nopCommerce. Release Notes

Highlight features

Significant performance optimization.
Allow store owners to create several shipments per order. Added a new shipping status: “Partially shipped”.
Pre-order support added. Enables your customers to place a Pre-Order and pay for the item in advance. Displays “Pre-order” button instead of “Buy Now” on the appropriate pages. Makes it possible for customer to buy available goods and Pre-Order items during one session. It can be managed on a product variant details page in admin area.
Enhanced shipment tracking. Now a customer can see a link to a shipment tracking page on his shipment details page (for example, http://wwwapps.ups.com/WebTracking/track?trackNums=1Z9999999 for UPS). He can also see a list of all shipment events (including status, location, country, date) on the shipment details page. This option (admin area > shipping settings > display shipment events) is disabled by default. Currently shipment tracking is implemented only for UPS now.
Google analytics script for e-commerce (a part of the “Google Analytics” widget). Would provide everyone with improved opportunities to analyze sales and drivers of sales.
“Upload field” product attribute control type.

Improvements

Added new sort options to catalog: “Name: A to Z”, “Name: Z to A”, “Price: Low to High”, “Price: High to Low”.
Allow store owner to add products to existing orders.
Admin area. Order list page. Display tax, profit and order total summary reports (footer template).
“Products never purchased” report added.
Admin area. Order details page. Display links to appropriate gift card pages if a customer purchased gift cards.
Allow a store owner to search customers by company, phone, and zip code (if enabled).
Updated mobile device database to the latest version (51degrees).
Payment method friendly name are localizable now. But currently you have to do it manually. Just add an appropriate locale resource in admin area in the following format – “Plugins.FriendlyName.{0}” where {0} is your plugin system name (for example, “Plugins.FriendlyName.Payments.PayPalStandard”).
Admin area. Bulk edit product variants. Manage stock quantity.
Advanced search page. Allow customers to search including sub categories.
Added a setting indicating whether a category details page should also include products from subcategories (“catalogsettings.showproductsfromsubcategories”).
Added support for scheduled generation of a Froogle/Google base data feed file. Now a file path of this file is static and can be given to Google.
Updated third party assemblies to the latest versions.
Allow store owner to export selected orders, products, and customers.
Add CAPTCHA to the “Login”, “Email product to a friend”, and “Email wishlist to a friend” pages.
Performance optimization. Added more SQL indexes.
Performance optimization. New [ProductLoadAllPaged] stored procedure (dynamic SQL).
Performance optimization. Filterable specification attributes are loaded much faster now (returned by the “SearchProducts” method of the “IProductService”).
Performance optimization. Cache picture models.
Performance optimization. Replaced old “CompressAttribute” with native <urlcompression> attribute in web.config. It also compresses static resources. Enabled static content caching in web.config. Important note: These options are supported by IIS 7 (and above).
HTML refactoring. Moved to HTML5 (<!DOCTYPE html>). Markup refactoring. Removed a lot of hard-coded CSS styles.
Admin area. Allow a store owner to filter product reviews by dates.
Added a “New order note” email customer notification (if an order note should be displayed to customer).
Allow a store owner to approve/disapprove multiple reviews on the “Product reviews” page (admin area).
Added a new “ordersettings.minimumorderplacementinterval” setting which prevents two orders being placed within an X seconds time frame.
FedEx plugin. Now a store owner can choose a packing type: “Pack By Dimensions” (the original one), “Pack By One Item Per Package”, and “Pack By Volume”.
FedEx plugin. Allow a store owner to select a preferred drop off type (“Business service center”, “Drop box”, “Regular pickup”, “Request courier”, “Station”).
Schedule task implementation enhancements. Added event logging in there just to see if a task works fine (store last start time, last end time, and last success time).
Do not allow store owner to delete the primary weight and the primary dimension.
Added “Display wishlist after adding product” setting (similar to existing “Display cart after adding product”).
Extended “Customer has all of these product variants in the cart” and “Customer has one of these product variants in the cart” discount requirement rules. Previously you could specify only the comma-separated list of product variant identifiers (e.g. 77, 123, 156). Now you can also specify the comma-separated list of product variant identifiers with quantities ({Product variant ID}:{Quantity}. for example, 77:1, 123:2, 156:3). And you can also specify the comma-separated list of product variant identifiers with quantity range ({Product variant ID}:{Min quantity}-{Max quantity}. for example, 77:1-3, 123:2-5, 156:3-8).
Renamed Froogle to Google Product Search.
The order confirmation page should not include a full exception stack if thrown.
Admin area. Campaigns. Message tokens were not converted in test messages (use an appropriate newsletter subscription object if a specified test email is found).
Admin area. Campaigns. Added support for %Customer.% tokens if an appropriate customer record is found with the specified email.
Developers. SearchProducts method of ProductService should not reference SqlParameter. Data access layer (Nop.Data project) should do it.
Developers. Allow developers to specify a resource location (header or footer) when adding a custom resources using HTML layout extensions (Html.AddScriptParts or Html.AddCssFileParts).
Developers. Moved IsDownloadAllowed and IsLicenseDownloadAllowed methods to IDownloadService from IOrderProcessingService.
Developers. BaseNopController classes should be abstract.
Developers. Added SuccessNotification and ErrorNotification methods to public store controllers (similar to admin area controllers).
Developers. Added a new NewInputForEachValue property to RemotePost class indicating whether we should create a new <input> HTML element for each value (in case if there are more than one) for the same “name” attributes. Also added a new AcceptCharset property to RemotePost class allowing you to set “accept-charset” attribute to the <form> tag.

Bugs

Important: critical XSS security issue fixed.
The solution could not be compiled when you had ASP.NET MVC 4 installed. Fixed by moving all ASP.NET MVC assemblies to \packages\aspnetmvc\ directory.
Localized all hard-coded locale string resources.
Fixed several locale resource typos.
Login credentials were always remembered (even if “Remember me” checkbox wasn't checked).
The specification attribute filtering issue fixed. The list did not restrict available options correctly. You could filter down the list of products down to zero products. For example, you could see 2 products on the list and 8 (mutually exclusive) specification attributes to choose from.
Filterable specification options were not properly sorted on a category details page.
Issue fixed. Gift cards didn't work with a “Single product variant” product template in case if a product identifier was different to a product variant identifier.
Category and manufacturer details pages. Price “From” did not consider tier prices and discounts (when you have two or more product variants).
Wrong currency rate could be stored when placing an order in some cases (when your exchange rate currency is set to one currency, your primary store currency is set to another one, and a customer uses the third one).
Featured products weren't displayed in the mobile version.
Javascript and CSS files referenced using our HTML extension method (LayoutExtensions class) could be added multiple times to the tag.
Typing wrong settings could break the site. Admin area > Configuration > Settings > All settings. If you type wrong setting value, then it could break the site. For example, if you type “tru1” instead of “true” for some Boolean setting.
“Continue shopping” button issue fixed. If you navigate to a product through search, the “Continue shopping” button should take you to the Search page.
Queued email should be sent in ascending order.
“Display cart after adding product” option worked only on the product details page. If you added a product from a catalog, it still redirected a customer to the shopping cart page.
If a customer belongs to more than one role the tier prices grid (public store) created confusion in the proposed prices (when we have tier prices for distinct roles with the same quantities).
Tier prices were displayed without applied discounts on the product details page (if available).
TinyMCE HTML editor did not work in IE7.
Removed a stylesheet example from TinyMCE configuration (non-existent stylesheet was causing a 404 error).
Admin area. Custom “Plugins” menu was hidden when “Hide admin menu items based on permissions” was disabled.
Private messages. Customer name should be clickable (if “customer profile page viewing” is enabled).
Private messages and forums. HTML encoding issues fixed.
Admin area. Clicking “Enter” (keyboard) should make a new search request on customer list page (admin area).
Admin area. Log and Queued emails pages. Only records selected (checked) on the current page were passed when “Delete selected” button was clicked.
A customer or a store owner could not open a list of existing return requests if an associated order product variant had been deleted.
Product details page. Entered textbox and datepicker values should be persisted after posting back (if wrong data has been entered).
“Cannot redirect after HTTP headers have been sent” issue fixed.
IE6 issue fixed. “My account” page was broken in IE6 when “back in stock subscriptions” link was visible (too long text).
Issue fixed when you have two or more shipping rate computation methods and one of them returns errors. nopCommerce should return valid options if there are any (no matter of the errors returned by other shipping rate computation methods). The behavior is controlled by the new “shippingsettings.returnvalidoptionsifthereareany” setting.
Exporting orders to Excel. “Vat” column had the data for “CreatedOnUtc”, “CreatedOnUtc” had the value for “Billing First Name”. Everything was shifted.
USPS plugin. Wrong primary dimension could be loaded.
USPS plugin. Rates were incorrect when you had multiple packages.
FedEx plugin. The plugin did not properly handle currency conversion when the store primary currency was not the same as the origin country's currency. Also, when neither the shipping origin’s currency nor the destinations currency is the same as the store primary currency, FedEx would complain that “There are no valid services available. (code: 556)”. But the new solution might be considered a bit of a hack - it only supports the scenario for US / Canada shipping, because nopCommerce does not have a concept of a designated currency for a country.
Uploading files (for downloadable products) should not require a user to be an administrator. It should require “Access admin area” permission.
Minor issue fixed. When a customer was not logged-in and clicked on the Checkout button, he was redirected to the login page without returnUrl parameter specified. And he was redirected to the home page after logging in.
Minor caching issue fixed in SpecificationAttributeService.
Developers. AdjustShippingRate method of OrderTotalCalculationService. IsFreeShipping method was called twice without any real need.
Developers. WebHelper.GetStoreLocation method did not work when HttpContext wasn't available (for example, when accessing from a schedule task).
Developers. WebHelper.IsStaticResource method should return “true” for HTML and HTM pages.

