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Software Licensing Changelog

Version 3.9.5 — January 26, 2026
  • Admin: Improves the search functionality in the license list table.
  • Admin: Corrected the subject output in the license renewal notice selector.
  • API: Fixes an issue which could prevent some orders from showing licenses in the sales endpoint.
  • Emails: Deprecates the legacy renewal notices under tools; all renewal notice logs show under Emails > Logs.
  • Logs: Adds license logs to EDD’s new log pruning system.
  • Logs: Adds all license logs to Downloads > Tools > Event Logging (previously only available for individual licenses).
  • Dev: Improves querying for a license by payment/order ID.
Version 3.9.4 — January 3, 2026
  • Activation: Improved domain pattern handling.
  • API: The Upgrade Notice is now included in the API response.
  • Bundles: Child licenses could get a different expiration than the parent license.
  • Database: Upgrade routines could hit a race condition if multiple tabs were open after upgrading.

Version 3.9.3 — December 4, 2025
  • Admin: Resolved jQuery deprecation notices with admin scripts.
  • API: Removed .dev from local domain patterns to prevent production sites being considered local.
  • Bundles: Fixes an issue that prevented child licenses being generated for unlicensed bundle products.
  • Downloads: Enhanced the integration with cart preview.
  • Downloads: Improved the stability of the changelog editor.
  • Emails: License email reminders now correctly save meta to license logs.
  • Exports: The license export has been moved to Reports > Exports.
  • Exports: The license export now shows formatted expiration dates.
  • Samples: Updated sample plugin/theme for current standards.
  • Settings: Improved error handling for domain patterns when Cloudflare is down.
  • Upgrades: License upgrade now displays the correct expiration date.
  • Dev: Updated unit test messaging for clarity.
Version 3.9.2 — October 30, 2025
  • Admin: Fixes a missing variable when viewing licenses for an individual bundle.
  • API: Fixes an issue when activating a license with a correct item_id, but incorrect item_name.
  • API: Fixes an issue with the default sections in the get_version response.
  • Licenses: Updates license creation to be more performant and accurate.
  • Licenses: Fixes an issue where generating missing licenses for a bundle could fail.
  • Readme Parsing: Updates the readme parsing to get the correct description, changelog, etc.
Version 3.9.1 — October 9, 2025
  • Activations: License activation response includes error messages for invalid requests.
  • Admin: Added toggle to hide “inactive” activations on the admin side.
  • Admin: Created activations list table for better license management.
  • Checkout: Improved renewal form compatibility with EDD’s checkout block.
  • License: Deleting a license now also deletes associated license logs.
  • Reports: Improved product query for reports.
  • Reports: License activation reports now show expected information accurately.
  • Dev: Updated license activations queries for improved PHP version compatibility.
  • Dev: Resolved fatal error by not calling a method statically.
  • Dev: Updated local unit tests to remove broken dependency.
Version 3.9.0 — September 17, 2025
  • New: Important – Requires EDD 3.3.6+, WordPress 6.2+, PHP 7.4+.
  • New: Emails – Introduced a low stock email for preset keys.
  • New: Samples – Updated samples to use composer for licensing SDK.
  • New: Reports – Gain insights on activations and version distribution.
  • Activation: Improved local domain pattern support.
  • Admin: Move licenses submenu.
  • Admin: Move license keys on order details screen.
  • Admin: Update license details header.
  • Admin: Update settings screen.
  • Admin: Update show_download_files filter.
  • Admin: Remove redundant status from list table.
  • Admin: Remove future requirements notice.
  • Checkout: Improved checkout compatibility with EDD 3.3.x+.
  • Customers: Improved performance for customer details.
  • Downloads: Hide version value on Downloads page if product does not need it.
  • Downloads: Improve the Download Editing experience for licensed products.
  • Downloads: Allow disabling or drafting a Download once preset license keys are exhausted.
  • Licensing: Activation identifiers are no longer formatted as URLs.
  • Licensing: Improved performance and reliability of missing licenses tool.
  • Licensing: Increase site_name table column to 255 characters.
  • Licensing: Log dates corrected on license details screen.
  • Logs: Improved performance for activation/deactivation logs.
  • Logs: Plugin updates delivered via the Software Licensing API are now recorded in the file download logs.
  • Orders: Offer a checkbox to disable a license when issuing a partial refund.
  • Renewals: Improved reliability of ‘renewal’ email logging.
  • Renewals: Prevent adding wrong item to cart when renewing a license with invalid price ID.
