Changelog

Welcome to the changelog section of Freemius, here you’ll find our weekly technical update notes. You can subscribe to all posts via newsletter or follow us on Twitter to stay updated.

This week we’re rolling out a new feature requested by many of our makers. As you know, Freemius seamlessly handles selling and licensing WordPress products. Your customers can go through the Checkout either from their WordPress admin or from your own website.

After completing the Checkout, they will receive a license key that they can use to upgrade to or activate the premium version.

However, many makers gave us feedback that license keys could sometimes be misused, or customers simply didn’t remember activating them on a particular website. This could create confusion and result in unnecessary support tickets.

To address this, today we’re rolling out a new notification email that Freemius can automatically send to your users whenever their license is activated on a website.

License activation notification email showing the website where the WordPress product license was activated

The email will show them the website where the license was activated and will also include a link to the Customer Portal should they want to manage the license.

This feature is not enabled by default. To turn it on, go to Notifications from the top menu and find the Notify users/customer when… section. From there, enable the Their WordPress product license is activated on a website setting.

Freemius Developer Dashboard notification setting for WordPress product license activation

We hope you will find this feature useful. If you have any feedback, please let us know by clicking the Help button from the Developer Dashboard.

August 26, 2026

This week, our backend and API systems are getting a few QoL updates.

  • We noticed that the submit button in the review email was not working in some email clients. We have rolled out a fix for it.
  • In some rare edge cases, our system could incorrectly send an annual renewal reminder email to customers on trials. We have identified and fixed this issue as well.

August 26, 2026

This week, we rolled out some UX improvements to our Plans & Pricing page, with a particular focus on multi-currency pricing.

When you add pricing for a new currency, our Dashboard already makes the process easier by cloning your existing pricing. Until now, it always used USD as the source currency. It would create the same number of license variations (or quota variations) and convert the USD prices to the target currency based on the current exchange rate.

However, this meant that if you didn’t have USD pricing configured, the newly created pricing would be empty.

With today’s deployment, the Dashboard will now automatically pick the first available currency and clone the pricing from there. This makes adding new currencies work seamlessly regardless of which currency you started with.

Plans & Pricing page showing a new currency being cloned from an existing non-USD currency

In addition, the newly created pricing will now preserve the pricing convention of the source currency.

For example:

  • If your original pricing uses integers only, the converted pricing will also use integers, regardless of the exchange rate.
  • If your original pricing ends in .99, the newly generated pricing will follow the same convention.

This should make it easier to expand your pricing into additional currencies without having to manually clean up converted prices afterward, while keeping your pricing consistent across markets.

August 18, 2026

We noticed an edge-case bug in our Checkout where, if a pricing configuration was incomplete or invalid, it could appear incorrectly in the license dropdown during a license renewal.

License renewal Checkout showing the pricing dropdown

We have identified and fixed the bug. As part of the fix, we also tested various license renewal scenarios to make sure the Checkout handles different pricing configurations correctly.

August 18, 2026

Following requests from our makers, this week we’re rolling out support for yet another local currency in our Checkout: the Serbian Dinar.

To set it up, simply go to Plans → Pricing in the Developer Dashboard and add the RSD currency.

Adding RSD currency pricing from the Freemius Developer Dashboard

Once configured, your Checkout is ready to accept payments in Serbian Dinar.

Freemius Checkout displaying pricing in Serbian Dinar (RSD)

We hope this helps you better serve and convert customers in your local market. If you have a significant local audience and would like Freemius to support another regional currency, please get in touch with us. We’re always happy to evaluate demand and expand our local currency support.

In addition, we noticed a regression that prevented the Serbian translation from working correctly in the Checkout. We’ve rolled out a fix for that as well.

August 11, 2026