Last updated on July 17, 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.