Release Notes

Smartstore 4.2.0

New Features

Dimension Pricing (commercial plugin)

• Freely configurable dimension templates
• Price calculation based on user input for predefined product dimensions
• Shipping rates based on dimension and weight calculation
• Freely configurable shipping formulas for irregular shapes

File Manager (commercial plugin)

• Freely configurable tabs for product detail pages
• Unlimited upload of documents for each product tab
• CSV Import

Digital Product Advisor (commercial plugin)

• Product presentation based on configurable questions and predefined answers
• Product filter based on rule builder rules

Improvements

• Web API: added RewardPointsHistory entity
• Added canonical HTML link for blog, forum and news page
• Better semaphore handling
• Several OpenTrans improvements
• BMEcat: use stream writer to write large xml files & fixed catalog structure

Bugfixes

• #379 & #264 Login failed if login type is user and email and if both username and email are an email address and are not identical.
• #2197 Web API error "The specified type member 'MergedDataValues' is not supported in LINQ to Entities..."
• Web API: fixes OData Connected Service error when accessing MediaFiles and MediaFolders lists
• PayPal Express: fixed order may have been placed even if DoExpressCheckoutPayment failed
• Roxy Filemanager: icons were not displayed anymore
• Azure CloudBlockBlob stream throws on Length access. Fetch Position instead.
• Fixed the uploaded file of a product attribute is lost as soon as another attribute is selected
• Fixes display problem with uploaded media files which contain a + character

New Features

• Page Builder
  • Added newsletter block to subscribe/unsubscribe to the newsletter.
• Rule Builder: added CartItemQuantity rule to specify conditions for the quantity per cart product.
• Added an option to display blog posts and news only for a certain language.
• #2171 Created SEO setting for ExtraAllows.

Improvements

• WebDAVModule is removed in Web.config because it disables PUT and DELETE requests (required by Web API).
• Newsletter subscriptions: added filter for customer roles in export profile and backend list.
• #2167 Added an activity log for order editing.
• Inherit ACL and store mappings into all sub-categories, not only into direct sub-categories.
• #2186 MegaMenu: link for background image had no effect.
• Added honeypot protection to blog post comments.

Bugfixes

• #2162 A plugin could not be uninstalled if it's the only one installed.
• Sometimes no picture was displayed when navigating in the product details' image gallery.
• Deactivated slugs were falsely always redirected without SSL.
• Selected products could not be deleted in the backend product list.
• Web-API: fixed "failed to serialize the response body" when uploading product images and missing product media file mapping if an equal image was found in catalog folder.
• Categories: fixed missing cache invalidation when inheriting ACL or stores into child categories and products.
• Link Builder: the selected media file was not applied.
• Selecting an attribute of type date caused an error on the product detail page.
• AmazonPay: fixed rare "client ID is a required parameter and is not set" when using the login function.
• Various fixes for anti forgery request handling.
• Used mediasettings value for picture rendering in MegaMenu (pictures weren't displayed in MegaMenu dropdowns).
• Mediamanager uploads were marked as being transient.

Highlights

• Web API: now supports the widely extended version 4 of OData. New endpoints for uploading and managing media files have been added to the API.
• (NEW) Delivery dates: product info now shows estimated delivery date (exact date, range, Not before, Not later than). Merchant can enter optional Min/Max delivery days and also specify business hours.
• (DEV) VS Extension to create plugins. Helps developing plugins for Smartstore by creating the basic structure of a Smartstore plugin with all the required files.
• OCI provides connection to e-procurement systems via industry standard OCI (commercial plugin)
• cXmlPunchout provides connection to e-procurement systems via industry standard cXmlPunchout (commercial plugin)
• Video support in product media gallery.
• Media Gallery displays a multitude of media files in various styles as Page Builder block.
• (PERF) ~10% faster page rendering speed thanks to better eager loading & caching strategies

Breaking changes

• The Glimpse plugin is obsolete and has been removed! Does not work with .NET 4.7+ and hasn't been maintained for 7 years now.
• (DEV) Web API: porting to OData v4 has minor incompatibilities with v3. See this blog post for details.
• Blogs\News: the direct language association has been removed. Localized content is now entered using the localization editor. Merging the contents of different languages must be done manually (migration is not possible).
• PostFinance: plugin has been extended and renamed. Users of this payment method must activate PostFinance e-Commerce in backend and enter the API access data again.

New Features

• Theming: responsive font-sizing and spacing
• Page Builder
  • #2042 Added gallery block to display a multitude of media files in various styles.
  • #2036 Added block to display content slider.
  • #2035 Added block to display news.
  • #1729 Added option for title and intro inline background color.
• #1644 Graying out unavailable attribute combinations.
• #1744 Added 'Orders' tab to the product editor to display all orders in which the product has been purchased.
• #1735 Added a setting to open a product directly if the search term matches a SKU, MPN or GTIN.
• #1239 Added configurability for password strength.
• #1678 Determine initial working currency based on IP/country.
• #1697 Added picture and color options to checkout attribute values.
• #1788 Added setting to restrict order amount in general and for customer roles in specific.
• #1978 Added minimum and maximum days to delivery times to show a specific delivery date.
• #1715 Added product attributes selected by customer to RFQ and ask question message.
• (DEV) Full localization support for properties of setting classes.
• #2012 Added paging and sorting for bestsellers report.
• #2014 Added paging and sorting for top customers report.
• #2092 Added meta properties for social media sharing to category, manufacturer, news and blog pages.
• Added option for SameSite mode property of cookies
• #1307 Add 'apple-touch-icon' meta with all common sizes
• #213 Allow special title and meta tags for home

Improvements

• (PERF) 10% faster page rendering speed thanks to better eager loading & caching strategies
• #1981 Added grouping for cart rules.
• #1407 Added menu to set order and payment status for orders checked in backend grid.
• #1778 Back button closes offcanvas menu/cart.
• #2069 MegaSearch: product order is applied to all categories in which a product appears.
• #2052 When editing a product, the stock quantity is only updated if it has not changed since the page was loaded.
• #213 Added options for special title and meta tags on home page.
• #1977 CMS Menu Builder: added new builder types for blogs and news.
• Search Log: added option to hide top search terms in instant search.
• CookieManager: Admin area for user defined cookie information
• CookieManager: More compact frontend layout for mobile devices
• Seo optimization for News, Blog & Boards
• (Admin) More filter options for news & blog items
• #1901 News: Made CreatedOn configurable
• #2078 Hidden news items should be rendered opaque if current user is in admin role.
• #1902 Form registration clears values when switching between site languages
• #1984 Render breadcrumb for pages that are part of the main menu.
• #2121 Media Manager: implement direct file "replace" support.
• #1338 Display 'PanGV' in OffCanvas cart
• #1988 Preconnect all external resources and load them async
• #1968 Dropzone: upload the folder structure when a folder is dropped.
• #1996 Page Builder: Added 'Loading behaviour' option to picture block
• #2100 Improved schema for news, blogs and products

Bugfixes

• Media Manager
  • The file date should be displayed in local time and not in UTC.
• Page Builder
  • Reveal effect on story block conflicted with nested block reveal effects.
  • #2068 Fixed RTL display issues with dropdown menus and slider.
• Export
  • An empty export file was created at the end of an export when using the batch-size option.
  • The offset option skipped one record too much.
  • The XML export of CountryOfOrigin caused an error.
• Message template attachments were not attached to the email.
• Shipment templates showed all products of the order instead of only those of the shipment.
• EasyCredit: fixed "Could not convert setting 'EasyCreditSettings.LastPurchaseLimitUpdatedOn' to type 'DateTime'".
• #2076 Attributes were not pre-selected for all associated products of a grouped product.
• Customer tab on customer role edit page showed deleted customers.
• #2041 Product with call for price did show as free in product list and grid view.
• #2079 Order item editing: order total was not updated when both unit and item price were changed.
• RSS feeds: relative URLs of objects embedded in HTML are replaced by absolute URLs.
• Rules: automatic category assignments of products were not taken into account in a search index updates.
• Campaign preview did not work if there are no newsletter subscribers.
• Many alt & title attribute fixes for pictures
• #2000 Escape toxic chars in meta attributes
• Google Analytics: Fixed script error in conjunction with CookieManager
• #2085 RTL: searchbar button wasn't aligned correctly
• #2068 RTL: Fixed Page Builder slider positioning, dropdown and other alignments
• #2019 OffCancas compare: hide horizontal scrollbar

New Features

• Check on app startup whether any plugin has changed and refresh all plugin locale resources.

Improvements

• Theming: minimal but effective tweaks (rounding, shadows, typo)
• (SEO) (PERF) Preload logo to prevent flashing and web fonts to avoid FOUT on slow internet connection
• Rule Builder:
  • #1969 The preview grid is now displayed in a modal dialog.
  • Added more cart rules: weekday, total quantity of products in cart.
  • Added list with example values for browser, operating system and device family rule.
• #1995 The localized ALT text of media files is now respected for all frontend images.
• SEO: most images in frontend now carry loading="lazy" attribute which loads images only when they enter visible viewport.
• Media Manager:
  • Improved image lazy loading behavior.
  • The reference table of a file now remains open if its data has been loaded.
  • Migration: detect duplicate file names.
• Improved handling of customer roles, e.g. paging for customer role grid.
• (PERF) Use direct SQL to delete guest customers.
• Blog & News items: Unpublished items are visible for shop admins now

Bugfixes

• Order placement validation now also checks whether the selected payment method has been filtered out.
• #1976 The button to cancel recurring payments in my-account was out of function.
• (pb) Flat Box did not invert text color if concrete colors were specified for text parts
• (mm) Store logo is handled by "content" album, not "file"
• (mm) Tracker tracks only the last media file property
• (mm) Migration: Download entity was teared down too early in the migration process.
• (perf) Plugin hash calculation was broken in a way that every plugin was redeployed on each app startup
• A cart rule was not applied if more than one cart rule was assigned to an object.
• MegaSearch: fixed the incorrect featured sorting.
• Added missing paging for shipment list.
• #2009 "Show all" link in top brands list is always rendered in new line but should be last item in last row.

