Smartstore 5.1.0

New Features

• Currency rounding:
  • Added currency properties and settings for rounding: midpoint rounding, skip rounding when displaying net prices, round unit price before or after quantity multiplication
  • Amounts are always rounded when calculating the order total to avoid rounding differences (usually of 1 cent)
• The recycle bin for products enables to restore and permanently delete products
• payever plugin (commercial)
• Botsonic plugin (commercial)
• Media Manager now allows image files to be re-processed based on the current media and post processor settings.
• Cart quantity input control now respects the product's available stock (as max input)
• #823 Added canonical URL to search pages
• #745 Page Builder: depend story visibility on user roles
• Added option to configure allowed characters for user names
• #836 Added option to define additional lines for robots.txt

Theming

• Infrastructure
  • Forked & customized Bootstrap framework. Our implementation combines version 4.6 and 5.x. We have not made any modifications to the JavaScript files; only SCSS has been customized. The primary objective is to maintain compatibility with the original Bootstrap documentation for developer convenience.
  • Logical CSS for better RTL support
  • Added subtle and emphasis colors to the color system
  • Revamped button styling
  • Revamped dropdown styling
  • Revamped select2 styling
  • Revamped pagination styling
  • Revamped modal window styling
  • Badges: new variants and modifiers .badge-subtle, .badge-outline-*, .badge-ring, .badge-counter
  • Revamped check & radio styling: new variants and modifiers .form-check-solo, .form-check-{color}, .form-switch, .form-switch-lg
  • Many improvements to input groups, button groups and collapsibles
  • Sass variables for all easings, contained in _easings.scss
  • Dropped responsive (rfs) spacing
• Frontend
  • New grid breakpoint xxl (1400px)
  • Made components rounder by slightly increasing border-radius variables
  • Revamped product listing action bar styling (sorting, view mode, pagination)
  • On screens < md, the offcanvas window for product filter slides in from bottom and also provides the sorting options
  • Revamped offcanvas main menu
  • Revamped image gallery styling
  • Revamped cart, wishlist & order confirm
  • Fixed Slick slider dotted navigation responsiveness issues
  • Slightly improved InstantSearch box and dropdown
  • Revamped product tags component
  • Dropdown product quantity input (automatically rendered instead of spinner if possible quantities do not exceed 100).
  • Revamped checkout progress indicator
  • Revamped scroll-to-top button
  • Revamped cookie consent dialog styling
  • Dropped Triple Date Picker component in favour of browser native date picker
  • Unstyled links are underlined by default
  • New responsive and collapsible MyAccount menu with avatar image, customer name and email address in header.
• Backend
  • Revamped Configuration / Settings and made settings menu responsive
  • Revamped plugin and provider managers
  • New colorpicker component with swatches
  • Revamped number input styling
  • Locale editor tab navigation has been redesigned and is now more responsive

