It includes the following changes: 1) eWay (Australia) payment gateway 2) Real-time currency exchange rates (ECB) 3) Product specifications (e.g. processor, memory, graphic card) 4) Compare product feature (if enabled) 5) Customer groups can be marked as free shipping 6) Customer groups can be marked as tax exempt 7) Several bug fixes and improvements
nopCommerce v1.04 can be downloaded here: https://www.nopcommerce.com/Downloads.aspx
It will be good to know what we need to take from the previous version, such as DB changes - Are there more localStringResource entries? Since nopCommerce doesn't have migration scripts yet, it will be useful to know these things.
I agree that migration scripts are REALLY important. How can I do my own development and still update my site with the newest nopCommerce updates. Migration scripts should be TOP priority or you will lose alot of developers unfortunately.
nopCommerce 1.05 will be the last version without migration scripts. All the next versions (nopCommerce 1.06 and higher) will be provided with migration scripts.