[Skip to main content](#vessel-content) ☰ Documentation # HikaShop 1.4 change log Details Written by: Administrator Category: [Global informations](/support/documentation/hikashop/global-informations) Published: 25 October 2026 Hits: 36 All the HikaShop 1.4 releases. The other old releases are listed in the [HikaShop Change Log Archive](/support/documentation/537-hikashop-changelog-archive.html), the recent ones in the [HikaShop Change Log](/support/documentation/56-hikashop-changelog.html). ### HikaShop 1.4.9 **Release date : April, 12 2011** #### Bug fixes (9) - Properly filter out unpublished or restricted child categories on listing of categories with sub categories displayed - If the option "number of columns" is not filled, the system now defaults to 1 column instead of crashing - The payment name was not the good one on admin payment notifications when using the eWAY plugin - We added some code in the uninstall of hikashop on joomla 1.6 in order to avoid a bug of joomla 1.6 during the reinstall of hikashop - When a user was logged out and tried to click on the order link in his order creation email on joomla 1.6, he would be redirected to a non-working URL - We fixed a bug with the product\_contact column on commercial versions - The creation date of users was not saved in hikashop\_user - The VAT on coupon was calculated correctly and the final price reflected it but not the price without VAT leading to a wrong VAT display - The delete icon in the cart module didn't work when the quantity field was deactivated #### Improvements (14) - The default ordering of the discounts listing is now descending so that it displays the newest discounts first - The minimum quantity order option now also checks that the user can't lower the quantity in the cart during the checkout - We improved the custom fields handling so that you can now have a custom field of the type checkbox required where before the required option would be ignored - We added the 2 letter codes for canadian states so that paypal can get them automatically - Payment plugins options are now accessible directly from the joomla plugin options - We added the menu and documentation button to the epay payment plugin - We corrected the list of counties for UK - We improved the categories selection popups so that it's easier to understand - The "continue shopping" button is now out of the checkout form to avoid a problem with the enter key on IE8 - The random option is now turned off by default so that pagination will work without having to turn off that option - The dates are now converted to a readable format during the export of users and orders CSVs in the widgets of the Business edition - You now have to possibility to specify any order field in the order number format - You can enter HTML in custom fields on the back end - We added links on the category listing menu's hikashop options to the associated module's options #### New features (6) - The order admin notification email and the order status update email now contain the full order summary - We added a plugin to automatically cancel orders after some time (commercial editions) - We added a plugin to support xmap - We added a new option to activate the display of the dimensions of the products on the product page - It is now possible to override the image HTML generation code via an override file in the template - We added a plugin for AlphaUserPoints enabling you to give points to the users on your store and have them use these points for payment (commercial editions) ### HikaShop 1.4.8 **Release date : March, 19 2011** #### Bug fixes (12) - We fixed several issues with the payment to affiliates - When you had entered information in both the registration form and the login form and that you clicked on the login button, the system was registering you. Now it will log you in as expected - Users who didn't click the activation link would still be accepted by hikashop (they weren't logged into joomla though) even though an error was displayed on the checkout - We fixed a conflict between the geolocation default currency selector and the currency switcher module whereby the module wasn't working anymore - We fixed a problem of display of the payment methods on PHP4 - When changing the shipping address of an order in the back end, the billing address would be changed too - The start and end date weren't taken into account for variants when set on the main products - Discounted prices might be displayed twice in a row in some cases on the checkout - We fixed the product thumbnail display on the hikashop acymailing tag plugin - We fixed a problem of display of the checkout page on joomla 1.6 with the language filter plugin published - There was a bug which filtered too strongly the shipping methods when using zone restrictions in some cases - The thumbnail of products were not displayed properly in the newsletters sent with AcyMailing #### Improvements (3) - We added Serbia in the default list of countries - The product/category name is now displayed as a tooltip when hovering on its image on the front end listings - Shipping taxes and coupon taxes are now stored in the order table #### Languages (2) - Fixing some translations which were not working properly in joomla 1.6 - Partial Portugal Portuguese translation available #### New features (10) - We added the possibility to set a tax category for the price of coupons - We added a new option in the config so that you can remove the login box from the checkout - We added a new option in the config so that you can choose whether to display the pagination on top of the listings on the front end or at the bottom - You can now import multiple prices for your products and variants via the hikashop products importer - You can now import the access level of prices for your products and variants via the hikashop products importer - We added the eWAY payment method (for australia only) - We added the ePay payment method - We added the AlertPay payment method - We added the Western Union payment method - We added a new filter in the acymailing hikashop plugin allowing you to send reminder