Improvements

• Increased performance:
  • Added hash codes to attribute combinations. With a large number of attribute combinations, variants are found much faster now.
  • Fixed slow loading of product categories for a large number of categories. Price calculation and product export were affected.
  • MediaSearcher always performed a LIKE search for terms (the equals operator was missing)
  • #820 More scalable media service dupe file detection
• Improved plugin & provider manager UI
• MegaSearch: #842 added hit count for availability filter. Hide filter if it leads to no further hits.
• Use billing address if there is no shipping address and tax calculation is based on shipping address.
• #580 Added caching for live currency exchange rates.
• #767 Handle tier prices in depending prices module.
• #378 Remove the assignments of products to a tax category when the tax category is deleted.
• Blogs and news: added counter for pageviews and author field. Both displayed for admins only.
• Product tags:
  • #388 Ajaxify product tag selection in backend.
  • Added search panel to product tags grid.
• Web API:
  • #142 Take back in stock notifications into account.
  • #805 Add endpoints to assign discounts to entities.
  • #821 Add endpoints for RecurringPayment and RecurringPaymentHistory.
  • Add endpoints for the recycle bin of products.
• Import:
  • #390 Add a setting for whether to send the completion email.
  • #377 Import cross- and checkout-selling products.
• #503 Don't round quantity unit amount for PAnGV.
• #403 Added preview image link of NewsItem to RSS feed.
• #276 Enable to set the time of day for start and end date of discounts.
• #486 Add setting to capture payment when order status changes to complete.
• #782 Make the total weight of a shipment editable.
• #782 Enable to mark shipments of an order as shipped or delivered via orders grid.
• Added ability to edit delivery time in product grid
• #807 Enable absolute Paths for DataExchangeSettings.ImageImportFolder.
• #786 Replace TripleDatePicker with native input type date.
• #804 Implemented the new TrustBadge integration mode, including new settings for positioning, color scheme, etc.
• #819 Fix zoom on product detail page when there is a large right column.
• PayPal credit card: Removed address fields and integrated Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) instead.
• #834 Make the expiration date of visitor cookies of guests configurable.
• #493 Display quantity name plural when quantity unit is more then 1.
• #847 EU check VAT service: switch from SOAP to REST API
• #763 Display admin edit button for public entities on touch displays

Bugfixes

• Price calculation:
  • Rounding differences between the subtotal and the sum of the line totals.
  • Manufacturer discount is ignored as soon as an attribute with a linked product is selected.
• Product lists:
  • Fixed do not show tax info in product lists if the product is tax exempt.
  • Fixed call for price note not displayed in product lists.
• MegaSearch:
  • Fixed incorrect search results when a multistore has different default languages configured.
  • Fixed an incorrect second search result, executed via a spell checker suggestion, when the first search did not return any hits.
• Import:
  • Fixed localized properties were not updated during import.
  • Localized SeName was only updated when import file also contained a non-localized SeName column.
  • Fixed duplicate imported images if they were assigned to several products within a batch.
• Fixed the category navigation no longer shows the number of contained products after reindexing.
• Fixed products associated to a grouped product cannot be deleted via associated products grid.
• Fixed not yet awarded reward points were reduced when an order was deleted.
• Checkout attributes:
  • Fixed wrong tax was applied to checkout attributes in checkout.
  • Fixed checkout attributes that are not active anymore should not be applied.
• Web API:
  • Fixed 404 file swagger.json not found when opening Swagger documentation in a virtual directory.
  • #815 Import of customers via WebApi/OData sets PasswordFormat to 'clear'.
• Fixed incorrect message when applying a discount coupon code on cart page.
• Fixed the saving of multistore settings for default tax and default shipping address.
• Fixed a scripting issue where the input focus of the direct debit payment form was mistakenly set to a wrong input element.
• Fixed missing cache clearing after importing localized properties.
• Output Cache: missing Content-Type header when serving page from cache
• #531 Error reading import file with localized values of languages with the same UniqueSeoCode.
• Fixed discounts assigned to categories and limited to customer roles should be excluded from export and exported prices.
• Fixed MainPictureId not applied on product edit page if missing and if there is only one picture assigned to a product.
• Fixed product image gallery issue where no image was displayed at all.
• #843 Additional shipping charge displayed in product details even if free shipping is activated.
• Fixed "The requested service 'Other (Smartstore.Core.Rules.IRuleProvider)' has not been registered" when creating a rule.
• Fixed #792 Downloaded language sometimes cannot be deleted when using SQLite.
• Stripe: Fixed incorrect system name in several places.
• Gift cards were not generated according to the order item quantity during order processing.
• Fixed incorrect cart validation if minimum cart quantity and quantity step were configured for a product.
• #810 Doubleclicking login button can lead to 400 BadRequest error page.
• Fixed arithmetic overflow SqlException in ShippingByWeight and ShippingByTotal four decimal places migrations.
• #776 PayPal credit card payment fails due to missing session PayPalOrderId entry.
• #797 Incorrect validation when product can be added to the cart in single positions.
• Manufacturer pictures were not displayed on product detail pages.
• #828 Queued email identifier is 0 for order completed email.
• #873 Category preview may show 404 page if the category is limited to a certain store.
• Do not fallback to "Product is not available" delivery info on product detail page if the product is available.
• #839 Output cache must be invalidated when menu items are added or edited.
• OpenTrans: fixes RuntimeBinderException "cannot perform runtime binding on a null reference" when exporting shipping address.
• Brand pictures weren't displayed in product lists.
• Skin select2 if remote url is...

