AbanteCart New Version 1.0 RC1 is available

New AbanteCart version and upgrade package are now available for download or upgrade

See below release notes: Release Notes: Version 1.0 RC1
Major In this version:

• Licensing change from GPL to Open Software License (OSL 3.0). Visit: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/OSL-3.0
• Storefront API Beta version. API to offer JSON RESTFul connectivity to storefront to empower AbanteCart with mobil application envelopment and customers mobile access
• Updated example data set
• Final step to stable release
• Various improvements and fixes. See below:

Fixes and improvements:

• Fixes to listing blocks and SEO URL Bugs
• Added info about Yahoo currency server
• Fixed missing texts in Multistore settings
• Redirect and action URLs for submitting currency/language forms were empty for template extensions
• Fixes to UI in resource library.
• fixed notify_url for paypal callback
• Storefront: listing block now have one block tpl per placeholder
• Listing block view bugfix. Special block added into layout.
• Control Panel : message manager bunch deleting bugfix. Report->sales result bugfix.
• Core: mail class now writes errors into log and send message about failed mail.
• Control Panel: coupon usage bugfixes. (limits os usage of coupon worked incorrectly)
• Initialized $error as array() to avoid foreach() warning
• Core : Aconnect fix. Curl use with option CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER=>false now.
• Control Panel: extension store now show message if connection failed
• Core : compression for install process now disabled
• Fix bug with layout if method is used in the RT
• Control Panel: Resource Library sort order saving bug fix. Design block form ui bugfixes
• Set product shipping default to true
• Improve code for formatting customer address and remove redundancy in the code
• Fix for thumbnails files saved to one directory. Thumbnails now save in the same directory structure as resource library
• Control Panel: sale/orders orders saving bugfix. ui-bugfixes
• Update to tax zone.
• Add separate session for Storefront and Control panel to fix login conflict issue and improve security.
• Control Panel: Category listing grid UI update. Products and subcategories count added.
• Update to mail class and customer registration validation
• Control panel : compression bugfix. "Echo" replaced by setOutput in response controllers
• Control Panel : downloads ui bugfixes. Resource library now autoapply new uploaded file in 'url' mode. Download related bugfixes.
• Control Panel : ckeditor adding resource from library window size bugfix
• Control Panel + Storefront : Global Attributes fixes. Products multivalue options process correctly now.
• Control Panel : jqgrid localization added
• Control Panel: multivalue listing of related products now does not contain parent product. (Prevents product's relate recursion)
• Control Panel: product option weight class selectbox option bugfix.Now you can set default weight class or % into option values data set
• Core: In index.php now set default encoding UFT-8 for multibyte library (mb_ functions)
• Storefront: wrong search results for product with non-latin characters inside name.
• Control Panel: bug fix of incorrect saving of new product option status.
• Core: Update to router and fix of bug with incorrect controllers
• Core : gz-compression level from settings usage bug fix.
• Core : Created new class AFilter for searching and filtering result set. Improved some jqgrid filtering in admin
• Core: html-class. HtmlButton now process 'href' parameter. It needed for simple link-buttons.
• Storefront: discount work bug fix
• Storefront: wrong weight calculation bugfix
• Storefront: form elements moved from tpl to controller using global HTML class
• Extensions: form elements moved from tpl to controller using global HTML class (alertpay, moneybookers, liqpay, aim)
• Various styling and translation related bugs.