Highlight features

Mobile device support (disabled by default).
MailChimp plugin (email marketing tool).

Improvements

Performance optimization.
Source code and HTML markup refactoring.
More unit tests added.
Updated third party assemblies to the latest versions.
Use TinyMCE (3.4.7) as HTML editor instead of the Telerik one.
Allow store owners to manage friendly name and display order of plugins (previously he had to manually edit Description.txt file).
'Display cart after adding product' setting.
Display visual hints (*) for the required fields on registration page.
Added CAPTCHA to the contact us page.
Allow store owner to specify page title SEO adjustment. For example, generated page title could be (PAGE NAME | STORENAME.COM) instead of (STORENAME.COM | PAGE NAME).
New forum post notification. Jump to last page from email.
Bypass 'select payment method' page if we have only one payment method (multistep checkout).
CSRF. Added AntiForgeryToken to the most important pages.
ACL. Added a new 'UploadPictures' permission.
ACL. Added a new 'Allow Customer Impersonation' permission.
Allow store owner to change the default view mode ("grid" or "list"). Just update 'catalogsettings.defaultviewmode' setting.
Admin area. Show order identifier on customer details page ('Orders' tab).
FedEx. Added 'Pass dimensions' option indicating whether package dimensions should be passed when requesting shipping rates.
Simplified [ProductLoadAllPaged] stored procedure.
Public store. Updated jQuery scripts to the latest version (but admin area still uses older scripts because the Telerik MVC Extensions doesn't work with jQuery 1.7.1).
Facebook and OpenID external authentication providers. Request and use the first and the last name (if 'autoregister' option is enabled).
Added a 'Keep alive' schedule task.
Insert an address during customer registration if possible (as per version 1.90).
Set the default rating of product review to 5 (it can be also configured by a store owner - 'catalogsettings.defaultproductratingvalue' setting).
Added a configuration page for Web Services plugin. But actually configuration is not required (just some description).
Add new return request tokens in message templates ('ReturnRequest.StaffNotes' and 'ReturnRequest.Status').
Order message templates now recognize customer tokens.
Allow setting picture size in the view. This update allow designer to set image size like this @Html.Action("ProductsAlsoPurchased", "Catalog", new { productId = Model.Id, productThumbPictureSize = 100 })
Added an option indicating whether products on category and manufacturer pages should include featured products as well (just set 'catalogsettings.includefeaturedproductsinnormallists' setting to 'true').
Admin area > System > Warnings. Ensure that the ratios of the primary exchnage currency and primary weight/dimension are set to 1.
Allow developers to add custom scripts or CSS files to admin area (@Html.AddScriptParts and @Html.AddCssFileParts support added).
Updated AddThis.com share button code.
Deleted obsolete settings (catalogsettings.hidepricesfornonregistered and shoppingcartsettings.wishlistenabled). They were not deleted during upgrade to 2.30.
Added a new setting for product thumbnail image size displayed on product details page.
Display month names instead of showing numeric 1..12 in the month dropdownlist (datepicker) for 'Register' and 'Customer info' pages.
Added 'Nop.Web.Framework.UI' namespace to theme Web.config files (\Themes\{Themes}\Views\Web.config).
Fixed all compilation warnings.
Froogle plugin. Use product variant picture if available instead of product picture.
Use WYSIWUG editor on campaign and message template pages (admin area).
Do not require write permission for the root directory (some hosting companies do not allow it).
Renamed 'AllowProductFiltering' to 'AllowProductSorting' (CategoryModel, ManufacturerModel, and ProductsByTagModel classes).
Deleted jquery.blockUI.js (anyway it wasn't used).
Deleted jquery.superfishmenu.js (anyway it wasn't used).
Deleted some unused files.
'LoadActivePaymentMethods' method of 'IPaymentService' now accepts a customer as a parameter. That way it would be really easy to extend what payment methods are available for each user.
More clean Telerik CSS and JS registration (_AdminLayout.cshtml file).
Admin area. Do not throw exceptions if some entity is not found (just redirect a store owner to an appropriate list page).
Made the following classes partial: SystemCustomerAttributeNames, SystemCustomerNames, SystemCustomerRoleNames.
'Free shipping over X' option. Added a new setting (Calculate 'X' including tax). It indicates whether 'Free shipping over X' option should be evaluated over 'X' value including tax or not.
Admin area dashboard > nopCommerce news. Set request timeout to 5 seconds.
Added two new events ('Order placed' and 'Order paid').
Renamed 'EmailSubscribed' class to 'EmailSubscribedEvent'. Renamed 'EmailUnsubscribed' class to 'EmailUnubscribedEvent'.
Made PrepareModel methods in the Nop.Web Controller classes callable (protected) from third party extensions.

Bugs

Medium trust issue fixed. Plugin DLLs were locked in medium trust periodically (now we just don't copy them each time the application is started). Note: If you're running nopCommerce in medium trust, then it's recommended to clear your \Plugins\bin\ directory after a new plugin installation or deployment.
One page checkout issue fixed when order total is 0.
Fixed Description.txt, Settings.txt, InstalledPlugins.txt parsing issue in some cases after uploading them in ASCII mode (FTP).
Customer could not place order or use external authentication providers if ASP.NET session mode was set to "SQLServer" or "Custom".
Entered product info (gift cart recipient name, email, product attributes) should be persisted after posting back (if wrong data has been entered).
Localized all hard-coded locale string resources.
Fixed some locale string resources.
Wishlist items should not be deleted after placing an order.
“Copy product” option didn’t work after setting picture store location to file system.
Information about used payment method was not included in the PDF invoice.
Recurring payments could not be processed (after an initial order has been placed).
PayPal Standard issue fixed when 'Pass product names and order totals to PayPal' option was enabled.
Return descriptive errors to Telerik grid when making AJAX updates (instead of “server returned error”).
Admin area. Added validation for NewsLetterSubscription model.
VAT issue fixed. Checking VAT number should do ToUpper() before calling VAT service.
Inject static cache manager using constructor into CatalogController and TopicController (previously it was hard-coded).
Cross-sell products (shopping cart page). At least one product variant of displayed products should be available.
One-page checkout. Skip 'select payment method' and 'payment info' pages if it isn't required.
PDF invoice generated in admin area did not use the correct currency when 'Display all applied tax rates' was enabled and customer used non primary store currency.
'PrintOrdersToPdf' method of 'PdfService' and 'ProductListToHtmlTable' of 'MessageTokenProvider' should use passed 'language' parameter when formatting prices.
The shopping cart and wishlist pages. If a customer enters wrong quantity and press the 'Update' button, an item should not be removed from the cart.
Tax and 'Free shipping over X' issue fixed. Tax could become negative in some cases.
A lot of other 'Free shipping over X' issues fixed.
Clicking the "view order" link on the "Gift card edit" page referred to a wrong order page.
'Dynamic price update' issue fixed. It didn't work with cultures that use a comma to display cents.
Minor issue fixed in 'Authorize' method of 'PermissionService' ('customer' parameter wasn't used).
Unpublished entities (products, product variants) were not exported (XML, Excel).
Updated exchange rate feed URL for Nop.Plugin.ExchangeRate.McExchange.
'AllowBackInStockSubscriptions' property wasn't imported/exported (Excel).
Deleting orders should adjust inventory.
Checkout and reward points issue fixed. When the user chooses to use rewards on the checkout process when the rewards points are greater than the cart total and then returns back to shipping to go through the steps again, the payment step is skipped. Clicking on the payment step will now redirect to confirm with no way to get back to it except to login/logout.
'Plugins' menu item couldn’t be hidden using ACL (when 'Hide admin menu items based on permissions' setting was enabled).
Admin area > Customer Settings. Hide 'State/province' form field if 'Country' form field is disabled.
A language or currency could not be deleted if it had an associated customer record.
Newsletter minor issue fixed (working currency identifer was used instead of working language).
Export orders to Excel should contain address info.
Excel export issue fixed. Newline character was returned as _x00D_ (just updated EPPlus.dll assembly to the latest version).
USPS shipping plugin 'overwrites' ZipPostalCodeFrom without checking if already set.
USPS shipping plugin excluded free shipping items when calculating declared value International rates.
'Shipping by weight' plugin. Added the 'Calculate per weight unit' setting on the configuration page.
Customer emails with order details should contain 'Download' link (if we have downloadable products).
SeName wasn't used in Export/Import to Excel.
'FullSizeImageUrl' property for some entities wasn’t set in CatalogController.
Telerik issue fixed. If you have a manufacturer or a category with quotes, then editing of products stops working because of teleric doesn't understand such name.
SMS providers (Clickatell and Verizon) missed closing tag.
Locale resources weren't deleted during plugin uninstallation.
Deployment file (Deploy.bat) should create \Plugins\bin directory.

