Release Notes

nopCommerce 3.00 introduces a lot of really great and long awaited features. Our development efforts were focused on multi-store and multi-vendor support, better SEO, and HTML/CSS refactoring.

We also fixed a critical security issue. The security vulnerability affects all 2.X versions of nopCommerce. We won’t share the issue details because people need a chance to update or fix their installations. The upgrade is HIGHLY recommended. If you don’t have an opportunity to upgrade to version 3.00, then please follow the next steps to fix your 2.X version. Open web.config file in the root of your site and remove the following three lines of code:

• <add verb="GET,HEAD" path="asset.axd" validate="false" type="Telerik.Web.Mvc.WebAssetHttpHandler, Telerik.Web.Mvc" />
• <remove name="asset" />
• <add name="asset" preCondition="integratedMode" verb="GET,HEAD" path="asset.axd" type="Telerik.Web.Mvc.WebAssetHttpHandler, Telerik.Web.Mvc" />

As you can see it was caused by a third-party library (Telerik MVC Extensions), but we apologize for the inconvenience that this security vulnerability has caused.

 

Highlight features and changes

• Multi-store support.
• Multi-vendor support.
• Performance optimization.
• Search engine optimization. Rich snippets support added, etc.
• A lot of HTML and CSS refactoring. Thanks a lot to www.nop-templates.com for this contribution.

Improvements

• Search engine optimization. More user-friendly "page not found" page (with 404 HTTP status code).
• Search engine optimization. Do not link the current page to itself (the last step in the breadcrumbs should be un-linked).
• Implemented "Page not found" page as topic so it can be easily edited in admin area.
• Updated third-party assemblies and scripts to the latest version.
• Allow a store owner to specify start/end date and time on the discount details page (admin area). Previously he could specify only date.
• Allow a store owner to specify minimum reward points to use. Customers won't be able to use reward points before they have X amount of points.
• Allow a store owner to manage SEO settings for blog posts and news (meta keywords, meta description, meta title).
• On some pages in admin area the customer column reports "View" hyperlinked to the customer's page who posted the review. This is of little information, because it's necessary to go back and forth opening pages to see who submitted a comment. Now we display customer email instead of "View" link on these pages: product reviews, blog comments, news comments, return requests.
• Added more user-friendly "Username is required" validation message on registration page.
• Added a new setting indicating whether single (/content/images/thumbs/) or multiple (for example, /content/images/thumbs/001/ and /content/images/thumbs/002/) directories will used for picture thumbs.
• Added one more "installation" language pack (Japanese).
• Created a new system customer record which will be used in scheduled (background) tasks. This way less guest records will be created (when IWorkContext.CurrentCustomer is accessed).
• Allow a store owner to see all available flag images when creating/editing language.
• Google Checkout plugin. Added a setting indicating whether "Edit cart" URL should be passed to Google Checkout site.
• Moved "Load all locales on startup" setting to admin area UI. It can increase performance when enabled.
• Removed the "checkout steps" breadcrumb from the order complete page when using one page checkout.
• Removed "Description" property of "Forum group". Anyway it wasn't used.
• Admin area. Renamed "ACL" tabs to "Access control list (ACL)"
• Moved breadcrumb delimiter char to settings ("commonsettings.breadcrumbdelimiter").
• Moved an allowed number of products to be compared to settings ("catalogsettings.compareproductsnumber").
• Allow a store owner to see all used discount on the order details page in admin area.
• Added paging support to bestsellers reports.
• Updated the progress-step-inactive.gif file with the new one with transparent background.
• Performance optimization. Do not load all categories for navigation. It can slow down the system if you have thousands of categories.
• Google Analytics widget now supports mobile version.
• Removed several discount requirement plugins from the official solution. They will be available on the extensions page on the official site.
• Performance optimization. Added "store last visited page" setting to admin area UI. Now a store owner can disable this option. When disabled, it can improved performance.
• Performance optimization. Optimized the solution to don't load product category mappings for each production a requested page if we do not have any discount assigned to categories.
• Performance optimization. Now we do not use CustomerContent table (TPH approach). The following entities now do not inherit from CustomerContent: BlogComment, ProductReview, ProductReviewHelpfulness, NewsComment, PollVotingRecord.
• Performance optimization. Reduced the default value of mediasettings.defaultimagequality to 80.
• Developers. Now a designer can specify a picture thumb size and "preparePriceModel" for "recently viewed products" block in cshtml file(s).
• Developers. A lot of source code refactoring.
• Developers. Allow a store owner to specify a list of plugins that should be ignored during nopCommerce installation. This will allow us to create packages which could be installed quite fast (useful on slow hosting). Just enter a comma separated list of plugin system names in "PluginsIgnoredDuringInstallation" setting in web.config file.
• Developers. Replaced jQuery "live" with "on" (public store only).
• Developers. Moved a lot of “Customer” entity properties to generic attributes.
• Developers. Added OrderCancelled event.
• Developers. More unit tests.

