WooCommerce 4.2.0 Changelog

WooCommerce 4.2.0 is now available! This is a fix release that contains some stability and performance improvements and other minor bug fixes. It also introduces new Hooks and Functions.

WooCommerce 4.2.0 Changelog

WooCommerce

• Enhancement – Added Ghanaian regions to the state dropdown. #26273
• Enhancement – Added Mozambique provinces to the state dropdown. #26162
• Enhancement – Added support for the new group descriptions available on WordPress privacy exporters as of WP 5.3. #25575
• Fix – Fixed false positives when checking if uploads directory is public. #26600
• Fix – Introduced a new admin body class for supporting styling issues in WP 5.3+. #26251
• Fix – Removed case conversion of meta keys from CSV imports. #25517
• Fix – Allow schedule coupons via CRUD. #26387
• Fix – Password visibility toggle when password strength check fails. #26132
• Fix – Cross-sell placement when product has no description. #26334
• Fix – Display of the rate limit warning during payment method creation. #26411
• Fix – Made the shipping zone matching query’s zone_id field more specific. #26308
• Fix – Corrected the display of RTL languages on the WooCommerce.com addons page. #26080
• Fix – Removed the postcode field for Ghana. #26272
• Fix – Made the hiding of state fields more explicit for Germany, Denmark, and Sweden. #25598
• Fix – Ensured that global attribute prefixes are passed to the woocommerce_attribute_label filter. #26022
• Dev – Increased WordPress minimum version to 5.2 according to policy. #26550
• Dev – Added the customer as a third argument to the woocommerce_matched_rates filter. #26361
• Dev – Introduced woocommerce_menu_order_count filter. #26044
• Dev – Introduced should_send_ajax_request.adding_to_cartcart event to allow short-circuiting cart addition. #25760
• Dev – Made the jQuery selector for checkout form rows less specific. #25654
• Dev – Changed the {site_address} placeholder to {site_url} for clarity. #25630
• Dev – Deprecated .wp-policy-help and replaced with with the .privacy-policy-tutorial and .wp-suggested-text classes added in WP 5.1. #26072
• Dev – Updated automattic/jetpack-autoloader to 1.7.0. #26559
• Dev – Add a way to fetch basic object data. #26025

WooCommerce Admin 1.2.3

• Enhancement – Add onboarding payments note #4157
• Enhancement – Marketing Inbox Note #4030
• Performance – Use Route based code splitting to reduce bundle size #4094
• Performance – trim down inbox note API request. #3977
• Fix – Proper display of elements in wc-admin pages when in a RTL environment. #4051
• Fix – Update UX when knowledge base articles fail to retrieve #4133
• Fix – Updated messaging after last step in OBW. #4148
• Fix – Reset profiler when visiting old OBW URL #4166.
• Fix – Dashboard flash before OBW chunk loads #4259
• Tweak – Enable the default homepage template to be filtered #4072
• Tweak – Create admin note if Jetpack or WooCommerce Services plugin doesn’t get installed due to an error during OBW #3888
• Tweak – Update Email Marketing note. #4167
• Tweak – Adjust “demo products” verbiage to “Sample Products” #4184
• Tweak – Don’t reschedule imports on failed imports #4263
• Tweak – Remove obsolete inbox messages #4182
• Tweak – Updates to WooCommerce Payments in Setup Checklist #4293
• Dev – Make query selector for admin alerts more specific #4289
• Dev – Guard against null themes in OBW #4244
• Dev – Update wcadmin db version after db callback #4323
• Dev – Only migrate options on version change #4324
• Dev – Use PAGE_ROOT constant to reduce redundant strings #4238
• Dev – Decouple Plugins DataStore from onboarding feature #4048
• Dev – Move API out of Onboarding #4093
• Dev – Add Profiler Step View Tracks #4141
• Dev – Add React Testing Library #4221
• Dev – Add List and Link components to Storybook #4219
• Dev – Cast Shipping Total to float #4042
• Dev – Dynamic Currency with Context API #4027
• Dev – Remove Duplicate array entry #4049

REST API 1.0.8

• Enhancement – Add support for trash status for products in V2 and V3 API. #184
• Dev – Updated minimum PHP requirement to 7.0 to keep up with WooCommerce Core.
• Dev – Fixed failing unit tests. #105

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It is highly recommended to update WooCommerce to this version as soon as possible.

Download the latest release of WooCommerce here or visit Dashboard → Updates to update the plugin from your WordPress admin screen.

As always, we recommend creating a backup of your site and making sure that themes and plugins are compatible before updating. See this guide for more details.