Highlight features

Performance optimization.
Back in stock notifications.
Product special price support (price will be valid between specified start and end dates).
Catalog mode (based on customer role). Added the following ACL permissions: ‘Display price’, ‘Enable shopping cart’, ‘Enable wishlist’.

Improvements

Performance optimization. Presentation layer model caching.
Performance optimization. Cache localizable values between requests (when you have more than one language).
Country and state localization.
Shipping method localization.
Currency localization.
Added a new GTIN property (Global Trade Item Number) to product variant. GTIN can include UPC (in North America), EAN (in Europe), JAN (in Japan), and ISBN (for books).
Added 'Allow customer to select page size on category/manufacturer/product tags pages'.
Plugins page (admin area). Added a link to a plugin configuration page (if available). Any specific plugin can have a configuration page now (it should implement 'IMiscPlugin' interface).
Allow store owner to manage SSL settings in admin area.
Display selected shipping method during checkout.
Bulk edit. Allow store owner to search product variants by name, category, and manufacturer.
Forums performance optimization.
Forums presentation models don't depend on entities anymore (they can be cached now).
SEO improvements. Set page title (HTML) for blog and news records.
Added username availability check in the registration form and 'My Account' page (when 'Allow customers to change their usernames' is enabled).
Added PDF setting to enable Letter page size for PDFs.
Added 'Allow an admin to view the closed store' (as per 1.90). Check to allow a user with admin access to view the store while it is set to closed.
Allow searching customers by date of birth (as per 1.90).
Schedule tasks are stored into database now.
Minor address format changes in PDF.
Shopping cart page. Use more user-friendly fancybox for showing terms and conditions pop-up window.
Added 'CommonSettings.EnableHttpCompression' setting (used to enabled/disable compression).
UPS shipping rate computation method. Added 'Insure package' option (if any item's price will exceed a certain value, extra charges will be added).
Better formatting for customer entered prices on product details page.
Ensure that any consumers of the repositories (IRepository) will only call DbContent.Set when they actually require data.
Added 'Clear cache' background task (as per 1.90). Disabled by default.
Updated Autofac to the latest version (2.5.2.830).
Ignore "favicon.ico" route.
Added a setting indicating whether order totals should be displayed on 'Payment info' tab of 'One-page checkout' page Because total cost of order is not calculated until checkout the user does not know the total when they click the "Continue" button after entering card details. Many customers will be nervous of clicking continue when they can't see the total of the order. Set 'ordersettings.onepagecheckoutdisplayordertotalsonpaymentinfotab' setting to 'true' in order to enable this option (disabled by default).
Allow store owner to specify minimum password length (6 by default). Just update ‘CustomerSettings. PasswordMinLength’ setting.
Display discount coupon code on shopping cart page. Customers should be able to see what discount coupon code was entered (for discounts with coupon code).
Added EnableIpn setting in PayPal Standard.
Moved ‘HideAdminMenuItemsBasedOnPermissions’ setting on UI.
Added a new setting ('customersettings.storelastvisitedpage') indicating we should store last visited page URL (disable to increase performance if you don't need it).
Plugins should install their locale resources in appropriate 'Install' method (previously plugin resources were stored into /App_Data/defaultResources.plugins.nopres.xml file).
Inject dependencies like HttpContextBase (instead of HttpContext.Current).
Removed 'IAutoStart' interface and 'AutofacContrib' library because they were not used (we already have IStartupTask interface).

Bugs

Weird characters instead of descriptive error text issue fixed.
Plugin issue fixed. The controller for path '/Admin/{0}/{1}' was not found or does not implement IController.
Facebook authentication issue fixed (with 'Auto register' option enabled).
Generated PDF files did not support non-English characters.
NopObjectContext.ExecuteStoredProcedureList() threw "An object with the same key already exists in the ObjectStateManager" exception when attaching an already attached entity.
IE 8 fails to load onepagecheckout.js script due to supplemental comma in lines.
Cached model validators didn't display messages in correct language (when you had two or more languages).
Category details page. Subcategory links and image titles used parent (or top-level) category name.
Category navigation block. Highlight category item according to currently viewed product (as per 1.90).
Forums didn't work in medium trust.
RTL (right-to-left) theme CSS issues fixed.
Message tokens used in email subjects should not be HTML encoded, subjects are sent as clear text.
Typo fixed renamed 'OpenAuthenticationStatus.RequresRedirect' to 'OpenAuthenticationStatus.RequiresRedirect'.
PDF Invoice issue fixed. Incorrect tax label was displayed when 'Display all applied tax rates' setting was enabled.
Removed all non-standard view locations (e.g. "~/Views/{not-current-controller}/PartialView.cshtml") so they can be overridden in themes.
Minor tier price calculation refactoring.
'Fixed Rate' shipping module issue fixed. Decimal rates could not be saved in some cultures
Text should not be decoded when editing forum posts.
The text boxes should be cleared after news/blog comment has been posted.
Admin dashboard. 'Incomplete orders' report should ignore cancelled orders.
Removed duplicated <form> tag for some plugin configuration pages (admin area).
Added some hard-coded locale string resources.
Added some missing locale string resources.
Insert shopping cart item event issue fixed (inside the HandleEvent eventMessage.Entity was null).
'Add to cart' button is disabled when 'Low stock activity' is set to 'Disable buy button'. The same should be done for 'wishlist' button.
This text (on the billing address selection screen) should be "Bill to this address".
Customer records couldn't be deleted when they had associated log records.
Fixed Telerik grid formatting issue on newsletter subscribers page in IE 8.
Customer info page. Save forum signature when both forums and signature are enabled.
'Shipping by weight' and 'Tax by country state zip' had issues in IE.
Product details page issue fixed. Javascript alert messages with warnings should not be encoded.
IBlogService.GetAllBlogPosts should return IPagedList (not PagedList).

Highlight features

Significant performance optimization.
One page checkout.
'Web service' plugin (Web Services API).
RTL (right-to-left) support.
Added category and manufacturer templates.
Allow store owner to manage address fields on 'Register' and 'My account' page.
Added a generic event system.

Improvements

Updated jQuery to 1.5.1.
Allow customers to complete a payment after order is placed but not completed (for redirection payment methods).
PDF now works in medium trust.
Installation wizard. Added an option to create database if it doesn't exist.
Products can require that other products are added to the cart (Product X requires Product Y).
SEO optimization. Filenames of uploaded images are SEO friendly now
Canonical URL support added (disabled by default).
Product searching. Support searching of the localized values.
More advanced product import/export support. Added category/manufacture mappings and images (up to 3 images).
Added a setting to hide admin menu items if the access control list limits access to certain functionalities. Just set 'SecuritySettings.HideAdminMenuItemsBasedOnPermissions' setting to 'true'.
Added 'Store closed' option.
Rich editor. Added image browser.
Added a setting to display home page products with prices. Setting name is 'catalogsettings.usesmallproductboxonhomepage'.
Performance optimization. Use a stored procedure for loading products.
Performance optimization. Minified CSS files.
Performance optimization. Compress dynamic requests (if supported).
Performance optimization. It allows you to enable static file caching and compression for IIS 6 in web.config file (commented by default). Compressing could reduce their transfer size by about 400Kb (70% reduction).
Performance optimization. Added the following settings: ignore tier prices (sitewide), ignore discounts (site-wide), and ignore featured products (site-wide). Tick them in order if you don't use these options on your site.
Performance optimization. Don't use slow 'SearchProducts' method for loading related products on product details page.
Performance optimization. 'GetSpecificationAttributeOptionFilter' implementation is quite slow. So let's ensure that we have at least one filterable product specification attribute mapping before using it. It's useful when you DO NOT have filterable specification attributes. Just set 'CatalogSettings.EnsureWeHaveFilterableSpecAttributes' setting to 'true'.
Performance optimization. Placing order took several minutes using big databases.
CSS changes. Removed some hard-coded styles.
CSS changes. Added a print.css stylesheet file (used for printing order details).
Uploaded browserCaps.config file to prevent adding of guest records for each request made by search engine
Log error details when generating a promotion feed.
Allow store owner to view current wishlists (similar implementation as sales > current shopping carts)
Added a setting to allow Unicode chars in URLs (SeoSetting.AllowUnicodeCharsInUrls).
Fixed all compilation warnings.
Admin area. Added 'Restart application' button.
Moved the 'products by tag' page size into the catalog settings instead of hard coding it.
Show product images in admin area. Set 'AdminAreaSettings.DisplayProductPictures' to 'false' in order to disable it.
Localized some hard-coded resources.
New product templates implementation. Allow developers to set layout in templates.
Allow the store owner to set a certain number of days that the Return Request Link will be available in the Customer "My Account" area (365 days by default).
Allow store owner to reset the download count for a specific downloadable order product variant. It can be useful when a download has failed multiple times.
PayPal Standard. Allow store owner to specify IPN address (override the default one specified in PayPal control panel). It's useful when you have more than one store using same PayPal account.
Allow store owner to deleted selected log records (Admin area > System > Log).
Added 'Show a share button' settings in Configuration.
Optimized the order of styles and scripts. Correctly ordering external style sheets and external and inline scripts enables better parallelization of downloads and speeds up browser rendering time.
Load '/Scripts/slimbox2.js' file on product details page only.
Reduced the size of Facebook and Twitter images.
Admin area. Customers page. Made an 'Email' column clickable because the customer list does not have an 'Edit' column in the grid on some machines.
Validation. Ensure that currency exchange rate is greater than 0.
Set period of 'DeleteGuestsTask' to 10 minutes.
Added several new unit tests.
Store relative database file path in Settings.txt when using SQL Compact.
Added several new SQL CE database initializers.
Register the MemoryCacheManager implementation of ICacheManager as a SingleInstance (DependencyRegistrar).
PluginManager class refactoring.
Added one more value to 'PaymentMethodType' enum. It's 'Redirection'. Use it when a customer is redirected to a third-party site in order to complete the payment.
Allow developers to use admin views from within a plugin.
Allow overriding of Layout (master page) in themes.
BaseNopController (public store) refactoring.
Added RemotePost helper class (can be used by redirection payment methods).

