Magento 0.8.17240 Available for Download
We are happy to announce the availability for download of Magento Preview version 0.8.17240. This is one of our biggest releases to date and includes many new features and enhancements.
Magento's production feature set is mostly complete with a few minor adjustments expected later this month. A full list of Magento's features can be viewed here.
* Please note (important): PEAR packages are currently not available for this release. We will make them available in the next few days.
New Functionality and Major Highlights
- Add simple products while editing super products
- Create attributes during adding/editing product
- Product images multiple upload and management tool
- Placeholders, watermarks and dynamic image resizing with GD
- New implementation of catalog category tree for increased performance
- Improved attributes & attributes editing
- Inline Translations
- Packing slips & invoices PDF print-outs with control over logo and address
- Catalog models and collections has been rewritten
- New admin dashboard implementation
- RSS alerts & notifications admin and customer
- Product price and stock status alerts subscription
- Improved price rules management
- Price and tax displaying configuration
- Localizable transactional emails
- Full order comment history in admin
- Added a number of reports, including sales report, newsletter subscribers export
Enhancements
- International tax supprt
- Added configuration of Gift Message on order level separately
- Display top 100 search terms a cloud
- Admin HTML and CSS cleanup
- Changed Mage::registry("action") to Mage::app()->getFrontController()->getAction()
- Added Product 'out of stock' status to category listing
- Cleaned interface restrictions for dataflow
- Added Mage::unregister method
- Added SKU and selected options (for configurable products) in most places (sales orders, invoices, etc)
- Added base currency amount in sales order on frontend
- Moved price rules from store views to websites
- Added configurable products to rule SKU chooser
- Added customer account sharing configuration
- Added default gateway url for USPS
- Removed auto-redirection from https to http
- Added exception logging with Mage::logException
- Added grids export to MS Excel XML
- Added image configuration field backend model
- Added image helper to all product views
- Implemented configuration fields cloning
- Added inventory tab for mass-updating product attributes
- Added no-render for front-controller for integration
- Removed USA postcodes data from install
- Added shipping tax class id
- Organized system configuration tabs
- Added shopping cart items counter configuration (number of units vs number of items)
- Added showing price including tax on catalog
- Replaced Mage::app()->getLocale()->date() by Mage::getModel('core/date')->gmtDate()
- Added state drop down for estimate shipping for table rate and DHL
- Removed extra closing table tag in admin html
- Added store cookie and _GET request store parameter checking in app init
- Added zend cache backends for apc and memcached by Mark_Kimsal
- Salted passwords for customers
Bugs Fixed
- Fixed 404 Error page in Url Rewrite Management when changing view per page number
- Fixed DHL request ampersand encoding
- Removed validation for international postcodes
- Fixed currency nowrap and added .nobr in admin and frontend
- Fixed free shipping method
- Fixed ignoring missing block types
- Fixed ignoring non-existent block types in layouts
- Fixed loading store info from db updates
- Fixed newsletter subscribing
- Fixed non-secure urls for regions uploader in shipping configuration
- Fixed non-secure urls in admin blocks
- Fixed onepage checkout registration mode
- Fixed product duplication
- Fixed product/category_ids saving/retrieving; entity_type should be retrieved from eav/config
- Fixed stock availability and inventory tab for configurable and grouped products
- Fixed texts for deleting website / store / store view
- Fixed unsetting positioned child blocks
- Fixed wrong spelling in the .htaccess for the CGI-Workaround
- Fixed sitemap cronjobs scheduling
Known Issues
- We will add title to tax rule to be able to identify it in the reports
- Price ranges in layered navigation should be fixed in next releases
- Admin is not able to unsubscribe customer from products alerts
- Configuration fields that are not available in current scope will be displayed in disable state instead of hiding them
- Google Chart API image on the admin dashboard gives warning for non-secure items in IE6
- Order and comments history is going to be somewhat modified
- There is a problem to checkout if store owner enabled fraud detection in online payment gateways with support for fraud settings
- Configuration accordions state will be remembered in session in next release
- We have limitation on imported date in current implementation of dataflow. Using 128MB: for customers the maximum is 406 items, for products the maximum is 12927 items from our tests
- When adding new address in multiple shipping address checkout current address selection is lost
- Price display options (incl. tax, etc) affect only catalog pages now
- Configurable products stay in shopping carts even after they were deleted in admin
