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Release Notes

Smartstore 6.4.0

Breaking Changes

  • (DEV) Removed AsyncTo*() extension methods. Use To*Async() instead.
  • (DEV) Removed IPaymentMethod.PaymentMethodType property. Use PaymentMethodTypeAttribute to SET, and ProviderMetadata.PaymentMethodType to GET the type instead.
  • (DEV) Renamed ReturnRequest entity and database table to ReturnCase.

New Features

  • Updated to .NET 10
    • Increased overall performance.
  • Withdrawal plugin (commercial)
    • Enables customers to submit withdrawals online for eligible orders and items.
    • Supports compliance with EU rules for digital withdrawal.
  • AI
    • New HTML text optimization command: Organize: Improves document structure and cleans up HTML markup.
    • #1445 Create a new image using the Media Manager.
  • #1469 Show password policy and live validation on customer registration.
  • Topics: added an option to disable the narrow prose container and render non-widget topic pages in full width (default remains prose/narrow layout).
  • Wallet
    • Wallet credits can be added to the shopping cart anywhere using a PageBuilder block.
    • An option has been added to display wallet credit amounts as buttons when purchasing credit.
  • GMC
    • Added a setting to export products only for those for which Google data is specified.
    • When deleting rows in Google grid, delete the Google data assigned to the product.
    • Consider the permission to update products.
  • Brevo Mailing list synchronization (commercial module)
  • Rate limiter for queued emails to prevent overload during email bursts.
  • New hidden system setting CommonSettings.MinLogLevelToRetain (for scheduled log cleanup operations)
  • #1522 Add a cart rule "All products with delivery time in cart".
  • #1512 Implement new VAT number status ServiceUnavailable.
  • #1507 Add shipping details metadata for search engines to the product detail page.

Improvements

  • (DEV) Event system: Consumer methods can now be declared for a base class or interface instead of the exact published type.
  • Moved AI command tools from Media Manager toolbar to folder dropwdown menu.
  • Enhanced bot and AI agent detection with heuristic checks further reduces DB junk.
  • CAPTCHA
    • Improved fail-safe behavior to maintain user accessibility while blocking automated abuse
    • Fixed form submission issue in certain edge cases
  • Event log
    • Log aggregation: Identical logs that occur within a 10-minute window are grouped together.
    • Stackframe formatter
    • Stackframe tools: copy to clipboard, wrap text
  • Theming
    • Added .prose helpers for readable long-form content: optimized measure (narrow/standard/wide) plus comfortable typography defaults.
    • On mobile devices (< md), key product information such as brand, title, short description, badges, and rating summary is now displayed above the image gallery, not below.
    • Product lists now display available color options and other variants on touch devices by default, ensuring key information is visible without requiring user interaction or hover.
  • #1459 Cart sorting: The selected items must always come before the unselected ones.
  • #1503 Calculate reward points for a purchase based on the net subtotal rather than the gross total.
  • Checkout: After payment confirmation on the third-party site, you will be redirected directly to the completed page if successful. The intermediate step via the confirmation page is omitted.
  • #1465 Display the name of the applied discount on order edit page.
  • #1471 Show the customer's email address next to their name on the order edit page.
  • #1466 UI: Edit discount details page should use text-expander (more-less buttons) for "Assigned to xyz" fields.
  • Payever
    • Better checkout flow for Zinia lending payment method
    • Reactivated instant payment by Santander
  • PostFinance/Skrill: Improved the processing of webhook messages.
  • Rebranded payever payment methods. Zinia became Openbank.

Bugfixes

  • Fixed the payment widget not displaying when payment methods are selected via radio buttons in checkout (the behaviour of icons and radio buttons needs to be equal).
  • PostFinance: Fixed issue with TWINT payments regarding environment selection strategy.
  • #1454 After being assigned to an entity, an image below the dropzone is not displayed.
  • #1455 "Duplicate keys detected: row-undefined" in currency grid.
  • Adding new addresses wasn't possible because model state was invalid due to missing email fields for registered customers.
  • #1457 UI: "Show All" brand link content (ellipsis) is not centered in manufacturer carousel.
  • Gemini: Fixed ArgumentNullException when creating embedded images in rich text.
  • #1452 The off-canvas menu is called infinitely often if the permission for shop access is not granted.
  • A modified, localized name of a payment method was incorrectly overwritten when string resources were updated.
  • Export the entered and not the calculated price in CSV and XML export.
  • OpenTrans: Fixed missing email addresses when exporting addresses.
  • PageBuilder: Issues when previewing selected images while editing a media gallery block.
  • The Summernote save button may produce a "languageId must be greater or less than zero" error.
  • Stripe: Fixed bug where the order for which the hook was sent may not have been created yet.
  • Many common CAPTCHA and Google reCAPTCHA fixes.
  • #1472 GMC: Consider ManageInventoryMethod.ManageStockByAttributes when exporting availability and attribute combinations are exported as products.
  • An uploaded image must be transient if the associated entity has not yet been saved.
  • Fixed "Failed to add specification attribute" when assigning a specification attribute to a product.
  • Fixed sitemap generator progress bar.
  • Currency assignment by Country/IP lookup has not respected store restrictions.
  • EasyCredit
    • Get cart by using the current store ID explicitly.
    • The checkboxes for overriding multistore settings were missing.
  • Take the customer's preferred shipping method into account when updating the shopping cart.
  • Fixed "The value '' is invalid" for category export filter.