Highlights

• (NEW) Media Manager: Powerful and lightning-fast explorer/manager for media files (commercial plugin exclusively bundled with Pro Edition)
• (NEW) Rule Builder: Powerful rule system for visual business rule creation
  • Dozens of predefined rules out-of-the-box
  • Supports logical operators (AND/OR) and unlimited grouping/nesting
  • Cart rules: can be applied to discounts, shipping and payment methods
  • Customer rules: used to auto-assign customers to customer groups for 1-to-1 content targeting
  • Product rules: used to auto-assign products to categories based on filter definitions (e.g. price, brand, color, stock etc.)
• (NEW) New permission (ACL) system: Granular tree-based permission management based on customer groups. Supports inheritance to allow or deny entire permission ranges
• (NEW) Personalized product recommendations: Replaces homepage products dynamically with personalized product recommendations based on customer interests. (commercial plugin)
• (NEW) Geo Blocker: Restricts shop access based on visitor country or IP address ranges (commercial plugin)
• (NEW) Dashboard with charts: New dashboard widgets display key data like orders, customers, bestsellers etc. in nice graphical charts.

Breaking changes

• (Dev) Install\UninstallPermissions has been removed from IPermissionService. No longer needs to be called by plugins. Permissions are now automatically installed\uninstalled.
• (Dev) IDiscountRequirementRule and IShippingMethodFilter has been removed. Discounts and shipping methods can now be filtered by rule sets.
• (Dev) Customer navigation property CustomerRoles has been replaced by CustomerRoleMappings, a new entity for role mappings.
• The search index must be rebuilt due to various enhancements.
• (Dev) The wrong name of API endpoint LocalizedPropertys has been corrected and renamed to LocalizedProperties.

New Features

• Granular permissions: All permissions of a customer directly visible on the customer edit page.
• DEV: Added Visual Studio extension to create Smartstore Plugins
• GDPR conform Cookie Consent Manager
• SEO: XML Sitemap now includes blog, news and forum
• SEO: do 301 redirect to URL without trailing slash
• SVG support for image uploads.
• Schedule tasks: new property "Priority" runs tasks with higher priority first when multiple tasks are pending.
• #1805 Added XML Sitemap settings to backend UI.
• #1598 Add published property to ProductTag entity.
• #1669 Apply percentage discounts also on tier prices.
• #1618 Implement ACL and multistore capability on menu item level.
• #1683 Menu Builder items: implement support for icon (brand) color.
• #1584 Show bundle item images in order details like in shopping cart details.
• MegaSearch:
  • Added more text analysis options (e.g. Lucene.Net classic analyzer).
  • Added tool to display internal information about a search, such as Lucene.Net terms.
  • #1693 Find the grouped product when searching for the SKU, GTIN, MPN of a non individually visible, associated product.
  • #1711 Find product when searching for GTIN or MPN of an attribute combination.
  • Perf. Added option to ignore attribute filtering property on product level.
• Web-API:
  • #1809 Added a parameter to start an import after uploading import files.
  • #1801 Added endpoints for ProductPictures, ProductCategories and ProductManufacturers to allow updating DisplayOrder.
  • #1858 Added endpoints for NewsLetterSubscription.
• #1714 Direct links to variations on a product.
• #1733 Add ability to hide products from catalog, but not search.
• #1754 Implement hidden boolean setting that controls which catalog search engine implementation should be used in backend.
• #1776 Enable images and color values for search filters to be stored for specification attribute options.
• #1793 Add field for manufacturer bottom description like for categories.
• #1116 Add new field for product condition.
• #1790 ACL support for manufacturers.
• #1616 Add new field for tracking URL to shipment entity to better track shipments.
• (Page Builder) Added a Page Builder block to display blog posts.

Improvements

• #1663 Make MeasureDimension and MeasureWeight localizable.
• #1600 Show an example currency value for custom formatting value changes.
• Card desk instead of a grid for customer addresses on customer edit page.
• Display "price from" in product lists if any attribute combination price exists.
• Reworked blog & news section.
• #1718 Activated ReCaptcha without keys can cause the merchant to lock himself out of the shop.
• #1752 Export: let a provider directly export to a file stream instead of a memory stream.
• #1763 Topic editor should display all menu item nodes that reference the current topic.
• #1665 UI: ACL, discount and store selection should be done via multiple select2.
• Updated UserAgent Parser.
• TinyImage: updated WebP detection patterns.
• PayPal PLUS:
  • Apply order of payment methods in backend to the list of third-party payment methods in checkout.
  • #1848 Send the billing address when redirecting to PayPal.
• Hide cart payment button for payment methods without match of applied rule sets.
• #1839 MegaSearch: Support exact value match for numeric range filters.
• #1920 Hide option prizes if "Call for price" is enabled.
• Debitoor: added an option to force a price type on invoices.
• BeezUp: export product costs.
• #1915 RTL: fixed alignment of product art badge.
• #1738 Sending of mails to customers uses generic message template now.
• #1805 UI: Added XmlSitemap settings to backend
• And many more other minor improvements

Bugfixes

• Export: Fixed KeyNotFoundException when batch size was 1.
• #1686 Fixed KeyNotFoundException when payment method friendly name ends with spaces.
• Cart: Fixed ShoppingCartSettings.ShowProductBundleImagesOnShoppingCart hides the bundle item name.
• MegaSearch:
  • Fixed the preset sorting order of products on a manufacturer page may be wrong depending on catalog settings.
  • #1716 Price facet filter bypasses Call for Pricing and shows the approximate price of a product.
  • The number of hits for product review facets was wrong in some cases.
  • Do not show facets for manufacturers or categories if they are limited to stores or subject to ACL.
  • #1823 Ghost facet filter groups will appear if a numeric value is assigned that matches to a different spec option.
• Page Builder:
  • #1689 Block with z-index < 0 can not be selected in story view - Block tools can reduce z-index below 0.
  • #1691 Manually editing/removing block cols/rows does not refresh grid state correctly.
  • #1684 Edit Mode rendering bug in Mac Safari
  • #1836 Added "Order" property to page Builder block to control rendering order of blocks in HTML output
• PayPal:
  • Fixed rare exception "Unsupported Media Type" (415) in PayPal PLUS.
  • Only process a partially refund IPN when the order refunded amount is zero. Otherwise the order refunded amount will be wrong.
• Customer import:
  • VatNumber and other fields were ignored.
  • Customer roles sometimes inserted several times.
  • Changed billing/shipping address was added instead of updating the existing one.
  • Region assigned to an address was not updated.
• Product tags:
  • #1730 Product tag count should filter also based on Visibility.
  • Product tag count sometimes not up-to-date due to missing cache clearance.
• Debitoor:
  • Avoid errors due to invalid quantity unit Id of 0.
  • #1952 rework quantity units.
  • Sometimes the SKU was missing on invoices.
• Multistore mapping was ignored for manufacturers in sitemap.
• Categories limited to stores were not displayed in tree view.
• Fixed InvalidOperationException in CreatePdfInvoiceAttachment when an order is placed by a guest.
• The ShowDescriptionInSubPages setting should also be applied to the bottom category description.
• #1774 Recaptcha: doesn't work for product reviews, blog and news comments if hidden captcha is activated.
• #1766 Customer FullName is not populated after registration.
• #1765 Web-API: fixed authentication error "Value cannot be null. Parameter name: name" when login type is email.
• Payone: fixed wrong hash value if redirecting option is activated.
• Azure: opening the configuration page resulted in an error.
• Shipping by weight: the surcharge hint was not displayed correctly.
• Off-canvas menu shows wrong product count for brand menu items.
• Images of newly added variants could be deleted automatically due to wrong image transient state.
• #1794 Menu display order is ignored for widget zone header_menu_special_after.
• #1451 RTL: Manage categories tree view.
• Biz-Importer: If the TaxRate table was missing, the assignment of the tax category to the product was not set.
• #1832 Import: adding URL records requires cache to be cleared.
• #1818 The order list summary do not respect all list filters and shows wrong aggregate values.
• #1835 Removing gift card issue.
• #1875 A delivery time cannot be deleted if it is assigned to a variant combination of a deleted product.
• BeezUp: fixes ArgumentNullException, parameter name "source".
• #1743 Avoid redirecting to the account activation page when trying to log in for the first time.
• #1895 The checkout button disappears when moving a product from the shopping cart to the wishlist.
• Menu builder: in case of system menus the template can changes accidentally when saving.
• Structured data: Replace length with depth property.
• #1701 'View All' button from the offcanvas manufacturer menu causes 404 on mobile.
• Added missing sitemap task.
• #1696 ESD: browser freezes when editing file changelog
• And many more other minor fixes...

New Features

• External category links: alternative links for categories in the main menu and in category listings.
• Page Builder: multistore support for stories.
• #1639 Shipping.ByTotal: Add option to calculate the shipping rate based on the net total instead of the gross total.
• #1537 Implement "Ratenzahlung powered by PayPal" provider.
• New Heidelpay payment plugin.
• Shop-Connector: mapping of product SKUs that differ between client shops.
• MegaMenu supports configuration of menu items

Improvements

• Amazon Pay: PSD2. Strong customer authentication (SCA) upgrade.
• Updated MaxMind.GeoIP library and country database
• Removed HTML encoding for meta tags and document title.
• #1662 Quantity Units: added field for name pluralization.
• (SEO) combined SSL and canonical host 301 redirections to prevent successive redirects.
• (SEO) Activated GZIP compression for all dynamic and static responses.
• Set max. file upload size to 2 GB (globally)
• (Dev) Added a sample block for the Page Builder in DevTools plugin.
• Various other minor improvements.
• PayPal PLUS: paying by instalments can be selected in payment wall.
• Payone: send more information to API (e.g. shipping address) to stay as frictionless as possible for PSD2.
• PageBuilder: Added keyboard shortcuts
• #1582 Added structured data to reviews
• BMEcat: added support for import of specification attributes

Bugfixes

• Fixed wrong XML sitemap index numbering.
• #1646 Setting ManufacturerItemsToDisplayOnHomepage to 1 will not show any manufacturer.
• #1647 All manufacturers page: link of last character missing in alphabetical letter list.
• #1664 RTL: CMS menu issues in backend.
• #1677 Page Builder: moving and resizing blocks via drag & drop didn't work correctly in RTL.
• Do not adjust inventory twice when an order is cancelled and deleted.
• #1500 Fallback to fixed VAT rate instead of rate by region for countries that are not subject to vat.
• Fixed "The entity wrapper stored in the proxy does not reference the same proxy" when copying an export profile.
• Various other minor fixes.
• BMEcat: set TaxCategoryId & MainPictureId for newly imported products

