Spoox Web Agency
Magento eCommerce CE Version 1.4.0.0 Stable is available for upgrade and download. This release includes many new features such as Widgets, WYSIWYG editor. support for 3D Secure, and many further improvements from Magento CE 1.3.x.
Please be carefull, 1.3 templates breaking up with this new version due to changes in html structure and css classes. We are advising to be patient and not to upgrade production systems.
Major improvements since 1.3
- 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