nopCommerce 4.40 BETA released. Please share your impressions

Congrats for a new improved version!

I have one question though: what is the policy concerning creating new features vs fixing bugs? Now you have adressed both new features and bugfixes in the same branch. However, new features can also introduce new bugs and also it can be critical to not have to wait on bugfixes because of new features in the pipeline.

Could there be a developing policy where there will be a minor branch which only accepts bugfixes like a 4.3.1 and a major branch which accepts both those bugfixes and new functionality like a 4.4?  For example, there were blocking issues with the azure blob storage which was a bug. However, the fixes for that are still not available until 4.4 is release with new functionality which also introduce a risk.

Short: there should/could be bugfix versions while having a major release with new functionality. Thanks for taking this into consideration and giving some feedback/insights on this.

Keep on the good work, I'm a proud user of the platform.

Congrats for a new improved version!

I have one question though: what is the policy concerning creating new features vs fixing bugs? Now you have adressed both new features and bugfixes in the same branch. However, new features can also introduce new bugs and also it can be critical to not have to wait on bugfixes because of new features in the pipeline.

Could there be a developing policy where there will be a minor branch which only accepts bugfixes like a 4.3.1 and a major branch which accepts both those bugfixes and new functionality like a 4.4?  For example, there were blocking issues with the azure blob storage which was a bug. However, the fixes for that are still not available until 4.4 is release with new functionality which also introduce a risk.

Short: there should/could be bugfix versions while having a major release with new functionality. Thanks for taking this into consideration and giving some feedback/insights on this.

Keep on the good work, I'm a proud user of the platform.
Good news! Now it's possible! And we'll start releasing new minor versions (with bug fixes only).

We've added support for minor versions of nopCommerce. Now we can release minor versions (e.g, 4.40.1) without the need to upgrade third-party plugins. For example, a new version only with bug fixes. Here is a work item

I would like to recommend this article
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/msdn-magazine/2013/march/async-await-best-practices-in-asynchronous-programming
and use these rules on the new version of the project. Currently, there is a lot of smell bad code.

Good news! Now it's possible! And we'll start releasing new minor versions (with bug fixes only).

We've added support for minor versions of nopCommerce. Now we can release minor versions (e.g, 4.40.1) without the need to upgrade third-party plugins. For example, a new version only with bug fixes. Here is a work item

Do you have any ETA on 4.40?
March 9th or 10th

Release today? Im hyped.

I would like to recommend this article
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/msdn-magazine/2013/march/async-await-best-practices-in-asynchronous-programming
and use these rules on the new version of the project. Currently, there is a lot of smell bad code.
We already follow the best practices. If you know any specific examples or suggestions, then please share