Bugs

Deploy.bat file issue fixed (configuration wasn't set).
Tier price issue fixed. When there is just one tier (with min qty 1), the "buy more and save" table shouldn't be shown up. Since it only has one tier, with the price for unit 1+, there are no actual savings in the list.
Admin area grid issue fixed. Current page number is not reset when doing search.
Tax calculation issue fixed for customer roles with 'Tax exempt' flag. Ensure that a role is active.
Fixed 'LocalizedRoute' issue when running a site on an aliased domain.
Password recovery html issue fixed. Removed an extra div's closing tag.
Fixed 'Password recovery' and 'Account activation' email routes (didn’t work on some machines)
Customers were logged out after changing email or username (the authentication cookie wasn't updated)
Product tag issue fixed (unpublished products should not be considered).
Issue fixed. 'Address 1' field should be required.
Forum signature fields should not be visible when forums are disabled.
Product search issue fixed. Sorting took the first category/manufacturer found for OrderBy, whereas it should take the currently selected category/manufacturer for OrderBy.
Fixed 'Copy product' issue when you have attribute combinations.
Issue fixed. Don't load deleted product variants in PdfService.PrintProductsToPdf and ProductService.AdjustInventory methods.
Ensure that only registered customers can login.
"The requested service Nop.Data.IEfDataProvider has not been registered" issue fixed.
Reward points minor issue fixed (cancelling not completed order).
Vat number validation issue fixed. Call to check vat using the EU-vat service will fail if the country code isn't followed by a whitespace.
Russian ruble currency code should be RUB (RUR is outdated).
Added missed 'Manage Plugins' permission record.
You couldn't delete an email account with associated queued emails.
'languageId' parameter passed to 'ProductListToHtmlTable()' method wasn't used when getting localized product name.
CSS. ‘Remove discount’ button was not displaying image in IE8
Search Page. Updated search page to not search or displaying search term min length warning message on /search page load, added message for searches with no results (restores 1.90 functionality)
Issue fixed. Advanced Search - blank search term - no error, but does not search.
Trailing space in setting or localization name should be trimmed.
Admin area. It was possible to leave 'Password' field blank when creating a customer.
App_Data/GeoIP.dat file wasn't copied after solution deployment.
Euro currency character issue fixed (didn’t work on some machines)
Updated Australia post shipping rate computation method to use 'GET' instead of 'POST' (HTTP method).
Delete address issue fixed (admin area).

Highlight features

CMS plugins support (widgets)
OpenID, Facebook and Twitter authentication support
Added support for multilingual SEO URLs. Now you can have URLs such as 'http://www.yourStore.com/en/' or 'http://www.yourStore.com/ru/' for distinct languages (this option is disabled by default)
Performance optimization (added SQL Server indexes, "gradual" approach to load locale resources)
Added product templates

Improvements

Now plugins can add their own custom scripts and CSS files
Discount and gift card boxes should display a message after entering a coupon code
Encrypt password which is entered during installation
Don't allow entering of the product review text when it's not allowed (e.g., not registered)
Added MiniProfiler (disabled by default)
DatePicker dropdownlist is localizable now
Separated 'Disable add to cart' and 'Disable add to wishlist' options for product variants
Added a new setting (ShoppingCartSettings.RoundPricesDuringCalculation) setting which indicates whether calculated prices and totals should be rounded

Bugs

Removed 'Show on home page' option on manufacturers details page (it shouldn't be there)
Manage Countries and States missing in ACL list
Minor StrikeIron tax provider caching issue fixed
File permission validation issue fixed (during installation)
The variant name should be within the brackets and spaced from the product name (admin area > low stock report)
There was a typo in the label tag for the unsubscribe radio button that prevents the automatic selection.
Authentication (remember me) issue fixed
Store Name did not change footer
Return reasons/actions were inverted
Switching language returned the store to the main page when "Use images for language selection" option was enabled
Fixed 'view HTML source' issue in RichEditor with multiple languages
Fixed Froogle (Google Product Base) issues. Prepared it for the important changes to Google Product Search feed specification & policies (starting on September 22, 2011).
Low stock report shouldn't include “product attribute combinations”
NopResourceDisplayName caching issue fixed (when you have multiple languages)
Fixed product review page issue in Mozilla Firefox 6.0
Customer email confirmation issue fixed (when usernames are enabled)
'Download file' tooltip has wrong text on product variant page
Store owner should not be able to disable system customer roles (such as 'Registered)
Manufacturer thumbnail size (media settings) was not used
'No addresses' text was hard-coded (should be localizable)

Some notes

You should reconfigure 'Live Person' chat and 'Google Analytics' if you used them before. Now they‟re implemented as widgets
Added 'Supported nopCommerce versions' property to plugins. Now you should specify it in 'Description.txt file.
Before using the updated „Froogle‟ plugin you have to reinstall it (uninstall and then install it on the plugin list page in admin area)

nopCommerce 2.00 was rewritten from scratch. Our development efforts were focused on moving nopCommerce to ASP.NET MVC 3.0, architecture improvements, further enhancements and fixing bugs. We also decided not to ship nopCommerce with all that payment modules that were included in the previous versions (about 35 modules). Only some of them are available out of the box. All other payment modules will be available as plugins.

Highlight features

Architecture improvements
Moved to ASP.NET MVC 3.0 (Razor syntax)
Really pluggable architecture (just drop a plugin to the /plugins folder in your nopCommerce directory)
SQL Server Compact support
Code-First Development with Entity Framework 4 (data access)
More flexible ACL implementation
More user-friendly admin area
Added unit tests

Improvements

Performance optimization
reCAPTCHA integration
New tier prices implementation (now can be configured based on customer roles)
Several discount requirements can be configured per discount
Allow store owner to create a new purchased gift card without placing an order
Some of existing discount requirements didn’t work for guests
Search for customers by name in administration
Merged product reviews and ratings options.
Email wishlist to a friend
Admin area. Show operation status after it's completed (Save, Delete buttons)
New installation wizard (The orchard project contribution)
Simplified register page. Removed a lot of fields that were not used at all.
Fill the "EstimateShipping" module on load with the country/region/zipcode of the current customer
Allow store owner to manage the number of product tags that appear in the tag cloud
Removed warehouses and pricelists features because they were useless
A lot of refactoring and other improvements

Bugs

Tax rounding issue fixed
Some shipping issues fixed
Download catalog as PDF. Currency values had 4 decimal places
Select payment/shipping method radio button text was not clickable
Hide prices for non-registered customers didn’t work on tier prices
Renamed PayPal PTI to PDT
MS Excel importing issue fixed
A lot of other bugs fixes

Highlight features

Architecture improvements
Improved existing themes (usage of three-column master page & increased page width)
Allow store owner to manage category access by customer role (a store owner can deny access to any customer role)