Improvements

• Implemented file range support for CachedFileResult
• Sitemap should only include products visible for current customer, which is the search engine system customer
• Fixed uniform spelling for query string parameter "returnUrl"
• Fixed search engine issue (itemtype, "offers" required) on product detail page
• Summernote: solved html formatting issues thanks to "Beautifier" library
• Media middleware: simplified ETag generation & handling

Bugfixes

• Mega Menu: Product rotator wasn't working
• Tiny Image: Fixed periodic IOException
• URL Rewriter: performance optimization
• Fixed more menu for main catalog navigation
• Fixed DateTime nor expressed as UTC in AzureFile & LocalFile
• Content Slider: Fixed slide display bug on surface and other touch devices
• Content Slider: Randomize slides > Value was stored in database but toggle button has always shown "off"
• Page Builder: Fixed slider bug for list blocks (brand, category, products) in Firefox
• Page Builder: fixes blurry background images in IOS
• Output Cache: action widgets didn't render when they were part of a widgetzone within a donut child action
• Multishop resolution failed under certain circumstances
• Fixed menu issue "collection was modified, enumeration operation may not execute"
• Fixed "The parameters dictionary contains a null entry for parameter 'catId' of non-nullable type 'System.Int32'"
• Fixed discount coupon sometimes wasn't applied
• Fixed "Value cannot be null. Parameter name: key" in order list
• Fixed topic link resolving by system name in multistore environment
• Async event consumers were not guaranteed to be awaited

Highlights

• (NEW) Page Builder: Create fascinating content that will boost your sales. No coding is required thanks to a powerful WYSIWYG editor which utilizes the revolutionary CSS Grid system (commercial plugin)
• (NEW) Menu Builder: Visual manager for all sorts of menus. Change existing menus or create your own and place them anywhere you want.
• (Perf) Faster MegaSearch thanks to Lucene.NET 4.8
• (Perf) Huge performance increase in discount resolution and calculation.

New Features

• EmailReminder:
  • Reminders for open shopping carts
  • Reminders for product reviews
  • Reminders to visit the shop after a long absence
• Scheduling
  • Task execution history
  • Web farms: tasks can run decidedly on each machine of a web farm
  • #1144 MegaSearch: multi server search index
• Topics & Pages
  • Access control lists
  • Grid paging & filtering
  • New properties: added IsPublished, Short Title (link text) and Intro (teaser) properties.
  • #1542: added options to set body CSS class and Html Id.
• MegaSearch:
  • Supports searching for forum posts.
  • #1172 Option to display related search terms on search page.
  • Command to continue a previously aborted search index rebuild.
• Import/export of:
  • Product tags
  • Tier prices
  • Product attribute options
  • Product attribute combinations (update only)
• Forum:
  • Added option to display a captcha on forum pages when creating or replying to a topic.
  • #417 Restrict forum groups to specific customer roles.
  • Added published property to forum topic and post.
  • Added voting for forum posts.
  • Several performance improvements.
• BeezUp:
  • #1459 Add option to only submit one category name per product
  • Allow to specify export categories per product
• Santander:
  • Added payment method for instalment purchase.
  • Added financing calculator.
• Updated icon library to Font Awesome 5 Free with the possibility to activate pro version in the frontend.
• New storefront catalog options: ShowSubCategoriesInSubPages, ShowDescriptionInSubPages & IncludeFeaturedProductsInSubPages (Subpage = List index > 1 or any active filter).
• New security option: Use invisible reCAPTCHA
• Wallet: Allow customer to choose whether refund should be submitted to his wallet.
• Added option to display preview pictures in product lists
• Added option to add multiple file versions to product download section
• Added options for alternating price display (in badges)
• Customer avatar: Letter with colored background if no avatar image was uploaded.
• Viveum: Supports payment via "Virtual Account Brands" (e.g. PayPal).
• Added options for alternating price display (in badges).
• #1515 Poll: Add result tab with a list of answers and customers for a poll
• BMEcat: Added export and import of product tags.
• Web-API: Added endpoints for ProductSpecificationAttribute.
• Trusted Shops: Added new Trustbadge display for mobile devices
• (Dev) Added sm:EfCommandTimeout setting to web.config (was 30 sec. fixed, now configurable)

Improvements

• (Perf) Significantly increased query performance for products with a lot of category assignments (> 10).
• (Perf) Increased app startup speed by up to 20%.
• (Perf) Ultra-fast file-based XML sitemap generation for extremely large catalogs (> 1M)
  • At least 10x faster
  • Generated files are saved on the hard disk now: a rebuild after an app restart is no longer necessary.
  • No exclusive locks during rebuilds anymore: if an (outdated) file already exists, it is returned instantly.
• (Dev) Enhanced pub/sub: new IConsumer marker interface for classes that contain one or more event message handlers. The generic IConsumer<T> implements IConsumer but has been marked as Obsolete.
• Better protection against XSS attacks
• Updated to Bootstrap version 4.1.3
• Debitoor:
  • Partially update customer instead of full update to avoid all fields being overwritten.
  • #1540 Place company name in front of customer name (according to address format of the particular country).
  • #1565 Add a button to manually create a draft invoice.
• #1479 Show in messages the delivery time at the time of purchase
• #1184 Sort current shopping carts & current wishlists by ShoppingCartItem.CreatedOn.
• #1106 BMECat: import & export support for product keywords
• #1499 Added hint to forms indicating that fields with an asterisk (*) are required
• Added filter for newsletter subscriber export by working language
• Refactored download section
• Enhanced EntityPicker to pick from customers, manufacturers & categories
• #1510 Breadcrumb of an associated product should include the grouped product if it has no assigned categories.
• OpenTrans: added customer number to parties
• Do not filter cookie using resources if cookie usage has not yet been consented to.
• #1563 QueuedMessagesClearTask: add a setting for the age of the mails to be deleted.
• #1569 Added a setting to show login note if no prices are displayed due to customer group permissions.
• PayPal PLUS: Up to 10 more third party payment methods are allowed by PayPal now.
• #1560 Tell-a-Friend and anonymous user: render alert box and tell guest to login to use this function
• #1571 Compare products now shows all specification attribute options
• #1539 Signing in is now allowed with e-mail and username
• Trusted Shops: Trustbadge won't be displayed in Popups & Iframes anymore
• #1461 Admin Grid: filter dialog will be displayed entirely even when grid has no data to display
• Lots of minor enhancements for both frontend and admin theme
• Many other minor improvements

Bugfixes

• In a multi-store environment, multiple topics with the same system name can now be resolved reliably.
• GMC:
  • Export the product images if no attribute images are defined
  • Do not export the first image twice for additional images
  • Export image URL of full size image (not default size) for additional images
  • Custom labels are now being exported
• Media middleware: 0-byte files should be treated as missing.
• Megamenu alpha/omega blends do now toggle correctly on touch devices
• Summernote HTML editor exceeds parent container width when CodeMirror is activated
• Only display a zero search hits warning if at least one filter is activated
• #1436 Do not display delivery time in customer order completed messages
• "ArgumentNullException: The value must not be NULL" if a topic is password protected
• Tax by region: Fixes after inserting a tax rate country column shows "Unavailable"
• #1014 Switching to default language keeps specific URL alias of current page
• Shipping by total: When inserting a record the country now will be saved
• #1460 Editing of the customer title was missing on customer and address pages in the backend
• #1447 Checkout button payment methods (Amazon, PayPal Express) won't work in conjunction with mandatory checkout attributes
• Fixed Autofac circularity error
• When creating a topic, the widget zone input has shown System.String[]
• Switching the language always redirected to the home page if SEO friendly URLs was deactivated.
• File upload of a checkout attribute was not stored on cart page.
• Redirecting within checkout may have displayed an incorrect URL in the browser.
• Server cannot modify cookies after HTTP headers have been sent.
• Wrong base price on product and cart page when a special price is active.
• In a multi-store, message templates may have loaded the wrong disclaimer and conditions-of-use text.
• NullReferenceException in manufacturer list when there is no manufacturer.
• Wrong order of featured products on category page.
• #1504 Cart item price calculation was wrong if attribute combinations with text types were involved.
• #1485 Dropdown list for product sorting didn't not work with Internet Explorer 11.
• #1468 Twitter authentication wasn't working anymore.
• Newsletter subscription didn't work when customer privacy setting DisplayGdprConsentOnForms was turned off
• Fixed social media image detection
• Fixed redirection of bots when several languages were active
• Region cannot be selected in checkout when entering a billing or shipping address
• Fixed invalid conversion of "System.Int32" to "SmartStore.Core.Domain.Tax.VatNumberStatus" when placing an order
• MegaMenu: Improved item rendering for third tier elements
• Product display order on category and manufacturer pages was sometimes wrong when using linq search.
• Debitoor: Wrong invoice total if a subtotal discount has been applied.
• Import: Fixes invalid conversion "System.Double" to "SmartStore.Core.Domain.Catalog.QuantityControlType".
• Topics: Fixes "Cannot insert duplicate key row in object 'dbo.UrlRecord' with unique index 'IX_UrlRecord_Slug'".
• #1566 Santander: eliminate the 1 cent rounding difference at amountTotalNet.
• Fixed redirection to the homepage for pages which are loaded while the application is restarted.
• #1570 Filter option "Only deactivated customers" filters deleted instead of deactivated customers.
• #1475 select boxes must be wrapped on mobile devices if data-select-url is set
• Fixed the redirection to the homepage for pages which were loaded while the application was restarted
• Fixes product feeds expect a different base price formatting.
• #1369 Shopping cart shows "Discount code applied", although it is not applied due to a lower tier price.
• Many other fixes...

Highlights

• Compliance with EU-GDPR requirements
• Search engine friendly topic URLs
• "Honeypot" bot detection for registration and contact forms.

