Satchmo Development Branch

This is a working document to show all the updates taking place in the actively developed tip.

Changes

• Updated German translation
• Improvements to robustness of clonesatchmo program
• Template cleanups for gift certificates
• Improve discount handling for paypal
• Add new management command for billing subscription products
• Improve handling of ccv numbers
• Improve display string of subtypes in admin
• If language is chosen, make sure it’s selected by default
• Tweak the product admin screens to show featured and active status
• Add new admin functions for toggling active/featured status of products
• Make the display of the site in the admin lists configurable through the settings
• Add a readonly field to the admin. Use it in the order admin for the status field
• Add some raw id fields in the admin so that large stores will work ok
• Fix the ajax functions to escape properly and use the right mime type
• Fix postgres typecast problem
• Added new Custom Product Attribute functionality - Custom Product Attributes
• Improved the code for calculating comment averages to increase performance
• Added signal for custom filtering of items which are subject to a discount
• Improve handling of the MEDIA_ROOT on Windows systems
• Add a documentation section about customizing the admin - Customizing Admin
• Handle error if unicode value is entered in the cart quantity field
• Add a persistent cart capability for previously logged in users
• Django 1.2 compatibility change in save signatures
• Remove some dupe code in the login functions
• Turn off autocomplete on cc#’s and ccvs in the checkout form
• Move the import of trml2pdf so that startup is quicker
• Fix a bug in the category slug url
• Change the way currency formats are determined. Explicit option will remove locale bugs.
• Fix the import for simplejson to support certain OS supplied json libs
• Update search to work on product variation skus
• Update login form so it accepts 75 characters
• Add a trap for CACHE_TIMEOUT
• Removed CATEGORY and PRODUCT slug configuration from livesettings
• Fixed imports in Canadapost shipping module
• Changed the way payment modules are imported. Making way for django-bursar integration
• Multiple fixes to paypal modules
• Allow admins to choose whether tax is calculated based on the shipping or billing address
• Refactor the templates and the way jquery is loaded. Will make it easier to switch jquery versions and hosting locations.
• Updated jquery to 1.4.2
• Added new documentation on Satchmo’s views - Satchmo Views
• Cache the category tree for big performance improvements