Magento Commerce 1.4 new version has been released! Magento is an open source eCommerce software.
New Features in Magento Commerce 1.4
- Implemented 3D Secure credit card validation (Visa and Mastercard)
- Full reimplementation of PayPal modules, includes lot of new functionality and numerous bugfixes
- Full review of frontend themes, introduced design cross-package fallback and the base/default theme. Includes SEO and accessibility enhancements. Changes are oriented to dramatically reduce themes maintenance.
- Added ability to define arbitrary cache backends
- Optimized performance of sales reports, added new sales report types
- Added image/media uploader/browser, that can browse entire media folder
- Optimized performance of search indexer
- Made order processing workflow more informative and severe
- Reimplemented 404 and report pages, introduced 503 page, specifically for maintenance purposes
- Improved javascript files merging, added CSS files merging
- Added Widgets functionality, added several widgets out of the box
- Added Custom Variables functionality
- Added lot of new System Configuration options
- Improved order placement reliability
- Added WYSIWYG for CMS and Catalog
- Optimized cache initialization during startup
- Optimized export from grids in admin area
- Improved tax and discount totals calculation
- Replaced admin notification flash popup into a simple HTML overlay
- Implemented product and category URLs per store view
- Added ability to configure entry point using virtualhost environment configuration, rather than creating another physical entry point
- Optimized simple product view without custom options
Tutorial: How to Install Magento Commerce 1.4
- Download Magento Commerce (you may need to register).
- Install Apache, PHP, MySQL. If you’re on Windows, download XAMPP here.
- Using MySQL admin, create a database for Magento.
- Unpack Magento to your Apache document root directory.
- Refer to Magento Installation Guide for more information.
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