Release: The Events Calendar/PRO 3.0

[Rob]

Well, the day is finally here: The Events Calendar 3.0 / Events Calendar PRO 3.0 are live! Thanks to everyone for their patience as we worked to get this finalized (and missed a few self-imposed deadlines along the way). This is a HUGE release – so big that we’ve started the changelog over from scratch. There are a ton of new features and you’ll want to check out the product page for specifics.

Because of the update’s size, please also make sure you’re considering this when updating your site. You’re going to want to:

1. Back up your site entirely before beginning the process.
2. Update The Events Calendar and Events Calendar PRO to 2.0.11 (the last stable release) before making the jump to 3.0.
3. When updating to 3.0, make sure you do The Events Calendar FIRST. If you are using Events Calendar PRO too, that update should not be initiated until after The Events Calendar 3.0 update has completed.
4. Not seeing the update prompt at the backend of your site? Don’t worry: you can force it to check manually by navigating to Dashboard -> Updates, and hitting “Check Again.” You may need to hit it a few times – but eventually, you’ll see messaging confirming that the updates are ready to install.

One last point: since this is such a huge release, there are bound to be bugs. We QA’d the heck out of 3.0 but there’s no way to test every single use case – so we’re looking to you guys to report issues. The release of 3.0 marks the return to our monthly maintenance release schedule, so we’ll be releasing maintenance builds to patch bugs frequently over the coming weeks/months.

Thanks again to everyone for their patience so far. We look forward to hearing your feedback.

[Author]

Posts