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The Events Calendar Filter Bar changelog

Release notes for every version we have on record, newest first.

Latest 5.6.7 · 29 Oct 2026 40 versions Since Oct 2020

2026 5 versions

5.6.7 Latest 29 Oct 2026 1 new1 improved1 fixed
New
  • Language - 0 new strings added, 0 updated, 0 fuzzied, and 0 obsoleted.
Improved
  • Switched changelog tooling from jetpack-changelogger to @stellarwp/changelogger.
Fixed
  • Prevented a fatal error that broke calendar pages when the Event Category filter listed a subcategory without its parent, so that subcategory was shown at the top level of the filter instead.
5.6.6 22 Jul 2026 2 new6 fixed
New
  • Add a Filter Bar setting to batch filter selections behind an Apply button, improving keyboard accessibility.
  • Language - 4 new strings added, 16 updated, 0 fuzzied, and 0 obsoleted.
Fixed
  • Corrected encoding of additional field filter values containing spaces so the FilterBar no longer returns empty results when adding a second filter from a direct link.
  • Resolved additional field filter matching and display issues for values containing quotes, percent signs, or plus-encoded spaces.
  • Resolved an issue where additional field filters did not return events when an option value contained special characters such as commas or ampersands, and where the active filter state could display incorrectly.
  • Resolved an issue where the Cost filter range slider stopped filtering on sites with cent-priced events.
  • Resolved a PHP warning when the Cost filter was displayed as checkboxes.
  • Resolved fatal errors that could occur when the Cost or Date filters received malformed request parameters.
5.6.5 24 Jun 2026 1 new1 improved1 security
New
  • Language - 0 new strings added, 0 updated, 0 fuzzied, and 0 obsoleted.
Improved
  • Updated broken link to coding standards in CONTRIBUTING.md
Security
  • Replaced vendored Swiper v4.5.0 with v12.2.0 for security improvement.
5.6.4 15 Jun 2026 1 new2 fixed
New
  • Language - 0 new strings added, 0 updated, 0 fuzzied, and 0 obsoleted.
Fixed
  • Prevent additional fields filters from resetting when navigating between pages of events. [FBAR-363]
  • Resolved a fatal database error when using the Time of Day "All Day" filter on Month and Week views with Custom Tables active. [SMTNC-342]
5.6.3 11 Mar 2026 1 new2 improved3 changed
New
  • Language - 0 new strings added, 1 updated, 0 fuzzied, and 0 obsoleted.
Improved
  • Add appropriate ARIA roles to dropdown versus multiselect elements. [FBAR-360]
  • Changed views: v2_1/components/pill-button, v2_1/components/pill
Changed
  • Accessibility - Close the filter options and move the focus back to the toggle button using the eescape key. [FBAR-358]
  • Accessibility - Move the focus to the first viable option when navigating via keyboard. [FBAR-357]
  • Accessibility - Trap focus within the filter options when navigating with keyboard. [FBAR-362]