New Features

• #1429 Search engine friendly topic URLs
• Implemented cookie consent according to EU law
• Added checkboxes for data processing consent in all relevant forms
• Implemented "Honeypot" bot detection for registration and contact forms.
• Trusted Shops: Added consent checkbox to confirm order page for submission of customer email address to Trusted Shops if review widget is active
• #1226 Shop-Connector: Added exchange of tier prices and delivery times
• #1439 Debitoor: Option whether to display the payment method and SKU on invoices

Improvements

• Added double opt-in feature for newsletter subscriptions during checkout (confirm order)
• Allow forward slash in product tag URL slug
• Theming: throttle AJAX cart refresh after spin up/down click
• Moved StoreLastIpAddress & DisplayPrivacyAgreementOnContactUs from customer settings to privacy settings tab
• #1450 Show the regular price only if it's higher than the final price
• #1450 Do not ignore discounts with a negative amount
• (Soft) deleted customers can be edited now
• Customer IP addresses will be anonymized on (soft) deletion
• Set catalogsettings.showsharebutton to false as its not compliant with GDPR
• Made form fields for first & last name in customer registration optional
• Implemented settings to make form fields for first & last name required again
• Made form field for full name in contact us & product request optional
• Implemented settings to make form field for full name in contact us & product request required again
• #1453 Import: Use [IGNORE] to ignore a field value on record level
• #1455 More detail on packing slip when bundled item
• Display category alias as badge in grids and dropdowns

Bugfixes

• Migration: take all same-named message templates into account
• Messaging: OrderPlaced e-mail templates show main product image even when an attribute combination with a custom image has been selected
• Theming: fix broken product review voting
• Theming: added missing bottom space to .html-editor-content
• Theming: Language switcher is not displayed if no currency options are available
• No bundle item thumbnail displayed in bundle summary if item is not individually visible
• Tracking number in shipment details was not saved
• Assigning or removing product tags did not invalidate model cache
• Reward points weren't displayed in message templates
• Dashboard: link for not yet shipped orders loads list with all orders
• Topic search button had no effect
• #1442 Message factory should not throw an exception if a template has been deactivated
• Fixes script error "$(...).tab is not a function" on product detail page
• Title attribute for the product name in product lists was sometimes truncated
• Relativizing font sizes should cast to double, not int
• Fixes category list on product edit page shows empty category name
• #1438 Debitoor: The country is displayed twice
• MegaSearch: Fixes indexing ignores DeliveryTimeIdForEmptyStock setting
• Web API: Fixes "No NavigationLink factory was found for the navigation property 'WalletHistory'"
• #1449 IgnoreCharges of shipping methods is not working if a localized name is specified
• Fixes "The object does not support the property or method 'startsWith'" on product edit page.
• Wallet: Fixes "Child actions are not allowed to perform redirect actions" when there are cart warnings
• Fixes the delivery time in the order notifications may differ from delivery time on the product detail page

Highlights

• Wallet: Enables full or partial order payment via credit account. Includes REST-Api. (commercial plugin)
• Liquid template engine: very flexible templating for e-mails and campaigns with autocompletion and syntax highlighting.
• Cash Rounding: define money rounding rules on currency and payment method level.
• Modern, responsive backend: migrated backend to Bootstrap 4, overhauled and improved the user interface.
• Enhanced MegaMenu: virtual dropdowns for surplus top-level categories and brands (commercial plugin exclusively bundled with Pro Edition).
• RTL: comprehensive RTL (Right-to-left) and bidi(rectional) support.
• Amazon Pay:
  • Supports merchants registered in the USA and Japan
  • External authentication via Login with Amazon button in shop frontend
  • Several improvements through the new Login and pay with Amazon services
• (Perf) Faster image processing: new processing and caching strategy! Thumbnails are not created synchronously during the main request anymore, instead a new middleware route defers processing until an image is requested by any client.
• TinyImage: scores ultra-high image compression rates (up to 80 %!) and enables WebP support (commercial plugin exclusively bundled with Premium Edition).
• UrlRewriter: define URL redirection rules in the backend using mod_rewrite notation. (commercial plugin)
• Address formatting templates by country
• Language packs: downloader & auto-importer for packages available online.

Breaking changes

• Message template customizations are lost due to the new template engine. You have to customize the templates again. No automatic migration, sorry :-(
• Amazon Pay: The plugin has been changed to new Login and pay with Amazon services. The client ID has been added, which has to be created in Amazon Seller Central and saved in the payment method configuration.
• (Dev) Calls to cache methods Keys() and RemoveByPattern() require glob chars to be present now (supported glob-styles see https://redis.io/commands/keys). Previously these methods appended * to the passed pattern, which made pattern matching rather unflexible.
• (Dev) Hook framework now passes IHookedEntity interface instead of HookedEntity class
• (Dev) Completely removed all EntityInserted<T>, EntityUpdated<T> and EntityDeleted<T> legacy events. We were using DbSaveHooks anyway, which provides a much more powerful and way faster pub-sub mechanism for database operations.

New Features

• 1203 MegaMenu shrinker and Brands virtual menu item
• Summernote is now the primary HTML editor
• #431 Added option to randomize the display order for slides on each request
• #1258 Add option to filter shipping and payment methods by a specific customer role
• #1247 Allow to import non system customer roles in customer import
• #1117 Added an option to display a dropdown menu for manufacturers
• #1203 Added an option to define a maximum number of elements in the main menu for the first hierarchy of the catalog navigation
• GMC: column chooser for edit grid
• #1100 Customer can register in frontend via "Login with Amazon" button
• Web API:
  • #1292 Added endpoint to get order in PDF format
  • Added endpoint to complete an order
  • #1364 Added endpoints for MeasureWeight and MeasureDimension
• Added options to include option names of specification and product attributes in the search index
• #441 added option to specify that additional shipping surcharges are considered only once.
• #1295 Sales tracking (tracking pixel) for Billiger.de
• XML and CSV export of shopping cart and wishlist items
• #1363 Make storing of IP addresses optional
• #729 Option for automatic order amount capturing when the shipping status changed to "shipped"
• (Dev) ILocalizationFileResolver: responsible for finding localization files for client scripts
• #998 GMC: Find a way to map attribute combination values to feed export values
• Added Instagram icon to social media icons in footer

Improvements

• Target .NET Framework changed: 4.5.2 > 4.6.1.
• Lower memory consumption
• #649 Media FileSystem provider: segmenting files in subfolders to increase IO perf with huge amount of files
• #1141 Cleaner backend order list. Added more infos like payment method.
• OuputCache: Simple product changes that affect visibility now correctly invalidate all assigned category and manufacturer pages
• • OuputCache: When MegaSearch is active, invalidation occurs only during indexing and not ad-hoc anymore.
• #1248 New payment integration guidelines for Sofort\Klarna
• TwitterAuth: better error handling and enhanced admin instruction
• #1181 Debitoor: Add option to display shipping address on invoices
• Moved RoundPricesDuringCalculation setting to currency entity
• #1100 Use new "Login with Amazon" services to initialize an Amazon payment
• #1285 Copy product: Add option to add more than one copy
• (Perf) Many improvements in hooking framework
• #1294 Swiss PostFinance: External payment page too small on mobile devices. Added setting for mobile device template URL, pre-configured with PostFinance template.
• #1143 Make shipping methods suitable for multi-stores
• #1320 Image import: Find out the content type of image URLs by response header rather than file extension (which is sometimes missing)
• #1219 Recently viewed products list should respect setting to hide manufacturer names
• Import and export product quantity step
• Add bundle item information to order messages
• #1031 Enable offline payment methods to have brand icons
• DevTools Plugin: Added example for cached output invalidation

Bugfixes

• #1268 Data importer always inserts new pictures and does not detect equal pictures while importing
• OutputCache computes ambiguous cache keys for blog pages
• #1142 Customer import creates role multiple times
• #1244 Variant query model binder cannot handle types text and datepicker
• #1273 Attribute formatter should consider setting CatalogSettings.ShowVariantCombinationPriceAdjustment
• Product entity picker should use the wildcard search to find products
• Hook framework should run hooks with ImportantAttribute when hooking was disabled per scope
• #1297 Web API: Parsing the timestamp may fail due to the different accuracy of the milliseconds
• Debitoor: VAT amount could be transmitted as miscellaneous for deliveries abroad.
• Prices with discounts limited to categories and customer groups were shown to all users in product lists
• #1330 MegaSearch: Missing variant facets if the variant value is not unique
• Back-in-stock subscription form was already submitted when opening the popup dialog
• Associated products of a grouped product were displayed in the wrong order
• Payment-Filter: Fixed "The cast to value type 'System.Decimal' failed because the materialized value is null"
• The tax value per tax rate was not updated when adding\removing a product to\from the order.
• The option to send manually was ignored when sending e-mails
• #528 LimitedToStores is required on payment provider rather than plugin level
• #1318 Disabled preselected attribute combination permanently hides the shopping cart button, even if another combination is selected.
• Copy product: Fixes "Cannot insert duplicate key row in object dbo.UrlRecord with unique index IX_UrlRecord_Slug"
• Fixed export publishing via email

SmartStore.NET 3.0.3

Bugfixes

• #1232 Scheduled tasks are being 'randomly' set inactive
• #1245 Existing product does not get updated during import under certain circumstances
• #1207 No low stock activity when bulk editing the product quantity
• #1208 Missing inventory tab when switching from bundle to simple product
• #1210 Clear asset cache when a theme setting has changed
• Fixed name of deleted manufacturers displayed in product lists
• Fixed non-system category export profile always exports categories of current store
• Fixed picture assignment for variant attribute combinations of product copies which weren't assigned correctly
• #1218 CopyProductService does not copy picture of ProductVariantAttributeValue
• Fixed hidden checkout button when there are two or more shopping cart items and one gets removed from basket during checkout
• Fixed physical gift cards cannot be moved to cart
• Fixed tax rate wasn't properly formatted on product detail page
• #1228 Text entered in frontend for attributes or checkout attributes are truncated by comma
• Fixed shipping computation method ignoring deactivated PricesIncludeTax setting
• Debitoor: Fixed missing tax rates on Debitoor invoice for net prices
• #1224 Notifier wasn't working in plugin controllers
• #1205 Server cannot append header after HTTP headers have been sent
• #1154 Left offcanvas navigation does not open when in checkout progress
• #1212 Export: FTP publishing should consider directory structure
• #1253 Product PDF exporter only exports one picture and ignores the picture number profile setting
• Configuration of some plugins not saved in Firefox browser

Improvements

• Apply img-fluid class to all images within html editor content
• System name in privacy info topic URL should be lowercase
• If no checkout attribute is required checking out will be possible
• OpenTrans: optimizations for Lexware import
• #496 show bonus points in ordersummary on first checkout page
• Discounts of plugins weren't displayed in product lists

New Features

• #1076 Add support for percental tier price adjustments
• Trusted Shops: added review import
• (Dev) SSL redirection on localhost will be bypassed
• #783 Added option for "Email a friend" which disables the form field "Your email address" so it can't be changed

SmartStore.NET 3.0.2

Breaking changes

• MegaSearch: The index must be re-created because of changes to the price filter.

