---
title: "Events Calendar Pro 7.7.4"
source: "https://docs.nexcess.com/software/the-events-calendar/release-notes-events-calendar-pro-7-7-4/"
description: "Summary Maintenance Release The latest version of Events Calendar Pro focuses on improving compatibility and squashing bugs that were causing errors and warning…"
vertical: "Software"
area: "The Events Calendar"
date: "2025-09-16"
last_modified: "2026-07-06"
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# Events Calendar Pro 7.7.4

### Summary

Maintenance Release

The latest version of Events Calendar Pro focuses on improving compatibility and squashing bugs that were causing errors and warnings to appear.

As always, we recommend [testing updates](https://docs.nexcess.com/software/the-events-calendar/creating-and-using-a-wordpress-staging-site/) on a staging site first, but it should all be smooth sailing.

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#### ✅ Fixed

Bugs that were squashed in this release:

- Adds “WC tested up to” and “WC requires at least” headers to events-calendar-pro.php.
- Adds plugin requires header to events-calendar-pro.php.
- Corrects “Closures / anonymous functions declared as static do not have access to $this”.
- Corrects an issue with JIT translations.
- Removes deprecated FILTER\_SANITIZE\_MAGIC\_QUOTES.
- Updates htmlspecialchars() and html\_entity\_decode() usage to make them PHP 8.1 compatible.

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#### ⚙️ Tweaks

Tweaks in this release:

- Leverages WP’s new “requires plugin” header to prevent activating ECP if TEC is not active.
- Updates single-venue template handling to avoid warnings in PHP 8.3.
- Ensures that the correct header is shown for the Date & Time settings.
- Changed views: `v2/organizer/meta`, `v2/venue/meta`, `v2/widgets/widget-countdown/complete`

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#### ? Translations

Updated language files, strings or whatever:

- 0 new strings added
- 145 updated
- 0 fuzzied,
- 1 obsoleted.