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Woocommerce Gift Cards changelog

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

Latest 2.10.0 · 29 Oct 2026 40 versions Since Sep 2023

2026 9 versions

2.10.0 Latest 29 Oct 2026 1 new9 improved6 fixed
New
  • Allowed customers to enter gift card codes already redeemed to their own account.
Improved
  • Fixed PHPStan level 7 findings that needed a product decision.
  • Raised the PHPStan analysis level to 8.
  • Corrected docblock types reported by PHPStan level 9.
  • Corrected docblock types reported by PHPStan level 10.
  • Fixed PHPStan level 8 findings that needed behavior changes.
  • Checked integrations in PHPStan against generated stubs from woocommerce/php-stubs.
  • Resolved PHPStan baseline entries without changing behavior.
  • Kept the PHPStan integration stubs up to date without manual changes.
  • Updated QIT CLI to 1.3.3.
Fixed
  • Escaped the gift card status label tooltip as an attribute, so quotes in the delivery date no longer break its markup on WordPress 7.2.
  • Allowed customers to apply their linked gift card codes when account features are disabled.
  • Prevented an extra gift card from being used for a zero amount when other cards cover the total.
  • Stopped listing a gift card for a zero amount when the gift cards used before it already cover the cart total.
  • Fixed a fatal error in the gift card analytics stats REST endpoints when a page past the last one was requested.
  • Fixed the gift card balance toggle on a subscription saving the opposite value the first time it was switched on.
2.9.1 21 Oct 2026 12 improved10 fixed
Improved
  • Updated the release deployment to WooCommerce.com.
  • Raised the PHPStan analysis level to 3.
  • Fixed PHPStan level 3 findings that needed small code changes.
  • Raised the PHPStan analysis level to 4.
  • Fixed PHPStan level 4 findings that needed behavior changes.
  • Raised the PHPStan analysis level to 5.
  • Removed code that PHPStan level 4 showed could never run.
  • Deprecated WC_GC_Gift_Cards_DB::get_by_hash(), which has always returned false since 2.7.6.
  • Raised the PHPStan analysis level to 6.
  • Fixed PHPStan level 6 findings that needed behavior changes.
  • Raised the PHPStan analysis level to 7.
  • Fixed PHPStan level 7 findings that needed behavior changes.
Fixed
  • Released gift card holds when the Checkout block rejects an order, so customers can retry right away.
  • Fixed expiration reminder emails not being sent when they became due.
  • Counted gift cards issued in the last second of the previous month or year in the opt-in usage tracking data.
  • Fixed gift card refunds truncating localized decimal amounts and failing after large prior refunds.
  • Restored complete gift card activity histories in CSV imports and skipped invalid activity cells without crashing.
  • Applied the active search filter when exporting gift cards.
  • Preserved custom metadata columns across gift card CSV export batches.
  • Fixed applied gift cards not always being used in order of their expiration date.
  • Fixed background database updates processing only one item per batch on servers without a PHP memory limit.
  • Fixed a fatal error when issuing gift cards whose delivery date no longer matches the store's date format. They are now held, with an order note, until the date is fixed.
2.9.0 14 Oct 2026 1 new6 improved5 fixed
New
  • Enabled filtering the gift card list REST API by code.
Improved
  • Added an activity date index to speed up date-range queries.
  • Improved mobile keyboard and browser autofill support in the gift card recipient and sender fields.
  • Raised minimum requirements to WordPress 7.0 and WooCommerce 11.1.
  • Corrected return annotations for gift card notices and background processing.
  • Updated @wordpress/scripts to 36.1.
  • Updated development dependencies to address security advisories.
Fixed
  • Allowed reopening an applied gift card email link without clearing other cards or showing a duplicate error.
  • Prevented large gift card imports from stopping before the final rows.
  • Cleared expired gift card checkout locks during daily maintenance.
  • Restored the HTML template override controls for gift card received emails.
  • Stopped re-saving Subscriptions renewal orders when there is no gift card balance to apply, which could persist stale subscription data such as the next payment date.
2.8.0 7 Oct 2026 1 new9 improved30 fixed
New
