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Easy Digital Downloads Changelog
View releases and changelogs for EDD and addons.

Version 1.2.0 — January 8, 2024

  • Compatibility: Minimum requirements updated – PHP 7.1+ WordPress 5.4+, EDD 3.1.1+.
  • Compatibility: Added PHP 8.2 support.
  • Performance: Viewing a wish list is significantly faster due to improved database querying.
  • Sharing: Sending a wish list by email works again.
  • Setup: Installing/activating Wish Lists has been improved to prevent multiple checks and the creation of duplicated pages.

Version 1.5.1 — December 27, 2023

  • Minimum Requirements Updated: PHP 7.1, WordPress 5.4, and EDD 3.1.1.
  • Performance: Improved the performance of displaying discount prices on the front-end by up to 4x.
  • Checkout: Improved discount eligibility checks for guest customers who do not have a user account.
  • Compatibility: Improved PHP 8.0+ compatibility.
  • Accessibility: The discount editor screens have been updated for improved accessibility.
  • Reports: Discounts Pro fees are accounted for in the Product Sales export (requires EDD 3.2.6).

Version 1.3.0 — December 15, 2023

  • Compatibility: Minimum version requirements have been updated to: PHP 7.1, WordPress 5.4, and EDD 3.1.1.
  • Admin: Styles have been updated to be consistent with modern WordPress admin UI.
  • Checkout: Improved purchase count calculations for accuracy and performance.

Version 3.2.6 — December 11, 2023

  • Checkout: Improved checkout block field handling for guest customers.
  • Checkout: Login fields on checkout were incorrectly trying to process the checkout when hitting the ‘Enter’ key.
  • Admin: Better compatibility when loading EDD footer and documentation links for non-store admin pages.
  • Admin: Custom EDD admin pages could throw an error if incorrectly filtered.
  • Downloads: Improved handling of detecting download variable prices.
  • Downloads: Custom product dropdown could incorrectly exclude the download being edited.
  • Reports: The store dashboard widget revenue and sales stats sometimes parsed dates with an incorrect offset.
  • Reports: Pie charts for revenue currency values were not correctly applying the currency symbol.
  • Reports: Improve Export Product Sales accuracy.
  • Compatibility: Further improve PHP 8.0+ support.
  • Shortcodes: Some shortcode attributes were hardened before being output.
  • Orders: Better handling of refunding orders.
  • Stripe: Better error messages when some cart contents are not compatible with the Stripe gateway.
  • Discounts: Ensure store discounts recorded for orders are unique.

Version 2.4.0 — December 11, 2023

  • The Amazon SDK library has been updated to version 3.285.4, which drops support for older PHP versions and adds support for PHP 8.
  • The Amazon library has been isolated to prevent conflicts with other S3 plugins.
  • The settings screen and S3 upload forms have been updated to show S3 buckets and respect the default bucket.
  • Minimum required versions have been updated to PHP 7.4, WordPress 5.0, and EDD 3.0.
  • Developers can use the edd_amazon_s3_endpoint filter to support additional S3-compatible storage providers.

Version 3.8.11 — November 30, 2023

  • Licensing: Added staging activation support for InstaWP, Cloudways, Kinsta, GoDaddy, Flywheel, Bluehost, HostGator + more.
  • Licensing: Refunding a renewal may not reset the license expiration date.
  • Renewals/Upgrades: Improved cart item description when manually renewing or upgrading a license.
  • Tools: Better messaging for users without access to the Retroactive Licensing Processor.
  • Administration: Some update routines were checking the wrong user capability and falsely preventing running update routines.

Version 1.1.1 — November 30, 2023

  • Settings: The new currency form could have incorrectly disabled inputs.
  • Fix: Improved session handling for logged in users with no orders.
  • Compatibility: PHP 8.1 compatibility.

Version 2.4.2 — November 28, 2023

  • Checkout: The shipping form now uses native form validation.
  • Email: The email tags did not always work in a purchase receipt email.
  • Compatibility: PHP 8 compatibility.

Version 3.2.5 — November 9, 2023

  • Compatibility: Improved compatibility with servers not configured with mbstring.
  • PayPal: Improved detection of PayPal order session handling and processing.

Version 3.2.4 — November 6, 2023

  • Compatibility: Adds support for PHP 8.2.
  • PayPal: Improve error handling of PayPal API responses.
  • REST API: Download terms now have the featured images in the JSON response.
  • Checkout: Improved the checkout block login and registration handling.
  • Checkout: The legacy shortcode properly handles required fields.
  • Emails: Improved sample data for the purchase confirmation preview.
  • Refunds: Improved refund status handling and validation.
  • Downloads: Bulk editing no longer clears prices.
  • Downloads: Improved the ability to filter the ‘supports buy now’ for a download.
  • Downloads: Reliability of the file download limits was improved.
  • Store: Encourage store owners to set a country to help prepare for upcoming features.
  • Privacy: Enhanced the integration with the WordPress Privacy tools.
  • Reports: Improved chart sizing to prevent overlap and overflow.
  • Dates: Added a polyfill for servers without `mbstring`.
  • Support: Made links to support and documentation more accessible.
  • Taxes: Corrected an issue with subscription updates when taxes are enabled.
  • Registration: Fixed an issue with Recaptcha on the registration form.

