Smartstore 6.4.0

Breaking Changes

• (DEV) Removed AsyncTo*() extension methods. Use To*Async() instead.
• (DEV) Removed IPaymentMethod.PaymentMethodType property. Use PaymentMethodTypeAttribute to SET, and ProviderMetadata.PaymentMethodType to GET the type instead.
• (DEV) Renamed ReturnRequest entity and database table to ReturnCase.

New Features

• Updated to .NET 10
  • Increased overall performance.
• Withdrawal plugin (commercial)
  • Enables customers to submit withdrawals online for eligible orders and items.
  • Supports compliance with EU rules for digital withdrawal.
• Warranty plugin (commercial)
  • Enables the configuration and display of harmonised EU labels for legal guarantee and commercial guarantee of durability.
• AI
  • New HTML text optimization command: Organize: Improves document structure and cleans up HTML markup.
  • #1445 Create a new image using the Media Manager.
  • Generate image: Quality levels (low, medium, or high) can now be specified, but only if the provider supports this feature.
  • Automatic llms.txt generation
• Required products
  • Automatically added required products can no longer be removed separately from the cart.
  • Required products can now keep their quantity in sync with the main product.
  • Added a setting to show prices of automatically added required products below the main product price.
• (DEV) Added JsonLdBuilder and JsonLdFragment to Smartstore.Json — a fluent, fragment-based API for contributing schema.org JSON-LD structured data from views, partials and components
• #1469 Show password policy and live validation on customer registration.
• #1141 Enable reward points to be awarded for subscribing to the newsletter.
• Topics: added an option to disable the narrow prose container and render non-widget topic pages in full width (default remains prose/narrow layout).
• Wallet
  • Wallet credits can be added to the shopping cart anywhere using a PageBuilder block.
  • An option has been added to display wallet credit amounts as buttons when purchasing credit.
• GMC
  • Added a setting to export products only for those for which Google data is specified.
  • When deleting rows in Google grid, delete the Google data assigned to the product.
  • Consider the permission to update products.
• Brevo Mailing list synchronization (commercial module)
• Rate limiter for queued emails to prevent overload during email bursts.
• New hidden system setting CommonSettings.MinLogLevelToRetain (for scheduled log cleanup operations)
• #1522 Add a cart rule "All products with delivery time in cart".
• #1512 Implement new VAT number status ServiceUnavailable.
• #1507 Add shipping details metadata for search engines to the product detail page.
• #1516 Overwrite CatalogSettings.DisplayAllImagesNumber on product level.
• (DEV) New Measure struct that represents a physical measurement.

Improvements

• (DEV) Event system: Consumer methods can now be declared for a base class or interface instead of the exact published type.
• Moved AI command tools from Media Manager toolbar to folder dropwdown menu.
• Enhanced bot and AI agent detection with heuristic checks further reduces DB junk.
• CAPTCHA
  • Improved fail-safe behavior to maintain user accessibility while blocking automated abuse
  • Fixed form submission issue in certain edge cases
• Event log
  • Log aggregation: Identical logs that occur within a 10-minute window are grouped together.
  • Stackframe formatter
  • Stackframe tools: copy to clipboard, wrap text
• Theming
  • Added .prose helpers for readable long-form content: optimized measure (narrow/standard/wide) plus comfortable typography defaults.
  • On mobile devices (< md), key product information such as brand, title, short description, badges, and rating summary is now displayed above the image gallery, not below.
  • Product lists now display available color options and other variants on touch devices by default, ensuring key information is visible without requiring user interaction or hover.
• #1459 Cart sorting: The selected items must always come before the unselected ones.
• #1503 Calculate reward points for a purchase based on the net subtotal rather than the gross total.
• Checkout: After payment confirmation on the third-party site, you will be redirected directly to the completed page if successful. The intermediate step via the confirmation page is omitted.
• #1465 Display the name of the applied discount on order edit page.
• #1471 Show the customer's email address next to their name on the order edit page.
• #1466 UI: Edit discount details page should use text-expander (more-less buttons) for "Assigned to xyz" fields.
• Improved guest session isolation to prevent unrelated visitors from being associated with an existing session under certain network conditions. Also hardened the client identification mechanism against edge cases in IPv6
  environments.
• UserAgent YAML mappings are now always updated from the embedded resource when a newer app version is deployed. A physical App_Data/useragent.yml is only used if it is strictly newer than the assembly. For true customizations, place the file at App_Data/useragent-custom.yml instead, which always takes highest priority.
• Payever
  • Better checkout flow for Zinia lending payment method
  • Reactivated instant payment by Santander
• PostFinance/Skrill: Improved the processing of webhook messages.
• Rebranded payever payment methods. Zinia became Openbank.
• Grouped products: The GTIN has been added as a header field in the list of associated products.
• Downloadable products
  • Sort downloadable products by order date in descending order in the my-account section.
  • Show download button for a downloadable product on order detail page.

Bugfixes

• Fixed the payment widget not displaying when payment methods are selected via radio buttons in checkout (the behaviour of icons and radio buttons needs to be equal).
• Fixes the issue of missing text blocks assigned to products via a rule when the "Featured Product" option is enabled in their product category.
• PostFinance: Fixed issue with TWINT payments regarding environment selection strategy.
• #1454 After being assigned to an entity, an image below the dropzone is not displayed.
• #1455 "Duplicate keys detected: row-undefined" in currency grid.
• Adding new addresses wasn't possible because model state was invalid due to missing email fields for registered customers.
• #1457 UI: "Show All" brand link content (ellipsis) is not centered in manufacturer carousel.
• Gemini: Fixed ArgumentNullException when creating embedded images in rich text.
• #1452 The off-canvas menu is called infinitely often if the permission for shop access is not granted.
• A modified, localized name of a payment method was incorrectly overwritten when string resources were updated.
• Export the entered and not the calculated price in CSV and XML export.
• OpenTrans: Fixed missing email addresses when exporting addresses.
• PageBuilder: Issues when previewing selected images while editing a media gallery block.
• The Summernote save button may produce a "languageId must be greater or less than zero" error.
• Stripe: Fixed bug where the order for which the hook was sent may not have been created yet.
• Many common CAPTCHA and Google reCAPTCHA fixes.
• #1472 GMC: Consider ManageInventoryMethod.ManageStockByAttributes when exporting availability and attribute combinations are exported as products.
• An uploaded image must be transient if the associated entity has not yet been saved.
• Fixed "Failed to add specification attribute" when assigning a specification attribute to a product.
• Fixed sitemap generator progress bar.
• Currency assignment by Country/IP lookup has not respected store restrictions.
• EasyCredit
  • Get cart by using the current store ID explicitly.
  • The checkboxes for overriding multistore settings were missing.
• Take the customer's preferred shipping method into account when updating the shopping cart.
• Fixed "The value '' is invalid" for category export filter.
• Pricing: Apply a product discount if a tier price equals the regular price.
• Export: Occasionally, the email created using a publishing profile would be missing the attachment containing the ZIP archive.
• #1532 Double encoding of Facebook and Twitter metadata.
• After an order has been placed, the download of an uploaded checkout attribute file must no longer be marked as transient.

Smartstore 6.3.0

Breaking Changes

• (DEV) Added IEventMessage marker interface and enforced it across the pub/sub pipeline to standardize and validate event contracts.

WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines)

• Added Skip list button for all product, category, tag, blog and news listings.
• The following frontend sections have been updated to improve accessibility for screen readers:
  • Homepage products, categories, brands and product tags.
  • Compare products, wishlist and cart page.
  • Checkout process.
  • Product lists.
  • "All manufacturers" page.
  • PhotoSwipe
  • PageBuilder story blocks.
• Summernote: Allow query string in mp4, webm and ogg urls.

New Features

• AI
  • Edit images in the Media Manager using a text prompt and selected images.
  • File-based provider metadata used to store and organize information about LLM models.
  • Added Anthropic Claude AI provider.
  • Added Ollama AI provider.
  • ChatGPT:
    • Support text and image generation using GPT 5.1
  • Gemini:
    • Support text generation using Gemini 3.0 Pro
    • Support image generation and editing using Nano Banana Pro (gemini-3-pro-image-preview).
    • Support image generation and editing using Nano Banana (gemini-2.5-flash-image).
• Payment
  • PayPal: Added support for Apple Pay.
  • #1370 Add a payment provider for easyCredit purchase on account.
• CAPTCHA
  • Modular CAPTCHA architecture with a pluggable provider interface.
  • Replaced hard-wired reCAPTCHA logic with a provider model.
  • CaptchaFox integration (commercial module)
  • Friendly Captcha integration (commercial module).
• #112 Visually group specification attributes on product detail page.
• #1381 Add a compare price to attribute combinations.
• #1386 Customer roles: Extend the permission tree so that nodes with descendants show whether descendant permissions have been granted.
• #934 Add cart rules property to PageBuilder stories to dynamically toggle their visibility.
• #1264 Batch-assign products to categories.
• New Rule Builder rules:
  • #1372 Cart rule for the total cart weight.
  • Cart rule that checks whether a product from a category or one of its subcategories is in the shopping cart.
  • Cart rule to check that all products in the shopping cart are from the specified categories.
  • #1425 Cart rule that is fulfilled when the customer is subscribed to the newsletter.
• #1357 Pricing: Add a setting that takes tiered prices of products into account, that are assigned by an attribute of type "linked product".
• #690 Apple Sign-In support
• Added support for extensionless static files in wwwroot/.well-known directory
• FileManager: Enabled language dependent tabs
• GMC
  • #1341 Enable the selection of product images to be exported.
  • Export more shipping data (handling time, length, width and height of a product).
• EmailReminder: Added Google Reviews to the review reminder.
• #1411 Pixlr: The user should decide on a session basis whether to open the express or full editor.

Improvements

• Bumped all jquery.validate libraries
• Asset Bundling: Replaced DouglasCrockford.JsMin with NUglify.
• Summernote
  • Horizontal editor resizer
  • Activated file browser (MediaManager)
  • Responsive video embed
• Blog
  • New global display options: Grid layout, 2/3 column mode, intro length restriction, aspect ratio setting for grid view.
  • Mobile optimization: Pictures will now always be displayed above text on mobile devices.
  • Better control of preview image display by setting the aspect ratio.
  • Better control of detail image display by setting the Maximum height of the picture
  • New setting for the Navigation End Date
  • #1410 Blog posts configured for a single language will no longer return a 404 error when accessed with an unavailable language selection.
• Theming: .art-drop should adopt $art-active-border-color

• #1016 Don't ask registered customers for email when entering billing or shipping address.
• #1327 Product rules/MegaSearch: Consider start and end dates of a discount when applying the "HasDiscount" rule.
• Allow new attribute options to be added when assigning specification attributes to a product.
• EasyCredit: Do not hide the installment calculator if EasyCredit is not offered at checkout due to cart rules.
• etracker: Updated module to use latest script & added event submission for product view, list view and orders.
• Added option for queued email grid to filter for subject.
• #1122 AI: Replace the Betalgo library with the official OpenAI .NET library.
• #1393 Missing bubble help hints in the backend address editor template.
• Public export files have been moved to a new tenant folder for data exchange.
• Return Requests:
  • #1196 Avoid duplicate return requests for a product.
  • The quantity to return reflects the number of products that have already been returned.
  • Display information about products that have already been returned, including their current status.
• Web API: Allow guest customers to be created.
• Convert JSON strings to HTML for notifications.
• Trailing slash URL rule: Don't apply rule to static file requests (e.g. robots.txt).
• #1156 The last items added to the basket must be instantly visible in offcanvas cart.
• #208 Linkbuilder: Added possibility to define a link target.
• #1404 FileManager must not render tab content via AJAX, as search engines must be able to read the content in its entirety.
• PostFinance: Migrated to Wallee REST API v2.
• Support of multiple discounts with the same coupon code.

Bugfixes

• #1433 The shopping cart is not migrated when a new customer account is created using external authentication.
• ChatGPT: Fixed image creation errors "Invalid value".
• Attribute combination image could not be selected on product edit page.
• #1361 Add a migration to consolidate duplicate ActivityLogType entries.
• Fixed unnecessary single navigation dot in slick slider.
• EntityPicker did not remove unselected items from preselection in append mode.
• MegaSearch: Take customer roles and store restrictions into account when selecting the top entities.
• MegaMenu
  • The background image should not overlap the menu item content.
  • The link count in a single column often exceeds the configured setting.
  • Fixed duplicate key error in IX_MegaMenu_EntityId index.
• After applying a discount code or moving a product to the wish list, deactivated shopping cart products were not displayed.
• PageBuilder
  • #1367 Do not hide the setting that displays the manufacturer's name in slider product lists.
  • Video in a video block was not rendering in Chrome.
• Fixed missing log entry and notification for a payment exception.
• Stripe
  • Orders were created after the 3D Secure check, even though the payment was declined.
  • Set selected payment method on customer level was missing when using Link cart button.
  • Restored setting of correct payment status.
  • Better handling of web hook messages.
• PostFinance
  • Fixed an issue where the amount paid sometimes differs from the order total.
  • #1423 Avoid "The provided security token is invalid" error due to security token expiration.
  • Occasionally, orders were not automatically marked as "paid".
• Wallet
  • Fixed formatting of currency amounts in message template.
  • Save the order ID when editing a wallet entry in the wallet grid on the customer edit page.
  • Clicking on the "wallet" link in the notification message produced a 404 error.
  • #1432 Wallet: Use service methods for Web API REST endpoints.
• AmazonPay: Do not apply the customer email address for guests.
• Payment methods with rules are missing on the customer edit page when changing the preferred payment method.
• Verify balanced parentheses in data grid search filter expressions, preventing runaway memory usage from malformed search terms.
• Do not display the default date value when adding reward points via backend grid.
• Avoid HTTP error 500, which can be caused by an attribute alias that is too long.
• When filtering products without category assignment, deleted categories must not be included.
• AI
  • Fixed streaming problem if the original HTML contains comments.
  • Fixed streaming problem with HTML entities (e.g. &)
• Link builder: The editor displayed an URL with an attached link target.
• #1444 SQLite throws "'JULIANDAY' was constructed with 1 arguments, but the nullability was defined for 2 arguments"

Smartstore 6.2.0

Breaking Changes

• Web API: The PaymentMethods/GetAllPaymentMethods endpoint has been enhanced to return all information about a payment provider.

WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines)

• The following frontend sections have been made accessible to screen readers:

  • Laguage and currency selectors
  • Customer's "My account", order and shipment details, and return requests.
  • Customer identity features such as login and registration.
  • Catalog and associated products search boxes
  • All elements in the footer
  • Article list actions
  • CookieManager dialog. It also traps the focus until it's closed.
  • Catalog facets
  • Contact us
  • Checkout process
  • Product detail pages
  • Offcanvas Menu
  • Offcanvas Cart

• The following plugins have been updated to provide better accessibility for screen readers:

  • Blog
  • Direct Order
  • Email Reminder
  • File Manager
  • Forums
  • GDPR
  • MegaSearchPlus (extended facet templates)
  • News
  • Offline Payment
  • Polls
  • Wallet

• A script to handle key navigation has been implemented. It identifies the role of several components and determines their navigateable child elements.

  • MenuPlugin handles all items of role="menubar" based on subitems of role="menu" & role="menuitem". It is used in ...
    • the main catalog navigation in the simple version, without the MegaMenu plugin, and in the MegaMenu version.
  • TablistPlugin handles all items of role="tablist" based on subitems role="tab". It is used in ...
    • the Offcanvas Menu
    • the Offcanvas Cart
  • TreePlugin handles all items of role="tree" based on subitems of role="treeitem". It is used in ...
    • the catalog navigation in the Offcanvas Menu
  • ListboxPlugin handles widgets using role="listbox" based on subitems of role="option". It is used in ...
    • language and currency select lists
    • all dropdown menus rendered by menu TagHelper
    • Variant color squares in art list
  • DisclosurePlugin handles standalone disclosures & accordions. It is used in ...
    • CookieManager dialog
    • Article list dropdowns (.art-drop is the element which contains article actions e.g. add to cart, add to wishlist)
    • Product list filter button for mobile devices
    • Footer (on mobile displays)
    • My account toggler (on mobile displays)
  • ComboboxPlugin integrates ListboxPlugin navigation, opens/closes the dropdown, and supports both single- and multi-select via data-ak-multiselect=true. It is used in ...
    • Article list sorting dropdown
    • language and currency selector

• A script has been implemented to handle focus trapping for modal components. While a modal is open, Tab cycles from the last to the first focusable element (and Shift + Tab the reverse), so keyboard focus cannot leave the modal until it is closed.

• Nested nav elements were removed from the top bar.

• Removed zooming constrictions from viewport meta property.

• The 'Skip to main content' button has been implemented.

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New Features

• Idealo Feed plugin (commercial)

Improvements

• Allow an order to be completed if its payment has been refunded.
• The author of a blog or news post has been added to the Open Graph metadata.
• Stripe:
  • Void the order if a message about a failed payment has been sent to the webhook.
  • Payment status (Paid & Authorized) was set too early in the checkout process.

Bugfixes

• The order of products in lists was reversed for featured sorting.
• Fixed a NullReferenceException on the cart page when shopping cart items are activated or deactivated.
• Fixed ArgumentNullException when adding a product to a category if SearchSettings.UseCatalogSearchInBackend is enabled.
• #1360 Deleting a product review that includes helpfulness entries results in a SqlException.
• Fixed Failed to read NuGet.config due to unauthorized access exception.
• Summernote
  • Browsing and selecting files in the link or image dialog also closes the opener dialog.
  • Fixed list/paragraph toggle conflict when li contains p
• Forum: Avoid 404 when viewing deleted customer profile.
• My-account header only shows uploaded avatar after page reload.
• PageBuilder
  • Slick slider cuts off the edit toolbar.
  • Some widget zone names appeared twice when editing a story.
  • Fixed: Product details were not updating when a story with a slick slider was placed in the widget zone productdetail_offer_after.
• The "Latest Orders" dashboard does not display the full name of guests.
• A bug that caused an old script to be loaded from the browser cache, resulting in an endless minibasket loading process, has been fixed.
• The handling of multi-store settings for the AI modules and performance settings has been corrected.
• Added route attribute to the actions Patch and PatchLocalized of the EntityController to avoid a 404 error which occurred under certain undetermined conditions.
• Use a relative product URL instead of an absolute one to avoid the JS error "Failed to execute replaceState on History".
• PayPal: If Google Pay was initially selected on the payment selection page, a script error occurred which prevented all PayPal buttons from loading.
• AmazonPay: Fixed issue of the private key being unintentionally deleted when saving a multistore configuration.
• Added missing xml declaration to sitemap index file.
• Do not create database tables for NamedEntity and VariantValueMetadata.
• Customer profile did not display the private message button or the forum statistics.
• Fixed display of error notification in OffCanvasCart.
• Do not display ActivityLogType with the same system keyword multiple times.

Smartstore 6.1.0

New Features

• Updated to .NET 9
  • Increased overall performance
• AI
  • #1258 Added DeepSeek AI provider.
  • Added Gemini AI provider.
  • Added Continue Writing for HTML editor
  • #1259 Implemented setting for keywords to generally avoid.
• Added settings to add alternate links for localized page versions to the XML Sitemap and HTML Header.
• Import: Added an option to update all products that match a key field value.
• #1142 Implemented configurable Content-Security-Policy (CSP) HTTP header.
• #990 Added a weight field to attribute combinations.
• Added a setting to control whether shipping costs are displayed on the cart page as long as the customer has not yet entered a shipping address.
• Shipping by total: Added a setting to let the shipping origin determine the shipping cost if the shipping address is missing.
• #501 New category option for ignoring a category in menus.
• #248 Catalog search: Added an option for featured product sort order.
• #1281 Added shipping setting: Apply free shipping over 'X' only for specific shipping countries.
• MegaSearch:
  • ~20% performance increase
  • Added setting to indicate whether to split compound words.
  • Added setting to include/exclude the meta keywords of products in the search index.
  • #1275 Import of product keywords (import file column MegaSearch.Product.Keywords).
• Summernote HTML editor:
  • Save HTML content without reloading the page
  • Emoji support
    • Multi-language labels, tags and shortcodes
    • Search for labels and CLDR shortcodes
    • Inline GitHub-style emoji picker
  • Zoom support ranging from 25% to 500%
  • Displays the tag path of the current selection
  • Sticky toolbar when the editor is focused
  • Added a feature to allow AI to continue writing
• #1225 Added settings to sort search filters of facet groups: category, brand, and delivery time.
• Added PDF setting for the maximum number of objects to print.
• Fixed number of attachments always being 0 in queued email list.
• EmailReminder: Added task to send bonus points reminders.
• Added setting to round the amount of reward points for a purchase.
• #1150 Added a setting to hide orders in My Account.
• #1242 Rule Builder: Added a cart rule fulfilled when the cart contains a product with a specific SKU.
• #509 Added payment status setting for offline payments.
• #1010 Allowed the admin to align a blog or news image within its element box.
• #1261 Blogs and news: Added a setting indicating whether to allow users to leave comments if they have never purchased before.
• #1263 Allowed the admin to mark an order as paid even if the payment was previously voided.
• PayPal:
  • Added support for GooglePay.
  • Added option for admin to decide how to handle orders declined by payment.
  • Removed Giropay provider.
  • Added Trustly provider.

