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A maintenance release for Event Espresso 4 is now available. Event Espresso 4.4.5.p offers 13 fixes and 2 enhancements.

Bugfixes for Event Espresso 4.4.5

• Fix issue where multiple required tickets causes some ticket options to become sold out
• Fix datetimes being based on UTC rather than local time when being displayed on the front end
• Fix Upcoming events widget does not display events that are currently active
• Fix issue where the visibility of password protected on an event allowed registration through event listing page
• Clean up translation strings
• Fix untranslatable messaging verbiage
• Fix issue where an extra space created a duplicate language domain entry for “In order to process your registration” message in SPCO
• Fix the “Display expired events” options in the Template settings
• Fix ability to remove price modifiers
• Fix issue where events with no dates became unusable due to warning
• Fix registration ticket price for tickets that get added to a secondary datetime
• Fix Default Registration Status default setting option
• Convert state number to state name for Authorize.net receipt

Enhancements for Event Espresso 4.4.5

• Merge Pull Request: Added echo/return capabilities to template tags (ht: jonathan-dejong)
• Merge GitHub Pull Request #42: Added markup around ticket info (ht: jonathan-dejong)

Interested in contributing to the Event Espresso 4 project? Request access to our project on GitHub

On Monday, October 27, 2014 EventEspresso.com was targeted by a distributed denial of service attack. This works by flooding our servers with dummy requests so that authentic requests from real website visitors are not processed. If you tried to access our website earlier today, then you may have experienced one of the following:

• slow website loading
• 502 bad request
• partial loading or broken styling on various pages

No customer information has been affected and all customer data is safe.

Some initial findings on this attack has been posted here: http://status.eventespresso.com/update-on-service-interuptions/

We will be conducting a full investigation of this attack over the next few days and will provide another update once this has been completed. We are very sorry about any inconvenience that this may have caused today.

Additional availability by our team will be made for tomorrow (October 28th). If you recently created a support post in our support forums, then you’ll receive a response soon. Have a question about your Event Espresso account or a recent purchase? Get in touch with our team through our contact page: https://eventespresso.com/contact/

This is an unfortunate way to start out the week and we are very grateful for your patience.

A maintenance release for Event Espresso 4 is now available. Event Espresso 4.4.3.p offers 3 fixes and 1 enhancement.

Bugfixes for Event Espresso 4.4.3

• Error when auto-updating
• Database error in front-end category shortcode page while in maintenance mode
• Undefined property (slug) notice that shows on plugin list table

Enhancements for Event Espresso 4.4.3

• Enabled Payment Declined (Event Admin context) by default

Updating to Event Espresso 4.4.3

One-click updates are available via the WordPress Plugins page within the WP dashboard to members who have activated their support license key. The support license key can be found on your Event Espresso account page and it is activated through the General Settings page for Event Espresso within your WordPress admin (WP dashboard).

Be sure to backup your WordPress site. Then login to your WordPress admin and click on Plugins in the WordPress admin menus. Locate Event Espresso within the list of plugins and click on Update Now.

You can also manually update your Event Espresso software. Here is information on how to manually update Event Espresso via SFTP or FTP.

What Happened to Event Espresso 4.4.1 and 4.4.2?

These versions were released within a few days of each other. Here is the changelog for Event Espresso 4.4.1 and the changelog for Event Espresso 4.4.2.

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A maintenance release for Event Espresso 4 is now available. Event Espresso 4.3.2.p offers 4 fixes.

Bugfixes for Event Espresso 4.3.2

• Fixed SPCO return to pay in cases where the event is sold out / reached maximum capacity of approved registrations
• Fixed updates to core clearing out tables added by add-ons
• Fixed the mysterious sales tax display in the ticket price breakdown
• Fixed migration error when migrating from EE3

Updating to Event Espresso 4.3.2

One-click updates are available via the WordPress Plugins page within the WP dashboard to members who have activated their support license key. The support license key can be found on your Event Espresso account page and it is activated through the General Settings page for Event Espresso within your WordPress admin (WP dashboard).

Be sure to backup your WordPress site. Then login to your WordPress admin and click on Plugins in the WordPress admin menus. Locate Event Espresso within the list of plugins and click on Update Now.

