SmartStore.NET 3.0.3

SmartStore.NET 3.0.3

Bugfixes

• #1232 Scheduled tasks are being 'randomly' set inactive
• #1245 Existing product does not get updated during import under certain circumstances
• #1207 No low stock activity when bulk editing the product quantity
• #1208 Missing inventory tab when switching from bundle to simple product
• #1210 Clear asset cache when a theme setting has changed
• Fixed name of deleted manufacturers displayed in product lists
• Fixed non-system category export profile always exports categories of current store
• Fixed picture assignment for variant attribute combinations of product copies which weren't assigned correctly
• #1218 CopyProductService does not copy picture of ProductVariantAttributeValue
• Fixed hidden checkout button when there are two or more shopping cart items and one gets removed from basket during checkout
• Fixed physical gift cards cannot be moved to cart
• Fixed tax rate wasn't properly formatted on product detail page
• #1228 Text entered in frontend for attributes or checkout attributes are truncated by comma
• Fixed shipping computation method ignoring deactivated PricesIncludeTax setting
• Debitoor: Fixed missing tax rates on Debitoor invoice for net prices
• #1224 Notifier wasn't working in plugin controllers
• #1205 Server cannot append header after HTTP headers have been sent
• #1154 Left offcanvas navigation does not open when in checkout progress
• #1212 Export: FTP publishing should consider directory structure
• #1253 Product PDF exporter only exports one picture and ignores the picture number profile setting
• Configuration of some plugins not saved in Firefox browser

Improvements

• Apply img-fluid class to all images within html editor content
• System name in privacy info topic URL should be lowercase
• If no checkout attribute is required checking out will be possible
• OpenTrans: optimizations for Lexware import
• #496 show bonus points in ordersummary on first checkout page
• Discounts of plugins weren't displayed in product lists

New Features

• #1076 Add support for percental tier price adjustments
• Trusted Shops: added review import
• (Dev) SSL redirection on localhost will be bypassed
• #783 Added option for "Email a friend" which disables the form field "Your email address" so it can't be changed

SmartStore.NET 3.0.2

SmartStore.NET 3.0.2

Breaking changes

• MegaSearch: The index must be re-created because of changes to the price filter.

New Features

• New setting indicates whether to include or exclude unavailable products in search results by default.
• (Dev) New Asset Cache

Improvements

• PayPal Standard: New settings "UsePayPalAddress" and "IsShippingAddressRequired" to avoid payment rejection due to address validation.
• More widget zones for the footer
• #1177 Implement new setting for product search sorting
• More fault tolerant task scheduler

Bugfixes

• Fixed memory leak in MegaSearch plugin, which caused HTTP 503
• RSS: Item URLs in feeds have ignored SSL settings
• Fixed "The view 'ProfileImportResult' or its master was not found"
• #1187 Search: Do not hide multi-selectable filters of the same group if there are no hits
• Fixed System.ArgumentNullException in ProductVariantQueryFactory
• PayPal PLUS: Fixed HTTP 401 "Unauthorized" when calling PatchShipping
• #1189 MegaSearch: Boosts are ignored in prefix and wildcard queries by default
• MegaSearch: Localized labels of filters were never displayed
• #1195 Exporter: don't send an email if no email account has been selected
• Product lists sometimes show the wrong delivery time
• #1192 Lucene indexing performance decreases the longer it takes
• #1198 MegaSearch: never sort numeric range by label, always by value
• Filter for attributes were always sorted by hit count
• #1200 PayPal PLUS: Invalid request if the order amount is zero
• Fixed null reference exception when copying attribute option set with image(s) (file system storage only)
• Product price sometimes was wrong when entering a numeric value in an attribute text box
• Added missing code for customer privacy agreement
• Clicking the login link wasn't working correctly in offcanvas my-account menu
• #1158 Currency and language selectors weren't working in OffCanvas menu
• Fixed "Server cannot append header after HTTP headers have been sent"

