What's Next for Zen Cart?

3.0.0

• New Feature: Child Templates will be supported, so that storeowners can more easily determine what has been changed from the base release of a template.
• Modernization: Zen Cart 3.0 will use Bootstrap 5.
• Modernization: support for older define based language files will be dropped. Moving forward, only Array based language files will be supported.

2.2.0

• Admin: Improvements in Sales Report with Graphs.
• Admin: TinyMCE added as the default admin HTML Editor.
• Admin: Added capability to customize the upper right link bar using a notifier.
• Admin: Fixed - Deprecated “Passing null to parameter #1” log will be created when viewing Admin Packingslip or Admin Invoice.
• Core: Improved handling of product table records which do not have associated products_description records.
• Core: Improved PHP 8.4 compatibility.
• Core: Typo in notifier name NOTIFY_ADMIN_INVOICE_HEADERS_AFTER_TAX corrected.
• Core: Updates to POSM to support Edit Orders 5.0.
• Core: Password reset via URL (versus emailing a temporary password) is being added to the core. Credit to forum users Numinix and Retched for inspiration.
• Extras: Curltester now includes REST API endpoints for USPS and PayPal.
• Storefront: Notifier added for additional product details.
• Storefront: Updated embedded MobileDetect to latest version for responsive_classic template.
• Storefront: Updated - Refreshed look for responsive classic template. See this repo from contributor chadlly2003.
• Storefront: Fixed - Customer’s wholesale status captured when order is placed.
• Storefront: Fixed - PHP log created when empty shipping quote returned.
• Storefront: Fixed - JavaScript problems can occur when gv_balance is null. This is an important fix for JavaScript heavy checkouts (OPC, some payment modules).

2.1.0

Zen Cart 2.1.0 has been released; changes are now listed in What’s New in 2.1.x.

2.0.1

Zen Cart 2.0.1 has been released; changes are now listed in What’s New in 2.0.x.