  • Introduced 'woocommerce_gc_gift_card_currency' filter so stores that changed currency after issuing gift cards can map those cards to the new currency.
Improved
  • Raised minimum requirements to WordPress 6.9 and WooCommerce 10.9.
  • Declared compatibility with WordPress 7.1 and WooCommerce 11.2.
  • Updated development dependencies to address security advisories.
  • Enforced checks for authored stylesheets.
  • Hardened release artifact verification, release pull request checks, and WordPress test metadata.
  • Updated the development toolchain to Node 24.18 and @wordpress/scripts 35.
  • Corrected hook docblocks and other PHPStan findings that do not change behavior.
  • Raised the PHPStan analysis level to 2.
  • Switched the version headings in changelog.txt to the WordPress.org format.
Fixed
  • Fixed the alignment of the gift card row in the checkout order summary on small screens.
  • Applied the admin privacy rules to Gift Card REST responses: shop managers now receive masked codes unless wc_gc_unmask_codes_for_shop_managers is enabled, only administrators receive the gift card message, and the private hash metadata is no longer serialized.
  • Matched Store API multi-recipient gift card charges to the cards actually issued, and stopped issuing cards for order lines whose recipient count does not match the paid quantity.
  • Rejected serialized PHP values in REST and CSV gift card metadata.
  • Revalidated Gift Card ownership during checkout.
  • Serialized gift card credits and prevented duplicate balance restoration.
  • Prevented concurrent payment callbacks from issuing duplicate Gift Cards.
  • Sanitized Store API gift card sender fields.
  • Prevented gift card balances from being spent in a different currency.
  • Preserved concurrent Gift Card debits during account redemption.
  • Preserved concurrent gift card balances while updating pending holds.
  • Invalidated gift card email links after code or recipient changes.
  • Restricted server-path imports to canonical WordPress directories.
  • Serialized concurrent gift card refunds for each order.
  • Prevented failed refund batches from changing gift card balances.
  • Prevented gift card exports from overwriting global filter state.
  • Prevented failed-order retries from completing payment without charging their gift cards, and serialized gift card debits with concurrent cancellations.
  • Prevented scheduled gift cards from becoming active after their funding order is cancelled, failed, or refunded.
  • Kept gift card CSV imports and exports in a protected folder under unguessable file names.
  • Applied gift card code privacy to order errors and notes.
  • Protected private gift card metadata in order and refund responses.
  • Prevented stale gift card saves from overwriting balance and ownership changes.
  • Preserved partial gift card ownership, showed unknown redemption dates consistently, kept redeemed lists and exports consistent, and rejected incomplete ownership imports.
  • Bounded Gift Card analytics requests while preserving calendar pagination and long weekly reports within the bucket limit.
  • Protected internal gift card metadata in REST requests.
  • Kept gift card edit details out of product URLs and page caches while preserving object and database caching.
  • Enforced the CC setting in gift card purchases, cart summaries and repeat orders while preserving existing behavior for registered 'wooocommerce_gc_hide_cc_field' callbacks.
  • Normalized and deduplicated Store API CC recipients with the same email rules as classic checkout.
  • Made the Search button label on the Gift Cards and Activity admin screens translatable.
  • Made the "Gift Card not found." and invalid user email activity errors translatable.
2.7.7 2 Sep 2026 4 improved13 fixed
Improved
  • Pinned GitHub Actions to immutable commit revisions.
  • Pinned the secret-bearing AI review workflow to an immutable revision.
  • Managed changelog entries with the Jetpack Changelogger, so pull requests add a change file instead of editing changelog.txt.
  • Removed redundant and low-value tests.
Fixed
  • Prevented pending gift card balances from exposing another customer's order payment link.
  • Gift card logo overlapped the text on the Gift Cards admin blank state screens instead of appearing above it.
  • Restricted Gift Card order item configuration to authorized order editors.
  • Applied gift card code masking to order REST and admin representations.
  • Prevented Gift Card email links from blocking PHP workers.
  • Secured background update requests without forwarding browser cookies.
