Release Notes: Fixes, Tweaks, and New Features for Eventbrite Imports & Events Calendar PRO

This week’s maintenance release includes two notable features in addition to our regular tweaks, enhancements, and bug fixes: a new default post setting for Eventbrite imports (full details here) and a new Related Events block for Events Calendar PRO.

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Release Notes

Welcome to our Maintenance Release for the Week of 11th of February! If this is your first time getting an update from us, Maintenance Releases are smaller updates between major releases and are mostly comprised of bug fixes, tweaks, and small (but meaningful!) improvements. We always recommend using a staging site to test these changes before updating on a live site.

To see all of the changes included this Maintenance Release, check out the changelogs for all updated plugins below:

• The Events Calendar 4.8.1
• Events Calendar PRO 4.6.1
• Eventbrite Tickets 4.6.1
• Advanced Post Manager 4.5
• Not Updated This Release

The Events Calendar 4.8.1

• Feature – Introduced a new “(do not override)” default post status for Eventbrite imports in Event Aggregator. This preserves events’ original statuses from Eventbrite.com upon import (e.g., “draft” events will not be automatically set to “publish” upon import)
• Fix – Make sure the setting for “Default mobile view” is respected. Thanks to Kathleen, Tim and others for reporting this!
• Fix – Apply block closer to price block
• Tweak – Added new filter `tribe_aggregator_new_event_post_status_before_import` to allow for custom handling of an event’s post status before EA an import is completed
• Tweak – Added filters: `tribe_events_admin_js_ajax_url_data`
• Tweak – Unload Image Widget Plus version 1.0.2 or older to prevent it from creating fatals on The Events Calendar
• Fix – Improve conditionals on `Tribe__Timezones::generate_timezone_string_from_utc_offset` to return only string timezones
• Language – 7 new strings added, 139 updated, 0 fuzzied, and 1 obsoleted

Events Calendar PRO 4.6.1

• Feature – Added the “Related Events” block
• Fix – Improve the Additional Fields presentation both in the back-end and front-end
• Tweak – Changed views:
  • `blocks/additional-fields/checkbox`
  • `blocks/additional-fields/dropdown`
  • `blocks/additional-fields/radio`
  • `blocks/additional-fields/text`
  • `blocks/additional-fields/textarea`
  • `blocks/additional-fields/url`
  • `blocks/related-events`
  • `blocks/related-events/event-info`
  • `blocks/related-events/event-thumbnail`
  • `blocks/related-events/event`
  • `blocks/related-events/title`
• Language – 1 new strings added, 50 updated, 0 fuzzied, and 0 obsoleted

Eventbrite Tickets 4.6.1

• Feature – Introduced the new “(do not override)” default post status for Eventbrite imports. This preserves events’ original statuses from Eventbrite.com upon import (e.g., “draft” events will not be automatically set to “publish” upon import)
• Fix – Ensure the “Use image on Eventbrite.com” checkbox in the Classic Editor behaves consistently
• Fix – Ensure that featured images adhere to the rules of the Update Authority setting in Events > Settings > Imports
• Language – 0 new strings added, 60 updated, 0 fuzzied, and 0 obsoleted

Advanced Post Manager 4.5

• Tweak – Change the required Version of PHP to 5.6

Not Updated This Release

The following plugins have not been updated this release and will remain at the version numbers specified here:

• Events Tickets 4.10.0.1
• Events Ticket Plus 4.10.0.2
• Community Events 4.6
• Community Tickets 4.6
• Filterbar 4.6
• GigPress 2.3.22
• Image Widget 4.4.7
• Image Widget Plus 1.0.2