Smartstore 5.0.5

Breaking Changes

• Store.SecureUrl and Store.ForceSslForAllPages are deprecated now. By default, all pages are secured if Store.SslEnabled is true.
• Reindexing of MegaSearch search index required to include new category tree path.

New Features

• PersonalPromo plugin (commercial)
• Wallet plugin (commercial)
• #251 MegaSearch: New option, when enabled, search hits must contain all search terms (logical AND operation). The more terms you enter, the fewer hits will be returned.
• Reverse proxy configuration using ForwardedHeadersMiddleware
• SqliteDataProvider:
  • Fixed case-insensitive Contains() and Like() failing on non-ascii characters.
  • Implemented BackupRestore feature
• Web API:
  • #618 added an endpoint for adding a product to the shopping cart.
  • #709 added an endpoint that returns order data prepared for an invoice (including variant SKU).
  • #717 added GiftCard, GiftCardUsageHistory, DiscountUsageHistory, CheckoutAttribute and CheckoutAttributeValue.
  • #723 store the SKU of the ordered product variant at the OrderItem entity.
• Payment method brand icons can be displayed on product detail pages
• Added settings for more social links (Flickr, LinkedIn, Xing, TikTok, Snapchat, Vimeo, Tumblr, Ello, Behance) to be displayed in the footer.
• SEO: trailing slash options for internal links (Append trailing slash to links, Trailing slash mismatch rule)
• #480 Product export: add a filter for categories and an option to include all sub-categories.
• #437 Rule builder: add cart rule for delivery time.
• #559 Forum: add setting to prevent registered customers from posting forum topics and posts.

Improvements

• Theming
  • Better usability of the backend on small mobile devices (especially DataGrid)
  • Updated FontAwesome library from version 6.0.0 to version 6.4.0
  • Checkout / Payment page can display payment method brand icons
• Increased performance: category tree path to filter products by categories.
• DataGrid now remembers the search filter state across requests
• Better PayPal implementaion: added providers for every single payment option.
• New user agent parser with much better bot, mobile/tablet detection (but less accurate platform and device detection)
• #416 Make the language name localizable.
• Specify custom database collation during installation.
• Added a search filter for country grid.
• Add X-Frame-Options SAMEORIGIN to response headers
• Use 308 - Permanent redirect status code for HTTPS redirection (instead of 301 - Moved permanently)
• (DEV) Model mapping (IMapper<TFrom, TTo>):
  • Composite mappers: multiple mappers for a single type pair
  • Named mappers
  • Mapper lifetimes (transient, scoped, singleton)
• Search
  • Search box UI improvements
  • #441 Enable multistore configuration for SearchSettings.SearchFields.
• #658 Limit number of product clones to generate either via UI or code (or both)
• #736 Backend > Product grid: Search By SKU should also search for GTIN & MPN
• #682 Allow to set the default email account per shop.
• Google Analytics: Added option to enable admin to prohibit the script from being loaded without explicit consent by the visitor
• #406 Exclude current product from recently viewed products block on product detail page.
• Added setting to automatically display CookieManager if the shop visitor is from the EU.