  • Required authentication before rendering account gift card data.
  • Generated gift card codes with a cryptographically secure random source.
  • Protected order cancellation links from unauthorized pay-page visitors.
  • Restricted Gift Card order mutations to authorized order editors.
  • Sanitized custom Gift Card shortcode wrapper markup.
  • Prevented translations from loading before WordPress initialization.
  • Stopped checking WooCommerce's retired Marketing feature flag.
2.7.6 19 Aug 2026 17 improved8 fixed
Improved
  • Restored TLS certificate verification and fail-closed error handling in the release deployment script.
  • Pinned and checksum-verified the WP-CLI executable used in release builds.
  • Added the plain lint:phpcs script and updated PHP_CodeSniffer to 3.13.6 (security release).
  • Added Markdown, dependency license, and WordPress.org Plugin Check gates to the pull request CI.
  • Updated the npm build toolchain to resolve all remaining Dependabot security alerts.
  • Standardized the package license identifier on GPL-3.0-or-later.
  • Exposed the shared .ai/commands to agent tooling and documented the isolated worktree setup.
  • Isolated pull request tests from release credentials.
  • Enabled CSS linting in CI and fixed source style violations.
  • Enabled JavaScript linting in CI and fixed source violations.
  • Migrated the ESLint configuration to the flat config format required by ESLint 10, aligning the lint and formatting toolchain with WooCommerce core.
  • Update wp-coding-standards/wpcs to 3.4.1 (security release) in the phpcs lint tooling.
  • Update development Composer dependencies (PHPUnit, Guzzle PSR-7, PsySH, Symfony YAML) to resolve security advisories in the PHP test toolchain.
  • Update development npm dependencies to resolve security advisories in the build toolchain.
  • Hardened the QIT test workflow: pinned the QIT CLI version and stopped workflow inputs from being interpolated into shell source.
  • Prevented gift card debits from committing the unit test suite's transaction while preserving atomic production debits.
  • Updated usage tracking to recalculate the first published gift card product date whenever tracking data is invalidated.
Fixed
  • Applied the Shop Manager gift card code masking policy to refund reversal errors.
  • Applied the Shop Manager gift card code masking policy to analytics reports and exports.
  • Disabled forgeable legacy gift card email links while preserving modern links.
  • Fixed a fatal error when applying a gift card from an email link while the WooCommerce Store API session handler is active.
  • Fixed a fatal error when sending a test of the Gift card received email, or when the gift card is not linked to an order item.
  • Restricted subscription gift card balance changes to the subscription owner or shop managers.
  • Analytics reports failed to render at all, instead of showing an error message, when their data could not be loaded.
  • Prevented Gift Card imports from deleting Shop Manager-selected server files.
2.7.5 22 Jul 2026 2 new1 improved2 fixed
New
  • Important: WordPress 6.8+ is now required.
  • Important: WooCommerce 10.6+ is now required.
Improved
  • Bumped WooCommerce tested up to version to 11.0.
Fixed
  • Fixed the gift card "funds on hold" indicator in My Account orders to display even when gift card redeeming is disabled, since it reflects order state rather than the redeeming feature.
  • Fixed duplicate order status display in My Account orders when WooCommerce Order Status Manager is active.
2.7.4 15 Jun 2026 4 improved3 fixed
Improved
  • Bumped WordPress tested up to version to 7.0.
  • Bumped WooCommerce tested up to version to 10.9.
  • Updated the JavaScript build toolchain to the React 18.3 line and added React 19 readiness guards.
  • Added read-only WordPress Abilities API support for querying Gift Cards.
Fixed
  • Added an admin notice and a one-click repair action when Gift Cards custom database tables are found to be missing.
  • Fixed spacing between the NYP price input and add-to-cart button on simple gift card products.
  • Improved CSV import error messages to specify which gift card attributes are missing or invalid.
2.7.3 25 Feb 2026 1 improved3 fixed
Improved
  • Bumped WooCommerce tested up to version to 10.5.
Fixed
  • Fixed order total precision issue when rounding prices at subtotal was disabled.
  • Improved compatibility with WC 10.4 wc_format_decimal changes.
  • Improved accessibility for gift cards balance toggle.

