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Hello, X-Carters. I'm here to say grateful thanks to all of you. For your ideas and suggestions, for your criticism and bug reports, for being with us on X-Cart events, for likes on our social posts. I wish all the best in the year to you and your families.

Here is a quick report of this year results:

- 29 new X-Cart versions were released (14 beta versions and 15 stable ones)
- 3 new versions of X-Payments. We passed the PA DSS certification in accordance with PA-DSS 2.0 standard.
- X-Cart 5 marketplace has a huge growth: we started with 49 addons and now there are more than 180 extensions, free and paid, from X-Cart team and 3d party developers. More than two addons per week, in average. Wow! We wouldn't have reached such results without our partners.
- X-Cart got a free version.
- We met our merchants and partners in Chicago and had the best show ever. Ksenia and Lesy now know the very funny Happy Lama poem (thank you David!)
- After another Emerson's joke, Tony got a new nickname -“Sexy Beast", and it turned out to be very "sticky".
- 420+ tickets were resolved in X-Cart Bugtracker
- More than 100 ideas from ideas.x-cart.com were completed.
- We organized 13 online webinars and wrote almost 1000 articles in X-Cart Knowledge Base.
- Cloud Search reached 1,7M unique users who sent 8,6M requests to get more than 51,4M products in search results.
- The number of X-Cart downloads doubled comparing to the previous year.
- X-Cart merchants GMV growth reached 15% (based on the reports from payment companies we partner with).

This year was not easy, but together with you we did a lot.

Let the upcoming year be even more productive for X-Cart and X-Cart Community.
Happy Holiday Season!