* Fix – Prevented pending gift card balances from exposing another customer's order payment link.
* Fix – Gift card logo overlapped the text on the Gift Cards admin blank state screens instead of appearing above it.
* Fix – Restricted Gift Card order item configuration to authorized order editors.
* Fix – Applied gift card code masking to order REST and admin representations.
* Fix – Prevented Gift Card email links from blocking PHP workers.
* Fix – Secured background update requests without forwarding browser cookies.
* Fix – Required authentication before rendering account gift card data.
* Fix – Generated gift card codes with a cryptographically secure random source.
* Fix – Protected order cancellation links from unauthorized pay-page visitors.
* Fix – Restricted Gift Card order mutations to authorized order editors.
* Fix – Sanitized custom Gift Card shortcode wrapper markup.
* Fix – Prevented translations from loading before WordPress initialization.
* Fix – Stopped checking WooCommerce's retired Marketing feature flag.
* Dev – Pinned GitHub Actions to immutable commit revisions.
* Dev – Pinned the secret-bearing AI review workflow to an immutable revision.
* Dev – Managed changelog entries with the Jetpack Changelogger, so pull requests add a change file instead of editing changelog.txt.
* Dev – Removed redundant and low-value tests.

* Fix – Store staff are no longer blocked at checkout. Administrators, editors and shop managers are now exempt from checkout email verification, so they can place test orders without being held behind the verification popup.
* Fix – The cev_smart_form shortcode no longer renders the login/register form to visitors who are already signed in.
* Fix – Corrected the template path used by the front-end popup preview, which stopped the preview from loading.
* Fix – Removed a duplicate key in the checkout script data that could override the resend countdown text.
* Dev – Replaced deprecated WooCommerce cart properties with their supported accessors, preserving tax-inclusive subtotals on tax-enabled stores.
* Dev – Corrected the registration type of three hooks (pre_get_users, block_categories_all, woocommerce_form_field) to match WordPress and WooCommerce.
* Dev – Resolved all findings from the WooCommerce marketplace static-analysis (Quality Insights) audit.
* Dev – Tested with WooCommerce 11.0.1
* Dev – Tested with WordPress 7.1

* Update: Tested up to WordPress 7.1
* Update: WordPress 6.5 is now the minimum supported version
* Update: Tested up to WooCommerce 11.0
* Update: WooCommerce 9.0 is now the minimum supported version

* Update: Tested up to WordPress 7.1
* Update: WordPress 6.5 is now the minimum supported version
* Update: WooCommerce 9.0 is now the minimum supported version

* Update: WordPress 6.5 is now the minimum supported version

* Fix: readme.txt still said Tested up to WordPress 7.0; it now matches the plugin header at 7.1
* Update: WordPress 6.5 is now the minimum supported version