New AbanteCart v1.2.10 is now ready. With new version 1.2.10 we bring CSRF enforced security, NGINX web server support, Storefront CSS and template improvements and many other updates requested by users.

Below are the release notes for version 1.2.10:

Core:

• Update to Bootstrap v3.3.7
• Upgrade to Fontawesome 4.7.0
• Added support for NGINX web server (nginx.conf.txt)
• Added csrf token security with backward compatibility
• Improvement for faster handling with super large products database
• Large size AImage resizing stability improvement
• added column sku to order_products and order_options tables
• Task UI and stability improvements
• Stability improvement of cache file driver. Added renaming for folder before deleting (locking for write)
• AMessage improvement. Now update of view-count will not change 'modified' date
• Add automatic registration of user and customer IDs in mysql session.
• 2017 Copyright update

Admin:

• improvement of language_manager and restart of tasks
• Fix for loading of missing definitions process (error_text fix)
• Product options handling improvement
• Illegal string offset 'extensions' warning fix
• package installer improved. Added charset detection for license.txt
• Fix of switching to another languages when maintenance mode is enabled

Storefront:

• Storefront enhanced csrf token security
• CSS updates and UI improvements in default template
• Added SKU to Google Analytics ecommerce tracking
• Added ability to show text message "Inc tax" for products with tax included.

Extensions:

• Updated payment extension to handle csrf token security

API:

• Improve add to cart (products bulk add and cart clear)

Thank you for everyone participating in reporting and testing of the issues. Special thanks to Giancarlo Pellegrino from Saarland University, Germany for helping with CSRF.

Where to download AbanteCart 1.2.10? 

AbanteCart 1.2.10 can be downloaded at Github

What about older versions?

Core upgrade from 1.2.9 to new version 1.2.10 is now available.

You can upgrade from admin section clicking on message about upgrade or using abantecart_upgrade_1210 installation key in extension installation section.

Enjoy new AbanteCart 1.2.10 and stay connected

New AbanteCart v1.2.9 is now ready for use. In this new version 1.2.9 we focused on overall core platform improvements based on users' feedbacks, security updates, small new features and bug fixes.

Below are the release notes for version 1.2.9:

Core:

• improvement of ACart library. Added inventory quantity to products list of cart (available quantity)
• Removed trunk from ASession
• Added to ARequest class method for getting remote IP of web-user
• helper/utils.php minor fixes and comments
• cache file driver improvements
• added better logging into utils.php
• minor changes of lib/error.php
• added redirect function to helper/utils.php. methods with name "redirect" marked as deprecated
• lib/order.php and lib/cart.php improvements related to hooks and extendability
• lib/order.php improvements extensions API fix related to arounding of methods
• lib/customer refactoring
• Aview improvement
• lib/cart.php minor fix
• order_status lib phpdoc comments
• added column settings into products table of db
• download lib improvements
• added php-doc comments into download lib
• model/checkout/order improvements related to hooks call
• currency auto-update now works only for default store settings
• currency / rounding fraction issue fix
• In Tasks, added task_api_key into installation process for secure run task from browser
• Password validation fix considering HTML entities
• Admin password quotes support
• added phpdoc comment to AController class

Storefront:

• added disabling coupon button on order confimation page
• model/checkout/order improvements related to hooks call added trim to account create and guest registration form
• embed.js minor improvement
• account/invoice fix
• model/catalog/product minor fix
• added prevention from close to embed modal
• added hookvar for embed product page
• changes related to order downloads for guest customers
• product page tpl reformat

Admin:

• refactoring of listing_grid response controllers related to hooks.
• customers grid speedup related to orders count
• added loading of missing descriptions for language via task-process
• now task runs via task.php from modal with progressbar
• sale/order_details tpl improvement (added hookvars)
• added processData hook call
• changed $error property to public in some controllers
• added method getPaymentsWithHandler into extension/setting model
• changes of product model related to settings column
• added time for comments on order edit page

Extensions:

• default_royal_mail fixes related to weight class
• banner manager minor fix
• default_stripe version changed to 1.0.1
• added payment handler to default_stripe extensionMerge remote-tracking branch 'origin/1.2.9' into 1.2.9
• added items to ecommerce tracking
• predefined IM URI on guest checkout page 1 fix
• PayPal handshake error notes
• Improve transaction submit.
• Improve extension priority and run order handling.