2025 11 versions

2.7.2 3 Dec 2025 2 new5 improved
New
  • Added support for editing the Gift Card received email using the experimental block email editor.
  • Introduced 'woocommerce_gc_pre_apply_gift_card_to_session' filter.
Improved
  • Replaced wc_enqueue_js with wp_add_inline_script according to the recommended WordPress core script patterns.
  • Updated 'woocommerce_gc_auto_redeem' filter to pass giftcard parameter.
  • Hide quantity selector for Gift Cards.
  • Bumped WordPress tested up to version to 6.9.
  • Bumped WooCommerce tested up to version to 10.4.
2.7.1 2 Sep 2025 1 improved
Improved
  • Update plugin authors and contributors.
2.7.0 29 Jul 2025 1 improved2 fixed
Improved
  • Important: Updated frontend templates.
Fixed
  • Improved accessibility.
  • Fixed sortable columns in the Marketing > Gift Cards list table.
2.6.1 1 Jul 2025 1 fixed
Fixed
  • Upgraded cart and checkout blocks to use Gutenberg apiVersion 3.
2.6.0 4 Jun 2025 1 improved1 fixed
Improved
  • Removed deprecated WC_GC_Core_Compatibility::wc_current_theme_is_fse_theme.
Fixed
  • Invalidated active gift cards cache when customers log in.
2.5.0 6 May 2025 4 improved1 fixed
Improved
  • Important: Introduced storing gift card currency as metadata.
  • Replaced the use of deprecated function wc_current_theme_is_fse_theme.
  • Deprecated WC_GC_Core_Compatibility::wc_current_theme_is_fse_theme.
  • Improved accessibility.
Fixed
  • Fixed missing plain text template for "Self-use gift card received" emails.
2.4.1 12 Mar 2025 1 fixed
Fixed
  • Resolved fatal error that was triggered when trying to add a gift card to the cart with an empty configuration.
2.4.0 11 Mar 2025 2 new
New
  • Added support for email previews when the 'Email Improvements' experimental feature is enabled.
  • Added support for Gift card specific fields to Store API.
2.3.0 11 Feb 2025 1 improved1 fixed
Improved
  • Important: Removed compatibility with the new Product Editor.
Fixed
  • Resolved warning when cancelling an order with gift cards and object caching was enabled.
2.2.2 15 Jan 2025 1 fixed
Fixed
  • Fixed an issue where a gift card expiration reminder would be sent immediately when updated through the admin page.
2.2.1 13 Jan 2025 1 new1 fixed
New
  • Tested up to WooCommerce v9.6.
Fixed
  • Important: Security improvements.

