Zen Cart 1.5.7d
1 March 2022
Zen Cart version 1.5.7d is now available.
Upgrading to Zen Cart 1.5.7d
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What's New in Zen Cart 1.5.7d
Core
- Many files have been updated for compatibility with PHP 7.2, 7.3 and 7.4. These changes, along with updating your PHP version, will make your cart faster.
Storefront
- Products with single-valued attributes (such as downloads) can now be added to the cart from the listing page.
- Product page now includes Ask a Question
- Contact Us page now includes a telephone number
- Improved handling of product restrictions such as units and minimum quantities.
- Define page added to shopping cart page for static content.
- The responsive classic template now meets accessibility standards for both desktop and mobile.
Admin
- Admins can now login to a customer account (login as that customer), to place an order on their behalf.
- Order Status may be updated from the order listing screen.
- Order Status emails are now sent in the language of the order.
- Order Status dropdown can now be sorted to match your business workflow.
- Order Status notification behavior for an Order Status update (send email/do not send email/hide update) may now be configured by an admin switch.
- Order Listing - hover for quick view of the products ordered or to see customer comments, without opening the order details. (Inspired by Info-At-A-Glance plugin).
- Improved customer search.
- Products to Categories Link Manager - Addition of a global tool to copy linked categories to another product.
- Product Copy expanded to include copy of metatags and linked categories.
- Validation for integer min and max values and email addresses.
- Improved configuration settings descriptions.
- Countries page is easier to perform enable/disable actions.
- Improved error messaging.
- Help links to the documentation website added to all pages.
- Products Viewed report now excludes bots and admins, and its database storage restructured to improve site performance.
- Alphabetical sorting of Reports and Tools menus.
- Validation and alerts for updating configuration settings, and other updates to sanitization layer.
- Improvements in Option Name/Value management.
- UI improvements for Attributes Controller, Featured, Option Names Manager, Option Values Manager, Products to Multiple Categories, Specials.
- Fixed last-order details on customer preview box on right.
- Checkout - Correction of order total layout issues on mobile in responsive_classic template.
- All known bugfixes and security fixes for v1.5.6 are included in v1.5.7
Email
- SPAM prevention built in to forms (Credits @davewest for zenNonCAPTCHA).
- Improvements made to increase email deliverability.
- Untranslatable text removed from emai