Version 5.4.1 Patch Release Notes
The ProductCart 5.4.1 patch release is an update to ProductCart 5.4 and is not a complete software installation. The patch must be applied to a currently installed ProductCart 5.4 code base. It may be applied to Standard, Apparel, Configurator, and Configurator Plus versions of the software.
ProductCart recommends making a backup of your store before running this update. If your store uses code that has been modified from the base code, those modifications may need to be re-implemented after running the patch. The patch includes the following updates:
ProductCart recommends making a backup of your store before running this update. If your store uses code that has been modified from the base code, those modifications may need to be re-implemented after running the patch. The patch includes the following updates:
Features
- Added support for Gift Cards created via options - Original PC code allowed for gift card products to be created with options and sold on the front end, but option did not process when the order was placed.
- WYSIWYG editor enhancements - The HTML editor was released initially missing some features. Enhancements include:
- Added scrollbar to editor
- Added ability to save changes while in Advanced editor mode without requiring the "</>" button to be clicked prior to product being saved.
- Added Italics button.
- Added font size button.
- Added popup for editing image related information.
- Added database trigger to update all existing configurations (Configurator) - If a Configurator item price was updated, existing configurations that contained the item did not have their configured price updated. Now, existing configurations are updated when an item price is updated.
- Added Password requirement prompt - Added feature to display requirements when creating passwords.
- Flickety slider enhancements - Moved inline CSS to storeFront.css. Added code to hide empty captions.
- Breadcrumbs SEO - "ID" syntax was added to breadcrumbs to meet Google's requirement.
- PayPal anti-carding feature - Added process to interfere with carding attempts.
- Improved security features, especially regarding SQL injection attacks.
Bug fixes
- Pending reviews count on control panel home page not correct
- Banner editor throwing error on save
- Google Analytics conversion information incorrect
- Order Export streamlined to run much faster and without timeout errors
- Custom Cross Selling image reference incorrect
- Superfish.js jQuery load method was called incorrectly.
- Virtual Merchant Gateway encoding issue
- Google Shopping Export streamlined to greatly improve performance
- Changed product page microdata to JSON-LD
- Endicia enhancements to API
- User Review redirect error
- Subproduct generation (Apparel Module) Streamlined process to be much faster and without timeouts. Updated database field (products: description) to hold larger amount of text created in this scenario.
- Password Reset loop error
- Paypal icons active
- Incorrect password prompt
- Control Panel drag/drop ordering feature not working
- Creating/adding options buffer error
- PDF creation error
- CAD currency type not handled correctly
- Encoding Issues where UTF-8 control characters were appearing in product text.
- PayPal incomplete orders errors on Payflow and Advanced platforms.