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List of improvements in WooCommerce – Subscriptions version 8.8.0

• 2026-06-02 version 8.8.0
• Add: Resolve action for the Subscriptions Health Check tool — review a flagged subscription and apply the recommended fix (switch to automatic renewal, or process the renewal now).
• Add: Cancel button for in-flight Subscriptions Health Check scans, with partial scan results preserved in the candidates table.
• Add: New tools to improve scheduled action reliability, including supporting changes within the Health Check screen.
• Update: Subscriptions Health Check tool no longer owns the nightly-scan toggle; manage the schedule from WooCommerce > Settings > Subscriptions.
• Update: Subscriptions Health Check status bar — suppress Action Scheduler admin notices on the tab to avoid redundant or divergent past-due counts, keep the past-due actions link inside WC > Status, and refine card typography and spacing per design.
• Update: Subscriptions health check no longer reloads the whole page every few seconds while a scan runs; it updates the scan progress in the background and reloads only once the scan finishes or is cancelled.
• Update: Subscriptions Health Check candidates table now colours subscription status labels (Active, Expired, Pending Cancellation, etc.) consistently with the main Subscriptions list.
• Fix: Prevent fatal error in wp-admin from overly narrow argument type.
• Fix: Lowercase “in” in the relative date display (e.g. “in 2 days”) for consistency with the existing “X ago” format.
• Fix: Subscriptions health check now shows live scan progress while a scan is running.
• Fix: Subscriptions health check empty-state message now references the correct “Run now” button label.
• Fix: Prevent cart errors during subscription switching when a prorated upgrade calculation encounters a zero-day billing cycle.
• Fix: Adding a subscription product to the cart while a Resubscribe or Subscription Switch for the same product is already in progress is now blocked with a clear error, preventing accidental duplicate line items.
• Fix: “Limit to one active subscription” is now enforced at the cart and checkout level, closing duplicate-subscription bypasses that previously slipped through to the order.
• Fix: Hide recurring-only coupons from block checkout initial order summary.
• Dev: When retrying a failed renewal with the same payment gateway, `update_payment_method()` is no longer called. This means `woocommerce_subscriptions_pre_update_payment_method`, `woocommerce_subscription_payment_method_updated`, and `woocommerce_subscription_payment_method_updated_to_{gateway}` no longer fire for same-gateway retries. Extensions needing retry-event notifications should use `woocommerce_subscription_failing_payment_method_updated`, which always fires.
• Dev: Class autoloading now uses Composer’s classmap in place of the bespoke `WCS_Autoloader` / `WCS_Core_Autoloader` implementations. Both classes, and `WC_Subscriptions_Core_Plugin::get_autoloader()`, are retained as deprecated no-op shells under `includes/deprecated/` for back-compat with external integrations.
• 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
• Add: Setting to show or hide shared downloadable products in subscription details. Disable to improve performance for subscriptions with many downloads.
• Fix: Fatal error on the View Subscription page when a subscription contains a deleted product and item removal is enabled.
• Fix: PHP warnings when HPOS Data Caching is enabled alongside WooCommerce Subscriptions.
• Fix: Added translation the billing period in the Cart/Checkout Block recurring total label for intervals of 2+. Changes ordinal phrasing (“every 2nd month”) to cardinal (“every 2 months”).
• Dev: Refactored how subscription price strings are built internally. No changes to pricing display.