Amazon S3 – Easy Digital Downloads

Version 2.4.2 — September 28, 2026

Admin: Updated the documentation links on the Amazon S3 settings screen.
Admin: Improved the display of bucket and object names on the Amazon S3 Library tab.
Admin: Fixed the S3 file browser so that Insert/Use File fills in the file name and URL and closes the modal.
Admin: Fixed a PHP warning when S3 does not return a bucket owner, and fall back to N/A instead.
Compatibility – Frontend Submissions: Fixed the Amazon S3 field on vendor submission forms.
Downloads: Improved validation of S3 file requests and uploads.
Downloads: Improved the handling of files offloaded to Amazon S3 from other extensions.
Dev: The new minimum requirements are PHP 7.4, WordPress 6.2, and Easy Digital Downloads 3.3.0.
Dev: Updated composer dependencies.

Release 2.4.1 — January 16, 2024

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 2.3.13 — May 20, 2021

Fix: The last update prevented endpoints with this format from working correctly: s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com. That should now be accepted as a valid option.
Fix: Undefined index error when using the S3 modal in contexts other than the downloads UI.

Version 2.3.12 — May 18, 2021

Improvement: Settings descriptions have been reworded to provide better clarity.
Improvement: The Secret Key setting now uses the password input type.
Improvement: The “Host” setting has been renamed to “Amazon S3 Endpoint” to better convey what the field is for.
Fix: Fatal error in Media Uploader if API keys aren’t set.
Dev: The S3 SDK has been updated to version 3.167.0.

Version 2.3.11 — October 15, 2020

Improvement: Updated S3 SDK.
Tweak: Set API version to latest.
Fix: Files unable to be downloaded securely with Chrome due to using http instead of https.
Fix: Utilize Amazon S3 host field.
Fix: License handler loading with the wrong plugin file.
Fix: Plus sign in file URL not being interpreted as a space.

Version 2.3.10 — October 16, 2019

Fix: Error during file upload in Frontend Submission extension if Amazon S3 API keys are not configured
Fix: Warning: Illegal string offset notice
Fix: Fatal error: Uncaught InvalidArgumentException when using Checkout Fields Manager extension and file field is empty

Version 2.3.9 — March 6, 2018

Fix: New Amazon S3 file uploads not properly set as product file once selected.
Fix: Resolved conflict with Backup Buddy plugin which was preventing backups going to AmazonS3

Version 2.3.8 — October 7, 2017

Version 2.3.7 — October 6, 2017

Version 2.3.6 — October 4, 2017

Version 2.3.4 — October 2, 2017

Version 2.3.5 — October 2, 2017

Version 2.3.3 — September 29, 2017

Version 2.3.2 — September 27, 2017

Version 2.3.1 — September 27, 2017

Version 2.3 — September 26, 2017

New: Updated to official AWS SDK
New: Add support for AWS Signature v4
New: Add support for EU (Frankfurt) bucket region
New: Styling improvements
New: Introduced option for the folder naming structure when using Frontend Submissions
New: Introduced Amazon S3 Upload field for Frontend Submissions allowing vendors to upload directly to Amazon S3
New: Enhanced file metadata is displayed
Tweak: Display more files per page
Fix: Wrap long filenames in table
Fix: `View More` button no longer reloads the entire iframe when pressed
Fix: Undefined variable and index errors when viewing files in an S3 bucket have been resolved

Version 2.2.5 — November 1, 2016

Version 2.2.3 — September 21, 2016

Version 2.2.1 — January 22, 2016

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