Bugs

• Critical security issue fixed. The security vulnerability affects all 2.X versions of nopCommerce. The issue is caused by a third-party library (Telerik). The upgrade is HIGHLY recommended. If you don’t have an opportunity to upgrade to version 3.00, then please follow the next steps to fix your 2.X version. Open web.config file in the root of your site and remove the following three lines of code:
  • <add verb="GET,HEAD" path="asset.axd" validate="false" type="Telerik.Web.Mvc.WebAssetHttpHandler, Telerik.Web.Mvc" />
  • <remove name="asset" />
  • <add name="asset" preCondition="integratedMode" verb="GET,HEAD" path="asset.axd" type="Telerik.Web.Mvc.WebAssetHttpHandler, Telerik.Web.Mvc" />
• The inventory could be adjusted twice when a store owner cancelled an order and then deleted it.
• Facebook external authentication plugin re-written. The previous one was outdated and did not work anymore (it used tokens deprecated by Facebook).
• Home page was requested twice. Nivo Slider issue fixed.
• Nivo Slider did not work in IE10.
• Froogle (Google Product Search) plugin did not properly encode some categories.
• Url Encode email address otherwise URL for password recovery & activation will break for addresses with + in them (ie user+special@gmail.com)
• IE6,IE7 issue fixed. Nivo Slider did hide the flyout shopping cart block.
• Profit calculation issue fixed. Discount and gift card codes were not considered.
• Specification attribute options could be mixed up in the "Filter by attributes" block if display order of all specification attributes was set to 0.
• We should display a warning to a customer if we exceed the "Maximum shopping cart items" and "Maximum wishlist items" settings.
• Added favicon.ico available out of the box. This way no "page not found" page will be requested/returned (hence less database requests).
• Minor issue fixed. If you apply a discount or gift card coupon and then press checkout, you are redirected to the login page. Once logged in, previously entered coupon code is not migrated and should be re-entered.
• \Themes\DefaultClean\theme.config should have "supportRTL" proeprty set to "true"
• USPS issue fixed. The plugin did not work for the following countries: Puerto Rico, United States minor outlying islands, American Samoa, Guam, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, Virgin Islands (U.S.)
• Color squares #values were not carried over when copying products or variants
• Shopping cart page JavaScript validation issue fixed. Removed “onclick” attribute from checkout button as JavaScript function startcheckout() was removed.
• USPS issue fixed. Some rates were returning with HTML encoded trademark (&lt;sup&gt;&amp;trade;&lt;/sup&gt;), replaced encoded HTML with trademark sign.
• We should not throw an exception when printing packaging slips without shipments selected.
• Inbox (PM) link was displayed on the mobile version for not logged-in customers.
• Added "%BackInStockSubscription.ProductUrl%" message token and update the template. Now a customer can click on a link.
• Admin area. Preview buttons did not work for categories and manufacturers
• Do not allow a store owner to choose a widget zone on the configuration page of Google Analytics widget (it's not required).
• Deleting a category should set a ParentCategory property of the children to 0.
• "Continue shopping" button did not properly work. It always redirected customers to the home page.
• We should delete the appropriate records from the [GenericAttribute] table when deleting the guest customers.
• Admin area. When adding a related product hitting "enter" should not close the window. It should activate the "search" button.
• Order confirmation email did not contain download link for downloadable products for FREE orders.
• Events and classes which implement IRouteProvider interface should be ignored for not installed plugins.
• Developers. Renamed "top-left-button" and "top-right-button" sections in Root.Mobile.cshtml. They could not be overridden (dashes are not allowed in section name).

Highlight features and changes

• New clean and modern default theme.
• Added ACL (access control list) support on manufacturers.
• Search engine optimization. ID-less URLs for news and blog posts.
• Added "Color squares" attribute control type.
• Now a store owner can specify any custom value for specification attributes on the product details page (filtering is not supported for such specification attributes).
• Allow a store owner to specify SKU, manufacturer part number, GTIN for each product attribute combination.

Improvements

• Now a store owner can enable "I accept privacy terms" checkbox to the registration page (disabled by default).
• Sename (slug) history supported added. It allows a store owner to have several slugs (sename) per entity. Previously an entity sename could be changed and in this case the previous URL became unavailable.
• Added "Nivo Slider" widget.
• Allow a store owner to set order ID counter in admin area (order starting number).
• Added confirmation question ("Are you sure?") on the address list page when clicking "Delete" button.
• Track impersonated orders. Now we can see which orders were placed by store administrators impersonating customers (appropriate order note is created when placing an order).
• Added one more "installation" language pack (Icelandic).
• Added a setting ("currencysettings.displaycurrencylabel") indicating whether currency label (e.g. USD) should be hidden.
• Disabled tracing in web.config. It can have some (minor) performance impact.
• PayPal Standard plugin. Specify charset variable (utf-8) when doing POST to ensure that product names are properly displayed on PayPal site.
• Added copy product variant functionality.
• Added one more customer name format value "Show first name".
• Added more paths to the robots.txt file.
• Simplified "Subscribe to newsletter" block.
• Removed "Live person (Chat)" plugin from the official solution. It'll be available on the extensions page on the official site.
• Updated USPS shipping option names according to the latest USPS standards (January 27, 2013).
• Source code refactoring.
• Developers. Added "CustomValues" property (dictionary) to ProcessPaymentRequest class. This way it can be easily extended (if required).
• Developers. Now "AddProductToCart" route have "shoppingCartTypeId" and "quantity" parameters.
• Developers. Created "CustomerLastActivityAttribute" and "StoreIpAddressAttribute" action filters.
• Developers. Now CategoryNavigationModel contains all categories and subcategories. Appropriate filtering in done in the views. It also increases the performance because the model (cached) is prepared only once for all the pages.

