June 20th, 2010
Improvements
- Added ability to use static URLs for media in WYSIWYG or image browser. Added ability to enable parsing store, skin and media directives on catalog frontend.
- URL rewrites history: ability to auto-generate custom rewrite with redirect from old to new URL when changing product URL-key
- Added ability to exclude a category from navigation menu
- Various improvements in system configuration UI. Introduced ability to make actual configuration structure to be independent on the system.xml structure
- Added “Only X left” inventory feature
- Implemented Centinel functionality in iphone theme
- Upgraded TinyMCE to v.3.3.2
- Improved PayPal integration, includes:
* Recurring payment profiles entity and purchasing of “subscription” products. In checkout they are treated as “nominal” items.
* Billing agreements
* “Pending Review” order state, “Pending Review” and “Suspected Fraud” order statuses and logic related with this. Triggers by PayPal IPR, FMF and Unilateral payments.
* Functionality of transactions listing/searching and fetching from gateway
* Fetching PayPal settlement reports via SFTP
* Various improvements of PayPal integration on the frontend and admin UI
- Added notice about creating offline creditmemo from order view page.
- Added getter for recurring payment methods in payment helper.
- Implemented abstract block ability to have arbitrary groups of child blocks and a method that returns such a group. Implemented a method that fetches data from child block by specified alias.
- Implemented ability to specify “sort_order” instead of “before” and “after” in the totals declaration. All nominal totals declaration utilize “sort_order”
- Added getter for specified object data by key in core/template block: method getObjectData()
- Defined payment methods grouping, implemented getter for payment method list (with option to group them). Added ability to render grouped options in the “select” grid filter.
- Moneybookers: utilized the payment methods grouping for all its methods; removed redundant “translate” attribute in the methods definition in config.
- Utilized payment methods grouping for PayPal peyment methods.
- Added more verbosity to PayPal NVP and IPN debugging
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February 15th, 2010
Today it was nice start of the day when i seen that magento has launched latest stable version that is 1.4.0.0. In new version,
* They have provided most awaited WYSIWUG editor with easy static block implementation for CMS and product pages.
* They also have now support “media” folder browsing to select existing file or upload images from admin panel itself rather then uploading images through FTP.
* From the first use of this latest version, I feel lots of speed improvement in website loading. Now they have started supporting indexing
There are other lots of changes they have made like
- Implemented 3D Secure credit card validation (Visa and Mastercard)
- Full reimplementation of PayPal modules, includes lot of new functionality and numerous bugfixes
- Full review of frontend themes, introduced design cross-package fallback and the base/default theme. Includes SEO and accessibility enhancements. Changes are oriented to dramatically reduce themes maintenance.
- Added ability to define arbitrary cache backends
- Optimized performance of sales reports, added new sales report types
- Added image/media uploader/browser, that can browse entire media folder
- Optimized performance of search indexer
- Made order processing workflow more informative and severe
- Reimplemented 404 and report pages, introduced 503 page, specifically for maintenance purposes
- Improved javascript files merging, added CSS files merging
- Added Widgets functionality, added several widgets out of the box
- Added Custom Variables functionality
- Added lot of new System Configuration options
- Improved order placement reliability
- Added WYSIWYG for CMS and Catalog
- Optimized cache initialization during startup
- Optimized export from grids in admin area
- Improved tax and discount totals calculation
- Replaced admin notification flash popup into a simple HTML overlay
- Implemented product and category URLs per store view
- Added ability to configure entry point using virtualhost environment configuration, rather than creating another physical entry point
- Optimized simple product view without custom options
Now we are very excited to start working on this latest version. we shortly add our latest portfolio website in magento 1.4 version.
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