Improvements

• Quick-Checkout: Allowed all payment methods to be specified as the preferred payment method.
• #1266 Refreshed browser URL when a product variant changes so that it points to the current variant.
• #1226 Enhanced ResetPasswordAsync to detect and repair accidental guest role assignments.
• #214 Added backend menu entry for each Rule Builder scope.
• Updated dbip-country-lite.mmdb.
• Logging: Added client UserAgent string to log entries.
• Improved processing of recurring payments.
• AI:
  • More robust prompting
  • Added new bot detection patterns to useragent.yml.
• ChatGPT:
  • #1262 Updated OpenAI supported models to the latest and most relevant: gpt-4o, gpt-4o-mini, gpt-4.1, gpt-4.1-mini, gpt-4.1-nano, gpt-3.5-turbo
  • Added a setting for the maximum number of completion tokens.
  • Added support for gpt-image-1 and removed dall-e-2
• #1236 PayPal: Added setting to disable address application in case the store's address validation settings need to be respected.
• #1274 Recycle Bin: Possibility to filter products with/without assignment to orders.
• Store cookie consent information in database and display on customer edit page.
• Display the dimension and weight of a product without ending 0 decimal places.
• #1163 GMC: Updated feed to use new certification attribute for EU energy efficiency classes.
• #1282 More neutral message text when the password is reset.
• Fixed missing HTML meta item for price on product detail page when price is 0.00.

Bugfixes

• Fixed occasional incorrect shipping costs applied based on shipping address.
• #1229 Fixed HTTP client timeout when sending an order placed message with PDF attached.
• #1235 Fixed products remaining published when stock equals the minimum stock quantity, and low stock activity is set to unpublish.
• #1234 Deleting a customer who has made forum posts throws a SqlException.
• Fixed incorrect discounted price on product detail page due to missing cache invalidation.
• Checkout:
  • Fixed checkout shipping link not opening the shipping information dialog.
  • Fixed missing shipping-address-differs checkbox for guests who have not yet entered an address.
  • Fixed checkout bug when address country is null.
• Fixed an issue where tier prices could be missing when exporting the associated product data.
• Logging: Excluded file source from DB logging.
• Fixed missing base path resolution for bootstrap-icons.svg.
• Ignored surrogate characters (emojis) when building URL slugs.
• #1269 Redirected entity slugs to the default language slugs after disabling a language.
• Page Builder:
  • Child stories were not rendered in edit mode.
• ChatGPT:
  • Fixed NullReferenceException and deprecated model error when creating image metadata.
  • #1241 Added setting for token limit (max_completion_tokens), processing responses in chunks.
  • Fixed unintentional truncation of suggestions.
• AI:
  • Respect text direction of the selected language in the rich-text dialog.
  • Fixed a bug where the prompt preview incorrectly generated a new text request when opened via the Summernote AI button.
  • Manufacturer prompt had messages for rich text generation when SEO properties were about to be created.
• Summernote HTML editor:
  • Fixed unwanted line break after caret position due to outdated beautify library.
  • Fixed various focus handling and popover issues.
  • Fixed various code synchronization issues.
  • AI: HTML editor no longer records undo after applying an answer.
  • Fixed incorrect application of target attribute in LinkDialog.
  • Fixed anchor update issue in LinkDialog after resetting settings.
  • Fixed various dialog layout issues.
• Fixed duplicate key violation (IX_UrlRecord_Slug) when copying a product with identical localized names.
• Prevented negative total tax amounts resulting from negative payment method fees.
• #1238 Fixed NullReferenceException when manually triggering recurring payments.
• GPSR:
  • Fixed NullReferenceException when multiple product rules assigned to text blocks.
  • Fixed rare cases of missing manufacturer information display.
• Prevented InvalidOperationException due to entity already attached when processing order completion notifications.
• MegaMenu now clears the output cache when settings change.
• MegaSearch: Fixed unpublished product tags not being indexed.
• Fixed InvalidOperationException related to missing Content-Type header in GDPR consent filter.
• Fixed cookie migration issue.
• #1233 Forum: Displayed posts marked as deleted.
• PayPal:
  • Fixed order status updates on webhook notifications with direct capture settings.
  • Fixed credit card payment issue with activated Quick-Checkout.
  • Fixed PayPal buttons displaying incorrectly after quantity control usage on shopping cart.
• Excluded inactive items during shopping cart validation for recurring/non-recurring products.
• Excluded Web API endpoint URLs from applying TrailingSlashRule (avoids HTTP 401 error).
• #1245 Fixed missing image preview after drag-and-drop in product detail configuration.
• Fixed delivery time display issue for products out of stock based on DeliveryTimeIdForEmptyStock.
• #1249 Logged activity when deleting entities from the data grid.
• Fixed AmazonPay Logout button displayed incorrectly on checkout completion page.
• Fixed missing error notification for unpaid order completion attempts.
• Fixed scrolling to selected section in manufacturer navigation.
• Billiger & Guenstiger: Fixed cookie information displaying when tracking disabled.
• MegaMenu: Fixed initialization issue with input controls.
• Fixed rare cases of the log list not loading.
• Fixed bug preventing shopping cart migration after external login.

Smartstore 6.0

Breaking Changes

• Removed Sofort provider from PayPal module (disabled by PayPal on 18.04.2024)
• Storage location for Customer.LastVisitedPage has changed. The historical data will be collected again successively after the update.

New Features

• Conditional product attributes
  • Makes the visibility of an attribute dependent on the selection state of other attributes.
  • Copying attributes, options and rules from one product to another.
• Improved checkout process
  • Quick-Checkout allows to skip addresses, shipping and payment method selection if these are known.
  • The order total amount is displayed in a sticky sidebar on each checkout page.
  • Improved design and greater legal certainty of the confirmation page.
  • One-click checkout for sales at retail terminals.
• Essential specification attributes
  • Specification attributes marked as an essential feature are displayed in the checkout.
• Cart & wishlist enhancements
  • Disable cart items via checkbox.
  • Show delivery time, stock info, weight, additional shipping surcharge and brand.
• Grouped product enhancements
  • Optional presentation of associated products as collapsible/expandable panels.
  • Added paging for associated products.
• EU General Product Safety Regulation (GPSR) plugin (commercial)
  • Manufacturer information (postal address, responsible person) is displayed in product details.
  • Warnings and safety instructions are added as text blocks and assigned to the product manually or automatically via product rules.
• MailChimp plugin (commercial)
• Pixlr image editing plugin (commercial)
  • Create and edit images directly in the Media Manager.
• Updated to .NET 8
  • Faster app startup
  • Increased overall performance
  • ~10 % less memory usage after app start
• DevTools: New widget zone preview panel
  • Lists all zones in a menu
  • Zones can be temporarily toggled
• #371 Importer for manufacturers.
• Toggle password visibility
• New app setting for MS SQL Server compatibility level
• Enhanced database optimization and vacuum operations
• Vacuum single database table
• #909 Allow to control the product availability based on the existence of an attribute combination.
• New catalog setting to label products as new by the availability start date.
• MegaSearch
  • Setting to place the search hits of unavailable products further back in the search list.
  • Finding products by keywords (e.g. product compatibility list). Also added product meta keywords to the search index.
  • Added price calculation options for the price to be indexed.
• Affiliates: Added a button to remove the assignment of a customer to an affiliate on customer edit page.
• Import news from RSS news feeds.
• Reverse proxy: added support for X-Forwarded-Prefix header (for PathBase resolution)
• Page Builder
  • Added AudioPlayer block
• Added cart rules to Rule Builder
  • #971 Customer's external authentication method
  • #896 Customer is an affiliate
  • VAT number status
  • Tax exempt
  • Billing/shipping to EU
  • Billing/shipping to company
• Product details
  • #997 Added a setting to disable display of product tags.
  • #1127 Display reward points.
  • #1201 Added a setting to display the price with the suffix "from" if no variant has yet been selected.
• #858 Implemented Paypal package tracking
• #1100 Display customer generic attributes in backend
• #1129: Extend the PrivacySettings CookieConsentRequirement option to include Switzerland when choosing the option RequiredInEUCountriesOnly
• #762 CookieManager: Scripts are now loaded immediately after consent without refreshing the page.
• #783 Add a field to shipment entity for the name of the cargo company.
• #1176 Avoid duplicate assignment of description on the product page.
• #528 Add an option to no longer allow posts on a forum topic.
• #1204 Added settings to enable/disable the RSS feed in blogs and news.
• #1210 Add a setting to not apply a discount associated with a product when the special price of the product is applied.
• PayPal: Add addresses returned by PayPal to the customer and set billing and shipping addresses.

