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SmartStoreNET v3.2 Release Notes

  • Highlights

    • 🏗 (NEW) CMS Page Builder: Create fascinating content that will boost your sales. No coding is required thanks to a powerful WYSIWYG editor which utilizes the revolutionary CSS Grid system (commercial plugin)
    • 🏗 (NEW) CMS Menu Builder: Visual manager for all sorts of menus. Change existing menus or create your own and place them anywhere you want.
    • (Perf) Faster MegaSearch thanks to Lucene.NET 4.8
    • 🐎 (Perf) Huge performance increase in discount resolution and calculation.

    🆕 New Features

    • EmailReminder:
      • Reminders for open shopping carts
      • Reminders for product reviews
      • Reminders to visit the shop after a long absence
    • ⏱ Scheduling
      • Task execution history
      • Web farms: tasks can run decidedly on each machine of a web farm
      • #1144 MegaSearch: multi server search index
    • Topics & Pages
      • Access control lists
      • Grid paging & filtering
      • New properties: added IsPublished, Short Title (link text) and Intro (teaser) properties.
      • #1542: added options to set body CSS class and Html Id.
    • MegaSearch:
      • Supports searching for forum posts.
      • #1172 Option to display related search terms on search page.
      • Command to continue a previously aborted search index rebuild.
    • Import/export of:
      • Product tags
      • Tier prices
      • Product attribute options
      • Product attribute combinations (update only)
    • Forum:
      • Added option to display a captcha on forum pages when creating or replying to a topic.
      • #417 Restrict forum groups to specific customer roles.
      • Added published property to forum topic and post.
      • Added voting for forum posts.
      • Several performance improvements.
    • BeezUp:
      • #1459 Add option to only submit one category name per product
      • Allow to specify export categories per product
    • Santander:
      • Added payment method for instalment purchase.
      • Added financing calculator.
    • 🆓 Updated icon library to Font Awesome 5 Free with the possibility to activate pro version in the frontend.
    • 👉 New storefront catalog options: ShowSubCategoriesInSubPages, ShowDescriptionInSubPages & IncludeFeaturedProductsInSubPages (Subpage = List index > 1 or any active filter).
    • New security option: Use invisible reCAPTCHA
    • Wallet: Allow customer to choose whether refund should be submitted to his wallet.
    • ➕ Added option to display preview pictures in product lists
    • ➕ Added option to add multiple file versions to product download section
    • ➕ Added options for alternating price display (in badges)
    • Customer avatar: Letter with colored background if no avatar image was uploaded.
    • 👍 Viveum: Supports payment via "Virtual Account Brands" (e.g. PayPal).
    • ➕ Added options for alternating price display (in badges).
    • 📊 #1515 Poll: Add result tab with a list of answers and customers for a poll
    • BMEcat: Added export and import of product tags.
    • 🌐 Web-API: Added endpoints for ProductSpecificationAttribute.
    • Trusted Shops: Added new Trustbadge display for mobile devices
    • (Dev) Added sm:EfCommandTimeout setting to web.config (was 30 sec. fixed, now configurable)

    👌 Improvements

    • 🐎 (Perf) Significantly increased query performance for products with a lot of category assignments (> 10).
    • (Perf) Increased app startup speed by up to 20%.
    • 🔊 (Perf) Ultra-fast file-based XML sitemap generation for extremely large catalogs (> 1M)
      • At least 10x faster
      • Generated files are saved on the hard disk now: a rebuild after an app restart is no longer necessary.
      • No exclusive locks during rebuilds anymore: if an (outdated) file already exists, it is returned instantly.
    • (Dev) Enhanced pub/sub: new IConsumer marker interface for classes that contain one or more event message handlers. The generic IConsumer<T> implements IConsumer but has been marked as Obsolete.
    • 👍 Better protection against XSS attacks
    • ⚡️ Updated to Bootstrap version 4.1.3
    • Debitoor:
      • Partially update customer instead of full update to avoid all fields being overwritten.
      • #1540 Place company name in front of customer name (according to address format of the particular country).
      • #1565 Add a button to manually create a draft invoice.
    • #1479 Show in messages the delivery time at the time of purchase
    • #1184 Sort current shopping carts & current wishlists by ShoppingCartItem.CreatedOn.
    • 👍 #1106 BMECat: import & export support for product keywords
    • #1499 Added hint to forms indicating that fields with an asterisk (*) are required
    • ➕ Added filter for newsletter subscriber export by working language
    • 🔨 Refactored download section
    • ✨ Enhanced EntityPicker to pick from customers, manufacturers & categories
    • #1510 Breadcrumb of an associated product should include the grouped product if it has no assigned categories.
    • OpenTrans: added customer number to parties
    • Do not filter cookie using resources if cookie usage has not yet been consented to.
    • #1563 QueuedMessagesClearTask: add a setting for the age of the mails to be deleted.
    • #1569 Added a setting to show login note if no prices are displayed due to customer group permissions.
    • PayPal PLUS: Up to 10 more third party payment methods are allowed by PayPal now.
    • #1560 Tell-a-Friend and anonymous user: render alert box and tell guest to login to use this function
    • #1571 Compare products now shows all specification attribute options
    • #1539 Signing in is now allowed with e-mail and username
    • Trusted Shops: Trustbadge won't be displayed in Popups & Iframes anymore
    • #1461 Admin Grid: filter dialog will be displayed entirely even when grid has no data to display
    • Lots of minor enhancements for both frontend and admin theme
    • Many other minor improvements

