Zen Cart 1.5.5

20 March 2016

Zen Cart version 1.5.5 is now available (major release).

What's New in Zen Cart 1.5.5

• All known v1.5.4 bugfixes and security fixes are included in v1.5.5, including tighter control around XSS as well as clickjacking
• Template: The default out-of-the-box template (called "Responsive Classic") is now a mobile-friendly responsive-design theme built for flexibility with tablets, mobile devices, and desktops.
• Template: The core template_default files have been reviewed for HTML5 compliance, and a number of classes and IDs have been added to move older styling to CSS instead. Specific input-types like email/telephone for easier use on mobiles
• Admin: Admin menu improvements to help it fit tablet screens better
• Admin: Added customer-password reset via Admin
• Admin: Products Price Manager: Added display of taxes into prices
• Admin: Improvements to developers-toolkit and whos-online
• SEO: Numerous updates to canonical-url handling
• SEO: Added hreflang markup for better indexing of multilingual sites, and other HTML page-header metatag improvements
• Checkout: Order Details added to Checkout-Success page
• Payment: PayPal Express Checkout has numerous updated compatibilities added, including their latest InContext mobile support
• Payment: Added SagePay Form payment module (for hosted offsite PCI compliant credit card processing)
• Payment: Added First Data Hosted Checkout Payment Pages (Global Gateway e4) module (for hosted offsite PCI compliant credit card processing)
• Payment: Retired obsolete Linkpoint_API payment module (replaced by the new Payeezy JS module)
• Payment: Added Payeezy JS (First Data/Global Gateway e4) Payment module (for onsite PCI compliant credit card processing)
• Core: Added PHP 7.0 compatibility
• Core: Added MySQL 5.7 compatibility
• Core: Improved error-logging for troubleshooting (included @lat9's debug-backtrace mod)
• Core: Improved/simplified code for db query handling, allowing simple foreach() iterations instead of requiring while(!EOF) loops,
• Core: Added hooks to allow for 3rd-party-handling of taxes, for plugin support with orders, attributes, and much more
• Core: Fix some rounding errors
• Core: Added cron code for automated currency-updating, and currency sources can be selected from Admin->Config->My Store menu, and plugins can auto-show in this list
• Core: Fixed bug with a race condition causing database errors related to sessions
• Core: Simplified the configure.php file contents significantly by retaining only the most-often-customized components, and added an automatic-converter as part of zc_install's initial inspection
• Email: Integrated @lat9's "common CSS styling" for HTML emails
• Email: Added newer phpMailer integration (better compatibility with more email services), and email-failure errors are logged to /logs/ for easier debugging if problems occur
• Some language-file cleanups
• Improved compatibility for payment/shipping modules and SSL/TLS to work with the 2016 SHA-256 Secure Server initiatives being embraced by modern hosting companies and PCI Compliance
• Rewrote zc_install - fresh new look, will make future internal maintenance easier
• Replaced phpBB integration with generic hooks to allow for various external forums
• Security patches for alerts provided from various security watchdog sites
• Numerous other small improvements to make things work faster, sleeker, smarter and be easier to use