Improvements

• #876 Changing password in backend via modal dialog.
• #871 Show the total media file size in dashboard stats.
• Theming
  • Revamped SignIn / Register page
  • Revamped dashboard stats
  • Multi-level dropdown groups
  • Activate .spa-layout only on screen height > 600px (DataGrid is unusable in mobile landscape mode otherwise)
• Page Builder
  • Fixed boxed titles spacing and line-height issues
• Web API
  • Enabling CORS.
  • #928 Mask the secret key in backend API user list.
  • #1057 Add endpoints for WalletHistory entity.
  • #929 Add endpoints for PageBuilder stories, story blocks and import/export.
  • #1175 Add endpoints for DependingPrices.
• Security
  • #886 Replace CoreFTP with FluentFTP.
  • #1004 Add captcha to password recovery form.
• Add a setting for a maximum order age. For orders over this age, no more messages such as shipped or delivered may be sent to the buyer.
• Skrill: added support for new parameter website_id (required for Giropay and iDeal payments).
• PostFinance: Check whether an order already exists for a payment before an order is placed.
• GMC
  • Only export images (not videos or other media types).
  • Export out of stock if inventory management and the buy button are deactivated.
• Search Log: Added settings for the maximum search term length and the minimum number of search hits (to control which terms are logged).
• #912 Add a setting to use the CultureInfo.NativeName in language selector instead of the language name maintained in backend.
• #968 Allow to specify a language in which the notification is to be sent for manually created gift cards.
• #1115 Use atomic transaction in PlaceOrder (save all or nothing).
• #1158 Natural sorting for product attributes.
• Added meta properties name and uploadDate for videos
• (DEV) Database migrations: Long running data seeders can now be run during the request stage to overcome app startup timeout issues.
• #965 Prevent adding of products to the shopping cart by system customers such as builtin@search-engine-record.com.
• Increased the default maximum file size of an avatar and added a customer setting for this in backend.
• Stripe:
  • Update shipping address on confirm order.
  • Update to API version *2024-09-30.acacia * (Stripe.net 47.0.0).
• Addresses: make first and last name optional if a company name has been specified.
• #1012 Estimate shipping costs without rules if no shipping method was found with rules.
• PayPal: Orders were canceled when capturing was declined, now they are being voided instead.
• #1020 Prevent creation of unnecessary Stripe "payment intent".
• Added deletion of selected rows to the data grid of manufacturers, discounts, menus and topics.
• ActivityLogger: don't log activities from system accounts (bots, scheduler, etc.).
• Added specific browser automplete hints to some common forms
• Identity: Moved ClientIdent and LastViditedPage from GenericAttribute to Customer table (for performance reasons and to distress GenericAttribute table)
• Enable tokens (e.g. current date and time) for email subject in email export deployments.
• PostFinance: added an order note with the selected payment method.
• Customer import: providing a last name in an address should not be mandatory.
• URL sanitizer for last visited page tracking.
• For security reasons, do not delete administrators via the customer grid. Double ask if administrators are deleted via the edit page.
• Added filters to shipping by total and shipping by weight grids.
• #862 Changed resources of X (Twitter) to X.

Bugfixes

• Fixed only the first product attribute of list type attributes was displayed on the cart and order page.
• Fixed cart page shows 0 bundle item price if per-item pricing is deactivated.
• #996 Limited to customer roles is not working for topics that are displayed as widgets.
• #914 Featured sorting on category and manufacturer pages not applied when using standard search.
• #1211 Sorting by price should consider the special price in LINQ search (including special price date).
• Product attributes are lost when navigating to Ask Question page multiple times.
• Checkout:
  • Fixed a new shipping address is used as the billing address in checkout.
  • #1105 Wrong sorting of shipping methods in checkout when multiple computation methods are active.
• Product details:
  • Fixed a product can only be added to the shopping cart with a quantity of 1 if the stock quantity is below 0.
  • Fixed delivery time is not displayed when stock is empty.
  • Fixed an unavailable attribute was not grayed-out if the product has at least one non list-type attribute.
• Required products:
  • #1024 Apply preselected options of required attributes of added products when required products are automatically added to shopping cart.
  • Fixed InvalidOperationException when adding a required product to cart that is already on the wishlist.
  • Fixed the validation of required products was missing if they were not automatically added to the shopping cart.
• Fixed mini shopping cart displayed large placeholder images if the cart setting for bundle item images was deactivated.
• Fixed cart settings for images on wishlist were always ignored.
• Fixed the discount amount of an order can have an incorrect value if a discount rule was applied during the subtotal calculation.
• #957 Fixed prices should not be hidden if the Access Shopping Cart permission has not been granted.
• Fixed tier prices of product bundles were not taken into account in product lists if the lowest possible price is to be displayed.
• #1041 Fixed ArgumentException "The resource ob...

Smartstore 5.1.0

New Features

• Currency rounding:
  • Added currency properties and settings for rounding: midpoint rounding, skip rounding when displaying net prices, round unit price before or after quantity multiplication
  • Amounts are always rounded when calculating the order total to avoid rounding differences (usually of 1 cent)
• The recycle bin for products enables to restore and permanently delete products
• payever plugin (commercial)
• Botsonic plugin (commercial)
• Media Manager now allows image files to be re-processed based on the current media and post processor settings.
• Cart quantity input control now respects the product's available stock (as max input)
• #823 Added canonical URL to search pages
• #745 Page Builder: depend story visibility on user roles
• Added option to configure allowed characters for user names
• #836 Added option to define additional lines for robots.txt

