Release Notes

SmartStore.NET 3.2

New Features

#1144 Enable multi server search index
Made Topic ACL enabled
Implemented paging & filtering for Topic grid
Topics: added IsPublished, Short Title (link text) and Intro (teaser) properties.
New security option: Use invisible reCAPTCHA
BeezUp:
- #1459 Add option to only submit one category name per product
- Allow to specify export categories per product
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

Improvements

(Perf) Significantly increased query performance for products with a lot of category assignments (> 10).
Debitoor: Partially update customer instead of full update to avoid all fields being overwritten
#1479 Show in messages the delivery time at the time of purchase

Bugfixes

In a multi-store environment, multiple topics with the same system name cannot 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
Media middleware: 0-byte files should be treated as missing.
Megamenu alpha/omega blends do not 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: Fixes when inserting a record the country was not saved
#1460 Editing of the customer title is 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
When creating a topic, the widget zone input shows 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.

SmartStore.NET 3.1.5

Highlights

Compliance with EU-GDPR requirements
Search engine friendly topic URLs
"Honeypot" bot detection for registration and contact forms.

New Features

#1429 Search engine friendly topic URLs
Implemented cookie consent according to EU-GDPR
Added checkboxes for data processing consent in all relevant forms
Implemented "Honeypot" bot detection for registration and contact forms.
Trusted Shops: Added consent checkbox to confirm order page for submission of customer email address to Trusted Shops if review widget is active
#1226 Shop-Connector: Added exchange of tier prices and delivery times
#1439 Debitoor: Option whether to display the payment method and SKU on invoices

Improvements

Added double opt-in feature for newsletter subscriptions during checkout (confirm order)
Allow forward slash in product tag URL slug
Theming: throttle AJAX cart refresh after spin up/down click
Moved StoreLastIpAddress & DisplayPrivacyAgreementOnContactUs from customer settings to privacy settings tab
#1450 Show the regular price only if it's higher than the final price
#1450 Do not ignore discounts with a negative amount
(Soft) deleted customers can be edited now
Customer IP addresses will be anonymized on (soft) deletion
Set catalogsettings.showsharebutton to false as its not compliant with GDPR
Made form fields for first & last name in customer registration optional
Implemented settings to make form fields for first & last name required again
Made form field for full name in contact us & product request optional
Implemented settings to make form field for full name in contact us & product request required again
#1453 Import: Use [IGNORE] to ignore a field value on record level
#1455 More detail on packing slip when bundled item
Display category alias as badge in grids and dropdowns

Bugfixes

Migration: take all same-named message templates into account
Messaging: OrderPlaced e-mail templates show main product image even when an attribute combination with a custom image has been selected
Theming: fix broken product review voting
Theming: added missing bottom space to .html-editor-content
Theming: Language switcher is not displayed if no currency options are available
No bundle item thumbnail displayed in bundle summary if item is not individually visible
Tracking number in shipment details was not saved
Assigning or removing product tags did not invalidate model cache
Reward points weren't displayed in message templates
Dashboard: link for not yet shipped orders loads list with all orders
Topic search button had no effect
#1442 Message factory should not throw an exception if a template has been deactivated
Fixes script error "$(...).tab is not a function" on product detail page
Title attribute for the product name in product lists was sometimes truncated
Relativizing font sizes should cast to double, not int
Fixes category list on product edit page shows empty category name
#1438 Debitoor: The country is displayed twice
MegaSearch: Fixes indexing ignores DeliveryTimeIdForEmptyStock setting
Web API: Fixes "No NavigationLink factory was found for the navigation property 'WalletHistory'"
#1449 IgnoreCharges of shipping methods is not working if a localized name is specified
Fixes "The object does not support the property or method 'startsWith'" on product edit page.
Wallet: Fixes "Child actions are not allowed to perform redirect actions" when there are cart warnings
Fixes the delivery time in the order notifications may differ from delivery time on the product detail page

SmartStore.NET 3.1.0

Highlights

Wallet: Enables full or partial order payment via credit account. Includes REST-Api. (commercial plugin)
Liquid template engine: very flexible templating for e-mails and campaigns with autocompletion and syntax highlighting.
Cash Rounding: define money rounding rules on currency and payment method level.
Modern, responsive backend: migrated backend to Bootstrap 4, overhauled and improved the user interface.
Enhanced MegaMenu: virtual dropdowns for surplus top-level categories and brands (commercial plugin exclusively bundled with Pro Edition).
RTL: comprehensive RTL (Right-to-left) and bidi(rectional) support.
Amazon Pay:
- Supports merchants registered in the USA and Japan
- External authentication via Login with Amazon button in shop frontend
- Several improvements through the new Login and pay with Amazon services
(Perf) Faster image processing: new processing and caching strategy! Thumbnails are not created synchronously during the main request anymore, instead a new middleware route defers processing until an image is requested by any client.
TinyImage: scores ultra-high image compression rates (up to 80 %!) and enables WebP support (commercial plugin exclusively bundled with Premium Edition).
UrlRewriter: define URL redirection rules in the backend using mod_rewrite notation. (commercial plugin)
Address formatting templates by country
Language packs: downloader & auto-importer for packages available online.

Breaking changes

Message template customizations are lost due to the new template engine. You have to customize the templates again. No automatic migration, sorry :-(
Amazon Pay: The plugin has been changed to new Login and pay with Amazon services. The client ID has been added, which has to be created in Amazon Seller Central and saved in the payment method configuration.
(Dev) Calls to cache methods Keys() and RemoveByPattern() require glob chars to be present now (supported glob-styles see https://redis.io/commands/keys). Previously these methods appended * to the passed pattern, which made pattern matching rather unflexible.
(Dev) Hook framework now passes IHookedEntity interface instead of HookedEntity class
(Dev) Completely removed all EntityInserted<T>, EntityUpdated<T> and EntityDeleted<T> legacy events. We were using DbSaveHooks anyway, which provides a much more powerful and way faster pub-sub mechanism for database operations.

New Features

1203 MegaMenu shrinker and Brands virtual menu item
Summernote is now the primary HTML editor
#431 Added option to randomize the display order for slides on each request
#1258 Add option to filter shipping and payment methods by a specific customer role
#1247 Allow to import non system customer roles in customer import
#1117 Added an option to display a dropdown menu for manufacturers
#1203 Added an option to define a maximum number of elements in the main menu for the first hierarchy of the catalog navigation
GMC: column chooser for edit grid
#1100 Customer can register in frontend via "Login with Amazon" button
Web API:
- #1292 Added endpoint to get order in PDF format
- Added endpoint to complete an order
- #1364 Added endpoints for MeasureWeight and MeasureDimension
Added options to include option names of specification and product attributes in the search index
#441 added option to specify that additional shipping surcharges are considered only once.
#1295 Sales tracking (tracking pixel) for Billiger.de
XML and CSV export of shopping cart and wishlist items
#1363 Make storing of IP addresses optional
#729 Option for automatic order amount capturing when the shipping status changed to "shipped"
(Dev) ILocalizationFileResolver: responsible for finding localization files for client scripts
#998 GMC: Find a way to map attribute combination values to feed export values
Added Instagram icon to social media icons in footer

Improvements

Target .NET Framework changed: 4.5.2 > 4.6.1.
Lower memory consumption
#649 Media FileSystem provider: segmenting files in subfolders to increase IO perf with huge amount of files
#1141 Cleaner backend order list. Added more infos like payment method.
OuputCache: Simple product changes that affect visibility now correctly invalidate all assigned category and manufacturer pages
- OuputCache: When MegaSearch is active, invalidation occurs only during indexing and not ad-hoc anymore.
#1248 New payment integration guidelines for Sofort\Klarna
TwitterAuth: better error handling and enhanced admin instruction
#1181 Debitoor: Add option to display shipping address on invoices
Moved RoundPricesDuringCalculation setting to currency entity
#1100 Use new "Login with Amazon" services to initialize an Amazon payment
#1285 Copy product: Add option to add more than one copy
(Perf) Many improvements in hooking framework
#1294 Swiss PostFinance: External payment page too small on mobile devices. Added setting for mobile device template URL, pre-configured with PostFinance template.
#1143 Make shipping methods suitable for multi-stores
#1320 Image import: Find out the content type of image URLs by response header rather than file extension (which is sometimes missing)
#1219 Recently viewed products list should respect setting to hide manufacturer names
Import and export product quantity step
Add bundle item information to order messages
#1031 Enable offline payment methods to have brand icons
DevTools Plugin: Added example for cached output invalidation