Smartstore 6.3.0

Breaking Changes

  • (DEV) Added IEventMessage marker interface and enforced it across the pub/sub pipeline to standardize and validate event contracts.

WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines)

  • Added Skip list button for all product, category, tag, blog and news listings.
  • The following frontend sections have been updated to improve accessibility for screen readers:
    • Homepage products, categories, brands and product tags.
    • Compare products, wishlist and cart page.
    • Checkout process.
    • Product lists.
    • "All manufacturers" page.
    • PhotoSwipe
    • PageBuilder story blocks.
  • Summernote: Allow query string in mp4, webm and ogg urls.

New Features

  • AI
    • Edit images in the Media Manager using a text prompt and selected images.
    • File-based provider metadata used to store and organize information about LLM models.
    • Added Anthropic Claude AI provider.
    • Added Ollama AI provider.
    • ChatGPT:
      • Support text and image generation using GPT 5.1
    • Gemini:
      • Support text generation using Gemini 3.0 Pro
      • Support image generation and editing using Nano Banana Pro (gemini-3-pro-image-preview).
      • Support image generation and editing using Nano Banana (gemini-2.5-flash-image).
  • Payment
    • PayPal: Added support for Apple Pay.
    • #1370 Add a payment provider for easyCredit purchase on account.
  • CAPTCHA
    • Modular CAPTCHA architecture with a pluggable provider interface.
    • Replaced hard-wired reCAPTCHA logic with a provider model.
    • CaptchaFox integration (commercial module)
    • Friendly Captcha integration (commercial module).
  • #112 Visually group specification attributes on product detail page.
  • #1381 Add a compare price to attribute combinations.
  • #1386 Customer roles: Extend the permission tree so that nodes with descendants show whether descendant permissions have been granted.
  • #934 Add cart rules property to PageBuilder stories to dynamically toggle their visibility.
  • #1264 Batch-assign products to categories.
  • New Rule Builder rules:
    • #1372 Cart rule for the total cart weight.
    • Cart rule that checks whether a product from a category or one of its subcategories is in the shopping cart.
    • Cart rule to check that all products in the shopping cart are from the specified categories.
    • #1425 Cart rule that is fulfilled when the customer is subscribed to the newsletter.
  • #1357 Pricing: Add a setting that takes tiered prices of products into account, that are assigned by an attribute of type "linked product".
  • #690 Apple Sign-In support
  • Added support for extensionless static files in wwwroot/.well-known directory
  • FileManager: Enabled language dependent tabs
  • GMC
    • #1341 Enable the selection of product images to be exported.
    • Export more shipping data (handling time, length, width and height of a product).
  • EmailReminder: Added Google Reviews to the review reminder.
  • #1411 Pixlr: The user should decide on a session basis whether to open the express or full editor.

Improvements

  • Bumped all jquery.validate libraries
  • Asset Bundling: Replaced DouglasCrockford.JsMin with NUglify.
  • Summernote
    • Horizontal editor resizer
    • Activated file browser (MediaManager)
    • Responsive video embed
  • Blog
    • New global display options: Grid layout, 2/3 column mode, intro length restriction, aspect ratio setting for grid view.
    • Mobile optimization: Pictures will now always be displayed above text on mobile devices.
    • Better control of preview image display by setting the aspect ratio.
    • Better control of detail image display by setting the Maximum height of the picture
    • New setting for the Navigation End Date
    • #1410 Blog posts configured for a single language will no longer return a 404 error when accessed with an unavailable language selection.
  • Theming: .art-drop should adopt $art-active-border-color
  • #1016 Don't ask registered customers for email when entering billing or shipping address.
  • #1327 Product rules/MegaSearch: Consider start and end dates of a discount when applying the "HasDiscount" rule.
  • Allow new attribute options to be added when assigning specification attributes to a product.
  • EasyCredit: Do not hide the installment calculator if EasyCredit is not offered at checkout due to cart rules.
  • etracker: Updated module to use latest script & added event submission for product view, list view and orders.
  • Added option for queued email grid to filter for subject.
  • #1122 AI: Replace the Betalgo library with the official OpenAI .NET library.
  • #1393 Missing bubble help hints in the backend address editor template.
  • Public export files have been moved to a new tenant folder for data exchange.
  • Return Requests:
    • #1196 Avoid duplicate return requests for a product.
    • The quantity to return reflects the number of products that have already been returned.
    • Display information about products that have already been returned, including their current status.
  • Web API: Allow guest customers to be created.
  • Convert JSON strings to HTML for notifications.
  • Trailing slash URL rule: Don't apply rule to static file requests (e.g. robots.txt).
  • #1156 The last items added to the basket must be instantly visible in offcanvas cart.
  • #208 Linkbuilder: Added possibility to define a link target.
  • #1404 FileManager must not render tab content via AJAX, as search engines must be able to read the content in its entirety.
  • PostFinance: Migrated to Wallee REST API v2.
  • Support of multiple discounts with the same coupon code.

