AbanteCart 1.4.1 release

Published: Tuesday 21st January 2025

New Content Page Management System

We’re excited to announce the release of our new Content Page Management System, designed to give you greater flexibility and functionality for managing and sharing content on your e-commerce platform. With this update, you can now:

  • Create and customize blog or simple article pages effortlessly, helping you engage your audience and improve your SEO strategy.
  • Leverage new content-related blocks, including:
    • Content Search Block: Enable your users to quickly find articles, blogs, and other content for a better user experience.
    • Content Pages Sideblocks: Highlight related content, featured articles, or additional resources in an aesthetically pleasing side layout.
Intuitive page builder

We’re excited to announce the release of our new Page Builder feature, now available as an extension to elevate your eCommerce experience.

Introducing the Content Version Vault

Effortlessly revert changes to your e-commerce content. This new feature provides a comprehensive version history for all text and HTML edits, enabling you to easily restore previous versions with just a click. Say goodbye to content overwriting and hello to streamlined content management, ensuring consistency and control over your store

Enhanced Import Wizard: New Features and Improved Flexibility

We’re excited to introduce the latest updates to our Import Wizard, designed to make your data integration more powerful and intuitive:

  • JSON Data Column Mapping: Now fully supports JSON data column mapping, empowering you with advanced capabilities such as splitting, concatenating, and merging data columns. These enhancements ensure seamless and highly customizable data integration workflows, saving you time and effort.
  • ACTION Column Support: The Import Wizard now includes support for the ACTION column, offering you greater control over your imports. You can easily define specific actions like creating, updating, or deleting records directly during the import process, ensuring accuracy and flexibility.

These updates are designed to simplify complex data operations and make importing faster and more reliable. Upgrade today to experience the enhanced Import Wizard and take your data management to the next level!

Stripe Payment Upgrade

Added support for TWINT, a popular payment method in Switzerland enhancing payment flexibility.

And that’s not all – this release includes numerous other improvements and bug fixes to ensure better performance and reliability.

Admin Features

  • New Data listing block: with content pages support
  • Improved customer grid with links to default address forms.
  • Updated Import Wizard to support JSON mapping for multiple fields and concatenated columns.
  • Integrated a history modal for enhanced admin actions with text updates.
  • Improved header settings for streamlined management of messages and logos.
  • Improvement to layout manager with default page layouts for better control of layout blocks.
  • Added a new date picker for admin forms.
  • SQL Injection vulnerability fixes for email templates (CVE-2024-50802, CVE-2024-50801).

Storefront Enhancements

  • Improved SEO URL processing and canonical URLs.
  • Enhanced pagination for smoother navigation.
  • Standardized content sorting and listing across multi-store setups.
  • Various CSS and template updates for Novator and default templates.
  • New content template blocks
  • Fixes for Novator Megamenu and category tree display.

Content Management Improvements

  • Enhanced tools for managing content descriptions, history, and previews.
  • Added default configurations for page layouts and template designs.
  • Resolved pagination and sorting issues in content listings.

Extensions Updates

  • Stripe extension enhancements and support for TWINT payment method.
  • Added webhook support for payment_intent.succeeded events.
  • Fixed compatibility issues and updated the SDK.
  • RoyalMail extension upgrade and improvements for smoother operation.
  • PageBuilder and inclusion of new default presets for Novator and default templates.

Security Updates

  • Customer and Admin users Authentication improvement.
  • Resolved XSS vulnerabilities.
  • Strengthened session management for updated customer passwords.
  • Improved SQL injection prevention across admin functionalities.

Performance and Compatibility

  • Optimized for PHP 8.2.
  • Admin and storefront performance enhancements through code refinements.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed checkout functionality, including payment and shipping workflows.
  • Addressed CSS bugs for improved cross-browser compatibility.
  • Resolved errors in product grid filtration and category management.
  • Fixed minor bugs across admin forms and grids.

Developer Enhancements

  • Added the ability to include hooks in template files.
  • Improved logging capabilities for enhanced debugging.
  • Updated support for custom templates in form elements.

Where to download AbanteCart 1.4.1?

AbanteCart v1.4.1 can be downloaded from this page

Core upgrade from 1.4.0 to new version 1.4.1 is now available.

You can upgrade from the admin section by clicking on the message about an upgrade or using abantecart_upgrade_141 installation key in the extension installation section.