SmartStore.NET 3.0.1

SmartStore.NET 3.0.1

Improvements

• (Perf) Much faster application startup
• Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 Redistributable no longer required to be installed
• BeezUP:
  • Exports up to 9 product images
  • Export stock quantity when stock is managed by attributes
  • Export parent child relation data when exporting attribute combinations as products
  • Flatten and append attribute data when exporting attribute combinations as products
• Instant search should search manufacturer/brand name
• HTTP 301 redirects for legacy media URLs
• (Dev) New 'ApplicationStarted' event
• (Dev) Enabled C# 6 features in plugin views
• (GMC) Added missing database indexes.
• (WebApi) Added endpoints for blog post and blog comment
• Added more sortable columns to backend product grids
• #1160 Append suffix 'Picture (1...n)' to thumbnail's alt-attribute on product detail pages
• (Perf) Faster catalog indexing thanks to new database indexes
• (Perf) Faster dynamic view compilation thanks to Roslyn compiler
• Added the widget zone 'productdetails_pictures_bottom'
• Added config setting sm:PdfEngineBaseUrl. There are cases where the PDF converter exits with a network error, when it is unable to load automatically resolved URLs.
• (Dev) Added Retry utility class
• #1176 Admin > Product Search: It ain't possible to search for parts of a product name

Bugfixes

• #1145: Fixed HTTP 404 after switching language
• Fixed null reference exception in product lists if sorting is not allowed
• The file manager did not work correctly under a virtual folder
• Item row in list style product list should not wrap on small devices
• Item row in list style product list squashed on Android system browser
• Linq search: Filter for manufacturers and categories were not limited by store
• (GMC) Fixes duplicate occurrence of application path in absolute product URL
• Products with stock managed by attributes sometimes not displayed in category lists
• Fixed System.MissingMethodException for SmartStore.Core.Search.Facets.FacetGroup
• Fixed uploaded image paths in HTML fields (Media/Uploaded > Media//Uploaded)
• (MegaSearch) Product category order, product manufacturer order and product order were not recognized (sorting)
• Standard search: Fixed sorting of recently added products
• Alias for search filters couldn't be set if there's only one language
• #1168 Cart: MinOrderAmount sometimes ignored
• Moving products from editable wishlist to cart was out of function
• Fixed several issues with parallelly executed data export tasks
• Fixed several issues with PayPal payment providers
• Facebook login out of function due to Facebook API changes (always returns "Unknown error")
• Fixed 'no picture available' watermark on some product pictures
• #1153 Removing already applied gift card causes error
• (Theming) Drift zoom uses static zoomFactor. Made it dynamic.
• (Theming) IE11: simple menu dropdowns weren't positioned correctly
• Removed "trust" element from web.config (causes problems on some shared hosting spaces)
• Fixed ThumbZoomer unproportional rescale issue in product grid
• #1134 JavaScript error (IE 11 in VS debug mode) after removing the last item in shopping cart
• (Theming) Dozens of layout fs for ixemobile devices (especially iOS and Android native browser)
• Better error logging for TaskScheduler
• Fixed several queries which caused problems with SQL CE
• Fixed missing CurrencyCode exception in product exports
• #1179 Error while downloading a downloadable product
• Mega Menu: If a dropdown contains two level hierarchy categories only, they are not wrapped to the next column
• Hide sort dropdown when option is off
• HTTP 301 redirects for legacy media URLs
• Added missing resources of broken migration 'AddressEnhancement' again
• Checkout: Title and salutation were missing when entering new addresses
• #1163 ContentSlider: pictures won't be displayed when placed on top or bottom on IOS

SmartStore.NET 3.0.0

Highlights

• Flex: New mobile-first responsive Theme based on Bootstrap 4
• Mega Search: highly professional search framework based on Lucene.NET (commercial plugin exclusively bundled with Pro Edition)
  • Ultra fast search results, even with millions of items
  • Faceted search
  • Synonyms
  • Compound word splitting
• Mega Menu: highly customizable catalog menu widgets (commercial plugin exclusively bundled with Pro Edition)
• Content Slider: creates eye-catching content to boost sales (commercial plugin exclusively bundled with Pro Edition)
• Output Cache with "donut hole caching" for maximum speed and scalability (commercial plugin exclusively bundled with Premium Edition)
• Microsoft AZURE provider for media storage (commercial plugin exclusively bundled with Premium Edition)
• Web Farms: REDIS providers for Business Cache, Output Cache and Session State (commercial plugin exclusively bundled with Enterprise Edition)
• Product variant option sets
• New product specification attribute type: numeric range
• Image support for variant attributes

Breaking changes

• Removed old Content Slider module from open source core
• Removed Web API plugin from open source core (now exclusively bundled with Premium Edition)