Bugfixes

  • #1433 The shopping cart is not migrated when a new customer account is created using external authentication.
  • ChatGPT: Fixed image creation errors "Invalid value".
  • Attribute combination image could not be selected on product edit page.
  • #1361 Add a migration to consolidate duplicate ActivityLogType entries.
  • Fixed unnecessary single navigation dot in slick slider.
  • EntityPicker did not remove unselected items from preselection in append mode.
  • MegaSearch: Take customer roles and store restrictions into account when selecting the top entities.
  • MegaMenu
    • The background image should not overlap the menu item content.
    • The link count in a single column often exceeds the configured setting.
    • Fixed duplicate key error in IX_MegaMenu_EntityId index.
  • After applying a discount code or moving a product to the wish list, deactivated shopping cart products were not displayed.
  • PageBuilder
    • #1367 Do not hide the setting that displays the manufacturer's name in slider product lists.
    • Video in a video block was not rendering in Chrome.
  • Fixed missing log entry and notification for a payment exception.
  • Stripe
    • Orders were created after the 3D Secure check, even though the payment was declined.
    • Set selected payment method on customer level was missing when using Link cart button.
    • Restored setting of correct payment status.
    • Better handling of web hook messages.
  • PostFinance
    • Fixed an issue where the amount paid sometimes differs from the order total.
    • #1423 Avoid "The provided security token is invalid" error due to security token expiration.
    • Occasionally, orders were not automatically marked as "paid".
  • Wallet
    • Fixed formatting of currency amounts in message template.
    • Save the order ID when editing a wallet entry in the wallet grid on the customer edit page.
    • Clicking on the "wallet" link in the notification message produced a 404 error.
    • #1432 Wallet: Use service methods for Web API REST endpoints.
  • AmazonPay: Do not apply the customer email address for guests.
  • Payment methods with rules are missing on the customer edit page when changing the preferred payment method.
  • Verify balanced parentheses in data grid search filter expressions, preventing runaway memory usage from malformed search terms.
  • Do not display the default date value when adding reward points via backend grid.
  • Avoid HTTP error 500, which can be caused by an attribute alias that is too long.
  • When filtering products without category assignment, deleted categories must not be included.
  • AI
    • Fixed streaming problem if the original HTML contains comments.
    • Fixed streaming problem with HTML entities (e.g. &)
  • Link builder: The editor displayed an URL with an attached link target.
  • #1444 SQLite throws "'JULIANDAY' was constructed with 1 arguments, but the nullability was defined for 2 arguments"

Smartstore 6.2.0

Breaking Changes

  • Web API: The PaymentMethods/GetAllPaymentMethods endpoint has been enhanced to return all information about a payment provider.

WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines)

  • The following frontend sections have been made accessible to screen readers:

    • Language and Currency selectors
    • Customers’ “My Account” area, order and shipment details, and return requests
    • Customer‑identity features such as login and registration
    • Catalog and associated products search boxes
    • All elements in the footer
    • Article list actions
    • CookieManager dialog, which also traps focus until it is closed
    • Catalog facets
    • Contact Us
    • Checkout process
    • Product detail pages
    • Off‑canvas Menu
    • Off‑canvas Cart

  • The following plugins have been updated to provide better accessibility for screen readers:

    • Blog
    • Direct Order
    • Email Reminder
    • File Manager
    • Forums
    • GDPR
    • MegaSearchPlus (extended facet templates)
    • News
    • Offline Payment
    • Polls
    • Wallet

  • A script to handle key navigation has been implemented. It identifies the roles of several components and determines their navigable child elements.

    • MenuPlugin handles all items with role="menubar" based on sub‑items with role="menu" and role="menuitem". It is used in …

      • the main catalog navigation in the simple version, without the MegaMenu plugin, and in the MegaMenu version

    • TablistPlugin handles all items with role="tablist" based on sub‑items with role="tab". It is used in …

      • the Off‑canvas Menu
      • the Off‑canvas Cart

    • TreePlugin handles all items with role="tree" based on sub‑items with role="treeitem". It is used in …

      • the catalog navigation in the Off‑canvas Menu

    • ListboxPlugin handles widgets using role="listbox" based on sub‑items with role="option". It is used in …

      • language and currency select lists
      • all dropdown menus rendered by MenuTagHelper
      • variant‑color square boxes in product listings

    • DisclosurePlugin handles standalone disclosures and accordions. It is used in …

      • CookieManager dialog
      • article‑list dropdowns (.art-drop, which contains article actions such as Add to Cart and Add to Wishlist)
      • product‑list filter button (mobile)
      • footer (mobile)
      • My Account toggler (mobile)

    • ComboboxPlugin integrates ListboxPlugin navigation, opens and closes the dropdown, and supports both single‑ and multi‑select via data-ak-multiselect=true. It is used in …

      • article‑list sorting dropdown
      • language and currency selector

  • A script has been implemented to handle focus trapping for modal components. While a modal is open, Tab cycles from the last to the first focusable element (and Shift + Tab does the reverse), so keyboard focus cannot leave the modal until it is closed.

