5 August 2011
Here comes the long-awaited maintainance bug-fix release for the 1.4.0 series.
Update instructions
This release includes a new update manager, which will provide automated updates for future releases, however this release still has to be applied manually:
- Make sure you have 1.4.0 version installed (upgrade before, if necessary)
- Download the 1.4.0.1 update package from here
- Extract the archive and upload the files to your web server overwriting the current files
- Empty the /cache directory
LiveCart 1.4.0.1 Change Log
Released under Open Source License (v3)
More information available here
New update system/module manager
Detailed overview of the update/module manager is available here
One page checkout fixes
- More flexibility for moving the checkout page items around (Javascript does not break so easily)
- For unregistered users the tax amount disappeared from total upon selecting the payment method
- When reloading the page as unregistered user, the state list was loaded for the default system country instead of the selected country
- Various other bugfixes for orders placed by unregistered customers
- One page checkout page was not using SSL
- Block placeholders did not work in one page checkout and possibly some other pages
- Shipping method is auto-selected in one page checkout if there's only one shipping method available
Regular checkout fixes
- Different billing and shipping addresses could not be used by a new customer when using regular checkout
Order related fixes
- Order discounts and surcharges are now included in the order email messages
- Product option price was counted twice for completed orders
- Displayed tax amounts were incorrect if 2 or more taxes were applied to order
- If the same tax has different rates applicable within the same order, they are now displayed separately in the tax summary list
- Fixed offline credit card payment validation
- Fixed order history errors
Other frontend fixes
- Fixed "sticky" status/error messages that occassionally would not go away from store pages after being displayed once
- Product sorting by sales rank now actually works
- Meta tag formatting cleanup
- Multi-select filtering fixes
Backend fixes
- Shipping Rates UI impovements - sorting, visible range start, custom value for first range start.
- Email template editing
- Some product variation types were not translateable
- Changing offline payment method for completed order in backend did not work
- Order details were not fully loaded in backend management tab
- Fixes various compatibility issues with Opera and Google Chrome
Other fixes
- User information sometimes was empty in email messages
- Allow including elements in TinyMCE
- Avoid race conditions when reading a config file that is being written at the same time, which could otherwise lead to a complete reset of configuration values
- + many other minor/internal fixes