Thank you for everyone participating in reporting and testing of the issues. Special thanks to RIPS Technologies GmbH for reporting and following trhough with security issues.

Where to download AbanteCart 1.2.9? 

AbanteCart 1.2.9 can be downloaded at Google Drive or on our Github repository. Download ZIP

What about older versions?

Core upgrade from 1.2.8 to new version 1.2.9 is now available. All extensions for prior 1.2 should be compatible with 1.2.9

You can upgrade from admin section clicking on message about upgrade or using abantecart_upgrade_129 installation key in extension installation section.

Enjoy new AbanteCart 1.2.9 and stay connected

New AbanteCart v1.2.8 is now available for download.
We continued to put more efforts to improve AbanteCart user's and customer's experience and make AbanteCart stand out in the performance compare to other ecommerce platforms.
As of version 1.2.8, AbanteCart is partnering up with NeoWize to provide Analytics and Insights to stores on our platform. This will allow store owners to see their conversion funnel, find out how well individual products are performing and much more!

New Features and improvements highlight:

• Improved password encryption and simplified process of password reset.
• Usability improvement in admin with quick data access
• Cleaning for install/upgrade history
• Customers' analytics provided by NeoWize
• General performance, user and customer experiences improvements

Core:

• added force mode for getting extensions list
• changed message in case unable to connect to database
• controllers chain-calls fix.
• listing_grid/product minor changes
• Changes related to viewport (page-response for modal view)
• AResources optimization and speedup
• ALanguage optimization and speedup
• ahtml and arescource improvements
• Amessage minor change
• AConfig fix
• XSS fix and changes of ARequest. Added xss_clean method.
• fix related to ssl-mode
• AImage minor improvement
• fix of settings in multi-store
• sql fix of AResource
• AConfig fix
• refactoring of AHtml class
• Password security update and reset process improvement.
• Rare case rounding issue fix

Admin:

• product_option page. fix related to rl-images for option values when all rows expanded
• user edit form improvement.
• upgrade now button on extension edit page
• cleanup of sale/order page controller
• extension store fix related to non-connected store and loggedin customer on MP-side
• added cleaning of install/upgrade history into cache management and history page
• clean of response controller of extensions store + changed upgrade button on ext.page
• added error reporting to AResource
• minor changes related to warnings in log
• added error logging into image model
• menu items sorting fix
• model sale/customer improvement
• css fix of delete confirmation popover
• mp_api model revert
• code improvements related to subsql_filter
• Marketplace product listing and purchase improvment
• added hook_var into product summary tpl
• Enable import/export controller to be hook-able.
• Filtering data for encrypted params.

Storefront:

• css fix for additional images on product page.
• sql fix of saving order data of IM related to guest checkout
• Added redirect from non-secure login page to secure when ssl is on
• added link to newly created order invoice on success page
• model checkout order improvement
• account/downloads pagination fix
• added hook call into seo_url common controller
• Fix for current page pagination click
• API thumbnail fix from ravdeepsingh22
• Fix for options selection and images load
• HTTP and HTTPS links improvements
• Storefront header controller cleanup, removal of backwards compatibility prior to 1.2
• Account creation, preselect if only one country
• New getHomeURL() method for storefront

install:

• db-changes related to longtext instead text column type
• added constant SERVER_NAME (needed for scheduled tasks that will be run by cron)
• Discontinue global SALT usage

Extensions/Upgrade:

• neowize_insights analytics
• Fix in upgrade process to handle new empty directories.

Where to download AbanteCart? 

AbanteCart can be downloaded at Google Drive or on our Github repository. Download ZIP

What about older versions?

Core upgrade to new version 1.2.8 is now available. All extensions for prior 1.2 should be compatible with 1.2.8

You can upgrade from admin section clicking on message about upgrade or using abantecart_upgrade_128 installation key in extension installation section.

Enjoy new AbanteCart and stay connected