2025 5 versions

5.6.2 16 Sep 2025 1 new3 improved1 fixed
New
  • Language - 1 new strings added, 10 updated, 0 fuzzied, and 1 obsoleted.
Improved
  • Added filters: tec_events_filterbar_encoding_helper_encode_for_url, tec_events_filterbar_encoding_helper_decode_from_url, tec_events_filterbar_encoding_helper_encode_for_form, tec_events_filterbar_encoding_helper_decode_from_form
  • Leverage WP's new "requires plugin" header https://make.wordpress.org/core/2024/03/05/introducing-plugin-dependencies-in-wordpress-6-5/ to prevent activating FBAR if TEC is not active.
  • PHP 8.3 compatibility improvements. [FBAR-352]
Fixed
  • Added new class to handle special character parsing. [FBAR-247]
5.6.1 26 Aug 2025 1 new2 improved
New
  • Language - 0 new strings added, 27 updated, 0 fuzzied, and 0 obsoleted.
Improved
  • Migrated build system from gulp to wp-scripts with Tyson for modern asset compilation
  • Removed filters: tribe_events_filters_css_version
5.6.0 22 Jul 2025 4 new
New
  • Add admin control to select which categories are displayed in the frontend filter. [FBAR-350]
  • Added Date From filter to show events starting from a selected date [FBAR-348]
  • Added Date To filter to show events ending by a selected date. [FBAR-349]
  • Language - 7 new strings added, 13 updated, 0 fuzzied, and 0 obsoleted.
5.5.10 13 May 2025 3 new7 improved1 fixed1 changed
New
  • Accessibility - Add header tags around accordion buttons to maintain semantic meaning. [FBAR-334]
  • Accessibility - Add aria-hidden="true" to filterbar icon for better screen reader accessibility. [FBAR-319]
  • Language - 1 new strings added, 27 updated, 0 fuzzied, and 0 obsoleted.
Improved
  • Add the tec_events_filter_additional_field_intersect filter to allow showing all used values of additional field in Filter Bar.
  • Ensure that Additional Field options that are removed don't show up in Filter Bar any longer. [FBAR-307]
  • Added filters: tec_events_filter_additional_field_intersect, tribe_filterbar_organizer_ids, tribe_filterbar_venue_ids, wpml_default_language, wpml_object_id
  • Changed views: v2_1/components/events-bar/filter-button, v2_1/components/filter, v2_1/components/pill-button, v2_1/components/pill, v2_1/components/range
  • Accessibility - Improve accessibility labels for range slider. [FBAR-331]
  • Accessibility - Improved accessibility of Filter Bar buttons. [FBAR-337]
  • Accessibility - Tweaked the filter for Featured events for better accessibility. [FBAR-338]
Fixed
  • Make sure that filtering by venue or organizer works on WPML-translated pages. [FBAR-313]
Changed
  • Accessibility - Move focus to filterbar options when accordion is opened for better accessibility. [FBAR-335]
5.5.9 7 Apr 2025 1 new1 improved1 fixed
New
  • Language - 0 new strings added, 0 updated, 0 fuzzied, and 0 obsoleted.
Improved
  • Avoid too long queries by deactivating filters stack with Custom Tables v1. [ECP-1898]
Fixed
  • Avoid slow queries by not adding Category filter tax query multiple times. [ECP-1898]

2024 5 versions

5.5.8 17 Dec 2024 2 new
New
  • Added the filter tec_events_filter_filters_category_get_terms_args to allow adjusting the parameters of categories available when searching. [FBAR-340]
  • Language - 0 new strings added, 4 updated, 0 fuzzied, and 0 obsoleted.
5.5.7 26 Sep 2024 2 new1 changed
New
  • New and improved settings layout and styles. [TEC-5124]
  • Language - 5 new strings added, 19 updated, 0 fuzzied, and 2 obsoleted
Changed
  • Version - Events Filterbar 5.5.7 is only compatible with The Events Calendar 6.7.0 and higher.
5.5.6 11 Sep 2024 1 new2 fixed
New
  • Language - 0 new strings added, 13 updated, 0 fuzzied, and 0 obsoleted
Fixed
  • Subscribing to a filtered calendar should not include all events. [FBAR-316]
  • Show only the tags associated with Events in the Filter Bar. [FBAR-268]
5.5.5 18 Jul 2024 1 new1 fixed
New
  • Language - 0 new strings added, 0 updated, 0 fuzzied, and 0 obsoleted
Fixed
  • Show only the tags associated with Events in the Filter Bar. [FBAR-268]
5.5.4 20 Mar 2024 1 new1 improved
New
  • Language - 0 new strings added, 11 updated, 0 fuzzied, and 0 obsoleted
Improved
  • Correct some PHP 8.2 deprecation notices. [FBAR-323]

