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Version 3.1.3 — June 28, 2023

Improvement: Licensing messages for third party extensions no longer link to the main EDD site.
Improvement: The default number of tax rates to query has been increased.
Fix: Using a custom straight_to_gateway link did not add a product to the cart.
Fix: Products which are marked as having variable prices, but which don’t have any prices, could cause a PHP notice or error.
Fix: Duplicate purchase receipt emails could be sent when editing an order.
Fix: The product sales export was not respecting the end date when set.
Fix: The product sales export was showing incorrect amounts for orders with multiple items, or partially refunded orders.
Fix: For stores which collect sales tax, tax exempt fees sometimes had tax applied.
Fix: edd_store_discount now accepts times for start/expiration dates.
Fix: Users who are not also customers were unable to update their profile using the EDD profile editor.
Fix: The pass ID for pro licenses could be incorrect in some cases.
Fix: If EDD settings were removed, the telemetry data could cause a PHP notice.
Fix: Prevent a JavaScript error that could occur if the cart widget was present on the checkout page when taxes are enabled.
Dev: Third party developers who use EDD’s licensing screen can now customize licensing messages.

Version 3.1.2 — June 7, 2023

New: The EDD “System Info” has been retired and instead our data is registered with WordPress Core’s Site Health.
Improvement: We’ve drastically reduced the possibility of a collision when using Sequential Order Numbers.
Improvement: We’ve changed the ‘Default’ item in the Product Type dropdown to ‘Single Product’ to avoid confusion.
Improvement: Gateways can now inform EDD if they are properly set up, and prevent enabling them if they are not configured.
Improvement: The PayPal Commerce onboarding process has been revamped for speed and reliability.
Improvement: The EDD 3.x migration process has been updated to defer all customer and product calculations until the migration is complete, with improved messaging.
Improvement – Stripe: We’ve added a filter to allow users to remove the ‘Terms’ text that shows below card fields.
Improvement – Stripe: When a user disconnects from Stripe Connect, Stripe is unchecked as an ‘active’ gateway.
Improvement – Blocks: When no downloads are created, download related blocks were not correctly showing the button to add a new download.
Improvement – Blocks: EDD’s blocks were not respecting custom Download labels.
Fix: Pass license keys did not always hold their activation status on multisite installs.
Fix: In some edge cases, it was possible to produce a fatal error in PHP 8.0 when adding items to the cart.
Fix: Improved capability checks and nonce detection on some actions.
Fix: Item fees could fail validation in some cases, resulting in missed fees.
Fix: The Payments Query class was incorrectly passing the id__not_in as id__in.
Fix: The AJAX cart content response was not using the new method of getting cart item names.
Fix: A more user friendly error message is shown to non-privileged users if no gateways are enabled.
Fix: The Login URL in user registration emails was not correct when the purchase was made with Stripe.
Fix: The calculated fees could differ from the fees that are displayed in the cart contents.
Fix: When importing downloads, in some cases, the images were not identified as local files.
Fix: The Download Tag taxonomy admin area was not being identified as an EDD Admin area.
Fix: There was a possibility of an undefined variable when requesting a password reset.
Fix – Stripe: The Recurring Payments update form could load incorrectly if split fields was enabled prior to swtiching to Payment Elements.
Fix – Stripe: Multiple improvements to the Stripe form load states when cart recalculations are being run.
Fix – Stripe: In some cases, the purchase form was not re-enabled after fixing HTML5 validation errors.
Fix – Stripe: Customers updating the payment method for a failing subscription could see an error message when the failed invoice was voided, even though the subscription was updated successfully.
Fix – Blocks: The reCAPTCHA key field is now a Password field type.
Fix – Blocks: The User Downloads blocks could show duplicate items.
Fix – Blocks: Extensions which added data to the cart could display without styling.
Dev: The functions to get the lowest & highest price options have been abstracted, improved, and now have unit tests.
Dev: Upgrade routines prior to 3.0 have been deprecated.
Dev: A new CLI command, recalculate_customer_values has been registered to recalculate sales and earnings for all customers.
Dev – Stripe: It is now possible to force ‘Card Fields’ to be available on new installs, by switching on EDD’s Debug Mode.

Version 3.1.1.4.2 — May 1, 2023

Security: Improved validation for edd hooks.

Version 3.1.1.4.1 — April 21, 2023

Fix – Blocks: Harden blocks loader to verify files exist before requiring them.

Version 3.1.1.4 — April 20, 2023

New – Multi Currency: Added a new Currency Switcher Block. (Pro-Only)
Improvement: Removed a possible unsupported PHP configuration from the email summaries.
Improvement: The edd_get_users_purchases function has been updated to account for customer email address changes.
Improvement: Reports have been updated to more accurately account for timezones and date ranges.
Improvement: The onboarding wizard loading was not allowing a close and exit after the first step.
Improvement: License key handling for 3rd party extensions has been accounted for.
Improvement: When using sequential order numbers, searching has been updated to account for order number.
Improvement – Stripe: The Payment Element has been improved to handle failed 3DS challenges.
Improvement – Stripe: Failed payment attempts are now more reliably accounted for.
Improvement – Stripe: The Payment Element billing fields can now be filtered.
Improvement – Stripe: The Payment Element now supports mandates, improving multi-regional payments.
Improvement – Stripe: The ‘Card Name’ field is re-introduced for regions that require it.
Improvement – Blocks: Better support for custom fields with the Checkout Block.
Improvement – Blocks: Developers can now register custom columns for the User Downloads block.
Improvement – Blocks: The Buy Now button can now have its behavior defined as Add to Cart or Buy Now.
Fix: The Duplicate feature for Downloads could conflict with the WooCommerce duplicate feature. (Pro-Only)
Fix: Discounts with high value amounts were not saving correctly.
Fix: Bulk Editing prices was not working with WordPress 6.1+.
Fix: Exporting product sales was not always respecting the date range filters.
Fix: Exports with date queries were not always accounting for timezones accurately.
Fix – Blocks: Cart section headings were not always displayed when reloading the section via AJAX.
Dev: New custom hooks in database row transitions have been added.

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.

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