Other New Features

• Message Bus for inter-process messaging between servers (commercial plugin)
• Configurable media storage path for web farms
• (Dev) log4net integration
• (Dev) proper plugin view debugging
• (Dev) detect changes to static plugin files (css, js, etc.) and immediately apply them to running project
• (Dev) Theming: plugins now support implicitly imported SASS files (Content/[public|admin].scss)
• XML Sitemap optimized for very large catalogs:
  • Partitions for very large sitemaps (> 50.000 nodes or > 10 MB)
  • Generated in a background task. No instant invalidation anymore.
• Added option to skip shipping method selection in checkout process if only one shipping method is active
• Added options to capture salutation and title in addresses and customer info
• Added projection to control the export of individually visible associated products
• #966 Implement new tax calculation logic for shipping and payment fees (calculate with rate of highest cart amount)
• #922 New option to specify whether to include the weight of free shipping products in shipping by weight calculation
• #724 Allow discounts to be applied to manufacturers
• Option to display manufacturers sorted in alphabetical order
• #1093 New product properties required for selling abroad
• Web API:
  • #1002 Add support for addresses and customer roles navigation property of customer entity
  • #1062 Add filter options for user grid on configuration page
  • #1072 Add support for TaxCategory
  • #1073 Settings for maximum pagesize ($top) and maximum expansion depth ($expand)
  • #1074 Extend product image upload to allow updating of images
  • #1064 Deleting all product categories/manufacturers per product in one go
  • #1063 Adding product category/manufacturer ignores any other property like DisplayOrder
  • Added endpoint "Infos" for order and order item entity for additional information like aggregated data.
  • Swagger integration
• Added setting to specify whether the product manufacturer should be displayed in product detail
• #271 Implemented support for attribute images/icons
• #330 Implement 'attribute option sets'
• Two themes Flex Black and Flex Blue which are derived from Flex theme

Improvements

• Updated .NET Target Framework from 4.5.1 to 4.5.2
• Added order message token for accepting third party email handover
• ECB currency exchange rate provider now cross calculates rates based on euro rates
• BeezUP: Exports the product weight
• Updated Elmar shop info XML from version 1.1 to 2.0
• (Perf) Application start faster by ~20%
• (Perf) Lower memory consumption
• (Perf) #1098 Reduce number of created guest accounts (more reliable bot detection)
• #1008 Export: Add support for description projection to all product exporting providers
• #1015 Implement Entity Picker in discount requirements
• Debitoor improvements:
  • Company name send as customer name if present
  • Option to append customer email address to invoice address
  • Additional order notes for tax exemption within and outside EU
• #1048 Add meta tags to contact us page
• Order XML export includes more customer data like title and salutation
• #1080 Do not resolve Order.OrderURLForCustomer token for guest customers
• #1051 Display EAN in PDF packaging slip
• #806 User couldn't be created in the admin section without "Manage Customer Roles" permission
• #491 Implemented option to determine a default delivery time
• #1078 Implemented options for "Add to Cart" quantity input field on product level. Quantity control can now be hidden and can be configured to be increased and decreased in steps.
• #696 Added textual resources for meta title and description for blog per month and by tag pages and enriched them with corresponding month plus year respectivly tag name
• #1025 Added token for customer number to MessageTokenProvider
• #1016 Implemented choosing of MessageTokens for newsletter campaigns with dropdown menu
• #1107 OpenTrans: Added option to exclude long description of products from export
• BMEcat: Implemented download of pictures according to MimeRoot-Info
• Payone:
  • Replace client API by Payone iFrame solution. Allows credit card payment compliant with PCI DSS, SAQ A.
  • #1123 Add order note with payment info for prepayment and invoice payment.

Bugfixes

• Currency wasn't displayed for shipping estimation
• SKU, EAN, MPN of last attribute combination were exported for all combinations
• GMC:
  • Id should be unique when exporting attribute combinations as products
  • Attribute price adjustments were ignored when exporting attribute combinations as products
  • Associated products that are not individually visible are not exported anymore. GMC rejects them because the frontend redirects to the grouped product.
• Export:
  • #999 Projected customer id was ignored during price calculation
  • #1104 Language projection was ignored when creating product details URL
  • #1030: Orders didn't include data of attribute combinations
  • Orders didn't include shipping address
• Awarded reward points for a placed order were occasionally calculated wrong
• PayPal PLUS:
  • Changed shipping address/costs were not transmitted to PayPal
  • Skip payment if cart total is zero
  • Do not display payment wall if method is filtered
• PayPal Express: Fixed net price issue.
• Bundle item cannot be deleted if it's in a shopping cart
• Fixed SSL issue for news items in RSS feed
• Filter shows wrong number of products if "Include products from subcategories" is activated
• Guest user cannot be deleted if he has a private message
• #1029 Biz-Importer: Imports fixed tax rates as zero percentage
• #1055 Checkout: Localized shipping method names are not displayed if shipping by total is activated
• #1071 NewsLetterSubscription.ActivationUrl not working if the store if SSL secured
• #1086 Gift cards can be earned in one store and applied in another
• Whishlist: Products with minimum order amount greater then 1 can be added to the whishlist without any warning
• #1102: Discounts not transmitted when the total amount is zero
• #1101 Clickatell: Sending SMS not working anymore

