magento 在09年的最后一天发布了社区1.4版的rc1版本，继12月8日之后发布的magento beta后发布的magento rc1，相信离magento正式版发布的日子不远了。
Improvements
Numerous HTML/CSS, accessibility and SEO improvements in design themes, including:
– reviewed and fixed some obsolete differences between design themes
– col-main moved before sidebar columns
– numerous widgets CSS improvements
– Added missing logo for print pages for French and German skins
Added ability to define arbitrary cache backends. For example:Zend_Cache_Backend_ZendServer_ShMem
Added ability to use callable source methods (instead of source models) for multiselect elements in system configuration XML
PayPal features:
– Implemented collecting payment information from different places of interaction with PayPal: website payments pro API calls (Direct, Express), IPN. Information collected:
– Payer ID
– Payer Email
– Payer Status
– Payer Address ID
– Payer Address Status
– Merchant Protection Eligibility
– Triggered Fraud Filters
– Last Corellation ID
– Aaddress Verification System Response
– CVV2 Check Result by PayPal
– Centinel Visa Payer Authentication Service Result
– Centinel Electronic Commerce Indicator
– Added ability to do partial refunds and captures (Express, Direct).
– Fraud Management Filters support is always enabled in API calls
– PayPal methods use common paypal/payment_info block and default templates for displaying all payment specific information
– Any Paypal payment method now displays all available information (in admin only, on frontend and PDF prints this information is limited to payer email)
Implemented ability to render additional data in generic Payment Info blocks/templates
Added support for cache type invalidation (notification toolbar, cache type status and methods)
Optimized performance of sales reports, added new features:
– added Cancelled amount column in Orders report
– New report types:
– orders by order updated date
– taxes by order updated date
– shipping by shipment created date
– invoices by invoice created date
– refunds by creditmemo created date
– coupons by order updated date
– ability to specify whether to show empty rows in report
– ability to filter by order status
Added ability to set total item in layout handle
Image browser/uploader changes:
– file browser config section moved to ‘adminhtml’ section and now has more flexibility for use and extending
– ‘excluded directory’ config option can contain a Regexp
– ‘Upload Root’ option removed from configuration (obsolete)
Improvements in logic of “Add All” from wishlist action
Enhanced catalog product list and search result pagination
Optimized performance of Search Indexer
Added ability to merge CSS files (beta)
Added ability to void order payment
Changes
Mage_Paypal is completely rewritten
– Addresses data is overridden completely when imported from PayPal Express Checkout
Mage_PaypalUk module is reverted back to state of CE 1.4.0.0-alpha3 + some minor bugfixes
Templates of some payment methods moved to base/default package
Changed final 404 page logic, added 503 page
Added ‘first_customer_id’ to tags table (customer id who first submitted the tag)
Added Switch/Solo-specific fields rendering to payment/method_cc templates, because this method may be aware of such CC type
Removed Cardholder name (and Card expiry date from some templates) from payment/method_cc templates
Removed escaping HTML in default and cc PDF renderer templates (it strips tags anyway)
Pending Payment orders are not included into sales report
removed passing “IPADDRESS” NVP variable in PayPal Express (it is not documented)
removed initialization parameters from Express model (obsolete)
Added Varien_Debug and Varien_Object_Mapper libs
Upgraded Zend Framework to version 1.9.6
Added Exception logging on mail send failure
Made HTML Wrapper block rendering (by default) only if there are child blocks
Disabled generating increment IDs for customers by default (affects performance of orders placement)
Javascript files merger functionality is reimplemented to save merged javascript as static files (js/index.php is not used anymore)
Known Issues
Mage_Paypal code is not backwards compatible. Backwards compatibility is retained on data level (existing paypal orders, read only).
Fraud Management Filters information is collected by Paypal models, but isn’t treated in any way (should restrict order processing)
Workaround for known issue with PayPal cart line items: if in Magento cart the item has amount with precision > 2 (for example in calculation incl tax), it will be incompatible with PayPal, which requires to round up to .2. Workaround multiplies items to quantity and returns as “sub-aggregated” item
Refund notification in payment processing doesn’t create a creditmemo (not implemented)
“Inventory -> Stock Options -> Display out of stock products” system config option has issues with indexing
Bugfixes
Fixed #17720: core_flag primary key is a smallint and has a max value of 65535
Fixed #18455/17962: “Customer not notified” status when an order is shipped with “Email copy of shipment” option checked
Fixed #18786: Cache is not “refreshing”
Implemented #19233: Cron jobs locking (patch by Visions)
Fixed #19202: checkout_cart_product_add_after observer gets one quote_item when adding bundle or grouped product with a few items at once
Fixed #19036: Add new category with image throws exception
Fixed #19206: impossible to edit Gift Message for Entire Order in the admin
Partially fixed #16256: refreshing layer navigation for configurable product does not check simple product stock
Fixed STRAIGHT_JOIN using for fulltext index and Catalog URL indexer
Fixed #18691: bundle items don’t show when backend language is not english
Fixed #6370: Search Terms sorting lower case an upper case words
Fixed #18522: Google Analytics not tracking multi-shipping transactions
Fixed #9633: Mage_Install_Model_Installer_Config::replaceTmpInstallDate() doesn’t respect $date argument
Fixed #18222: fedex tracking popup uses contact us link when contact form disabled in admin
Fixed #18495: Bundle product on Safari 4.0.3 (6531.9): Javascript error make adding a simple product to an option impossible
Fixed #7099: addcss doesn’t operate the same as addjs
Fixed refreshing catalog_product_index issue when parent category is not anchor (deleting parent product assocation when parent is not anchored, there is no reassocation after deleted)
Fixed Varien_Simplexml_Element::_asArray(): now it does not lose a value of node with attributes
Fixed #7571/#17851: Contact Form Getting Incredibly Spammed
Fixed: #17538: Profit Report includes tax and shipping costs
Fixed #15157: Error on Checkout: Subject set twice
Fixed: #17073: Return-Path not set for sendmail e-mails
Plan for the stable release
Centinel 3D Secure credit card validation service integration
Giropay integration (PayPal Express)
Mage_PayPalUK module
你可以通过下面的链接下载magento rc版
http://www.magentocommerce.com/download/