New Features

• New setting indicates whether to include or exclude unavailable products in search results by default.
• (Dev) New Asset Cache

Improvements

• PayPal Standard: New settings "UsePayPalAddress" and "IsShippingAddressRequired" to avoid payment rejection due to address validation.
• More widget zones for the footer
• #1177 Implement new setting for product search sorting
• More fault tolerant task scheduler

Bugfixes

• Fixed memory leak in MegaSearch plugin, which caused HTTP 503
• RSS: Item URLs in feeds have ignored SSL settings
• Fixed "The view 'ProfileImportResult' or its master was not found"
• #1187 Search: Do not hide multi-selectable filters of the same group if there are no hits
• Fixed System.ArgumentNullException in ProductVariantQueryFactory
• PayPal PLUS: Fixed HTTP 401 "Unauthorized" when calling PatchShipping
• #1189 MegaSearch: Boosts are ignored in prefix and wildcard queries by default
• MegaSearch: Localized labels of filters were never displayed
• #1195 Exporter: don't send an email if no email account has been selected
• Product lists sometimes show the wrong delivery time
• #1192 Lucene indexing performance decreases the longer it takes
• #1198 MegaSearch: never sort numeric range by label, always by value
• Filter for attributes were always sorted by hit count
• #1200 PayPal PLUS: Invalid request if the order amount is zero
• Fixed null reference exception when copying attribute option set with image(s) (file system storage only)
• Product price sometimes was wrong when entering a numeric value in an attribute text box
• Added missing code for customer privacy agreement
• Clicking the login link wasn't working correctly in offcanvas my-account menu
• #1158 Currency and language selectors weren't working in OffCanvas menu
• Fixed "Server cannot append header after HTTP headers have been sent"

SmartStore.NET 3.0.1

Improvements

• (Perf) Much faster application startup
• Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 Redistributable no longer required to be installed
• BeezUP:
  • Exports up to 9 product images
  • Export stock quantity when stock is managed by attributes
  • Export parent child relation data when exporting attribute combinations as products
  • Flatten and append attribute data when exporting attribute combinations as products
• Instant search should search manufacturer/brand name
• HTTP 301 redirects for legacy media URLs
• (Dev) New 'ApplicationStarted' event
• (Dev) Enabled C# 6 features in plugin views
• (GMC) Added missing database indexes.
• (WebApi) Added endpoints for blog post and blog comment
• Added more sortable columns to backend product grids
• #1160 Append suffix 'Picture (1...n)' to thumbnail's alt-attribute on product detail pages
• (Perf) Faster catalog indexing thanks to new database indexes
• (Perf) Faster dynamic view compilation thanks to Roslyn compiler
• Added the widget zone 'productdetails_pictures_bottom'
• Added config setting sm:PdfEngineBaseUrl. There are cases where the PDF converter exits with a network error, when it is unable to load automatically resolved URLs.
• (Dev) Added Retry utility class
• #1176 Admin > Product Search: It ain't possible to search for parts of a product name

Bugfixes

• #1145: Fixed HTTP 404 after switching language
• Fixed null reference exception in product lists if sorting is not allowed
• The file manager did not work correctly under a virtual folder
• Item row in list style product list should not wrap on small devices
• Item row in list style product list squashed on Android system browser
• Linq search: Filter for manufacturers and categories were not limited by store
• (GMC) Fixes duplicate occurrence of application path in absolute product URL
• Products with stock managed by attributes sometimes not displayed in category lists
• Fixed System.MissingMethodException for SmartStore.Core.Search.Facets.FacetGroup
• Fixed uploaded image paths in HTML fields (Media/Uploaded > Media//Uploaded)
• (MegaSearch) Product category order, product manufacturer order and product order were not recognized (sorting)
• Standard search: Fixed sorting of recently added products
• Alias for search filters couldn't be set if there's only one language
• #1168 Cart: MinOrderAmount sometimes ignored
• Moving products from editable wishlist to cart was out of function
• Fixed several issues with parallelly executed data export tasks
• Fixed several issues with PayPal payment providers
• Facebook login out of function due to Facebook API changes (always returns "Unknown error")
• Fixed 'no picture available' watermark on some product pictures
• #1153 Removing already applied gift card causes error
• (Theming) Drift zoom uses static zoomFactor. Made it dynamic.
• (Theming) IE11: simple menu dropdowns weren't positioned correctly
• Removed "trust" element from web.config (causes problems on some shared hosting spaces)
• Fixed ThumbZoomer unproportional rescale issue in product grid
• #1134 JavaScript error (IE 11 in VS debug mode) after removing the last item in shopping cart
• (Theming) Dozens of layout fs for ixemobile devices (especially iOS and Android native browser)
• Better error logging for TaskScheduler
• Fixed several queries which caused problems with SQL CE
• Fixed missing CurrencyCode exception in product exports
• #1179 Error while downloading a downloadable product
• Mega Menu: If a dropdown contains two level hierarchy categories only, they are not wrapped to the next column
• Hide sort dropdown when option is off
• HTTP 301 redirects for legacy media URLs
• Added missing resources of broken migration 'AddressEnhancement' again
• Checkout: Title and salutation were missing when entering new addresses
• #1163 ContentSlider: pictures won't be displayed when placed on top or bottom on IOS

Highlights

• Flex: New mobile-first responsive Theme based on Bootstrap 4
• Mega Search: highly professional search framework based on Lucene.NET (commercial plugin exclusively bundled with Pro Edition)
  • Ultra fast search results, even with millions of items
  • Faceted search
  • Synonyms
  • Compound word splitting
• Mega Menu: highly customizable catalog menu widgets (commercial plugin exclusively bundled with Pro Edition)
• Content Slider: creates eye-catching content to boost sales (commercial plugin exclusively bundled with Pro Edition)
• Output Cache with "donut hole caching" for maximum speed and scalability (commercial plugin exclusively bundled with Premium Edition)
• Microsoft AZURE provider for media storage (commercial plugin exclusively bundled with Premium Edition)
• Web Farms: REDIS providers for Business Cache, Output Cache and Session State (commercial plugin exclusively bundled with Enterprise Edition)
• Product variant option sets
• New product specification attribute type: numeric range
• Image support for variant attributes

Breaking changes

• Removed old Content Slider module from open source core
• Removed Web API plugin from open source core (now exclusively bundled with Premium Edition)

Other New Features

• Message Bus for inter-process messaging between servers (commercial plugin)
• Configurable media storage path for web farms
• (Dev) log4net integration
• (Dev) proper plugin view debugging
• (Dev) detect changes to static plugin files (css, js, etc.) and immediately apply them to running project
• (Dev) Theming: plugins now support implicitly imported SASS files (Content/[public|admin].scss)
• XML Sitemap optimized for very large catalogs:
  • Partitions for very large sitemaps (> 50.000 nodes or > 10 MB)
  • Generated in a background task. No instant invalidation anymore.
• Added option to skip shipping method selection in checkout process if only one shipping method is active
• Added options to capture salutation and title in addresses and customer info
• Added projection to control the export of individually visible associated products
• #966 Implement new tax calculation logic for shipping and payment fees (calculate with rate of highest cart amount)
• #922 New option to specify whether to include the weight of free shipping products in shipping by weight calculation
• #724 Allow discounts to be applied to manufacturers
• Option to display manufacturers sorted in alphabetical order
• #1093 New product properties required for selling abroad
• Web API:
  • #1002 Add support for addresses and customer roles navigation property of customer entity
  • #1062 Add filter options for user grid on configuration page
  • #1072 Add support for TaxCategory
  • #1073 Settings for maximum pagesize ($top) and maximum expansion depth ($expand)
  • #1074 Extend product image upload to allow updating of images
  • #1064 Deleting all product categories/manufacturers per product in one go
  • #1063 Adding product category/manufacturer ignores any other property like DisplayOrder
  • Added endpoint "Infos" for order and order item entity for additional information like aggregated data.
  • Swagger integration
• Added setting to specify whether the product manufacturer should be displayed in product detail
• #271 Implemented support for attribute images/icons
• #330 Implement 'attribute option sets'
• Two themes Flex Black and Flex Blue which are derived from Flex theme

Improvements

• Updated .NET Target Framework from 4.5.1 to 4.5.2
• Added order message token for accepting third party email handover
• ECB currency exchange rate provider now cross calculates rates based on euro rates
• BeezUP: Exports the product weight
• Updated Elmar shop info XML from version 1.1 to 2.0
• (Perf) Application start faster by ~20%
• (Perf) Lower memory consumption
• (Perf) #1098 Reduce number of created guest accounts (more reliable bot detection)
• #1008 Export: Add support for description projection to all product exporting providers
• #1015 Implement Entity Picker in discount requirements
• Debitoor improvements:
  • Company name send as customer name if present
  • Option to append customer email address to invoice address
  • Additional order notes for tax exemption within and outside EU
• #1048 Add meta tags to contact us page
• Order XML export includes more customer data like title and salutation
• #1080 Do not resolve Order.OrderURLForCustomer token for guest customers
• #1051 Display EAN in PDF packaging slip
• #806 User couldn't be created in the admin section without "Manage Customer Roles" permission
• #491 Implemented option to determine a default delivery time
• #1078 Implemented options for "Add to Cart" quantity input field on product level. Quantity control can now be hidden and can be configured to be increased and decreased in steps.
• #696 Added textual resources for meta title and description for blog per month and by tag pages and enriched them with corresponding month plus year respectivly tag name
• #1025 Added token for customer number to MessageTokenProvider
• #1016 Implemented choosing of MessageTokens for newsletter campaigns with dropdown menu
• #1107 OpenTrans: Added option to exclude long description of products from export
• BMEcat: Implemented download of pictures according to MimeRoot-Info
• Payone:
  • Replace client API by Payone iFrame solution. Allows credit card payment compliant with PCI DSS, SAQ A.
  • #1123 Add order note with payment info for prepayment and invoice payment.