Bugs

• Critical issue fixed. Mobile devices did not work with SSL support enabled (secured pages returned "Error loading page" error).
• File upload attribute did not work on mobile devices.
• Finish payment functionality for redirection payment methods (such as PayPal Standard) minor issue fixed. The problem is that if the customer has more than one unpaid orders and try to repost the first of them, after the payment is completed and redirect the customer at the /checkout/completed page, it always shows the last payment completed.
• Full-text issue fixed in [ProductLoadAllPaged] stored procedure when you have search mode set to "exact match". We should remove wrong chars such as ' and " before searching.
• You could get "This authorization code has been used" error when using Facebook plugin. GetAccessToken method should not be invoked twice in the TranslateResponseState method.
• New product tags were ignored when adding a new product (could be added only when editing).
• You could not delete a product with a product tag with only one associated product.
• Authorize.Net plugin. Transactions were not logged in sandbox when we were in the test mode. We should not pass "x_test_request" parameter.
• We should use JavaScript encoding for messages passed to "alert" function.
• Not found slugs (search engine friendly page names) should redirect to the home page.
• Source code typo fixed. "ProductDetailsModel" class had "StockAvailablity" property.
• The padlock icon was not shown on secured pages (HTTPS) when blog and news RSS header links were enabled.

Highlight features and changes

• Performance optimization.
• Search engine optimization. ID-less URLs for products, categories, and manufacturers.
• Added ACL support (access control list) on products and categories.
• Minify and bundle JavaScript files.
• Allow a store owner to decide which billing/shipping address fields are enabled/disabled/required (like it's already done for the registration page).
• Moved to MVC 4 (.NET 4.5 is required).
• Now Visual Studio 2012 is required to work with source code.

Improvements

• More accurate shipping package dimension calculation (based on cube root of volume).
• Allow a store owner to specify "additional fee" for payment methods as percentage.
• Updated all third-party assemblies to the latest version.
• Allow a store owner to view and manage schedule tasks in admin area.
• Use icons in admin grids for ease of identification of true/false values.
• Performance optimization. Minify and bundle JavaScript files.
• Performance optimization. More presentation layer model caching.
• Performance optimization. Use real batch operation when clearing log in admin area.
• Performance optimization. More SQL indexes.
• Performance optimization. Upgrade Entity Framework to version 5.0 (Microsoft reports 67% performance increase for this version).
• Source code refactoring.
• Admin area. Bestsellers report. Allow a store owner to filter results by billing country.
• Enhanced "Shipping by weight" plugin. Now it uses the following formula to calculate rates: [additional fixed cost] + ([order total weight] - [lower weight limit]) * [rate per weight unit] + [order subtotal] * [charge percentage]. If you already use this shipping plugin, please ensure that all your records are correct.
• Added paging support to configuration pages of "Shipping by weight" and "Tax by country" plugins.
• Added paging support on the discount list page (admin area).
• Now we automatically redirect customers to a localized page URL (with SEO code) if "SEO friendly URLs with multiple languages" setting is enabled.
• Display sender and recipient emails for virtual gift cards on the shopping cart page.
• Allow a store owner to create physical gift cards (admin area). Previously only virtual gift cards could be created.
• Minor HTML and CSS refactoring.
• A lot of new activity log types (for public store).
• New "installation" language packs.
• The deploy.bat file now supports web.config transformations.
• Display subject on the message template list page (admin area).
• More accurate formatting of decimals displayed in admin area grids.
• Added several new widget zones.
• Removed the following plugins from the official package because the solution is already quite bloated with plugins available out of the box. You'll be able to download them from the extensions page on the nopCommerce official site: Nop.Plugin.ExchangeRate.EcbExchange, Nop.Plugin.ExternalAuth.Twitter, Nop.Plugin.Feed.Become, Nop.Plugin.Feed.PriceGrabber, Nop.Plugin.Misc.MailChimp, Nop.Plugin.Payments.PayInStore, Nop.Plugin.SMS.Clickatell, Nop.Plugin.Tax.Free, Nop.Plugin.Tax.StrikeIron
• Admin area. Order details page. Display a link to an appropriate recurring payment record (if it is a recurring order).
• Admin area. Payment method list page. Allow a store owner to edit friendly name without going to the plugin list page.
• Admin area. External authentication methods page. Allow a store owner to edit display order without going to the plugin list page.
• Admin area. External authentication methods page. Allow a store owner to edit display order without going to the plugin list page.
• Added a setting indicating whether products from wishlist should be copied or moved to cart.
• Do not save generated PDF files to file system.
• Do not save generated Excel files to file system.
• Simplified names of generated XML files (export/import).
• Added a setting ("commonsettings.log404errors") indicating whether 404 errors (page or file not found) should be logged. Enabled by default.
• Added a setting ("customersettings.suffixdeletedcustomers") indicating whether deleted customer records (email and username) should be suffixed with "-DELETED" (disabled by default).
• Now robots.txt file is dynamically generated and supports URL localization (if "SEO friendly URLs with multiple languages" setting is enabled).
• Renamed "Select" button text of some admin grids to more meaningful text (currencies, email accounts, weights, dimensions, and tax providers).
• Localized several hard-coded resources.
• Reordered some columns in admin area grids (external authentication methods, payment methods, shipping methods, tax providers, widgets).
• Now Google Product Search (Froogle) plugin supports the following attributes: gender, age group, size, color (required for apparel products for US merchants).
• Admin area > the plugin list page refactoring.
• Admin area UI. "Search engine friendly page name" and "Meta title" textboxes should not be multiline.
• Installation. Make "create sample data" checkbox unchecked by default.
• A store owner should not be allowed to disable or delete all languages.
• More user-friendly "error" "page not found", "store closed" implementation.
• UI. Admin area > customer settings. Moved form fields to the separate tab.
• Simplified the Froogle plugin. Removed "FTP upload" functionality. Anyway a generated file path is always static (distinguished per site) and uploading by file URL can be done using Google Merchant Center.
• Enabled HttpOnly flag for cookies.
• More accurate regex for email validator in CommonHelper.
• Added autofacos attribute to the login page (HTML 5).
• Added a new "Admin area. HTML Editor. Manage pictures" permission.
• Added %Store.Name% token to titles of "NewCustomer.Notification" and "NewVATSubmitted.StoreOwnerNotification" message templates.
• Renamed a menu item in admin area - "Topics" to "Topics (pages)".
• Developers. Extended BestSellersReport method of IOrderReportService. Now we can group report by products. Previously we could do it only by product variants.
• Developers. Renamed "GetProductById" method to "GetProductTagById" of "IProductTagService"..
• Developers. Source code refactoring. Removed "IsMaxLength" fluent mapping method. Anyway result is the same.
• Developers. Moved some image from the \Content folder to the CSS images.
• Developers. Added more events.
• Developers. Performance optimization. Use database layer paging on the following pages: affiliate list, gift card list, recurring payment list, return request list. Previously we did it in the application layer by loading ALL records from a database.
• Developers. CategoryNavigation.cshtml. Added style rules to child categories so we can easily customize them through CSS.
• Developers. Removed hard-coded subcategory margin (CSS) in CategoryNavigation.cshtml
• Developers. Made IExportManager and IImportManager partial.
• Developers. Added CSS classes to "Pager" class for better pager customization.
• Developers. Renamed IPageTitleBuilder to IPageHeadBuilder.
• Developers. Optimized "GetDiscountByCouponCode" method of "DiscountService". We should not load ALL discounts from the database and only then filter them by coupon code in memory.
• Developers. Simplified DiscountRequirement class. Discount requirement rule plugins should not be tightly coupled with the core libraries.
• Developers. IPageHeadBuilder and LayoutExtensions refactoring.
• Developers. Added a data-productid attribute for the product-item div in the product box views.
• Developers. Added a property to BaseNopModel class. This way developers can extend any model with new properties via an ActionFilter when they need to do so.
• Developers. Avoid placing title text in block elements without being wrapped in a proper html tag.</strong>
• Developers. Added an element (".master-wrapper-main") that wraps the master columns together (left column, center column, right column).