SmartStore.NET 2.6.0

Highlights

• Major improvements in Importer & Exporter: better field mapping, higher performance, bug fixes etc.
• 'PayPal PLUS' payment plugin
• 'paydirekt' payment plugin
• 'Viveum' payment plugin
• 'BeezUP' export provider
• (Dev) Publishing SmartStore.Web from within Visual Studio now deploys the project correctly. No need to execute ClickToBuild.cmd anymore. Just publish directly to any target, including Azure.

New Features

• #961 Fix "Open Redirection Vulnerability"
• #571 Option to display another checkbox on confirm page to let the customer accept that his email address can be handed over to a third party
• #870 Implement address import for customers (both billing & shipping address)
• #886 Add setting to hide manufacturer images on product detail page and to hide default image for manufacturers
• Import localized SEO names for product and categories
• #477 Implement option to specify the number of exported and imported pictures
• #859 Make checkout attributes suitable for multi-stores
• Product details: Select attribute and gift card values by query string parameters
• #950 make contact form comply with current German law

Improvements

• Major improvements in Importer: better field mapping, higher performance, bug fixes etc.
• (Dev) Publishing SmartStore.Web from within Visual Studio now deploys the project correctly. No need to execute ClickToBuild.cmd anymore. Just publish directly to any target, including Azure.
• Localization & SEO: language switcher now takes language specific SEO slugs into account when building links
• Smarter import of plugin resource files with graceful fallbacks (de-DE > de > de-* > en-US > en > en-* > *)
• (Perf) Faster language resource file import
• Exports the product detail link including the attribute query string when exporting attribute combinations
• #918 Compare products: Display base price information
• Export email attachments needs to be stored in database because the temp file may not exist anymore when sending the email
• #913 Use HTML5 Input types (tel, email)
• Added paging to frontend order list
• Added paging to backend checkout attribute list
• #977 Show PAngV base/delivery amount also
• Updated LiveEngage LiveChat plugin

Bugfixes

• TaskScheduler could fail polling when primary store url is an external IP address
• Fixed ajax cache issue when saving payment or shipping restrictions. Internet Explorer showed the old data state (before storage).
• "The provider failed at the Execute method: Member 'CurrentValues' cannot be called for the entity of type 'Product'" when exporting product attribute combinations
• Bundles without selected attributes could throw an exception on product detail page
• GMC feed did not export the product type and Billiger did not export shop_cat (category path)
• The error message of a payment provider when capturing a payment was not displayed
• Adding new shipping method threw an exception
• Attribute Values: Assigning IsPreselected to more than one value causes an error
• BizImporter: fixed redirection bug when default file extension in .biz wasn't .html
• Fixed: Export deployment emails were always send manually
• Manually notifying gift card recipient threw an exception
• Loading shipping by weight grid failed under SQL CE
• #949 Import: ProcessSlugs does not process explicitly specified "SeName", if product name did not change in an update scenario
• Customer import: Creates customer role duplicates for inserted customers
• GMC feed does not generate the sale price if the sale price is set for a future date
• Mobile devices: Fixed "Uncaught Error: Syntax error, unrecognized expression: :nth-child"
• Download nor sample download were removable when editing product
• Copied product must not share sample download of source product. Could produce "The DELETE statement conflicted with the REFERENCE constraint 'FK_dbo.Product_dbo.Download_SampleDownloadId'".
• #921 Specification attribute options with single quotation marks are causing a Javascript error
• #971 Product is added to cart automatically if it has a non-required file upload attribute
• #973 Bundle item upload is nowhere linked
• Base price in product list ignored PriceDisplayType (catalog settings) and possibly displayed the wrong base price info
• Private messages: Fixes "No route in the route table matches the supplied values"
• Payone: Hash string incorrect for frontend API payments where the order has more than 9 products
• Export mail notification: Download link not working if SSL is enabled
• Discount rule has spent amount including sub total option can cause wrong discount calculation if the cart contains a product several times
• #986 File uploads possible through /content/filemanager/index.html