Bugfixes

• Currency wasn't displayed for shipping estimation
• SKU, EAN, MPN of last attribute combination were exported for all combinations
• GMC:
  • Id should be unique when exporting attribute combinations as products
  • Attribute price adjustments were ignored when exporting attribute combinations as products
  • Associated products that are not individually visible are not exported anymore. GMC rejects them because the frontend redirects to the grouped product.
• Export:
  • #999 Projected customer id was ignored during price calculation
  • #1104 Language projection was ignored when creating product details URL
  • #1030: Orders didn't include data of attribute combinations
  • Orders didn't include shipping address
• Awarded reward points for a placed order were occasionally calculated wrong
• PayPal PLUS:
  • Changed shipping address/costs were not transmitted to PayPal
  • Skip payment if cart total is zero
  • Do not display payment wall if method is filtered
• PayPal Express: Fixed net price issue.
• Bundle item cannot be deleted if it's in a shopping cart
• Fixed SSL issue for news items in RSS feed
• Filter shows wrong number of products if "Include products from subcategories" is activated
• Guest user cannot be deleted if he has a private message
• #1029 Biz-Importer: Imports fixed tax rates as zero percentage
• #1055 Checkout: Localized shipping method names are not displayed if shipping by total is activated
• #1071 NewsLetterSubscription.ActivationUrl not working if the store if SSL secured
• #1086 Gift cards can be earned in one store and applied in another
• Whishlist: Products with minimum order amount greater then 1 can be added to the whishlist without any warning
• #1102: Discounts not transmitted when the total amount is zero
• #1101 Clickatell: Sending SMS not working anymore

Highlights

• Major improvements in Importer & Exporter: better field mapping, higher performance, bug fixes etc.
• 'PayPal PLUS' payment plugin
• 'paydirekt' payment plugin
• 'Viveum' payment plugin
• 'BeezUP' export provider
• (Dev) Publishing SmartStore.Web from within Visual Studio now deploys the project correctly. No need to execute ClickToBuild.cmd anymore. Just publish directly to any target, including Azure.

New Features

• #961 Fix "Open Redirection Vulnerability"
• #571 Option to display another checkbox on confirm page to let the customer accept that his email address can be handed over to a third party
• #870 Implement address import for customers (both billing & shipping address)
• #886 Add setting to hide manufacturer images on product detail page and to hide default image for manufacturers
• Import localized SEO names for product and categories
• #477 Implement option to specify the number of exported and imported pictures
• #859 Make checkout attributes suitable for multi-stores
• Product details: Select attribute and gift card values by query string parameters
• #950 make contact form comply with current German law

Improvements

• Major improvements in Importer: better field mapping, higher performance, bug fixes etc.
• (Dev) Publishing SmartStore.Web from within Visual Studio now deploys the project correctly. No need to execute ClickToBuild.cmd anymore. Just publish directly to any target, including Azure.
• Localization & SEO: language switcher now takes language specific SEO slugs into account when building links
• Smarter import of plugin resource files with graceful fallbacks (de-DE > de > de-* > en-US > en > en-* > *)
• (Perf) Faster language resource file import
• Exports the product detail link including the attribute query string when exporting attribute combinations
• #918 Compare products: Display base price information
• Export email attachments needs to be stored in database because the temp file may not exist anymore when sending the email
• #913 Use HTML5 Input types (tel, email)
• Added paging to frontend order list
• Added paging to backend checkout attribute list
• #977 Show PAngV base/delivery amount also
• Updated LiveEngage LiveChat plugin

Bugfixes

• TaskScheduler could fail polling when primary store url is an external IP address
• Fixed ajax cache issue when saving payment or shipping restrictions. Internet Explorer showed the old data state (before storage).
• "The provider failed at the Execute method: Member 'CurrentValues' cannot be called for the entity of type 'Product'" when exporting product attribute combinations
• Bundles without selected attributes could throw an exception on product detail page
• GMC feed did not export the product type and Billiger did not export shop_cat (category path)
• The error message of a payment provider when capturing a payment was not displayed
• Adding new shipping method threw an exception
• Attribute Values: Assigning IsPreselected to more than one value causes an error
• BizImporter: fixed redirection bug when default file extension in .biz wasn't .html
• Fixed: Export deployment emails were always send manually
• Manually notifying gift card recipient threw an exception
• Loading shipping by weight grid failed under SQL CE
• #949 Import: ProcessSlugs does not process explicitly specified "SeName", if product name did not change in an update scenario
• Customer import: Creates customer role duplicates for inserted customers
• GMC feed does not generate the sale price if the sale price is set for a future date
• Mobile devices: Fixed "Uncaught Error: Syntax error, unrecognized expression: :nth-child"
• Download nor sample download were removable when editing product
• Copied product must not share sample download of source product. Could produce "The DELETE statement conflicted with the REFERENCE constraint 'FK_dbo.Product_dbo.Download_SampleDownloadId'".
• #921 Specification attribute options with single quotation marks are causing a Javascript error
• #971 Product is added to cart automatically if it has a non-required file upload attribute
• #973 Bundle item upload is nowhere linked
• Base price in product list ignored PriceDisplayType (catalog settings) and possibly displayed the wrong base price info
• Private messages: Fixes "No route in the route table matches the supplied values"
• Payone: Hash string incorrect for frontend API payments where the order has more than 9 products
• Export mail notification: Download link not working if SSL is enabled
• Discount rule has spent amount including sub total option can cause wrong discount calculation if the cart contains a product several times
• #986 File uploads possible through /content/filemanager/index.html

Highlights

• New import/export framework (profiles, filters, mapping, projections, scheduling, deployment... just everything!)
• TaskScheduler: Rewritten from scratch to be suitable for Web Farms (including support for cron expressions)
• Payment and shipping methods by customer roles
• Restrict payment methods to countries
• Restrict payment methods to shipping methods
• Email attachment support for message templates
• Attach order invoice PDF automatically to order notification emails
• Overall performance increase
• Lots of bug fixes

New Features

• New export and import framework
• Import of customer and category data
• #141 Payment and shipping methods by customer roles
• #67 Restrict payment methods to countries
• #94 Restrict payment methods to shipping methods
• #747 Restrict payment methods by old versus new customer (plugin)
• #584 Email attachment support for message templates
• Attach order invoice PDF automatically to order notification emails
• #526 Min/Max amount option for which the payment method should be offered during checkout
• (Dev) New SyncMapping service: enables easier entity synchronization with external systems
• (Dev) #792 ViewEngine: Enable vbhtml views per configuration
• (Dev) Plugin developers can now render child actions into a dynamically created special tab called 'Plugins'
• #718 ShopConnector: Import option for "Published" and "Disable buy\wishlist button"
• #702 Facebook and Twitter external authentication suitable for multi-stores
• New scheduled task: Clear e-mail queue
• New scheduled task: Clear uploadeded transient media files
• #704 Make primary store currency suitable for multi-stores
• #727 Web-API: Option to deactivate TimestampOlderThanLastRequest validation
• #731 Web-API: Allow deletion and inserting of product category and manufacturer assignments
• #733 Option to set a display order for homepage products
• #607 HTML capable full description for payment methods displayed in checkout
• #732 Product list: Option to display the pre-selected price instead of the lowest price
• New payment provider for Offline Payment Plugin: Purchase Order Number
• #202 Implement option for product list 'default sort order'
• #360 Import & export product variant combinations
• #722 System > SEO Names: Implement editing of an UrlRecord
• Admin > System > System Info shows used application memory (RAM)
• Added option to make VATIN mandatory during customer registration
• #840 Activity log: Have option to exclude search engine activity
• #841 Activity log for deleting an order
• More settings to control creation of SEO names
• GMC feed: Supporting fields multipack, bundle, adult, energy efficiency class and custom label (0 to 4)
• #760 Setting to set a customer role for new registered users
• #800 Multi-store: Option to display all orders of all stores for customer in frontend
• #457 Added option to hide the default image for categories and products
• #451 Add message token for product shipping surcharge
• #436 Make %Order.Product(s)% token to link the product detail page and a add product thumbnail
• #339 Meta robots setting for page indexing of search engines
• PayPal: Option for API security protocol
• Product filter: Option to sort filter results by their display order rather than by number of matches
• Elmar Shopinfo: Option to export delivery time as availability
• #654 Place user agreement for downloadable files in checkout process
• #398 EU law: add 'revocation' form and revocation waiver for ESD
• #738 Implement download of pictures via URLs in product import
• Web-API: Bridge to import framework: uploading import files to import profile directory
• Setting to round down calculated reward points
• #695 Implement checkbox in checkout to let customers subscribe to newsletters
• #495 Implement option to search product detail description by default

Improvements

• (Perf) Implemented static caches for URL aliases and localized properties. Increases app startup and request speed by up to 30%.
• (Perf) Significantly reduced number of database reads during product list rendering. Increases request speed by up to 10%.
• (Perf) Implemented 2nd level cache for infrequently changed entities. Increases request speed by up to 10%.
• TaskScheduler: Rewritten from scratch to be suitable for Web Farms
• TaskScheduler: Supports cron expressions to define task execution frequency
• TaskScheduler: Editing tasks does not require app restart anymore
• TaskScheduler: Enhanced UI
• #721 Message Queue: implemented "Delete all"
• #725 Prevent LowestProductPrice being 0
• #709 News feed produced invalid RSS feed. Added content:encoded. Added maximum news age setting for feed export.
• #735 Include SKUs of attribute combinations when filtering the backend product list
• Filter for homepage and published\unpublished products in backend product list
• Reduce database round trips initiated by price calculation
• Google Analytics: added support for mobile devices
• (Dev) TaskScheduler: Tasks can propagate progress info (percentage & message)
• (Dev) TaskScheduler: Cancellation request is sent to tasks on app shutdown
• ShippingByWeight & ShippingByTotal: Support for multiple zip ranges (comma separated)
• Two more options to handle customer numbers: display customer number in frontend & let customers enter their customer number if it's still empty
• #62 free shipping info on product detail page
• Display base price in CompactProductBox
• Automatically redirect to referrer after login
• #826 Image gallery: the viewport height was fixed to 300 px, but now respects MediaSettings > ImageSize.
• #249 Make UI editor for 'SeoSettings.ExtraRobotsDisallows'
• Debitoor: Customer VAT number not transmitted anymore because it appears on the Debitoor invoice.
• #778 Web-API: Increase MaxExpansionDepth for using expand pathes
• #767 Remove assignments to a grouped product if the grouped product is deleted
• #773 Reduce number of guest records created by search engine requests
• #791 Preselected attributes or attribute combinations should always be appended as querystring to product page links
• Simplified handling of SEO names
• URLs are not converted to lower case anymore
• Product grid sortable by name, price and created on
• #26 Display company or name in order list
• Added inline editing of country grid
• #790 Improved language editing
• #843 Implement a product picker
• #850 Use new product picker for selecting required products
• Trusted Shops: badge will be displayed in mobile themes, payment info link replaced compare list link in footer
• Product filter: Specification attributes are sorted by display order rather than alphabetically by name
• #856 Don't route topics which are excluded from sitemap
• #851 Replace reCAPTCHA with "I'm not a robot" CAPTCHA
• #713 Display gift card remaining amount in frontend order details and order messages
• #736 Render PayPal Express Button in minibasket
• PayPal: Support for partial refunds
• Offline credit card payment: Option to exclude credit card types

