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Easy Digital Downloads Changelog

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 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 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 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 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.