4 versions
The Events Calendar Filter Bar history.
Every release of The Events Calendar Filter Bar is archived here with its changelog, file size, and security scan result. Use the archive to roll back to a stable release or audit what changed between updates.
3 of 4 releases scanned clean
v5.6.6Latest
July 23, 2026340.8 KBScanned
Added
- Add a Filter Bar setting to batch filter selections behind an Apply button, improving keyboard accessibility.
Fixed
- Corrected encoding of additional field filter values containing spaces so the FilterBar no longer returns empty results when adding a second filter from a direct link.
- Resolved additional field filter matching and display issues for values containing quotes, percent signs, or plus-encoded spaces.
- Resolved an issue where additional field filters did not return events when an option value contained special characters such as commas or ampersands, and where the active filter state could display incorrectly.
- Resolved an issue where the Cost filter range slider stopped filtering on sites with cent-priced events.
- Resolved a PHP warning when the Cost filter was displayed as checkboxes.
- Resolved fatal errors that could occur when the Cost or Date filters received malformed request parameters.
Other
- Language - 4 new strings added, 16 updated, 0 fuzzied, and 0 obsoleted.
March 12, 2026338.8 KBScanned
Improved
- Add appropriate ARIA roles to dropdown versus multiselect elements. [FBAR-360]
- Changed views: `v2_1/components/pill-button`, `v2_1/components/pill`
Other
- Accessibility - Close the filter options and move the focus back to the toggle button using the eescape key. [FBAR-358]
- Accessibility - Move the focus to the first viable option when navigating via keyboard. [FBAR-357]
- Accessibility - Trap focus within the filter options when navigating with keyboard. [FBAR-362]
- Language - 0 new strings added, 1 updated, 0 fuzzied, and 0 obsoleted.
v5.6.1Unavailable
December 24, 2025332.3 KBUnknown
Improved
- Migrated build system from gulp to wp-scripts with Tyson for modern asset compilation
- Removed filters: `tribe_events_filters_css_version
Other
- Language - 0 new strings added, 27 updated, 0 fuzzied, and 0 obsoleted.
September 17, 2025336.5 KBScanned
Fixed
- Added new class to handle special character parsing. [FBAR-247]
Improved
- * Tweak - Added filters: `tec_events_filterbar_encoding_helper_encode_for_url`, `tec_events_filterbar_encoding_helper_decode_from_url`, `tec_events_filterbar_encoding_helper_encode_for_form`, `tec_events_filterbar_encoding_helper_decode_from_form`
- Leverage WP's new "requires plugin" header https://make.wordpress.org/core/2024/03/05/introducing-plugin-dependencies-in-wordpress-6-5/ to prevent activating FBAR if TEC is not active.
Other
- Compatibility - PHP 8.3 compatibility improvements. [FBAR-352]
- Language - 1 new strings added, 10 updated, 0 fuzzied, and 1 obsoleted.
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