emails for the orders. That way, you can for example send a reminder to your customers who created an order without confirming it 2 days after creating it only if they didn't confirm another order in that time (only in the commercial editions) ### HikaShop 1.4.7 **Release date : February, 28 2011** #### Bug fixes (3) - The payment method dropdown which enables you to switch to another payment method on the listing of orders of the front end has been changed so that it displays only the payment methods which are published and relevant to each order - We fixed the orders URL on the dashboard - In some rare cases, the price of items in the cart might not be the correct one if several prices are set for different minimum quantities #### Improvements (3) - You can now use the Turkish Lira for PayPal transactions - We removed the token checks on the checkout as they are not useful and can lead to problems with cache enabled websites - We added some CSS classes on the headers of some screens on the front end to ease RTL website's switch #### New features (2) - We added "read more" capability to the category description - We added ACL support on shipping and payment methods so that you can now restrict them to groups of users (business version only) ### HikaShop 1.4.6 **Release date : February, 26 2011** #### Bug fixes (15) - Characteristics values are now displayed in the good ordering when appended to the product name - The products search plugin was throwing a fatal error in some rare cases on joomla 1.5 with joomfish - Automatically generated product codes now handle products name outside the ASCII table - The title of the credit card information tooltip was not translated properly - The admin notification email wasn't sent properly on PHP4 when it was active - When an order total is negative (with a coupon for example), the system now assimilate it as a free order - Currency conversion of discounts flat amount wasn't working properly - The "add to cart" button could not be working in some cases on joomla 1.6 when the language filter plugin was published - Remove notice on the search which could be displayed in some cases - The corresponding addresses were not deleted when the user was deleted - We fixed a display problem on the registration view when the contact option is turned on in the recaptcha plugin - When the activation was deactivated in joomla and that CB was installed, the CB user wasn't confirmed/activated automatically after registration on hikashop's end - When a watermark was specified but that no image height/width was specified, the images weren't changed properly - In some cases the pagination on listings didn't work on the first try - In same odd cases a price retrieving query could fail on the front end #### Improvements (3) - The banners ordering can now be changed without clicking on the ordering column first - The watermark image can now be deleted - The files attached to products and custom fields do not have anymore any download limit where before it was limited by the memory limit setting #### Languages (3) - Fixing some translations which were not working properly in joomla 1.6 - Partial Latvian translation available - Partial Lithuanian translation available #### New features (6) - We added a new option so that you can force shipping on orders even if the weight of the products is 0 - You can now display all the prices of a product on the products listings - CSS classes added to the addresses listing on the front end - Search fields on the products search plugin can now be configured in the options of the plugin - The authorize.net payment plugin now handles both AIM and SIM APIs - We added a new plugin which will display a link to the user profile edition screen from the user control panel ### HikaShop 1.4.5 **Release date : February, 9 2011** #### Bug fixes (13) - The variants weren't copied properly when copying a product - The pagination could become screwed when changing the nubmer of items per page dropdown - When you had the login and address views of the checkout on two different steps and that you were already logged in become coming on the checkout page, you had to click twice the next button in order to go to the next step on the address step and on the shipping step - There was a fatal error introduced in 1.4.4 when creating a new menu from hikashop's content menus screen - The new address popup during the checkout on joomla 1.6 was displaying twice - A shipping address might be displayed previously on the order/invoice page even though the products in the cart were not shippable and that not shipping address was asked to the user - When adding a coupon on the checkout, and depending on your checkout workflow, the shipping fees were not added to the total unless you refreshed the page - The "file" type of custom fields was only working when the field was required - There was a faulty french translation on the manual shipping methods options - The modification of payments and shippings names in different languages didn't work properly - The payment methods translations weren't taken in account in joomfish - The restrictions on coupons weren't working due to a change on the 1.4.4 version - In some cases the total of the cart wasn't calculated correctly on the checkout without a refresh of the page #### Improvements (8) - We added CSS classes on custom fields in order to style them more easily - The access levels of prices are now copied when copying a product - Category descriptions are now processed by content plugins - The ReCaptcha plugin now also works on contact forms - We added new weight units in HikaShop: mg, ml, l and ozt - The price per weight unit is now calculated based on the taxed price or untaxed price (or both) using the same option as the main price - You can now hide the cart module when empty using the advanced module manager extension of joomla by overriding the empty cart translation and emptying it - Files attached to free products can now be downloaded on the order page without having the order confirmed #### New features (6) - We added an option in the config so that you can