Improvements

Performance optimization
New discount type - 'Applied to order subtotal' (discount applied before tax)
New discount requirement - 'Customer must be registered'
New discount requirement - 'Customer has all of these product variants in the cart'
New discount requirement - 'Customer has one of these product variants in the cart'
More user-friendly admin area. Added "Save and Continue Edit" buttons. When editing an item, "Save" returns to continue editing which is great at times. A "Save and return to list" would save the edits and return to the list in one click, rather than 2 clicks.
More user-friendly shopping cart page
Improved one-page checkout to work without postbacks
Canonical URL support for products, categories, and manufacturers (used to eliminate loss of search engine page rank due to duplicate content penalties for multiple URLs linking to same page content)
Allow store owner to change 'Pictures are stored into database / file system' option in production environment
Negative price adjustment support for product variant attributes
Allow customers to email their wish lists (configurable)
Minimum order sub-total support
Email a store owner when a customer makes a return request
Email a customer after return request state change
Allow customers to remove applied discounts with coupon code (shopping cart page)
USPS Selectable Rates (Services). USPS carrier services selectable in admin area
UPS Selectable Rates (Services). UPS carrier services selectable in admin area
FedEx Improvements: FedEx carrier services selectable in admin area, additional fee added to each rate (optional), option to use discount or list rates, text names for services (e.g. "FedEx Priority Overnight" instead of "PRIORITY OVERNIGHT")
Improved 'Fixed Rate Shipping' shipping rate computation method. Allow store owner to specify rate for each shipping method (NOTE: This method should be reconfigured if it was used)
SEO friendly URLs for product tags
SEO friendly page title of product tag page
SEO changes (use <h1> tag on product details page)
Allow store owner to select a Google Analytics script placement (before </head> or </body> tag)
Allow store owner to view product variants on products page (admin area > products)
Admin Area. Added a 'Warnings' page
Allow store owner to view 'System information' in admin area
Forums. Relative date format support (option to display 'Today, Yesterday, 1 month ago...')
Allow store owner to filter system log by date range, message or log type
Allow store owners to view the store while it is set to closed
Option to select time zone during registration ('Time zone' form field)
Option to display page execution time at the bottom of all pages in public store
Allow store owner to manage maximum number of items allowed in cart/wish list
Option to show the number of products besides each category (configurable)
Option to display manufacturer part number (disabled by default)
Option to vote on polls for anonymous users (configurable)
PM (private messages) email notifications (configurable)
Allow customers to change their username (configurable)
'Search Products' page. Allow store owner to set product page size
'New customer registered' store owner e-mail notification (configurable - disabled by default)
Allow store owner to choose whether he wants to export all or only active (confirmed) newsletter subscriptions
When clicking 'Use same as shipping address' button (checkout process) automatically select the address for the user and move to next step. Rather than copying values then having to click 'Next' button.
Admin area. Advanced search of locale string resources
'Online customers' module. Display total number of registered customers and total number of visitors
'Online Customers' module. Store maximum number of visitors
Allow customers to select a store theme (configurable - disabled by default)
Improved PDF packaging slips
Display tooltip that EU VAT numbers should be entered without country code
Improved 'New VAT submitted' message template (include the status of VAT number and name and address of registrant - very useful info when checking validity)
Modified 'Products in Lines 2' category template to support price and specification filters
Allow store owners to download backups
When a customer registers during checkout, after completing registration they should be redirected back to shopping cart page
Skip 'select payment method' checkout step if order total equals zero
If customers were using reward points and they had more reward point value than the total order value, they were still required to select a payment method
PayPal Standard. Validate order total in PaypalPDTHandler.aspx
Allow store owner to delete old PDF and excel files (Admin area > System > Maintenance)
Added advanced search hyperlink to the main forum page
Render order notes in PDF order invoices (disabled by default)
Promotion providers. Added input box for product thumbnail size
Promotion providers. Allow store owner to generate product feeds in distinct currencies
Display entity name during its editing (product/category/manufacturer/customer details pages)
Web.config file. Set ValidateRequest to "false"
Shipping settings (admin area). Hide 'Value of X' field in case 'Free shipping over X' is unchecked
Added a hyperlink to 'Forgot password' page to administration login page
Standardized use of color definitions in style sheets to hexadecimal
CSS. Removed several hard-coded styles
Show 'Password successfully changed' message after changing password in admin area
Preselect a shipping method and payment method during checkout
'Impersonate customer' functionality. 'Finish session' link should take administrator back to the 'administration' page a store owner started from
Localized 'DuplicateEmailErrorMessage' and 'DuplicateUserNameErrorMessage' properties of CustomerRegister control
Admin area. Bigger input box for setting & localization values
Ensure that reward points are applied only to registered user
Display customer email on 'customer reports' page (admin area)
Developers. Source code refactoring
Developers. Usage of IoC/DI pattern
Developers. Pass entities as parameters to manager methods
Developers. Use T4 for generating NopObjectContext
Developers. Naming changes (Manager -> Service)
Developers. Moved all promotion provider libraries to the new 'PromotionProviders' folder
Developers. Removed a lot of stored procedures
Developers. Added OrderPaid event to EventContext class
Developers. Merged CreditCardTypeManager, PaymentStatusManager, PaymentMethodManager and PaymentManager classes
Developers. Merged ShippingMethodManager, ShippingRateComputationMethodManager, ShippingStatusManager and ShippingManager
Developers. Merged LocalizationManager and LocaleStringResourceManager classes
Developers. Renamed IpBlacklistManager to BlacklistManager
Developers. The following tables were deleted: Nop_DiscountLimitation, Nop_DiscountRequirement, Nop_DiscountType, Nop_LogType, Nop_LowStockActivity, Nop_OrderStatus, Nop_PaymentStatus, Nop_ShippingStatus, Nop_ShoppingCartType
Developers. Better control over 'Online Customers' module (you can decide which page should or should not be tracked)
Developers. Renamed Picture.Extension property to MimeType
Developers. Removed Nop.HttpModules.BlacklistModule and Nop.HttpModules.MembershipModule assemblies
Developers. Removed BaseNopNestedMasterPage class
Developers. Added BaseNopFrontendMasterPage base class for public store master pages
Developers. Added BaseNopFrontendPage base class for public store pages
Developers. Added BaseNopFrontendUserControl base class for public store user controls

Bugs

Medium trust issue fixed (use FCKEditor instead of HTMLEditor)
Added ‘MultipleActiveResultSets=True’ to connection string
PNG/GIF transparency issue fixed
Deleting product variant attribute issue fixed
One-page checkout and PayPal Express issue fixed
Turned off case sensitivity for discount coupon codes
EURO currency format issue fixed
Sitemap issue fixed. 'changefreq' property should be lowercase (SiteMapSEO.aspx)
Credit card number and trailing spaces issue fixed
Free shipping issue fixed. If one product that has free shipping and one product that doesn't require shipping are placed in the basket, a shipping fee is applied here but shouldn't be
Added missed 'ManageEmailSettings' customer action (ACL)
Category details page. Filtering products by specification attributes with international names issue fixed (Internet Explorer)
Shared SSL issue fixed ('SharedSSL' app setting renamed to 'SharedSSLUrl'; new 'NonSharedSSLUrl' app setting)
Anonymous checkout discount issue fixed
Minor dynamic price update issue fixed
'Customer enters prices' products in distinct currencies minor issue fixed
Admin area. Editing guest minor issue fixed
Pictures stored on file system minor issue fixed. When you click 'delete' for a product image it does not delete the original image
Fixed bug in BBEditor "quote" button functionality (in case we have [code] tag inside [quote] tag)
Autocomplete issue fixed for FF and Chrome browsers (replaced AutoCompleteType='Disabled' with autocomplete='off')
Continue shipping rate computation on error with multiple providers
SagePay payment method issue fixed
Svea (hosted) payment gateway issue fixed. 'Success' parameter was not validated on return page
PayPal Standard issue fixed when 'Pass product names and order totals to PayPal' option is enabled (shipping fee is missing)
Tier pricing/Customer role and product variant discounts issue fixed
'Online customers' module. Last URL query string parameters were not stored
Mini shopping cart + 'shopping cart' link displayed incorrect product quantity when there is more than one of an individual product in the cart
Currency issue fixed when 'Display all applied tax rates' option was enabled
'Allow anonymous users to write product reviews' and 'Allow anonymous users to set product ratings' issue fixed
One-page checkout minor issue fixed
Admin area ('affiliates' and ' topics). Generating a link issue fixed
LogTypeEnum.Unknown issue fixed
Admin area > DashBoard. DateTime (timezone) issue fixed
Password protected topics issue fixed when they are used as nested topics (Topic.ascx control)
Wrong order date in customer emails issue fixed
Exporting orders to excel minor issue fixed
Cancelling recurring payments minor issue fixed
CSS minor issue fixed (Customer profile > User latest posts)
Maximum length of customer email/username was increased to 100
Added static lock object to SEOHelper.InitializeSeoCharacterTable method

