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#  HikaShop 2.5 change log

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All the HikaShop 2.5 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 2.5.0

**Release date : June, 09 2015**

[List of all the files changed between the 2.4.0 and the 2.5.0](http://pastebin.com/J7512Qva)

#### Bug fixes (76)

- We fixed an issue with the loading of the correct current URL in some servers not configured properly
- We fixed an issue regarding the "Priority Mail International (International)" USPS service which was showing as a free shipping service. To fixed that, we had to update USPS services
- We fixed a MySQL query error in some rare cases with widgets calculating the total amount of products in order to extract the best sellers
- We do not take into account any more cookies named popup for the display of the add to cart popup
- The Authorize.net payment plugin auto redirect back to the shop was not working with the HikaShop payment notification plugin activated
- We fixed a rounding display issue of the taxes on the invoices in some rare cases
- The Ghana states were linked to the Gambia country. We've corrected that and added the states for Gambia (new installs of HikaShop)
- The unpublished variants were displayed on the product page in "list" characteristic display mode
- Tax zones were not listed in the zones selection of tax rules with the new selection system added in HikaShop 2.4.0
- We added a fix so that if you have set the "Auto select default shipping and payment methods" option to YES via "Hikashop->System->Configuration->Checkout", the shipping method which will be auto selected will be the first one of your shipping methods selection
- We added the support of the system plugin "hikashop payment notification" for the payment plugin "paypal advanced"
- The variants list display would not display any price if the main product didn't had a price even if the variants had prices
- We fixed an issue with the address edition in the checkout and Internet Explorer
- We now properly take into account the currency increment for the payment fees calculations
- We now properly take into account the currency increment for the coupon value calculations
- We fixed an issue with the selection of products with UTF8 special characters on some PHP versions for badges and discounts
- We fixed a 404 issue with the HikaShop router for the popup notice after add to cart when there is a products listing as the front page and that there is a menu item on the website named "checkout"
- We fixed the link on the affiliate button of the dashboard in the Business edition
- The plugin "attach invoice" will only add the PDF for HikaShop sales orders (so it will exclude the HikaMarket sub sales)
- We fixed the plugin "hikashop social networks" for the display of pinterest
- We changed the ETA format FedEx option to a dropdown, and correced some issue that we had with the 12H format
- The 'no payment methods found' error message could potentially be displayed on the checkout even on steps where there was no payment method selection view to be displayed
- We fixed the display of the user points in the checkout when the user does not have points yet
- We fixed an issue on the FedEx shipping plugin regarding the fact that if you use a different price currency than the main shop currency on your shipping configuration page, the price wasn't correctly converted
- We fixed the display of the notice popup after add to cart when the current menu is a HikaShop menu item and is the home page
- The waiting days/hour extra day settings of the advanced date picker field were not taken into account by the server-side check
- We added a check regarding the "StateOrProvinceCode" which was sent for the rate request to the FedEx platform
- We added a fix regarding the display of the HIKASHOP\_NO\_RESULT error message when no products are found for a search with HikaShop filters
- We fixed an issue regarding publish/un-publish button which wasn't showing on the translation popup for the "product\_page\_title" field
- The icons of the dashboard of the backend didn't support non ASCII characters for their tooltips
- The exported CSVs of the mass actions would contain extra spaces around the separator of the price fields when the products would have several prices
