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Release Notes

SmartStore.NET 2.6

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

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 (distributed via Marketplace)
  • (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

  • #582 GMC feed: Option to include\exclude a product
  • #652 Web API: Support for file upload and multipart mime
  • New option to display product thumbnails in instant search (NOTE: the feature can be enabled via Configuration > Settings > Catalog Settings > Search)
  • #594 Option to prevent a message from being automatically sent
  • Category filtering by store for backend category tree and list
  • #554 Flag to indicate that a new payment notification (IPN) arrived for an order since last opening\editing of the order
  • Setting whether and how to display sub-categories on a category page (hide, 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

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
  • #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

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 Amazon payments: Multistore configuration might be lost if "All stores" are left empty
  • #532 Amazon payments: 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
  • Amazon payments: Order wasn't found if the capturing\refunding took place at Amazon Seller Central and the notification came through IPN

SmartStore.NET 2.1.0

New Features

  • (Developer) Overhauled plugin architecture:
    • Plugins are regular MVC areas now
    • No embedded views anymore. Views get copied to the deployment folder
    • No cumbersome return View("Very.Long.View.Identifier") anymore
    • Views in plugin source folders can be edited during debug. The changes are reflected without plugin recompilation.
  • (Developer) Theme inheritance: create derived child themes with minimum effort by overriding only small parts (static files and even variables).
  • Preview Mode: virtually test themes and stores more easily
  • New payment plugin Pay with Amazon
  • Support for hierarchical SEO slugs, e.g.: samsung/galaxy/s5/16gb/white
  • (Developer) Model binding for plugin tab views: models from plugin tabs get automatically materialized and bound to TabbableModel.CustomProperties[MyKey]. Extended the SmartModelBinder for this.
  • (Developer) New event ModelBoundEvent. Consume this in plugins to persist plugin specific models.
  • (Admin) Added GMC tab to product edit view. This is more a coding example for the above stuff rather than a new feature.
  • (Developer) Implemented AdminThemedAttribute: instructs the view engine to additionally search in the admin area for views. Very useful in larger plugin projects.
  • (Developer) Enhanced IMenuProvider: menu items can now be injected to the public catalog menu
  • (Developer) Implemented IWidgetProvider. Allows request scoped registration of action routes to be injectable into widget zones. Perfect for custom action filters.
  • (Developer) Simple widgets: the model of the parent action view context now gets passed to a widget.
  • (Developer) New IoC method ContainerManager.InjectProperties()
  • Implemented support for EU VAT regulation for digital goods (2008/8/EG directive)
  • Implemented Media Manager for HTML editor (including file upload)
  • Added CDN setting to store configuration. Allows static files to be served through a content delivery network, e.g. cloudfront. (contributed by 'normalc')
  • #393 Web API: Implement OData actions for simpler working with product attributes
  • #431 Web API: Add support for localized properties
  • ShippingByWeight: new settings to configure a small quantity surcharge
  • #216 Better return request support
  • #90 Directly set order status to completed
  • #413 Orders: Add a PDF export\download of selected orders
  • #69 Award reward points for product reviews
  • #164 Add multistore support for polls
  • #170 Multistore support for Newsletters
  • #266 Update Pending Order in Admin Panel
  • #331 Show CommentBox in checkout (optional)
  • Option to turn off the filter for products in categories
  • Export/Import was enabeled to work with localized values for name, short description and long description
  • Added two new themes 'Alpha Blue' and 'Alpha Black'

