Whats New in Magento 1.4.1.0

Improvements

• Added ability to use static URLs for media in WYSIWYG or image browser. Added ability to enable parsing store, skin and media directives on catalog frontend.
• URL rewrites history: ability to auto-generate custom rewrite with redirect from old to new URL when changing product URL-key
• Added ability to exclude a category from navigation menu
• Various improvements in system configuration UI. Introduced ability to make actual configuration structure to be independent on the system.xml structure
• Added "Only X left" inventory feature
• Implemented Centinel functionality in iphone theme
• Upgraded TinyMCE to v.3.3.2
• Improved PayPal integration, includes:
  * Recurring payment profiles entity and purchasing of "subscription" products. In checkout they are treated as "nominal" items.
  * Billing agreements
  * "Pending Review" order state, "Pending Review" and "Suspected Fraud" order statuses and logic related with this. Triggers by PayPal IPR, FMF and Unilateral payments.
  * Functionality of transactions listing/searching and fetching from gateway
  * Fetching PayPal settlement reports via SFTP
  * Various improvements of PayPal integration on the frontend and admin UI
• Added notice about creating offline creditmemo from order view page.
• Added getter for recurring payment methods in payment helper.
• Implemented abstract block ability to have arbitrary groups of child blocks and a method that returns such a group. Implemented a method that fetches data from child block by specified alias.
• Implemented ability to specify "sort_order" instead of "before" and "after" in the totals declaration. All nominal totals declaration utilize "sort_order"
• Added getter for specified object data by key in core/template block: method getObjectData()
• Defined payment methods grouping, implemented getter for payment method list (with option to group them). Added ability to render grouped options in the "select" grid filter.
• Moneybookers: utilized the payment methods grouping for all its methods; removed redundant "translate" attribute in the methods definition in config.
• Utilized payment methods grouping for PayPal peyment methods.
• Added more verbosity to PayPal NVP and IPN debugging

Changes

• Sales module database structure changed from EAV into flat tables
• Product custom URL rewrites redirect to SEF URL, rather than to catalog/product/view/id/
• Reimplemented frontend top menu rendering logic (cross-browser and usability improvements)
• Reviewed logic of the sales reports: Orders, Tax, Invoiced, Shipping, Refunds, Coupons
• Reimplemented bestsellers report
• Implemented 3D Secure validation for Maestro International and JCB cards
• Changed Shopping cart methods output (top + bottom): removed
• Moved the Payflow Pro payment method to PayPal module
• Refactored sales/service_quote model: instead of submit() method the submitAll() should be used. It can submit nominal items separately from the order. The methods for submitting nominal items and order separately - are available as well.
• Refactored onepage checkout model to use the new method sales/service_quote::submitAll(), added recurring profiles and billing agreements passing through the process until the success page
• Utilized child blocks grouping to improve flexibility of rendering additional information in catalog/product/view template. The group is called "detailed_info"; any block from layout may insert itself to this group.
Removed redundant wrappers hard-coded into some catalog templates. Template of parent block is responsible for wrapping.
• Refactored onepage checkout success block and template: simplified fetching related checkout information, added ability to render billing agreement and recurring profiles that might be created with the payment placement.