instead of the “Renew Now” button.
• Fix: Prevent the default EDD price options form from showing after All Access price options have already output.
• Fix: Passes purchased with a subscription were not correctly expiring and being replaced with upcoming passes.
• Fix: Downloads with multiple files were not always delivering the correct file.