2023 7 versions

5.5.3 3 Oct 2023 1 improved1 fixed
Improved
  • Updated focus state for relevant elements to have default outline ensuring improved accessibility and consistent browser behavior. [TEC-4888]
Fixed
  • Filter Bar dropdowns were being automatically selected on page load. Now they should load in a default unselected state. [FBAR-291]
5.5.2 10 Aug 2023 1 improved2 fixed2 changed
Improved
  • Correct some PHP 8.1 deprecation notices. [FBAR-309]
Fixed
  • In some scenarios our pagination and various view actions would fail due to 403 errors on the REST endpoints, because of failing nonce checks, likely due to cache. Updating the way we handle nonces to avoid some scenarios the wrong nonce could be cached. [TEC-4814]
  • Correct next upcoming events link when filters are applied. [FBAR-292]
Changed
  • Version - Filter Bar 5.5.0 is only compatible with The Events Calendar 6.1.4 and higher.
  • Version - The minimum supported version of WordPress is now 6.1.0
5.5.1 13 Jul 2023 1 new1 fixed
New
  • Language - 0 new strings added, 3 updated, 0 fuzzied, and 0 obsoleted
Fixed
  • Harden some of our CSS to prevent unintended overrides by Elementor global styles. [FBAR-301]
5.5.0 14 Jun 2023 1 new1 fixed1 changed
New
  • Language - 0 new strings added, 2 updated, 0 fuzzied, and 0 obsoleted
Fixed
  • There was an issue with checkbox custom fields that had spaces in their name, which would fail to be removed from the search filter when attempting to unselect them. [FBAR-246]
Changed
  • Version - Filter Bar 5.5.0 is only compatible with The Events Calendar 6.1.0 and higher
5.4.4 20 Mar 2023 1 fixed
Fixed
  • Some themes caused conflicts in the order of asset loading for the events widget, resulting in javascript errors, rendering issues with the filter bar, and breaking the events list functionality. [FBAR-293]
5.4.3 22 Feb 2023 4 improved1 changed
Improved
  • PHP version compatibility bumped to PHP 7.4
  • Version Composer updated to 2
  • Version Node updated to 18.13.0
  • Version NPM update to 8.19.3
Changed
  • Version - Filter Bar 5.4.3 is only compatible with The Events Calendar 6.0.10 and higher
5.4.2 9 Feb 2023 1 fixed
Fixed
  • Updating some button styles to be more compatible with global button styles, such as Elementor global styling. [TEC-4653]

2022 5 versions

5.4.1 14 Dec 2022 1 new2 fixed
New
  • Language - 0 new strings added, 25 updated, 0 fuzzied, and 0 obsoleted
Fixed
  • Don't load assets on event single. [FBAR-279]
  • Correct some styles that broke with the settings updates. [FBAR-290]
5.4.0 6 Sep 2022 1 new2 improved1 changed
New
  • Language - 2 new strings added, 31 updated, 0 fuzzied, and 0 obsoleted
Improved
  • Files Removed: src/views/filter-bar/filter-view-horizontal.php, src/views/filter-bar/filter-view-vertical.php
  • Methods marked as deprecated: TribeEventsFilterbarView::enqueueStylesAndScripts, TribeEventsFilterbarView::template_paths, TribeEventsFilterbarView::displaySidebar, TribeEventsFilterbarView::is_tribe_query, TribeEventsFilterbarView::maybe_initialize_filters_for_query, TribeEventsFilterbarView::plugin_url
Changed
  • Version - Filter Bar 5.4.0 is only compatible with The Events Calendar 6.0.0 and higher
5.3.2 9 Aug 2022 1 new1 improved
New
  • Language - 0 new strings added, 31 updated, 0 fuzzied, and 2 obsoleted.
Improved
  • Update the calendar print design. [TEC-4425]
5.3.1 31 May 2022 1 new1 improved
New
  • Language - 0 new strings added, 13 updated, 0 fuzzied, and 0 obsoleted
Improved
  • Disable Divi jQuery Body on Single Events to prevent javascript errors. [FBAR-264]
5.3.0 19 May 2022 2 new1 changed
New
  • Add compatibility to the new TEC admin menu system. [ET-1335]
  • Language - 0 new strings added, 25 updated, 0 fuzzied, and 0 obsoleted
Changed
  • Version - Filter Bar 5.3.0 is only compatible with The Events Calendar 5.15.0 and higher

