Lack of Quality Control

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<p class=””>Most of the times Woocommerce is great. However, every so often an update will bite you hard. For example, WooCommerce 8.5.0 which was release on January 9, 2024. It added a series of cookies with names starting with sbjs_. The content of these cookies made a number of firewalls believe queries were attempting malicious SQL requests. As a result, hundreds of WooCommerce sites were being blocked by web application firewalls.<br>Within hours of releasing the update, Woo had to pull WooCommerce 8.5.0 because it broke so many websites.<br>There is definitely a lack of quality control, and a lack of testing updates under real life situations to make sure the updates don’t bring down hundreds of websites.<br>For a plugin that wants to be a serious e-commerce plugin, WooCommerce needs to implement more rigorous quality controls. Running fast and breaking things is OK if it is just your software. But software that runs e-commerce sites that needs to be reliable 100% of the time, breaking things is not acceptable.</p>
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