Update 2.8.9 – Breaking Changes in User Data Retrieval

Hi everyone,

I’ve encountered a significant issue after updating Ultimate Member from version 2.8.6 to 2.8.9 that affects several of my custom plugins. Therefore I needed to rollback to the older version.

After the update, my custom plugins that rely on retrieving user data during the login process have stopped working correctly. Specifically, the um_user() function is returning null for all user data fields.

Code Example:

add_action('um_user_login', array($this, 'login_user'), 9);

// Inside the login_user method:
array(
    'user_id' => um_user('ID'),
    'username' => um_user('user_login'),
    'user_email' => um_user('user_email'),
)

Previous Behavior (2.8.6): – The code successfully retrieved user information during login – All fields returned proper user data

Current Behavior (2.8.9): – All um_user() calls return null – The plugins are non-functional due to missing user data

Environment Details: – Ultimate Member Version: 2.8.9 – Previous Working Version: 2.8.6 – WordPress Version: 6.6.2

Has anyone else experienced similar issues with the update? Any suggestions for alternative methods to retrieve user data during login would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you for your help!