set the notice popup display time without editing the view - We created an admin module so that you can access hikashop's functions directly from the joomla dashboard - We added an option so that you can choose whether or not to auto select shipping and payment methods on the checkout - We changed the options of the configuration and regrouped the options related to the checkout under their own tab - We added an option to display a "contact us" button on the product page (commercial versions only) - With the new hikashop group plugin, you can now change the group of customers once they bought your products. Handy when you have a first product line which then allow users to access other resources on your website once bought (business version only) ### HikaShop 1.4.4 **Release date : January, 25 2011** #### Bug fixes (17) - The related listing module wasn't working properly when the product page was directly linked from a joomla menu - The checkout was blocking when the owner option was activated in the credit card collection plugin - We fixed a notice on the banners listing of the back end which appeared when no banners were yet created - The custom fields of the types dropdown were not displaying properly on the user edition screen - The SSL on checkout option wasn't working on joomla 1.6 - We fixed some translation strings name with a typo in all translation files and in the code - The order number format was taken into account in the admin order notification email - We fixed the tax calculation in the Australia Post plugin which wasn't working properly - Adding additional prices for products with IE7 wasn't working properly - We fixed some HTML in the product edition screen on the back end - Saving the ordering of products/categories could result in a loop in some cases - Prices are now ordered properly on the front end on the product page - The currency wasn't set for coupons generated with the acymailing plugin - The upload of a could could result in the file having the wrong access rights in some cases - When the prices were converted automatically from another currency, and that you had several of that products in the cart, it coul happen that the price was off of 1 cent due to a rounding issue - The search plugins weren't working properly on joomla 1.6 - We fixed a notice in some cases in the search plugins #### Improvements (6) - We improved the save of the product information so that prices id aren't incremented all the time - We added a whole bunch of CSS classes on listing of products/orders on the back end and front end so that you can more easily customize them - We added a warning on the "catalogue mode" option as some users were activating it without realizing that it would remove all the "add to cart" buttons - The listing of categories mneus and modules now get their options initialized properly so that you don't need a complex procedure to create them, and you can just create them easily via joomla's interface without extra steps - The CSS edition now saves as well the CSS file selected when saving the CSS code modification - We improved the "add to cart" handling on the listing of products so that it displays a "choose options" button instead if the product has characteristics which need to be selected before adding the product to the cart #### Languages (3) - Complete Ukranian translation available - Complete Russian translation available - Partial Hebrew translation available #### New features (4) - We added a new option in the Australia Post plugin to be able to have one parcel per product instead of grouping them - We added a new option in the configuration so that you can now display an "add to cart" button even for free products - You can now have custom item fields on the product page (business version only) - We added new chart statistics on the custom fields (business version only) ### HikaShop 1.4.3 **Release date : January, 12 2011** #### Bug fixes (13) - The pagination numbers could be off on the front end when products displayed would be in several of the categories displayed - The change of number of elements on the pagination for the categories listing wasn't working properly - The title of the categories listing page could be wrong in some instances depending on the options - We fixed a registration error on the checkout with joomla 1.6 - When "none" was selected for the CSS, a broken CSS link was added to the html head instead of not adding anything - A fatal error happened on the orders page on joomla 1.6 - We fixed a problem with the characteristics switch of the product page on internet explorer when they are displayed as radio buttons - The "price before discount" was displayed taxed and untaxed regardless of the "tax prices" option - The add to cart button was not working in some cases with some SEF components - We fixed a problem with the new button which was not working when the buttons display option in the configuration was CSS - We fixed the return URL handling in the Authorize.net payment plugin - When a currency was displayed but not published and that the customer selected that currency and then went on the checkout and that there were shipping fees, they would be displayed in that currency instead of being displayed in the main currency - We fixed a rounding issue on prices when they were dynamically converted with a currency fee applied to them #### Improvements (4) - The size of the input boxes for categories name and products main information have been improved - HikaShop now displays the order creation date instead of the current date in the order invoices - When using HikaShop along with Community Builder, the usrs registered via HikaShop would still be blocked on CB after activation. HikaShop now unblocks the users in CB if CB is installed - The login and register buttons of the login view of the checkout now use the same library as the other buttons so that all the buttons on the front end have the same design #### New features (5) - You can now enter your translations modifications as a translation override which you won't loose when updating HikaShop and its core translation