Bugs

• The system could be really slowed down if "View product page" activity log type was enabled (when we several thousands of appropriate records in database).
• Affiliates with a lot of associated customers could really slow down the shop. Fixed.
• "Country" and "State" properties of "ShippingAddress" were null during one-page checkout if you entered a new address.
• The password field could not contain HTML dangerous chars when logging in (an exception was thrown). Now it allows any chars.
• We should reduce awarded reward points when deleting an order (the same behavior when we cancel an order).
• Renamed "productag" path in product tag URLs to "producttag" (old URLs are also supported for backward compatibility).
• We should cancel appropriate recurring payments when deleting recurring orders.
• Customers were redirected to the home page when changing currency, language or tax type if URL referrer could not be loaded (for example, in IE8).
• Gift card changing from physical to virtual when activating in admin area.
• In some cases customer language was not properly detected when sending virtual gift card notifications (with several languages enabled).
• "Re-post payment" should not be allowed for orders with "Cancelled" status.
• Google Product Search plugin. We should remove invalid characters from a generated XML feed file.
• You could not accept EU cookie law if you had a "store closed" or "public store. allow navigation" permission enabled.
• Bestsellers displayed on the home page. Cache should be reset if a product or a product variant is modified/deleted.
• Bestsellers displayed on the home page (public store). We should not display empty space (product box) for unpublished product variants.
• "Tax By Country & State & Zip" provider. Tax rates should not be limited to 2 decimals precision (4 now).
• We should not duplicate warnings about minimum/maximum quantity when adding items to the cart.
• One page checkout. "Back" button should move a customer back to the last ALLOWED tab. We should ignore disabled tabs (for example, when payment method or payment info tab is skipped).
• Mobile site "Back" button issue fixed. If we use cell phone's back button to navigate to previous page and then whatever action we take, it performs that action and immediately redirects back to the previous page. Second time if we take any action on this previous page, it works well (fixed by disabling "hashListeningEnabled" setting).
• We should update product tag totals (count) when adding/editing/deteting products and product variants.
• Selected checkout attributes should be saved when clicking buttons on the shopping cart page (such as "Estimate shipping", "Apply discount", "Add gift card", "Estimate Shipping").
• Sometimes a schedule task period could be set to several hours (or even days). In this case a probability that it'll be run was quite small (an application could be restarted). Now it's fixed.
• Developers. Creating a custom mobile theme. Previously when overriding the "_Root.Head.Mobile.cshtml" file developers had to name it "_Root.Head.Mobile.Mobile.cshtml".
• Polls loaded by system name (for example, displayed on the right column) should by filtered by language. Previously we displayed the first one (no matter of the current language).
• Admin area > recurring payment list. We should display payment records even for associated deleted orders or customers.
• One-page checkout did not have page title specified.
• The password recovery page had a new password field twice.
• Paging did not work for "Low stock product variant" report.
• Admin area. The product tag list page was broken when doing paging in IE.
• Minor issue fixed. When a customer selects a country in dropdownlist (address entering) and then selects the first "select country" item, then the states dropdownlist should be populated with "Other (Non US)" item.
• Admin area. Search customers by multiple roles issue fixed.
• Google Checkout plugin. Additional shipping cost was not applied.
• Base weight and dimension units (labels) were not shown when creating a product in admin area.
• USPS. There should not be "Oversize" size option.
• Do not allow duplicates in product category and product manufacturer mappings.
• Admin area. We should hide a password on the email account configuration page.
• "SearchProducts" method "ProductService" used "searchDescriptions" parameter instead of "searchProductTags" when searching in product tags.
• Admin area. "Customer had spent x.xx amount" discount requirement could render wrong value in cultures other than "en-US".
• A store owner could duplicate an username when creating a new customer in admin area (when usernames were enabled).
• "Customer has one of these product variants in the cart" and "Customer has all of these product variants in the cart" discount requirements did not properly group products when a customer had the same product variant with distinct attributes in the cart.

