Release Testing Instructions WooCommerce 5.4

• WooCommerce Admin Updates
  • Release Testing Instructions WooCommerce Admin 2.3.0
• WooCommerce Blocks Updates
  • Smoke testing of regular WC Blocks functionality
  • Add labels and allow searching terms in WooCommerce Navigation Link block variations
• WooCommerce Core Updates
  • Remove set_backorders logic from external products. Closes #29696
  • State and Country field labels on the Checkout page should be read by screen readers. Closes #27317
  • On the action of deleting a product category, we want to reassign any products that have been assigned to deleted category categories to a default Uncategorized category. Closes #29540
  • Make rounding more accurate when prices are entered more than 2dp. Closes #24184 and #28292
• WooCommerce REST API Updates
  • Update the date_query usage in the CRUD controller to be consistent, generating an array of queries
  • Add the dates_are_gmt parameters to REST API to searched posts using the post_date_gmt column.
  • On the action of deleting a product category, we want to reassign any products that have been assigned to deleted category categories to a default Uncategorized category.

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WooCommerce Admin Updates

• Release Testing Instructions WooCommerce Admin 2.3.0

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WooCommerce Blocks Updates

• Smoke testing of regular WC Blocks functionality

Add labels and allow searching terms in WooCommerce Navigation Link block variations.

PR: https://github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce/pull/29772

To test:

1. You will need to install recent nightly of WordPress 5.8 (you can use WordPress beta tester for this) and the latest version of Gutenberg.
2. Create a page and add a Navigation block.
3. Inside the navigation block, add a product link, a product category link, and a product tag link and verify all of them work correctly and have labels that make it clear they are related to products.

Before	After

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WooCommerce Core Updates

Remove set_backorders logic from external products. Closes #29696.

PR: https://github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce/pull/29766

To test:

1. Create an Affiliated/External product.
2. Go to the product list and check the bulk edit checkbox for the external product.
3. On the Bulk actions dropdown select Edit then Apply
4. Go to Backorders dropdown and select any value.
5. Click on Update
6. Ensure there are no errors in your logs and the product updated without issues.

State and Country field labels on the Checkout page should be read by screen readers. Closes #27317.

PR: https://github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce/pull/29706

To test:

1. Add products to cart, go to checkout.
2. Enable screen reader in operating system (on Mac, it's called "Voiceover" and is located in accessibility settings). Or you can use an actual screen reader if you have.
3. Cycle through the fields on checkout page and make sure that State and Country field labels are being read by the screen reader.

See #27317 for the screenshots in order to understand what is expected.

On the action of deleting a product category, we want to reassign any products that have been assigned to deleted category categories to a default Uncategorized category. Closes #29540.

PR: https://github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce/pull/29681

To test:

1. Create a product category.
2. Create several simple products and assign them the category from step 1.
3. Now go to the product category page and delete the category you've created in step 1.
4. Go back to the products page and ensure these products have the Uncategorized category assigned instead of nothing.

Make rounding more accurate when prices are entered more than 2dp. Closes #24184 and #28292.

PR: https://github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce/pull/29318

To test:

Case1: From 24184 first comment

1. Set the rounding to subtotal level, and price entered exclusive taxes from WooCommerce > Settings > Tax.
2. Add a tax rate of 20%.
3. Add a product for price 30.825. Add it to cart.
4. Checkout the cart and confirm that prices are 36.99. Without this fix, they would be 37.

Case 2: From #28292

1. Set the rounding to subtotal level, and price entered inclusive taxes from WooCommerce > Settings > Tax.
2. Add a tax rate of 23%.
3. Set the decimals displayed to 0 from WooCommerce > Settings > General
4. Add a product for 301.90909. Add it to cart.
5. Checkout the cart and confirm that prices everywhere is 302. Without this fix they would be 301.

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WooCommerce REST API Updates

Update the date_query usage in the CRUD controller to be consistent, generating an array of queries.

PR: https://github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce/pull/29909

To test:

1. From the WordPress general settings page (/wp-admin/options-general.php), set the timezone of your site to "UTC +4".
2. Create a new order from WooCommerce > Orders > Add Order (/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=shop_order).
3. Set the date created to 2021-05-14 @ 00:00.
4. Create a REST API Key from WooCommerce > Settings > Advanced > REST API. Take note of the consumer key and secret.
5. Make a request to the orders endpoint to verify that post_date_gmt is used. See example below. Replace [domain], [consumer_key], and [consumer_secret]:

curl "https://[domain]/wp-json/wc/v3/orders?dates_are_gmt=true&after=2021-05-13T19:00:00&before=2021-05-13T22:00:00&consumer_key=[consumer_key]&consumer_secret=[consumer_secret]"

6. Verify that the order you created in step 2 is included in the results.

Added the dates_are_gmt parameters to REST API to searched posts using the post_date_gmt column.

PR: https://github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce/pull/28132

To test:

1. Install WordPress/WooCommerce with testing data.
2. Generate some API Keys.
3. Make a REST API request to the 'https://localhost.com/wp-json/wc/v2/orders' end point and use the dates_are_gmt parameters to allow the before and after parameters to use the post_date_gmt column if it is true. Example:

https://localhost.com/wp-json/wc/v3/orders?dates_are_gmt=true&after=2021-04-24T06:00:00&before=2021-04-24T14:00:00&consumer_key=xxx&consumer_secret=xxx

On the action of deleting a product category, we want to reassign any products that have been assigned to deleted category categories to a default Uncategorized category.

PR: https://github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce/pull/29681

To test:

1. Create a product category.
2. Create several simple products and assign them the category from step 1.
3. Now go to the product category page and delete the category you've created in step 1.
4. Go back to the products page and ensure these products have the Uncategorized category assigned instead of nothing.
5. Do the same test with REST API deleting the product category via wp-json/wc/v3/products/categories/{cat_id} endpoint using DELETE method. Tip make sure to have a JSON payload of "force": true for this to work.