Highlight features

Phone order support (allow store owner to place an order via admin panel)
RMA (return management). Customers can submit return requests from your store
Display all applied tax rates (e.g. 7%, 15%) on shopping cart and order details pages (configurable - disabled by default)
The European Union Value Added Tax (EU VAT) support (Company VAT Number)
Partial refund support
Multiple email accounts (senders) support
Backorder support
Cross-sells support
'Customers Online' module
Use ASP.NET Chart control for reports
New discount requirement - 'Billing country is...'
New discount requirement - 'Shipping country is...'
New discount requirement - 'Applies if customer has previously spent x.xx amount'
New discount limitation - 'N Times Only'
New discount limitation - 'N Times Per Customer'
CCAvenue (India) payment method
Physical gift card support (customer is not asked for sender/recipient emails)

Improvements

Performance optimization
Source code refactoring
Added an 'Estimate shipping' option on shopping cart page (can be disabled)
Allow store owner to view all existing shopping carts on a single page
Allow store owner to manage newsletter subscription list
Allow store owner to import subscriber list from CSV (tab-delimited) file (Line format: email_address \t is_active (e.g. test@test.com \t true))
Allow store owner to find customers by date of birth (ability to offer birthday gifts to customers)
Allow store owner to find orders by GUID (or part of GUID)
'Call for price' option
Enhanced 'Fixed rate' tax provider. Now a store owner can configure fixed rate per tax category (should be reconfigured if this provider was active)
Allow store owner to limit shipping methods to configured ones (applied to 'Shipping By Order Total', 'Shipping By Order Weight' and 'Shipping By Country & Order Weight' shipping rate computation providers)
More user friendly sitemap page
PDF. Packaging slips and invoices include the shipping method now
Blog. Added tag support.
Blog. Group posts by year/month.
Blog. Moved blog page URLs to SEOHelper.
Forums. Advanced search support
Topics. 'Include in sitemap' option
Topics. Allow store owner to create password protected pages
Topics. Added 'Topic URL' on topic details page (admin area)
Admin area. Added 'Affiliate URL' tooltip on affiliate details page
Pass product names to PayPal Standard (configurable - disabled by default)
Forums. Added the following message template tokens %Forums.PostAuthor%, %Forums.PostBody%
Forums. Latest forum posts paging support on profile page
Display detailed payment info (supports capture/refund/void/recurring payments) for each payment method
Configurable minimum order amount
Display product SKU in public store (configurable)
Option to display the quantity of a particular product which is in stock
New checkout/product attribute control type – DatePicker
Allow users to manage their forum subscriptions
Ensure that gift cards could not be applied for recurring orders
More user friendly order details page (public store)
Localized some of hard-coded locale resources
Allow store owner to enter product prices more than 999,999
Disabled viewstate on some of user controls (reduced page size)
'Order to subtotal' discounts are applied to order total now ( + renamed to 'Order to total')
Allow store owner to submit Froogle feed via FTP
Added Preview buttons on category/manufacturer/product pages
Added 'select all' checkbox on private message details page (Inbox)
Added 'select all' checkbox on 'add product to category', 'add product to manufacturer', 'related products' pages
Allow store owner to select preferred exchange rate provider
Allow store owner to enable currency rate auto updating (disabled by default)
Improved SMS implementation
Added email SMS provider (Verizon)
More user friendly 'Tax Settings'page (admin area)
More user-friendly 'Global Settings' page (new 'Products' tab, changed some options ordering)
Allow store owner to search product variants by SKU
Moved Google Analytics settings to Global Settings page
Option to remove favicon ('Global settings' page)
Option to support non-western chars in SEO names (e.g. convert 'é' to 'e')
Ensure that gift card activation/deactivation order status and reward points awarded/canceled order status could not be set to Pending
Option to enable/disable a 'Newsletter' form field on registration/my account pages
Admin area. Allow store owner to hide newsletter subscription box
New 'Display cart after adding product' option
Option to show/hide 'My Downloadable Products' tab on My Account page
Allow store owner to disable URL ReWriting
Option to remove of hide the Gift card / Discount options
Minor poll changes
Admin area. New blog/news comments, product reviews pages
Allow store owner to update CC for manual payment method
Admin area. Enhanced categories page by 'Published' and 'Display Order'
Admin area. Display payment details on order details page (transaction identifiers)
Better jQuery binding (header)
Added CVV2 validator for Credit Card payments (3-4 digits)
Display manufacturer info on product details page
Admin area. Minor product details page ('Product Variants' tab) changes (don't display stock when manage stock option is set 'Don't track inventory' or 'Track inventory by product attributes')
Minor SEOHelper changes
Registered customers can click on their own email/username to access 'My Account' page
Simplified ProductBox1.ascx and ProductBox2.ascx controls
Product prices were displayed without discount in ProductBox1.ascx and ProductBox2.ascx controls
Admin area. More user friendly paging on the following admin area pages: Activity Log, Categories, Customers, Locale string resources, Log, Manufacturers, Message queue, Products, Settings
Removed Nop_ProductType table because it was not used
Moved DatePicker control to Nop.Controls assembly
More user friendly range error messages
Added Target='_blank' to 'View address on Google Maps' hyperlink (admin area - order details page)
Changed request validation mode on Login.aspx and Register.aspx pages
Modified category 'Products in Lines 1' control to display subcategories with images
Product with 'customer enters prices'. Allow customer to enter decimal prices.
Changed tab ordering on customer details page (admin area)
Minor DecimalTextBox enhancements (new decimal format used)
Changed admin area tooltip wrapping

Bugs

Issue fixed. Gift cards were not created on recurring orders except the first one
Increased zip code maximum length to 30 chars
USPS minor issue fixed (international requests)
Shopping cart page and terms of services issue fixed
'New products' issue fixed
'Related products' issue fixed
Copy product issue fixed (product attribute combinations)
Topic control minor bug fixed (rendered empty meta keywords and meta description)
Total forum post count wasn't updated after deleting a forum post
Deleting the first post of forum topic caused an exception
Formatting too long customer name issue fixed (configurable maximum length)
Zip code was not passed to PayPal Standard
Fixed issue with nested quotes on forum
Export to Excel. Not all of long description was exported (200 chars maximum)
Nop_ProductLoadAllPaged, Nop_ProductAlsoPurchasedLoadByProductID stored procedures small issue fixed
Too long Order.CardName issue fixed (caused decryption error)
Minor issue in ShoppingCartManager.GetShoppingCartItemWarnings method fixed
Added no-wrap style to the header menu
LocalizationManager.DefaultAdminLanguage minor issue fixed
AddThis.com + SSL issue fixed
Fixed some typos (order editing tooltips)

No major features have been introduced with this release as our development efforts were focused on moving to ASP.NET 4.0, further enhancements and fixing bugs, but it does include the following changes:

Highlight features

Moving to ASP.NET 4.0 (Visual Studio 2010 is required to edit source code)
Simplified data access. Using ORM now (Entity framework 4.0)
QuickBooks integration
Performance optimization

Improvements

USA ePay (integrated) payment module (Thanks, Chris Curtis)
Added refund/capture support for QuickPay payment method
Google AdSense integration
Updated PayPal SOAP API to the latest version (63.0)
Global event context (developers)
Splitted "Assigned to product variants" discount type to "Assigned to product variants" and "Assigned to categories"
New promotion providers management UI
PriceGrabber / Yahoo Shopping, become.com promotion providers
New themoneyconverter.com exchange rate provider (disabled by default)
Gift card activation/deactivation by order status (similar to reward points)
Skip/hide "Payment info" page if order total is 0 (configurable for each payment method)
More user friendly specification attribute details page
More user friendly message template & topic localization
Zoom-in capability for main product image
Allow store owner to disable PDF/Excel options for the entire store (useful in medium trust)
"Check all" for "Payment/Shipping restrictions by country" option
Added tooltip resources for RSS buttons
Minor admin UI changes
Queued email bulk delete option
Extended polls with "Show on home page" and "start/end date" properties
The option to display the breadcrumb or not
Moved MenuControl.ascx from \Modules to \Administration\Modules directory
More user friendly weight formatting on order details pages
Packaging slips are saved into file/ImportExport folder now

Bugs

Copy product feature didn't copy 'prices by customer roles'
HTMLEditor caused JS errors on some servers
Uploading "image/icon" (not "image/x-icon") favicon issue fixed
Typo fixed in function/property names (Weigth > Weight)
Fixed design issue on advanced search page in IE 6.0
Returning to a wrong page after clicking "Continue shopping" button
In Administration\Tax\General\TaxRates.ascx file the HeaderText field should match the Text field
Minor language flag images issue fixed
Australia Post issues fixed (minimum dimension validation and multiple packages)
UPS issue fixed (when shipped from outside US)
Tier price and product attributes with price adjustment issue fixed
"Assigned to product variant" discount minor issue fixed (when discount amount is more than product price)
"Assigned to shipping" discount issue fixed
Product bulk edit issue fixed
Textboxes didn't feet column width on "Bulk Edit Products" page
SEOHelper.RenderMetaTag() function didn't create a new tag
Added the language name, as a tool tip (html title) and alternate text, to the image button when images (flags) are used for language selection.
We don't need to reset default customer billing/shipping addresses after updating shopping cart (CustomerManager.ResetCheckoutData method)
Filenames with spaces were truncated upon download in FireFox