Improvements

  • New backend design and cleaner frontend theme
  • Replaced TinyMCE HTML editor with CKeditor
  • Simplified checkout process by combining payment method and info pages
  • (Perf) Lower memory consumption
  • (Perf) (Developer) Client Dependency updates
    • jQuery 1.8.3 > 2.1.1 (although the backend is still using v1.8.3 because of the Telerik components)
    • FontAwesome 3 > 4.1
    • Modernizr 2.5 > 2.7.2
    • jQuery UI to 1.11
    • SearchBox uses Typeahead now instead of jQuery UI AutoComplete
    • Got rid of obsolete jQuery UI files (will remove this later completely)
  • (UI) AJAXified product edit tab: all tabs other than the first one load on demand per AJAX
  • (Developer) Plugins can provide custom tabs more easily (now with on demand AJAX loading)
  • Task Scheduler:
    • Can run tasks manually now (async)
    • Better UI
    • Shows last error
    • (Developer) Breaking change: New parameter TaskExecutionContext for ITask.Execute()
  • UI: TabStrips remember their last selected tab across page requests in an unobtrusive way (removed old selection code)
  • Price formatting: the DisplayLocale's FormatProvider was not applied when CustomFormatting was specified for Currency
  • Admin: Specification attributes are now sorted by DisplayOrder, THEN BY Name
  • Admin: Replaced DatePicker with DateTimePicker control
  • (Perf) significantly increased excel import performance... again ;-)
  • (Perf) significantly increased excel export performance and optimized memory usage
  • (Perf) SEO sitemap is being cached now, resulting in fast reponse times with larger catalogs
  • (UI) optimized and reorganized product edit view a bit
  • (Developer) MVC filter attributes are now Autofac injectable
  • (Developer) Implemented RunSync extension methods for Func and Func<Task>. A reliable way to execute async operations synchronously.
  • (Developer) Refactored model creation for category navigation: it now incorporates TreeNode, which enables plugin developers to alter the main menu with the event hook NavigationModelBuilt.
  • (Developer) Added user.less to Alpha theme for user defined css overrides and tweaks
  • (Developer) Moved PublicControllerBase to SmartStore.Web.Framework
  • (Developer) Moved 'AdminControllerBase' to SmartStore.Web.Framework
  • (Developer) Optimized Bundle handling
    • Html.Add[Script|CssFile]Parts() now can handle already bundled resources correctly (no attempt is made to bundle them, the bundle's virtual url is returned instead)
    • Made extra bundles for frequently used resources (like sequence js, fileupload, image gallery etc.). This way they always come compressed.
  • #384 Web API: Inserting sluged recources like products require an URL record
  • #382 Promotion feed plugins: Asynchronous feed creation, more options and improvements
  • #433 GMC feed: Option to filter config records that have not been edited
  • #362 Display 'from {0}' for products with variant attributes
  • #239 Categories: Ask merchant if he want a cascading or a non cascading deletion
  • HTML text collapser: Make it usable for all long texts
  • #375 Implement SKU search for 'related products picker'
  • #391 Admin: allow searching/filtering for specification attributes
  • Removed OpenID plugin from core
  • Specification attribute values that are assigned to a product can be edited

Bugfixes

  • Twitter Auth: fixed SecurityTransparent error
  • Facebook Auth: fixed SecurityTransparent error
  • OpenID Auth: fixed SecurityTransparent error
  • #376 Product filtering: Category price range filter not working anymore
  • Return requests: Products to return won't be listed
  • #372 Biz-Importer sometimes shows inactive tier prices
  • PayPal Standard: Sending more localized values. Adjustment of net prices to avoid wrong PayPal total amount calculation.
  • Globalization fix in plugin data grids: inline editing for decimal values did not take current culture into account
  • #391 Show delivery time if out-of-stock orders are allowed by attribute combination
  • CustomerRole > TaxDisplayType Including VAT could not be saved
  • Product.DisableBuyButton was never updated when the stock quantity has been increased (e.g. as a result of order canceling)
  • Shipping.ByTotal: Fixed matching of rates by choosing the more specific over the common rate
  • A grouped product only shows up to 12 associated products
  • #405 Billiger feed: Wrong base price exported
  • #437 Mobile devices: Cannot add a product to the cart when it is grouped
  • PayPal Standard: Costs for checkout attributes were double charged
  • Paging of return request grid did not work
  • #428 Multiline checkout attributes aren't rendered correctly
  • #434 Shipping.ByTotal: Make grid pageable
  • #419 email account password hidden
  • #424 Localize return reasons & return actions
  • #479 Product filter: Wrong count of manufacturers if products of sub-categories are included
  • #492 Ipayment credit card: Order notes are only created when the order exists
  • #493 Postfinance plugin does not work if shopname includes a "umlaut"
  • #237 Mobile theme: inactive attribute combinations should not be added to cart
  • #178 Mobile theme doesn't display base price
  • Ipayment: Capturing did not work because the security was not transmitted
  • #405 "Reset Password" Link in Emails is wrong with SSL secured sites
  • #471 Checkout: Redirecting to external payment page could take a while. Clicking "Buy" button again might cancel the redirecting.
  • Pricing not considered attribute combination prices for bundles with per item pricing

