You are correct. I just installed an instance of 1.60 with sample data and one still cannot create a new category.
I was running 1.50, and I'll try an upgrade to 1.60 next and see if it breaks the category add module. I'm guessing it doesn't, since nobody else is responding/complaining. So it appears that 1.60 is broken when installed new.
In short, to those doing the code writing, 1.60 cannot be used as a new install because one cannot add categories. lol
I'm not advising, I am simply confirming issues at this point. However, you should try to install 1.50 and upgrade to 1.60 and report the results. That is my next step as well, but haven't had time yet. If you do it before me, please post your results here.
hope too ^^ :) I'm afraid because i want to start a big project with nop.
I'm lucky because it's only the start and test phase. But if my project was already online for some month/year and i upgraded to 1.6 with my french language pack i'll have the problem.
In this case it'll be impossible to do install of 1.5 and upgrade, test langugage pack etc.
Tomorrow i'll test if a fresh install of 1.6 and no language pack is ok, or see if we need to do an upgrade of 1.5 to make it run corectly.
I'm afraid to not have any response from the nop team to help me with my problem... If my website was in production how i'll do in the future ? :( I think i'll never upgrade my nop when i'll be in production for not have bad surprise and not any help from nop team ;)