What's New with Zen Cart?
Latest updates on the Zen Cart project
Note: If you want to see What’s Next for Zen Cart instead, please click here.
- September 2024: Beta testing builds for Zen Cart 2.1.0 have begun.
- August 2024: Alpha testing builds for Zen Cart 2.1.0 have begun.
- July 2024: Zen Cart publishes a patch for the admin CKEditor tool.
- May 2024: Styling enhancements for Documentation Home Page.
- May 2024: Zen Cart 2.0.1 Released.
- April 2024: Zen Cart 2.0.0 Released.
- April 2024: 1.5.7/1.5.8 Address Security Patch released. All users running Zen Cart 1.5.7x and 1.5.8x should apply these patches as soon as possible.
- March 2024: Reminder to migrate off the old UPS API posted on forum. Two months left to upgrade to UPS Shipping RESTful API or update your custom code. The old API will stop working on June 3, 2024.
- March 2024: Release Candidate 1 for 2.0.0 was built; here’s the 2.0.0 RC 1 Feedback forum thread.
- February 2024: The Edit Orders plugin has been updated for Zen Cart 1.5.8.
- February 2024: The PayPal integration for Zen Cart has been refreshed with the newer PayPal RESTful API. The new plugin PayPal RESTful API Production Release 1.0 was just completed. This will eventually replace our older PayPal integrations.
- January 2024: The upcoming release is called 2.0.0. Here’s the 2.0.0 Release Roadmap Thread. The first alpha release was built; here’s the 2.0.0 Alpha 1 Feedback forum thread.
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2023
- December 2023: Here’s the 2023 Recap.
- September 2023: We updated the FedEx Integration for Zen Cart to use the more recent FedEx REST API. The newer FedEx Shipping REST API plugin replaces the older FedEx Web Services integration.
- August 2023: We have updated the recommended process for updating your database from latin1/iso-8859 to UTF8MB4. Please see Converting to utf8mb4 for more information.
- June 2023: We have updated the UPS Integration for Zen Cart to use the more recent UPS REST API. The newer UPS Shipping RESTful API plugin replaces all older UPS Integrations for Zen Cart.
- March 2023: Zen Cart 1.5.8a released! Release announcement for 1.5.8a.
- February 2023: We updated the USPS Integration for Zen Cart to use the newest service names from USPS.
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Last modified September 30, 2024 by Scott Wilson (98d2e9db).