nopCommerce 4.20 Released on 28 May 2019

nopCommerce 4.20 Released on 28 May 2019

Highlight features

1. Re-designed admin area. A lot of UI/UX enhancements in admin area
2. Significant performance enhancements
3. nopCommerce can be run on Linux now
4. Docker support

Improvements

1. Upgraded to ASP.NET Core 2.2 and EF Core 2.2
2. Performance. HTML minification
3. Performance. Significant performance improvement by upgrading to EF Core 2.2 because the previous version of EF had a critical performance issue
4. Performance. Faster processing of large catalogs (do not load product attributes for products without attributes)
5. Performance. Faster processing of pictures stored in Windows Azure
6. Performance. Faster discount calculation
7. Performance. Faster generation of bundled and minified JS and CSS files
8. Performance. Redis works much faster now
9. Performance. Moved jQuery library to the footer (actually all js libraries now)
10. Performance. Improved performance of “IsCrawler” method used to detect search engines
11. Performance. Cache is cleared much faster now
12. New plugin architecture. Do not load uninstalled plugins in memory. Allow to uninstall/install multiple plugins at the same time
13. Added Avalara tax plugin out of the box
14. Security. Prevent a credit card bruteforce
15. GDPR user change history
16. We moved away from outdated KendoUI Grid to DataTables library
17. Added localizations for relative dates (previously they were hard-coded)
18. Added "Use response compression" setting to UI
19. Notificate customers when discount coupon code is applied using URL
20. Allow a store owner to configure password strength
21. Added a setting indicating whether we should apply additional shipping charge for pickup in store
22. Added backward compatibility routes for product tags
23. Added alternate language pages to sitemap.xml
24. Added favicon support for other devices (e.g. iOS Safari, Android Chrome, Windows 8 and 10,Mac OS X El Capitan Safari)
25. Allow to upload favicon in admin area
26. “Default value” of checkout and product attributes is localizable now
27. “Custom text” of specification attributes is localizable now
28. Added meta property "og:image:url" (file sharing in social networks)
29. Updated breadcrumbs structure according to the latest schema changing
30. Do not store "clean" passwords for external authentication systems
31. Update PayPal Standard plugin config instruction
32. Update Facebook plugin config instruction
33. Allow filtering by warehouse for the order list report
34. Added warning when trying to impersonate inactive customers
35. Added QualPay and SendInBlue plugins
36. Removed WorldPay plugin
37. Updated Square plugin to use the new "renew token" API
38. Admin area. Add a link to the warnings page from the dashboard
39. Added reCAPTCHA to the “forgot password” page
40. Support for multiple reCAPTCHAs on one page
41. Return 404 page when a topic, blog post, news item cannot be loaded
42. Increased max length of the settings
43. Filtering support for the "shopping carts and wishlist" page (admin area)
44. Remove Google+ page URL from social media (Google dropped its support)
45. Added ada tags to assist screen readers
46. Added possibility to use specific redis database
47. Added additionally check ManageAcl permission when managing customer roles
48. Performance. Allow to load top menu using AJAX (disabled by default)
49. Developers. Added Redis and AzureBlobStorage Enabled settings to SystemInfo admin widget
50. Developers. Continuous Integration. Added support of Travis CI (travis-ci.com)
51. Developers. Support schema other than DBO (databases)
52. Developers. Refactoring of admin mapping configuration
53. Developers. Added application root path for use in JavaScript
54. Developers. Added more widget zones
55. Developers. Added event handler on document when pressing Enter
56. Developers. Use IHttpClientFactory to create HttpClients (performance)
57. Developers. Less source code duplication
58. Developers. A lot of source code refactoring
59. Developers. Updated third-party libraries to the latest version
60. Developers. Added attribute "placeholder" in nop-editor tag helper
61. Developers. Added instructions for changing type datetime to type datetime2 in the database
62. Developers. Changed file extension from .txt to .csv when exporting
63. Developers. Store source files uploaded using html editor filemanager in database if media setting is database

Bugs

1. Security. XSS security issue fixed
2. Security. XEE security issue fixed
3. Admin menu was broken on mobile devices
4. Fixed rating stars display (product reviews)
5. Profit on the order details page didn’t consider "refunded amount"
6. Images were not displayed after product name changes
7. Return requests could not be edited
8. UPS Plugin. Shipping rates were set to 0 for international shipments
9. Page titles weren’t set for all pages in admin area
10. Browser language wasn’t detected properly (used in multilingual websites)
11. The plugin list page couldn’t be open when www.nopcommerce.com website was not available
12. Editing of attribute combinations didn’t properly pre-set values
13. Facebook authentication. Fixed redirection issue when authentication failed
14. Fixed duplicated warnings on admin area pages with a multi-store configuration
15. Fixed a “free shipping” label
16. Product tags count ignored ACL
17. Sitemaps loaded categories of all store (multi-store configuration issue)
18. Pickup points. Added display of address input fields depending on the address settings
19. Fixed problem with localization of non English chars in the “add reward points” form in admin area
20. reCAPTCHA didn’t work behind proxy
21. We had duplicates in UrlRecord after installation with sample data
22. Fixed issue with custom address attributes and "Billing address in checkout is disabled" setting
23. Fixed problem when allowed to save empty download object
24. Fixed tax calculation if product cost was zero
25. “Edit page” administration links didn’t work on the blog and news pages
26. When the picture SEO filename was changed, images couldn’t be loaded (cache reset was required)
27. When you limited a news item to a particular store you could still view it in other stores
28. Fixed duplicated default select option under country drop-down on the shipment page
29. Fixed issued in magnific popup gallery
30. Fixed euro symbol display
31. Fixed robots.txt for search page
32. Fixed CSS issue with up/down buttons (IE Edge +Firefox)
33. Fixed Redis clear cache error
34. Fixed problem with synchronization of "CustomerCustomerRoleMappings" with "CustomerRoles" entities
35. We should remove filename after clicking "Remove picture" button when uploading images
36. Fixed generate configuration URL in virtual directories for discount requirement plugins
37. Fixed bug with "SpecificationAttributes" caching
38. Fixed error with incorrect background color of uploaded images
39. Fixed redirection problem when PdtToken isn't set for PayPal standard options

Release Note for 4.20 Version