We are excited to announce that WooCommerce 4.7 is now publicly available! It has been in development since October 2020 and has been updated with 393 commits from 22 contributors.
This is a minor release, which means everything is backward compatible with the previous version.
Black Friday is coming up and we’re keeping this release small, focusing on stability and compatibility, with most of the updates being fixes.
As always, we recommend creating a backup of your site and making sure that themes and plugins are compatible before updating. You can check out this update guide for more information.
What’s new in 4.7?
The WooCommerce 4.7 release contains updated versions of WooCommerce Admin (1.6.3) and WooCommerce Blocks (3.5.0 & 3.6.0), fixes, and localization improvements.
Notable fixes and improvements
Updated product_cat/tag taxonomy template file names to product-cat, and product-tag. (#27736).
Excluded draft pages from the “Shop page” setting. (#27890).
Determine if the current product should trigger a low stock notification..
Database changes
This release does not introduce any changes to the database.
Template changes
Several files were added or updated in this release, including:
File
Description
content-product-cat.php
New file introduced by #27736 to replace content-product_cat.php
taxonomy-product-cat.php
New file introduced by #27736 to replace taxonomy-product_cat.php
taxonomy-product-tag.php
New file introduced by #27736 to replace taxonomy-product_tag.php
Note that content-product_cat.php, taxonomy-product_cat.php, and taxonomy-product_tag.php are still supported by WooCommerce.
Much to all the contributors
Finally a big thanks to everyone in the community who has contributed via issue reports, fixes, translation, testing, supporting other users or simply spreading the word.
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