Sit back and enjoy the video discussion of the 1.1 release functionality, and for quick reference we have provided a list below. Please note that this is a partial list - additional smaller features and bug fixes are also expected to be part of the upcoming release.

1. Performance Improvements: Since the 1.0 release we have been working on improving the performance of Magento and the 1.1 release will see further gains (as much as 40% performance improvements in the catalog and sales modules).
2. Admin UI improvements: Changes will be made to only load data when necessary, improving the responsiveness of the Admin Panel.
3. Web Services API: A highly requested feature which will make integrating Magento with 3rd party software much easier. The API will be added for the catalog, customers and sales modules.
4. Virtual Products: These products which do not require shipping information and/or inventory management add to Magento’s product types by allowing for store owners to more easily create and manage products.
5. Customer Defined Product Options: This functionality will allow customers to define text, images, etc. for products.
6. Bundled Products: One of the most exciting features, this will allow store owners to create built to order products and will further extend the product options available in Magento.
7. Improved support for EU and Canadian taxes: The tax rules and functionalities for EU and Canadian taxes will be added to the Core, which should be especially exciting to the Magento community outside of the US.

Watch the video for more details on all of these features.

As always, we reserve the right to change the list of expected features (if we don’t feel a feature is ready), and cannot assume responsibility for any loss that may come from a late or unreleased feature.

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Add a new product attribute named “map”, of type “price”, and change your frontend templates to display either “Add to Cart” or the actual price depending on what the price is.

Bam, done. Total time is maybe five minutes, tops. (If your MAP agreements are more restrictive, as some of mine are, you can also display the MAP instead of “add to cart for lower price” text.)

It would be great if the development guys could tell us what are their plans regarding downloadable products.

Cheers.

@Varien:  it would be helpful if you could correct the text in the post to reflect what was stated in the screencast, so no one is expecting downloadable products in late June/early July, along with 1.1.0

For the web services API you say it will support the “sales modules”.  Can you help me understand what specifically that includes?  Will it allow us to pull order details to process an order or shipment through a 3rd party?

Any information on what specifically will be support with the sales module api features would be very helpful.  Thanks!

What I don’t read is anything about bugfixing. I ran into some problems while configuring the webshop. When I searched for solutions on the magento site I could see I wasn’t the only one running into the same issues. 
For instance, I got a 404 on the front and back end after setting the webshop language. I had to digg into the database and restore the default values in order to approach my site again. Another thing is I’m missing category listing on pages. Last thing is the menu.. you should be able to select an item to be displayed in the menu or not.

Overall, I’m still very positive about magento and will try to profide solutions whenever I can to improve it.

If one needs to change address format, please take a look at this thread.

I am still certain that most other european have approx. the same address format.

City is always before Zip code too.

See, I told you it wasn’t easy.

I fully agree that there is no standard “EU Address”, but still, I belive most EU addresses can be put into this Address format:

Address 1
Address 2 (mostly not used)
Zip Code *) City
COUNTRY

*) A country code such as D- or I- should be added to the beginning of the Zip Code if shipped to another Country

AND, this mostly minor address differences is a problem that we have to live with for every other software as well, so I don’t expect Magento to be able to have a solution for all address oddities).

German street and number: Hauptstrasse 177
French street and number: 56 RUE EMILE ZOLA (yes, they do prefer capital letters)
German postcode and city name: D-64740 Saarlouis
Netherland postcode and city with subzone: NL-6500 HB Nijmegen
Italian postcode and city AND provincia: I-20064 Gorgonzola MI

And I won’t even mention English (not UK, but English) addresses:
Mr. Thomas Clark
Eden Cottage
May’s Green, Harpsden
HENLEY-ON-THAMES
RG9 4AJ
ENGLAND

That ranted about, yes, a few selectable address formats will help! (sorry - couldn’t resist… slap me...)

But… Thanks to norbolig for his wishes
1) A integrated visual / wysiwyg editor.
2) A European address layout (selectable US or EU address layout).

Both would be great and would help us here in Europe

Please fix Google Checkout!

Thanks!

I wonder if it would be possible to include a delivery calendar? There are thousands of flower shops and gift basket stores out there and others that don’t ship their products but deliver them. I’m sure this is a necessity for a lot of businesses.

Thanks and keep up the good work!

We’ll they have a nicely built SCV import and I did just that with CRE Loaded and Magento. I impoted 500+ products and 5000+ customers. I didn’t yes imported some historical orders data, as that may require some manual script that will store it directly to the database.

But import works quite well for me

Not everyone is going to be starting a new store in 2008 and its impossible to think successful store owners can manually add 2000+ plus products with 2000+ customers and orders. I would just say this is the key area before releasing a further version.

I am aslo eager to see integrated wysiwyg editor. One of the things I’m looking forward from your comments is: Web Services API. Hope this would really be easy to use in other soltuions like Wordpress, Drupal or other CMSes…

Mantra playback:
- Have at least your partners beta-test the 1.1 release, better yet, provide svn access to 1.1-trunk at beta time (don’t be shy)
- Less bugs is always more important than features
- See that the tax module is 100% on target for the 1.1 release - EU taxes, VAT ID numbers, the like, this will make Magento #1 in Europe this year (don’t overlook matponta’s remark above).

I’m asking my self about a new feature in checkout page that allow customer to pick up the best hour to delivery their orders.

Do you have plan to japanese market?

My best -

Luciano

I am still praying that we will see a feature for handling “Manufacture Advertised Price” - (MAP)…

We have many products that do not allow us to list our price and are normally handled on other carts by having the price replaced with the text “Click here to add to cart for our low price” (Or something of that nature). This keeps us inline with the manufactures rules of not allowing advertising of prices lower than their MAP pricing. (They allow using this method of adding to cart to see the lower price offered)

Replace text of just “Call for price” is not good. Instead, many of us really need this feature added so that we can use Magento. Until that day comes, it makes it impossible for businesses like ours to use the system as a viable option for replacing our current carts.

-- Dave

both are important ... tooo

rafael

Do you plan to have a beta release for 1.1 to ensure that it is well tested before going gold?  (SVN trunk link would be good too)

Cheer for all the hard work you folk have been putting in.

Two wishes:

1) A integrated visual / wysiwyg editor.
2) A European address layout (selectable US or EU address layout).

I am truly thankful for the opportunity you all give me and other ecommerce users.

Varien folks, when you say improved performance on the sales module does that include the cart and checkout flows?

Thanks very much to the Varien team for the work and updates!

Keep on working hard guys ! Magento Rock !

I am wondering if there was any news on a light theme (without the heavy javascript frameworks) and a maybe a simplified checkout?

Thanks!