Bugfixes

• #523 Redirecting to payment provider performed by core instead of plugin
• Preselected price was wrong for product attributes with multiple preselected values (same on product detail page)
• #749 Visual Studio 2015 compilation error: CS0009: Metadata file. SmartStore.Licensing.dll could not be opened -- Illegal tables in compressed metadata stream
• PayPal Express: fixed capture method
• #770 Resizing browser with product details page causes product image to disappear
• GMC feed: Availability value "available for order" deprecated
• Mobile: Shopping cart warnings weren't displayed to customers
• Tax provider and payment method were automatically activated when there were no active provider\method
• #784 Biz-Importer: Name of delivery time must not be imported empty
• #776 Preview: Manufacturer and Product in Multi Store
• #755 Some methods still loading all products in one go
• #796 Selected specification in product filter mask is displayed with default language (not localized)
• #805 Product filter is reset if 'product sorting' or 'view mode' or 'amount of displayed products per page' is changed
• Hide link to a topic page if it is limited to stores
• #829 Activity log: Searching by customer email out of function
• Product import: Store mappings were not applied when inserting new records
• Faulty permission handling in ajax grid actions (no message, infinite loading icon)
• Grouped products: Display order was not correct
• Deletion of a customer could delete all newsletter subscriptions
• PayPal: Fixed "The request was aborted: Could not create SSL/TLS secure channel."
• PayPal Express: Void and refund out of function ("The transaction id is not valid")
• Customer could not delete his avatar
• Facebook authentication: Email missing in verification
• Attribute with a product linkage throws exception if added to cart
• Number of products per product tag could be incorrect in a multi-store

New Features

• SmartStore.NET User Guide
• #210 Implement multi-store support for import/export
• Added zip code to shipping by weight computation method
• Skrill payment plugin
• (Dev) DevTool plugin: added option to display all widget zones in public store
• New options for manufacturer display on the homepage
• Added optional customer number field

Improvements

• (Perf) several minor optimizations for faster app startup and page rendering
• UI: optimized image gallery widget (white background & nicer animations) + enhanced modal dialog fade animations
• (Soft) deletion of SEO slug supporting entities now also deletes the corresponding url records
• License checker now supports IDN mapping for domain names
• #716 Supporting of paged google-product data query for SQL-Server Compact Edition
• #648 Add hint for * at mandatory form fields at address creation
• Added link to imprint and disclaimer to footer in mobile theme
• #521 Display bonus points in order export
• Updated GMC taxonomy files
• MsieJsEngine now is the default LESS script engine

Bugfixes

• #694 Product variant attribute in product page should not be preselected implicitly
• Fixed: If currencies are limited to one for a multi-store, this currency should dominate the setting for the primary store currency
• #563 Scheduled Tasks: ensure that 'LastEndUtc' is ALWAYS set
• Topics grid: fixed 'maxJsonLength exceeded' error
• Debitoor: Fixed "The property named 'lines.0.productOrService' should be defined"
• Send currency code of primary store currency (not of working currency) to payment gateway
• #691 Product quantity not added to cart on mobile theme
• #186 Mobile: variant images do not refresh
• #671 Bundle products: display base price according to applied discount
• #619 Display base price according to applied tier price
• #726 PAngV: basket displays wrong base price when attribute price adjustment has been set
• Weight adjustment of attributes weren't applied in shopping cart overview
• Shipping by weight calculates wrong surcharge if attribute combination prices are set
• Don't let database hooks call other hooks.
• There was no payment redirect if only one payment method is available in checkout

New Features

• New option to display product thumbnails in instant search (NOTE: the feature can be enabled via Configuration > Settings > Catalog Settings > Search)
• #582 GMC feed: Option to include/exclude a product
• #652 Web API: Support for file upload and multipart mime
• #594 Option to prevent a message from being automatically sent
• Category filtering by store for backend (tree and list view)
• #554 Flag to indicate that a new payment notification (IPN) arrived for an order since last opening\editing of the order
• New setting to specify whether and how to display sub-categories on a category page (hidden, above products, bottom of page)
• Debitoor: Extend option "Book invoice if paid" to also (optionally) mail the invoice as a PDF
• #508 Limit country settings to stores
• #205 Add multistore support for forums

Improvements

• PDF converter: first init is much faster now
• Localized properties for forums and forum groups

Bugfixes

• PDF converter: fixed QFont::setPixelSize bug
• Fixed System.NullReferenceException at admin/order/pdfpackagingslips
• #660 Don't show shipping cost hint in product detail page if product has free shipping

Highlights

• Overall performance increase
• New mobile theme: MobileLight (a light variant of the default mobile theme)
• More reliable mobile device detection
• Quantity unit management
• Performance: product list rendering up to 10x (!) faster now (depends on page size and view mode)
• SEO: New field to specify html tag for page titles on widget level
• Lots of bug fixes

New Features

• New mobile theme: MobileLight (a light variant of the default mobile theme)
• Localization: in a multi-language environment missing language resources fall back to default language's resources (instead of returning the ugly resource key)
• Quantity unit management
• #428 New option to override global category list view type
• #672 New option to automatically create mutual associations for cross sell and related products
• #485 Enable shop admin to change creation date of a blog entry
• #258 Implement email validation in checkout
• New option to specify the maximum number of displayed filter items
• New option to specify whether all filter groups should be displayed expanded
• #459 New field to specify html tag for page titles on widget level
• Added shrink database to backend UI
• #588 Alternative localized category name used as title for category pages
• #592 Add a second category description displayed beyond products on category page
• Promotion feeds now export the preselected price (including price adjustments and overrides)
• Implement 'free shipping threshold' for feed creation
• Billiger feed: Implement new field for shipping costs to austria
• (Developer) Added BeginTransaction() and UseTransaction() methods to IDbContext

Improvements

• (Perf) product list rendering up to 10x (!) faster now (depends on page size and view mode)
• The data grid in the backend now preserves client state between requests (page, pageSize, sorting, filtering etc.)
• Excel Import & Export: much lower memory consumption and increased performance
• Moving pictures from DB to FS or vice versa is lightning fast now, consumes much lower memory and is encapsulated in a transaction which ensures reliable rollback after failure. Plus the database gets automatically shrinked after moving to FS.
• Feed plugins: product query now paged to reduce memory payload
• #589 Backend product list: add filter for products with "no category mapping" and "no manufacturer mapping"
• Minor UI tweaks in checkout process
• Payone: CC-Check via client API, not via Server API (requires PCI certification)
• #189 Allow deletion of multiple reviews
• #622 UI: Redesign table in Sales > Orders > Order > Tab Products
• #625 Bundles can be ordered if an attribute combination of a bundle item is not available
• #666 Export addresses in customer export
• New shopping cart setting ShowItemsFromWishlistToCartButton
• XML product export now is paged and more data gets exported
• #560 Return requests: Add fields for last update, last update of requested action and general notes
• #626 Add IsActive flag for checkout attributes

Bugfixes

• Instant search box did not display all results when SQL Fulltext Search was enabled
• Print order as PDF redirected to login although the admin already was logged in
• Editing a product might change its URL alias
• #621 PDF Order: does not take overridden attribute combination price into account (in order line)
• Amazon payments: Declined authorization IPN did not void the payment status
• Fixed „Payment method couldn't be loaded“ when order amount is zero
• #598 Wrong input parameter name for ReturnRequestSubmit
• #557 Localize MVC validation strings
• Fixed rare bug "The length of the string exceeds the value set on the maxJsonLength property" (Controller: Order, Action: OrderNotesSelect)
• Debitoor: Adding order notes can result in infinite order update event loop with thousands of order notes
• Tax rates persisted on order item level to avoid rounding issues (required for Debitoor, Accarda and Payone)
• Hide additional shipping surcharge when display prices permission is not granted
• Fixed "Adding a relationship with an entity which is in the Deleted state is not allowed" when adding bundles to cart
• Fixed price calculation of multiple bundles issue
• Fixed auto add required products for bundle items
• Fixes #641: Protocol in sitemap should be HTTPS when ForceSslForAllPages is true
• #640 Do not display shipping infos for grouped products in product lists
• #634 Bundle price in list should not differ from price in details if there is only one bundle item with one attribute
• Do not copy associated product when copying a bundle product
• Null DeliveryTimeId when deleting products. Otherwise deleted products can prevent deletion of delivery times.
• Fixed: Product with inactive attribute combination could be moved to wishlist, copied to cart and be purchased
• Mobile Theme: Show prices according to selected variant value, display of deliverytime
• Bundles: Display base price according to Catalog Setting > Product Detail > Display Base Price

Highlights

• Html to PDF converter: PDF documents are created from regular HTML templates now, therefore radically simplifying PDF output customization.
• New payment plugin Payone
• Html widgets: added option to create a wrapper around widget content

New Features

• Html to PDF converter: PDF documents are created from regular HTML templates now, therefore radically simplifying PDF output customization.
• Html widgets: added option to create a wrapper around widget content
• SEO: added new settings Canonical host name rule. Enforces permanent redirection to a single domain name for a better page rank (e.g. myshop.com > www.myshop.com or vice versa)
• SEO: added support for <link hreflang="..." ... /> in multi-language stores. The tags are automatically rendered along with the language switcher.
• (Developer) Implemented new HtmlHelper extension AddLinkPart: registers <link> tags which should be rendered in page's head section
• (Developer) Implemented new HtmlHelper extension AddCustomHeadParts: registers whatever head (meta) tag you wish
• (Developer) Added SmartUrlRoutingModule, which can pass static files to UrlRoutingModule if desired (e.g. used by MiniProfiler). This way static files can be handled by regular actions or filters, without polluting web.config.
• New payment plugin "Payone"
• Option to set a delivery time for products available for order with stock quantity < 1
• Option to disable product reviews on product detail page
• Option to supress display of sub category picture links

