Smartstore 5.1.0 available

New Features

• Currency rounding:
  • Added currency properties and settings for rounding: midpoint rounding, skip rounding when displaying net prices, round unit price before or after quantity multiplication
  • Amounts are always rounded when calculating the order total to avoid rounding differences (usually of 1 cent)
• The recycle bin for products enables to restore and permanently delete products
• payever plugin (commercial)
• Botsonic plugin (commercial)
• Media Manager now allows image files to be re-processed based on the current media and post processor settings.
• Cart quantity input control now respects the product's available stock (as max input)
• #823 Added canonical URL to search pages
• #745 Page Builder: depend story visibility on user roles
• Added option to configure allowed characters for user names
• #836 Added option to define additional lines for robots.txt

Theming

• Infrastructure
  • Forked & customized Bootstrap framework. Our implementation combines version 4.6 and 5.x. We have not made any modifications to the JavaScript files; only SCSS has been customized. The primary objective is to maintain compatibility with the original Bootstrap documentation for developer convenience.
  • Logical CSS for better RTL support
  • Added subtle and emphasis colors to the color system
  • Revamped button styling
  • Revamped dropdown styling
  • Revamped select2 styling
  • Revamped pagination styling
  • Revamped modal window styling
  • Badges: new variants and modifiers .badge-subtle, .badge-outline-*, .badge-ring, .badge-counter
  • Revamped check & radio styling: new variants and modifiers .form-check-solo, .form-check-{color}, .form-switch, .form-switch-lg
  • Many improvements to input groups, button groups and collapsibles
  • Sass variables for all easings, contained in _easings.scss
  • Dropped responsive (rfs) spacing
• Frontend
  • New grid breakpoint xxl (1400px)
  • Made components rounder by slightly increasing border-radius variables
  • Revamped product listing action bar styling (sorting, view mode, pagination)
  • On screens < md, the offcanvas window for product filter slides in from bottom and also provides the sorting options
  • Revamped offcanvas main menu
  • Revamped image gallery styling
  • Revamped cart, wishlist & order confirm
  • Fixed Slick slider dotted navigation responsiveness issues
  • Slightly improved InstantSearch box and dropdown
  • Revamped product tags component
  • Dropdown product quantity input (automatically rendered instead of spinner if possible quantities do not exceed 100).
  • Revamped checkout progress indicator
  • Revamped scroll-to-top button
  • Revamped cookie consent dialog styling
  • Dropped Triple Date Picker component in favour of browser native date picker
  • Unstyled links are underlined by default
  • New responsive and collapsible MyAccount menu with avatar image, customer name and email address in header.
• Backend
  • Revamped Configuration / Settings and made settings menu responsive
  • Revamped plugin and provider managers
  • New colorpicker component with swatches
  • Revamped number input styling
  • Locale editor tab navigation has been redesigned and is now more responsive

Improvements

• Increased performance:
  • Added hash codes to attribute combinations. With a large number of attribute combinations, variants are found much faster now.
  • Fixed slow loading of product categories for a large number of categories. Price calculation and product export were affected.
  • MediaSearcher always performed a LIKE search for terms (the equals operator was missing)
  • #820 More scalable media service dupe file detection
• Improved plugin & provider manager UI
• MegaSearch: #842 added hit count for availability filter. Hide filter if it leads to no further hits.
• Use billing address if there is no shipping address and tax calculation is based on shipping address.
• #580 Added caching for live currency exchange rates.
• #767 Handle tier prices in depending prices module.
• #378 Remove the assignments of products to a tax category when the tax category is deleted.
• Blogs and news: added counter for pageviews and author field. Both displayed for admins only.
• Product tags:
  • #388 Ajaxify product tag selection in backend.
  • Added search panel to product tags grid.
• Web API:
  • #142 Take back in stock notifications into account.
  • #805 Add endpoints to assign discounts to entities.
  • #821 Add endpoints for RecurringPayment and RecurringPaymentHistory.
  • Add endpoints for the recycle bin of products.
• Import:
  • #390 Add a setting for whether to send the completion email.
  • #377 Import cross- and checkout-selling products.
• #503 Don't round quantity unit amount for PAnGV.
• #403 Added preview image link of NewsItem to RSS feed.
• #276 Enable to set the time of day for start and end date of discounts.
• #486 Add setting to capture payment when order status changes to complete.
• #782 Make the total weight of a shipment editable.
• #782 Enable to mark shipments of an order as shipped or delivered via orders grid.
• Added ability to edit delivery time in product grid
• #807 Enable absolute Paths for DataExchangeSettings.ImageImportFolder.
• #786 Replace TripleDatePicker with native input type date.
• #804 Implemented the new TrustBadge integration mode, including new settings for positioning, color scheme, etc.
• #819 Fix zoom on product detail page when there is a large right column.
• PayPal credit card: Removed address fields and integrated Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) instead.
• #834 Make the expiration date of visitor cookies of guests configurable.
• #493 Display quantity name plural when quantity unit is more then 1.
• #847 EU check VAT service: switch from SOAP to REST API
• #763 Display admin edit button for public entities on touch displays