- We fixed a potential fatal error when you would save a filter on a custom product field without selecting any custom field
- The reorder system was only taking into account custom item fields available for all the categories and not the ones available for some categories
- We fixed a javascript error on the product page when all the variants of a product were out of stock
- Custom item fields would not be displayed when the "add to cart" button was not displayed even if the "add to wishlist" button was displayed on the product page.
- The country address field wouldn't update the state field if another field had been setup with the "zone" setting set to "state" even if its type had been set back to something else than "zone"
- The coupon amount was not calculated properly when the coupon had a percentage set and a list of products and that there were more than one of them in the cart
- When the user had deleted his own address and was saving his new billing address, the address wouldn't be selected automatically
- We fixed an issue regarding the grouped packages counter in the Fedex plugin which might give a higher shipping fee than supposed in some cases
- The payment notification plugin could sometimes create a fatal error during the notification process because of a missing constant
- When the user of an order is changed with the "set user address" flag turned on, both the billing and the shipping addresses are now changed
- We fixed the auto selection of the default registration method in "switcher mode" for some cases
- We fixed a bug with the saving of the view overrides on Joomla 1.5
- We fixed the category selection system for badges
- We fixed an issue with the "main tax zone" setting saving in the configuration
- We fixed the ordering of the shipping in the checkout when having more than 10 shipping methods.
- We fixed the quantity of the wishlist items when bought from the wishlist by a third customer.
- When the invoice order statuses option is empty, the update of the stock after the confirmation of the orders wasn't done
- We fixed an issue with the csv file filter in the mass product action
- We fixed a warning during the export for when an order doesn't have any products
- We fixed the selection of several shipping methods for different warehouses without the use of HikaMarket
- We fixed the selection of discounts with restrictions on categories and with the 'including sub categories' activated in the discount
- The Sveawebpay payment plugin has been updated and corrected
- A fix has been added regarding the DPM method for the Authorize.net payment plugin
- We fixed an issue with the HTML address override in the shipping method settings
- We fixed the cursor filter re-submission
- We fixed an issue whereby relative file paths would be refused by the product file selection interface
- We now handle the variants when filtering on the category columns in mass product action
- We fixed the save of the "products" setting for the custom fields
- The "user group after purchase" skip its check of the guest registration if the creation of the user has already been disabled by another plugin before itself
- We added a fix regarding the weight unit sent to the FedEx platform
- We fixed an issue for the cursor filters when filtering on a 0 price
- We removed potential warnings with custom order fields of the type "custom text" on the orders listing of the backend
- The product limit now handle "all statuses" for his configuration
- We fixed the management of multiple categories for the discounts
- We added a fix regarding the display of the error message if we have a CURL error for Canada Post shipping methods
- We fixed the display of the categories selection on the field edition interface
- We fixed a MySQL query error with the characteristics system in some rare case
- The commas are now handled properly in the category explorer of the backend
- We fixed the fade effect on category listings which was generating a javascript error on the page in some cases
- We fixed a fatal error with the creation of new variants of products
- We fixed the main product page image size not being taken into account
- We fixed the total calculation for products with variants with the floating tax prices option turned on
- We added a fix for the unpaid order statuses field
- The link to the product page on the order's produts listing was not correct
- We fixed an error with the "Check database" function

