More flexible Woo blocks. Safer PHP.
Hey, there!
It's been a busy month for those of us building on PHP, which is something like two-thirds of the internet. We hope your hosting was well-managed, your updates smooth and your downtime minimal. We have a new WooCommerce release to catch up on, another in beta, and useful work underway in themes, accessibility, and WordPress core. Here are the updates we think Woo developers should see this month.
WooCommerce 11.3 is coming
WooCommerce 11.3 is shaping up to be a massive release, with 1,300+ PRs and over 100 contributors. 11.3 adds more styling controls to storefront blocks, new discount displays for the On-Sale Badge, smoother mobile Product Gallery swipes, and payment-method filtering in Analytics Orders. There's also more developer updates than we have room to print.
Read our full breakdown of what's coming for users and developers, and what you might want to test ahead of time. The release is scheduled for the week of November 9.
Developer news
WooCommerce 11.2, released on October 7, includes GTIN matching in product CSV imports and date fields in the Additional Checkout API, both worth testing in import and checkout extensions.
WooCommerce 11.6 will require PHP 8.1 or newer, currently planned for February 2027, giving extension authors time to check dependencies and supported PHP versions. With the recent critical security updates to PHP, there's even more reason to keep your store on the recommended version.
WooCommerce 11.3 MCP Adaptor updates explain how to move clients from the deprecated WooCommerce MCP endpoint and REST API keys to the WordPress MCP Adapter and application passwords before upgrading.
Extensible abilities for extension fields will allow WooCommerce extensions to add their product and order data to Woo's MCP abilities. The feature is experimental and off by default in 11.3; extension developers can test and share feedback.
Purple development has moved to the WooCommerce monorepo, so contributors should file new theme issues and PRs in woocommerce/woocommerce.
Equalize Digital's WooCommerce extensions accessibility case study shares findings from audits of 43 extensions and links to 41 Accessibility Conformance Reports that can inform your own extension testing.
Across WordPress
WordPress 7.2 Beta 2 is ready for testing on a non-production site, including the new Secrets API for extension credentials and browser-side image processing in the Media Library.
WordPress Contributor Toolkit 2.0 brings a redesigned interface and ten languages to the Core and Gutenberg contribution workflows, making it a useful way to test and submit changes.
The PHP project's critical security release is a prompt to check the PHP version on stores you maintain and arrange a host update where needed.
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