Zen Cart 2.0.0

15 April 2024

Zen Cart version 2.0.0 is now available (major release).

Upgrading to Zen Cart 2.0.0

What's New in Zen Cart 2.0.0

• Admin: All Products, New Products, Featured Products and Specials pages are now configured the same way as product listing pages. See New/Featured/All Listing Configuration Settings. (Note: this means the menu items "All Listing," "New Listing" and "Featured Listing" under the Configuration Menu are no longer there; go to the Configuration > Product Listing menu instead.)
  
• Admin: product pages now have a show/hide image option.
  
• Admin: Consolidated product-type modules to reduce code duplication. Now, per-product-type specific files are only required if they differ from the main file.
  
• Admin: Corrected display of Who's Online.
  
• Admin: Corrected handling of salemaker start date/end date.
  
• Admin: Coupon Restrict dropdown only shows products not already selected.
  
• Admin: Customers default address id bug fix.
  
• Admin: Customers list will now show registration IP if set. This behavior may also be disabled; see admin specific overrides.
  
• Admin: Delete product checks to ensure product exists first.
  
• Admin: Developers now have a [template settings](/dev/code/template_settings/) file to facilitate template switching.
  
• Admin: Orders listing sidebox provides direct link to customer account.
  
• Admin: Order details page provides a direct link to customer account.
  
• Admin: Handle emails with embedded '+' signs.
  
• Admin: Improve layout of search box.
  
• Admin: Manufacturers page now has insert button when list is empty.
  
• Admin: Manufacturers image is now properly scaled when displayed.
  
• Admin: More pages converted to HTML5.
  
• Admin: Orders screen now uses ipdata.co for IP Address information retrieval.
  
• Admin: Order details page shows currency value for orders placed in non-default currency.
  
• Admin: Order details page shows weight for each product in an order.
  
• Admin: Order details page allows the user to copy addresses to the clipboard.
  
• Admin: Payment module "retirement" allows storeowners to continue using older payment modules for processing existing orders but not offer them for new orders. See Payment Module Retirement for details.
  
• Admin: PCI defined constants consolidated in a single file.
  
• Admin: Deprecated files superceded by admin/includes/admin_html_head.php. Plugin authors please see Admin Head Content for details.
  
• Admin: Search improvements for customers, coupons, developer's toolkit.
  
• Admin: Shipping modules may now access per-product dimension information. See Shipping Dimensions.
  
• Admin: Sort improvements for Specials and Featured pages.
  
• Admin: Zero valued database server settings were displayed as blanks on Admin > Version > "View the database configuration variables". They are now shown as zeroes.
  
• Core: Addition of manufacturer's part number (MPN) to the products table.
  
• Core: Addition of shipping tax rate to the orders table.
  
• Core: CrowdIn support for language translations.
  
• Core: Updates to international zones and country names.
  
• Core: Numerous updates for PHP 8.1 and 8.2 to resolve debug logs created by those newer PHP versions.
  
• Core: Dependency update - Updating to Font Awesome 6 (from 4.7). See Font Awesome for details.
  
• Core: Improved tax calculation accuracy throughout the cart.
  
• Core: When $db connection is down, generate fewer logs.
  
• Core: Performance improvements for stores with large databases.
  
• Core: Wholesale pricing now built-in. See Wholesale Pricing
  
• Core: Improve multi-currency handling throughout cart.
  
• Core: Fixes for PayPal constant MODULE_PAYMENT_PAYPALDP_MERCHANT_COUNTRY undefined.
  
• Storefront: Ability to compute category counts by distinct products, to avoid double-counting linked products. Users wishing this behavior should see site specific overrides.
  
• Storefront: Accessibility improvements.
  
• Storefront: An Accessibility page for storeowners to talk about what they have done to make their store accessible.
  
• Storefront: Additional Images are only shown if there is a main image. Users of the Additional Product Images plugin who wish to disable this behavior, see site specific overrides.
  
• Storefront: All Products, New Products, Featured Products and Specials pages are now laid out the same way as product listing pages. See New/Featured/All Listing Configuration Settings.
  
• Storefront: Category pages now support fluid listing format. See Columnar Layout for Category Listing pages
  
• Storefront: Coupons can be added to URLs and automatically applied. See Coupon Referrers
  
• Storefront: Group Discount tax calculation fixes.
  
• Storefront: Coupon with excluded products tax calculation fixes.
  
• Storefront: Responsive Classic template product images (main and additional) now shown in a modal dialog rather than a popup when clicked. See Popups.
  
• Storefront: Manufacturers sidebox shows scaled images.
  
• Storefront: PayPal date handling standardized.
  
• Storefront: PayPal Express Checkout zone and country correctly set for tax handling.
  
• Storefront: Shipping modules now visible in Shipping Estimator when zone restriction and non-pulldown state setting is used.
  
• Storefront: State dropdowns are now sorted alphabetically for all countries.
  
• System: All "extra" folders are now loaded alphabetically. In prior releases, they were loaded in filesystem order, which would sometimes result in system-dependent issues.
  
• System: The issue that caused the Uncaught IntlException: datefmt_create: invalid locale: U_ILLEGAL_ARGUMENT_ERROR problem for users running PHP 8.1/8.2 no longer requires configure.php changes.
  
• Database: Correction of known issues with zones.
  
• Installer: Improved UI and progress reporting in zc_install.