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WooCommerce Royal Mail Shipping Changelog

Every recorded version, newest first, with what changed in each one.

Latest 4.1.2 · Oct 26, 202615 versionsSince Mar 2026

2026 · 15 versions

  1. 4.1.2

    Latest
    1 fix
    Fixed
    • The settings page description now shows the effective date of the rates in use, in the site date format, instead of a fixed year, and links to the current Royal Mail price guide.
  2. 4.1.1

    1 improvement2 fixes
    Improved
    • WooCommerce 11.2 Compatibility.
    Fixed
    • Prevent direct access to the main plugin file.
    • Use the plugin text domain for the rate sync notice dismiss label.
  3. 4.1.0

    1 new1 fix
    New
    • Royal Mail and Parcelforce rates effective October 5, 2026.
    Fixed
    • Shipping rates are no longer removed by a fatal error, and no longer silently disappear, when third-party code returns invalid data from the rate bands or boxes filters. The invalid value is now ignored and a notice is logged when debugging is enabled.
  4. 4.0.9

    1 improvement1 fix
    Improved
    • WooCommerce 11.1 Compatibility.
    Fixed
    • Royal Mail Tracked 24 and Tracked 48 with Age Verification are no longer offered. Royal Mail publishes no online price for them, so they appeared in the settings but never returned a rate.
  5. 4.0.8

    1 improvement
    Improved
    • WordPress 7.1 Compatibility.
  6. 4.0.7

    2 improvements
    Improved
    • Remove Product Block Editor integration to prevent fatal errors on WooCommerce 11.0.
    • WooCommerce 11.0 Compatibility.
  7. 4.0.6

    1 new
    New
    • New filters woocommerce_shipping_royalmail_skip_item_box_packing and woocommerce_shipping_royalmail_packages to let developers customise box packing and packages.
  8. 4.0.5

    1 improvement
    Improved
    • WooCommerce 10.9 Compatibility.
  9. 4.0.4

    1 new1 improvement1 fix
    New
    • Read-only abilities woocommerce-shipping-royalmail/list-services and woocommerce-shipping-royalmail/get-settings for the WooCommerce Abilities API.
    Improved
    • Update Jetpack Autoloader to v5.
    Fixed
    • On new installations, rates are now returned by default for orders whose declared value exceeds the service's included compensation cover.
  10. 4.0.3

    2 improvements1 fix
    Improved
    • WooCommerce 10.8 Compatibility.
    • WordPress 7.0 Compatibility.
    Fixed
    • International Tracked: additional compensation upgrade fee is now correctly added to the rate when the package value exceeds the included cover and "Enable Additional Compensation" is checked.
  11. 4.0.2

    2 fixes
    Fixed
    • Remove orphaned rate rows from the database when their corresponding rate-files-json directory no longer exists.
    • International Tracked rates no longer silently drop at checkout when merchants configure custom international parcel boxes and package weight exceeds 2kg.
  12. 4.0.1

    1 improvement2 fixes
    Improved
    • WooCommerce 10.7 Compatibility.
    Fixed
    • Correct and add missing rates per April 2026 Royal Mail price guide.
    • Prevent stale rates from previous pricing cycles being served from the database cache.
  13. 4.0.0

    2 new1 improvement
    New
    • Royal Mail and Parcelforce rates effective April 7, 2026.
    • Manual "Sync rates from local files" button in WooCommerce → Settings → Shipping → Royal Mail.
    Improved
    • Migrate rate data from hardcoded PHP arrays to local JSON files; rates are cached in the database and re-synced automatically on plugin update.
  14. 3.6.5

    1 new
    New
    • International Tracked Heavier (Medium Parcel) rates for January 2026 online pricing.
  15. 3.6.4

    1 improvement
    Improved
    • WooCommerce 10.6 Compatibility.

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