SmartStore.NET 2.5.0

Highlights

• New import/export framework (profiles, filters, mapping, projections, scheduling, deployment... just everything!)
• TaskScheduler: Rewritten from scratch to be suitable for Web Farms (including support for cron expressions)
• Payment and shipping methods by customer roles
• Restrict payment methods to countries
• Restrict payment methods to shipping methods
• Email attachment support for message templates
• Attach order invoice PDF automatically to order notification emails
• Overall performance increase
• Lots of bug fixes

New Features

• New export and import framework
• Import of customer and category data
• #141 Payment and shipping methods by customer roles
• #67 Restrict payment methods to countries
• #94 Restrict payment methods to shipping methods
• #747 Restrict payment methods by old versus new customer (plugin)
• #584 Email attachment support for message templates
• Attach order invoice PDF automatically to order notification emails
• #526 Min/Max amount option for which the payment method should be offered during checkout
• (Dev) New SyncMapping service: enables easier entity synchronization with external systems
• (Dev) #792 ViewEngine: Enable vbhtml views per configuration
• (Dev) Plugin developers can now render child actions into a dynamically created special tab called 'Plugins'
• #718 ShopConnector: Import option for "Published" and "Disable buy\wishlist button"
• #702 Facebook and Twitter external authentication suitable for multi-stores
• New scheduled task: Clear e-mail queue
• New scheduled task: Clear uploadeded transient media files
• #704 Make primary store currency suitable for multi-stores
• #727 Web-API: Option to deactivate TimestampOlderThanLastRequest validation
• #731 Web-API: Allow deletion and inserting of product category and manufacturer assignments
• #733 Option to set a display order for homepage products
• #607 HTML capable full description for payment methods displayed in checkout
• #732 Product list: Option to display the pre-selected price instead of the lowest price
• New payment provider for Offline Payment Plugin: Purchase Order Number
• #202 Implement option for product list 'default sort order'
• #360 Import & export product variant combinations
• #722 System > SEO Names: Implement editing of an UrlRecord
• Admin > System > System Info shows used application memory (RAM)
• Added option to make VATIN mandatory during customer registration
• #840 Activity log: Have option to exclude search engine activity
• #841 Activity log for deleting an order
• More settings to control creation of SEO names
• GMC feed: Supporting fields multipack, bundle, adult, energy efficiency class and custom label (0 to 4)
• #760 Setting to set a customer role for new registered users
• #800 Multi-store: Option to display all orders of all stores for customer in frontend
• #457 Added option to hide the default image for categories and products
• #451 Add message token for product shipping surcharge
• #436 Make %Order.Product(s)% token to link the product detail page and a add product thumbnail
• #339 Meta robots setting for page indexing of search engines
• PayPal: Option for API security protocol
• Product filter: Option to sort filter results by their display order rather than by number of matches
• Elmar Shopinfo: Option to export delivery time as availability
• #654 Place user agreement for downloadable files in checkout process
• #398 EU law: add 'revocation' form and revocation waiver for ESD
• #738 Implement download of pictures via URLs in product import
• Web-API: Bridge to import framework: uploading import files to import profile directory
• Setting to round down calculated reward points
• #695 Implement checkbox in checkout to let customers subscribe to newsletters
• #495 Implement option to search product detail description by default

