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Easy Digital Downloads Changelog

View releases and changelogs for EDD and addons.
Version 1.2.1 — July 29, 2024
  • Admin: Updates the wording around the admin deposit and withdrawal emails to be more clear.
  • Admin: Updates the settings screen checkboxes.
  • Emails: The customer deposit receipt email status can be edited.
  • Shortcodes: Fixes the deposit shortcode JavaScript handling for custom deposit amounts.
  • Shortcodes: Fixes missing CSS for customers who have the Wallet CSS disabled.
Version 3.8.13 — July 25, 2024
  • API: Prevents a PHP notice when checking a license without a URL.
  • Changelogs: Fixes an issue which could break URLs in changelogs.
  • Checkout: Fixes a JavaScript error on checkout for stores which do not allow license renewals.
  • Database: Fixes an issue which could prevent querying for licenses by a specific cart index.
  • Emails: Fixes an issue which prevented scheduled renewal notices from sending.
  • Emails: Ensure that sent renewal notices are still logged to the license data.
  • Licenses: Improves license creation performance.
  • Samples: Fixes PHP warnings for plugins which do not set version requirements. The updater class is now at version 1.9.4.
  • Renewals: Fixes an issue which allowed renewal text and links to show for licenses which could not be renewed.
  • Widget: The changelog widget could cause PHP notices in PHP 8.0.
Version 3.3.2 — July 25, 2024
  • Checkout: Improved session handling with Stripe payments.
  • Settings: Improved pass validation that could cause deactivation on certain server configurations.
  • Admin: Improve responsiveness of EDD admin menus.
  • Sessions: Set default session handling to database on new installs.
  • i18n: Ensure that some block strings are able to be translated.
Version 1.2.5 — July 24, 2024
  • Admin: Admin styles have been updated for a cleaner, more modern appearance.
  • Admin: The EDD quick links have been updated.
  • Admin: Messages were not showing on the customer screen in EDD 3.x.
  • Admin: Messages now display the time sent in the site/local timezone.
  • Compatibility: The plugin has been updated to be fully compatible with the latest Easy Digital Downloads versions.
  • Integrations: Fixes license renewal notice logging with Software Licensing.
  • Emails: Sending a message without an attachment would cause a deprecation notice in PHP 8.1.
  • Dev: The minimum version requirements are now PHP 7.4, WordPress 5.8, and Easy Digital Downloads 3.2.0.
Version 3.3.1 — July 17, 2024
  • Settings: Fixed a PHP warning related to a store’s region when managing settings.
  • Settings: Ensure that the selected currency option is a registered currency.
  • Orders: Fixed an issue resulting in searching for orders not always working.
  • Emails: Ensure that email subjects do not contain HTML tags.
  • Emails: The Admin Sale Notification wasn’t sending to multiple recipients.
  • Checkout: Improved checkout page detection compatibility for extensions.
  • Onboarding: Improved the onboarding wizard styles and content.
Version 1.1.2.1 — July 12, 2024
  • Fix: Correct an issue that could result in a missing class error.
Version 3.3.0 — July 11, 2024
  • Important: This release requires WordPress 6.0 or higher.
  • Emails: NEW Managing emails is now easier than ever with the new Email Editor. All emails are now visible and managed from Downloads > Emails.
  • Emails: NEW You can now easily toggle the status of most emails to enable or disable them.
  • Emails: NEW Email tags have been improved to be more widely available to extensions and are now context aware by email type and recipient.
  • Emails: NEW You can now send an email to the customer when an order is marked as refunded.
  • Emails: NEW Added email tags for the refund amount and refund ID.
  • Emails: NEW You can now see a log of emails sent to customers by EDD in Downloads > Emails > Logs.
  • Emails: NEW Added a new email tag for the order fees.
  • Emails: NEW Added the ability to email store owners about the Stripe “Early Fraud Warning” webhook.
  • Emails: NEW You can now easily restore the default email templates from the editor.
  • Emails: More emails are now able to be previewed and tested.
  • Emails: Added the ability to edit the New User, Password Reset, and User Verification emails.
  • Emails: Email settings have been moved to Downloads > Emails > Settings.
  • Sessions: NEW The session handling has been rewritten from the ground up to be more reliable and improve performance.
  • Sessions: The session storage method can now be changed via a setting in Downloads > Settings > Misc.