Highlight features

Catalog (categories, products etc) localization
Reward Points System
Product tags
Configurable checkout attributes (such as "Gift Wrap" or "Enter custom message")
Configurable customer attributes (such as "Date of birth", "Phone number")
Individual prices can be specified for individual customer groups
Allow customers to enter product price (if enabled)
More analytics and reporting
Backend order editing

Improvements

Social bookmarking
Allow store owner to hide prices for non-registered customers
Allow store owner to manage whether checkout terms and condition should be accepted before checkout
Dynamic price update on product details page when a product has attributes with price adjustments (disabled by default)
Gift cards are applied to order total now (not order subtotal)
Batch product editing/deleting
Batch product image uploading
Products sorting (front end)
AliPay (China) payment module (beta)
Ability to upload images using HTML Editor (admin area)
More SEO friendly
New shipping status – Delivered
New product attribute control type supported - multiline textbox
Performance optimization
Allow store owner to upload PDF logo
Allow store owner to decide whether a message template is active (should be sent)
Allow store owner to display certain categories on home page
Allow store owner to specify flag image for a language and use a new flag image control for language selection (disabled by default)
Allow store owner to send a test SMS
Product image thumbnails in admin area (disabled by default)
Store IP for news comments, blog comments, product reviews
Allow anonymous users to email a friend (configurable)
Simplified input of a customer birth date
Display recurring product period info on shopping cart page (for recurring products)
URL rewriting for forum groups, forums and topics
Paging on localization page (admin area)
Paging on blog page
News archive page
Allow store owner to view customer wishlist on a customer details page (admin area)
More user friendly %Order.Product(s)% message template token
Rename Froogle to Google Base
Added select all checkbox for Activity Types grid (admin area)
New date time format on product review/news/blog/forums pages
Allow store owner to edit customer avatar
Allow store owner to create sticky forum topics
Forums. Added a confirmation box for "Delete" post/topic buttons
More forum subscription validation (a subscribed user should be active and not deleted)
Allow a customer to remove applied gift cards during checkout
New admin category view
Customer notifications when receiving new PM (alert)
Show warning if a discount could not be applied during checkout
Renamed "apply to order total" discount type to "apply to order subtotal"
Source code refactoring

Bugs

Import language pack connection timeout issue fixed
Minor CSS bug fixes
Save Order.PaidDate when order total is zero
Product specification attribute filter control issue fixed (with international names)
Nop_NewsLetterSubscriptionLoadAll stored procedure bug fixed
"When creating an attribute, an 'is pre-selected' value can cause an error" bug fixed
"Order totals" report minor bug (admin area > dashboard)
SecurePay and one page checkout bug fixed
SagePay bug fixed
iDeal product names error fixed
One-page checkout issue fixed
PayPal Direct recurring payment issue. CreditCardTypeSpecified property was not specified.
Froogle issue. "Missing Product Type Values"
Continue shipping rate computation on error with multiple providers
Issue with a creation date for the "product copy" option
Renamed "Is sender notified" to "Is recipient notified" (gift cards)
Minor discount issue fixed

Highlight features

Gift Cards
Access Control List
Activity Log
Recurring Products
New Payment Statuses: Refund, Void
Stock Management by Product Attributes (such as, color and size)
One-page Checkout
Do Not Store Credit Card Information (even encrypted). PA DSS Compliance Requirement!
Restrict Available Shipping Methods by Country
Restrict Available Payment Methods by Country
Live Chat Integration
SMS Notifications
New Discount Type - "Assigned to Shipping"
Discount Requirements
- None
- Must be assigned to customer role
- Had purchased all of these product variants
- Had purchased one of these product variants
Discount Limitations
- Unlimited
- Can be used one time only
- Can be used one time per customer
Discount Usage History
New Shipping Modules:
- Australia Post
- Canada Post
New Payment Modules:
- Amazon (SimplePay)
- Assist (Russia)
- Beanstream
- ChronoPay
- CyberSource
- Dibs (Sweden)
- iDeal (Netherlands)
- Moneris
- Pay in store
- PayJunction
- PayPoint
- QuickPay (Denmark)
- SagePay
- SecurePay (Australia)
- Sermepa (Spain)
- Svea (Sweden)
- USAePay
Several Shipping Rate Computation Methods used Simultaneously (such as, FedEx and UPS)
System Maintenance (Backup/Restore Database)
Weights and Dimensions (Managed by Administrator)

Improvements

Simplified CSS
More user friendly administration area
Allowed IP address list (administration area access)
Mini shopping cart
Copy product option
New product template
Search Engine Optimization
Shipping tracking number
Configurable Customer Registration Methods
- Standard
- Email Validation
- Admin Approval
- Disabled
Downloadable Products
- License file can be attached
- Can have an user agreement
- 'Unlimited downloads' or 'Number of days' (when customer has access to product)
- User friendly file names
- "Download activation type" option
  - When order payment status is Paid
  - Manual activation
- More user friendly work (client side)
New newsletter implementation
- Guests can subscribe
- Ability to export customers (emails) subscribed to newsletters
Pictures stored on dard disk (configurable Option)
Display Order Notes to Customers
‘Out of Stock’ Orders
Display product stock availability option
Reorder
SiteMap
USPS supports international requests
FedEx supports residential rates
Forums
- Active topics page
- "Quote" option
- Allow guests to create posts (Configurable Option)
Language pack export
Store owner can send emails to a customer (via Administration Area)
Store owner can send private messages to a customer (via Administration Area)
Customers can mark private messages as Unread
Separate login page for administration Area
FCKEditor replaced by HTMLEditor
iTextSharp was replaced by PdfSharp
PDF capabilities
- User friendly PDF Invoices
- Customers can print invoices in PDF Format
- PDF Catalog
- Packaging slips (generated in PDF)
Improved WorldPay payment module
Improved 2Checkout payment module
Improved Paypal IPN
Administrator can enter additional payment fee for most payment methods
User friendly installation process
Administrator can reset customer password
Product reviews must be approved (configurable option)
Allow anonymous users to write product reviews (configurable option)
Allow anonymous users to set product ratings (configurable option)
Store owner can set number of
- Recently viewed products
- Recently added products
- Best sellers on home page
- Products also purchased
Administrators can specify BCC (Blind Carbon Copy) for each message template
Administrators can view shipping address using google maps
SEO can be specified for topics
New 'Add to cart' button in Wishlist
Product cost property
Order paid date property is stored now
Store owner can update favicon via administration Area
Display validation summary on registration and account pages
Customer can change email address
Manufacturers page
Store purchased product attributes in XML
Store owner can clear popular search stats
Updated jQuery to Version 1.4 (development)
Better StoreRoleProvider (development)
New pre-defined Countries
User friendly import functionality (administration area)
Optimized "DeleteExpiresCustomerSessions" task
ScriptManager removed from master page (development)
CSS adapters removed (development)

Bugs

Import / Export bugs
Filter by attributes
Compare products
'Assigned to whole order' discount (with tax enabled)
PayPal Standard return page
Order details page localization
"Server cannot modify cookies after HTTP headers have been sent" error does not exist
Google Checkout and anonymous checkout bug
Wrong Meta Description and Meta Keywords (after Postback)
DatePicker control - date formatting bug (not US locales)
Login page and CAPTCHA bug in IE 6.0
Froogle expiration date bug
Unicode characters are now supported in PDF
PDF invoice includes product attributes
Google Checkout image button and SSL issue resolved
Does not display deleted and unpublished categories in Bread Crumb
Updated product details page (specification tab was displayed with "reviews" tab Only)
"Navigation only for registered customers" option restrictions removed
Downloadable products could not be downloaded by anonymous customers
Email templates missed some shipping information

Highlight features

W3C compliance (XHTML)
Admin area localization
Paypal IPN (Instant Payment Notification)
FedEx shipping provider
Export/Import customers (Excel) - doesn't work in medium trust
Export/Import products (Excel) - doesn't work in medium trust
Export orders (Excel) - doesn't work in medium trust
Private messaging
eWay payment module (hosted solution - UK, NZ, AU)
"Fixed rate" shipping provider
"Fixed rate" tax provider
Product specifications: Multi-Value (pre-defind). Store owner can define multi-value Product specs, such as Processor (AMD 64X2, Intel Core 2 Duo), and not having to repeat them typing again and again for each product
Product specifications: Filtering by specification on category/manufacturer pages (e.g. color, size)
PDF Order receipts - doesn't work in medium trust
Unlimited textbox product attributes
"Customers who bought this item also bought" option

