Highlight features

• W3C compliance (XHTML)
• Admin area localization
• Paypal IPN (Instant Payment Notification)
• FedEx shipping provider
• Export/Import customers (Excel) - doesn't work in medium trust
• Export/Import products (Excel) - doesn't work in medium trust
• Export orders (Excel) - doesn't work in medium trust
• Private messaging
• eWay payment module (hosted solution - UK, NZ, AU)
• "Fixed rate" shipping provider
• "Fixed rate" tax provider
• Product specifications: Multi-Value (pre-defind). Store owner can define multi-value Product specs, such as Processor (AMD 64X2, Intel Core 2 Duo), and not having to repeat them typing again and again for each product
• Product specifications: Filtering by specification on category/manufacturer pages (e.g. color, size)
• PDF Order receipts - doesn't work in medium trust
• Unlimited textbox product attributes
• "Customers who bought this item also bought" option

Improvements

• Admin area permomance optimization
• Improved image generation
• Downloadable products
  • Allow store owners to upload sample files
  • Store owners can specify maximum number of allowed downloads of purchased products.
  • Made storing downloads in database configurable
• Show best sellers on home page
• Generic provider model (source code)
• Refactoring (source code)
• Admin area requires SSL now (if enabled)
• Moved "UseSSL" and "SharedSSL" settings to web.config
• All credit card info is encrypted now
• Allow store owner to add a custom note to a customer
• Admin area. Allow store owner to view shopping carts of customers
• Admin area. Don't show "anonymous@anounymous.com" email for guest customers
• Admin area. Allow store to filter guest customers (customers page)
• Admin area. DashBoard enhancements
• Customers can be tax exempt
• New product review, news comment, blog comment notifications (email)
• Google Checkout. Capture support
• Google Checkout. Authorize callback request
• Checkour. Navigation back support
• "Allow navigation only for registered customers" option.
• Allow store owner to search customers/orders/queued emails using null dates by default
• Use 4 digits to store currency rate
• Added resource expression builder that supports nop resourses
• Forums. Navigate to the latest page of topic after new post is added
• Confirm new password on password recovery page
• More user-friendly forum support
• Extended %Order.Product(s)% email token to display product attributes, text options and order totals
• Moved ScriptManager to master page
• Masked credit card numbers
• Show warning when Captcha code is not entered
• Allow store owner to delete order notes
• Allow store owner to specify whether to hide advertisements on admin area dashboard
• Updated AjaxControlToolkit.dll to the latest version
• Updated MS Enterprise Library (4.1)
• Updated jQuery (1.3.2)

Bugs

• Discounts were not displayed on wishlist page
• Paypal PDT bug
• "Contact Us" form (sending emails bug)
• Real-time shipping rate computation methods bugs (multiply packages)
• Allow to get fixed shipping rates for non registered customers
• Use category/manufacturer thumbnail size instead of product thumbnail size
• CAPTCHA image caching
• Validate category hierarchy
• [Nop_OrderProductVariantReport] stored procedure bug fixed
• Shipping fee, payment fee formatting bug on order details page
• OrderManager.OrderPlaced() method. Reset customer checkout data only if an order was successfully placed
• Checkout page. Don't hide "Confirm" button
• Payment method gateways. Encode all values
• Product ratings were not display correctly

No major features have been introduced with this release as our development efforts were focused on fixing bugs, but does include the following changes:

Highlight features

• IP blacklist.
• Additional shipping charges by product.
• Support for payment method additional handling fee.
• "Product active from date and active to date" option.
• Performance optimization.
• Allow store owner to create new customer accounts.

NOTE: nopCommerce requires .NET 3.5 SP1.

Improvements

• "Don't allow registration of new customers" option.
• More SEO friendly.
• All prices (totals) are rounded now.
• PayPal payment methods now support all currencies.
• PayFlow API depreciated. Updated to v4.31.
• Updated StrikeIron tax data provider to v5.
• Upgraded USPS to version 3.
• Allow store owner to add custom order notes.
• Allow admin to resend queued emails.
• Search page is pageable now.
• Allow admin to specify whether "Recently viewed products", "Recently added products" options are enabled.
• Anonymous checkout. Checkout as a Guest or Register question.
• Scheduled task for clearing old sessions.
• Scheduled task for clearing cache.
• Google analytics module.
• Validate maximum customer username/email length.
• Forums. Strip topic subject if it's too long.
• Update LastAccess property of CustomerSession entity.
• Admin area. Allow store owner to specify whether to display full errors with stack.
• Admin area. Advanced order search.
• Admin area. Advanced message queue search.
• Forums. "Move topic" functionality.
• Admin area. News comments/Blog Comments/Products Reviews pages support paging now.
• Removed ScriptManager from root master page.
• Create default billing and shipping address during registration (if possible).
• If a shopping cart item has several warnings, then all of them are shown to a customer.
• Store owner can specify whether anonymous customers can leave blog/news comments.
• Topics can be added to sitemap.
• Added "ReturnURL" query parameter to login page redirection urls.
• Added localized titles to all pages.
• Made configurable whether to show page debug info (page execution time).
• Admin area. Maintain checkbox state while GridView paging.
• All entity names are HTML encoded now.

