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We are happy to announce that a new version of the osCommerce Migration Tool is now available through MagentoConnect.

The new version includes:

- Support for customer accounts with multiple addresses
- Conversion of different encodings to default utf8
- Support for products’ special prices
- Support for products’ images
- Conversion for timezones
- Fixes for known issues of previous release

We hope you find this useful.

The latest Magento release included a bug that was found today.

The bug will cause products to be deleted completely from the system when a frontend customer adds items to compare products and then clears all selections.

This bug was found in the latest Magento release, Version 1.0.19700, and is not known to affect version 1.0.

It is high priority for all people using Magento 1.0.19700, or who have upgraded to Magento 1.0.19700, to install this Patch.

Installing the patch:

1. Download either the zip file: patch1_1.0.19700.zip or the tar.gz file patch1_1.0.19700.tar.gz

2. Extract and upload the file CompareController.php or extract directly the archives to app/code/core/Mage/Catalog/controllers/Product/

We are pleased to announce the availability for download of Magento Version 1.0 with Revision 19700. This revision includes many small fixes, small modifications and some slight performance enhancements, which are detailed in the release notes.

*Please Note: Instructions for Upgrading Magento with a full package, via SVN, via the MagentoConnect Manager and using SSH shell access are available in this wiki post.

Please read the wiki before upgrading.

If you are using the Magento Connect (PEAR Packages) we also recommend upgrading the Magento Connect Manager here

We have now opened our Alpha Branch so that the community can see our work in progress.

The SVN checkout command can be found here.

Please note that this version is not recommended in any way to be used in a production environment and that we do not guarantee that any of the functionality or code will be made available in future stable releases of Magento.

We hope you find this useful.

We experienced heavy load this morning which caused about an hour of downtime. Everything is back online and should be back to normal.

As always, updates can be seen on twitter.

We are extremely excited and proud to announce the production release of Magento 1.0 (Download | Release Notes). The new community site will be online later this week and feature additional functionality, highlighted by Magento Connect.

Wow, this has been a mad race to the finish line and the day is finally here.

To everyone who spread the word about Magento, told a friend, wrote in blogs, posted and commented in the Magento forums, subscribed to our newsletter, downloaded one (or more) of our 11 preview releases, reported bugs, participated in the Magento community, to the online merchants who waited for Magento 1.0, developers and designers who convinced their clients to wait for the product and our partners who recognized the potential -- Thank you for believing.

The community site will be down for a short period of time while we ‘take care of business’ for the Magento 1.0 release. Follow us on twitter for updates should the server not hold up once we go live.

Thanks for your support. Magento 1.0 is right around the corner.

With the launch of Magento 1.0 (expected by the end of March), a new Magento Community site will be online introducing new features and services.  We’re excited to share the first glimpse of the new site (click image to enlarge).

Magento 1.0 is right around the corner ...

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The Under the Radar Conference took place yesterday and Magento took home a prize, winning ‘Audience Favorite’ in the Manage Up session. Although no red carpets were rolled out, it was great to see Magento on the map. The product was well received and sparked a lot of interest from the crowd.

The full presentations slides are embedded below as well as photos from the event.

Thanks to Debbie Landa, Shay Nowick, and Giselle Umland from Dealmaker Media for hosting us in this wonderful event.

As previously announced, Magento has been selected to present in Under the Radar: The Business of WebApps Conference, taking place on March 20th in Mountain View, CA.

Under the Radar will uncover 32 startups, that have launched within the year, showcasing the newest web apps created by developers with a quest for innovation and a tendency towards disruption. Having launched numerous companies into startup stardom, acquisition and beyond, Under the Radar is the most discerning and reliable platform today for discovering tomorrow’s leading technology companies ... Out of the hundreds of nominations and startups we found in our own research - we’ve looked at them all - these startups are the best of the best. We’re looking for game-changers, innovators and, most of all, startups that have a real shot at success.

We’re excited to take part in this prestigious event. Past companies include Zimbra, Writely, Flickr, Userplane, and more.

We’ve included a couple of slides from the upcoming presentation below:

A new tool was introduced in the community site today (available through the Community tab) in an effort to streamline and organize the community translations for Magento. This is the first phase of a comprehensive process to provide translations to Magento’s default interface. In time, this functionality will be extended to support all available interfaces on Magento Connect.

In the next few days, we’ll be working on additional functionality, including:

• Utlizing the in-line translation tool working on the live interface to suggest a translation or an alternative. The moderator will select the most appropriate suggestion.
• Support for multiple interfaces as available through Magento Connect. The underlying concept is to have as many interfaces as possible translated to multiple languages.
• Tool to quickly find untranslated strings per locale.

At any time, you can download the latest translations at http://www.magentocommerce.com/langs/list/

Please note that a single moderator is assigned per locale. If you’d like to get involved or don’t see your locale listed, please get in touch with us.

The demo store has been updated with the latest version of the translations as we currently have.

The PEAR packages upgrade for 0.8.17240 is now available for download via Magento’s Extensions Administrative interface or via SSH shell command line.

Please note that this version upgrade introduces a change that will require additional steps for successful upgrade from previous versions (this does not apply to clean PEAR installation), as explained below:

• The PEAR installer upgrades packages by deleting files from previous release and creating files for new release
• The new release packages do not contain files that usually will be modified by the user, such as “/index.php” and “/.htaccess”
• These files will be supplied with different names, which are “/index.php.sample” and “/.htaccess.sample” for use as sample
• That means that existing files will be deleted and not recreated
• Therefore we suggest to back up these 2 files before the PEAR upgrade and restore them after the upgrade

This applies only to this specific upgrade, and will not be required for consequent upgrades.

NOTE: If you are using the index.php without modifying it and try to re-upload your files you will need to change the line Mage::run(’base’) to Mage::run(’default’) for the new version to work.