SmartStore.NET 2.0.2

Bugfixes

  • IMPORTANT FIX: Memory leak leads to OutOfMemoryException in application after a while
  • Installation fix: some varchar(MAX) columns get created as varchar(4000). Added a migration to fix the column specs.
  • Installation fix: Setup fails with exception Value cannot be null. Parameter name: stream
  • Bugfix for stock issue in product variant combinations
  • #336 Product bundle: Upper add-to-cart button label shows wrong text
  • #338 Serialization exception thrown when session state mode is StateServer
  • #340 Admin: Header overlays TinyMCE in fullscreen mode
  • #341 Orders are not cancellable
  • #342 Backend: order total is not editable
  • #348 Messaging: OrderPlacedStoreOwnerNotification overwrites email account sender name with the customer's name
  • Default value for plugin description not loaded into edit popup window
  • Fixed "Controller does not implement IController" (concerning plugin controllers)
  • #361 Wrong delivery time in order confirmation

Improvements

  • #250 Implemented validation to theme configuration editing

SmartStore.NET 2.0.1

New Features

  • #292 Allow specific price for attribute combinations
  • Added image upload support to Summernote editor
  • (Developer) Added WebApi client test tools to the solution (C# and JavaScript)

Improvements

  • Content slider slides can be filtered by store
  • TinyMCE now shows advanced tab for images
  • Updated BundleTransformer to the latest version 1.8.25
  • Added JavaScriptEngineSwitcher.Msie (disabled by default). Useful in scenarios where target server has problems calling the V8 native libs.
  • Updated some 3rd party libraries to their latest versions
  • #320 Unavailable attribute combinations: better UI indication

Bugfixes

  • UI notifications get displayed repeatedly
  • (Developer) Fixed Razor intellisense for plugin projects (NOTE: switch to 'PluginDev' configuration while editing plugin views, switch back when finished)

SmartStore.NET 2.0.0

Highlights

  • RESTFul WebApi
  • Highly optimized and simplified product management
  • Product Bundles
  • Considerably faster app startup and page processing
  • New variant attribute type: Linked Product
  • Package upload for plugins and themes
  • Lightning fast asynchronous Excel import with progress indicators and detailed reports
  • (Developer) Code-based Entity Framework database migrations

New Features

  • RESTFul WebApi
  • Product Bundles: create configurable product kits by combining products
  • Package upload for plugins and themes
  • New variant attribute type: Linked Product
  • #137 Shipping method option to ignore additional shipping charges
  • #175 IPayment plugin: Implemented deactivation of specific credit card types
  • #191 Implemented new scheduled task Delete logs
  • Added support for SummerNote HTML editor (experimental)
  • Enabled fulltext search
  • New setting to redirect to order detail page if an order completed
  • New setting to suppress the search for SKUs
  • Shipment list can be filtered by tracking number
  • #238 Working currency in context of request domain
  • #295 Display short description for payment plugins
  • Setting to skip the payment info page during checkout.
  • (Developer) Entity Framework code-based Migrations now fully supported in application core and all relevant plugins (no need to manually run SQL scripts anymore in order to update to newer version).
  • (Developer) Admin: Implemented entity-commit event message (for client EventBroker) in order to support custom data persistence in a loosely coupled manner.
  • (Developer) New interface IWidget for simplified widget development and multi-widgets per plugin
  • (Developer) Outsourced notifications from MVC controller and implemented INotifier for more centralized approach

