Zen Cart has released a new version which comes complete with a LOT of must have features. Below is a full list of the new improvements and fixes, the most important are in orange.
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- PHP 5.3.x compatibility
- PCI scan improvements to prevent commonly-reported false-positives
- SSL-detection improvements
- Session Handling improvements for shared-SSL configurations to deal with IE-specific quirks
- Session-Handler improvements: closing when done, removed redundant start, etc
- Search improvements
- Hack-attempt detection improvements
- Add .htaccess for /images/ folder, and security updates to many others as well
- Canonical URL support added for product pages and product listings. See /includes/init_includes/init_canonical.php
- Developer Toolkit Improvements (smarter searches, case-sensitive options, etc)
- USPS module updated to RateV3 API and includes all updates posted to April 2010
- PayPal UK – 3D-Secure support added
- PayPal micropayments support added
- Added CURL processing for PayPal IPN handling in case fsockopen() is disabled or failing
- Various updates to PayPal, Linkpoint (now renamed to FirstData) and Authnet Payment modules
- Split tax line support integrated
- Added per-EZ-page stylesheet support
- Fix ISO country/currency errors in default SQL file (old countries removed, etc)
- Fixes/updates/additions of various notifier calls
- MySQL 6-alpha preliminary compatibility
- Updates to spiders.txt file for stronger efficiency and more up-to-date data
- Improvements to configure.php file read-only detection (automatically sets to read-only if found writable, and permissions allow it)
- Various performance improvements, including freeing up wasted memory to make things run more lean
- PHP error logging automatically enabled by default, since errors are not displayed to the browser (for security reasons) (Log cleanup can be done from admin side via Store Manager)
- Turn off autocomplete on cc-number fields so browsers don’t store/retrieve that information
- Spam slamming via tell-a-friend is now throttled
- Admin-login-slamming protection – added delays to prevent brute-force password attacks