Version 3.8.10 — November 2, 2023

  • New: Updates to ensure PHP 8.1 and 8.2 compatibility.
  • Fix: Partially refunded orders could restrict a license from being manually renewed.
  • Fix: There was a potential fatal error on older PHP versions.
  • Fix: The {unsubscribe_url} tag for license expiration emails was generating the wrong HTML in previews.
  • Improvement: Renamed the ‘Disable URL Checking’ setting for clarity.
  • Improvement: Updates compatibility messaging for upcoming Software Licensing requirements.
  • Dev: The edd_license custom post type is no longer being registered.
  • Dev: Fixed a typo in the doc block for the check_license call in the sample plugin.

Version 1.5.9 — October 4, 2023

  • Fix: The “Name your price” field now uses semantic and accessible markup.
  • Fix: The check for whether a download is free is more reliable.
  • Dev: The plugin has been refactored to better manage dependencies such as minimum WordPress, PHP, and EDD versions.

Version 3.2.3 — October 2, 2023

  • Blocks: The user registration forms and lost password feature have been updated to allow customization via hooks.
  • Stripe: Refunded payments initiated within the Stripe Dashboard now create a refund order in EDD.
  • Cart: Improved product validation when adding an item to the cart.
  • Emails: Admin payment & order notifications have been updated to allow further customization.
  • Block Editor: Improved compatibility with themes and page builders.
  • Payments: Ensure that tax rates are accurately stored when using legacy payment creation processes.
  • Customers: Improved the performance and accuracy of checking if a user has previously made purchases.

Version 1.2.5 — October 2, 2023

  • Fix: Resolves compatibility with EDD 3.2.3.
  • Dev: New minimum versions: WordPress 5.8; PHP 7.4; EDD 3.2.3

Version 2.0.5 — September 29, 2023

  • Fix: The last name is now required on checkout to align with Authorize.net’s requirements.
  • Fix: International characters are now converted to supported characters for customer information, as required by Authorize.net.
  • Fix: Product names and order summaries longer than 49 characters are now truncated to avoid errors during checkout.

Version 3.2.2 — September 21, 2023

  • PayPal: The IPN Backup for PayPal was fixed to prevent a fatal error.
  • PayPal: Improved the Buy Now with PayPal payments to bypass Checkout only when Buy Now is fully supported.
  • PayPal: Improved the reliability of the PayPal IPN listener.
  • Stripe: Improved the Buy Now with Stripe payments to bypass Checkout only when Buy Now is fully supported by the product.
  • Stripe: The State/Region ensures that it is updated when the Country field is changed.
  • Emails: Further improved the reliability of payment emails and admin payment notifications.
  • Customers: Migrating the customer data from EDD 2.x to EDD 3.x is now more reliable.
  • Customers: Existing guest customers can now use the EDD Registration form to create a user.
  • Customers: Improved the customer email address detection and reliability.
  • Payments: Updated the customer recent payments list to use the correct date format.
  • Blocks: Improved the reliability of checkout when EDD Blocks or Gutenberg are disabled.

Version 3.8.9 — September 20, 2023

  • Improved: Revoking of licenses now supports the ‘On Hold’ status added in EDD 3.2.0 and no longer disables a license if an order is partially refunded.
  • Improved: Improved license renewal cost calculations for licenses sold on a single-priced download, which is later changed to a variable-priced product.

Version 3.2.1 — September 11, 2023

  • Stripe: We’ve improved the error handling and informational messaging related to the Stripe Payments integration.
  • PayPal: When new features are added to the PayPal integration, a background process attempts to register new payment endpoints automatically.
  • API: Accessing the file download logs via the EDD API now supports querying by both customer ID and customer email address.

Version 3.0.1 — September 11, 2023

  • Fix: Ensure that the pre-approval feature functionality is available when needed to process capturing a pre-authorized payment.

Version 2.0.4 — September 8, 2023

  • Important: Now requires PHP 7.2 or greater, EDD 2.11 or greater, and WordPress 4.9 or greater.
  • New: Authorize.net has been updated to support the EDD Gateway settings API.
  • New: The billing address information (if provided) is added to the Pre-Authorization charges when purchasing subscriptions.
  • Fix: The order date in EDD 3.0+ was incorrect for subscription orders.
  • Fix: Pre-authorization charges for subscriptions were not properly checking the error status before continuing to create ARB Subscriptions.
  • Fix: Declined transactions could still complete in some cases in EDD.