Improvements

Admin area permomance optimization
Improved image generation
Downloadable products
- Allow store owners to upload sample files
- Store owners can specify maximum number of allowed downloads of purchased products.
- Made storing downloads in database configurable
Show best sellers on home page
Generic provider model (source code)
Refactoring (source code)
Admin area requires SSL now (if enabled)
Moved "UseSSL" and "SharedSSL" settings to web.config
All credit card info is encrypted now
Allow store owner to add a custom note to a customer
Admin area. Allow store owner to view shopping carts of customers
Admin area. Don't show "anonymous@anounymous.com" email for guest customers
Admin area. Allow store to filter guest customers (customers page)
Admin area. DashBoard enhancements
Customers can be tax exempt
New product review, news comment, blog comment notifications (email)
Google Checkout. Capture support
Google Checkout. Authorize callback request
Checkour. Navigation back support
"Allow navigation only for registered customers" option.
Allow store owner to search customers/orders/queued emails using null dates by default
Use 4 digits to store currency rate
Added resource expression builder that supports nop resourses
Forums. Navigate to the latest page of topic after new post is added
Confirm new password on password recovery page
More user-friendly forum support
Extended %Order.Product(s)% email token to display product attributes, text options and order totals
Moved ScriptManager to master page
Masked credit card numbers
Show warning when Captcha code is not entered
Allow store owner to delete order notes
Allow store owner to specify whether to hide advertisements on admin area dashboard
Updated AjaxControlToolkit.dll to the latest version
Updated MS Enterprise Library (4.1)
Updated jQuery (1.3.2)

Bugs

Discounts were not displayed on wishlist page
Paypal PDT bug
"Contact Us" form (sending emails bug)
Real-time shipping rate computation methods bugs (multiply packages)
Allow to get fixed shipping rates for non registered customers
Use category/manufacturer thumbnail size instead of product thumbnail size
CAPTCHA image caching
Validate category hierarchy
[Nop_OrderProductVariantReport] stored procedure bug fixed
Shipping fee, payment fee formatting bug on order details page
OrderManager.OrderPlaced() method. Reset customer checkout data only if an order was successfully placed
Checkout page. Don't hide "Confirm" button
Payment method gateways. Encode all values
Product ratings were not display correctly

No major features have been introduced with this release as our development efforts were focused on fixing bugs, but does include the following changes:

Highlight features

IP blacklist.
Additional shipping charges by product.
Support for payment method additional handling fee.
"Product active from date and active to date" option.
Performance optimization.
Allow store owner to create new customer accounts.

NOTE: nopCommerce requires .NET 3.5 SP1.

Improvements

"Don't allow registration of new customers" option.
More SEO friendly.
All prices (totals) are rounded now.
PayPal payment methods now support all currencies.
PayFlow API depreciated. Updated to v4.31.
Updated StrikeIron tax data provider to v5.
Upgraded USPS to version 3.
Allow store owner to add custom order notes.
Allow admin to resend queued emails.
Search page is pageable now.
Allow admin to specify whether "Recently viewed products", "Recently added products" options are enabled.
Anonymous checkout. Checkout as a Guest or Register question.
Scheduled task for clearing old sessions.
Scheduled task for clearing cache.
Google analytics module.
Validate maximum customer username/email length.
Forums. Strip topic subject if it's too long.
Update LastAccess property of CustomerSession entity.
Admin area. Allow store owner to specify whether to display full errors with stack.
Admin area. Advanced order search.
Admin area. Advanced message queue search.
Forums. "Move topic" functionality.
Admin area. News comments/Blog Comments/Products Reviews pages support paging now.
Removed ScriptManager from root master page.
Create default billing and shipping address during registration (if possible).
If a shopping cart item has several warnings, then all of them are shown to a customer.
Store owner can specify whether anonymous customers can leave blog/news comments.
Topics can be added to sitemap.
Added "ReturnURL" query parameter to login page redirection urls.
Added localized titles to all pages.
Made configurable whether to show page debug info (page execution time).
Admin area. Maintain checkbox state while GridView paging.
All entity names are HTML encoded now.

Bugs

Fixed e-way payment module.
2Checkout payment method. Pass product list.
Google checkout button was not shown on shopping cart page (anonymous checkout).
Don't show "Add to cart" buttons on productBox1/ProductBox2 controls if the product doesn't have product variants.
Minor CSS bugs.
Connection string for asp.net membership/role providers.
ForumLastPost.ascx control bind data twice.
The list of previously used shipping and billing addresses for a logged in customer was not filtered against the allowed countries for billing and shipping respectively.
Several resource string missed.
Blog comments, news comment, product reviews could not be empty.
Password recovery. Don't show "email has been sent" if customer is not registered.
Froogle issue when product variant description is not set.
Admin area. Calendar control didn't display all days.
Fix user latest posts sort order on profile page.
Forums. When an user uses [code] BB code, [code] should not be displayed.
Delete pricelist bug.
Contact us form bug.
Ensure that used payment method is active (during checkout).

Highlight features

Volume discounts (Tier prices).
Built-in forum.
Time zone support.
CMS Topics.
Flexible tax support.
- Tax rates can be assigned to different zip codes.
- VAT support.
- Allow store owner to specify which tax based on: billing/shipping/default/shipping origin address.
- Allow store owner to specify whether prices include tax.
- Allow customer to choose tax display type (incl/excl tax).
- Allow store owner to specify tax display type (incl/excl tax).
- Allow store owner to specify whether shipping is taxable.
- Allow store owner to specify whether shipping prices include tax.
- Allow store owner to specify whether to hide zero tax.
- Allow store owner to specify whether to hide tax in order summary when prices are shown tax inclusive.
Nested Master Pages.
Allow customers to register/login by email or by username.
Several account registration/activation types.
- Automatic registration (no approving)
- Email validation during registration

Improvements

More community-friendly (forums, news, blog, polls).
More admin reports.
Redesigned, user friendly administration checkout.
Allow store owner to select theme.
Supports all downloadable products formats (.zip, .rar etc).
Perfomance optimization.
Allow admin to disable or hide the rating system.
Several bug fixes and improvements.

Highlight features

New store-front theme.
CSS restructured for easier customization of design.
Redesigned, user friendly administration.
Anonymous checkout.
Support for kit products.
Partial trust version.
Improved stock control management.
Pricelists.
Language resources import utility.

Improvements

New sample data.
Minimum/maximum purchase quantity control.
Option variants may add to the base product weight.
Front-end paging for catalog.
Filter by price.
Improved product navigation in Administration.
Low stock email notification feature.
Manage URL rewriting from administration.
Several bug fixes and improvements.

Highlight features

Web design was reworked. CSS.
Real-time shipping rates. UPS.
Real-time shipping rates. USPS.
Installation wizard.
Strike Iron tax provider.
Cash On Delivery payment method.
Accept Purchase Order.
Accept Checks / Money Order.
Google Checkout payment gateway (beta).
PayFlow Pro payment gateway.
Worldpay payment gateway.
PSI Gate payment gateway.
CDGcommerce payment gateway
Capture payments from admin panel.
Coupons
Discounts can be assigned to products or to whole order.
Cardholder data are encrypted now. Sensitive data are not stored in the database anymore.
Simple reporting.

Improvements

Support for shared SSL.
SSL for login/registration.
Image capture on login/registration.
Language can be selected for news, polls and blog.
Localized message templates.
Euro currency symbol is proper displayed now.
Featured products on home page
Categories on home page
ubcategories are shown on navigation menu now
Featured products on category page and on manufacturer page
Out of stock. Minimum stock quantity. Low stock activity.
Low stock products page.
Manage wishlist enabled/disabled.
Manage blog enabled/disabled.
Opt-in for mailings ('I would like to receive newsletters').
When a user hit 'continue' after updating his cart, he returns to the previous product page and not the main store page.
Putting Add to cart button beside Details button on the category/manufacturer page without see the details.
SEO. Check box that will include the store name in front of the title.
Several bug fixes

Product attributes (e.g. color, size)
Wish list
SSL support
Moneybookers payment gateway added (beta version)
Froogle (google base) product feed
Export customers/orders/categories/manufacturers/products to XML file
Marketing manager (campaigns)
Calculate shipping by country & total order weight
Free shipping over $X
Configurable list of allowed countries
- For registration
- For billing
- For shipping
Password recovery
Email a friend
Measure weights, measure dimensions
Recently added products RSS. News RSS
Product review helpfulness (Was this review helpful for you?)
"Store is closed" feature
FCKEditor added
“Shipping by Weight” computation method has been changed
New product template has been added
Robots.txt added
Several bug fixes and improvements

eWay (Australia) payment gateway
Real-time currency exchange rates (ECB)
Product specifications (e.g. processor, memory, graphic card)
Compare product feature (if enabled)
Customer groups can be marked as free shipping
Customer groups can be marked as tax exempt
Several bug fixes and improvements

Paypal Express payment gateway (beta version)
Google sitemap
Disable buy buttons for specific products
Customer roles (groups) (e.g. Premium customers, Gold customers)
Discounts can be applied to a customer role
Discounts can be applied to a category
Paging support was added to admin area
Several bug fixes and improvements

The source code is well commented now
Authorize.NET payment gateway
Several bug fixes and improvements

Blog feature added
Poll feature added
Several bug fixes and improvements

The first version of nopCommerce