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Easy Digital Downloads Changelog

View releases and changelogs for EDD and addons.
Version 3.1.1.4 — April 20, 2023
  • New – Multi Currency: Added a new Currency Switcher Block. (Pro-Only)
  • Improvement: Removed a possible unsupported PHP configuration from the email summaries.
  • Improvement: The edd_get_users_purchases function has been updated to account for customer email address changes.
  • Improvement: Reports have been updated to more accurately account for timezones and date ranges.
  • Improvement: The onboarding wizard loading was not allowing a close and exit after the first step.
  • Improvement: License key handling for 3rd party extensions has been accounted for.
  • Improvement: When using sequential order numbers, searching has been updated to account for order number.
  • Improvement – Stripe: The Payment Element has been improved to handle failed 3DS challenges.
  • Improvement – Stripe: Failed payment attempts are now more reliably accounted for.
  • Improvement – Stripe: The Payment Element billing fields can now be filtered.
  • Improvement – Stripe: The Payment Element now supports mandates, improving multi-regional payments.
  • Improvement – Stripe: The ‘Card Name’ field is re-introduced for regions that require it.
  • Improvement – Blocks: Better support for custom fields with the Checkout Block.
  • Improvement – Blocks: Developers can now register custom columns for the User Downloads block.
  • Improvement – Blocks: The Buy Now button can now have its behavior defined as Add to Cart or Buy Now.
  • Fix: The Duplicate feature for Downloads could conflict with the WooCommerce duplicate feature. (Pro-Only)
  • Fix: Discounts with high value amounts were not saving correctly.
  • Fix: Bulk Editing prices was not working with WordPress 6.1+.
  • Fix: Exporting product sales was not always respecting the date range filters.
  • Fix: Exports with date queries were not always accounting for timezones accurately.
  • Fix – Blocks: Cart section headings were not always displayed when reloading the section via AJAX.
  • Dev: New custom hooks in database row transitions have been added.
Version 2.9.2.2 — April 17, 2023
  • Improvement: Mandates are now supported, improving compatibility with banking regulations.
  • Improvement: When required, the ‘Card Name’ field will be selectively shown.
  • Improvement: Better handling of failed 3DS confirmations.
  • Improvement: Failure rate detection improved with the Payment Element.
Version 1.1.10 — April 6, 2023
  • Fix: The modal script was not properly enqueued when attempting to delete a wish list.
Version 1.1 — April 4, 2023
  • New: Multi Currency now supports free Open Exchange Rate API keys for non-USD-based stores!
  • New: Updated the currency management interface for usability.
  • New: When adding a new currency, exchange rates are automatically updated if possible.
  • New: When changing an existing rate from Manual to Auto, exchange rates are updated if possible.
  • Fix: Improved compatibility with EDD 3.0+ migration.
  • Fix: In some cases, setting a current exchange rate to update automatically was impossible.
  • Fix: The session currency was sometimes shown as the default currency in the admin area.
  • Dev: Requires PHP 7.1 and WordPress 5.4
Version 3.1.1.3 — March 23, 2023
  • Improvement: The orders list table in the admin now sorts orders by date as the default.
  • Improvement: Removed unnecessary options in the onboarding wizard.
  • Improvement – Stripe: Store owners can now control which payment methods to accept within their Stripe account.
  • Improvement – Stripe: We’ve added a better explanation for the Restrict Stripe Assets setting.
  • Change: Translations are now always managed by WordPress.org.
  • Fix: Existing tables might not have been updated correctly.
  • Fix: Attempting to update the default email address from the profile editor could fail in some circumstances.
Version 2.9.2.1 — March 21, 2023
  • Improvement: Store owners can now control which payment methods to accept within their Stripe Account.
  • Improvement: We’ve added a better explanation for the Restrict Stripe Assets setting.
Version 2.9.2 — March 17, 2023
  • Fix: Improve custom Payment Element rules to merge with existing.
  • Fix: Single price products purchased through “Buy Now” no longer have a price ID assigned in the order items table.
  • Dev: Unneeded source files are no longer included in the release.
Version 3.1.1.2 — March 17, 2023
  • Improvement: The order details screen in the admin has been updated to use the Currency class to be consistent with customer receipts.
  • Improvement: Determining whether a plugin is a core extension for telemetry data has been improved.
  • Fix: Enabling/disabling the sequential order numbers setting no longer prompts an upgrade notice, since that setting does not affect past orders.
  • Fix: When exiting the onboarding wizard, the double overlay has been removed.
  • Fix: The typos in the pro eligibility pointer notice have been corrected.
  • Fix: The user verification email could cause a fatal error with some translations.
  • Fix – Stripe: Improve custom Payment Element rules to merge with existing.
  • Fix – Stripe: Single price products purchased through “Buy Now” no longer have a price ID assigned in the order items table.
  • Dev: Using get_page_by_title has been deprecated in WordPress 6.2; our importer has been updated accordingly.
  • Dev – Stripe: Unneeded source files are no longer included in the release.
Version 2.9.1.2/3 — March 15, 2023
  • Fix: PHP 7.1 Compatibility.
Version 2.9.1 — March 14, 2023
  • Improvement: Improved error handling and user interaction.
  • Fix: Improve Apple Pay compatibility.
Version 2.9.1.1 — March 14, 2023
  • Fix: Ensure that Stripe only tries to verify the domain for Apple Pay when Stripe is connected.
  • Improvement: Avoid a race condition when updating where a function might not be available for a moment.
Version 3.1.1 — March 14, 2023
  • 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.
Version 2.9 — March 1, 2023
  • 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.
Version 2.9.0 — March 1, 2023
  • 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.
Version 1.1.9 — February 9, 2023
  • Fixed: The necessary scripts may not have loaded when viewing a wish list template.
Version 2.11.9 — February 9, 2023
  • 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.
Version 3.1.0.6 — February 9, 2023
  • 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.
Version 1.1.7 — February 1, 2023
  • 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.
Version 3.1.0.5 — January 25, 2023
  • 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.
Version 3.1.0.4 — January 6, 2023
  • 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.

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