Bugfixes

• App restart/recycle could occasionally leak or fail
• PdfConverter failed after cron job cleaned up temporary files in App_Data directory
• Link from Admin area to a named area-less frontend route did not properly prepend culture code
• Identity:
  • Fixed checkout loop after logout.
  • #753 During registration a new customer is created although the password is invalid.
• Export:
  • IWorkContext CurrentCustomer, WorkingLanguage and WorkingCurrency must be set according to projection.
  • Price calculation must respect TaxSettings of projected store.
  • Fixed wrong exported price when attribute combinations exported as products and price display type is set to lowest price.
  • When creating a profile, the public folder name of another profile should not be copied, but a unique, new folder name should be used.
• Fixed picture and color control were not displayed when editing a product attribute option.
• Fixed display of orders in MyAccount area when OrderSettings.DisplayOrdersOfAllStores was set to true
• Fixed RTL theme Sass parsing error
• When an order was placed, the stock quantity of attribute combinations were not updated if the stock is managed by attributes.
• Fixed "also purchased products" should not display unpublished products.
• #651 Fixed product can be added to cart even if the availability limit was reached.
• #748 The "Recently viewed products" section displays items in stores to which it has not been assigned.
• Logout was not possible after new customer registrations.
• Fixed unpublished products should be assignable as "promoted" to a product.
• SequentialDataReader: fixed a problem where occasionally nullable string fields were not read
• UrlRewriter: raw rules were not loaded from legacy storage
• #731 Entering invalid URL as menu item url results in unrecoverable error.
• Fixed a topic was not editable if a menu link with an invalid target was associated.
• MainMenuShrinker was missing.
• Added missing properties in customer grid.
• Fixed popular product tags were not loaded based on the frequency of their product assignments on homepage.
• Fixed after a login the user was not redirected to the previous page.
• Fixed problem where bundles couldn't be added to the basket if bundleitems had attributes.
• GMC: when there was no Google category defined in a product, copying the product threw NullReferenceException.
• Fixed attribute filters of bundle items were not loaded in bundle item dialog.
• GoogleAnalytics:
  • Fixed a NullReferenceException in GoogleAnalyticsViewComponent.
  • Fixed KeyNotFoundException in GoogleAnalyticsScriptHelper.GetOrderCompletedScriptAsync.
• Fixed incorrect order of product attributes on the shopping cart page.
• Fixed #687 Product MainPictureId changed each time a new picture is uploaded.
• Fixed ArgumentNullException in FixProductMainPictureId when uploading new image on product edit page.
• Fixed links to assigned shipping methods were not displayed when editing a rule.
• Fixed SearchLog did not show top search terms in instant search.
• Fixed redirect to login page instead of an error message when a guest wants to checkout and anonymous checkout is not allowed.
• Fixed the category number in category navigation was not displayed when the catalog setting ShowCategoryProductNumberIncludingSubcategories was changed.
• #681 For a message template, the assignment to the e-mail account is not removed when the e-mail account is deleted.
• #704 Cart page displays outdated discount information when applying or removing a discount coupon code.
• #751 Summernote: Inserting a table places it at the top of the HTML editor
• Fixed rare bug where shipping rates wouldn't be applied due to rounding issues
• ShippingByWeight: fixed missing SmallQuantityThreshold in initial migration.
• #619 Shipping by weight and by total should use 4 instead of 2 decimal places for currency values.
• For a BundleItem with attribute filters, the attribute selection on the product detail page disappeared as soon as an attribute was selected.
• #724 Selecting other languages resets selected sorting/items per page setting
• Legacy widget zones weren't considered anymore
• DevTools: Some widget zones weren't displayed due to incorrect RegEx
• NumberInput: Min Max should be handled by validation framework or in frontend by native HTML elements.
• Fixed RuntimeBinderException in SettingController when no search fields are saved.
• Fixed rule assigned to payment method only applied after clearing the cache.
• Admin dashboard: fixed percentage value for last 28 days in order and customer registrations statistics.

