Zen Cart v1.3.9a – Officially Released
What’s New in Zen Cart v1.3.9?
Many improvements and bugfixes are included in v1.3.9 since v1.3.8, including the following:
- PHP 5.3.x compatibility
- PCI scan improvements to prevent commonly-reported false-positives
- SSL-detection improvements
- Session Handling improvements for shared-SSL configurations to deal with IE-specific quirks
- Session-Handler improvements: closing when done, removed redundant start, etc
- Search improvements
- Hack-attempt detection improvements
- Add .htaccess for /images/ folder, and security updates to many others as well
- Canonical URL support added for product pages and product listings. See /includes/init_includes/init_canonical.php
- Developer Toolkit Improvements (smarter searches, case-sensitive options, etc)
- USPS module updated to RateV3 API and includes all updates posted to April 2010
- PayPal UK – 3D-Secure support added
- PayPal micropayments support added
- Added CURL processing for PayPal IPN handling in case fsockopen() is disabled or failing
- Various updates to PayPal, Linkpoint (now renamed to FirstData) and Authnet Payment modules
- Split tax line support integrated
- Added per-EZ-page stylesheet support
- Fix ISO country/currency errors in default SQL file (old countries removed, etc)
- Fixes/updates/additions of various notifier calls
- MySQL 6-alpha preliminary compatibility
- Updates to spiders.txt file for stronger efficiency and more up-to-date data
- Improvements to configure.php file read-only detection (automatically sets to read-only if found writable, and permissions allow it)
- Various performance improvements, including freeing up wasted memory to make things run more lean
- PHP error logging automatically enabled by default, since errors are not displayed to the browser (for security reasons) (Log cleanup can be done from admin side via Store Manager)
- Turn off autocomplete on cc-number fields so browsers don’t store/retrieve that information
- Spam slamming via tell-a-friend is now throttled
- Admin-login-slamming protection – added delays to prevent brute-force password attacks
Zen Cart 1.3.9b Released
All bug fixes from 1.3.9a:
- Certain .htaccess directives were causing problems on some server configurations, so have been adjusted. If you want the security protection offered by the removed items, just uncomment them.
- Various 3D-Secure Fixes, including proper handling of Maestro cards
- BUGSFORUM-1195 – Minimum value of zero gets validated incorrectly in JS form_check
- BUGSFORUM-1197 – fix problem with review sidebox not properly truncating review text
- BUGSFORUM-1198 – fix missing lookup logic in developers-toolkit language search
- BUGSFORUM-1199 – make ADDRESS OVERRIDE ALERT message show only to administrators, and not to customers
- BUGSFORUM-1200 – 1.3.8-1.3.9a very small html error in collect_info.php (closing tr tag)
- BUGSFORUM-1201 – Tax name wont show up on order if tax is 0.00
- BUGSFORUM-1206 – onetime charge taxes
- BUGSFORUM-1205 – Counter History problem with old MySQL versions
- BUGSFORUM-1116 – retain html entities in product/category names/descriptions
- Improved efficiencies in credit card identification algorithms
- Fixes to search functionality related to use of double quotes
- Fix problems with Free Shipping
- Add an override to work around an email problem with using port 587 on servers not capable of actually using SSL when sending email
- Express Checkout updates several things, including invoice numbering problems, better handling of customer-selected shipping address names, UI improvements, and more
- BUGSFORUM-1208 – stop losing county name with GB addresses in Website Payments Pro UK
- BUGSFORUM-1209 – State field always required when editing customer records in Admin
- BUGSFORUM-1210 – PayPal Website Payments Pro US 10713 Invalid Data – Missing Country
- BUGSFORUM-1211 – Yourpay/FirstData credit card CAPTUREs not processing commas correctly
Download Zen Cart 1.3.9b here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/zencart/files/
Download Zen Cart 1.3.9a
Download the official release at the zencart139.com mirror site
If you need any help with the install or upgrade, please fill out a free estimate request form here
