Magento 0.6.13110 Available for Download
We are pleased to announce the availability for download of Magento Preview version 0.6.13110. The biggest highlights of the release include performance gains, ability to control currencies on a per store level including enabling/disabling currencies from the Zend locale, and the finalization of the shipping and payment API's (see a recent wiki post on how to create a payment module).
Yoav, Varien's CTO discusses the release in the video below (recorded a few hours before the release):
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Major Changes:
- Added product tags multistore functionality
- Implemented currency administration
- Currency rates updating via webservices was reworked, the tutorial on currency rate webservices integration will be posted in Magento blog soon
- Locale settings configuration added to choose allowed Zend_Locale data
- Fixed multiwebsite cache and sessions issues (i.e. different secure/nonsecure domains)
- Unified events and layouts names, documentation will follow soon
- Mage_Core, Mage_Checkout, Mage_Catalog, Mage_Cms and Mage_Review modules helpers implemented for better performance
- Improved countries and regions saving logic, saving ISO country codes rather then ids
- Few minor bugs fixed in installation wizard
- Added custom database port/socket setting in installation wizard
- Refactored controllers, moved operations from constructor to preDispatch
- Rewritten Mage_Log module
- Implemented cache management to allow disabling and enabling specific cache (configuration, layouts, blocks HTML output, EAV types and attributes, translations)
- Fixed theme translation loading
Known Issues:
- New allowed currency is immediately available in frontend that causes 'Undefined rate from "XXX-YYY"' messages and wrong calculations in shopping cart and checkout until the currency rates are updated
- Configurable product price doesn't use locale format to display