  • Sessions: Added a custom database table for session storage, when using the database storage method.
  • Sessions: Improved the performance and reliability of the session cleanup Cron event.
  • Sessions: Improved session handling to only start when necessary, allowing more pages to be cached for guests.
  • Extensions: The Disable Purchase Receipts extension is now marked as legacy and will be deactivated, as the functionality is now built into EDD.
  • Extensions: The Auto Register extension is now marked as legacy and will be deactivated, as the functionality is now built into EDD.
  • Stripe: Improved the handling when a Stripe customer cannot be found.
  • Stripe: Added a disconnect button to the Stripe settings if the Stripe account that is connected has been closed.
  • Stripe: Improved and implemented fallbacks to reduce failures when processing Stripe payments.
  • PayPal: Improved the onboarding process for PayPal to avoid a possible fatal error.
  • HTML: The Product Dropdown element has been improved for reliability, search, and performance.
  • Migration: Improved the reliability of the EDD 3.0+ migration routine.
  • Reports: When the percentage difference was calculated, it was possible for a positive change to show as a negative percentage.
  • Cart: In some cases, the Add to Cart button was not redirecting logged-in users to the checkout page.
  • Checkout: Improved the handling of the purchase form when showing the login form.
  • Checkout: Improved the handling of the address fields when using the Stripe Payment Element.
  • Checkout: Improved purchase validation during the checkout process.
  • Exports: The Orders Export could sometimes use the product ID as the User ID.
  • WPCron: We’ve refactored how EDD uses WPCron to improve performance and reliability.
  • Customers: Improved the validation when removing email addresses from a customer.
  • Admin: Many of our ‘checkbox’ settings have been updated to use the new ‘toggle’ setting type.
  • Admin: Improved the consistency of the EDD Admin Pages.
  • i18n: Updated the list of regions for the UK.
  • i18n: Added Regions for Benin.
  • i18n: We reviewed, updated, and improved a large number of translations with translator comments and context.
  • Performance: Improved integration with the Heartbeat API to reduce the number of requests.
  • Refunds: Improved the reliability and performance of generating a refund number.
Version 2.3.15 — July 10, 2024
  • Checkout: Logged in users could be redirected to an outdated confirmation page in error.
  • Checkout: Fixes an issue with free orders not having an email address set for logged in users.
  • Emails: Fixes the default email content for the verification email.
  • Scripts: Updates the script handling for variable products with a free option.
Version 3.6.0 — July 9, 2024
  • Important: The minimum version requirements for Commissions are now PHP 7.4, WordPress 5.8, and Easy Digital Downloads 3.2.12.
  • Checkout: Commissions are now generated (and relevant emails sent) shortly after an order is placed, to speed up the user checkout experience (deferred actions).
  • Emails: Updated to integrate with EDD email handling.
  • Emails: A new email has been registered to allow stores to send one email per order to all users receiving commissions, rather than one email per commission. Requires EDD 3.3.0.
  • Emails: Email tags have been added to show users their total lifetime commissions and current pending/unpaid commissions.
  • Multi Currency: Commissions now support multiple currencies when recording and in reports.
  • Admin: Commissions are now displayed on the order details screen.
  • Admin: The commissions screens have been updated.
  • Admin: When manually creating a commission, store owners can choose to not send commission email notifications.
  • Admin: When creating a manual order, store owners can choose to not record commissions.
  • Admin: The EDD flyout menu links directly to the Commissions docs from Commissions screens.
  • Admin: The commissions list table has been updated for consistency with other EDD tables.
  • Exports: Generating a payouts file could trigger an error in the AJAX response.
  • Exports: Improved performance, management, and protection of export files generated by Commissions.
  • Exports: Generating a payouts export has been updated to be more efficient.
  • Orders: Notes are no longer recorded when a new commission is recorded (and instead all commissions are available in the Order Details).
  • Reports: The Export Commissions report was missing in EDD 3.x.
  • Shortcodes: The commissions graph shortcode has been updated to not conflict with default WordPress queries.
  • Dev: The custom database table registrations have been updated.
  • Dev: The commissions custom post type is no longer registered.
  • Dev: The “Instant Pay Commissions” setting has been removed and is no longer available for new PayPal Adaptive Payments users.
  • Dev: The eddc_add_commission function has been registered to allow users to add a single commission.