2021 9 versions

5.2.1 14 Sep 2021 1 new1 fixed
New
  • Language - 0 new strings added, 1 updated, 0 fuzzied, and 0 obsoleted
Fixed
  • Don't urldecode the filter labels - it breaks special characters. [FBAR-238]
5.2.0 24 Aug 2021 3 new1 changed
New
  • Stop compiling CSS custom props and leave them exposed and accessible to the Customizer and third parties. [TEC-3011]
  • Update hooked Customizer styles to account for surfaced CSS custom properties and for new TEC Customizer font controls. [TEC-3897]
  • Language - 0 new strings added, 1 updated, 0 fuzzied, and 0 obsoleted
Changed
  • Version - Filter Bar 5.2.0 is only compatible with The Events Calendar 5.9.0 and higher
5.1.4 1 Jul 2021 2 new
New
  • Add new Events bar section to the Customizer for control of the Events Bar styles. [TEC-3672]
  • Language - 0 new strings added, 0 updated, 0 fuzzied, and 0 obsoleted
5.1.3 23 Jun 2021 1 new2 fixed
New
  • Language - 0 new strings added, 4 updated, 0 fuzzied, and 0 obsoleted
Fixed
  • Resolved issue where special characters of field values were not rendering appropriately. [FBAR-245]
  • Ensure checkbox-based custom fields properly filter values when used as a multiselect. [FBAR-95]
5.1.2 27 May 2021 1 new4 improved1 fixed
New
  • Language - 0 new strings added, 1 updated, 0 fuzzied, and 0 obsoleted
Improved
  • Adjust logic to apply breakpoints to make sure the correct breakpoint is applied to the calendar [FBAR-241]
  • Added filters: tribe_events_filter_bar_views_v2_assets_should_enqueue_frontend
  • Removed filters: tribe_events_pro_views_v2_assets_should_enqueue_frontend
  • Changed views: v2_1/filter-bar/breakpoints, v2_1/filter-bar/filters-slider
Fixed
  • Styles with the default theme twenty twenty one in in the calendar. [FBAR-244]
5.1.1 29 Apr 2021 1 new3 improved1 fixed
New
  • Language - 0 new strings added, 1 updated, 0 fuzzied, and 0 obsoleted
Improved
  • Added filters: tribe_events_filter_bar_views_v2_assets_should_enqueue_frontend
  • Removed filters: tribe_events_pro_views_v2_assets_should_enqueue_frontend
  • Changed views: v2_1/filter-bar/filters-slider
Fixed
  • Correct calling of localize() in assets to ensure properly translated text. [FBAR-223]
5.1.0 29 Mar 2021 2 new2 fixed
New
  • Add Filterbar support to updated Events Calendar PRO view shortcodes. [FBAR-36]
  • Language - 0 new strings added, 1 updated, 0 fuzzied, and 0 obsoleted
Fixed
  • Invert quotes to protect against issue with MySQL in ANSI_QUOTES mode. [FBAR-225]
  • "Brand" swiper to avoid conflicts. [TEC-3624]
5.0.5 24 Feb 2021 1 new1 fixed
New
  • Language - 0 new strings added, 1 updated, 0 fuzzied, and 1 obsoleted
Fixed
  • Compatibility with WordPress 5.7 and jQuery 3.5.X
5.0.4 28 Jan 2021 1 new5 improved1 fixed
New
  • Language - 1 new strings added, 10 updated, 0 fuzzied, and 1 obsoleted
Improved
  • Adjust spacing between checkbox/radio controls and labels. [FBAR-209]
  • Adjust opacity of selected options in multi-select/dropdown filters. [FBAR-209]
  • Make selections pills consistent. [FBAR-209]
  • Align "Your selections" label with "Clear" element text. [FBAR-209]
  • Enfold Theme - Display search icon in multi-select/dropdown filters. [FBAR-209]
Fixed
  • Correctly handle Additional Fields filters in Month and Week Views. [FBAR-204]

2020 4 versions

5.0.3.1 21 Dec 2020 1 fixed
Fixed
  • Update The Events Calendar minimum required version to avoid activation issues.
5.0.3 15 Dec 2020 1 new2 fixed
New
  • V2 Customizer - Add background color css overrides. [FBAR-206]
Fixed
  • Correctly handle pagination requests on Views v2 when Filter Bar is active to paginate on first click of Previous or Next links. [FBAR-208]
  • Avoid errors when using Views v2 and setting the TRIBE_EVENTS_FILTERBAR_V1_VIEWS constant to true. [FBAR-212]
5.0.2 2 Dec 2020 1 new1 improved
New
  • Language - 0 new strings added, 3 updated, 0 fuzzied, and 0 obsoleted
Improved
  • Add a filter to allow views to "turn off" Filter Bar classes on their container. [TEC-3614]
5.0.1 22 Oct 2020 1 new2 fixed
New
  • Language - 0 new strings added, 32 updated, 0 fuzzied, and 1 obsoleted
Fixed
  • Prevent page from scrolling down to open dropdown/multiselect filters after ajax request. [FBAR-193]
  • Prevent tribe-events shortcode pagination from triggering a Notice on the filter-button due to a missing param. [ECP-492]