Theming

• Infrastructure
  • Forked & customized Bootstrap framework. Our implementation combines version 4.6 and 5.x. We have not made any modifications to the JavaScript files; only SCSS has been customized. The primary objective is to maintain compatibility with the original Bootstrap documentation for developer convenience.
  • Logical CSS for better RTL support
  • Added subtle and emphasis colors to the color system
  • Revamped button styling
  • Revamped dropdown styling
  • Revamped select2 styling
  • Revamped pagination styling
  • Revamped modal window styling
  • Badges: new variants and modifiers .badge-subtle, .badge-outline-*, .badge-ring, .badge-counter
  • Revamped check & radio styling: new variants and modifiers .form-check-solo, .form-check-{color}, .form-switch, .form-switch-lg
  • Many improvements to input groups, button groups and collapsibles
  • Sass variables for all easings, contained in _easings.scss
  • Dropped responsive (rfs) spacing
• Frontend
  • New grid breakpoint xxl (1400px)
  • Made components rounder by slightly increasing border-radius variables
  • Revamped product listing action bar styling (sorting, view mode, pagination)
  • On screens < md, the offcanvas window for product filter slides in from bottom and also provides the sorting options
  • Revamped offcanvas main menu
  • Revamped image gallery styling
  • Revamped cart, wishlist & order confirm
  • Fixed Slick slider dotted navigation responsiveness issues
  • Slightly improved InstantSearch box and dropdown
  • Revamped product tags component
  • Dropdown product quantity input (automatically rendered instead of spinner if possible quantities do not exceed 100).
  • Revamped checkout progress indicator
  • Revamped scroll-to-top button
  • Revamped cookie consent dialog styling
  • Dropped Triple Date Picker component in favour of browser native date picker
  • Unstyled links are underlined by default
  • New responsive and collapsible MyAccount menu with avatar image, customer name and email address in header.
• Backend
  • Revamped Configuration / Settings and made settings menu responsive
  • Revamped plugin and provider managers
  • New colorpicker component with swatches
  • Revamped number input styling
  • Locale editor tab navigation has been redesigned and is now more responsive

Improvements

• Increased performance:
  • Added hash codes to attribute combinations. With a large number of attribute combinations, variants are found much faster now.
  • Fixed slow loading of product categories for a large number of categories. Price calculation and product export were affected.
  • MediaSearcher always performed a LIKE search for terms (the equals operator was missing)
  • #820 More scalable media service dupe file detection
• Improved plugin & provider manager UI
• MegaSearch: #842 added hit count for availability filter. Hide filter if it leads to no further hits.
• Use billing address if there is no shipping address and tax calculation is based on shipping address.
• #580 Added caching for live currency exchange rates.
• #767 Handle tier prices in depending prices module.
• #378 Remove the assignments of products to a tax category when the tax category is deleted.
• Blogs and news: added counter for pageviews and author field. Both displayed for admins only.
• Product tags:
  • #388 Ajaxify product tag selection in backend.
  • Added search panel to product tags grid.
• Web API:
  • #142 Take back in stock notifications into account.
  • #805 Add endpoints to assign discounts to entities.
  • #821 Add endpoints for RecurringPayment and RecurringPaymentHistory.
  • Add endpoints for the recycle bin of products.
• Import:
  • #390 Add a setting for whether to send the completion email.
  • #377 Import cross- and checkout-selling products.
• #503 Don't round quantity unit amount for PAnGV.
• #403 Added preview image link of NewsItem to RSS feed.
• #276 Enable to set the time of day for start and end date of discounts.
• #486 Add setting to capture payment when order status changes to complete.
• #782 Make the total weight of a shipment editable.
• #782 Enable to mark shipments of an order as shipped or delivered via orders grid.
• Added ability to edit delivery time in product grid
• #807 Enable absolute Paths for DataExchangeSettings.ImageImportFolder.
• #786 Replace TripleDatePicker with native input type date.
• #804 Implemented the new TrustBadge integration mode, including new settings for positioning, color scheme, etc.
• #819 Fix zoom on product detail page when there is a large right column.
• PayPal credit card: Removed address fields and integrated Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) instead.
• #834 Make the expiration date of visitor cookies of guests configurable.
• #493 Display quantity name plural when quantity unit is more then 1.
• #847 EU check VAT service: switch from SOAP to REST API
• #763 Display admin edit button for public entities on touch displays

Bugfixes

• Price calculation:
  • Rounding differences between the subtotal and the sum of the line totals.
  • Manufacturer discount is ignored as soon as an attribute with a linked product is selected.
• Product lists:
  • Fixed do not show tax info in product lists if the product is tax exempt.
  • Fixed call for price note not displayed in product lists.
• MegaSearch:
  • Fixed incorrect search results when a multistore has different default languages configured.
  • Fixed an incorrect second search result, executed via a spell checker suggestion, when the first search did not return any hits.
• Import:
  • Fixed localized properties were not updated during import.
  • Localized SeName was only updated when import file also contained a non-localized SeName column.
  • Fixed duplicate imported images if they were assigned to several products within a batch.
• Fixed the category navigation no longer shows the number of contained products after reindexing.
• Fixed products associated to a grouped product cannot be deleted via associated products grid.
• Fixed not yet awarded reward points were reduced when an order was deleted.
• Checkout attributes:
  • Fixed wrong tax was applied to checkout attributes in checkout.
  • Fixed checkout attributes that are not active anymore should not be applied.
• Web API:
  • Fixed 404 file swagger.json not found when opening Swagger documentation in a virtual directory.
  • #815 Import of customers via WebApi/OData sets PasswordFormat to 'clear'.
• Fixed incorrect message when applying a discount coupon code on cart page.
• Fixed the saving of multistore settings for default tax and default shipping address.
• Fixed a scripting issue where the input focus of the direct debit payment form was mistakenly set to a wrong input element.
• Fixed missing cache clearing after importing localized properties.
• Output Cache: missing Content-Type header when serving page from cache
• #531 Error reading import file with localized values of languages with the same UniqueSeoCode.
• Fixed discounts assigned to categories and limited to customer roles should be excluded from export and exported prices.
• Fixed MainPictureId not applied on product edit page if missing and if there is only one picture assigned to a product.
• Fixed product image gallery issue where no image was displayed at all.
• #843 Additional shipping charge displayed in product details even if free shipping is activated.
• Fixed "The requested service 'Other (Smartstore.Core.Rules.IRuleProvider)' has not been registered" when creating a rule.
• Fixed #792 Downloaded language sometimes cannot be deleted when using SQLite.
• Stripe: Fixed incorrect system name in several places.
• Gift cards were not generated according to the order item quantity during order processing.
• Fixed incorrect cart validation if minimum cart quantity and quantity step were configured for a product.
• #810 Doubleclicking login button can lead to 400 BadRequest error page.
• Fixed arithmetic overflow SqlException in ShippingByWeight and ShippingByTotal four decimal places migrations.
• #776 PayPal credit card payment fails due to missing session PayPalOrderId entry.
• #797 Incorrect validation when product can be added to the cart in single positions.
• Manufacturer pictures were not displayed on product detail pages.
• #828 Queued email identifier is 0 for order completed email.
• #873 Category preview may show 404 page if the category is limited to a certain store.
• Do not fallback to "Product is not available" delivery info on product detail page if the product is available.
• #839 Output cache must be invalidated when menu items are added or edited.
• OpenTrans: fixes RuntimeBinderException "cannot perform runtime binding on a null reference" when exporting shipping address.
• Brand pictures weren't displayed in product lists.
• Skin select2 if remote url is...

Smartstore 5.0.5

Breaking Changes

• Store.SecureUrl and Store.ForceSslForAllPages are deprecated now. By default, all pages are secured if Store.SslEnabled is true.
• Reindexing of MegaSearch search index required to include new category tree path.