  • Nested <nav> elements have been removed from the top bar.

  • Removed zooming constraints from the viewport meta property.

  • A Skip to main content button has been implemented.

New Features

  • Idealo Feed plugin (commercial)

Improvements

  • Allow an order to be completed if its payment has been refunded.

  • The author of a blog or news post has been added to the Open Graph metadata.

  • Stripe:

    • Void the order if the webhook receives a message about a failed payment.
    • Payment status (Paid & Authorized) was set too early in the checkout process.

Bugfixes

  • The order of products in lists was reversed for featured sorting.

  • Fixed a NullReferenceException on the cart page when shopping‑cart items were activated or deactivated.

  • Fixed an ArgumentNullException when adding a product to a category if SearchSettings.UseCatalogSearchInBackend is enabled.

  • #1360: Deleting a product review that included helpfulness entries resulted in a SqlException.

  • Fixed the Failed to read NuGet.config due to unauthorized access exception.

  • Summernote

    • Browsing and selecting files in the link or image dialog now also closes the opener dialog.
    • Fixed the list/paragraph toggle conflict when an li contains a p.

  • Forum: Avoided a 404 when viewing a deleted customer profile.

  • The MyAccount header only showed the uploaded avatar after a page reload.

  • PageBuilder

  • The Slick slider cut off the edit toolbar.

    • Some widget‑zone names appeared twice when editing a story.
    • Fixed: Product details were not updating when a story with a Slick slider was placed in the widget zone productdetail_offer_after.

  • The Latest Orders dashboard did not display guests’ full names.

  • Fixed a bug that caused an old script to be loaded from the browser cache, resulting in endless minibasket loading.

  • Corrected handling of multi‑store settings for AI modules and performance settings.

  • Added a Route attribute to the Patch and PatchLocalized actions of EntityController to avoid a 404 error that occurred under certain conditions.

  • Use a relative product URL instead of an absolute one to avoid the JS error Failed to execute replaceState on History.

  • PayPal: If Google Pay was initially selected on the payment selection page, a script error prevented all PayPal buttons from loading.

  • Amazon Pay: Fixed an issue where the private key was unintentionally deleted when saving a multistore configuration.

  • Added a missing XML declaration to the sitemap index file.

  • Do not create database tables for NamedEntity and VariantValueMetadata.

  • The customer profile did not display the Private Message button or forum statistics.

  • Fixed display of error notifications in Off‑canvas Cart.

  • Do not display ActivityLogType entries with the same system keyword multiple times.

Smartstore 6.1.0

New Features

  • Updated to .NET 9
    • Increased overall performance
  • AI
    • #1258 Added DeepSeek AI provider.
    • Added Gemini AI provider.
    • Added Continue Writing for HTML editor
    • #1259 Implemented setting for keywords to generally avoid.
  • Added settings to add alternate links for localized page versions to the XML Sitemap and HTML Header.
  • Import: Added an option to update all products that match a key field value.
  • #1142 Implemented configurable Content-Security-Policy (CSP) HTTP header.
  • #990 Added a weight field to attribute combinations.
  • Added a setting to control whether shipping costs are displayed on the cart page as long as the customer has not yet entered a shipping address.
  • Shipping by total: Added a setting to let the shipping origin determine the shipping cost if the shipping address is missing.
  • #501 New category option for ignoring a category in menus.
  • #248 Catalog search: Added an option for featured product sort order.
  • #1281 Added shipping setting: Apply free shipping over 'X' only for specific shipping countries.
  • MegaSearch:
    • ~20% performance increase
    • Added setting to indicate whether to split compound words.
    • Added setting to include/exclude the meta keywords of products in the search index.
    • #1275 Import of product keywords (import file column MegaSearch.Product.Keywords).
  • Summernote HTML editor:
    • Save HTML content without reloading the page
    • Emoji support
      • Multi-language labels, tags and shortcodes
      • Search for labels and CLDR shortcodes
      • Inline GitHub-style emoji picker
    • Zoom support ranging from 25% to 500%
    • Displays the tag path of the current selection
    • Sticky toolbar when the editor is focused
    • Added a feature to allow AI to continue writing
  • #1225 Added settings to sort search filters of facet groups: category, brand, and delivery time.
  • Added PDF setting for the maximum number of objects to print.
  • Fixed number of attachments always being 0 in queued email list.
  • EmailReminder: Added task to send bonus points reminders.
  • Added setting to round the amount of reward points for a purchase.
  • #1150 Added a setting to hide orders in My Account.
  • #1242 Rule Builder: Added a cart rule fulfilled when the cart contains a product with a specific SKU.
  • #509 Added payment status setting for offline payments.
  • #1010 Allowed the admin to align a blog or news image within its element box.
  • #1261 Blogs and news: Added a setting indicating whether to allow users to leave comments if they have never purchased before.
  • #1263 Allowed the admin to mark an order as paid even if the payment was previously voided.
  • PayPal:
    • Added support for GooglePay.
    • Added option for admin to decide how to handle orders declined by payment.
    • Removed Giropay provider.
    • Added Trustly provider.

