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[rocky]

Hello, X-Carters!

X-Cart v4.6.1 has been officially released. Fore more info please refer to the following X-Cart blog post:

http://blog.x-cart.com/4-6-1-released.html

You are welcome to download the updated software from our official web site and your personal HelpDesk accounts.

4.6.0 -> 4.6.1 upgrade packs are also available for downloading.

4.6.1 compatible Extensions will be ready within a week.

[dpcompany]

Will the changelog be updated to reflect changes and bug fixes?

[rocky]

Originally Posted by dpcompany

Will the changelog be updated to reflect changes and bug fixes?

You can find CHANGELOG inside the distributive pack.

[Tigershark8700]

Hi Rocky,

We are currently using the Braintree Payment Module (for 4.5.5) which we purchased in June 2013 for $395.00 from X-cart.com directly

I noticed the module is no longer available for purchase.. Is this currently planned to be supported in the latest release?

Thanks,
Ryan

[sinobest]

really good news. is it a stable version?

[cheap eyeglasses]

how about this version's running speed? faster than v2 series?

[Eyeglasses Expert]

i have to modify the old version's templates again. hope this version runs faster than the old one. also hope it runs faster than zen-cart.

[RoeBoeDog]

Originally Posted by Tigershark8700

Hi Rocky,

We are currently using the Braintree Payment Module (for 4.5.5) which we purchased in June 2013 for $395.00 from X-cart.com directly

I noticed the module is no longer available for purchase.. Is this currently planned to be supported in the latest release?

Thanks,
Ryan

We just upgraded to 4.6 and the module was requested and they sold to us but informed us of some issues. It wont work with vault turned on for mobile. But other then that we have had no issues with 4.6 braintree payments.

Just open a ticket and they will give you the updated files.

[random]

There are several improvements in 4.6.1 that were not announced in the blog post, because they mostly target developers and advanced users, so I'll write about them here.

1) We've moved the demo data images (for products, categories, etc.) from database to filesystem by default, so you don't need to select corresponding option during installation and wait until it will be finished.
At the same time we've reduced amount of demo products and their images correspondingly which significantly decreased the distributive size (from 18 Mb to 10 Mb for TGZ archive)

2) You all remember the "top messages" - these flyout messages in blue/yellow/red blocks at the top right corner of a screen. Because sometimes such way of displaying errors makes them invisible to store customers we've redesigned this feature and now they are much more noticeable.
For example, error message is now displayed in all-red block in the top middle of a screen which will not close automatically - customers wil have to close it manually to disappear.
Of course, this behavior can be changed - now in the General settings there are 3 options to define delay for deisplaying messages, separate for information, warnings and errors. If you define 0 as delay - message can be closed only manually.

And that's not all - we've improved the way these messages are shown and now it is possible to display these messages just calling JS function

xAlert(message, title, type, options);

without reloading page.
Note: only "message" is required parameter.
Also, If you want to use default title that corresponds to message type - just leave it empty.
And you can specify jqueryui dialog options, if needed.

This also allow developers to easily change from "flyout" behaviour of messages to displaying modal pop-up instead.
When you define top message from PHP code you can now just add

$top_message['in_popup'] = TRUE;

and the message will appear in popup after page is loaded.

Also, there is a way to make all error message appear in modal popups,
just edit the template file skin/common_files/main/top_message.tpl
instead of line

{if !$top_message.in_popup}

write

{if !$top_message.in_popup and $top_message.type ne 'E'}

where E is for error, so for warnings use W instead.
Or if you want to keep only information message in "flyout" then write

{if !$top_message.in_popup and $top_message.type eq 'I'}

We haven't implemented this by default because always showing popups may be annoying for some customers.

We are open for your feedback on which messages should be converted to popups and which should stay "flyout", so please post your thoughts here or in bugtracker system.
We'll may consider to implement your suggestions in the next release.

[rocky]

Originally Posted by sinobest

really good news. is it a stable version?

Definitely! Even 4.6.0 is a stable version (I guess our community can confirm that). Whereas, 4.6.1 was aimed on reported issues troubleshooting, thus it's more stable by definition.