s2Member v261001 (Framework and Pro) was released on October 1st, 2026. (Framework) Improvement: PayPal Checkout buttons now keep a recoverable record of each checkout, allowing s2Member to complete a subscription signup even if the customer closes the page or loses their connection before the final confirmation. PayPal's verified webhook can finish the signup using the original purchase details, while checkout retries reuse the same subscription instead of creating another. Thanks to Felix f...
s2Member v260927 (Framework and Pro) was released on September 27th, 2026. (Pro) Fix: Improved Stripe 3D Secure recovery when browser and webhook processing overlap, or when the browser loses the final checkout response after successful authentication. s2Member now reconciles those recovery paths using the saved checkout state so successful signups can finish correctly without repeating fulfillment. Thanks to Felix for reporting it. See thread #13627. (Framework) Fix: Improved Gateway Checkou...
s2Member v260917 (Framework and Pro) was released on September 17th, 2026. (Framework) Performance: Further improved searching on the WP Admin > Users screen, building on the performance improvements introduced in v260909. Searches across user profiles and s2Member membership data now require substantially less database work, with the biggest benefit on sites with large member databases. This can make member administration noticeably faster while preserving the same searchable fields, sorting...
s2Member v260913 (Framework and Pro) was released on September 13th, 2026. (Framework) Fix: Made frontend CSS/JavaScript monitoring less impatient on sites where expected assets take a little longer to become active. Although the monitor already waited until the page had fully loaded before checking, some setups make their CSS/JavaScript become active a little later, which could cause a false alarm. This has now been fixed. Thanks to Gerard for reporting this. See: thread #13609 (Framework) E...
s2Member v260909 (Framework and Pro) was released on September 9th, 2026. (Framework & Pro) Major Improvement: Until now, s2Member normally generated CSS/JS assets dynamically because some of their contents can change depending on the visitor or other conditions. Dynamic generation requires PHP and WordPress to load before each file can be built. s2Member can now build in advance the parts that don't change and whose contents are shared across all visitors, and save them as static files, ...
s2Member v260829 (Framework and Pro) was released on August 29th, 2026. (Framework) Major Improvement: Rebuilt the Automatic End-of-Term processing engine so membership expirations are handled more reliably and promptly when due, even on busy sites or after delays, while making the system safer to administer and easier to review and troubleshoot. Faster, adaptive processing: Instead of stopping after 6 users, the new engine uses the safe processing time available in each run and adapts to cur...
s2Member v260814 (Framework and Pro) was released on August 14th, 2026. (Framework) Improvement: Better s2Member Security Encryption Key handling and related guidance in the admin panel. (Framework) Improvement: Hardened input validation and sanitization for the s2Key, s2File, s2Stream, and s2Member-PayPal-Button shortcodes. (Framework & Pro) Improvement: Renamed and expanded the s2Get shortcode's user-field whitelist into the shared Shortcode User Fields Whitelist setting, now used for s...
s2Member v260805 (Framework and Pro) was released on August 5th, 2026. (Framework) Improvement: Replaced TinyURL-based shortening for generated Registration Access and Specific Post/Page Access URLs with new built-in s2Member short links, stored temporarily with WordPress transients. Existing TinyURL settings now use the built-in shortener automatically, avoiding TinyURL’s deprecated no-key API endpoint and extra third-party pages shown before the destination. (Framework) Improvement: Bette...
s2Member v260508 (Framework and Pro) was released on May 8th, 2026. (Framework) Fix: PayPal Checkout cancellation shortcodes now keep output="anchor" clickable for logged-out visitors. Only output="button" requires the member to be logged in. See thread 13450 (Framework) Fix: PayPal Checkout no longer aborts if the customer's IP address changes during checkout. IP mismatches are logged, but valid checkouts continue processing. (Framework) Fix: Prevent false Auto-EOT demotions when a stored Au...
s2Member v260410 (Framework and Pro) was released on April 10th, 2026. A special thank you to SimArchitect for reporting most of these issues and helping test their fixes. 🙏 (Framework) Fix: Reduced the upfront requirements for processing PayPal Standard subscr_cancel IPNs so valid cancellations are not ignored when supporting values are missing, stale, or non-membership-specific. (Framework) Fix: Prevent incorrect s2Member notifications in some PayPal Checkout cases where several webhooks...