Git Download Updater – Easy Digital Downloads

Version 1.3.3 — March 24, 2026

Admin: updated compatibility with EDD enhanced select fields.
Bitbucket: Git Updater now supports Bitbucket API tokens; app passwords are deprecated.

Version 1.3.2 — August 20, 2025

Admin: Improved download editor compatibility with EDD.
Admin: Updated metadata handling so that git changes are not finalized on a download until it’s saved.
Integrations: Improved readme.txt handling when advanced parsing is enabled in Software Licensing, so that the readme file can be retrieved from custom release assets.
Providers: Improved tag fetching from GitHub to ensure that all tags are retrieved.
Settings: Updated the field type for the GitHub client secret.
Dev: New minimum version requirements are PHP 7.4, WordPress 6.0, and Easy Digital Downloads 3.3.6.

Version 1.3.1 — January 30, 2024

Bitbucket: Authentication has been updated to use app passwords. Existing installations should update their authentication to this more secure option.
Bitbucket: Pagination has been added for repositories with many tags.
Dev: The extension has been updated for PHP 8.1 compatibility.
Dev: The new minimum required versions are PHP 7.1, WordPress 5.4, and EDD 3.1.4.

Version 1.3 — January 31, 2022

New: GitHub repositories now support releases in addition to tags.
New: An action hook, edd_git_zip_extracted, has been added to allow developers to manipulate the downloaded archive before final packaging.
New: More detailed error messages if something goes wrong during a fetch.
Changed: The transient to store the list of repositories is now stored indefinitely, but can be manually refreshed.
Changed: The warning modal has been updated for improved accessibility.
Changed: The new/edit download interface has been further updated to be consistent with the WordPress admin.
Dev: The minimum PHP version is now 5.6.
Dev: Improved compatibility with PHP 8.
Dev: The class to process a downloaded file now uses its own properties.

Version 1.2.2 — January 27, 2021

Version 1.2.1 — November 10, 2020

Fix: Bitbucket only returning a maximum of 10 repositories.
Improvement: Change button text to Fetch Now when manually editing file/folder names.

Version 1.2 — October 13, 2020

New: Integrate with Software Licensing’s readme.txt parsing.
New: Use Chosen library instead of Select2.
New: Added a translation/.pot file.
Improvement: Improve error handling for BitBucket.
Improvement: Use wp_remote_get and wp_remote_post instead of cURL directly.
Improvement: Update PHPDocs.
Improvement: Repository list is now loaded via ajax, which means it will no longer delay the entire page loading.
Improvement: Update metabox markup to improve mobile responsiveness.
Fix: GitHub: Switch to using authorization HTTP header instead of query string.
Fix: Undefined index notice when using quick edit.
Fix: PHP deprecation notice when connecting to GitHub.
Fix: PHP notices when WP_DEBUG is enabled.
Fix: Hide “Fetch download from a git repo” checkbox when a bundle is selected.
Fix: Auto update file name when a new version is selected.
Tweak: Update GitHub settings description.
Tweak: Remove empty elements from settings page.

Version 1.1.1 — October 2, 2019

Fix: BitBucket – Corrected an issue that caused delegated repositories to not show up.
Fix: Improved the repository fetching by converting to a 1 hour transient, to allow for faster repository refreshing.
Fix: When disconnecting or connecting GitHub authorization, the list of repositories was not always refreshed.

Version 1.1 — June 17, 2019

New: Support for BitBucket API v2.0.
Fix: Improved reliability and sanitization in AJAX methods.
Fix: Added extension version number to Javascript and CSS assets to avoid caching issues.
Fix: Improved reliability of the updater.
Dev: Added the edd_git_zip_saved action.

Version 1.0.5 — July 7, 2016

Version 1.0.4 — May 10, 2016

Version 1.0.3 — May 10, 2016

Version 1.0.2 — March 25, 2016

Version 1.0.1 — September 18, 2015

Version 1.0 — September 2, 2015

Git Download Updater Changelog