Improvements

  • Quick-Checkout: Allowed all payment methods to be specified as the preferred payment method.
  • #1266 Refreshed browser URL when a product variant changes so that it points to the current variant.
  • #1226 Enhanced ResetPasswordAsync to detect and repair accidental guest role assignments.
  • #214 Added backend menu entry for each Rule Builder scope.
  • Updated dbip-country-lite.mmdb.
  • Logging: Added client UserAgent string to log entries.
  • Improved processing of recurring payments.
  • AI:
    • More robust prompting
    • Added new bot detection patterns to useragent.yml.
  • ChatGPT:
    • #1262 Updated OpenAI supported models to the latest and most relevant: gpt-4o, gpt-4o-mini, gpt-4.1, gpt-4.1-mini, gpt-4.1-nano, gpt-3.5-turbo
    • Added a setting for the maximum number of completion tokens.
    • Added support for gpt-image-1 and removed dall-e-2
  • #1236 PayPal: Added setting to disable address application in case the store's address validation settings need to be respected.
  • #1274 Recycle Bin: Possibility to filter products with/without assignment to orders.
  • Store cookie consent information in database and display on customer edit page.
  • Display the dimension and weight of a product without ending 0 decimal places.
  • #1163 GMC: Updated feed to use new certification attribute for EU energy efficiency classes.
  • #1282 More neutral message text when the password is reset.
  • Fixed missing HTML meta item for price on product detail page when price is 0.00.

Bugfixes

  • Fixed occasional incorrect shipping costs applied based on shipping address.
  • #1229 Fixed HTTP client timeout when sending an order placed message with PDF attached.
  • #1235 Fixed products remaining published when stock equals the minimum stock quantity, and low stock activity is set to unpublish.
  • #1234 Deleting a customer who has made forum posts throws a SqlException.
  • Fixed incorrect discounted price on product detail page due to missing cache invalidation.
  • Checkout:
    • Fixed checkout shipping link not opening the shipping information dialog.
    • Fixed missing shipping-address-differs checkbox for guests who have not yet entered an address.
    • Fixed checkout bug when address country is null.
  • Fixed an issue where tier prices could be missing when exporting the associated product data.
  • Logging: Excluded file source from DB logging.
  • Fixed missing base path resolution for bootstrap-icons.svg.
  • Ignored surrogate characters (emojis) when building URL slugs.
  • #1269 Redirected entity slugs to the default language slugs after disabling a language.
  • Page Builder:
    • Child stories were not rendered in edit mode.
  • ChatGPT:
    • Fixed NullReferenceException and deprecated model error when creating image metadata.
    • #1241 Added setting for token limit (max_completion_tokens), processing responses in chunks.
    • Fixed unintentional truncation of suggestions.
  • AI:
    • Respect text direction of the selected language in the rich-text dialog.
    • Fixed a bug where the prompt preview incorrectly generated a new text request when opened via the Summernote AI button.
    • Manufacturer prompt had messages for rich text generation when SEO properties were about to be created.
  • Summernote HTML editor:
    • Fixed unwanted line break after caret position due to outdated beautify library.
    • Fixed various focus handling and popover issues.
    • Fixed various code synchronization issues.
    • AI: HTML editor no longer records undo after applying an answer.
    • Fixed incorrect application of target attribute in LinkDialog.
    • Fixed anchor update issue in LinkDialog after resetting settings.
    • Fixed various dialog layout issues.
  • Fixed duplicate key violation (IX_UrlRecord_Slug) when copying a product with identical localized names.
  • Prevented negative total tax amounts resulting from negative payment method fees.
  • #1238 Fixed NullReferenceException when manually triggering recurring payments.
  • GPSR:
    • Fixed NullReferenceException when multiple product rules assigned to text blocks.
    • Fixed rare cases of missing manufacturer information display.
  • Prevented InvalidOperationException due to entity already attached when processing order completion notifications.
  • MegaMenu now clears the output cache when settings change.
  • MegaSearch: Fixed unpublished product tags not being indexed.
  • Fixed InvalidOperationException related to missing Content-Type header in GDPR consent filter.
  • Fixed cookie migration issue.
  • #1233 Forum: Displayed posts marked as deleted.
  • PayPal:
    • Fixed order status updates on webhook notifications with direct capture settings.
    • Fixed credit card payment issue with activated Quick-Checkout.
    • Fixed PayPal buttons displaying incorrectly after quantity control usage on shopping cart.
  • Excluded inactive items during shopping cart validation for recurring/non-recurring products.
  • Excluded Web API endpoint URLs from applying TrailingSlashRule (avoids HTTP 401 error).
  • #1245 Fixed missing image preview after drag-and-drop in product detail configuration.
  • Fixed delivery time display issue for products out of stock based on DeliveryTimeIdForEmptyStock.
  • #1249 Logged activity when deleting entities from the data grid.
  • Fixed AmazonPay Logout button displayed incorrectly on checkout completion page.
  • Fixed missing error notification for unpaid order completion attempts.
  • Fixed scrolling to selected section in manufacturer navigation.
  • Billiger & Guenstiger: Fixed cookie information displaying when tracking disabled.
  • MegaMenu: Fixed initialization issue with input controls.
  • Fixed rare cases of the log list not loading.
  • Fixed bug preventing shopping cart migration after external login.