files - You now have the possibility to use HikaShop's registration view of the checkout on its own - The reCaptcha plugin has been updated to work with the new registration view - We added an option to automatically update the view when another payment/shipping method is selected - We added two options to add a "become an affiliate" checkbox on the registration form (business version only) ### HikaShop 1.4.2 **Release date : January, 5 2011** #### Bug fixes (27) - We fixed some popups issues with joomla 1.6 - We fixed a notice which happened on the listing of content menus after deleting hikashop content menus but without cleaning the menus trash - The state field, when empty, was bloquing the submission of the form. It is now fixed - We fixed a php notice on the category creation form on the back end - We fixed the "joomla options" links on the modules and menus edition screen - We fixed the "hikashop options" link on the edition screen for the cart module and content modules - The import now handles correctly categories with the same name in different parent categories - We fixed modules and menus links to joomla options on the back end on joomla 1.6 - We fixed the display of the redirection views of payment plugins on joomla 1.6 - We fixed the notice popup when adding a product to the cart on joomla 1.6 as it was working only once per page due to a change in the way mootools 1.2 handles popups - The notice popup wasn't working correctly with IE8 on joomla 1.6 - The URL of products was not displayed on the front end - The import didn't work properly if the last column contained a text on several lines - We fixed a fatal error when rebuilding categories tree in the back end - Custom order fields, when required, were not checked in javascript - HTML tags were stripped out when importing product information with the text area option - Cart module's options were not loaded on joomla 1.6 when refreshed via ajax and would thus use the default options instead of the options setted in the cart module for display - Remove some notices on the import of CSV when the CSV file isn't properly formatted - Currency conversion wasn't working properly on listings of products on the front end when the option "Price display method" of the menu/module displaying it was set to cheapest - Tax rules listing could display another category than the one selected in some special cases - When editing an already existing address on the checkout the shipping and payment selection wasn't properly reseted and it could create some display problems where the old shipping method would be applied to the order although the address would be outside the zone restriction of the shipping method - User synchronization, products search, categories search and affiliate plugins are now compatible with joomla 1.6 - We fixed a rounding issue on prices' tax calculation - Affiliate earnings were not calculated correctly when the currency of the order and the currency of the affiliate was different - The option "Payment of orders not paid immediately" wasn't working in the essential edition and only in the business edition - Translation files' comments now start with a ; instead of a # to work properly on joomla 1.6 with php 5.3 - The import can now handle related products all inserted together #### Improvements (4) - We changed the way we load the admin notification email so that you can change the email address dynamically in the email's generation code - We added an option to display a simplified cart module without a listing of the products in the cart - The notice popup displayed aftering adding a product to the cart now uses its own view so you will be able to easily modify it via the view interface - You can now add HTML in custom fields on the back end #### Languages (1) - Complete Czech translation available #### New features (9) - We added ACL support on discounts and coupons so that you can now restrict them to groups of users (business version only) - We added ACL support on categories so that you can now restrict them to groups of users (business version only) - We added ACL support on products and variants so that you can now restrict them to groups of users (business version only) - We added ACL support on prices of products and variants so that you can now restrict them to groups of users (business version only) - You also have now the possible to import product access via the import (business version only) - We changed the geolocation plugin from the hikashop group to the system group (business version only) - The geolocation plugin can now handle zone restrictions, i.e. limit components access to a whitelist of zones or blacklist zones which should not access components (business version only) - The geolocation plugin can now set automatically the currency based on the zone of the user (business version only) - We added a new type of custom fields which will allow you to add an upload input box so that your customers can upload a file in their order for example or enabling you to add a PDF to a product so that it can be accessible on the product page (business version only) ### HikaShop 1.4.1 **Release date : December, 18 2010** #### Bug fixes (17) - Fixing weight unit use with variants - Fixing the main category image display of menus and modules - Fixing a mysql error on the front end when no payment methods where configured and you tried to go to the checkout and that you had the joomla debug mode activated - Fixing the edition of the order creation admin notification email and the user account email - Fixing the display of modules name twice - We added ILS in the list of supported currencies in the paypal plugin - We improved the zone loading function to avoid loops when zone relations are looping because of a misconfiguration - The user information wasn't reloaded when it was updated in the back end. That means that the interface was still displaying the old information in the interface - We added a check to avoid warnings on the order details page when all the custom address fields are unpublished - When clearing the "parent category" option of modules and