New Features

• PersonalPromo plugin (commercial)
• Wallet plugin (commercial)
• #251 MegaSearch: New option, when enabled, search hits must contain all search terms (logical AND operation). The more terms you enter, the fewer hits will be returned.
• Reverse proxy configuration using ForwardedHeadersMiddleware
• SqliteDataProvider:
  • Fixed case-insensitive Contains() and Like() failing on non-ascii characters.
  • Implemented BackupRestore feature
• Web API:
  • #618 added an endpoint for adding a product to the shopping cart.
  • #709 added an endpoint that returns order data prepared for an invoice (including variant SKU).
  • #717 added GiftCard, GiftCardUsageHistory, DiscountUsageHistory, CheckoutAttribute and CheckoutAttributeValue.
  • #723 store the SKU of the ordered product variant at the OrderItem entity.
• Payment method brand icons can be displayed on product detail pages
• Added settings for more social links (Flickr, LinkedIn, Xing, TikTok, Snapchat, Vimeo, Tumblr, Ello, Behance) to be displayed in the footer.
• SEO: trailing slash options for internal links (Append trailing slash to links, Trailing slash mismatch rule)
• #480 Product export: add a filter for categories and an option to include all sub-categories.
• #437 Rule builder: add cart rule for delivery time.
• #559 Forum: add setting to prevent registered customers from posting forum topics and posts.

Improvements

• Theming
  • Better usability of the backend on small mobile devices (especially DataGrid)
  • Updated FontAwesome library from version 6.0.0 to version 6.4.0
  • Checkout / Payment page can display payment method brand icons
• Increased performance: category tree path to filter products by categories.
• DataGrid now remembers the search filter state across requests
• Better PayPal implementaion: added providers for every single payment option.
• New user agent parser with much better bot, mobile/tablet detection (but less accurate platform and device detection)
• #416 Make the language name localizable.
• Specify custom database collation during installation.
• Added a search filter for country grid.
• Add X-Frame-Options SAMEORIGIN to response headers
• Use 308 - Permanent redirect status code for HTTPS redirection (instead of 301 - Moved permanently)
• (DEV) Model mapping (IMapper<TFrom, TTo>):
  • Composite mappers: multiple mappers for a single type pair
  • Named mappers
  • Mapper lifetimes (transient, scoped, singleton)
• Search
  • Search box UI improvements
  • #441 Enable multistore configuration for SearchSettings.SearchFields.
• #658 Limit number of product clones to generate either via UI or code (or both)
• #736 Backend > Product grid: Search By SKU should also search for GTIN & MPN
• #682 Allow to set the default email account per shop.
• Google Analytics: Added option to enable admin to prohibit the script from being loaded without explicit consent by the visitor
• #406 Exclude current product from recently viewed products block on product detail page.
• Added setting to automatically display CookieManager if the shop visitor is from the EU.

Bugfixes

• App restart/recycle could occasionally leak or fail
• PdfConverter failed after cron job cleaned up temporary files in App_Data directory
• Link from Admin area to a named area-less frontend route did not properly prepend culture code
• Identity:
  • Fixed checkout loop after logout.
  • #753 During registration a new customer is created although the password is invalid.
• Export:
  • IWorkContext CurrentCustomer, WorkingLanguage and WorkingCurrency must be set according to projection.
  • Price calculation must respect TaxSettings of projected store.
  • Fixed wrong exported price when attribute combinations exported as products and price display type is set to lowest price.
  • When creating a profile, the public folder name of another profile should not be copied, but a unique, new folder name should be used.
• Fixed picture and color control were not displayed when editing a product attribute option.
• Fixed display of orders in MyAccount area when OrderSettings.DisplayOrdersOfAllStores was set to true
• Fixed RTL theme Sass parsing error
• When an order was placed, the stock quantity of attribute combinations were not updated if the stock is managed by attributes.
• Fixed "also purchased products" should not display unpublished products.
• #651 Fixed product can be added to cart even if the availability limit was reached.
• #748 The "Recently viewed products" section displays items in stores to which it has not been assigned.
• Logout was not possible after new customer registrations.
• Fixed unpublished products should be assignable as "promoted" to a product.
• SequentialDataReader: fixed a problem where occasionally nullable string fields were not read
• UrlRewriter: raw rules were not loaded from legacy storage
• #731 Entering invalid URL as menu item url results in unrecoverable error.
• Fixed a topic was not editable if a menu link with an invalid target was associated.
• MainMenuShrinker was missing.
• Added missing properties in customer grid.
• Fixed popular product tags were not loaded based on the frequency of their product assignments on homepage.
• Fixed after a login the user was not redirected to the previous page.
• Fixed problem where bundles couldn't be added to the basket if bundleitems had attributes.
• GMC: when there was no Google category defined in a product, copying the product threw NullReferenceException.
• Fixed attribute filters of bundle items were not loaded in bundle item dialog.
• GoogleAnalytics:
  • Fixed a NullReferenceException in GoogleAnalyticsViewComponent.
  • Fixed KeyNotFoundException in GoogleAnalyticsScriptHelper.GetOrderCompletedScriptAsync.
• Fixed incorrect order of product attributes on the shopping cart page.
• Fixed #687 Product MainPictureId changed each time a new picture is uploaded.
• Fixed ArgumentNullException in FixProductMainPictureId when uploading new image on product edit page.
• Fixed links to assigned shipping methods were not displayed when editing a rule.
• Fixed SearchLog did not show top search terms in instant search.
• Fixed redirect to login page instead of an error message when a guest wants to checkout and anonymous checkout is not allowed.
• Fixed the category number in category navigation was not displayed when the catalog setting ShowCategoryProductNumberIncludingSubcategories was changed.
• #681 For a message template, the assignment to the e-mail account is not removed when the e-mail account is deleted.
• #704 Cart page displays outdated discount information when applying or removing a discount coupon code.
• #751 Summernote: Inserting a table places it at the top of the HTML editor
• Fixed rare bug where shipping rates wouldn't be applied due to rounding issues
• ShippingByWeight: fixed missing SmallQuantityThreshold in initial migration.
• #619 Shipping by weight and by total should use 4 instead of 2 decimal places for currency values.
• For a BundleItem with attribute filters, the attribute selection on the product detail page disappeared as soon as an attribute was selected.
• #724 Selecting other languages resets selected sorting/items per page setting
• Legacy widget zones weren't considered anymore
• DevTools: Some widget zones weren't displayed due to incorrect RegEx
• NumberInput: Min Max should be handled by validation framework or in frontend by native HTML elements.
• Fixed RuntimeBinderException in SettingController when no search fields are saved.
• Fixed rule assigned to payment method only applied after clearing the cache.
• Admin dashboard: fixed percentage value for last 28 days in order and customer registrations statistics.