As some of you may know we were planning to release version 2.70 much later (the end of September). But today we have to release this intermediate version (2.65). It fixes a critical issue caused by a third-party assembly when running nopCommerce on a server with .NET 4.5 installed. No major features have been introduced with this release as our development efforts were focused on further enhancements and fixing bugs, but it does include the following changes:

Improvements

• Complete HTML markup and CSS refactoring.
• Performance optimization.
• Source code refactoring.
• Search engine now can search in product tags. Currently it’s done only on the advanced product search page. But you if want to do it on some other pages, then simply pass "true" for "searchProductTags" parameter in "SearchProducts" method of IProductService.
• Added order review info (billing & shipping addresses, shipping & payment info) to the order confirmation page.
• Updated all third-party assemblies to the latest versions.
• Update jQuery Mobile to the latest version (1.1.1).
• Added several new "installation" language packs.
• Added a setting ('securitysettings.forcesslforallpages') indicating whether all pages should be forced to use SSL.
• Made cart/wishlist links clickable on the notification bar.
• Product export/import should handle product variant name too.
• Multi-step checkout did not persist entered values such as selected shipping or payment method when customers went back from the confirmation page.
• Print "print order details" page on load.
• When you click "Apply coupon" or "Apply gift card" button there should be a warning message if customer left input field blank.
• Admin area. Localization page. Replaced Telerik combobox with standard HTML dropdownlist.
• Display a more descriptive error text when an active tax provider cannot be loaded (for example, you did not properly deploy plugins).
• Developers. Added two more widget zones on the productdetails page - productdetails_top and productdetails_bottom
• Developers. Improvement on events related to message tokens.
• Developers. Moved some classes from Nop.Core.Events namespace to Nop.Services.Events.
• Developers. IPictureService now accepts a parameter indicating whether we should generate URLs with HTTP or HTTPS.
• Developers. Added Widget() HTML helper.

Bugs

• Critical issue fixed. nopCommerce did not work when running on a server with .NET 4.5 installed. Actually, this issue is caused by a third-party assembly (FluentValidation).
• W3C compliance issues fixed.
• Allow users with "Admin area. Manage Catalog" permission to preview unpublished products, categories and manufacturers.
• Advanced product search page. Category and manufacturer dropdowns weren't localizable.
• A "shippable" checkout attribute should not be persisted when a shippable product is removed from the cart.
• Admin category tree view did not display unpublished subcategories.
• Checkout attribute text prompt wasn’t displayed localized on the shopping cart page.
• Checkout attributes with "radio button list" or "checkboxes" weren't properly displayed on some mobile devices.
• "Copy product" did not copy "Allow back in stock subscriptions" property and product reviews.
• Upgrade script. Added [dbo] schema to some SQL Server objects (in case your database user does not have [dbo] as a default schema).
• Exporting newletter subscribers to CSV should not throw any exceptions when no subscribers are exported.
• When you entered wrong quantity on the product details page (for example, "asdf" instead of "2"), you were getting "The product has been added to the cart" notification although nothing was added.
• IE10 was detected as a search engine (updated browserCaps.config file).
• "Public store. Allow navigation" ACL permission caused an issue during customer registration. State/province dropdownlist wasn't populated when country was changed (when these form fields were enabled).
• Installation process hung if validation errors were returned in IE.
• We should hide checkout button in the mini-shopping cart block if "min order sub-total amount" isn't met.
• We should display store theme selector only when we have at least two themes.
• Admin area. Localization page. Language dropdownlist did not work in virtual directory.
• Admin area. Currency list page. "Is primary exchange rate currency" and "Is primary store currency" column values always became "false" after clicking "refresh" button.
• Product images should not be HTTPS secured when generating a product feed.
• Slimbox2 (used to overlay images on top of the current page) didn't work in IE9 because IE does not support "elem.dataset".
• ITopicService registration was listed twice in DependencyRegistrar class.
• Developers. "Recurring" was spelled wrong in GetReccuringCycleInfo method name (\src\Libraries\Nop.Services\Orders\ShoppingCartExtensions.cs).
• Developers. Renamed CustomeReturnRequestsModel class to CustomerReturnRequestsModel

Highlight features

• Significant performance optimization.
• Use AJAX for adding products to the cart.
• New flyout mini-shopping cart.
• Auto complete suggestions for product searching.
• Full-Text support.
• EU cookie law support.