Improvements

• (Perf) Faster application warmup
• (Perf) Faster product list rendering
• Reworked routing: removed static file security barrier again (caused too much problems)
• #545 Made all (applicable) settings multi-store-enabled
• #579 Make all relative urls absolute prior sending email
• The display order of attribute values are considered in the sorting of backend's attribute combination grid
• Optimized error handling and redesigned error pages
• Removed PageNotFound topic. Text is a simple locale resource now.
• PayPal settings are multi-store-enabled
• #555 Product edit: Improve category select box. Add history (last x selected items) above all others.
• #510 Payment plugins: Qualify configuration(s) for multistores
• #556 A negative value should be possible for additional payment fees
• Dashboard: Order items linked with order list
• Security: Missing http-only flag for some cookies set

Bugfixes

• PayPal Express: corrected basket transmission by eliminating tax transmission
• Fixed password recovery redirection
• #552 Left navbar should stay expanded on product detail pages
• #538 Specification attribute labels in product filter mask are not displayed localized
• #540 AmazonPay: Multistore configuration might be lost if "All stores" are left empty
• #532 AmazonPay: Reflect refunds made at amazon seller central when using data polling
• #577 Exception thrown because of missing TaxRate table when opening tax by region provider configuration
• Added IIS rewrite rule for /productreviews/{id} > /product/reviews/{id}
• Email a friend redirects to "not found"
• #567 Products marked as 'Featured' should also be included in regular lists
• Fixed some missing company information in order to PDF export
• #583 Fixed "The property rate with the value x is malformed" when creating products
• Fixed ignored discount and tier price when product has attribute combination price
• PayPal Standard provider now using shipping rather than billing address if shipping is required

Highlights

SmartStore.NET 2.1 is a developer- and designer-focused release with the main goal to drastically simplify plugin development, debugging & deployment, thus being an important milestone for our upcoming Plugin Marketplace.

With SmartStore.NET 2.1, plugins finally are first-class citizens, and theme development has never been easier:

• Plugin assemblies can contain multiple providers now (e.g. shipping calculators, payment methods etc.)
• Views in plugin source folders can be edited during debug. The changes are reflected adhoc without the need for recompilation.
• No embedded views anymore. Views are copied to the deployment folder
• No cumbersome return View("Very.Long.View.Identifier") anymore, just regular MVC areas.
• Plugins can provide custom tabs more easily (now with on demand AJAX loading)
• Theme inheritance: create derived child themes with minimum effort by overriding only small parts (static files and even variables)

Other highlights are:

• New backend design and cleaner frontend theme
• New theme variants Alpha Black and Alpha Blue
• More comfortable catalog management & product editing
• Increased performance, especially in the public frontend
• Lower memory consumption
• New payment plugins: Pay with Amazon & Accarda-Kar
• Preview Mode: virtually test themes and shops more easily
• Simplified checkout process
• Buyer can add a comment during checkout
• New Image Gallery component in public product details page
• Support for hierarchical SEO slugs, e.g.: samsung/galaxy/s5/16gb/white
• Better HTML editing with CKEditor (including media management & file upload)
• Support for new EU VAT regulation for digital goods (2008/8/EG directive)
• Import/Export for localized product data like Name, Short Description etc.
• Lots of other new features, improvements and a lot of bugfixes

Full Release Notes

New Features

• (Developer) Overhauled plugin architecture:
  • Plugins are regular MVC areas now
  • No embedded views anymore. Views get copied to the deployment folder
  • No cumbersome return View("Very.Long.View.Identifier") anymore
  • Views in plugin source folders can be edited during debug. The changes are reflected without plugin recompilation.
• (Developer) Theme inheritance: create derived child themes with minimum effort by overriding only small parts (static files and even variables).
• Preview Mode: virtually test themes and stores more easily
• New payment plugin Pay with Amazon
• Support for hierarchical SEO slugs, e.g.: samsung/galaxy/s5/16gb/white
• (Developer) Model binding for plugin tab views: models from plugin tabs get automatically materialized and bound to TabbableModel.CustomProperties[MyKey]. Extended the SmartModelBinder for this.
• (Developer) New event ModelBoundEvent. Consume this in plugins to persist plugin specific models.
• (Admin) Added GMC tab to product edit view. This is more a coding example for the above stuff rather than a new feature.
• (Developer) Implemented AdminThemedAttribute: instructs the view engine to additionally search in the admin area for views. Very useful in larger plugin projects.
• (Developer) Enhanced IMenuProvider: menu items can now be injected to the public catalog menu
• (Developer) Implemented IWidgetProvider. Allows request scoped registration of action routes to be injectable into widget zones. Perfect for custom action filters.
• (Developer) Simple widgets: the model of the parent action view context now gets passed to a widget.
• (Developer) New IoC method ContainerManager.InjectProperties()
• Implemented support for EU VAT regulation for digital goods (2008/8/EG directive)
• Implemented Media Manager for HTML editor (including file upload)
• Added CDN setting to store configuration. Allows static files to be served through a content delivery network, e.g. cloudfront. (contributed by 'normalc')
• #393 Web API: Implement OData actions for simpler working with product attributes
• #431 Web API: Add support for localized properties
• ShippingByWeight: new settings to configure a small quantity surcharge
• #216 Better return request support
• #90 Directly set order status to completed
• #413 Orders: Add a PDF export\download of selected orders
• #69 Award reward points for product reviews
• #164 Add multistore support for polls
• #170 Multistore support for Newsletters
• #266 Update Pending Order in Admin Panel
• #331 Show CommentBox in checkout (optional)
• Option to turn off the filter for products in categories
• Export/Import was enabeled to work with localized values for name, short description and long description

Improvements

• New backend design and cleaner frontend theme
• Replaced TinyMCE HTML editor with CKeditor
• Simplified checkout process by combining payment method and info pages
• (Perf) Lower memory consumption
• (Perf) (Developer) Client Dependency updates
  • jQuery 1.8.3 > 2.1.1 (although the backend is still using v1.8.3 because of the Telerik components)
  • FontAwesome 3 > 4.1
  • Modernizr 2.5 > 2.7.2
  • jQuery UI to 1.11
  • SearchBox uses Typeahead now instead of jQuery UI AutoComplete
  • Got rid of obsolete jQuery UI files (will remove this later completely)
• (UI) AJAXified product edit tab: all tabs other than the first one load on demand per AJAX
• (Developer) Plugins can provide custom tabs more easily (now with on demand AJAX loading)
• Task Scheduler:
  • Can run tasks manually now (async)
  • Better UI
  • Shows last error
  • (Developer) Breaking change: New parameter TaskExecutionContext for ITask.Execute()
• UI: TabStrips remember their last selected tab across page requests in an unobtrusive way (removed old selection code)
• Price formatting: the DisplayLocale's FormatProvider was not applied when CustomFormatting was specified for Currency
• Admin: Specification attributes are now sorted by DisplayOrder, THEN BY Name
• Admin: Replaced DatePicker with DateTimePicker control
• (Perf) significantly increased excel import performance... again ;-)
• (Perf) significantly increased excel export performance and optimized memory usage
• (Perf) SEO sitemap is being cached now, resulting in fast reponse times with larger catalogs
• (UI) optimized and reorganized product edit view a bit
• (Developer) MVC filter attributes are now Autofac injectable
• (Developer) Implemented RunSync extension methods for Func and Func<Task>. A reliable way to execute async operations synchronously.
• (Developer) Refactored model creation for category navigation: it now incorporates TreeNode, which enables plugin developers to alter the main menu with the event hook NavigationModelBuilt.
• (Developer) Added user.less to Alpha theme for user defined css overrides and tweaks
• (Developer) Moved PublicControllerBase to SmartStore.Web.Framework
• (Developer) Moved 'AdminControllerBase' to SmartStore.Web.Framework
• (Developer) Optimized Bundle handling
  • Html.Add[Script|CssFile]Parts() now can handle already bundled resources correctly (no attempt is made to bundle them, the bundle's virtual url is returned instead)
  • Made extra bundles for frequently used resources (like sequence js, fileupload, image gallery etc.). This way they always come compressed.
• #384 Web API: Inserting sluged recources like products require an URL record
• #382 Promotion feed plugins: Asynchronous feed creation, more options and improvements
• #433 GMC feed: Option to filter config records that have not been edited
• #362 Display 'from {0}' for products with variant attributes
• #239 Categories: Ask merchant if he want a cascading or a non cascading deletion
• HTML text collapser: Make it usable for all long texts
• #375 Implement SKU search for 'related products picker'
• #391 Admin: allow searching/filtering for specification attributes
• Removed OpenID plugin from core
• Specification attribute values that are assigned to a product can be edited

Bugfixes

• Twitter Auth: fixed SecurityTransparent error
• Facebook Auth: fixed SecurityTransparent error
• OpenID Auth: fixed SecurityTransparent error
• #376 Product filtering: Category price range filter not working anymore
• Return requests: Products to return won't be listed
• #372 Biz-Importer sometimes shows inactive tier prices
• PayPal Standard: Sending more localized values. Adjustment of net prices to avoid wrong PayPal total amount calculation.
• Globalization fix in plugin data grids: inline editing for decimal values did not take current culture into account
• #391 Show delivery time if out-of-stock orders are allowed by attribute combination
• CustomerRole > TaxDisplayType Including VAT could not be saved
• Product.DisableBuyButton was never updated when the stock quantity has been increased (e.g. as a result of order canceling)
• Shipping.ByTotal: Fixed matching of rates by choosing the more specific over the common rate
• A grouped product only shows up to 12 associated products
• #405 Billiger feed: Wrong base price exported
• #437 Mobile devices: Cannot add a product to the cart when it is grouped
• PayPal Standard: Costs for checkout attributes were double charged
• Paging of return request grid did not work
• #428 Multiline checkout attributes aren't rendered correctly
• #434 Shipping.ByTotal: Make grid pageable
• #419 email account password hidden
• #424 Localize return reasons & return actions
• #479 Product filter: Wrong count of manufacturers if products of sub-categories are included
• #492 Ipayment credit card: Order notes are only created when the order exists
• #493 Postfinance plugin does not work if shopname includes a "umlaut"
• #237 Mobile theme: inactive attribute combinations should not be added to cart
• #178 Mobile theme doesn't display base price
• Ipayment: Capturing did not work because the security was not transmitted
• #405 "Reset Password" Link in Emails is wrong with SSL secured sites
• #471 Checkout: Redirecting to external payment page could take a while. Clicking "Buy" button again might cancel the redirecting.
• Pricing not considered attribute combination prices for bundles with per item pricing