The Events Calendar 5.5.0

Maintenance Release

This updated version of The Events Calendar 5.5.0 features an update to the single event design and a deprecation notice for our legacy views.

This is a maintenance release that focuses on added features and bug fixes.

As always, we recommend updating on a staging site, just to be safe, but it should all be smooth sailing.

New features included in this release:

We added has_event and has_no_events to the Venue and Organizer ORM so we can filter requests for both by whether they have events or not.
We added rel=noreferrer to Google Map links in order to improve performance and avoid security issues.
We now include actions before and after the creation of a view for REST API requests.
We allow specific filtering to add other views into the HTML caching for performance using the hook: tribe_events_views_v2_cached_views
We have begun to include a Legacy views deprecation notice.

Bugs that were squashed in this release:

We inverted the quotation marks to protect against issue with MySQL in ANSI_QUOTES mode.
You’ll now see the correct display order of sticky, featured, and “normal” events in Month View. We also added a class for targeting sticky posts for styling purposes.
We now ensure that the Events List Widget also shows the time zone when this setting is checked in the admin.
Saving an event when using the Block Editor without an Organizer is now working as expected.
Fusion Core/Avada Widget implementation of The Events Calendar will no longer throw warnings on the frontend display.