Smartstore 6.0.0

Breaking Changes

  • Removed Sofort provider from PayPal module (disabled by PayPal on 18.04.2024)
  • Storage location for Customer.LastVisitedPage has changed. The historical data will be collected again successively after the update.

New Features

  • Conditional product attributes
    • Makes the visibility of an attribute dependent on the selection state of other attributes.
    • Copying attributes, options and rules from one product to another.
  • Improved checkout process
    • Quick-Checkout allows to skip addresses, shipping and payment method selection if these are known.
    • The order total amount is displayed in a sticky sidebar on each checkout page.
    • Improved design and greater legal certainty of the confirmation page.
    • One-click checkout for sales at retail terminals.
  • Essential specification attributes
    • Specification attributes marked as an essential feature are displayed in the checkout.
  • Cart & wishlist enhancements
    • Disable cart items via checkbox.
    • Show delivery time, stock info, weight, additional shipping surcharge and brand.
  • Grouped product enhancements
    • Optional presentation of associated products as collapsible/expandable panels.
    • Added paging for associated products.
  • EU General Product Safety Regulation (GPSR) plugin (commercial)
    • Manufacturer information (postal address, responsible person) is displayed in product details.
    • Warnings and safety instructions are added as text blocks and assigned to the product manually or automatically via product rules.
  • MailChimp plugin (commercial)
  • Pixlr image editing plugin (commercial)
    • Create and edit images directly in the Media Manager.
  • Updated to .NET 8
    • Faster app startup
    • Increased overall performance
    • ~10 % less memory usage after app start
  • DevTools: New widget zone preview panel
    • Lists all zones in a menu
    • Zones can be temporarily toggled
  • #371 Importer for manufacturers.
  • Toggle password visibility
  • New app setting for MS SQL Server compatibility level
  • Enhanced database optimization and vacuum operations
  • Vacuum single database table
  • #909 Allow to control the product availability based on the existence of an attribute combination.
  • New catalog setting to label products as new by the availability start date.
  • MegaSearch
    • Setting to place the search hits of unavailable products further back in the search list.
    • Finding products by keywords (e.g. product compatibility list). Also added product meta keywords to the search index.
    • Added price calculation options for the price to be indexed.
  • Affiliates: Added a button to remove the assignment of a customer to an affiliate on customer edit page.
  • Import news from RSS news feeds.
  • Reverse proxy: added support for X-Forwarded-Prefix header (for PathBase resolution)
  • Page Builder
    • Added AudioPlayer block
  • Added cart rules to Rule Builder
    • #971 Customer's external authentication method
    • #896 Customer is an affiliate
    • VAT number status
    • Tax exempt
    • Billing/shipping to EU
    • Billing/shipping to company
  • Product details
    • #997 Added a setting to disable display of product tags.
    • #1127 Display reward points.
    • #1201 Added a setting to display the price with the suffix "from" if no variant has yet been selected.
  • #858 Implemented Paypal package tracking
  • #1100 Display customer generic attributes in backend
  • #1129: Extend the PrivacySettings CookieConsentRequirement option to include Switzerland when choosing the option RequiredInEUCountriesOnly
  • #762 CookieManager: Scripts are now loaded immediately after consent without refreshing the page.
  • #783 Add a field to shipment entity for the name of the cargo company.
  • #1176 Avoid duplicate assignment of description on the product page.
  • #528 Add an option to no longer allow posts on a forum topic.
  • #1204 Added settings to enable/disable the RSS feed in blogs and news.
  • #1210 Add a setting to not apply a discount associated with a product when the special price of the product is applied.
  • PayPal: Add addresses returned by PayPal to the customer and set billing and shipping addresses.