Improvements

• Source code refactoring.
• HTML markup and CSS refactoring.
• Allow a store owner to limit allowed quantities of a product variant. For example, if you enter "3,7" in the appropriate field a customer will only have a choice of purchasing 3 or 7 at a time. Instead of a quantity textbox that allows him to enter any quantity, he will see a dropdown list of the allowed values.
• Allow store owner to manage which of the customer form fields are required (as per version 1.90)
• Phased out Flash (now nopCommerce uses Valum file uploader).
• Product tags are localizable now.
• Added new activity log types for public store (such as "Viewed a category details page", "Viewed a manufacturer details page", "Viewed a product details page", "Placed a new order"). They are disabled by default.
• Added "Public store. Allow navigation" permission to ACL.
• Now a store owner can create shipments but ship them later (previously newly created shipments were immediately shipped). It'll also allow him to print a packaging slip before going to a post office.
• Admin area. Added "Shipment list" page.
• Admin area. Allow a store owner to search categories and manufacturers by name.
• Admin area. Shipment details page. Display product SKU, product weight, dimensions, and shipment total weight.
• Admin area. Display product variant SKU on the order details page.
• Allow customers to view all products tags.
• Allow a store owner to delete abandoned shopping carts and wishlists.
• Admin area. Customer details page. Display activity log (a new tab).
• When a customer shares the link to their wishlist, the person that visits the wishlist should be able to add items from the wishlist directly to the cart.
• Allow a store owner to configure a "Shipping by Weight" plugin by states and zip.
• Localized installation page.
  • Please share language packs (46 resource) for your languages. All them will be included in the official releases. Find more info on our forums - http://www.nopcommerce.com/boards/t/17641/help-nopcommerce-team-to-localize-the-installation-page-46-resources.aspx
• New widget system implementation.
  • All existing widgets (for versions 2.10-2.50) are not compatible with the new implementation (IPluginWidget interface has been changed.)
  • Update all your custom cshtml files (where widgets are used) according to the new implementation
  • If you had some active widgets before, you have to re-activate and re-configure them (in admin area)
• Added a lot of new widget zones and renamed several existing ones.
• Render product SKU in order invoices if "Show product SKU" option is enabled.
• Added * (required) hints to "customer info" and "edit address" pages.
• Admin area. Customer details page. Ensure a customer is not assigned to both 'Guests' and 'Registered' customer roles. Ensure that a customer is assigned to at least one role: 'Registered' or 'Guests'.
• When a customer cancels an order, a store owner should be notified of that cancellation (added a "Recurring payment cancelled" message template).
• Admin area. Added confirmation boxes for some buttons on the order details page. Did the same for "Change encryption key" and "Change picture storage" buttons.
• Admin area. Allow a store owner to delete multiple products at the same time (product list page).
• Mobile device version. Add 'Was this review helpful?' options to product reviews (as per 'desktop' version).
• We should strip out any white space or dash in the CC number when processing credit card payment methods.
• Added CAPTCHA support on the news page (comments).
• Added CAPTCHA support on the blog page (comments).
• Added CAPTCHA support on the product reviews page.
• General and Miscellaneous Settings. Display a warning to a store owner if reCAPTCHA is enabled but the appropriate keys are not entered.
• Allow a store owner to set start and end dates for every news and blog post.
• Added %Shipment.TrackingNumber% and "%Order.PaymentMethod%" message tokens.
• Display incompatible plugins on warnigns page (admin area).
• Discount details page. Display categories and product variants to which a discount is to be applied.
• Newsletter subscriptions export/import. Use comma instead of tab.
• Newsletter subscriptions import. Allow a store owner to specify only emails (without "active" field).
• The build script (deploy.bat) should not generate and deploy PDB files.
• Some pages (admin area, login, and checkout pages) use HTTPS. Let's force all other pages to use HTTP.
• Allow guests to email wishlist (configurable).
• More user-friendly payment method localization (UI). Now you can simply click "Edit" button on the plugin list page (admin area).
• Added FedEx shipment tracking support.
• Added options indicating whether to include short and full description in compare products.
• Added a setting ("commonsettings.displayjavascriptdisabledwarning") indicating whether to display a warning if java-script is disabled.
• Display customer information on the "Recurring payment list" and "Recurring payment details" pages.
• SEO improvements. Added product name to "product reviews" and "email a friend" page title.
• Removed hard-coded "SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS" collation during installation. Now a store owner can specify a required collation during nopCommerce installation (optional).
• Allow a store owner to view a list of all loaded assemblies on the system info page (It can help to debug the application if required).
• Polls. Allow guests to vote (configurable).
• We validate write permissions during the installation process. Let's also validate them on the Warnings page (admin area). It can be quite helpful after upgrading to the latest version.
• Updated third-party assemblies and java-script files to the latest versions.
• Allow a store owner to change password format settings. But this setting will be applied only to the newly registered customers or customers who would like to change their passwords.
• Now a store owner can manage a default quality used for image generation ("mediasettings.defaultimagequality" setting).
• Admin area. Display zip, company, and phone (if enabled) in the grid on the customer list page.
• Admin area. Added "View" column to the "Bulk edit product variants" page.
• Admin area. Added "Shipping status" field on the order details page.
• Allow a store owner to limit the number of manufacturers displayed in "manufacturer navigation" block.
• Product details and shopping cart pages. Use more user-friendly popup windows instead of window.alert() for customer notifications.
• Admin area. Customer list page now supports AJAX searching.