Bugfixes

#1268 Data importer always inserts new pictures and does not detect equal pictures while importing
OutputCache computes ambiguous cache keys for blog pages
#1142 Customer import creates role multiple times
#1244 Variant query model binder cannot handle types text and datepicker
#1273 Attribute formatter should consider setting CatalogSettings.ShowVariantCombinationPriceAdjustment
Product entity picker should use the wildcard search to find products
Hook framework should run hooks with ImportantAttribute when hooking was disabled per scope
#1297 Web API: Parsing the timestamp may fail due to the different accuracy of the milliseconds
Debitoor: VAT amount could be transmitted as miscellaneous for deliveries abroad.
Prices with discounts limited to categories and customer groups were shown to all users in product lists
#1330 MegaSearch: Missing variant facets if the variant value is not unique
Back-in-stock subscription form was already submitted when opening the popup dialog
Associated products of a grouped product were displayed in the wrong order
Payment-Filter: Fixed "The cast to value type 'System.Decimal' failed because the materialized value is null"
The tax value per tax rate was not updated when adding\removing a product to\from the order.
The option to send manually was ignored when sending e-mails
#528 LimitedToStores is required on payment provider rather than plugin level
#1318 Disabled preselected attribute combination permanently hides the shopping cart button, even if another combination is selected.
Copy product: Fixes "Cannot insert duplicate key row in object dbo.UrlRecord with unique index IX_UrlRecord_Slug"
Fixed export publishing via email

SmartStore.NET 3.0.3

Bugfixes

#1232 Scheduled tasks are being 'randomly' set inactive
#1245 Existing product does not get updated during import under certain circumstances
#1207 No low stock activity when bulk editing the product quantity
#1208 Missing inventory tab when switching from bundle to simple product
#1210 Clear asset cache when a theme setting has changed
Fixed name of deleted manufacturers displayed in product lists
Fixed non-system category export profile always exports categories of current store
Fixed picture assignment for variant attribute combinations of product copies which weren't assigned correctly
#1218 CopyProductService does not copy picture of ProductVariantAttributeValue
Fixed hidden checkout button when there are two or more shopping cart items and one gets removed from basket during checkout
Fixed physical gift cards cannot be moved to cart
Fixed tax rate wasn't properly formatted on product detail page
#1228 Text entered in frontend for attributes or checkout attributes are truncated by comma
Fixed shipping computation method ignoring deactivated PricesIncludeTax setting
Debitoor: Fixed missing tax rates on Debitoor invoice for net prices
#1224 Notifier wasn't working in plugin controllers
#1205 Server cannot append header after
headers have been sent
#1154 Left offcanvas navigation does not open when in checkout progress
#1212 Export: FTP publishing should consider directory structure
#1253 Product PDF exporter only exports one picture and ignores the picture number profile setting
Configuration of some plugins not saved in Firefox browser

Improvements

Apply img-fluid class to all images within html editor content
System name in privacy info topic URL should be lowercase
If no checkout attribute is required checking out will be possible
OpenTrans: optimizations for Lexware import
#496 show bonus points in ordersummary on first checkout page
Discounts of plugins weren't displayed in product lists

New Features

#1076 Add support for percental tier price adjustments
Trusted Shops: added review import
(Dev) SSL redirection on localhost will be bypassed
#783 Added option for "Email a friend" which disables the form field "Your email address" so it can't be changed

SmartStore.NET 3.0.2

Breaking changes

MegaSearch: The index must be re-created because of changes to the price filter.

New Features

New setting indicates whether to include or exclude unavailable products in search results by default.
(Dev) New Asset Cache

Improvements

PayPal Standard: New settings "UsePayPalAddress" and "IsShippingAddressRequired" to avoid payment rejection due to address validation.
More widget zones for the footer
#1177 Implement new setting for product search sorting
More fault tolerant task scheduler

Bugfixes

Fixed memory leak in MegaSearch plugin, which caused HTTP 503
RSS: Item URLs in feeds have ignored SSL settings
Fixed "The view 'ProfileImportResult' or its master was not found"
#1187 Search: Do not hide multi-selectable filters of the same group if there are no hits
Fixed System.ArgumentNullException in ProductVariantQueryFactory
PayPal PLUS: Fixed HTTP 401 "Unauthorized" when calling PatchShipping
#1189 MegaSearch: Boosts are ignored in prefix and wildcard queries by default
MegaSearch: Localized labels of filters were never displayed
#1195 Exporter: don't send an email if no email account has been selected
Product lists sometimes show the wrong delivery time
#1192 Lucene indexing
decreases the longer it takes
#1198 MegaSearch: never sort numeric range by label, always by value
Filter for attributes were always sorted by hit count
#1200 PayPal PLUS: Invalid request if the order amount is zero
Fixed null reference exception when copying attribute option set with image(s) (file system storage only)
Product price sometimes was wrong when entering a numeric value in an attribute text box
Added missing code for customer privacy agreement
Clicking the login link wasn't working correctly in offcanvas my-account menu
#1158 Currency and language selectors weren't working in OffCanvas menu
Fixed "Server cannot append header after HTTP headers have been sent"

SmartStore.NET 3.0.1

Improvements

(Perf) Much faster application startup
Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 Redistributable no longer required to be installed
BeezUP:
- Exports up to 9 product images
- Export stock quantity when stock is managed by attributes
- Export parent child relation data when exporting attribute combinations as products
- Flatten and append attribute data when exporting attribute combinations as products
Instant search should search manufacturer/brand name
HTTP 301 redirects for legacy media URLs
(Dev) New 'ApplicationStarted' event
(Dev) Enabled C# 6 features in plugin views
(GMC) Added missing database indexes.
(WebApi) Added endpoints for blog post and blog comment
Added more sortable columns to backend product grids
#1160 Append suffix 'Picture (1...n)' to thumbnail's alt-attribute on product detail pages
(Perf) Faster catalog indexing thanks to new database indexes
(Perf) Faster dynamic view compilation thanks to Roslyn compiler
Added the widget zone 'productdetails_pictures_bottom'
Added config setting sm:PdfEngineBaseUrl. There are cases where the PDF converter exits with a network error, when it is unable to load automatically resolved URLs.
(Dev) Added Retry utility class
#1176 Admin > Product Search: It ain't possible to search for parts of a product name

Bugfixes

#1145: Fixed HTTP 404 after switching language
Fixed null reference exception in product lists if sorting is not allowed
The file manager did not work correctly under a virtual folder
Item row in list style product list should not wrap on small devices
Item row in list style product list squashed on Android system browser
Linq search: Filter for manufacturers and categories were not limited by store
(GMC) Fixes duplicate occurrence of application path in absolute product URL
Products with stock managed by attributes sometimes not displayed in category lists
Fixed System.MissingMethodException for SmartStore.Core.Search.Facets.FacetGroup
Fixed uploaded image paths in HTML fields (Media/Uploaded > Media//Uploaded)
(MegaSearch) Product category order, product manufacturer order and product order were not recognized (sorting)
Standard search: Fixed sorting of recently added products
Alias for search filters couldn't be set if there's only one language
#1168 Cart: MinOrderAmount sometimes ignored
Moving products from editable wishlist to cart was out of function
Fixed several issues with parallelly executed data export tasks
Fixed several issues with PayPal payment providers
Facebook login out of function due to Facebook API changes (always returns "Unknown error")
Fixed 'no picture available' watermark on some product pictures
#1153 Removing already applied gift card causes error
(Theming) Drift zoom uses static zoomFactor. Made it dynamic.
(Theming) IE11: simple menu dropdowns weren't positioned correctly
Removed "trust" element from web.config (causes problems on some shared hosting spaces)
Fixed ThumbZoomer unproportional rescale issue in product grid
#1134 JavaScript error (IE 11 in VS debug mode) after removing the last item in shopping cart
(Theming) Dozens of layout fs for ixemobile devices (especially iOS and Android native browser)
Better error logging for TaskScheduler
Fixed several queries which caused problems with SQL CE
Fixed missing CurrencyCode exception in product exports
#1179 Error while downloading a downloadable product
Mega Menu: If a dropdown contains two level hierarchy categories only, they are not wrapped to the next column
Hide sort dropdown when option is off
HTTP 301 redirects for legacy media URLs
Added missing resources of broken migration 'AddressEnhancement' again
Checkout: Title and salutation were missing when entering new addresses
#1163 ContentSlider: pictures won't be displayed when placed on top or bottom on IOS

