WooCommerce 4.0.1 was released on March 20 and contains fixes for WooCommerce itself as well as an update for WooCommerce Admin and Action Scheduler. This updated solves some issues that users reported after upgrading to WooCommerce 4.0.
Enhancements
- Update Action Scheduler to 3.1.4.
- Bump Woocommerce Admin dependency to version 1.0.2.
- Update dependency woocommerce/woocommerce-admin to v1.0.3
Fixes
- Add usage_count meta before using it in a query.
- Corrected argument type validation in plugin installer API.
- Use standard admin_url function instead of absolute path.
- Reverted the performance optimization made to variation saving.
- Send dummy params to evaluate_cost method to detect validation errors.
- Made the package shipping check more permissive.
- Fix admin notes table does not exist errors when upgrading to 4.0.x.
WooCommerce Admin
- Onboarding: business step: add Google Ads extension install.
- Create database tables on an earlier hook to avoid conflicts with core WooCommerce.
- Add Report Extension Example: Add default props to ReportFilters.
- Product report sorting by SKU when some products don’t have SKUs.
- Type warning on install timestamp in PHP 7.4.
- PHP error when WooCommerce core is Network Active on Multisites.
- Missing database table errors on WooCommerce upgrade now fixed.
- Fixed undefined const WC_ADMIN_VERSION_NUMBER when WP < 5.3
- Made the admin note loading more resilient to prevent failures when loading notes with invalid content_data.
- Removed replace_actionscheduler_store_class function.
- Rename Google Shopping image asset.
- Fix calling protected has_satisfied_dependencies on outdated plugin.
- Add Changelog script.
- Fix failing tests after WC core merge.
- Bump WooCommerce tested up to tag.
- Update prestart script so readme.txt stable tag is updated.
Action Scheduler
- Fix context on ignored action log message.
- Re-create tables if needed on Scheduled Actions screen load.
- Add null action check on Scheduled Actions screen list rows.
- Restore scheduled action row and bulk action processing on WooCommerce Status screen.
- Ensure valid table name in save action.
Remember to create a backup before installing updates.
