Events revert to Draft on update

Hi Events Manager Team,

We’re experiencing an issue after updating to Events Manager 7.3.7.4. Issue

When updating an existing published event, the event is automatically changed back to Draft. Investigation

We traced the issue to the following validation in EM_Event::validate_meta():

if ( !$this->get_timeranges()->validate() ) {    $this->add_error( $this->get_timeranges()->errors );}

The validation error returned is:

Timeranges cannot overlap with each other.

However, the event editor only displays a single all-day timerange (12:00 AM – 11:59 PM).

We dumped the EM\Event\Timeranges object during validation and found that it contains two identical all-day timeranges for the same event, which appears to be why the validation fails.

Both timeranges have:

• timerange_group_id: event_1577
• timerange_start: 00:00:00
• timerange_end: 23:59:59
• timerange_all_day: 1

Since validate_meta() returns false, wp_insert_post_data() sets the post status to Draft. Questions

• Is this a known issue in 7.3.7.4?
• Has the timerange validation changed recently?
• Are there any known cases where duplicate timeranges are created or loaded during validation?
• Is there a recommended fix or patch?

We’re happy to provide additional debugging information if needed.

Thanks in advance!