Improvements

  • Highly optimized and simplified product management
  • Considerably faster app startup and page processing
  • Lightning fast asynchronous Excel import with progress indicators and detailed reports
  • #171: select2 Dropdown too short in OPC
  • Product filtering by price now supports decimal places
  • Enhanced Admin UI for Message Templates
  • Repliable Emails now have customer's email as ReplyTo address
  • Fix for EU VAT calculation: resolve NET from GROSS correctly + auto-switch to NET display type when customer is VAT exempt
  • Replaced dotLess engine with a native Javascript parser (BundleTransformer > ClearScript.V8)
  • #140 Import all plugin resources after adding a language
  • #45 Smarter logging. Save same log notifications only once including its frequency.
  • Updated jQuery Mobile to version 1.3.2
  • Updated TinyMCE html editor to version 4
  • Overhauled plugin management UI (plugin search among others)
  • Mobile: Only the first product pictures is now displayed in the product-detail-view the others are available by navigation or swiping
  • Mobile: Shop logo is now displayed at the top of the mobile page
  • Mobile: legal hints are shown in the footer
  • #228 Added Youtube to social network settings
  • #180 Display delivery time in shopping cart and relevant mails
  • #217 GMC Feed Plugin: Make export of expiration_date configurable
  • #222 Feed Plugins: Take special price into consideration
  • Canceling a PayPal, SU or PostFinance payment now redirects to the order detail page rather than checkout complete
  • Added an option to display the short description of products within the order summary
  • Added an option to turn off the display of variant price adjustments
  • #277 Show BasePrice (PAnGv) in cart also
  • GMC feed plugin: Export configurable shipping weight and base price info
  • #280 Filter orders by customer name
  • #190 App Restart: stay on current page
  • Filter orders: Order, payment and shipping status are multi-selectable
  • DatePicker control for variant attributes: displayed year range can be specified via Alias property ([BeginYear]-[EndYear], e.g. 1950-2020)
  • Significantly faster install process
    • Updated all dependant libraries to their latest versions
  • (Developer) Implemented PaymentMethodBase abstract class to simplify payment plugin development

Bugfixes

  • #150 GTB & disclaimer aren't readable when they become to long
  • #151 NewsletterSubscriptionDeactivationUrl-Token doesn't get repleaced
  • #153 Admin->Contentslider throws an error when asigned languages aren't available anymore
  • #160 Resource on confirm order page isn't escaped
  • #152 Copy message template does not work
  • SKU search did not work cause of wrong join statement
  • #165 TopicWidgets Sorting is not applied
  • Google Analytics: with active Order Number Formatter plugin the order number was posted twice (formatted and unformatted)
  • #188 Token Order.CustomerFullName doesn't get replaced when ordering as a guest
  • #194 Installation fails when installing products
  • #196 Samples cannot be downloaded
  • Product filter included deleted manufacturers
  • Mobile: Paginator does not work
  • Product could be overwritten by attribute combination data
  • Quantity field was shown though the add to cart button was disabled
  • #260 Delivery times translations are not getting applied
  • robots.txt: localizable disallow paths did not contain a trailing slash
  • #296 Fix price adjustment of product variant combinations
  • Resolved shopping cart rounding issues (when prices are gross but displayed net)

SmartStore.NET 1.2.1.0

New Features

  • Added option Limit to current basket subtotal to HadSpentAmount discount rule
  • Items in product lists can be labelled as NEW for a configurable period of time
  • Product templates can optionally display a discount sign when discounts were applied
  • Added the ability to set multiple favicons depending on stores and/or themes
  • Plugin management: multiple plugins can now be (un)installed in one go
  • Added a field for the HTML body id to store entity
  • (Developer) New property 'ExtraData' for DiscountRequirement entity

Bugfixes

  • #110: PictureService.GetThumbLocalPath doesn't add picture to cache if it doesn't exist (this broke PDFService among others)
  • #114: Runtime error occurs after new customer registration in the storefront
  • #115: XML exports could fail because of invalid characters
  • #121: Categories restricted to specific stores could also show up in other stores.
  • #125: Widget Trusted Shops Customer Reviews can not be configured
  • #127: Redirection to 404 failed with localized urls when shop ran under virtual application paths
  • #128: Switch language in store failed when SEO friendly urls were disabled
  • #134: Fix mobile checkout
  • #111: Send wishlist via e-mail doesn't work

Improvements

  • #97: Product numbers of attribute combinations could not be searched
  • #120: Excel product import: The same product pictures were imported repeatedly which led to duplicate pictures.
  • Updated FontAwesome to version 3.2.1
  • Minor CSS fixes
  • Info pages for all Trusted Shops widgets
  • Better display and handling when choosing a flag for languages

SmartStore.NET 1.2.0.0

Highlights

  • Multi-store support
  • "Trusted Shops" plugins
  • Highly improved SmartStore.biz Importer plugin
  • Add custom HTML content to pages
  • Performance optimization