SmartStore.NET 3.0

Highlights

Flex: New mobile-first responsive Theme based on Bootstrap 4
Mega Search: highly professional search framework based on Lucene.NET (commercial plugin exclusively bundled with Pro Edition)
- Ultra fast search results, even with millions of items
- Faceted search
- Synonyms
- Compound word splitting
Mega Menu: highly customizable catalog menu widgets (commercial plugin exclusively bundled with Pro Edition)
Content Slider: creates eye-catching content to boost sales (commercial plugin exclusively bundled with Pro Edition)
Output Cache with "donut hole caching" for maximum speed and scalability (commercial plugin exclusively bundled with Premium Edition)
Microsoft AZURE provider for media storage (commercial plugin exclusively bundled with Premium Edition)
Web Farms: REDIS providers for Business Cache, Output Cache and Session State (commercial plugin exclusively bundled with Enterprise Edition)
Product variant option sets
New product specification attribute type: numeric range
Image support for variant attributes

Breaking changes

Removed old Content Slider module from open source core
Removed Web API plugin from open source core (now exclusively bundled with Premium Edition)

Other New Features

Message Bus for inter-process messaging between servers (commercial plugin)
Configurable media storage path for web farms
(Dev) log4net integration
(Dev) proper plugin view debugging
(Dev) detect changes to static plugin files (css, js, etc.) and immediately apply them to running project
(Dev) Theming: plugins now support implicitly imported SASS files (Content/[public|admin].scss)
XML Sitemap optimized for very large catalogs:
- Partitions for very large sitemaps (> 50.000 nodes or > 10 MB)
- Generated in a background task. No instant invalidation anymore.
Added option to skip shipping method selection in checkout process if only one shipping method is active
Added options to capture salutation and title in addresses and customer info
Added projection to control the export of individually visible associated products
#966 Implement new tax calculation logic for shipping and payment fees (calculate with rate of highest cart amount)
#922 New option to specify whether to include the weight of free shipping products in shipping by weight calculation
#724 Allow discounts to be applied to manufacturers
Option to display manufacturers sorted in alphabetical order
#1093 New product properties required for selling abroad
Web API:
- #1002 Add support for addresses and customer roles navigation property of customer entity
- #1062 Add filter options for user grid on configuration page
- #1072 Add support for TaxCategory
- #1073 Settings for maximum pagesize ($top) and maximum expansion depth ($expand)
- #1074 Extend product image upload to allow updating of images
- #1064 Deleting all product categories/manufacturers per product in one go
- #1063 Adding product category/manufacturer ignores any other property like DisplayOrder
- Added endpoint "Infos" for order and order item entity for additional information like aggregated data.
- Swagger integration
Added setting to specify whether the product manufacturer should be displayed in product detail
#271 Implemented support for attribute images/icons
#330 Implement 'attribute option sets'
Two themes Flex Black and Flex Blue which are derived from Flex theme

Improvements

Updated .NET Target Framework from 4.5.1 to 4.5.2
Added order message token for accepting third party email handover
ECB currency exchange rate provider now cross calculates rates based on euro rates
BeezUP: Exports the product weight
Updated Elmar shop info XML from version 1.1 to 2.0
(Perf) Application start faster by ~20%
(Perf) Lower memory consumption
(Perf) #1098 Reduce number of created guest accounts (more reliable bot detection)
#1008 Export: Add support for description projection to all product exporting providers
#1015 Implement Entity Picker in discount requirements
Debitoor improvements:
- Company name send as customer name if present
- Option to append customer email address to invoice address
- Additional order notes for tax exemption within and outside EU
#1048 Add meta tags to contact us page
Order XML export includes more customer data like title and salutation
#1080 Do not resolve Order.OrderURLForCustomer token for guest customers
#1051 Display EAN in PDF packaging slip
#806 User couldn't be created in the admin section without "Manage Customer Roles" permission
#491 Implemented option to determine a default delivery time
#1078 Implemented options for "Add to Cart" quantity input field on product level. Quantity control can now be hidden and can be configured to be increased and decreased in steps.
#696 Added textual resources for meta title and description for blog per month and by tag pages and enriched them with corresponding month plus year respectivly tag name
#1025 Added token for customer number to MessageTokenProvider
#1016 Implemented choosing of MessageTokens for newsletter campaigns with dropdown menu
#1107 OpenTrans: Added option to exclude long description of products from export
BMEcat: Implemented download of pictures according to MimeRoot-Info
Payone:
- Replace client API by Payone iFrame solution. Allows credit card payment compliant with PCI DSS, SAQ A.
- #1123 Add order note with payment info for prepayment and invoice payment.

Bugfixes

Currency wasn't displayed for shipping estimation
SKU, EAN, MPN of last attribute combination were exported for all combinations
GMC:
- Id should be unique when exporting attribute combinations as products
- Attribute price adjustments were ignored when exporting attribute combinations as products
- Associated products that are not individually visible are not exported anymore. GMC rejects them because the frontend redirects to the grouped product.
Export:
- #999 Projected customer id was ignored during price calculation
- #1104 Language projection was ignored when creating product details URL
- #1030: Orders didn't include data of attribute combinations
- Orders didn't include shipping address
Awarded reward points for a placed order were occasionally calculated wrong
PayPal PLUS:
- Changed shipping address/costs were not transmitted to PayPal
- Skip payment if cart total is zero
- Do not display payment wall if method is filtered
PayPal Express: Fixed net price issue.
Bundle item cannot be deleted if it's in a shopping cart
Fixed SSL issue for news items in RSS feed
Filter shows wrong number of products if "Include products from subcategories" is activated
Guest user cannot be deleted if he has a private message
#1029 Biz-Importer: Imports fixed tax rates as zero percentage
#1055 Checkout: Localized shipping method names are not displayed if shipping by total is activated
#1071 NewsLetterSubscription.ActivationUrl not working if the store if SSL secured
#1086 Gift cards can be earned in one store and applied in another
Whishlist: Products with minimum order amount greater then 1 can be added to the whishlist without any warning
#1102: Discounts not transmitted when the total amount is zero
#1101 Clickatell: Sending SMS not working anymore

SmartStore.NET 2.6

Highlights

Major improvements in Importer & Exporter: better field mapping, higher performance, bug fixes etc.
'PayPal PLUS' payment plugin
'paydirekt' payment plugin
'Viveum' payment plugin
'BeezUP' export provider
(Dev) Publishing SmartStore.Web from within Visual Studio now deploys the project correctly. No need to execute ClickToBuild.cmd anymore. Just publish directly to any target, including Azure.

New Features

#961 Fix "Open Redirection Vulnerability"
#571 Option to display another checkbox on confirm page to let the customer accept that his email address can be handed over to a third party
#870 Implement address import for customers (both billing & shipping address)
#886 Add setting to hide manufacturer images on product detail page and to hide default image for manufacturers
Import localized SEO names for product and categories
#477 Implement option to specify the number of exported and imported pictures
#859 Make checkout attributes suitable for multi-stores
Product details: Select attribute and gift card values by query string parameters
#950 make contact form comply with current German law

Improvements

Major improvements in Importer: better field mapping, higher performance, bug fixes etc.
(Dev) Publishing SmartStore.Web from within Visual Studio now deploys the project correctly. No need to execute ClickToBuild.cmd anymore. Just publish directly to any target, including Azure.
Localization & SEO: language switcher now takes language specific SEO slugs into account when building links
Smarter import of plugin resource files with graceful fallbacks (de-DE > de > de-* > en-US > en > en-* > *)
(Perf) Faster language resource file import
Exports the product detail link including the attribute query string when exporting attribute combinations
#918 Compare products: Display base price information
Export email attachments needs to be stored in database because the temp file may not exist anymore when sending the email
#913 Use HTML5 Input types (tel, email)
Added paging to frontend order list
Added paging to backend checkout attribute list
#977 Show PAngV base/delivery amount also
Updated LiveEngage LiveChat plugin