You can also manually update your Event Espresso software. Here is information on how to manually update Event Espresso via SFTP or FTP.

A maintenance release for Event Espresso 4 is now available. Event Espresso 4.3.1.p offers 14 fixes and 3 enhancements.

Bugfixes

• Fix event datetime comparison to now for upcoming events widget
• Add limit to session transient delete query
• Fix flat fee discount/surcharge not showing in the price breakdown
• Fix undefined function deactivate_plugins()
• Fix [ESPRESSO_EVENTS] show_expired=false parameter
• Fix calendar shortcode parsing on page with [ESPRESSO_EVENTS] shortcode on it
• Fix 1 click updates not working for addons
• Fix error when changing timezone to half hour increments
• Fix event_espresso text domain typos
• Fix [EVENT_AUTHOR_FORMATTED_EMAIL] shortcode
• Incorrect array configuration for Plugin Update Engine in EE_Register_Addon
• Fix receipt HTML issues
• Fix issue where EE_DMS_New_Addon_0_0_2.dms.php does not have constructor
• Fix issue where core misinforms addons when it’s a new install

Enhancements

• Change minimum PHP version notification to say next major version will drop support for PHP 5.2
• Add in validation of active messengers and message types
• Update Category help tour

A maintenance release for Event Espresso 4 is now available. Event Espresso 4.2.9.p offers 4 fixes and 3 enhancements.

Bugfixes

• Fix undefined variable $is_IE in Event Espresso admin routes
• Fix styling issue with help tours in the WordPress admin
• Restore functionality for [ATTENDEE_EMAIL] shortcode
• Fix reverse order of registration information on order confirmation invoice

Enhancements

• Move ticket selector towards top of page to improve speed of registrations
• Allow the default uncategorized category slug to be changed
• Allow editing of the category hierarchy

A maintenance release for Event Espresso 4 is now available. Event Espresso 4.2.8.p offers 4 fixes and 1 enhancement.

Bugfixes

• Fix issue with ticket pricing being retrieved from PHP session
• Fix issue with datetimes missing assigned tickets
• Fix typos in language domain
• Fix compatibility issue with WordPress 4.0

Enhancements

• Translate month names in invoice payment gateway

Event Espresso 4 comes with provinces/states for Canada and the United States. Starting today, you can download new state/province packs for various countries.

These are not language files and will not allow you to translate Event Espresso. Language files are available through our translations site and here is information on changing the language used in Event Espresso.

These state/province packs or addons will add a list of states or provinces for a specific country. They will then be available for use throughout Event Espresso including in the venue editor and the registrations form.

Available Countries

Information for the following countries are available for download right now:

• Argentina
• Australia
• Belgium
• Brazil
• France
• Germany
• Italy
• Netherlands
• Spain
• Sweden
• United Kingdom

They are WordPress plugins and can be installed through your WordPress dashboard by uploading and activating them through your Plugins screen.

We’ll be adding new state/province addons regularly so be sure to check out our documentation page for updates. If you find an error, please post to our support forums or create a new issue on Github.

A maintenance release for Event Espresso 4 is now available. Event Espresso 4.2.7.p offers 14 fixes.

Bugfixes

• Prevent duplication of venues when migrating from Event Espresso 3
• Show the current value when changes are saved through the default price type editor
• Restore the [EVENT_LIST] messages shortcode for the [ATTENDEE_LIST]
• Fix styling issue with dropdown menus in the Add New Registration screen
• Fix undeclared variable in EE_Shortcodes::_validate_list_requirements()
• Restore the ability for the messages system to display information from system questions
• Correct a variable name to clear a PHP warning in EE_Event_List_Shortcodes.lib.php
• Fix infinite loop issue related to event excerpts
• Fix transaction time for offsite payments gateways (e.g. Mijireh, PayPal) so they are recorded with the correct timezone
• Fix email links used by the messages system
• Restore the [EVENT_AUTHOR_EMAIL] messages shortcode for the [EVENT_LIST]
• Adjust saving of primary registrant information so this information is only saved to the primary attendee record
• Fix insecure warning caused by Google maps loading over http while on an https page
• Fix error from missing help tab for the Check-In Records screen