Smartstore 5.0.4

New Features

• PostgreSQL database support
• SQLite database support
• easyCredit plugin (commercial)
• DependingPrices plugin (commercial). Enables configuration of prices depending on customer groups, language, store or customer number.
• Embedded Base64 image offloader: finds embedded images in long HTML descriptions, extracts and saves them to the media storage.
• New option for mail accounts to configure SMTP connection encryption.
• New app system settings: UsePooledDbContextFactory, UseDbCache, UseSequentialDbDataReader
• Database table statistics in System / System Info (row count, total space, used space)

Improvements

• Memory management
  • Fixed several memory leaks
  • Disabled DbContext pooling (causes memory leaks)
  • New sequential data reader (disabled by default) uses significantly less memory than the built-in reader. Should be enabled if HTML descriptions are extremely large (> 1 MB).
  • More aggressive garbage collector
  • App now uses significantly less memory under heavy load
• Added price settings for discount requirements to be validated in product lists.
• Faster loading of product lists that contain bundles with per-item pricing.
• MegaSearch:
  • A significant increase in search speed, especially when dealing with large amounts of data.
  • Faster indexing.
  • Word stemming configurable for all languages.
• Added data-invariant attribute to number input controls
• Closed #543 Google Category (GMC) always get lost when copying a product
• Ajax request to external URLs do not add X-XSRF-Tokens anymore
• Definition of several preselected product variant attribute values is now prohibited

Bugfixes

• #557 If the state is optional for addresses, none should be preselected when creating them.
• #608 Build DeleteGuestCustomers query with LINQ again.
• Fixed ArgumentException "The source argument contains duplicate keys" in case of menus with duplicate system names.
• Fixed SqlClient deadlock exception when resolving guest account by client identity.
• MySQL: fixed migration failure when UTC_TIMESTAMP was used as default value for date columns.
• High data payload:
  • Fixed InvalidOperationException "A second operation was started on this context instance before a previous operation completed" when opening category (and others) edit page.
  • Fixed many product tags blocks the loading of the product edit page due to initialization of the product tag selection box.
• Fixed discount coupon code could not be applied in some cases.
• PostFinance: fixed "The specified refund amount CHF needs to be rounded to a maximum of 2 decimal places".
• Fixed ArgumentNullException in ProcessImageQuery.Add if name is null.
• Fixed price adjustment of attributes was saved only with two decimal places.
• Fixed missing inventory adjustment when the stock quantity was changed through product grid.
• The link to remove a search filter must not contain a page index, otherwise inconsistent search results will occur.
• Fixed InvalidCastException "Unable to cast object of type 'Newtonsoft.Json.Linq.JObject' to type 'Smartstore.Core.Search.Facets.FacetGroup'" when OutputCache is active.
• Category or manufacturer discount was not applied if no other changes were made to the category or manufacturer except for the discount assignment.
• Cart rules assigned to a payment method were not applied in checkout.
• MegaSearch: fixed a memory leak during indexing.
• Fixed native validation for quantity inputs
• Google Analytics: Fixed rendering of prices with thousands separator
• #621 Cart item quantity couldn't be updated if cart item validation returned errors
• #628 sort Triple DatePicker year descending
• #622 Tab created with Event.cs does not work on Mobile.
• FileManager: Files weren't displayed correctly in backend.
• A product should be found by its SKU if there is a deleted product with identical SKU.
• Links to assigned entities sometimes not displayed on rule edit page.

Smartstore 5.0.3

New Features

• (DEV) New WebhookEndpointAttribute endpoint metadata. Suppresses creation of guest accounts for webhook calls.
• PayPal:
  • Added a window to display PayPal account information for support issues
  • Added setting for upper limit for Pay Upon Invoice
  • Added option to turn off PayPal buttons on shopping cart page

Improvements

• Allows to delete and filter assignments of customers to customer roles that were automatically created by a rule.