    🛠 Bugfixes

    • In a multi-store environment, multiple topics with the same system name can now be resolved reliably.
    • GMC:
      • Export the product images if no attribute images are defined
      • Do not export the first image twice for additional images
      • Export image URL of full size image (not default size) for additional images
      • Custom labels are now being exported
    • Media middleware: 0-byte files should be treated as missing.
    • Megamenu alpha/omega blends do now toggle correctly on touch devices
    • Summernote HTML editor exceeds parent container width when CodeMirror is activated
    • ⚠ Only display a zero search hits warning if at least one filter is activated
    • #1436 Do not display delivery time in customer order completed messages
    • "ArgumentNullException: The value must not be NULL" if a topic is password protected
    • 🛠 Tax by region: Fixes after inserting a tax rate country column shows "Unavailable"
    • 0️⃣ #1014 Switching to default language keeps specific URL alias of current page
    • Shipping by total: When inserting a record the country now will be saved
    • #1460 Editing of the customer title was missing on customer and address pages in the backend
    • #1447 Checkout button payment methods (Amazon, PayPal Express) won't work in conjunction with mandatory checkout attributes
    • 🛠 Fixed Autofac circularity error
    • When creating a topic, the widget zone input has shown System.String[]
    • 🔍 Switching the language always redirected to the home page if SEO friendly URLs was deactivated.
    • File upload of a checkout attribute was not stored on cart page.
    • 💻 Redirecting within checkout may have displayed an incorrect URL in the browser.
    • Server cannot modify cookies after HTTP headers have been sent.
    • Wrong base price on product and cart page when a special price is active.
    • In a multi-store, message templates may have loaded the wrong disclaimer and conditions-of-use text.
    • NullReferenceException in manufacturer list when there is no manufacturer.
    • Wrong order of featured products on category page.
    • #1504 Cart item price calculation was wrong if attribute combinations with text types were involved.
    • #1485 Dropdown list for product sorting didn't not work with Internet Explorer 11.
    • #1468 Twitter authentication wasn't working anymore.
    • 🆕 Newsletter subscription didn't work when customer privacy setting DisplayGdprConsentOnForms was turned off
    • 🛠 Fixed social media image detection
    • 🛠 Fixed redirection of bots when several languages were active
    • Region cannot be selected in checkout when entering a billing or shipping address
    • 🛠 Fixed invalid conversion of "System.Int32" to "SmartStore.Core.Domain.Tax.VatNumberStatus" when placing an order
    • MegaMenu: Improved item rendering for third tier elements
    • Product display order on category and manufacturer pages was sometimes wrong when using linq search.
    • Debitoor: Wrong invoice total if a subtotal discount has been applied.
    • 🛠 Import: Fixes invalid conversion "System.Double" to "SmartStore.Core.Domain.Catalog.QuantityControlType".
    • Topics: Fixes "Cannot insert duplicate key row in object 'dbo.UrlRecord' with unique index 'IX_UrlRecord_Slug'".
    • #1566 Santander: eliminate the 1 cent rounding difference at amountTotalNet.
    • 🛠 Fixed redirection to the homepage for pages which are loaded while the application is restarted.
    • #1570 Filter option "Only deactivated customers" filters deleted instead of deactivated customers.
    • #1475 select boxes must be wrapped on mobile devices if data-select-url is set
    • 🛠 Fixed the redirection to the homepage for pages which were loaded while the application was restarted
    • 🛠 Fixes product feeds expect a different base price formatting.
    • #1369 Shopping cart shows "Discount code applied", although it is not applied due to a lower tier price.
    • 🛠 Many other fixes...