Version 2.3.14 — June 27, 2024
  • Emails: Disabling the core EDD purchase confirmation could cause a fatal error after the order was completed, preventing the after order actions from running.
  • Download verification: if user verification is required, errors were not properly displayed on the Free Downloads form.
  • Settings: The extension settings have been updated for email management.
  • Dev: Asset handling has been improved by loading scripts and styles only when needed.
Version 3.0.2 — June 24, 2024
  • New: Updated to integrate with EDD email management.
  • Preapprovals: Completing a preapproved order has been updated for better EDD 3.x compatibility.
  • Dev: License handling and text domain registration have been updated.
  • Dev: The minimum Easy Digital Downloads version required is 3.2.0.
Version 2.12.4 — June 20, 2024
  • New: Updated to integrate with EDD email management.
  • Sessions: Improved integration with EDD user sessions for requiring user registration during checkout.
  • Admin: CSS which replicates EDD core CSS has been removed.
  • Subscriptions: Subscriptions which are expired, cancelled, or failing can no longer be set to failing from a webhook event.
Version 3.8.12 — June 19, 2024
  • New: Updated to integrate with EDD email management.
  • WordPress Plugins: The custom readme.txt file parser has been updated for improved PHP compatibility.
  • Database: Queries are ordered to match the database columns to be more efficient.
  • Discounts: Checkout and discount validation when discounts are disabled for renewals has been improved.
  • Blocks: The markup and style have been updated for license keys on the EDD Receipt block.
  • Samples: The update_plugins transient data now includes only what’s needed for updates, for improved compatibility with the WordPress Core update system.
  • Dev: PHP and JavaScript has been updated for newer version compatibility.
  • Dev: The can_extend and can_renew methods should now be used with the license class object directly.
Version 1.2.0 — June 19, 2024
  • New: Custom blocks have been registered for showing a user their wallet balance and transaction history!
  • New: A custom block has been registered for the Wallet deposit form.
  • Emails: Improved email integration with Easy Digital Downloads.
  • Emails: A new {wallet_balance} email tag has been registered.
  • Checkout: Incentive handling has been updated for better compatibility with other extensions.
  • Checkout: If applying or removing a discount changes whether the customer can use their wallet to complete a purchase, the checkout screen will reload.
  • Admin: Editing a customer’s wallet has been improved.
  • Admin: Admins will now see a warning before deleting a user with a wallet balance.
  • Dev: Improved JavaScript and PHP 8 compatibility.
  • Dev: The new minimum requirements are PHP 7.1, WordPress 5.4, and Easy Digital Downloads 3.1.5.
Version 1.1.2 — June 19, 2024
  • Fixes an issue with Frontend Submissions and sending custom files to a customer.
Version 2.2.1 — June 17, 2024
  • Fix: Checkout field help text now properly supports special characters and limited HTML markup.
  • Dev: Updated for PHP 8 compatibility.
  • Dev: The new minimum requirements are PHP 7.1, WordPress 5.4, and EDD 3.1.5.
Version 2.3.13 — June 15, 2024
  • Fixed: The free download verification email tag did not always return the correct link.
Version 2.2.4.1 — June 14, 2024
  • Updates the block assets and dependencies.
Version 2.2.4 — June 13, 2024
  • New: Updated to integrate with EDD email management.
  • Admin: Settings have been updated for EDD 3.x compatibility.
  • Shortcodes: When Frontend Submissions and Software Licensing are both active, the columns in the legacy purchase history shortcode could be out of order.
  • Privacy: A variable could be undefined when processing a user privacy request.
  • Emails: Users who are renewing a licensed product will no longer receive review notifications.
  • Dev: Updated for PHP 8 compatibility.
  • Dev: The minimum requirements for Reviews are now PHP 7.1, WordPress 5.4, and Easy Digital Downloads 3.1.5.
Version 1.5.6 — June 11, 2024
  • Admin: The settings screen has been updated to group settings better and show the status of each gateway.
  • Checkout: Calculating fees is more efficient and reliable with multiple gateways.
  • Checkout: The JavaScript has been updated for better compatibility with taxes and multiple cart layouts.
  • Dev: Updated for PHP compatibility.
  • Dev: The updated minimum requirements are PHP 7.2, WordPress 5.4, and Easy Digital Downloads 3.1.5.

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