Improvements

• (Perf) Implemented static caches for URL aliases and localized properties. Increases app startup and request speed by up to 30%.
• (Perf) Significantly reduced number of database reads during product list rendering. Increases request speed by up to 10%.
• (Perf) Implemented 2nd level cache for infrequently changed entities. Increases request speed by up to 10%.
• TaskScheduler: Rewritten from scratch to be suitable for Web Farms
• TaskScheduler: Supports cron expressions to define task execution frequency
• TaskScheduler: Editing tasks does not require app restart anymore
• TaskScheduler: Enhanced UI
• #721 Message Queue: implemented "Delete all"
• #725 Prevent LowestProductPrice being 0
• #709 News feed produced invalid RSS feed. Added content:encoded. Added maximum news age setting for feed export.
• #735 Include SKUs of attribute combinations when filtering the backend product list
• Filter for homepage and published\unpublished products in backend product list
• Reduce database round trips initiated by price calculation
• Google Analytics: added support for mobile devices
• (Dev) TaskScheduler: Tasks can propagate progress info (percentage & message)
• (Dev) TaskScheduler: Cancellation request is sent to tasks on app shutdown
• ShippingByWeight & ShippingByTotal: Support for multiple zip ranges (comma separated)
• Two more options to handle customer numbers: display customer number in frontend & let customers enter their customer number if it's still empty
• #62 free shipping info on product detail page
• Display base price in CompactProductBox
• Automatically redirect to referrer after login
• #826 Image gallery: the viewport height was fixed to 300 px, but now respects MediaSettings > ImageSize.
• #249 Make UI editor for 'SeoSettings.ExtraRobotsDisallows'
• Debitoor: Customer VAT number not transmitted anymore because it appears on the Debitoor invoice.
• #778 Web-API: Increase MaxExpansionDepth for using expand pathes
• #767 Remove assignments to a grouped product if the grouped product is deleted
• #773 Reduce number of guest records created by search engine requests
• #791 Preselected attributes or attribute combinations should always be appended as querystring to product page links
• Simplified handling of SEO names
• URLs are not converted to lower case anymore
• Product grid sortable by name, price and created on
• #26 Display company or name in order list
• Added inline editing of country grid
• #790 Improved language editing
• #843 Implement a product picker
• #850 Use new product picker for selecting required products
• Trusted Shops: badge will be displayed in mobile themes, payment info link replaced compare list link in footer
• Product filter: Specification attributes are sorted by display order rather than alphabetically by name
• #856 Don't route topics which are excluded from sitemap
• #851 Replace reCAPTCHA with "I'm not a robot" CAPTCHA
• #713 Display gift card remaining amount in frontend order details and order messages
• #736 Render PayPal Express Button in minibasket
• PayPal: Support for partial refunds
• Offline credit card payment: Option to exclude credit card types

Bugfixes

• #523 Redirecting to payment provider performed by core instead of plugin
• Preselected price was wrong for product attributes with multiple preselected values (same on product detail page)
• #749 Visual Studio 2015 compilation error: CS0009: Metadata file. SmartStore.Licensing.dll could not be opened -- Illegal tables in compressed metadata stream
• PayPal Express: fixed capture method
• #770 Resizing browser with product details page causes product image to disappear
• GMC feed: Availability value "available for order" deprecated
• Mobile: Shopping cart warnings weren't displayed to customers
• Tax provider and payment method were automatically activated when there were no active provider\method
• #784 Biz-Importer: Name of delivery time must not be imported empty
• #776 Preview: Manufacturer and Product in Multi Store
• #755 Some methods still loading all products in one go
• #796 Selected specification in product filter mask is displayed with default language (not localized)
• #805 Product filter is reset if 'product sorting' or 'view mode' or 'amount of displayed products per page' is changed
• Hide link to a topic page if it is limited to stores
• #829 Activity log: Searching by customer email out of function
• Product import: Store mappings were not applied when inserting new records
• Faulty permission handling in ajax grid actions (no message, infinite loading icon)
• Grouped products: Display order was not correct
• Deletion of a customer could delete all newsletter subscriptions
• PayPal: Fixed "The request was aborted: Could not create SSL/TLS secure channel."
• PayPal Express: Void and refund out of function ("The transaction id is not valid")
• Customer could not delete his avatar
• Facebook authentication: Email missing in verification
• Attribute with a product linkage throws exception if added to cart
• Number of products per product tag could be incorrect in a multi-store

SmartStore.NET 2.2.2

New Features

• SmartStore.NET User Guide
• #210 Implement multi-store support for import/export
• Added zip code to shipping by weight computation method
• Skrill payment plugin
• (Dev) DevTool plugin: added option to display all widget zones in public store
• New options for manufacturer display on the homepage
• Added optional customer number field

Improvements

• (Perf) several minor optimizations for faster app startup and page rendering
• UI: optimized image gallery widget (white background & nicer animations) + enhanced modal dialog fade animations
• (Soft) deletion of SEO slug supporting entities now also deletes the corresponding url records
• License checker now supports IDN mapping for domain names
• #716 Supporting of paged google-product data query for SQL-Server Compact Edition
• #648 Add hint for * at mandatory form fields at address creation
• Added link to imprint and disclaimer to footer in mobile theme
• #521 Display bonus points in order export
• Updated GMC taxonomy files
• MsieJsEngine now is the default LESS script engine