Bugfixes

• Installation: changing database connection settings has no effect until app restart
• Fixed HTTP 400 BadRequest issue on saving AJAX grid changes
• Web API:
  • Fixed wrong $metadata configuration of System.String[] as a complex type instead of ICollection<string>.
  • Fixed InvalidOperationException in Microsoft.OData.Client using MediaFiles and MediaFolders endpoints.
  • Fixed InvalidOperationException in Microsoft.OData.Client "An unexpected 'StartObject' node was found for property named 'Size' when reading from the JSON reader. A 'PrimitiveValue' node was expected.".
• Output Cache:
  • Invoking CookieManager view component throws because antiforgery token cannot be written
• Theming
  • Fixed top description displayed instead of bottom description on manufacturer page.
  • Instant search must not display default thumbs if ShowProductImagesInInstantSearch is disabled.
  • Fixed AOS init problem
  • Multiple file uploader instances in a single page did not work
  • Product box in listings must not close when entering the bottom action drop
• Selected tabs were no longer remembered across requests
• Fixed NullReferenceException when deleting a shopping cart item.
• Fixed export file count was always 0 in export profile list.
• Fixed FileNotFoundException when uploading an import file.
• PayPal: Fixed error that occurs when shipping fees were to high for initially authorized order amount
• Fixed reward points calculation
• #602 Implemented server side validation of payment data
• #603 Fixed after payment validation failure the data entry form is resetted.
• Fixed CheckoutState change tracking issues
• Fixed IBAN radio button issue when using direct debit offline payment.
• Avoids deals label in product lists if the current date is not within the date range of an assigned discount.
• #612 Emails are sent with the email priority low
• Fixed problem with media display for variant attribute combinations
• Billiger: fixed export profile configuration must not contain store scope selection

Smartstore 5.0.2

Breaking Changes

• (DEV) Product.ProductPictures renamed to ProductMediaFiles

New Features

• Updated to .NET 7
• Web API plugin
• Stripe Elements plugin
• BeezUp (commercial plugin)
• ElmarShopInfo (commercial plugin)
• Shopwahl (commercial plugin)
• CartApproval (commercial plugin)
• New app setting: DbDefaultSchema
• (DEV) New action filter attribute DisallowRobotAttribute

Improvements

• ~10 % faster app startup and TTFB
• ~10 % less RAM usage
• Significantly faster attribute combination scanning for large combination sets (1.000+)

Bugfixes

• LocaleStringResource table could contain many dupe records.
• Rule sets were not applied to shipping methods in checkout.
• ArgumentNullException when deleting an image assignment on product edit page.
• Despite activated export profile option per store no records were exported to a separate file.
• Sometimes Page Builder reveal effects did not run on page load, only on windows resize.
• Product details showed wrong related products.
• Fixed wrong implementation of ByRegionTaxProvider
• Fixed product linkage of product detail ask question message
• Fixed password change issue with user records without username
• Settings couldn't be saved in several places (in migrated shop)
• Fixed add required products automatically
• DbCache:
  • Fix "Collection was modified; enumeration operation may not execute"
  • Fix "Index was outside the bounds of the array"
• #577 PdfSettings.Enabled displayed twice and PdfSettings.LetterPageSizeEnabled was missing.
• Topics which are rendered as widgets were published to sitemap
• Redirection problems with changing language & ContactUs page
• Multistore settings couldn't be saved
• File upload for a product attribute is no longer possible once another attribute has been changed.
• Fixes NullReferenceException when placing an order with an invalid email display name.
• Fixed link generation issue: pathBase is stripped when target endpoint requires culture code
• Fixed DbUpdateException when deleting a customer address via backend.
• Routing: non-slug, unlocalized system routes did not redirect to localized route
• UrlRewriter: fixed greedy matching (/en/ should not match /men/)
• Fixed RuleSets could not be added or removed from a shipping method.
• Fixed wrong SKU in order XML export if the order contains multiple variants of the same product.
• Fixed payment fee was always displayed in primary currency in checkout.
• Several PayPal fixes