2024 16 versions

2.2.0 10 Dec 2024 1 new1 fixed
New
  • Added Gift Cards expiration reminder emails feature.
Fixed
  • Fixed Store API request fatal error when using Cart Tokens.
2.1.1 20 Nov 2024 1 new2 fixed
New
  • Added compatibility with WordPress 6.7.
Fixed
  • Resolved the deprecation introduced in WC 9.3.0 by inheriting the reporting class conditionally.
  • Change the text on the admin order configuration button to clarify what is being 'configured'.
2.1.0 22 Oct 2024 1 new
New
  • Added saving of last modified date of gift card when modified.
2.0.4 24 Sep 2024 2 fixed
Fixed
  • Fixed fatal error when using WooCommerce older than v8.8.
  • Fixed handling of updating gift cards on orders via REST API.
2.0.3 3 Sep 2024 1 fixed
Fixed
  • Fixed fatal error in own version of WP_Background_Process.
2.0.2 27 Aug 2024 1 new2 improved
New
  • Tested up to WooCommerce v9.2.
Improved
  • Updated version of @somewherewarm/selectsw dependency to include updated styling.
  • Removed navigation integration (deprecated WooCommerce feature).
2.0.1 30 Jul 2024 1 fixed
Fixed
  • Deactivate plugin for WooCommerce versions prior to 8.2 to avoid fatal errors.
2.0.0 30 Jul 2024 5 new1 improved1 fixed
New
  • Important: PHP 7.4+ is now required.
  • Important: WooCommerce 8.2+ is now required.
  • Important: WordPress 6.2+ is now required.
  • Important: Removed all previously deprecated code.
  • Added the ability to partially pay for orders using a gift card via WooPayments 8.0.0+ and Stripe 8.6.0+.
Improved
  • Improved success notices when manually editing gift cards delivery dates.
Fixed
  • Included own copy of WP_Background_Process library to avoid conflicts with other plugins.
1.17.0 2 Jul 2024 1 new1 improved
New
  • Introduced compatibility with the new Product Editor.
Improved
  • Changed 'Gift Card already redeemed' notice to 'Gift Card already linked to an account'.
1.16.15 4 Jun 2024 2 fixed
Fixed
  • Disabled one-click purchase for gift cards in the All Products Block.
  • Improved validation of values when getting maintenance and dismissed notices from the DB.
1.16.14 15 May 2024 2 fixed
Fixed
  • Resolved a compatibility issue with Gravity Forms.
  • Added validation of input type for $cart_item_data to avoid fatal errors.
1.16.13 15 Apr 2024 1 fixed
Fixed
  • Fixed regression 'Invalid quantity configuration. Please review the recipients count.' error for multiple gift cards with the same recipient email.
1.16.12 10 Apr 2024 2 improved
Improved
  • Improved how gift cards emails are displayed in small screens.
  • Updated the way of identifying hydration context in Store API requests.
1.16.11 26 Mar 2024 1 new1 improved2 fixed
New
  • Add gift card as a custom product type on the onboarding task list.
Improved
  • Updated Gift Cards notices to use the new block styles.
Fixed
  • Resolved a PHP error that can occasionally occur when using WooPayments.
  • Fixed fatal error triggered when recalculating totals with orders with gift cards and fees.
1.16.10 14 Feb 2024 1 new1 improved1 fixed
New
  • Introduced 'woocommerce_gc_cart_gift_cards_template_args' filter.
Improved
  • Hide 'Refund to gift cards' button from orders that do not include any debited gift cards.
Fixed
  • Fixed an issue that prevented admin scripts from loading when High-Performance Order Storage was used.
1.16.9 24 Jan 2024 4 improved
Improved
  • Added compatibility with PHP 8.3.
  • Deferred frontend scripts.
  • Updated the WooPayments integration to remove express checkout buttons in gift card product pages.
  • Updated the PayPal integration to remove smart buttons in gift card product pages.

2023 4 versions

1.16.8 19 Dec 2023 1 fixed
Fixed
  • Fixed 'Invalid quantity configuration. Please review the recipients count.' error for multiple gift cards with the same recipient email.
1.16.7 12 Dec 2023 2 fixed1 security
Fixed
  • Prevented users from deleting gift cards that are used in orders.
  • Fixed an issue with how gift card codes were displayed in e-mails when viewed from mobile screens.
Security
  • Important - Security improvements.
1.16.6 17 Oct 2023 1 improved2 fixed
Improved
  • Declared compatibility with the cart/checkout Blocks.
Fixed
  • Important: Security improvements.
  • Resolved deprecation notice when viewing a Subscription paid by gift cards balance.
1.16.5 19 Sep 2023 1 improved2 fixed
Improved
  • Used admin theme colors in settings.
Fixed
  • Fixed an issue with page titles in settings.
  • Resolved a styling issue with the outline border when selecting a gift card form field.