• Admin area. "Edit product variant for product..." title should include variant's name too.
• Polls. Do not require customers to refresh a page in order to see results. Display them immediately after voting.
• One-page checkout. Bypass 'select payment method' page if we have only one payment method.
• Added a tooltip to the password recovery page.
• Admin page. Product details page. Display small pictures thumbnails on “pictures” tab.
• "Save" buttons in "Shipping by weight" and "Tax By Country & State & Zip" plugins are AJAX now.
• Allow filtering of customer uploaded files by extensions (just enter a list of comma-seperated extensions to "catalogsettings.fileuploadallowedextensions" setting).
• PayPal Direct. When a customer cancels an order for a recurring product, nopCommerce should communicate that cancellation to Pay Pal so that Pay Pal will automatically stop all future charges to that customer. Previously he had to manually cancel a recurring payment in PayPal admin area.
• Performance optimization. Cache bestsellers displayed on the home page.
• Performance optmization. Import language packs using a new stored procedure (as per 1.X versions). Now it's much faster.
• Include PO number in the invoice if "Purchase order" payment method was used.
• Performance optimization. Faster installation process.
• Performance optimization. Cache permissions between requests.
• Performance optimization. Cache more presentation layer models.
• Performance optimization. Execute less SQL commands when rendering a poll block.
• Performance optimization. Load all recently viewed products using only one SQL command (previously we loaded each product using separate SQL command).
• Performance optimization. Faster page loading on the catalog pages (category, manufacturer, products by tag, etc) when you have a lot of products displayed (product page size).
• Performance optimization. Optimized a procedure of encryption key changing (security settings). Previously we loaded all customers and then filtered the ones with the "Encrypted" password format (application layer). Now we do it on the database layer.
• Performance optimization. Combined multiple OrderAverageReportLine queries into a single query.
• Performance optimization. Do not load online shipping rates twice during checkout (first to get all methods to show customer, and then when customer selects a method called again).
• Performance optimization. Added properties to "NewsItem" entity indicating the total number of comments. So now we do not need to load all comments or make unnecessary database call just to know it.
• Allow a store owner to manage display order of "Payment" and "Shipping rate computation" plugins on their list pages (previously you could do it only the Plugins page).
• Removed obsolete Microsoft java-script files (MicrosoftAjax.js, MicrosoftMvcAjax.js, MicrosoftMvcValidation.js). Hence a page size was reduced.
• Google Product Search plugin. Include shipping_weight attribute if "FroogleSettings.PassShippingInfo" setting is anebled (disabled by default).
• Performance optimization. Added properties to "BlogPost" entity indicating the total number of comments. So now we do not need to load all comments or make unnecessary database call just to know it.
• Performance optimization. Added "HasTierPrices" property to "ProductVariant" entity indicating whether a variant has tier prices configured. So now we do not need to load tier prices or make unnecessary database call if it's not required.
• Performance optimization. Added "HasDiscountsApplied" property to "ProductVariant" and "Category" entities indicating whether it has discounts applied. So now we do not need to load discounts (make unnecessary database call) if it's not required.
• Performance optimization. Disable sending information about the current request to 51degrees site (mobile device version).
• Performance optimization. Faster loading of the related products in public store.
• Performance optimization. Add paging on the "Edit category/manufacturer details" page (admin area).
• Developers. Renamed name prefix of some inputs and buttons on the product details page ("add to cart", "add to wishlist, "qty", and "customer entered price").
• Developers. Deleted _ColumnsFluid.cshtml layout.
• Developers. Use dependency injection for the schedule tasks (ITask interface).
• Developers. Removed the following methods from "Customer" entity: AddAddress, SetBillingAddress, SetShippingAddress. BTW, these methods caused a Google Checkout callback issue (order could not be saved for guest customers when billing and shipping addresses were identical).
• Developers. Added generic attribute support (now you can add a new property to any entity without database changes). Previously we could do it only for "Customer" entity (we had "CustomerAttribute" associated entity). Now we have "GenericAttribute" and "IGenericAttributeService".
• Developers. Now we do not use MvcContrib (grid).
• Developers. Renamed several java-script file names (accordion.js to public.accordion.js, onepagecheckout.js to public.onepagecheckout.js, public.js to public.common.js, admin.js to admin.common.js)
• Developers. Divided "ProductModel" class into two new classes: "ProductOverviewModel" and "ProductDetailsModel". Important note for theme designers: do not forget update all your cshtml files related to products (simply replace "ProductModel" model declarations with one of the new classes).
• Developers. Moved "return request" action methods from OrderController to the new ReturnRequestController.
• Developers. Replaced some "Url.Action" with "Url.Route" (in views) and "RedirectToAction" with "RedirectToRoute" (in controllers).
• Developers. More pluggable infrastructure. Added a new event ("AdminTabStripCreated") which allows you to add custom tabs to admin area pages.
• Developers. Load plugins based on their display order in PluginManager.
• Developers. Moved Footer.cshtml and Footer.Mobile.cshtml files from /Views/Shared/ to /Views/Common/.
• Developers. Removed unnecessary "IPromotionFeed" interface and "Promotion feeds" menu item in admin area. Now all feed plugins implement "IMiscPlugin" interface.
• Developers. Removed unnecessary "ISmsProvider" plugin interface and "SMS Providers" menu item in admin area. Now all SMS plugins implement "IMiscPlugin" interface.
  • You should re-enable SMS providers if you've had them enabled.
• Developers. Add a new event 'TokensAdded' to allow plugins to manage their own custom tokens. By doing this, plugins can include dynamic content in emails.
• Developers. Removed order total weight property (we already have it in shipments).
• Developers. Controllers and model classes as partial now.

