WooCommerce 5.6

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The latest WooCommerce update was released on August 17 as a backwards compatible update with fixes and only small new features.

New Features

  • New options to enable a lookup table to improve filtering by product attributes.
  • A new “Refunds and Returns Policy” sample page.
  • WooCommerce Blocks updates with enhancements and bug fixes.
  • WooCommerce Admin update.
  • Improved support to Twenty Twenty-One theme.
  • Support for “Shipping Phone”, in addition to Billing Phone in email templates and in the Order’s edit screen.
  • Fix for a problem preventing blocks from rendering when included within the shop page.

New Hooks for Developers

HookDescription
woocommerce_email_sentAction hook fired when an email is sent from WooCommerce.
woocommerce_logout_default_redirect_url Filter the redirect URL page, used to only get applied to wc_logout_url(), but now is also applied in other places that uses WooCommerce’s logout endpoint.

Some template files were updated and a small database update is necessary for some features.

Remember to create a backup before installing updates.