Bugfixes

• #694 Product variant attribute in product page should not be preselected implicitly
• Fixed: If currencies are limited to one for a multi-store, this currency should dominate the setting for the primary store currency
• #563 Scheduled Tasks: ensure that 'LastEndUtc' is ALWAYS set
• Topics grid: fixed 'maxJsonLength exceeded' error
• Debitoor: Fixed "The property named 'lines.0.productOrService' should be defined"
• Send currency code of primary store currency (not of working currency) to payment gateway
• #691 Product quantity not added to cart on mobile theme
• #186 Mobile: variant images do not refresh
• #671 Bundle products: display base price according to applied discount
• #619 Display base price according to applied tier price
• #726 PAngV: basket displays wrong base price when attribute price adjustment has been set
• Weight adjustment of attributes weren't applied in shopping cart overview
• Shipping by weight calculates wrong surcharge if attribute combination prices are set
• Don't let database hooks call other hooks.
• There was no payment redirect if only one payment method is available in checkout

SmartStore.NET 2.2.1

New Features

• New option to display product thumbnails in instant search (NOTE: the feature can be enabled via Configuration > Settings > Catalog Settings > Search)
• #582 GMC feed: Option to include/exclude a product
• #652 Web API: Support for file upload and multipart mime
• #594 Option to prevent a message from being automatically sent
• Category filtering by store for backend (tree and list view)
• #554 Flag to indicate that a new payment notification (IPN) arrived for an order since last opening\editing of the order
• New setting to specify whether and how to display sub-categories on a category page (hidden, above products, bottom of page)
• Debitoor: Extend option "Book invoice if paid" to also (optionally) mail the invoice as a PDF
• #508 Limit country settings to stores
• #205 Add multistore support for forums

Improvements

• PDF converter: first init is much faster now
• Localized properties for forums and forum groups

Bugfixes

• PDF converter: fixed QFont::setPixelSize bug
• Fixed System.NullReferenceException at admin/order/pdfpackagingslips
• #660 Don't show shipping cost hint in product detail page if product has free shipping

SmartStore.NET 2.2.0

Highlights

• Overall performance increase
• New mobile theme: MobileLight (a light variant of the default mobile theme)
• More reliable mobile device detection
• Quantity unit management
• Performance: product list rendering up to 10x (!) faster now (depends on page size and view mode)
• SEO: New field to specify html tag for page titles on widget level
• Lots of bug fixes

New Features

• New mobile theme: MobileLight (a light variant of the default mobile theme)
• Localization: in a multi-language environment missing language resources fall back to default language's resources (instead of returning the ugly resource key)
• Quantity unit management
• #428 New option to override global category list view type
• #672 New option to automatically create mutual associations for cross sell and related products
• #485 Enable shop admin to change creation date of a blog entry
• #258 Implement email validation in checkout
• New option to specify the maximum number of displayed filter items
• New option to specify whether all filter groups should be displayed expanded
• #459 New field to specify html tag for page titles on widget level
• Added shrink database to backend UI
• #588 Alternative localized category name used as title for category pages
• #592 Add a second category description displayed beyond products on category page
• Promotion feeds now export the preselected price (including price adjustments and overrides)
• Implement 'free shipping threshold' for feed creation
• Billiger feed: Implement new field for shipping costs to austria
• (Developer) Added BeginTransaction() and UseTransaction() methods to IDbContext

Improvements

• (Perf) product list rendering up to 10x (!) faster now (depends on page size and view mode)
• The data grid in the backend now preserves client state between requests (page, pageSize, sorting, filtering etc.)
• Excel Import & Export: much lower memory consumption and increased performance
• Moving pictures from DB to FS or vice versa is lightning fast now, consumes much lower memory and is encapsulated in a transaction which ensures reliable rollback after failure. Plus the database gets automatically shrinked after moving to FS.
• Feed plugins: product query now paged to reduce memory payload
• #589 Backend product list: add filter for products with "no category mapping" and "no manufacturer mapping"
• Minor UI tweaks in checkout process
• Payone: CC-Check via client API, not via Server API (requires PCI certification)
• #189 Allow deletion of multiple reviews
• #622 UI: Redesign table in Sales > Orders > Order > Tab Products
• #625 Bundles can be ordered if an attribute combination of a bundle item is not available
• #666 Export addresses in customer export
• New shopping cart setting ShowItemsFromWishlistToCartButton
• XML product export now is paged and more data gets exported
• #560 Return requests: Add fields for last update, last update of requested action and general notes
• #626 Add IsActive flag for checkout attributes

