WooCommerce 11.1 will be officially released on September 01, 2026. The latest WooCommerce release includes impactful features, including a complete order-withdrawal flow for shoppers and a new REST API refund-calculation endpoint.
The story doesn’t end here: users can benefit from several crucial bug fixes to the product’s CSV import and export, along with numerous compatibility changes for extension developers.
This blog post highlights the features of WooCommerce 11.1 and the improvements ahead of the release.
Order Withdrawal
The latest update, WooCommerce 11.1, has focused on the right-of-order functionality to meet EU customers’ needs. Thus, they can now request a withdrawal from the new My Account page (/my-account/withdraw-order/), no verification required.
Moreover, submissions are then routed to merchants, who get an email and an inbox notification, allowing them to follow up with the customer. Order withdrawal is deactivated by default; users can activate it in WooCommerce -> Settings -> Advanced -> Features.
Product CSV Import and Export
Many bug fixes have been applied to Product Importing. These include preserving terms and categories in re-uploads and clearing images when the file indicates.
Apart from this, Product Importing now respects existing store currency settings and has improved handling of variation creation when the product is already present.
REST API Refunds and Store API Checkout Totals
This feature updates the refund flow in the WC REST API to help the server calculate refund totals. Additionally, the new POST /wc/v3/orders/{id}/refunds/preview endpoint lets users do the calculation and preview the refund without applying it.
As for Store API, checkout endpoints get an optional expected_total: integer field that represents the total the customer sees; if they are charged a different amount, the request will fail with a new 409 woocommerce_rest_checkout_total_mismatch response. This field is then implemented in the Checkout block.
Email Editor Updates
The block email editor helps core/embed insertable for providers that render clickable thumbnails: YouTube, Vimeo, VideoPress, TikTok, and Dailymotion, as well as the WordPress embed, which renders as a rich link card.
Luckily, users can paste embeds from unsupported providers. However, the editor warns, resulting in providing a link to the delivered result.
Furthermore, personalization tag callbacks now receive their destination content type. A tag can escape correctly for HTML, plain text, or an href. The new parameter defaults to HTML and is optional; automatic escaping applies only to newly registered text-typed tags.
Variable Product Performance
This release contains various performance fixes, mainly reducing N+1 queries around variations and attributes in both the editor and the frontend, as well as lessening queries related to price caching.
Block Registration is Skipped on Non-Rendering Requests
Formerly, patterns and block types were registered on every request more or less. Not to forget that numerous requests didn’t render or edit blocks.
A new BlockRegistrationContext protection now skips registration on cron, AJAX, and REST API requests. Moreover, it does preserve front-end, admin, and editor behavior.
One thing to note is that when a product or variation description comprises a WooCommerce block, block types are registered on demand via the woocommerce_short_description filter.
Thus, descriptions still render correctly in the products REST API, the Store API, the variation AJAX endpoint, and product webhooks.
Extensions assuming block registration on every request must adapt. The new woocommerce_should_register_blocks filter rejoins in for extensions that render blocks in a skipped context.
Experimental Features
Unified Block Editor Assets
An experimental unified block editor assets feature helps replace per-block editor scripts and styles by using shared JavaScript and CSS bundles. Additionally, frontend assets are unchanged. The test results indicated 91.7% fewer editor assets, a 48.3% reduction in network transfer size, and 62.3% smaller style bundles.
Remember, the experiment is disabled by default. However, stores can consider activating it in WooCommerce -> Settings -> Advanced -> Features -> Experimental features. When activated, WooCommerce blocks use the wc-block-library handle rather than individual block handles; editor styles are consolidated under wc-block-library-style; and legacy handles remain registered as placeholders that emit a deprecation warning when enqueued.
Product Gallery Videos Storage
Internal storage for a product video gallery works primarily behind the feature flag as the first step toward product gallery videos. Users can enable internal storage by navigating to WooCommerce > Settings > Advanced > Features > Product gallery videos (Beta).
Developer Advisories and Compatibility
is_rest_api_request() formerly detected only REST requests with pretty-permalink paths under /wp-json/. It now considers a non-empty rest_route query parameter as a REST request.
Wrapping Up
The WooCommerce 11.1 release date is locked at September 01, 2026. This powerful update allows WooCommerce store owners to benefit from a range of features and improvements, elevating store productivity to new heights.