New Features

  • Multi-store-support: now multiple stores can be managed within a single application instance (e.g. for building different catalogs, brands, landing pages etc.)
  • Added 3 new Trusted Shops plugins: Seal, Buyer Protection, Store Reviews
  • Added Display as HTML Widget to CMS Topics (store owner now can add arbitrary HTML content to any page region without modifying view files)
  • Color attributes are now displayed on product list pages (as mini squares)
  • Added ask question form to product pages
  • ShippingByTotal plugin: added BaseFee, MaxFee and SmallQuantitySurcharge.
  • ShippingByTotal plugin: added the ability to define zip ranges including wildcards.
  • Added 2 DiscountRule plugins: HasPaymentMethod and HasShippingOption
  • Better handling of localized SEO URLs (new settings: DetectBrowserUserLanguage, DefaultLanguageRedirectBehaviour and InvalidLanguageRedirectBehaviour)
  • Plugin language resources are now updateable via backend
  • Added Attributes tab to Admin > Order Detail
  • Added new (hidden) setting ExtraRobotsDisallows (enables store owner to add new Disallow lines to the dynamically generated robots.txt)
  • (Developer) Added new plugin Glimpse for SmartStore.NET
  • (Developer) Localizable views: the view engine now is able to resolve localized (physical) view files (by appending the language seo code to a view file name in the same folder, e.g. 'en' or 'de'). The engine first tries to detect a view file with the matching language suffix, then falls back to the default one.
  • (Developer) Added new interface IPreApplicationStart allowing plugins to register HttpModules very early in the app bootstrap stage

Improvements

  • Minor improvements for SOFORT Überweisung plugin
  • ContentSlider: updated 'sequence js' to most recent version and optimized html & css code
  • Content slider: the background slide behaviour is configurable now (NoSlide, Slide, SlideOpposite)
  • Some email templates sent to the store owner now have customer's address in the 'from' field
  • Topic titles are now shown in Admin > CMS > Topics grid
  • Log entry full messages are now displayed prettified in the backend
  • Croatia now has EU-VAT handling
  • Minor theme improvements
  • Updated FontAwesome to the latest version
  • Added 'Admin' Link to the header menu (many users just didn't find it in the 'MyAccount' dropdown ;-))
  • Added new option to disable/enable the display of a more button when the long description is to large
  • Added option to switch back to mobile view when displaying the desktop version on a mobile device
  • (Developer) Added properties for HtmlHelper and Model to 'AdminTabStripCreated' event type. This way external admin UI customization becomes easier and more flexible.
  • (Developer) Implemented minor tweaks and optimizations to the Theming Engine
  • (Developer) Added 'bodyOnly' parameter to TopicBlock ChildAction
  • (Developer) HtmlHelper SmartLabelFor now renders the model property name by default (instead of the SmartResourceDisplayName resource key)

Bugfixes

  • bunch of fixes and improvements for the SmartStore.biz Importer plugin
  • The feed for "Leguide.com" plugin did not work in Germany
  • Fixed minor issues in shipping-by-weight plugin
  • Fixed minor issues in Google Analytics widget
  • Paginator always jumped to the first page when using the product filter
  • Modal window for disclaimer topic was missing the scrollbar
  • Main menu doesn't flicker anymore on page load
  • ThemeVars cache was not cleaned when theme was switched
  • Content slider: container background did not slide in Firefox
  • KeepAlive task minor fix
  • (Developer) Fixed minor issues in build script