Smartstore 5.0.4

New Features

• PostgreSQL database support
• SQLite database support
• easyCredit plugin (commercial)
• DependingPrices plugin (commercial). Enables configuration of prices depending on customer groups, language, store or customer number.
• Embedded Base64 image offloader: finds embedded images in long HTML descriptions, extracts and saves them to the media storage.
• New option for mail accounts to configure SMTP connection encryption.
• New app system settings: UsePooledDbContextFactory, UseDbCache, UseSequentialDbDataReader
• Database table statistics in System / System Info (row count, total space, used space)

Improvements

• Memory management
  • Fixed several memory leaks
  • Disabled DbContext pooling (causes memory leaks)
  • New sequential data reader (disabled by default) uses significantly less memory than the built-in reader. Should be enabled if HTML descriptions are extremely large (> 1 MB).
  • More aggressive garbage collector
  • App now uses significantly less memory under heavy load
• Added price settings for discount requirements to be validated in product lists.
• Faster loading of product lists that contain bundles with per-item pricing.
• MegaSearch:
  • A significant increase in search speed, especially when dealing with large amounts of data.
  • Faster indexing.
  • Word stemming configurable for all languages.
• Added data-invariant attribute to number input controls
• Closed #543 Google Category (GMC) always get lost when copying a product
• Ajax request to external URLs do not add X-XSRF-Tokens anymore
• Definition of several preselected product variant attribute values is now prohibited

Bugfixes

• #557 If the state is optional for addresses, none should be preselected when creating them.
• #608 Build DeleteGuestCustomers query with LINQ again.
• Fixed ArgumentException "The source argument contains duplicate keys" in case of menus with duplicate system names.
• Fixed SqlClient deadlock exception when resolving guest account by client identity.
• MySQL: fixed migration failure when UTC_TIMESTAMP was used as default value for date columns.
• High data payload:
  • Fixed InvalidOperationException "A second operation was started on this context instance before a previous operation completed" when opening category (and others) edit page.
  • Fixed many product tags blocks the loading of the product edit page due to initialization of the product tag selection box.
• Fixed discount coupon code could not be applied in some cases.
• PostFinance: fixed "The specified refund amount CHF needs to be rounded to a maximum of 2 decimal places".
• Fixed ArgumentNullException in ProcessImageQuery.Add if name is null.
• Fixed price adjustment of attributes was saved only with two decimal places.
• Fixed missing inventory adjustment when the stock quantity was changed through product grid.
• The link to remove a search filter must not contain a page index, otherwise inconsistent search results will occur.
• Fixed InvalidCastException "Unable to cast object of type 'Newtonsoft.Json.Linq.JObject' to type 'Smartstore.Core.Search.Facets.FacetGroup'" when OutputCache is active.
• Category or manufacturer discount was not applied if no other changes were made to the category or manufacturer except for the discount assignment.
• Cart rules assigned to a payment method were not applied in checkout.
• MegaSearch: fixed a memory leak during indexing.
• Fixed native validation for quantity inputs
• Google Analytics: Fixed rendering of prices with thousands separator
• #621 Cart item quantity couldn't be updated if cart item validation returned errors
• #628 sort Triple DatePicker year descending
• #622 Tab created with Event.cs does not work on Mobile.
• FileManager: Files weren't displayed correctly in backend.
• A product should be found by its SKU if there is a deleted product with identical SKU.
• Links to assigned entities sometimes not displayed on rule edit page.

Smartstore 5.0.3

New Features

• (DEV) New WebhookEndpointAttribute endpoint metadata. Suppresses creation of guest accounts for webhook calls.
• PayPal:
  • Added a window to display PayPal account information for support issues
  • Added setting for upper limit for Pay Upon Invoice
  • Added option to turn off PayPal buttons on shopping cart page

Improvements

• Allows to delete and filter assignments of customers to customer roles that were automatically created by a rule.

Bugfixes

• Installation: changing database connection settings has no effect until app restart
• Fixed HTTP 400 BadRequest issue on saving AJAX grid changes
• Web API:
  • Fixed wrong $metadata configuration of System.String[] as a complex type instead of ICollection<string>.
  • Fixed InvalidOperationException in Microsoft.OData.Client using MediaFiles and MediaFolders endpoints.
  • Fixed InvalidOperationException in Microsoft.OData.Client "An unexpected 'StartObject' node was found for property named 'Size' when reading from the JSON reader. A 'PrimitiveValue' node was expected.".
• Output Cache:
  • Invoking CookieManager view component throws because antiforgery token cannot be written
• Theming
  • Fixed top description displayed instead of bottom description on manufacturer page.
  • Instant search must not display default thumbs if ShowProductImagesInInstantSearch is disabled.
  • Fixed AOS init problem
  • Multiple file uploader instances in a single page did not work
  • Product box in listings must not close when entering the bottom action drop
• Selected tabs were no longer remembered across requests
• Fixed NullReferenceException when deleting a shopping cart item.
• Fixed export file count was always 0 in export profile list.
• Fixed FileNotFoundException when uploading an import file.
• PayPal: Fixed error that occurs when shipping fees were to high for initially authorized order amount
• Fixed reward points calculation
• #602 Implemented server side validation of payment data
• #603 Fixed after payment validation failure the data entry form is resetted.
• Fixed CheckoutState change tracking issues
• Fixed IBAN radio button issue when using direct debit offline payment.
• Avoids deals label in product lists if the current date is not within the date range of an assigned discount.
• #612 Emails are sent with the email priority low
• Fixed problem with media display for variant attribute combinations
• Billiger: fixed export profile configuration must not contain store scope selection

Smartstore 5.0.2

Breaking Changes

• (DEV) Product.ProductPictures renamed to ProductMediaFiles

New Features

• Updated to .NET 7
• Web API plugin
• Stripe Elements plugin
• BeezUp (commercial plugin)
• ElmarShopInfo (commercial plugin)
• Shopwahl (commercial plugin)
• CartApproval (commercial plugin)
• New app setting: DbDefaultSchema
• (DEV) New action filter attribute DisallowRobotAttribute

Improvements

• ~10 % faster app startup and TTFB
• ~10 % less RAM usage
• Significantly faster attribute combination scanning for large combination sets (1.000+)

Bugfixes

• LocaleStringResource table could contain many dupe records.
• Rule sets were not applied to shipping methods in checkout.
• ArgumentNullException when deleting an image assignment on product edit page.
• Despite activated export profile option per store no records were exported to a separate file.
• Sometimes Page Builder reveal effects did not run on page load, only on windows resize.
• Product details showed wrong related products.
• Fixed wrong implementation of ByRegionTaxProvider
• Fixed product linkage of product detail ask question message
• Fixed password change issue with user records without username
• Settings couldn't be saved in several places (in migrated shop)
• Fixed add required products automatically
• DbCache:
  • Fix "Collection was modified; enumeration operation may not execute"
  • Fix "Index was outside the bounds of the array"
• #577 PdfSettings.Enabled displayed twice and PdfSettings.LetterPageSizeEnabled was missing.
• Topics which are rendered as widgets were published to sitemap
• Redirection problems with changing language & ContactUs page
• Multistore settings couldn't be saved
• File upload for a product attribute is no longer possible once another attribute has been changed.
• Fixes NullReferenceException when placing an order with an invalid email display name.
• Fixed link generation issue: pathBase is stripped when target endpoint requires culture code
• Fixed DbUpdateException when deleting a customer address via backend.
• Routing: non-slug, unlocalized system routes did not redirect to localized route
• UrlRewriter: fixed greedy matching (/en/ should not match /men/)
• Fixed RuleSets could not be added or removed from a shipping method.
• Fixed wrong SKU in order XML export if the order contains multiple variants of the same product.
• Fixed payment fee was always displayed in primary currency in checkout.
• Several PayPal fixes