Bugfixes

TaskScheduler could fail polling when primary store url is an external IP address
Fixed ajax cache issue when saving payment or shipping restrictions. Internet Explorer showed the old data state (before storage).
"The provider failed at the Execute method: Member 'CurrentValues' cannot be called for the entity of type 'Product'" when exporting product attribute combinations
Bundles without selected attributes could throw an exception on product detail page
GMC feed did not export the product type and Billiger did not export shop_cat (category path)
The error message of a payment provider when capturing a payment was not displayed
Adding new shipping method threw an exception
Attribute Values: Assigning IsPreselected to more than one value causes an error
BizImporter: fixed redirection bug when default file extension in .biz wasn't .html
Fixed: Export deployment emails were always send manually
Manually notifying gift card recipient threw an exception
Loading shipping by weight grid failed under SQL CE
#949 Import: ProcessSlugs does not process explicitly specified "SeName", if product name did not change in an update scenario
Customer import: Creates customer role duplicates for inserted customers
GMC feed does not generate the sale price if the sale price is set for a future date
Mobile devices: Fixed "Uncaught Error: Syntax error, unrecognized expression: :nth-child"
Download nor sample download were removable when editing product
Copied product must not share sample download of source product. Could produce "The DELETE statement conflicted with the REFERENCE constraint 'FK_dbo.Product_dbo.Download_SampleDownloadId'".
#921 Specification attribute options with single quotation marks are causing a Javascript error
#971 Product is added to cart automatically if it has a non-required file upload attribute
#973 Bundle item upload is nowhere linked
Base price in product list ignored PriceDisplayType (catalog settings) and possibly displayed the wrong base price info
Private messages: Fixes "No route in the route table matches the supplied values"
Payone: Hash string incorrect for frontend API payments where the order has more than 9 products
Export mail notification: Download link not working if SSL is enabled
Discount rule has spent amount including sub total option can cause wrong discount calculation if the cart contains a product several times
#986 File uploads possible through /content/filemanager/index.html

SmartStore.NET 2.5

Highlights

New import/export framework (profiles, filters, mapping, projections, scheduling, deployment... just everything!)
TaskScheduler: Rewritten from scratch to be suitable for Web Farms (including support for cron expressions)
Payment and shipping methods by customer roles
Restrict payment methods to countries
Restrict payment methods to shipping methods
Email attachment support for message templates
Attach order invoice PDF automatically to order notification emails
Overall performance increase
Lots of bug fixes

New Features

New export and import framework
Import of customer and category data
#141 Payment and shipping methods by customer roles
#67 Restrict payment methods to countries
#94 Restrict payment methods to shipping methods
#747 Restrict payment methods by old versus new customer (plugin)
#584 Email attachment support for message templates
Attach order invoice PDF automatically to order notification emails
#526 Min/Max amount option for which the payment method should be offered during checkout
(Dev) New SyncMapping service: enables easier entity synchronization with external systems
(Dev) #792 ViewEngine: Enable vbhtml views per configuration
(Dev) Plugin developers can now render child actions into a dynamically created special tab called 'Plugins'
#718 ShopConnector: Import option for "Published" and "Disable buy\wishlist button"
#702 Facebook and Twitter external authentication suitable for multi-stores
New scheduled task: Clear e-mail queue
New scheduled task: Clear uploadeded transient media files
#704 Make primary store currency suitable for multi-stores
#727 Web-API: Option to deactivate TimestampOlderThanLastRequest validation
#731 Web-API: Allow deletion and inserting of product category and manufacturer assignments
#733 Option to set a display order for homepage products
#607 HTML capable full description for payment methods displayed in checkout
#732 Product list: Option to display the pre-selected price instead of the lowest price
New payment provider for Offline Payment Plugin: Purchase Order Number
#202 Implement option for product list 'default sort order'
#360 Import & export product variant combinations
#722 System > SEO Names: Implement editing of an UrlRecord
Admin > System > System Info shows used application memory (RAM)
Added option to make VATIN mandatory during customer registration
#840 Activity log: Have option to exclude search engine activity
#841 Activity log for deleting an order
More settings to control creation of SEO names
GMC feed: Supporting fields multipack, bundle, adult, energy efficiency class and custom label (0 to 4)
#760 Setting to set a customer role for new registered users
#800 Multi-store: Option to display all orders of all stores for customer in frontend
#457 Added option to hide the default image for categories and products
#451 Add message token for product shipping surcharge
#436 Make %Order.Product(s)% token to link the product detail page and a add product thumbnail
#339 Meta robots setting for page indexing of search engines
PayPal: Option for API security protocol
Product filter: Option to sort filter results by their display order rather than by number of matches
Elmar Shopinfo: Option to export delivery time as availability
#654 Place user agreement for downloadable files in checkout process
#398 EU law: add 'revocation' form and revocation waiver for ESD
#738 Implement download of pictures via URLs in product import
Web-API: Bridge to import framework: uploading import files to import profile directory
Setting to round down calculated reward points
#695 Implement checkbox in checkout to let customers subscribe to newsletters
#495 Implement option to search product detail description by default

Improvements

(Perf) Implemented static caches for URL aliases and localized properties. Increases app startup and request speed by up to 30%.
(Perf) Significantly reduced number of database reads during product list rendering. Increases request speed by up to 10%.
(Perf) Implemented 2nd level cache for infrequently changed entities. Increases request speed by up to 10%.
TaskScheduler: Rewritten from scratch to be suitable for Web Farms
TaskScheduler: Supports cron expressions to define task execution frequency
TaskScheduler: Editing tasks does not require app restart anymore
TaskScheduler: Enhanced UI
#721 Message Queue: implemented "Delete all"
#725 Prevent LowestProductPrice being 0
#709 News feed produced invalid RSS feed. Added content:encoded. Added maximum news age setting for feed export.
#735 Include SKUs of attribute combinations when filtering the backend product list
Filter for homepage and published\unpublished products in backend product list
Reduce database round trips initiated by price calculation
Google Analytics: added support for mobile devices
(Dev) TaskScheduler: Tasks can propagate progress info (percentage & message)
(Dev) TaskScheduler: Cancellation request is sent to tasks on app shutdown
ShippingByWeight & ShippingByTotal: Support for multiple zip ranges (comma separated)
Two more options to handle customer numbers: display customer number in frontend & let customers enter their customer number if it's still empty
#62 free shipping info on product detail page
Display base price in CompactProductBox
Automatically redirect to referrer after login
#826 Image gallery: the viewport height was fixed to 300 px, but now respects MediaSettings > ImageSize.
#249 Make UI editor for 'SeoSettings.ExtraRobotsDisallows'
Debitoor: Customer VAT number not transmitted anymore because it appears on the Debitoor invoice.
#778 Web-API: Increase MaxExpansionDepth for using expand pathes
#767 Remove assignments to a grouped product if the grouped product is deleted
#773 Reduce number of guest records created by search engine requests
#791 Preselected attributes or attribute combinations should always be appended as querystring to product page links
Simplified handling of SEO names
URLs are not converted to lower case anymore
Product grid sortable by name, price and created on
#26 Display company or name in order list
Added inline editing of country grid
#790 Improved language editing
#843 Implement a product picker
#850 Use new product picker for selecting required products
Trusted Shops: badge will be displayed in mobile themes, payment info link replaced compare list link in footer
Product filter: Specification attributes are sorted by display order rather than alphabetically by name
#856 Don't route topics which are excluded from sitemap
#851 Replace reCAPTCHA with "I'm not a robot" CAPTCHA
#713 Display gift card remaining amount in frontend order details and order messages
#736 Render PayPal Express Button in minibasket
PayPal: Support for partial refunds
Offline credit card payment: Option to exclude credit card types

Bugfixes

#523 Redirecting to payment provider performed by core instead of plugin
Preselected price was wrong for product attributes with multiple preselected values (same on product detail page)
#749 Visual Studio 2015 compilation error: CS0009: Metadata file. SmartStore.Licensing.dll could not be opened -- Illegal tables in compressed metadata stream
PayPal Express: fixed capture method
#770 Resizing browser with product details page causes product image to disappear
GMC feed: Availability value "available for order" deprecated
Mobile: Shopping cart warnings weren't displayed to customers
Tax provider and payment method were automatically activated when there were no active provider\method
#784 Biz-Importer: Name of delivery time must not be imported empty
#776 Preview: Manufacturer and Product in Multi Store
#755 Some methods still loading all products in one go
#796 Selected specification in product filter mask is displayed with default language (not localized)
#805 Product filter is reset if 'product sorting' or 'view mode' or 'amount of displayed products per page' is changed
Hide link to a topic page if it is limited to stores
#829 Activity log: Searching by customer email out of function
Product import: Store mappings were not applied when inserting new records
Faulty permission handling in ajax grid actions (no message, infinite loading icon)
Grouped products: Display order was not correct
Deletion of a customer could delete all newsletter subscriptions
PayPal: Fixed "The request was aborted: Could not create SSL/TLS secure channel."
PayPal Express: Void and refund out of function ("The transaction id is not valid")
Customer could not delete his avatar
Facebook authentication: Email missing in verification
Attribute with a product linkage throws exception if added to cart
Number of products per product tag could be incorrect in a multi-store