Smartstore 5.0.1

Breaking Changes

• (DEV) Product.OldPrice renamed to ComparePrice

New Features

• Pricing & GDPR
  • Compliance with Omnibus Directive
    • Product reviews: display a Verified Purchase badge
    • Label crossed out compare prices with "Lowest" or "Lowest recent price"
  • Free configuration of compare price labels, e.g. "MSRP", "Regular", "Before", "Instead of", "Lowest" etc.
  • Discount badges, e.g. "Deal", "Limited offer", "Black Friday" etc.
  • Offer countdown, e.g. "Ends in 2 days, 3 hours"
  • New pricing settings
    • Always display retail price
    • Default compare price label
    • Default regular price label
    • Offer price replaces regular price
    • Always display retail price
    • Show offer countdown remaining hours
    • Show offer badge
    • Show offer badge in lists
    • Show saving badge in lists
    • Offer badge label
    • Offer badge style
    • Limited offer badge label
    • Limited offer badge style
    • Show price label in lists
    • Show retail price saving
• EmailReminder (commercial plugin)
• DirectOrder (commercial plugin)
• Billiger.de (commercial plugin)
• Google Remarketing (commercial plugin)
• File Manager (commercial plugin)
• GiroCode (commercial plugin)
• IPayment (commercial plugin)
• PayPal
  • Added RatePay widget
  • Added Pay per invoice payment method
  • Added PayPal onboarding to module configuration (handles simple configuration via direct email login without the need to create an app on the PayPal developer page).
• cXmlPunchout (commercial plugin)
• OCI Punchout (commercial plugin)
• BizUrlMapper (commercial plugin)
• Added Barcode encoding and generation infrastructure:
  • Can encode: EAN, QRCode, UPCA, UPCE, Aztec, Codabar, Code128, Code39, Code93, DataMatric, KixCode, PDF417, RoyalMail, TwoToFive
  • Can generate: Image (any type), SVG drawing
• MediaManager: display image IPTC and EXIF metadata
• MediaManager: added internal admin comment field
• (DEV) New TagHelpers
  • sm-suppress-if-empty: suppresses tag output if child content is empty (due to some conditional logic).
  • sm-suppress-if-empty-zone: suppresses parent tag output if a specified child zone is empty or whitespace.
• (DEV) Embedded/Inline mail attachments
• (DEV) Localized entity metadata: ILocalizedEntityDescriptorProvider, ILocalizedEntityLoader
• (DEV) New setting SmtpServerTimeout in appsettings.json

Improvements

• Increased performance
  • Faster app startup
  • ~100 MB less memory usage after app start
• FLEX theme: pure CSS responsive tabs (tabs transform to accordion on screens smaller than md)
• Sticky image gallery in product detail
• (DEV) New methods: TabFactory InsertBefore(),InsertAfter(), InsertBeforeAny(), InsertAfterAny(), InsertAt()
• (DEV) New attribute for tab TagHelper: sm-hide-if-empty
• (DEV) New rendering extension method: IHtmlContent.HasValue()
• (DEV) New rendering extension method: IHtmlHelper.RenderZoneAsync()
• (DEV) DataGrid row editing: handle prefixed controls correctly (e.g. "CustomProperties")
• Additional fees are not allowed by PayPal, therefore removed the feature
• Added cacheable routes for Google Analytics widgets
• (DEV) Made MediaImporter more generic
• Removed preconfigured Google Fonts retrieval from Google servers from themes AlphaBlack & AlphaBlue

