SmartStore version 3.2.0

Highlights

• (NEW) 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) 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"
• #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...