SmartStore.NET 2.2.2

New Features

SmartStore.NET User Guide
#210 Implement multi-store support for import/export
Added zip code to shipping by weight computation method
Skrill payment plugin (distributed via Marketplace)
(Dev) DevTool plugin: added option to display all widget zones in public store
New options for manufacturer display on the homepage
Added optional customer number field

Improvements

(Perf) several minor optimizations for faster app startup and page rendering
UI: optimized image gallery widget (white background & nicer animations) + enhanced modal dialog fade animations
(Soft) deletion of SEO slug supporting entities now also deletes the corresponding url records
License checker now supports IDN mapping for domain names
#716 Supporting of paged google-product data query for SQL-Server Compact Edition
#648 Add hint for * at mandatory form fields at address creation
Added link to imprint and disclaimer to footer in mobile theme
#521 Display bonus points in order export
Updated GMC taxonomy files
MsieJsEngine now is the default LESS script engine

Bugfixes

#694 Product variant attribute in product page should not be preselected implicitly
Fixed: If currencies are limited to one for a multi-store, this currency should dominate the setting for the primary store currency
#563 Scheduled Tasks: ensure that 'LastEndUtc' is ALWAYS set
Topics grid: fixed 'maxJsonLength exceeded' error
Debitoor: Fixed "The property named 'lines.0.productOrService' should be defined"
Send currency code of primary store currency (not of working currency) to payment gateway
#691 Product quantity not added to cart on mobile theme
#186 Mobile: variant images do not refresh
#671 Bundle products: display base price according to applied discount
#619 Display base price according to applied tier price
#726 PAngV: basket displays wrong base price when attribute price adjustment has been set
Weight adjustment of attributes weren't applied in shopping cart overview
Shipping by weight calculates wrong surcharge if attribute combination prices are set
Don't let database hooks call other hooks.
There was no payment redirect if only one payment method is available in checkout

SmartStore.NET 2.2.1

New Features

#582 GMC feed: Option to include\exclude a product
#652 Web API: Support for file upload and multipart mime
New option to display product thumbnails in instant search (NOTE: the feature can be enabled via Configuration > Settings > Catalog Settings > Search)
#594 Option to prevent a message from being automatically sent
Category filtering by store for backend category tree and list
#554 Flag to indicate that a new payment notification (IPN) arrived for an order since last opening\editing of the order
Setting whether and how to display sub-categories on a category page (hide, above products, bottom of page)
Debitoor: Extend option "Book invoice if paid" to also (optionally) mail the invoice as a PDF
#508 Limit country settings to stores
#205 Add multistore support for forums

Improvements

PDF converter: first init is much faster now
Localized properties for forums and forum groups

Bugfixes

PDF converter: fixed QFont::setPixelSize bug
Fixed System.NullReferenceException at admin/order/pdfpackagingslips
#660 Don't show shipping cost hint in product detail page if product has free shipping

SmartStore.NET 2.2.0

New Features

New mobile theme: MobileLight (a light variant of the default mobile theme)
Localization: in a multi-language environment missing language resources fall back to default language's resources (instead of returning the ugly resource key)
Quantity unit management
#428 New option to override global category list view type
#672 New option to automatically create mutual associations for cross sell and related products
#485 Enable shop admin to change creation date of a blog entry
#258 Implement email validation in checkout
New option to specify the maximum number of displayed filter items
New option to specify whether all filter groups should be displayed expanded
#459 New field to specify html tag for page titles on widget level
Added shrink database to backend UI
#588 Alternative localized category name used as title for category pages
#592 Add a second category description displayed beyond products on category page
Promotion feeds now export the preselected price (including price adjustments and overrides)
Implement 'free shipping threshold' for feed creation
Billiger feed: Implement new field for shipping costs to austria
(Developer) Added BeginTransaction() and UseTransaction() methods to IDbContext

Improvements

(Perf) product list rendering up to 10x (!) faster now (depends on page size and view mode)
The data grid in the backend now preserves client state between requests (page, pageSize, sorting, filtering etc.)
Excel Import & Export: much lower memory consumption and increased performance
Moving pictures from DB to FS or vice versa is lightning fast now, consumes much lower memory and is encapsulated in a transaction which ensures reliable rollback after failure. Plus the database gets automatically shrinked after moving to FS.
Feed plugins: product query now paged to reduce memory payload
#589 Backend product list: add filter for products with "no category mapping" and "no manufacturer mapping"
Minor UI tweaks in checkout process
Payone: CC-Check via client API, not via Server API (requires PCI certification)
#189 Allow deletion of multiple reviews
#622 UI: Redesign table in Sales > Orders > Order > Tab Products
#625 Bundles can be ordered if an attribute combination of a bundle item is not available
#666 Export addresses in customer export
New shopping cart setting ShowItemsFromWishlistToCartButton
XML product export now is paged and more data gets exported
#560 Return requests: Add fields for last update, last update of requested action and general notes
#626 Add IsActive flag for checkout attributes

Bugfixes

Instant search box did not display all results when SQL Fulltext Search was enabled
Print order as PDF redirected to login although the admin already was logged in
#621 PDF Order: does not take overridden attribute combination price into account (in order line)
Amazon payments: Declined authorization IPN did not void the payment status
Fixed „Payment method couldn't be loaded“ when order amount is zero
#598 Wrong input parameter name for ReturnRequestSubmit
#557 Localize MVC validation strings
Fixed rare bug "The length of the string exceeds the value set on the maxJsonLength property" (Controller: Order, Action: OrderNotesSelect)
Debitoor: Adding order notes can result in infinite order update event loop with thousands of order notes
Tax rates persisted on order item level to avoid rounding issues (required for Debitoor, Accarda and Payone)
Hide additional shipping surcharge when display prices permission is not granted
Fixed "Adding a relationship with an entity which is in the Deleted state is not allowed" when adding bundles to cart
Fixed price calculation of multiple bundles issue
Fixed auto add required products for bundle items
Fixes #641: Protocol in sitemap should be HTTPS when ForceSslForAllPages is true
#640 Do not display shipping infos for grouped products in product lists
#634 Bundle price in list should not differ from price in details if there is only one bundle item with one attribute
Do not copy associated product when copying a bundle product
Null DeliveryTimeId when deleting products. Otherwise deleted products can prevent deletion of delivery times.
Fixed: Product with inactive attribute combination could be moved to wishlist, copied to cart and be purchased
Mobile Theme: Show prices according to selected variant value, display of deliverytime
Bundles: Display base price according to Catalog Setting > Product Detail > Display Base Price

SmartStore.NET 2.1.1

New Features

Html to PDF converter: PDF documents are created from regular HTML templates now, therefore radically simplifying PDF output customization.
Html widgets: added option to create a wrapper around widget content
SEO: added new settings Canonical host name rule. Enforces permanent redirection to a single domain name for a better page rank (e.g. myshop.com > www.myshop.com or vice versa)
SEO: added support for <link hreflang="..." ... /> in multi-language stores. The tags are automatically rendered along with the language switcher.
(Developer) Implemented new HtmlHelper extension AddLinkPart: registers <link> tags which should be rendered in page's head section
(Developer) Implemented new HtmlHelper extension AddCustomHeadParts: registers whatever head (meta) tag you wish
(Developer) Added SmartUrlRoutingModule, which can pass static files to UrlRoutingModule if desired (e.g. used by MiniProfiler). This way static files can be handled by regular actions or filters, without polluting web.config.
New payment plugin "Payone"
Option to set a delivery time for products available for order with stock quantity < 1
Option to disable product reviews on product detail page
Option to supress display of sub category picture links

Improvements

(Perf) Faster application warmup
(Perf) Faster product list rendering
Reworked routing: removed static file security barrier again (caused too much problems)
#545 Made all (applicable) settings multi-store-enabled
#579 Make all relative urls absolute prior sending email
The display order of attribute values are considered in the sorting of backend's attribute combination grid
Optimized error handling and redesigned error pages
Removed PageNotFound topic. Text is a simple locale resource now.
PayPal settings are multi-store-enabled
#555 Product edit: Improve category select box. Add history (last x selected items) above all others.
#510 Payment plugins: Qualify configuration(s) for multistores
#556 A negative value should be possible for additional payment fees
Dashboard: Order items linked with order list
Security: Missing http-only flag for some cookies set

