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List of improvements in WooCommerce – Subscriptions version 8.8.1

• 2026-06-04 version 8.8.1
• Fix: Restore PayPal Standard renewal payments. A regression in 8.8.0 stopped these payments from being recorded, leaving the affected subscriptions stuck in Pending.
• Fix: Prevent a fatal error that could occur when the new “Dedicated processing” setting is enabled before any subscription background tasks have been scheduled.
• Fix: Correct remaining class-name casing mistakes exposed by the 8.8.0 classmap autoloader, which could cause fatal errors.
• 2026-06-02 version 8.8.0
• Update: Subscriptions health check tool.
• New Resolve action — review a flagged subscription and apply the recommended fix (switch to automatic renewal, or process the renewal now).
• New Cancel button for in-flight scans, with partial scan results preserved in the candidates table.
• Nightly scans are now enabled or disabled from Subscriptions settings.
• Live scan progress now updates in the background while a scan runs, instead of reloading the whole page.
• The candidates table now uses the same status label colors as the Subscriptions list.
• Action Scheduler admin notices are now suppressed on the tab, avoiding duplicate or conflicting past-due action counts.
• Fixed the empty-state message to reference the correct “Run now” button label.
• Add: New “Processing reliability” settings introduce dedicated processing for subscription scheduled actions and web cron support.
• Fix: Prevent a fatal error that could lock a merchant out of wp-admin when another plugin loads admin assets early in the page lifecycle.
• Fix: Relative dates now read “in 2 days” instead of “In 2 days”, matching the lowercase “X ago” format.
• Fix: Prevent the cart from failing to load during a subscription upgrade switch in a proration edge case where the remaining billing days rounded to zero.
• Fix: A subscription product can no longer be added to the cart when a resubscribe or switch for the same product is already in progress.
• Fix: Close gaps that let customers bypass the “Limit to one active subscription” setting on the Blocks checkout and other paths.
• Fix: Recurring-only coupons no longer appear in the initial order summary on the Blocks checkout, where they don’t apply to the first payment.
• Dev: Same-gateway renewal retries no longer call `update_payment_method()`, so its hooks — `woocommerce_subscriptions_pre_update_payment_method`, `woocommerce_subscription_payment_method_updated`, and `woocommerce_subscription_payment_method_updated_to_{gateway}` — no longer fire on these retries. Use `woocommerce_subscription_failing_payment_method_updated` (which always fires) instead.
• Dev: The `wcs_switch_proration_extra_to_pay` filter now receives the switch cart item as a new `$switch_item` argument.
• Dev: Class autoloading now uses Composer’s classmap. `WCS_Autoloader` and `WCS_Core_Autoloader` classes, and `WC_Subscriptions_Core_Plugin::get_autoloader()`, remain as deprecated no-op shells for backwards compatibility.
• Dev: Improved compatibility with jQuery 4.x, which is expected to roll out in a future WordPress release.
• 2026-05-01 version 8.7.1
• Fix: Subscriptions health check — Renewal preference column sorting now groups rows by their displayed value, and a “Default” filter option has been added.
• 2026-04-30 version 8.7.0
• Add: Subscriptions Health Check — a new diagnostic tool under WooCommerce > Status that surfaces subscriptions which may need merchant attention. The initial release includes two views:
• Supports auto-renewal — subscriptions on manual renewal that have a saved payment token on a gateway capable of automatic renewal.
• Missing renewals — subscriptions that should be renewing but aren’t, either because the next payment date is in the past or because the expected renewal order is missing (often caused by plugin or custom code conflicts, server or migration issues, or Action Scheduler not running).
• Add: Cost of Goods Sold is now calculated on subscriptions and renewal orders when the WooCommerce COGS feature is enabled.
• Add: When a customer updates their billing or shipping address from their account page, an order note is created on the subscription.
• Fix: “Limit to one active subscription” now treats pending-cancel subscriptions as active, preventing duplicate purchases while a subscription is still providing access.
• Fix: Multi-item subscription switching: corrected a stale total that caused overcharges on renewal, prevented items from being incorrectly split across two new subscriptions, and ensured the original subscription is cancelled when all its items switch away.
• Fix: Subscription period interval strings now correctly display ordinal labels (e.g. “every 22nd”) for custom intervals greater than 6.
• Fix: Plain text subscription emails no longer display raw HTML markup in price sections.
• Fix: Deleted or trashed renewal orders could remain attached to a cart after validation and proceed through checkout.
• Fix: On stores running an object cache, a freshly-created renewal order could return a $0 total in memory while the database row held the correct amount, resulting in the order being incorrectly marked as paid.
• 2026-04-22 version 8.6.1
• Fix: Changing the payment details on a subscription could sometimes override the subscriber’s renewal method choice when the ‘Display the auto renewal toggle’ setting is enabled.
• Fix: Updated the subscription switching flow to respect the renewal method choice on the subscription.
• 2026-03-31 version 8.6.0
• Fix: Missing space between subscription price and billing period in the Cart and Checkout Blocks.
• Fix: Fatal error when setting a gift recipient on a manually created subscription with no parent order.
• Fix: Empty reminder timing causes fatal errors.
• Fix: Prevent browser autocomplete on subscription schedule inputs.
• Fix: Subscription checkout failing during DST spring-forward gap on servers with non-UTC PHP timezone.
• Fix: Remove the “Upgrade or Downgrade” button from gifting recipient emails where switching is not available.
• Fix: Schedule panel now displays actual stored dates instead of today’s date for subscriptions with past dates.
• 2026-03-03 version 8.5.0