Magento Preview Version 1.4.0.0-beta1 - Now Available!

We are happy to announce the availability of Magento Preview Version 1.4.0.0-beta1 for download.

As this is a preview version it is NOT recommended in any way to be used in a production environment (more information about preview releases and the new community edition release process can be found in this blog post). This release is NOT available for upgrade through Magento Connect Manager and is only available on our download page and via SVN.

Some of the highlights for this release are theme fallback to the base theme (one level for all themes to start from), custom variables functionality for email templates, compatibility with Zend Framework version 1.9.4 and much more. To see a full list of features and fixed issues please visit our release notes page. Diff files are available here.
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Please report all issues with this release in the bug tracker.