Latest Magento released
March 12, 2008
Magento has a new release today, and there’s a lot of features/fixes in there. The neatest one to me was
Added zend cache backends for apc and memcached by Mark_Kimsal
cause that same Mark Kimsal is my brother. 
The link above points to the full announcement, but here’s a sample of some features in this release:
- Add simple products while editing super products
- Create attributes during adding/editing product
- Product images multiple upload and management tool
- Placeholders, watermarks and dynamic image resizing with GD
- New implementation of catalog category tree for increased performance
- Improved attributes & attributes editing
- Inline Translations
- Packing slips & invoices PDF print-outs with control over logo and address
- Catalog models and collections has been rewritten
- New admin dashboard implementation
- RSS alerts & notifications admin and customer
- Product price and stock status alerts subscription
- Improved price rules management
- Price and tax displaying configuration
- Localizable transactional emails
- Full order comment history in admin
- Added a number of reports, including sales report, newsletter subscribers export
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March 19th, 2008 at 5:31 am
We´ve also tested the new beta of magento. You can see that the official release is near…. Really nice features and a lot of bug-fixes. I´m sure that a lot of people around the world are waiting for the official release of magento (including me). More than 200.000 beta-downloads are really a blast. Keep on rocking - magento!
By the way - nice claim of your blog (especially the last part): web-development, new media observation and general life stuff
March 19th, 2008 at 5:35 am
Thanks.
BTW, a little bird tells me there’s at least one Magento develpment book on the way (not by me) but watch this blog for an announcement when it’s out!
April 5th, 2008 at 6:28 pm
Bonjour !
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A très bientôt