  • Reports: Renewal and upgrade reports correctly handle multi-currency.
  • Reports: Reports and charts have been updated for improved EDD compatibility.
  • Tools: When running the reset store tool in EDD, remove all Licensing data.
  • Upgrades: Show new (or unchanged) expiration date when upgrading a license.
  • Dev: Deprecate old email functions.
  • Dev: Reduce usage of EDD_Payment as much as possible.
  • Dev: Added hooks to the remove_site and add_site methods for a license.
  • Dev: Improved API response filters.
Version 3.8.14 — August 8, 2024
  • Compatibility: Fixed an issue causing a fatal error with EDD 2.x
  • Licenses: Improved detection of if a license could be extended.
  • Licenses: The retroactive license processor could create licenses for renewal orders.
Version 3.8.13 — July 25, 2024
  • API: Prevents a PHP notice when checking a license without a URL.
  • Changelogs: Fixes an issue which could break URLs in changelogs.
  • Checkout: Fixes a JavaScript error on checkout for stores which do not allow license renewals.
  • Database: Fixes an issue which could prevent querying for licenses by a specific cart index.
  • Emails: Fixes an issue which prevented scheduled renewal notices from sending.
  • Emails: Ensure that sent renewal notices are still logged to the license data.
  • Licenses: Improves license creation performance.
  • Samples: Fixes PHP warnings for plugins which do not set version requirements. The updater class is now at version 1.9.4.
  • Renewals: Fixes an issue which allowed renewal text and links to show for licenses which could not be renewed.
  • Widget: The changelog widget could cause PHP notices in PHP 8.0.
Version 3.8.12 — June 19, 2024
  • New: Updated to integrate with EDD email management.
  • WordPress Plugins: The custom readme.txt file parser has been updated for improved PHP compatibility.
  • Database: Queries are ordered to match the database columns to be more efficient.
  • Discounts: Checkout and discount validation when discounts are disabled for renewals has been improved.
  • Blocks: The markup and style have been updated for license keys on the EDD Receipt block.
  • Samples: The update_plugins transient data now includes only what’s needed for updates, for improved compatibility with the WordPress Core update system.
  • Dev: PHP and JavaScript has been updated for newer version compatibility.
  • Dev: The can_extend and can_renew methods should now be used with the license class object directly.
Version 3.8.11 — November 30, 2023
  • Licensing: Added staging activation support for InstaWP, Cloudways, Kinsta, GoDaddy, Flywheel, Bluehost, HostGator + more.
  • Licensing: Refunding a renewal may not reset the license expiration date.
  • Renewals/Upgrades: Improved cart item description when manually renewing or upgrading a license.
  • Tools: Better messaging for users without access to the Retroactive Licensing Processor.
  • Administration: Some update routines were checking the wrong user capability and falsely preventing running update routines.
Version 3.8.10 — November 2, 2023
  • New: Updates to ensure PHP 8.1 and 8.2 compatibility.
  • Fix: Partially refunded orders could restrict a license from being manually renewed.
  • Fix: There was a potential fatal error on older PHP versions.
  • Fix: The {unsubscribe_url} tag for license expiration emails was generating the wrong HTML in previews.
  • Improvement: Renamed the ‘Disable URL Checking’ setting for clarity.
  • Improvement: Updates compatibility messaging for upcoming Software Licensing requirements.
  • Dev: The edd_license custom post type is no longer being registered.
  • Dev: Fixed a typo in the doc block for the check_license call in the sample plugin.
Version 3.8.9 — September 20, 2023
  • Improved: Revoking of licenses now supports the ‘On Hold’ status added in EDD 3.2.0 and no longer disables a license if an order is partially refunded.
  • Improved: Improved license renewal cost calculations for licenses sold on a single-priced download, which is later changed to a variable-priced product.
Version 3.8.8 — June 28, 2023
  • New: Added support for IDN domains with license API.
  • New: License upgrade URLs now support sending in the license_key in addition to the license_id.
  • Improvement: We’ve improved the performance when getting licenses of a user by ID.
  • Improvement: Unneeded legacy license meta for stores that migrated from custom post types to custom tables. This is being handled in a background process. You will be notified when the process starts and completes via the EDD notifications (or admin notices if you are EDD versions lower than 3.1.1)
  • Improvement: Added optimized indexes to the licenses table and optimized queries for licenses.
  • Fix: Some licenses could not be upgraded if the most recent order was refunded.
