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SmartStoreNET v2.1.0 Release Notes

  • 🆕 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>. 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