menus, the main product category is now inserted automatically - When using coupon tags in AcyMailing newsletters, a fatal error could happen on some joomla websites when sending the newsletter - For product names written is some languages it could happen that some characters were not recognized by PayPal's website. We now forces the charset to UTF-8 to avoid the problem - Admin notification emails did not contain the link to the order if the translation file had been edited through the interface because of the return characters in the translation strings being interpreted directly in the translation file - We fixed the custom fields zone for state field used for other purposes so that it works properly - The toggle of the shipping address selection area on the checkout on IE8 didn't work as IE8 doesn't like onchange and prefer onclick for input checkboxes - We fixed a problem with the translations of characteristics in JoomFish - The product weight and volume units used in products were not saved properly when there was only one unit defined in the configuration #### Improvements (10) - The credit card number and expiration date are now checked so that users cannot submit an invalid number or an expired date - A message is now displayed on the listing of variants when no characteristics have been entered for a product in order to explain to the user that he must first assign a characteristic to his product before managing the variants of his product - We are now setting the page titles automatically on categories listing, products listing and product page on the front end - The custom order fields entered by the user are now added to the order creation email notification (business version only) - We added the possibility to add your affiliate id on the link of the footer - When you don't enter a category for a new product, the current category of the listing of products is now used automatically - We changed the way we load the admin notification email so that you can change the email address dynamically in the email's generation code - We improved performances on the categories listings when images are displayed (back end and front end) - We added the possibility to specify tax categories more easily within CSV files - We moved the CSS, JS, email and upload folder to the media folder to avoid overwrite problems when doing an update on Joomla 1.6 #### Languages (2) - Complete Danish translation available - Complete Bulgarian translation available #### New features (10) - We added an option in the product search plugin to choose whether to display the full category path on the breadcrumb when the itemid option has a products listing menu id set - We added an option in the configuration to select whether to sort characteristics by id or by alphabetical order - You now have the possiblity to override the display of buttons and the "add to cart" popup in HikaShop with a template file override - We added an option to choose whether or not to capture the credit card owner name in the credit card collection plugin - We added an option to choose whether or not to append characteristic values to products name - We added an option to set what kind of separator will be used in CSV exports - We added an option to overwrite product information when importing product information if the product code is already in the database - We added an option to create categories when importing product information if the category doesn't exists - We added an option to force the product\_published field of products to 1 if the column is not specified or if no information is given - We added the possibility to import categories via the CSV import ### HikaShop 1.4.0 **Release date : December, 6 2010** #### Bug fixes (11) - When you removed the state custom field from the address form, the shipping and payment method filtered by zone wouldn't display if the address was already entered by the user before the change - The stocks of products were not updated when an order was cancelled or refunded - The import function did add related products, categories links, prices and images to products when the product\_code key was numeric - Fixing the selection of the shipping address during the checkout - Fixing the ordering modification on the product listing on the back end which didn't work in some cases - In some rare cases warnings would be displayed when processing images - The shipping order maximum and minimum price restrictions were checked against the total of the order without taxes. They are now checked against the total with taxes - Improving a bit the breadcrumbs in some cases on the product page - Fixing an import problem when trying to import products with characteristics and variants - Hide the "add to cart html link" button when the product is a new product - The number of elements was discarded and the global joomla limit was used instead for the default limit on listing of categories on the front end #### Improvements (6) - Better default CSS for "add to cart" buttons when the option button style is set to CSS. - We added a content elements file for widget names so that they can be translated with joomfish - We added some classes in the pagination of the front end to be able to more easily hide some of the pieces - The system now cancel the order when the user clicks on cancel on paypal - We improved the import function to automatically add the product to the main product category if the category in the CSV is not found in the database - We also added the name of the caracteristics in the error messages as they can be possible columns in the CSV files #### Languages (1) - Complete Norwegian translation available #### New features (4) - We added an option to force a menu on the checkout process. That will enable you to use different modules and templates on the checkout page than on the rest of the shop - We added an option to set a class for lists in menus and modules - We added a new payment plugin to collect credit cards information for offline processing - You can now also customize the admin order creation notification email (business version only) [](#top)