Release 4.2.0

• Channel: stable
• Deployment target: production
• Published: 2026-03-31T20:11:33Z
• Release tag: v4.2.0

[4.2.0] - 2026-03-31

Customer-Facing Changes

Admin Panel

• Added IPN retry controls and webhook delivery details on transaction detail pages.
• Added Stripe webhook API version guidance and enhanced setup instructions.
• Added organization member management and user settings configuration.
• Added tax rate, rule, and settings management.
• Improved address handling, validation behavior, and payment link settings descriptions.
• Improved checkout detail and creation screens for better user flow.
• Updated provider and transaction screens to clarify wire transfer terminology and instructions.
• Improved recurring invoice handling and calculation behavior.

APIs And Integrations

• Added a new retry IPN endpoint and enhanced transaction handling capabilities.
• Added organization user management.
• Added ACME HTTP challenge management and domain activation retry behavior.
• Added support for creating manual credit notes for invoices.
• Added a PaymentURL field to invoice and session response types.
• Added VAT validation and tax preview.
• Improved checkout session handling, item mapping, and email formatting.
• Refined payment confirmation descriptions and tax decision handling.
• Improved portal session management and transaction service methods.

Checkout And Customer Portal

• Expanded checkout payment handling and localized finalization messages.
• Added an optional company name field and improved VAT ID validation messages during checkout billing entry.
• Added VAT ID validation and tax preview features on the checkout payment form.
• Updated localization guidance to clarify currency selection for wire and Wise payments.

Deployment And Operations

• Added webhook processing status updates for Stripe and GoCardless.
• Clarified VAT ID validation behavior in the API documentation.
• Updated reverse proxy routing to support ACME HTTP validation tokens and mandatory HTTPS redirection.

Deployment Notes

Use the updater from payment-gateway-deploy to install this release. Exact image references and digests are resolved from signed release metadata and deployment tooling instead of being duplicated in these notes.

Security Artifacts

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