Community Edition (CE) 1.8 - alpha has been released with some changes! If you are a developer or just a Magento enthusiast, you can get it now to explore as well as prepare extensions for new a stable release will be released on next time.

 


The later, the better? Is it right? And what is "better" in this new version compared with previous versions?

1.Highlights

  • Improve caching to enable even greater performance by invalidating only relevant pages making it easier to cache content without affecting site performance
  • Tax calculation formulas has a major overhaul in the way sales tax and rounding error fixes.  For details, see: Magento CE 1.8: Recommended Tax Configurations and Best Practices.
  • Functional Improvements:  Approximately 350 functional improvements in key areas, including the web store, shopping cart, admin order creation, import and export functionality, web API components and payment methods. Special that, speeding up in checkout process by reducing page load times for browsing and placing orders will help customers to significantly save time shopping and increase satisfaction.

2. Security Enhancements:

Security on website is an important issue, always be concerned and expected by users in the new versions. This Magento Community Edition version has also significantly strengthened about the security. The Magento Admin Panel and web stores no longer allow web browsers to store user names or passwords, the Magento web store has additional Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) protections.

In addition, the cryptographic methods used to store passwords were improved to enhance security. And making unauthorized use of an account is impossible because the session ID will be changed after successful registration.

If you are ready, let download and take a journey of discovery in your way!

Note: Not recommend this release in a production environment.

 

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