Bugfixes

PayPal Express: corrected basket transmission by eliminating tax transmission
Fixed password recovery redirection
#552 Left navbar should stay expanded on product detail pages
#538 Specification attribute labels in product filter mask are not displayed localized
#540 Amazon payments: Multistore configuration might be lost if "All stores" are left empty
#532 Amazon payments: Reflect refunds made at amazon seller central when using data polling
#577 Exception thrown because of missing TaxRate table when opening tax by region provider configuration
Added IIS rewrite rule for /productreviews/{id} > /product/reviews/{id}
Email a friend redirects to "not found"
#567 Products marked as 'Featured' should also be included in regular lists
Fixed some missing company information in order to PDF export
#583 Fixed "The property rate with the value x is malformed" when creating products
Fixed ignored discount and tier price when product has attribute combination price
PayPal Standard provider now using shipping rather than billing address if shipping is required
Amazon payments: Order wasn't found if the capturing\refunding took place at Amazon Seller Central and the notification came through IPN

SmartStore.NET 2.1.0

New Features

(Developer) Overhauled plugin architecture:
- Plugins are regular MVC areas now
- No embedded views anymore. Views get copied to the deployment folder
- No cumbersome return View("Very.Long.View.Identifier") anymore
- Views in plugin source folders can be edited during debug. The changes are reflected without plugin recompilation.
(Developer) Theme inheritance: create derived child themes with minimum effort by overriding only small parts (static files and even variables).
Preview Mode: virtually test themes and stores more easily
New payment plugin Pay with Amazon
Support for hierarchical SEO slugs, e.g.: samsung/galaxy/s5/16gb/white
(Developer) Model binding for plugin tab views: models from plugin tabs get automatically materialized and bound to TabbableModel.CustomProperties[MyKey]. Extended the SmartModelBinder for this.
(Developer) New event ModelBoundEvent. Consume this in plugins to persist plugin specific models.
(Admin) Added GMC tab to product edit view. This is more a coding example for the above stuff rather than a new feature.
(Developer) Implemented AdminThemedAttribute: instructs the view engine to additionally search in the admin area for views. Very useful in larger plugin projects.
(Developer) Enhanced IMenuProvider: menu items can now be injected to the public catalog menu
(Developer) Implemented IWidgetProvider. Allows request scoped registration of action routes to be injectable into widget zones. Perfect for custom action filters.
(Developer) Simple widgets: the model of the parent action view context now gets passed to a widget.
(Developer) New IoC method ContainerManager.InjectProperties()
Implemented support for EU VAT regulation for digital goods (2008/8/EG directive)
Implemented Media Manager for HTML editor (including file upload)
Added CDN setting to store configuration. Allows static files to be served through a content delivery network, e.g. cloudfront. (contributed by 'normalc')
#393 Web API: Implement OData actions for simpler working with product attributes
#431 Web API: Add support for localized properties
ShippingByWeight: new settings to configure a small quantity surcharge
#216 Better return request support
#90 Directly set order status to completed
#413 Orders: Add a PDF export\download of selected orders
#69 Award reward points for product reviews
#164 Add multistore support for polls
#170 Multistore support for Newsletters
#266 Update Pending Order in Admin Panel
#331 Show CommentBox in checkout (optional)
Option to turn off the filter for products in categories
Export/Import was enabeled to work with localized values for name, short description and long description
Added two new themes 'Alpha Blue' and 'Alpha Black'

Improvements

New backend design and cleaner frontend theme
Replaced TinyMCE HTML editor with CKeditor
Simplified checkout process by combining payment method and info pages
(Perf) Lower memory consumption
(Perf) (Developer) Client Dependency updates
- jQuery 1.8.3 > 2.1.1 (although the backend is still using v1.8.3 because of the Telerik components)
- FontAwesome 3 > 4.1
- Modernizr 2.5 > 2.7.2
- jQuery UI to 1.11
- SearchBox uses Typeahead now instead of jQuery UI AutoComplete
- Got rid of obsolete jQuery UI files (will remove this later completely)
(UI) AJAXified product edit tab: all tabs other than the first one load on demand per AJAX
(Developer) Plugins can provide custom tabs more easily (now with on demand AJAX loading)
Task Scheduler:
- Can run tasks manually now (async)
- Better UI
- Shows last error
- (Developer) Breaking change: New parameter TaskExecutionContext for ITask.Execute()
UI: TabStrips remember their last selected tab across page requests in an unobtrusive way (removed old selection code)
Price formatting: the DisplayLocale's FormatProvider was not applied when CustomFormatting was specified for Currency
Admin: Specification attributes are now sorted by DisplayOrder, THEN BY Name
Admin: Replaced DatePicker with DateTimePicker control
(Perf) significantly increased excel import performance... again ;-)
(Perf) significantly increased excel export performance and optimized memory usage
(Perf) SEO sitemap is being cached now, resulting in fast reponse times with larger catalogs
(UI) optimized and reorganized product edit view a bit
(Developer) MVC filter attributes are now Autofac injectable
(Developer) Implemented RunSync extension methods for Func and Func<Task>. A reliable way to execute async operations synchronously.
(Developer) Refactored model creation for category navigation: it now incorporates TreeNode, which enables plugin developers to alter the main menu with the event hook NavigationModelBuilt.
(Developer) Added user.less to Alpha theme for user defined css overrides and tweaks
(Developer) Moved PublicControllerBase to SmartStore.Web.Framework
(Developer) Moved 'AdminControllerBase' to SmartStore.Web.Framework
(Developer) Optimized Bundle handling
- Html.Add[Script|CssFile]Parts() now can handle already bundled resources correctly (no attempt is made to bundle them, the bundle's virtual url is returned instead)
- Made extra bundles for frequently used resources (like sequence js, fileupload, image gallery etc.). This way they always come compressed.
#384 Web API: Inserting sluged recources like products require an URL record
#382 Promotion feed plugins: Asynchronous feed creation, more options and improvements
#433 GMC feed: Option to filter config records that have not been edited
#362 Display 'from {0}' for products with variant attributes
#239 Categories: Ask merchant if he want a cascading or a non cascading deletion
HTML text collapser: Make it usable for all long texts
#375 Implement SKU search for 'related products picker'
#391 Admin: allow searching/filtering for specification attributes
Removed OpenID plugin from core
Specification attribute values that are assigned to a product can be edited

Bugfixes

Twitter Auth: fixed SecurityTransparent error
Facebook Auth: fixed SecurityTransparent error
OpenID Auth: fixed SecurityTransparent error
#376 Product filtering: Category price range filter not working anymore
Return requests: Products to return won't be listed
#372 Biz-Importer sometimes shows inactive tier prices
PayPal Standard: Sending more localized values. Adjustment of net prices to avoid wrong PayPal total amount calculation.
Globalization fix in plugin data grids: inline editing for decimal values did not take current culture into account
#391 Show delivery time if out-of-stock orders are allowed by attribute combination
CustomerRole > TaxDisplayType Including VAT could not be saved
Product.DisableBuyButton was never updated when the stock quantity has been increased (e.g. as a result of order canceling)
Shipping.ByTotal: Fixed matching of rates by choosing the more specific over the common rate
A grouped product only shows up to 12 associated products
#405 Billiger feed: Wrong base price exported
#437 Mobile devices: Cannot add a product to the cart when it is grouped
PayPal Standard: Costs for checkout attributes were double charged
Paging of return request grid did not work
#428 Multiline checkout attributes aren't rendered correctly
#434 Shipping.ByTotal: Make grid pageable
#419 email account password hidden
#424 Localize return reasons & return actions
#479 Product filter: Wrong count of manufacturers if products of sub-categories are included
#492 Ipayment credit card: Order notes are only created when the order exists
#493 Postfinance plugin does not work if shopname includes a "umlaut"
#237 Mobile theme: inactive attribute combinations should not be added to cart
#178 Mobile theme doesn't display base price
Ipayment: Capturing did not work because the security was not transmitted
#405 "Reset Password" Link in Emails is wrong with SSL secured sites
#471 Checkout: Redirecting to external payment page could take a while. Clicking "Buy" button again might cancel the redirecting.
Pricing not considered attribute combination prices for bundles with per item pricing

SmartStore.NET 2.0.2

Bugfixes

IMPORTANT FIX: Memory leak leads to OutOfMemoryException in application after a while
Installation fix: some varchar(MAX) columns get created as varchar(4000). Added a migration to fix the column specs.
Installation fix: Setup fails with exception Value cannot be null. Parameter name: stream
Bugfix for stock issue in product variant combinations
#336 Product bundle: Upper add-to-cart button label shows wrong text
#338 Serialization exception thrown when session state mode is StateServer
#340 Admin: Header overlays TinyMCE in fullscreen mode
#341 Orders are not cancellable
#342 Backend: order total is not editable
#348 Messaging: OrderPlacedStoreOwnerNotification overwrites email account sender name with the customer's name
Default value for plugin description not loaded into edit popup window
Fixed "Controller does not implement IController" (concerning plugin controllers)
#361 Wrong delivery time in order confirmation

