[Harald Ponce de Leon]

We are proud to announce an advancement of the osCommerce 2.2 release series with the new osCommerce Online Merchant v2.2 Release Candidate 2a release. This second release candidate addresses issues introduced in the previous release candidate release and addresses longer termed issues from 2.2 Milestone 2.

No major features have been introduced with this release candidate as our development efforts are focused on our upcoming 3.0 release, but does include the following changes:

• Over 15 bug fixes and improvements.
  
• Improved register_globals compatibility layer for PHP 4.3+ servers.
  
• New and updated payment modules that include PayPal Express Checkout, PayPal Direct Payments, PayPal Website Payments Standard, Authorize.net AIM and SIM, WorldPay, and more.
  
• Introduce the ability for payment modules to show checkout buttons on the shopping cart page.
  
• Introduce the ability for order shipping and billing addresses to be defined from an external source (ie, payment method).
  
• Introduce a public status flag on order status levels to show or hide orders from customers depending on the order status level.
  
• Introduce a download flag on order status levels to allow customers to download virtual products at specific order status levels.
  
• Introduce version signature strings to payment modules that link to the add-ons site for easier version tracking.

osCommerce Online Merchant v2.2 Release Candidate 2a can be downloaded here:

http://www.oscommerc...redirect.php/go,44

An upgrade guide for existing osCommerce 2.2 Release Candidate 1 installations can be found here:

http://www.oscommerc...rade-22rc2.html

We wish you the best of fun with this release and look forward to your feedback!

osCommerce Online Merchant v2.2 RC2a Update

osCommerce Online Merchant v2.2 RC2a has been released to fix 2 bugs and replaces 2.2 RC2. The fixes are:

• Use of PHP 5 only stripos() function during the database restoration routine on the Administration Tool. A compatibility function has been added to work on PHP <5 servers.
  
• A PHP warning message is produced on requests where the session has not been started (ie, for search engine spiders). This is due to referencing the $_SESSION superglobal variable in tep_session_is_registered() which does not exist if the session has not started. A check for this variable has been added to this function.

The code changes for existing 2.2 RC2 installations can be seen here:

http://svn.oscommerc...mmerce/?cs=1829
http://svn.oscommerc...mmerce/?cs=1830

(click on the green "Expand all" link to reveal the changes)

This post has been edited by Harald Ponce de Leon: 31 January 2008 - 03:52 PM