Magento Version 0.6.12840 Available for Download (includes PayPal Support)
We are pleased to announce the availability for download of Magento Preview version 0.6.12840. The biggest highlight of the release is PayPal integration (view screencast) and multi-lingual support.
Magento supports two different PayPal methods for use in your websites and stores: PayPal Express, which allows the customer to check out from the PayPal site, and PayPal Direct, which offers credit card processing capability without the customer having to ever leave your store.
With PayPal Express, the customer is transferred to PayPal's checkout from a button in the shopping cart, or from the "Payment Method" section of the Magento checkout process. Upon successfully completing checkout, they are immediately returned to the "Completed Order" page on your store. Customers with a PayPal account looking for a quick checkout may prefer this option.
With PayPal Direct, customers don't need a PayPal account. Instead, customers are prompted to enter their credit card information in the "Payment Method" stage of your store's checkout, taking them seamlessly through the process from beginning to end. With Magento's ability to re-name payment methods, customers don't even need to know they're using PayPal.
Checkout Magento's PayPal functionality in action ...
-- RELEASE NOTES - MAGENTO 0.6.12840 --
MAJOR CHANGES:
Added localization settings:
- Locale configuration in installation wizard
- Locale configuration in admin
- Currency and date formatting
Added translations functionality:
- Reworked all the templates to take translated values
- Prepared translation skeletons
- Implemented English (US) translation
Implemented Paypal payment methods:
- Website Payments Pro
- Paypal Express
- PayPal Direct
Admin permissions implementation mostly rewritten
- Moved permissions models to 'Admin' module, 'Permissions' module deleted
- Implemented permissions checking for system configuration section in admin
Added multi store product reviews management functionality
Added multi store ratings management functionality
APPLICATION BUGFIXES:
- Menu hover color bug fix
- Fixed error in install template
- Fixed one-page checkout javascript error
- Fixed image uploader for Windows
- Fixed loading install layout from db
- Fixed layout and payment methods displaying in multiple addresses checkout
- Empty password was sent in checkout registration email
- Adding item to wishlist twice caused program exceptions
- Fixed deleting backups
- Fixed few newsletter subscription bugs ('My Account' dashboard text, newsletter status in admin)
ENHANCEMENTS:
- Added few models' setters and getters to increase performance
- Replaces _initChildren to _prepareLayout and removed _afterSetLayout methods
- Added Block_Abstract::getBlockHtml method
- Layouts moved to single file
- Changed most of the layout updates to be action updates
- Implemented payment methods sorting
- Added 'Exclude multi-address checkout' option in payment methods configuration
- Added 'Save As' function for newsletter templates
KNOWN ISSUES:
- 3rd level admin menu is broken in IE
- Coupon discount not shown in order totals in customer account
- Security warnings when submitting forms from secure to non-secure pages
1DavePit.com |posted October 3 2007
Awesome work guys, keep it up!
2Evghenii |posted October 3 2007
BRAVO! Magnifico Magento!
373inches from Germany, Hannover|posted October 3 2007
Wow, sound great! Thanks for doing a good job!
4woodsikov from London, UK|posted October 3 2007
So if I’ve installed a previous version, how do I update my installation - do I download and install over the current one? Will any config files get overwritten that way?
5Inline media from The Netherlands|posted October 3 2007
Very nice job! It’s good to see that you do what you promised to do.
For example: with osCommerce the development of a new version is stopt for more than a year or so.
Again, many thanks!
6Maff from Yorkshire, UK|posted October 3 2007
Excellent! The link to the screencast is faulty btw.
7tzCart from NW Ohio–USA|posted October 3 2007
The link works now, maybe the server was just getting smoked!
I’ld believe that… PayPal enabled --s-w-eee-t.
The production level product is getting close to getting the “green light” maybe?
8RoyRubin from Los Angeles, CA|posted October 3 2007
Getting closer ... but still some time to go
9NickL |posted October 3 2007
Roy… I love you.
10NickL |posted October 3 2007
j/k Great Job Guys! I’m looking forward to the production.. wait till you see what I’ve done to this baby! (Will be updating develophead soon).
11Buddha993 |posted October 3 2007
You’re Kings!
Will Moneybookers and Yellowpay also gets included? These two and paypal are the most used e-payment methods in switzerland.
1. http://moneybookers.com
2. http://www.postfinance.ch/pf/content/en/seg/biz/pay/debit/yp.na_biz.html
12woodsikov from London, UK|posted October 3 2007
Any chance of an answer to my question?
13RoyRubin from Los Angeles, CA|posted October 3 2007
@woodsikov - Please see this thread - http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewthread/809/
14Catia |posted October 4 2007
With the new version, came a slightly new website, but it looks kind of off… I don’t have the time to look into it in detail, but I suspect it has to do with the browser (I use Firefox). Most of the main section of the page appears in gray, which doesn’t seem right, and the copyright line is displaced and appearing up at the top of the pages…
Just thought you might want to check your css in Firefox.
Either way, thanks for the new version to play with
15RoyRubin from Los Angeles, CA|posted October 4 2007
@C - what Firefox version are you using?
16Catia |posted October 4 2007
Hi Roy,
I am using Firefox version 2.0.0.7 (like the year!)
I visited the website in IE and it looks perfect, so it has to be a browser compatibility issue…
Catia
17i960 from Bakersfield, CA|posted October 4 2007
I’m also using Firefox 2.0.0.7, but the site looks perfect to me. Everything is nearly identical between Firefox and IE 7, except for some reason the featured screencast image is not loading in IE. Other than that, no issues here.
18john_wilson |posted October 5 2007
I’ve been looking at the latest version of Magento, and it seems like it only supports PayPal Website Payments Pro, not PayPal Website Payments Standard.
Is that true?
19Inline media from The Netherlands|posted October 6 2007
Can somebody tell me how to activate a new language for example Dutch? Uploaden the files is not enough.
20john_wilson |posted October 8 2007
Will Magento ever support PayPal Website Payments Standard?
21YoavKutner |posted October 11 2007
We will add PayPal IPN support over the next few releases
22john_wilson |posted October 11 2007
IPN support is good, but that alone would not be enough to enable PayPal Website Payments Standard.
You guys are aware that there’s a significant difference between PayPal Website Payments Standard and PayPal Website Payments Pro, right?
23YoavKutner |posted October 11 2007
Yes we are aware of it
thanks
24sphynx |posted 3 weeks ago
Any updates on the Paypal Payments Standard?
Thanks.