Improvements

#250 Implemented validation to theme configuration editing

SmartStore.NET 2.0.1

New Features

#292 Allow specific price for attribute combinations
Added image upload support to Summernote editor
(Developer) Added WebApi client test tools to the solution (C# and JavaScript)

Improvements

Content slider slides can be filtered by store
TinyMCE now shows advanced tab for images
Updated BundleTransformer to the latest version 1.8.25
Added JavaScriptEngineSwitcher.Msie (disabled by default). Useful in scenarios where target server has problems calling the V8 native libs.
Updated some 3rd party libraries to their latest versions
#320 Unavailable attribute combinations: better UI indication

Bugfixes

UI notifications get displayed repeatedly
(Developer) Fixed Razor intellisense for plugin projects (NOTE: switch to 'PluginDev' configuration while editing plugin views, switch back when finished)

SmartStore.NET 2.0.0

Highlights

RESTFul WebApi
Highly optimized and simplified product management
Product Bundles
Considerably faster app startup and page processing
New variant attribute type: Linked Product
Package upload for plugins and themes
Lightning fast asynchronous Excel import with progress indicators and detailed reports
(Developer) Code-based Entity Framework database migrations

New Features

RESTFul WebApi
Product Bundles: create configurable product kits by combining products
Package upload for plugins and themes
New variant attribute type: Linked Product
#137 Shipping method option to ignore additional shipping charges
#175 IPayment plugin: Implemented deactivation of specific credit card types
#191 Implemented new scheduled task Delete logs
Added support for SummerNote HTML editor (experimental)
Enabled fulltext search
New setting to redirect to order detail page if an order completed
New setting to suppress the search for SKUs
Shipment list can be filtered by tracking number
#238 Working currency in context of request domain
#295 Display short description for payment plugins
Setting to skip the payment info page during checkout.
(Developer) Entity Framework code-based Migrations now fully supported in application core and all relevant plugins (no need to manually run SQL scripts anymore in order to update to newer version).
(Developer) Admin: Implemented entity-commit event message (for client EventBroker) in order to support custom data persistence in a loosely coupled manner.
(Developer) New interface IWidget for simplified widget development and multi-widgets per plugin
(Developer) Outsourced notifications from MVC controller and implemented INotifier for more centralized approach

Improvements

Highly optimized and simplified product management
Considerably faster app startup and page processing
Lightning fast asynchronous Excel import with progress indicators and detailed reports
#171: select2 Dropdown too short in OPC
Product filtering by price now supports decimal places
Enhanced Admin UI for Message Templates
Repliable Emails now have customer's email as ReplyTo address
Fix for EU VAT calculation: resolve NET from GROSS correctly + auto-switch to NET display type when customer is VAT exempt
Replaced dotLess engine with a native Javascript parser (BundleTransformer > ClearScript.V8)
#140 Import all plugin resources after adding a language
#45 Smarter logging. Save same log notifications only once including its frequency.
Updated jQuery Mobile to version 1.3.2
Updated TinyMCE html editor to version 4
Overhauled plugin management UI (plugin search among others)
Mobile: Only the first product pictures is now displayed in the product-detail-view the others are available by navigation or swiping
Mobile: Shop logo is now displayed at the top of the mobile page
Mobile: legal hints are shown in the footer
#228 Added Youtube to social network settings
#180 Display delivery time in shopping cart and relevant mails
#217 GMC Feed Plugin: Make export of expiration_date configurable
#222 Feed Plugins: Take special price into consideration
Canceling a PayPal, SU or PostFinance payment now redirects to the order detail page rather than checkout complete
Added an option to display the short description of products within the order summary
Added an option to turn off the display of variant price adjustments
#277 Show BasePrice (PAnGv) in cart also
GMC feed plugin: Export configurable shipping weight and base price info
#280 Filter orders by customer name
#190 App Restart: stay on current page
Filter orders: Order, payment and shipping status are multi-selectable
DatePicker control for variant attributes: displayed year range can be specified via Alias property ([BeginYear]-[EndYear], e.g. 1950-2020)
Significantly faster install process
- Updated all dependant libraries to their latest versions
(Developer) Implemented PaymentMethodBase abstract class to simplify payment plugin development

Bugfixes

#150 GTB & disclaimer aren't readable when they become to long
#151 NewsletterSubscriptionDeactivationUrl-Token doesn't get repleaced
#153 Admin->Contentslider throws an error when asigned languages aren't available anymore
#160 Resource on confirm order page isn't escaped
#152 Copy message template does not work
SKU search did not work cause of wrong join statement
#165 TopicWidgets Sorting is not applied
Google Analytics: with active Order Number Formatter plugin the order number was posted twice (formatted and unformatted)
#188 Token Order.CustomerFullName doesn't get replaced when ordering as a guest
#194 Installation fails when installing products
#196 Samples cannot be downloaded
Product filter included deleted manufacturers
Mobile: Paginator does not work
Product could be overwritten by attribute combination data
Quantity field was shown though the add to cart button was disabled
#260 Delivery times translations are not getting applied
robots.txt: localizable disallow paths did not contain a trailing slash
#296 Fix price adjustment of product variant combinations
Resolved shopping cart rounding issues (when prices are gross but displayed net)

SmartStore.NET 1.2.1.0

New Features

Added option Limit to current basket subtotal to HadSpentAmount discount rule
Items in product lists can be labelled as NEW for a configurable period of time
Product templates can optionally display a discount sign when discounts were applied
Added the ability to set multiple favicons depending on stores and/or themes
Plugin management: multiple plugins can now be (un)installed in one go
Added a field for the HTML body id to store entity
(Developer) New property 'ExtraData' for DiscountRequirement entity

Bugfixes

#110: PictureService.GetThumbLocalPath doesn't add picture to cache if it doesn't exist (this broke PDFService among others)
#114: Runtime error occurs after new customer registration in the storefront
#115: XML exports could fail because of invalid characters
#121: Categories restricted to specific stores could also show up in other stores.
#125: Widget Trusted Shops Customer Reviews can not be configured
#127: Redirection to 404 failed with localized urls when shop ran under virtual application paths
#128: Switch language in store failed when SEO friendly urls were disabled
#134: Fix mobile checkout
#111: Send wishlist via e-mail doesn't work

Improvements

#97: Product numbers of attribute combinations could not be searched
#120: Excel product import: The same product pictures were imported repeatedly which led to duplicate pictures.
Updated FontAwesome to version 3.2.1
Minor CSS fixes
Info pages for all Trusted Shops widgets
Better display and handling when choosing a flag for languages

SmartStore.NET 1.2.0.0

Highlights

Multi-store support
"Trusted Shops" plugins
Highly improved SmartStore.biz Importer plugin
Add custom HTML content to pages
Performance optimization

New Features

Multi-store-support: now multiple stores can be managed within a single application instance (e.g. for building different catalogs, brands, landing pages etc.)
Added 3 new Trusted Shops plugins: Seal, Buyer Protection, Store Reviews
Added Display as HTML Widget to CMS Topics (store owner now can add arbitrary HTML content to any page region without modifying view files)
Color attributes are now displayed on product list pages (as mini squares)
Added ask question form to product pages
ShippingByTotal plugin: added BaseFee, MaxFee and SmallQuantitySurcharge.
ShippingByTotal plugin: added the ability to define zip ranges including wildcards.
Added 2 DiscountRule plugins: HasPaymentMethod and HasShippingOption
Better handling of localized SEO URLs (new settings: DetectBrowserUserLanguage, DefaultLanguageRedirectBehaviour and InvalidLanguageRedirectBehaviour)
Plugin language resources are now updateable via backend
Added Attributes tab to Admin > Order Detail
Added new (hidden) setting ExtraRobotsDisallows (enables store owner to add new Disallow lines to the dynamically generated robots.txt)
(Developer) Added new plugin Glimpse for SmartStore.NET
(Developer) Localizable views: the view engine now is able to resolve localized (physical) view files (by appending the language seo code to a view file name in the same folder, e.g. 'en' or 'de'). The engine first tries to detect a view file with the matching language suffix, then falls back to the default one.
(Developer) Added new interface IPreApplicationStart allowing plugins to register HttpModules very early in the app bootstrap stage

