Satchmo 0.9.1 Released

Satchmo 0.9.1 is officially released!

This release is only a dot release in name but in functionality and improvements it is a major step forward for Satchmo. It has been in development for over 7 months and fixes a lot of bugs, improves the installation process, streamlines the overall package, and includes numerous performance improvements. Check out the full changelog for more details.

You can download Satchmo here and review the full documentation which includes this quickstart tutorial.

I will try to post some more details about some of the major improvements, but here are a few of the ones that rise towards the top:

  • New Custom Product Attributes allow you to add your own data fields to any product
  • Many improvements to the documentation
  • New capability to send HTML email confirmations to your customers
  • Slick new ajax fields in the checkout process to auto populate states based on the country selected
  • Lots of new translation updates (thanks transifex)
  • Inclusiong of South migrations
  • Removing livesettings and keyedcache from Satchmo and spinning off their own project
  • Many re-factorings of how livesettings are used which results in a much more straightforward troubleshooting process
  • Multiple performance improvements - especially for stores with 1000's of products

Thank you to all the people that have contributed to the release. A special thanks to Tay Ray Chuan who contributed a massive amout of work to this release. He refactored much of the documentation and made many bug fixes and improvements to Satchmo as a whole.

Posted on May 24, 2010 by chris django satchmo

8 Comments

memo commented on May 26, 2010 at 12:56 a.m.:
This is such a great open source django project!

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mrgreengo commented on May 28, 2010 at 2:27 a.m.:
no, it's not that great. it's fine after all, but have too many issues, ie. performance

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Chris commented on May 28, 2010 at 7:49 a.m.:
If you have specific issues or suggestions, I'd encourage you to bring it to the Satchmo list so we can discuss. We are always looking for ways to improve Satchmo and your experience might be useful in helping us.

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Andrew commented on May 27, 2010 at 8:01 p.m.:
I think the clonesatchmo.py file needs to be updated -- when I install using the quick-install instructions, I get the following error/trace: ~/satchmo_store $ python /usr/local/bin/clonesatchmo.py Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/bin/clonesatchmo.py", line 4, in <module> from pkg_resources import require; require('Satchmo==0.9-2') File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg/pkg_resources.py", line 2603, in <module> File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg/pkg_resources.py", line 666, in require File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg/pkg_resources.py", line 565, in resolve pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: Satchmo==0.9-2

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Chris Moffitt commented on May 28, 2010 at 7:52 a.m.:
If you could bring your issue to the mailing list, we'll try to help figure out what's going on here.

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Marty Alchin commented on June 16, 2010 at 8:04 a.m.:
I'm pleased to see that livesettings has finally been split back out into its own app. It's been fun to see how far you guys have taken it and I'd love to see it in more standard use in other apps as well.

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Peter commented on December 8, 2011 at 2:55 p.m.:
will be support for non-sql databases in near future?

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Chris commented on December 18, 2011 at 10:37 a.m.:
Peter, There aren't any imminent plans to move to non-sql databases in the future. So much depends on django's direction and I just don't think we have the resources to go down this path. -Chris

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