Bugs

• Fixed e-way payment module.
• 2Checkout payment method. Pass product list.
• Google checkout button was not shown on shopping cart page (anonymous checkout).
• Don't show "Add to cart" buttons on productBox1/ProductBox2 controls if the product doesn't have product variants.
• Minor CSS bugs.
• Connection string for asp.net membership/role providers.
• ForumLastPost.ascx control bind data twice.
• The list of previously used shipping and billing addresses for a logged in customer was not filtered against the allowed countries for billing and shipping respectively.
• Several resource string missed.
• Blog comments, news comment, product reviews could not be empty.
• Password recovery. Don't show "email has been sent" if customer is not registered.
• Froogle issue when product variant description is not set.
• Admin area. Calendar control didn't display all days.
• Fix user latest posts sort order on profile page.
• Forums. When an user uses [code] BB code, [code] should not be displayed.
• Delete pricelist bug.
• Contact us form bug.
• Ensure that used payment method is active (during checkout).

• Volume discounts (Tier prices).
• Built-in forum.
• Time zone support.
• CMS Topics.
• Flexible tax support.
  • Tax rates can be assigned to different zip codes.
  • VAT support.
  • Allow store owner to specify which tax based on: billing/shipping/default/shipping origin address.
  • Allow store owner to specify whether prices include tax.
  • Allow customer to choose tax display type (incl/excl tax).
  • Allow store owner to specify tax display type (incl/excl tax).
  • Allow store owner to specify whether shipping is taxable.
  • Allow store owner to specify whether shipping prices include tax.
  • Allow store owner to specify whether to hide zero tax.
  • Allow store owner to specify whether to hide tax in order summary when prices are shown tax inclusive.
• Nested Master Pages.
• Allow customers to register/login by email or by username.
• Several account registration/activation types.
  • Automatic registration (no approving)
  • Email validation during registration

• More community-friendly (forums, news, blog, polls).
• More admin reports.
• Redesigned, user friendly administration checkout.
• Allow store owner to select theme.
• Supports all downloadable products formats (.zip, .rar etc).
• Perfomance optimization.
• Allow admin to disable or hide the rating system.
• Several bug fixes and improvements.

Highlight features

• New store-front theme.
• CSS restructured for easier customization of design.
• Redesigned, user friendly administration.
• Anonymous checkout.
• Support for kit products.
• Partial trust version.
• Improved stock control management.
• Pricelists.
• Language resources import utility.

Improvements

• New sample data.
• Minimum/maximum purchase quantity control.
• Option variants may add to the base product weight.
• Front-end paging for catalog.
• Filter by price.
• Improved product navigation in Administration.
• Low stock email notification feature.
• Manage URL rewriting from administration.
• Several bug fixes and improvements.

• Web design was reworked. CSS.
• Real-time shipping rates. UPS.
• Real-time shipping rates. USPS.
• Installation wizard.
• Strike Iron tax provider.
• Cash On Delivery payment method.
• Accept Purchase Order.
• Accept Checks / Money Order.
• Google Checkout payment gateway (beta).
• PayFlow Pro payment gateway.
• Worldpay payment gateway.
• PSI Gate payment gateway.
• CDGcommerce payment gateway
• Capture payments from admin panel.
• Coupons
• Discounts can be assigned to products or to whole order.
• Cardholder data are encrypted now. Sensitive data are not stored in the database anymore.
• Simple reporting.

• Support for shared SSL.
• SSL for login/registration.
• Image capture on login/registration.
• Language can be selected for news, polls and blog.
• Localized message templates.
• Euro currency symbol is proper displayed now.
• Featured products on home page
• Categories on home page
• ubcategories are shown on navigation menu now
• Featured products on category page and on manufacturer page
• Out of stock. Minimum stock quantity. Low stock activity.
• Low stock products page.
• Manage wishlist enabled/disabled.
• Manage blog enabled/disabled.
• Opt-in for mailings ('I would like to receive newsletters').
• When a user hit 'continue' after updating his cart, he returns to the previous product page and not the main store page.
• Putting Add to cart button beside Details button on the category/manufacturer page without see the details.
• SEO. Check box that will include the store name in front of the title.
• Several bug fixes

• Product attributes (e.g. color, size)
• Wish list
• SSL support
• Moneybookers payment gateway added (beta version)
• Froogle (google base) product feed
• Export customers/orders/categories/manufacturers/products to XML file
• Marketing manager (campaigns)
• Calculate shipping by country & total order weight
• Free shipping over $X
• Configurable list of allowed countries
  • For registration
  • For billing
  • For shipping
• Password recovery
• Email a friend
• Measure weights, measure dimensions
• Recently added products RSS. News RSS
• Product review helpfulness (Was this review helpful for you?)
• "Store is closed" feature
• FCKEditor added
• “Shipping by Weight” computation method has been changed
• New product template has been added
• Robots.txt added
• Several bug fixes and improvements

• eWay (Australia) payment gateway
• Real-time currency exchange rates (ECB)
• Product specifications (e.g. processor, memory, graphic card)
• Compare product feature (if enabled)
• Customer groups can be marked as free shipping
• Customer groups can be marked as tax exempt
• Several bug fixes and improvements

• Paypal Express payment gateway (beta version)
• Google sitemap
• Disable buy buttons for specific products
• Customer roles (groups) (e.g. Premium customers, Gold customers)
• Discounts can be applied to a customer role
• Discounts can be applied to a category
• Paging support was added to admin area
• Several bug fixes and improvements

• The source code is well commented now
• Authorize.NET payment gateway
• Several bug fixes and improvements

• Blog feature added
• Poll feature added
• Several bug fixes and improvements

• The first version of nopCommerce