Release: The Events Calendar 3.9

Happy holidays, folks! Before the year winds down, we wanted to get out one last substantive build of The Events Calendar. That release – version 3.9 – shipped a few minutes ago. For those curious, below is a breakdown of what it includes:

The Events Calendar 3.9

• Implemented default permalink support for add-ons that weren’t in compliance, specifically Filter Bar
• Fixed a bug where events in child categories would not display when viewing the parent category on month view (thanks to Bryce on the forums for the original report!)
• Fixed bug where the tribe_is_category() function was returning the wrong value
• Added support for Google’s JSON-LD event markup format (thanks to Thomas on the forums for the first request!)
• Lowered the aggressiveness of the activation/upgrade page to improve compatibility with other plugins
• Removed the old activation message, now that we have the new activation screen
• Fixed an issue where the list view date picker did not reflect the ‘Week starts on’ WordPress setting
• Updated CSS selectors to no longer be reliant on microformat classes
• Fixed a couple of layout issues with TwentyFourteen child themes
• Added a Modern Tribe credit in the HTML page source in the footer – this can be removed with the following snippet: https://m.tri.be/p6
• Added links on the settings page to view Welcome/Updated pages
• Fixed an issue where the incorrect icon was displaying for the ‘List’ option in the view switcher
• Fixed a translation issue with the Organizer & Venue field labels on the Add/Edit Event screen (thanks to Oliver for reporting this on the forums!)
• Enhanced structured data support in relation to the ticketing framework
• Removed jquery 1.7 specific fallback javascript bloat, now support >= 1.8
• Revised CSS to help avoid theme compatibility issues causing event dates/times to be hidden (thanks to thepresenters on the forum for the first report!)
• Improved integration between the ticketing framework and the Filter Bar plugin (thanks to brandonpence on the forums for the heads up here!)
• Added useful system information to the help screen to assist in support and troubleshooting for the core plugin
• Enhanced month view to populate the leading/trailing days of adjacent months included in the current view
• Fixed a bug in the ticketing framework causing ticket start sale dates to reset to 1st January 1970 (thanks to loveyourlocalgroup on the forums for the first report!)
• Extended the attendee list’s filtering capabilities to cover purchaser names (big thanks to Adam on the forums for the first report of this!)
• Added support for WP-eCommerce, Easy Digital Downloads and Shopp plugins to show sold and pending tickets count in the attendee list.
• Incorporated updated Icelandic translation files, courtesy of Baldvin ?rn Berndsen
• Incorporated updated German translation files, courtesy of Oliver Heinrich
• Incorporated updated Greek translation files, courtesy of Yannis Troullinos
• Incorporated new Lithuanian translation files, courtesy of Gediminas Pankevicius

We look forward to your feedback! Remember that this forum is generally checked every Wednesday, so we’ll look for bug reports on tomorrow’s pass as usual. Thanks to everyone for their support this past year and for being friends of the Tribe as we move into 2015.