SmartStore.NET 1.0.1.0

Bug

* [SMNET-1] - Die Anzahl der eingetragenen Mengen bei Varianten wird nicht richtig im Warenkorb übernommen.
* [SMNET-5] - Fehler beim Hochladen von Bildern im IE
* [SMNET-6] - Texte in IFrame werden nicht komplett dargestellt
* [SMNET-7] - Versandart  „Shipping by total“ funktioniert nicht.
* [SMNET-18] - Megamenu: Expand/collapse schneidet u.U. Submenu ab
* [SMNET-19] - Im Firefox können keine Inhalte im TinyMCE-Editor per Kontextmenu eingefügt werden.
* [SMNET-23] - Im HTTPS Modus wird (LESS)-CSS nicht interpretiert
* [SMNET-25] - Bei Eingabe einer falschen SSL-URL im Admin-Bereich ist kein Einloggen mehr möglich
* [SMNET-34] - Fehlermeldung nach dem Hochladen einer sbk-Datei 
* [SMNET-46] - Es können keine NULL_Werte in SpecificationAttribute-Tabelle eingefügt werden
* [SMNET-58] - Katalog-Einstellungen - Productlist PageSize wird nicht gespeichert
* [SMNET-59] - ContentSlider: Wenn bei einem Slide kein Titel hinterlegt ist, kommt es zu einem Fehler
* [SMNET-61] - Wenn man beim Produktnamen in einer anderen Sprache einen Eintrag macht, erfolgt eine Fehlermeldung
* [SMNET-83] - Theme-Export schlägt mit Runtime-Error fehl
* [SMNET-142] - Die prozentuale Berechnung des Aufpreises bei der Zahlungsart Kreditkarte funktioniert nicht.
* [SMNET-150] - Die Angaben aus dem Voraussetzungstyp "Benötigte Kundengruppe" bei der Einrichtung eines Rabatts werden nicht gespeichert.
* [SMNET-152] - Fehler beim Speichern von Produkten, wenn lokalisierte Felder (aber nicht alle) mit Werten belegt werden.
* [SMNET-166] - GIF-Dateien werden nach dem Import mit schwarzem Hintergrund übernommen.
* [SMNET-167] - Produkte sind nach Spezifikations-Attributen filterbar, obwohl dieses Spezifikations-Attribut überhaupt nicht dem Produkt zugeordnet wurde.
* [SMNET-171] - Import von Newsletter-Adressen scheint bei zu vielen Datensätzen irgendwann "auszusteigen" (Performance-Problem)
* [SMNET-174] - Bezahloption Lastschrift: Kontodaten des Kunden im Backend nirgendwo einsehbar
* [SMNET-196] - Preisberechnung für Variant-Kombis fehlerhaft (Rabatte werden nicht berücksichtigt)
* [SMNET-198] - upgrade.sql für Order.DirectDebit[...] fehlerhaft
* [SMNET-199] - CategoryNavigationModel: Children von inaktiven Warengruppen müssen in Navigationsleisten ignoriert werden
* [SMNET-202] - SmartTabSelection mit verschachtelten Tabs fehlerhaft nach Reload einer Seite

Improvement

* [SMNET-13] - Attributwerte: der Text "Aufpreis" muss um "Minderpreis" erweitert werden.
* [SMNET-15] - Umgestaltung der Darstellung der Staffelpreise (Popover ab dem fünften Element)
* [SMNET-30] - MessageTemplates teilweise auf Englisch
* [SMNET-31] - Die Bestellbestätigung enthält keine Widerrufsbelehrung.
* [SMNET-33] - Falsche Beschriftung bei MWST-Befeiung (incl. VAT (0%)) 
* [SMNET-39] - CSS-Klasse .category-description sollte etwas margin nach unten haben 
* [SMNET-40] - Beim Löschen von lokalisierte Ressourcen erscheint eine Englische Meldung
* [SMNET-43] - Bilder und der Langtext von Warengruppen werden beim Import nicht übernommen.
* [SMNET-47] - Fehlermeldung: Zeichenfolgen- oder Binärdaten würden abgeschnitten [...]
* [SMNET-48] - Legt man als nicht angemeldeter Kunde ein Produkt in den Warenkorb und geht anschl. in den Checkout, hat man kein Möglichkeit mehr, als Gast zu bestellen.
* [SMNET-49] - Varianten: Normalpreis > Variantpreis > Rabatt, u.U. inkonsistent und unlogisch
* [SMNET-56] - Der Hinweis „Preis auf Anfrage“ wird nicht auf der Produktdetailseite angezeigt.
* [SMNET-69] - Beschreibung für Parameter in den MessageTemplates
* [SMNET-138] - Währungsformatierung für EUR überdenken (Tausender-Trenner fehlt)
* [SMNET-139] - Feld 'Alias' in Attribut-Grid aufgenommen
* [SMNET-140] - ProductAttribute.Description beim Import sollte nicht mehr vom Varianttyp-Namen abgeleitet werden
* [SMNET-147] - ColorSquares Admin: kleines Farbquadrat im Admin-Grid links neben Beschriftung anzeigen
* [SMNET-151] - ColorSquares: Active-Zustand besser hervorheben (z.B. dunklerer border)
* [SMNET-153] - MiniBasket: "Zur Kasse" Button per Default aktivieren
* [SMNET-160] - Fehlermeldungen beim Anlegen eines Kunden sind nicht lokalisiert.
* [SMNET-180] - Leichten Border und Verlauf in Lieferzeit-Indikator eingebaut
* [SMNET-188] - Lokalisierung: IsDirty-Flag und Option "Nur neue anfügen"

New Feature

* [SMNET-14] - Brutto/Netto Preisanzeige über Kundengruppen steuerbar