Bugs

• Fixed W3C validation errors.
• Localized several hard-coded locale resources.
• ProductLoadAllPaged issue fixed when you have a lot of specification attributes.
• SSL issue fixed. Sometimes customers could get "Mixed content SSL" warnings.
• Checkout attributes. If an attribute was required (and not selected/filled), the shopping cart page reloaded but gave no warning message to a customer.
• Fixed an issue in money converter exchange rate provider plugin. One currency rate could not be parsed.
• Now we use more user-friendly notification bars instead of jQuery UI dialogs for messages such as "Product added to cart". But you can always move back to jQuery UI dialogs. Simply open Views/Shared/_Root.cshtml file, find AjaxCart.init method and replace the first parameter with "true".
• Now all admin area pages have titles. Previously all the browser history entries were the same ("NopCommerce Web Administration").
• Australia Post should return user-friendly shipping option names.
• Product tag URLs shoud use seo-friendly product tag names instead of standard names (for example, first we should remove wrong chars and extra spaces).
• Admin area. Product list page. We should hide "Download catalog as PDF" when PDF is disabled.
• When ACL 'Public store. Enable shopping cart' is disabled, customers shouldn't see 'add to cart' option on the wishlist page.
• We should disable customer role management on the customer details page if "Manage customer roles" permission is disabled.
• If a plugin has some settings, they should be deleted when uninstalling this plugin.
• Blog list page ignored page size setting when filtering posts by tag or dates.
• Ensure that "MultipleActiveResultSets=True" is specified during installation when a store owner prefers to manually enter a connection string.
• HTML encoding issue fixed when using product or checkout attributes with "multiline textbox" type.
• PdfService did not use a passed "language" parameter when generating a document for some rows.
• Minor issue fixed when using SQL Server CE. “OrderService.GetOrderByAuthorizationTransactionIdAndPaymentMethod" didn't work.
• External authentication providers didn't work in SQL Server CE.
• Estimate shipping listed all countries. It should only list those countries where shipping is enabled.
• Forums could not be deleted (Entity Framework 4.3 issue).
• "Cannot redirect after HTTP headers have been sent" issue fixed when using RemotePost class in payment methods.
• Shopping cart totals went off the screen when checking out if you had selected a shipping method name with large length.
• Cross-sell products should be displayed only on the shopping cart page (not during checkout).
• Issue fixed. Customers could specify any page size (by modifying a query string) if "Allow customers to select page size" option of a category or manufacturer was disabled.
• Review helpfulness. Customers should not be allowed to vote for their own product reviews.
• On the "Shipping Method Restrictions" page, the check box on top of each column toggled all ON, but did not work to toggle all OFF.
• Pictures were not deleted for categories, manufacturers, and product variants (when updated or removed).
• Added a couple of missing quotes to HTML code.
• Fixed an issue with required product variants. We did not took into account required product variants that are not published and thus did not produce a shopping cart warning when an unpublished product variant was required.
• When applying a discount on the shopping cart page it showed the coupon code as accepted even if it was inactive.
• Renamed /administration/sitemap.xml file to sitemap.config so it cannot be opened from the outside.
• UI issue fixed when you have many product pictures (more than 6) displayed on the product detail page.
• Added a setting indicating whether 'out of stock' products can be added to wishlist.
• "Notify me when available" should be a button (instead of hyperlink).
• Enabled the following options by default: "Anonymous checkout", "Use one page checkout", "Display cart after adding product". Disabled the following options by default: "Display wishlist after adding product", "Allow customers to select a theme". Enabled EURO currency by default.
• Added a missed semicolon in /Administration/Views/ProductVariant/BulkEdit.cshtml file.
• The validation of the password confirmation happened in reverse. The correct procedure is to validate only after entering the password confirmation.
• reCAPTCHA issue fixed in RTL theme when using FireFox. The text box was hiding the text.
• CSS issue fixed in "nopClassic" theme. Login page should be 720px width.
• Discount minor issue fixed. Associated records from "Discount_AppliedToCategories" and "Discount_AppliedToProductVariants" tables should be deleted when you change a discount type. Actually it's not a real issue because these associated records were not used when calculating a product price.
• Take into account 'Minimum cart quantity' property when adding a product to the cart from catalog (category, manufacturer, etc) pages.
• When registering, not checking the newsletter check box should not take an existing email address off of the subscription list.
• Fixed Fancybox CSS issue with relative paths. Otherwise, you could get a lot of the following log errors when using Internet Explorer: "The controller for path '/fancybox/fancy_shadow_nw.png' was not found or does not implement IController".
• Tax By Country & State & Zip provider issue fixed. When you use dialog to "Add Tax Rate" and you don't want a specific Zip, you leave Zip blank; the new record above will then appear with "*" in the Zip field. If you then click Edit button on that record, and edit only the Percentage (leaving the Zip as "*"), the record will no longer work, because the underlying field in database table now gets updated with a "*" rather than a null.
• Glimpse (web debugging tool) didn't work.
• Made expire month and year required in payment plugins.
• CSS issue fixed on one-page checkout in DarkOrange theme.
• Checkout attributes. When a datepicker attribute was selected and we movd back to the cart page, a datepicker control was not pre-filled with a selected datetime.
• Minor HtmlHelper class issue fixed (typo).
• 'Edit product variant' activity log should contain full product name (not just product variant name).
• Payment methods page in admin area. If you clicked the Edit button on any payment method line, the text value in the "Recurring support" column changedto a number. When you then clicked “Update” button, the values in that column for all the other lines also changed.
• Warnings page (admin area). We should compare the store URL (storeInformationSettings.StoreUrl) with both possible URLs of the current page (HTTP and HTTPS).
• Password recovery worked even for deleted accounts.
• "%Order.BillingAddress1%" token was missing from List Of Allowed Tokens - MessageTokenProvider.GetListOfAllowedTokens() method.
• Javascript and CSS files issue fixed when including from a widget. It was impossible to place them in the tag with the HTML helpers (AddCssParts and AddScriptParts) if the plugin was added to any of the widget zones that were called in the _Root view(AfterBodyStartHtmlTag, BeforeContent, AfterContent, BeforeBodyEndHtmlTag). IMPORTANT NOTE FOR THEME DESIGNERS: Splitted _Root.cshtml layout file to the new two files (_Root.cshtml and _Root.Head.cshtml). We have to do it because of the way how ASP.NET rendering works. For more info see http://www.nopcommerce.com/boards/t/14306/javascript-and-css-files-issue-when-including-from-a-widget.aspx

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