  • Fix: The checkout block did not properly display license renewal line items.
  • Fix: Removed uses of the get_page_by_title function as it was deprecated in WP 6.2.
  • Fix: Renewal Notice editors did not have a proper section title in the Settings area.
  • Fix: Getting a license’s activation limit was inconsistent.
  • Fix: EDD 3.x – License renewal report was inaccurate when combined with Recurring Payments.
  • Fix: When a license is revoked, the user is unsubscribed from renewal emails.
  • Fix: Lifetime licenses could sometimes get set to expired.
  • Fix: Software licensing reports did not account for renewal orders in the tiles.
  • Fix: The quick actions for Software Licensing emails did not return the user to the proper settings page.
Version 3.8.7 — October 20, 2022
  • Improvement: Output has been updated for better compatibility with the order history and receipt blocks.
  • Fix: Licenses in bundles did not always display correctly.
  • Fix: Licenses could not always be upgraded more than one time.
  • Fix: The price option on the receipt was missing a space.
  • Dev: The main get_license method has been updated to return false if a license object could not be retrieved.
Version 3.8.6 — June 17, 2022
  • Fix: Improved performance related to license retrieval and activation counts.
  • Dev: Remote Version and License Check methods can now return an array instead of only outputting JSON.
  • Dev: The arguments used to create a license can now be filtered.
  • EDD 3.0: License upgrades were not supporting the partially refunded status.
  • Samples
    • Sample Plugin
      • ‘Tested Up To’ value for WordPress Plugins now mirrors WordPress Core behavior.
      • EDD_SL_Plugin_Updater class is now 1.9.2.
Version 3.8.5 — March 17, 2022
  • Change: Renewal notices settings are now under the main email settings tab.
  • Update: The bundled German translation files have been updated.
  • Improvement: Placeholder URL schemes are now https.
  • Improvement: The renewal discount can now be filtered more precisely.
  • Fix: Changing the price option of the main bundle product is now properly reflected on child licenses.
Version 3.8.4 — February 15, 2022
  • Fix: The license keys shortcode was not showing “Unlimited” for unlimited licenses.
  • Fix: In certain scenarios, users who opted into upgrading to betas could not upgrade to a newer stable version of a download.
  • Fix: Variable prices could not set the activation limit to be empty.
  • Fix: The Software Licensing upgrade notice was showing on new EDD 3.0 installations.
Version 3.8.3 — December 2, 2021
  • Fix: Fatal error when changing price ID on existing bundle license.
  • Fix: Deprecation notice in PHP 8.1.
  • Fix: Updating a lifetime license incorrectly sets the expiration date to today.
  • Dev: The EDD_SL_License constructor can now accept an array or object representing the database row.
  • Dev: Performance improvements when retrieving license keys.
  • Dev: Use EDD core’s extension registry class if available.
Version 3.8.2 — November 3, 2021
  • Modified Templates: templates/license-keys.php, templates/licenses-manage-overview.php
  • New: Added action hooks when license is updated, inserted, and deleted.
  • Improvement: Sample Plugin – Refactor health checks so that a failed API request is remembered for 1 hour.
  • Improvement: Sample Plugin – Show update notifications on multisite if the user can view plugins but cannot install them.
  • Fix: An upgrade path was saved to download meta when not configured.
  • Fix: Newly created renewal notice emails save an incorrect message.
  • Fix: Purchasing an item as a single product and as part of a bundle results in a missing license key.
  • Refactor: License templates have been reworked for speed improvements and to reduce the number database queries.
  • Dev: Ensure edd_sl_get_license_upgrades() always returns an array instead of false.
Version 3.8.1 — September 15, 2021
  • New: Added three filters on Staged Rollout logic: edd_sl_staged_rollout_identifier, edd_sl_staged_rollout_eligible_for_batch_update, and edd_sl_staged_rollout_number.
  • Improvement: The Use the last time this Download was modified as the “Last Modified” date? meta option has been removed, as this behaviour was happening regardless of whether the option was checked.
  • Improvement: Shortcodes are now stripped from the API plugin description. This prevents un-rendered shortcodes from displaying to end users when they click “View Details” on the plugin page.
  • Fix: SHOW TABLES LIKE query running on every page load.
  • Fix: Edge case No such file or directory warning from the readme parser.
  • Fix: Unexpected results in a plugin’s “last updated” date, especially when using non-English languages.
  • EDD 3.0: Ensure Software Licensing email tags have a label.
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