Major Highlights
- Optimized Layered Navigation for pricing
- Added CAPTCHA support for admin and customer users
- Added different base price per customer group
- Added auto generation of coupon codes
- Improved the basic Backup and Rollback functionality
- Added EU VAT ID validation service integration
- Implemented DHL for Europe
- Added REST API
- Mobile theme was redesigned
- Implemented the frontend Cookie Restriction functionality (EU cookie law compliance)
- Added the Cash On Delivery and Bank Transfer payment methods
Improvements
- XmlConnect package release v22.1
- Upgraded TinyMCE to v3.4.7
- Added the ability to translate action array parameter nodes in the layout.xml
- Added the support for using custom currency symbols
- Added the functionality for cleaning old cache files by cron tasks
- Refactored rules-based modules
- Improved customer address handling for PayPal Express checkout
- Added the ability to customize a store logo in emails from an admin
- Refactored the escaping functionality used for translations
- Added the ability to turn off/on IP tracking (e.g. ‘Placed from IP’, displayed on the order-related pages in the backend)
- Provided the logic for disabling ACL resources in configuration files
- Added additional place holders for extension developers
Changes
- Added support for “memcached” PHP extension
- The js/scriptaculous/dragdrop.js library is upgraded to version 1.9.0
- Files in .jpg format are allowed to be used for a favicon
- Added the ability to extend the list of attributes in the SELECT query for categories loaded via Mage_Catalog_Model_Resource_Category_Flat::_loadNodes()
- Added changes to lib/Varien/Http/Adapter/Curl.php to provide interface for setting different cURL options
- Displaying State or Province can be optional for any country
- Added the ability to get Magento type from Mage.php
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