New Version of 1.1 Public Alpha Available via SVN
A new Version (1.1.x.11) of 1.1 Alpha release is now available through SVN.
The list of Magento Version 1.1 upcoming features that we discussed earlier is detailed here with the specifics of what is now in the Alpha branch:
1. Admin UI improvements
2. Web Services API: The Catalog, Orders and Customers API are available now. We will release the web-services API documentation over the next few days.
3. Virtual Products
4. Custom Defined Product Options:
5. Bundled Products:
6. Improved support for EU and Canadian taxes
7. New customer attributes such as prefix and suffix, D.O.B etc...
8. Magento system messages bar added to admin
Please note that these features are still in development and are not for use in a production environment.
There are also additional smaller features and bug fixes available in the 1.1 trunk, please keep an eye on the list in STATUS.txt in the 1.1 branch root folder.
We greatly appreciate your feedback and suggestions in this forum topic.
Magento 1.1 stable release is scheduled for mid to late July and more information will be made available shortly.
IMPORTANT NOTICE: Priorities can change and features may be moved to later releases. We know how important these features are to merchants, but we advise you to not make any serious business decisions based on an unreleased feature. Varien does reserve the right to change this list, and cannot assume responsibility for any loss that might come from a late or unreleased feature.
1Roy Andre |posted July 1 2008
Great! Just installed it and it looks very good so far, with many new features.
I see the old feature where we could set different prices for different StoreName’s still isnt included in the 1.1-version. Several of our clients really miss this feature, so it would be great if Varien could give us some information about this particular - very much needed - feature.
2dracnet from Barcelona (Spain)|posted July 1 2008
release date ?
3Ross from Scarborough, North Yorkshire, UK|posted July 1 2008
@dracnet - they mentioned sometime in July as a release date, however I would be happier if they took all the time needed to make sure it was well tested and stable. Perhaps a beta release for later in the month would be good
4RoyRubin from Los Angeles, CA|posted July 1 2008
We do not publish specific dates. As soon as it is ready it will be released.
500christian00 |posted July 1 2008
Will the new version be upgradeable via magento connect?
6norbolig |posted July 2 2008
It would be great if you (or anyone else) could have a demo site for the New Version 1.1 Public Alpha (although I fully understand if you do not have the time for it).
As everyone else, I am very excited about the final result. Good luck with the final work.
7mayerwin from France|posted July 3 2008
Hello, great that you are keeping up with the deadlines.
When is it expected to be available within Magento Connect?
That would be very useful, since I don’t have access to SVN.
8t2nd from Roubaix, France|posted July 4 2008
great, good news
9Business Feet |posted July 8 2008
Just had a play around with 1.1 and noticed the new product features. My feedback is based around the custom options. i think the implementation of custom options is somewhat cumbersome even if it were to be done via CSV. Having to manually add custom options to every product is not very dynamic and whilst they work on simple products they don’t on grouped products. I set an option to have a +25% price on a grouped product with 2 items in it and when selecting the option the price remained the same and was not passed through to the cart
10brandondrew |posted July 8 2008
Magento is mind-bogglingly awesome, but still lacks just a couple very important things. 1.1 will add two of (what I consider to be) the critical features that are still missing: virtual products and a web services API. But still direly needed is the ability to take back-orders and pre-orders. Please consider a 1.2 release closely following 1.1, with no additions except pre/back-orders.
11thE_iNviNciblE from Oldenburg|posted July 8 2008
@aFFi:
see the old feature where we could set different prices for different StoreName’s still isnt included in the 1.1-version. Several of our clients really miss this feature.
we miss this feature also.