Improvements

  • #876 Changing password in backend via modal dialog.
  • #871 Show the total media file size in dashboard stats.
  • Theming
    • Revamped SignIn / Register page
    • Revamped dashboard stats
    • Multi-level dropdown groups
    • Activate .spa-layout only on screen height > 600px (DataGrid is unusable in mobile landscape mode otherwise)
  • Page Builder
    • Fixed boxed titles spacing and line-height issues
  • Web API
    • Enabling CORS.
    • #928 Mask the secret key in backend API user list.
    • #1057 Add endpoints for WalletHistory entity.
    • #929 Add endpoints for PageBuilder stories, story blocks and import/export.
    • #1175 Add endpoints for DependingPrices.
  • Security
    • #886 Replace CoreFTP with FluentFTP.
    • #1004 Add captcha to password recovery form.
  • Add a setting for a maximum order age. For orders over this age, no more messages such as shipped or delivered may be sent to the buyer.
  • Skrill: added support for new parameter website_id (required for Giropay and iDeal payments).
  • PostFinance: Check whether an order already exists for a payment before an order is placed.
  • GMC
    • Only export images (not videos or other media types).
    • Export out of stock if inventory management and the buy button are deactivated.
  • Search Log: Added settings for the maximum search term length and the minimum number of search hits (to control which terms are logged).
  • #912 Add a setting to use the CultureInfo.NativeName in language selector instead of the language name maintained in backend.
  • #968 Allow to specify a language in which the notification is to be sent for manually created gift cards.
  • #1115 Use atomic transaction in PlaceOrder (save all or nothing).
  • #1158 Natural sorting for product attributes.
  • Added meta properties name and uploadDate for videos
  • (DEV) Database migrations: Long running data seeders can now be run during the request stage to overcome app startup timeout issues.
  • #965 Prevent adding of products to the shopping cart by system customers such as builtin@search-engine-record.com.
  • Increased the default maximum file size of an avatar and added a customer setting for this in backend.
  • Stripe:
    • Update shipping address on confirm order.
    • Update to API version *2024-09-30.acacia * (Stripe.net 47.0.0).
  • Addresses: make first and last name optional if a company name has been specified.
  • #1012 Estimate shipping costs without rules if no shipping method was found with rules.
  • PayPal: Orders were canceled when capturing was declined, now they are being voided instead.
  • #1020 Prevent creation of unnecessary Stripe "payment intent".
  • Added deletion of selected rows to the data grid of manufacturers, discounts, menus and topics.
  • ActivityLogger: don't log activities from system accounts (bots, scheduler, etc.).
  • Added specific browser automplete hints to some common forms
  • Identity: Moved ClientIdent and LastViditedPage from GenericAttribute to Customer table (for performance reasons and to distress GenericAttribute table)
  • Enable tokens (e.g. current date and time) for email subject in email export deployments.
  • PostFinance: added an order note with the selected payment method.
  • Customer import: providing a last name in an address should not be mandatory.
  • URL sanitizer for last visited page tracking.
  • For security reasons, do not delete administrators via the customer grid. Double ask if administrators are deleted via the edit page.
  • Added filters to shipping by total and shipping by weight grids.
  • #862 Changed resources of X (Twitter) to X.