Bugfixes

• Price calculation:
  • Rounding differences between the subtotal and the sum of the line totals.
  • Manufacturer discount is ignored as soon as an attribute with a linked product is selected.
• Product lists:
  • Fixed do not show tax info in product lists if the product is tax exempt.
  • Fixed call for price note not displayed in product lists.
• MegaSearch:
  • Fixed incorrect search results when a multistore has different default languages configured.
  • Fixed an incorrect second search result, executed via a spell checker suggestion, when the first search did not return any hits.
• Import:
  • Fixed localized properties were not updated during import.
  • Localized SeName was only updated when import file also contained a non-localized SeName column.
  • Fixed duplicate imported images if they were assigned to several products within a batch.
• Fixed the category navigation no longer shows the number of contained products after reindexing.
• Fixed products associated to a grouped product cannot be deleted via associated products grid.
• Fixed not yet awarded reward points were reduced when an order was deleted.
• Checkout attributes:
  • Fixed wrong tax was applied to checkout attributes in checkout.
  • Fixed checkout attributes that are not active anymore should not be applied.
• Web API:
  • Fixed 404 file swagger.json not found when opening Swagger documentation in a virtual directory.
  • #815 Import of customers via WebApi/OData sets PasswordFormat to 'clear'.
• Fixed incorrect message when applying a discount coupon code on cart page.
• Fixed the saving of multistore settings for default tax and default shipping address.
• Fixed a scripting issue where the input focus of the direct debit payment form was mistakenly set to a wrong input element.
• Fixed missing cache clearing after importing localized properties.
• Output Cache: missing Content-Type header when serving page from cache
• #531 Error reading import file with localized values of languages with the same UniqueSeoCode.
• Fixed discounts assigned to categories and limited to customer roles should be excluded from export and exported prices.
• Fixed MainPictureId not applied on product edit page if missing and if there is only one picture assigned to a product.
• Fixed product image gallery issue where no image was displayed at all.
• #843 Additional shipping charge displayed in product details even if free shipping is activated.
• Fixed "The requested service 'Other (Smartstore.Core.Rules.IRuleProvider)' has not been registered" when creating a rule.
• Fixed #792 Downloaded language sometimes cannot be deleted when using SQLite.
• Stripe: Fixed incorrect system name in several places.
• Gift cards were not generated according to the order item quantity during order processing.
• Fixed incorrect cart validation if minimum cart quantity and quantity step were configured for a product.
• #810 Doubleclicking login button can lead to 400 BadRequest error page.
• Fixed arithmetic overflow SqlException in ShippingByWeight and ShippingByTotal four decimal places migrations.
• #776 PayPal credit card payment fails due to missing session PayPalOrderId entry.
• #797 Incorrect validation when product can be added to the cart in single positions.
• Manufacturer pictures were not displayed on product detail pages.
• #828 Queued email identifier is 0 for order completed email.
• #873 Category preview may show 404 page if the category is limited to a certain store.
• Do not fallback to "Product is not available" delivery info on product detail page if the product is available.
• #839 Output cache must be invalidated when menu items are added or edited.
• OpenTrans: fixes RuntimeBinderException "cannot perform runtime binding on a null reference" when exporting shipping address.
• Brand pictures weren't displayed in product lists.
• Skin select2 if remote url is...