Improvements

Minor improvements for SOFORT Überweisung plugin
ContentSlider: updated 'sequence js' to most recent version and optimized html & css code
Content slider: the background slide behaviour is configurable now (NoSlide, Slide, SlideOpposite)
Some email templates sent to the store owner now have customer's address in the 'from' field
Topic titles are now shown in Admin > CMS > Topics grid
Log entry full messages are now displayed prettified in the backend
Croatia now has EU-VAT handling
Minor theme improvements
Updated FontAwesome to the latest version
Added 'Admin' Link to the header menu (many users just didn't find it in the 'MyAccount' dropdown ;-))
Added new option to disable/enable the display of a more button when the long description is to large
Added option to switch back to mobile view when displaying the desktop version on a mobile device
(Developer) Added properties for HtmlHelper and Model to 'AdminTabStripCreated' event type. This way external admin UI customization becomes easier and more flexible.
(Developer) Implemented minor tweaks and optimizations to the Theming Engine
(Developer) Added 'bodyOnly' parameter to TopicBlock ChildAction
(Developer) HtmlHelper SmartLabelFor now renders the model property name by default (instead of the SmartResourceDisplayName resource key)

Bugfixes

bunch of fixes and improvements for the SmartStore.biz Importer plugin
The feed for "Leguide.com" plugin did not work in Germany
Fixed minor issues in shipping-by-weight plugin
Fixed minor issues in Google Analytics widget
Paginator always jumped to the first page when using the product filter
Modal window for disclaimer topic was missing the scrollbar
Main menu doesn't flicker anymore on page load
ThemeVars cache was not cleaned when theme was switched
Content slider: container background did not slide in Firefox
KeepAlive task minor fix
(Developer) Fixed minor issues in build script

SmartStore.NET 1.0.1.0

Bug

* [SMNET-1] - Die Anzahl der eingetragenen Mengen bei Varianten wird nicht richtig im Warenkorb übernommen.
* [SMNET-5] - Fehler beim Hochladen von Bildern im IE
* [SMNET-6] - Texte in IFrame werden nicht komplett dargestellt
* [SMNET-7] - Versandart  „Shipping by total“ funktioniert nicht.
* [SMNET-18] - Megamenu: Expand/collapse schneidet u.U. Submenu ab
* [SMNET-19] - Im Firefox können keine Inhalte im TinyMCE-Editor per Kontextmenu eingefügt werden.
* [SMNET-23] - Im HTTPS Modus wird (LESS)-CSS nicht interpretiert
* [SMNET-25] - Bei Eingabe einer falschen SSL-URL im Admin-Bereich ist kein Einloggen mehr möglich
* [SMNET-34] - Fehlermeldung nach dem Hochladen einer sbk-Datei 
* [SMNET-46] - Es können keine NULL_Werte in SpecificationAttribute-Tabelle eingefügt werden
* [SMNET-58] - Katalog-Einstellungen - Productlist PageSize wird nicht gespeichert
* [SMNET-59] - ContentSlider: Wenn bei einem Slide kein Titel hinterlegt ist, kommt es zu einem Fehler
* [SMNET-61] - Wenn man beim Produktnamen in einer anderen Sprache einen Eintrag macht, erfolgt eine Fehlermeldung
* [SMNET-83] - Theme-Export schlägt mit Runtime-Error fehl
* [SMNET-142] - Die prozentuale Berechnung des Aufpreises bei der Zahlungsart Kreditkarte funktioniert nicht.
* [SMNET-150] - Die Angaben aus dem Voraussetzungstyp "Benötigte Kundengruppe" bei der Einrichtung eines Rabatts werden nicht gespeichert.
* [SMNET-152] - Fehler beim Speichern von Produkten, wenn lokalisierte Felder (aber nicht alle) mit Werten belegt werden.
* [SMNET-166] - GIF-Dateien werden nach dem Import mit schwarzem Hintergrund übernommen.
* [SMNET-167] - Produkte sind nach Spezifikations-Attributen filterbar, obwohl dieses Spezifikations-Attribut überhaupt nicht dem Produkt zugeordnet wurde.
* [SMNET-171] - Import von Newsletter-Adressen scheint bei zu vielen Datensätzen irgendwann "auszusteigen" (Performance-Problem)
* [SMNET-174] - Bezahloption Lastschrift: Kontodaten des Kunden im Backend nirgendwo einsehbar
* [SMNET-196] - Preisberechnung für Variant-Kombis fehlerhaft (Rabatte werden nicht berücksichtigt)
* [SMNET-198] - upgrade.sql für Order.DirectDebit[...] fehlerhaft
* [SMNET-199] - CategoryNavigationModel: Children von inaktiven Warengruppen müssen in Navigationsleisten ignoriert werden
* [SMNET-202] - SmartTabSelection mit verschachtelten Tabs fehlerhaft nach Reload einer Seite

Improvement

* [SMNET-13] - Attributwerte: der Text "Aufpreis" muss um "Minderpreis" erweitert werden.
* [SMNET-15] - Umgestaltung der Darstellung der Staffelpreise (Popover ab dem fünften Element)
* [SMNET-30] - MessageTemplates teilweise auf Englisch
* [SMNET-31] - Die Bestellbestätigung enthält keine Widerrufsbelehrung.
* [SMNET-33] - Falsche Beschriftung bei MWST-Befeiung (incl. VAT (0%)) 
* [SMNET-39] - CSS-Klasse .category-description sollte etwas margin nach unten haben 
* [SMNET-40] - Beim Löschen von lokalisierte Ressourcen erscheint eine Englische Meldung
* [SMNET-43] - Bilder und der Langtext von Warengruppen werden beim Import nicht übernommen.
* [SMNET-47] - Fehlermeldung: Zeichenfolgen- oder Binärdaten würden abgeschnitten [...]
* [SMNET-48] - Legt man als nicht angemeldeter Kunde ein Produkt in den Warenkorb und geht anschl. in den Checkout, hat man kein Möglichkeit mehr, als Gast zu bestellen.
* [SMNET-49] - Varianten: Normalpreis > Variantpreis > Rabatt, u.U. inkonsistent und unlogisch
* [SMNET-56] - Der Hinweis „Preis auf Anfrage“ wird nicht auf der Produktdetailseite angezeigt.
* [SMNET-69] - Beschreibung für Parameter in den MessageTemplates
* [SMNET-138] - Währungsformatierung für EUR überdenken (Tausender-Trenner fehlt)
* [SMNET-139] - Feld 'Alias' in Attribut-Grid aufgenommen
* [SMNET-140] - ProductAttribute.Description beim Import sollte nicht mehr vom Varianttyp-Namen abgeleitet werden
* [SMNET-147] - ColorSquares Admin: kleines Farbquadrat im Admin-Grid links neben Beschriftung anzeigen
* [SMNET-151] - ColorSquares: Active-Zustand besser hervorheben (z.B. dunklerer border)
* [SMNET-153] - MiniBasket: "Zur Kasse" Button per Default aktivieren
* [SMNET-160] - Fehlermeldungen beim Anlegen eines Kunden sind nicht lokalisiert.
* [SMNET-180] - Leichten Border und Verlauf in Lieferzeit-Indikator eingebaut
* [SMNET-188] - Lokalisierung: IsDirty-Flag und Option "Nur neue anfügen"

New Feature

* [SMNET-14] - Brutto/Netto Preisanzeige über Kundengruppen steuerbar

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Release Notes

SmartStore.NET 3.2

New Features

Improvements

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SmartStore.NET 3.1.5

Highlights

New Features

Improvements

Bugfixes

SmartStore.NET 3.1.0

Highlights

Breaking changes

New Features

Improvements

Bugfixes

SmartStore.NET 3.0.3

Bugfixes

Improvements

New Features

SmartStore.NET 3.0.2

Breaking changes

New Features

Improvements

Bugfixes

SmartStore.NET 3.0.1

Improvements

Bugfixes

SmartStore.NET 3.0

Highlights

Breaking changes

Other New Features

Improvements

Bugfixes

SmartStore.NET 2.6

Highlights

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SmartStore.NET 2.5

Highlights

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Improvements

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SmartStore.NET 2.2.2

New Features

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SmartStore.NET 2.2.1

New Features

Improvements

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SmartStore.NET 2.2.0

New Features

Improvements

Bugfixes

SmartStore.NET 2.1.1

New Features

Improvements

Bugfixes

SmartStore.NET 2.1.0

New Features

Improvements

Bugfixes

SmartStore.NET 2.0.2

Bugfixes

Improvements

SmartStore.NET 2.0.1

New Features

Improvements

Bugfixes

SmartStore.NET 2.0.0

Highlights

New Features