Magento is a flexible and powerful eCommerce solution that gives complete control over online businesses. With its professional services, it offers unmatched flexibility to manage online stores effectively.
The latest release of Magento comes with new functionalities and improvements. It now has the Magento Connect Extension Manager for speedy management of extensions, server-side validation on the frontend, and increased dataflow export/import records. An admin link directs users to community wiki documentation, performance improvements have been made for the shopping cart sidebar and summary link, and better URL rewrite generation and refreshing have been implemented. There is also a debug method for developers, added error handling pages and notifications, and resolved PDO enfouting issues.
Other updates include Google Checkout newsletter subscription, redirecting to the first page available if the dashboard is disabled, stream write methods to Varien IO File, fixes to the wish list, tax rates import/export, configurable product price calculations, large number formatting, and more. The software now auto-appends slashes in Base URLs configuration when omitted and has solved issues with closing popup windows in admin under IE, admin datetime timezone displaying, possible XSS issues, CC owner name removal from payment gateway form and info, and added a specific method to include images to the image gallery with product models.
In addition, the update has enhanced orders, fixed CMS pages multistore assignment, added new locale codes, fixed top buttons in order create/edit/reorder, removed out-of-stock items from additional frontend blocks, concatenated the first and the last name grid fields, reworked the comments history tab on order views, fixed layered navigation price range counter and product_price model date comparison, fixed indexing of associated products with visibility 'nowhere', solved adminhtml caching issues, enhanced admin forms tab highlighting, added an observer to category move action, fixed missing table prefix calls in SQL upgrade files, and improved price including tax handling.
Overall, Magento is a highly flexible eCommerce solution with a wealth of features, enabling online merchants to create and manage their store in a highly customizable way. With the recent update, the software is now better than ever, with new features and a range of improvements set to make eCommerce easier and more efficient.
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