Bugfixes

  • Fixed only the first product attribute of list type attributes was displayed on the cart and order page.
  • Fixed cart page shows 0 bundle item price if per-item pricing is deactivated.
  • #996 Limited to customer roles is not working for topics that are displayed as widgets.
  • #914 Featured sorting on category and manufacturer pages not applied when using standard search.
  • #1211 Sorting by price should consider the special price in LINQ search (including special price date).
  • Product attributes are lost when navigating to Ask Question page multiple times.
  • Checkout:
    • Fixed a new shipping address is used as the billing address in checkout.
    • #1105 Wrong sorting of shipping methods in checkout when multiple computation methods are active.
  • Product details:
    • Fixed a product can only be added to the shopping cart with a quantity of 1 if the stock quantity is below 0.
    • Fixed delivery time is not displayed when stock is empty.
    • Fixed an unavailable attribute was not grayed-out if the product has at least one non list-type attribute.
  • Required products:
    • #1024 Apply preselected options of required attributes of added products when required products are automatically added to shopping cart.
    • Fixed InvalidOperationException when adding a required product to cart that is already on the wishlist.
    • Fixed the validation of required products was missing if they were not automatically added to the shopping cart.
  • Fixed mini shopping cart displayed large placeholder images if the cart setting for bundle item images was deactivated.
  • Fixed cart settings for images on wishlist were always ignored.
  • Fixed the discount amount of an order can have an incorrect value if a discount rule was applied during the subtotal calculation.
  • #957 Fixed prices should not be hidden if the Access Shopping Cart permission has not been granted.
  • Fixed tier prices of product bundles were not taken into account in product lists if the lowest possible price is to be displayed.
  • #1041 Fixed ArgumentException "The resource object with key DateHumanize_MultipleMonthsAgo was not found (Parameter resourceKey)" in Czech language (probably also appears in others).
  • Fixed NullReferenceException calling search page without any search term.
  • Fixed NullReferenceException typeFilter was null when uploading a video.
  • Fixed NullReferenceException on product detail page if the main menu is not published.
  • MegaSearch:
    • Fixed missing search filters for specification attribute options with numeric values.
    • Hits from an SKU search tend to appear too far back.
  • Tax by region: fixed tax rate was not applied if asterisk placeholder character was saved for zip code.
  • #921 IOException "The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect" when MediaSettings.AppendFileVersionToUrl is activated.
  • #922 Newsletter subscription event not triggered upon email confirmation.
  • Language selector in off-canvas menu should show the same language name as in the main menu.
  • #936 Password protected topic was not displayed after password has been entered.
  • #955 Searching a product by product code in grids returns an infinite list.
  • Fixed the reward points for purchases setting was not saved in multi-store mode.
  • #960 Setting ManufacturerItemsToDisplayInOffcanvasMenu cannot be changed in backend.
  • Fixed offcanvas cart issue in mobile browsers (buttons in the footer were sometimes truncated).
  • #1197 Product grid search form does not parse the search term expression.
  • Page Builder:
    • Creating a story can result in the deletion of another story's store mappings.
    • Position of blocks can be lost in Page Builder editor.
    • Some radio button groups were not deselectable
    • Story min-height (medium | tall) often resulted in broken page layout
    • #991 topic target homepage was not imported correctly.
    • #938 Story is published in Page Builder editor.
  • Forum:
    • #951 The forum post page counter is always incremented by 2 when the page is opened.
    • Fixed HTML links are not displayed in posts.
  • Fixed a filter reset of the product grid does not work correctly.
  • Fixed validation issues when saving guest customers.
  • Web API:
    • #1066 Fixed schema validation errors for MaxLength attribute and OpenAPI OperationId.
    • #1186 Missing order in GET request if customer was deleted.
  • #1072 Missing customer welcome message after approval of the registration by admin.
  • #897 Discount code input seems to be confirmed (border color and check icon)
  • #964 Removed meta information from publication according to catalog settings.
  • Fixed shoping cart MinOrderValidation.
  • Added quantity information on non-editable wishlist page.
  • Some external authentication methods (like AmazonPay) were not displayed on customer pages.
  • Hitting the return key in the text field of a product variant resulted in a 404 status error.
  • Fixed QuantityBelowStoreOwnerNotification was sent twice.
  • #1001 MediaManager: fix moov atom not found ffmpeg issue in VideoHandler.
  • #1185 Image upload fails after selecting Replace or Rename in duplicate files dialog.
  • Fixed the e-mail subject was not transferred when sending an e-mail from customer edit page.
  • Fixed offcanvas problem whith mega sized page builder stories.
  • PayPal:
    • Fixed payment discount problem (discount from a formerly choosen payment method was applied).
    • Fixed VAT exempt & currency conversion problems.
    • Only the frist refund executed from the backend was accepted by PayPal.
    • Fixed unhandled payer action required problem for wallet payment methods.
  • #1042 Fixed broken roxy file manager.
  • #969 Promo badges are not rendered in frontend due to type mismatch.
  • Google Analytics: Fixed problem with single quotation mark in category name.
  • #983 Uploaded product variant file is lost after selecting any other variant option (in product details).
  • Fixed missing line breaks for product attributes in the print/PDF view of orders.
  • SEO:
    • Marked product list filter option links as nofollow.
    • fixed redirection error for TrailingSlashRule setting redirect.
  • Hide the cookie manager for topics that need to be fully visible without being overlayed by the cookie manager dialog.
  • #1091 Allow recursive cache access in AlbumRegistry.GetAlbumDictionary()
  • #1088 Special characters (like Umlaut) are not displayed correctly in client-side messages.
  • Files from subfolders must not be attached to an e-mail when deploying an export (can be thousands).
  • #1136 Datagrid Vue component throws when expanding child grid.
  • #1125 Buttons for payment methods that are restricted by cart rule to the subtotal amount are not shown/hidden when the item quantity is updated on the cart page.
  • Delete media tracks of variant values of permanent deleted products.
  • Show soft-deleted products on order edit page and in order details.
  • Fixed duplicate minus signs for amounts on the order detail page.
  • Category and manufacturer pages show "Relevance" as sorting, although only "Featured" is offered in the selection.
  • #234 The combination of multiple choice values (and-combine of checkbox values) is missing when creating all attribute combinations.
  • GMC:
    • Fixed missing product edit URL in product grid.
    • Fixed Google category cannot be cleared in product grid.
  • Fixed SqlException "String or binary data would be truncated" when generating URL slugs that are too long.
  • Fixed orders of deleted customers were not displayed in order grid.
  • ProductRuleEvaluatorTask should also take unpublished categories into account.
  • Fixed the generic attributes grid always displayed only one data page.

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 used (rules in admin area were unusable on touch devices).
  • When using Stripe or PayPal on cart page checkout attributes were reseted.

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 implementation: 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 5.0.0

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