#### Improvements (72)

- The servired payment plugin now send the customer to the payment gateway with his language if available
- We improved the RTL display on the product page
- We added additional CSS for RTL support
- The prices displayed by the product content tag system now take into account the "price display method" setting of the HikaShop configuration
- We reset the cache of the frontend when a menu or module settings are saved in the backend
- We added a menu to separate the coupons and the discounts
- The compare page now only display custom product field lines when necessary
- The system will now create an override when you edit the old frontend CSS file to avoid issues during updates
- The cursor filters on prices now display the currency next to the price values selected
- We no more translate the custom field value in backend if the translation contain html tags
- The ReCaptcha plugin now supports guest checkout
- We removed the category filter when displaying the explorer on product listing in backend
- As the "category explorer" option is no longer necessary, it has been removed from the HikaShop configuration page
- The ATOS SIPS payment plugin now supports auto submit even when the installments option is activated
- We added new microdata values in our HikaShop product microdata plugin
- The category explorer is now dynamic and can support thousands of categories which was not possible up until now
- The code and name columns on the products listing of the backend have been merged
- The ReCaptcha plugin now displays better the captcha on the Joomla registration form on Joomla 3.x
- The user control panel buttons now switch to one column automatically on small screen devices
- The "no SSL outside checkout" payment plugin supports the ccIdeal payment plugin custom notification URL
- We removed the "Append characteristics value to the product name" setting of the HikaShop configuration as it should always be turned on
- The category explorer now supports RTL display
- We added a "Debug" option on the UPS/FedEx shipping method. If enabled, that option will display the request that is sent to the UPS/FedEx platform and also the response through the shipping step of the checkout workflow
- The ReCaptcha plugin now displays better the captcha on the contact form on Joomla 3.x
- The canonical URLs are now used on the cart even for products with characteristics
- The currency module now works properly even if the Joomla cache is activated
- HikaShop's registration now supports the settings "Minimum password length", "Password minimum Integers", "Password minimum symbols" and "Password upper case minimum" of the Joomla user manager
- We added a new trigger for the upload of a file/image in the backend
- We now trim the files and images paths to avoid failed uploads when the CSV wrongly contains extra spaces at the beginning or end of the fields
- We increased the default size of the keywords field of the products and categories, and increased the size of the products and categories fields of custom fields so that you can enter more of them (only for new installs of HikaShop)
- We updated every views in the backend to have bootstrap search display when using Joomla 3
- We added the possibility to enter a URL when adding an image or a file to a product
- We added a delete icon on the lines of values of the backend edition form for custom fields with values
- The google analytics plugin has an option to not make multiple submission for the same order.
- We now add a class to the currently selected thumbnail on the product page for easier styling
- The "proceed to checkout" button of the cart module is now disabled once you click on it to avoid mass click on it, which can potentially lead the checkout to not enforce the "force a menu on checkout" option fearing of a looping redirect
- We improved the RTL support for cursor filters
- We now force the response code for the display of the price with options on the product page to circumvent server configuration issues
- The Joomla tags integration now handles canonical URLs for the products listed there
- We added a grid12 responsive CSS system in the HikaShop front-end CSS file
- We added several improvements to the AcyMailing integration plugin for the interface of the popup tag
- We added triggers to allow new popup systems using plugins
- We don't show 0% taxed shipping for orders (it can happen with taxcloud)
- We improved the tax rate report calculations in order to be more accurate.
- We now only replace product tags in the body of the pages to avoid potential issues with meta data for the microdata plugin
- We now add the category\_pathway parameter to the product page link on the products listings when the simplified breadcrumb option is turned off in order to allow for the "next/previous" buttons to handle the correct origin category.
- The canonical URL is now generated if necessary on the product if it hasn't been generated yet
- The XMap/MapX plugin now supports images
- You can now configure the characteristic display method per characteristic
- We now allow the selection of a product listing menu item as "menu" of a category listing module
- We now display an error message when dimensions are missing from products in the cart for shipping methods requiring them
- You can now specify products and categories at the same time in custom fields
- We now trim by default the search made in the backend listings
- We rewrote the management of the points per categories in the user points plugin
- The currency switcher module can now be displayed by modules anywhere even with the "do not use a form" option turned off
- We now trim spaces from the words of the keyword exclusion list option of the HikaShop configuration
- We improved the display of the tabs of the view "product / show\_tabular" for mobile devices
- We now cancel the creation of a new wishlist if the customer doesn't already have at least one created
- We now support the complex custom field types on the Joomla profile edition page
- We've improved the "no SSL outside checkout" plugin to better support cases where the "force a menu on checkout" option of the HikaShop configuration is set to a checkout menu item
- We added some extra classes for category listings in "div" display in order to easily style the current category with CSS
- We store the currency rate of the currency when the order is created if the currency is not the main one
- We now deactivate the autocomplete of the browser on the email fields to avoid errors when the email confirmation field is enabled
- The group by categories listings better handle several levels of categories (thanks to GunnarB for sharing his improvements)
- There is now a check on the category/product alias so that it is always unique
- We improved the handling of the tax types selection
- We now notify the customer if the registration link has not been sent due to an email issue. (when joomla registration is set on "Self")
- We now allow a third email component to send emails and set the status "mail\_success" to "true"
- We now export the brand name instead of the brand id during the product export process
- Plugins are now triggered on the plugins listing view in the backend
- We now correctly force the menu position in the backend on Joomla 3.x
- You can now enter a table prefix for the import from OpenCart

#### Features (9)

- You can now define the margins of the generated PDFs for the PDF invoice plugin
- You can now configure a regular expression check on the custom fields
- We developed a new payment plugin for the payment gateway PayU India
- We added a new payment plugin for the PayPal Website Payments Pro Hosted ( also known as Intregral, or Integral Evolution, or Websites Payments Plus ) payment gateway
- We introduced the product edition system from HikaMarket into the HikaShop backend
- We added a new payment plugin for the Atos Sips v2 payment gateway
- The SagePay plugin now have an option for the transaction type (for authenticate or deferred transactions)
- We added an option in order to be able to specify the decimal separator in the CSV exported by HikaShop
- We added an option in the plugin "datepicker field" to manage servers with special time zone configuration

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