Bugfixes

• Instant search box did not display all results when SQL Fulltext Search was enabled
• Print order as PDF redirected to login although the admin already was logged in
• Editing a product might change its URL alias
• #621 PDF Order: does not take overridden attribute combination price into account (in order line)
• Amazon payments: Declined authorization IPN did not void the payment status
• Fixed „Payment method couldn't be loaded“ when order amount is zero
• #598 Wrong input parameter name for ReturnRequestSubmit
• #557 Localize MVC validation strings
• Fixed rare bug "The length of the string exceeds the value set on the maxJsonLength property" (Controller: Order, Action: OrderNotesSelect)
• Debitoor: Adding order notes can result in infinite order update event loop with thousands of order notes
• Tax rates persisted on order item level to avoid rounding issues (required for Debitoor, Accarda and Payone)
• Hide additional shipping surcharge when display prices permission is not granted
• Fixed "Adding a relationship with an entity which is in the Deleted state is not allowed" when adding bundles to cart
• Fixed price calculation of multiple bundles issue
• Fixed auto add required products for bundle items
• Fixes #641: Protocol in sitemap should be HTTPS when ForceSslForAllPages is true
• #640 Do not display shipping infos for grouped products in product lists
• #634 Bundle price in list should not differ from price in details if there is only one bundle item with one attribute
• Do not copy associated product when copying a bundle product
• Null DeliveryTimeId when deleting products. Otherwise deleted products can prevent deletion of delivery times.
• Fixed: Product with inactive attribute combination could be moved to wishlist, copied to cart and be purchased
• Mobile Theme: Show prices according to selected variant value, display of deliverytime
• Bundles: Display base price according to Catalog Setting > Product Detail > Display Base Price

SmartStore.NET 2.1.1

Highlights

• Html to PDF converter: PDF documents are created from regular HTML templates now, therefore radically simplifying PDF output customization.
• New payment plugin Payone
• Html widgets: added option to create a wrapper around widget content

New Features

• Html to PDF converter: PDF documents are created from regular HTML templates now, therefore radically simplifying PDF output customization.
• Html widgets: added option to create a wrapper around widget content
• SEO: added new settings Canonical host name rule. Enforces permanent redirection to a single domain name for a better page rank (e.g. myshop.com > www.myshop.com or vice versa)
• SEO: added support for <link hreflang="..." ... /> in multi-language stores. The tags are automatically rendered along with the language switcher.
• (Developer) Implemented new HtmlHelper extension AddLinkPart: registers <link> tags which should be rendered in page's head section
• (Developer) Implemented new HtmlHelper extension AddCustomHeadParts: registers whatever head (meta) tag you wish
• (Developer) Added SmartUrlRoutingModule, which can pass static files to UrlRoutingModule if desired (e.g. used by MiniProfiler). This way static files can be handled by regular actions or filters, without polluting web.config.
• New payment plugin "Payone"
• Option to set a delivery time for products available for order with stock quantity < 1
• Option to disable product reviews on product detail page
• Option to supress display of sub category picture links

Improvements

• (Perf) Faster application warmup
• (Perf) Faster product list rendering
• Reworked routing: removed static file security barrier again (caused too much problems)
• #545 Made all (applicable) settings multi-store-enabled
• #579 Make all relative urls absolute prior sending email
• The display order of attribute values are considered in the sorting of backend's attribute combination grid
• Optimized error handling and redesigned error pages
• Removed PageNotFound topic. Text is a simple locale resource now.
• PayPal settings are multi-store-enabled
• #555 Product edit: Improve category select box. Add history (last x selected items) above all others.
• #510 Payment plugins: Qualify configuration(s) for multistores
• #556 A negative value should be possible for additional payment fees
• Dashboard: Order items linked with order list
• Security: Missing http-only flag for some cookies set

Bugfixes

• PayPal Express: corrected basket transmission by eliminating tax transmission
• Fixed password recovery redirection
• #552 Left navbar should stay expanded on product detail pages
• #538 Specification attribute labels in product filter mask are not displayed localized
• #540 AmazonPay: Multistore configuration might be lost if "All stores" are left empty
• #532 AmazonPay: Reflect refunds made at amazon seller central when using data polling
• #577 Exception thrown because of missing TaxRate table when opening tax by region provider configuration
• Added IIS rewrite rule for /productreviews/{id} > /product/reviews/{id}
• Email a friend redirects to "not found"
• #567 Products marked as 'Featured' should also be included in regular lists
• Fixed some missing company information in order to PDF export
• #583 Fixed "The property rate with the value x is malformed" when creating products
• Fixed ignored discount and tier price when product has attribute combination price
• PayPal Standard provider now using shipping rather than billing address if shipping is required