Bugfixes

• LocalFile did not implement CreateFileAsync() correctly, which led to PackageInstaller, PageBuilder thumbnail cache and PublicFolderPublisher throwing NotImplementedException
• Media legacy url redirection did not work: TemplateMatcher does not evaluate inline constraints anymore
• MediaManager always displayed current date instead of file's last updated date
• MegaMenu: fixed badge styling issues
• Fixed "Unknown schema or invalid link expression 'mailto:...'
• Memory cache: parallel key enumeration sometimes failed
• Fixed Google Analytics number formatting issues
• Several fixes for laying Emails on a local directory
• Removed payment fee configuration from PayPal plugin
• Fixed Drag&Drop of images for HTML-Editor
• Fixed saving of emails on disk
• After installation of modules with custom Sass imports: bundle disk cache was not invalidated
• #539 Fixed flickering on hovering over product image on product detail page
• #552 <meta itemprop="availability"..> should not be rendered twice
• Fixed theme preview tool display
• Fixed creating of SeoSlugs with special chars for installation

Smartstore 5.0

Smartstore 5 is a port of Smartstore 4 - which is based on the classic .NET Framework 4.7.2 - to the new ASP.NET Core 6 platform.

Highlights

• Smartstore 5 is now cross-platform and supports Linux and macOS alongside Microsoft Windows. This means that Smartstore can be run on almost any hosting server, whether dedicated, cloud or shared.
• In addition to Microsoft SQL Server, Smartstore now supports MySQL. PostgreSQL is in planning and will follow soon.
• Smartstore 5 is one of the fastest out-of-the-box e-commerce solutions in the world! A small store with less than 1,000 items and a few dozen categories can achieve an average Time to First Byte (TTFB) of far below 100 milliseconds... even without output cache or other performance measures.
  • Compared to Smartstore 4, 10x faster in some areas
  • Significantly less memory consumption (approx. 50%)
  • Even low-cost (cloud) hosting delivers high performance
• Powerful DataGrid in the backend
  • Developed in-house, no more 3rd party libaries with annoying license restrictions
  • Intuitive, feature-rich and flexible
  • Supports row selection, multi-column sorting, column reordering, column toggling, paging etc.
  • Grid state is persisted in browser's local storage and restored on page refresh
  • Search filter expressions: run complex search queries, e.g. (*jacket or *shirt) and !leather*
  • (DEV) datagrid TagHelper which lets you control every aspect of the grid
• Frontend & backend facelifting
• Create, manage and restore database backups in the backend
• More external authentication providers: Google, Microsoft, LinkedIn coming soon
• Advanced settings for image processing: compression, quality, response caching etc.

Breaking or Significant Changes

• Blog, News, Forum and Polls are now external commercial plugins
• No support for Microsoft SQL Server Compact Edition (SQLCE) anymore
• Payment providers need to be reconfigured (API Key etc.)

Project Status

• Except for the WebApi plugin, the open source Community Edition has been fully ported (WebApi will follow soon)
• Already ported commercial plugins:
  • Azure
  • BMEcat
  • Common Export Providers
  • Content Slider
  • ETracker
  • GDPR
  • Guenstiger
  • Media Manager
  • Mega Menu
  • Mega Search
  • Mega Search Plus
  • OpenTrans
  • Order Number Formatter
  • Output Cache
  • PageBuilder
  • PdfExport
  • PostFinance
  • Redis
  • SearchLog
  • Skrill
  • Sofortueberweisung
  • TinyImage
  • TrustedShops
  • UrlRewriter
  • Other commercial plugins developed by Smartstore will follow soon
• Obsolete plugins that will not be ported:
  • AccardaKar
  • BizImporter
  • EasyCredit
  • NewsImporter
  • LeGuide Shopwahl

Development

• No proprietary Unit of Work & Repository Pattern anymore: gave up IDbContext and IRepository<T> in favor of DbContext and DbSet<T>
• Less and more lightweight service classes by removing all generic CRUD stuff
• Much easier plugin development
• Async function calls all the way through
• Database schema did not change and therefore remains backward compatible. Still we STRONGLY recommend to create a backup before upgrading
• Extremely powerful widget system
• Large TagHelper library with 50+ custom helpers
• On-demand deployment of native libraries via NuGet
• Custom entities in plugin projects can now define navigation properties to entities in the application core

Smartstore 5.0 Beta

5.0.0beta