HikaShop 4.4 change log

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All the HikaShop 4.4 releases. The other old releases are listed in the HikaShop Change Log Archive, the recent ones in the HikaShop Change Log.

HikaShop 4.4.5

Release date : December, 17 2021

List of all the files changed between the 4.4.4 and the 4.4.5

Bug fixes (42)

We fixed a warning with the coupon mechanism in some rare cases.
The notification for vendors didn't work properly in some cases with the order notify plugin.
We fixed an error with the translation saving on PHP8 for custom fields in some cases.
The translation would not work properly in some cases for WYSIWYG custom fields because the editor would add extra characters.
In some rare cases the user group after purchase plugin could complain that the "user group after purchase" setting was activated in a product even though it wasn't.
The alias of the product in the URLs of the language switcher on the product details page could in some cases not be properly taken into account.
The filter system could generate warnings with some types of filters.
The edit cron report email button would appear on the HikaShop configuration of HikaShop Essential even though that feature is only for the Business edition.
We've fixed a notice message in the history of guest orders which could appear in some cases.
The contact button on the order details page would open without the template and modules around it in some cases.
We fixed some warnings on the orders listing.
We fixed an issue we had with the Auto fill which wasn't displaying in some cases.
We've fixed an issue with the user group setting of the Google Products plugin.
We fixed a problem with the settings page of the Google Products plugin on Joomla 4.
On Joomla 4, the content tag plugin could sometimes result in an error.
The "please select" option was not properly taken into account for the address_state custom field which could lead to an error message stating that the field is required even if it's not in some cases.
The refresh button on the cart product quantity input had an issue in some cases.
We fixed an error with the product orders listing plugin which would lead to the variants tab not displaying properly for products with characteristics/variants.
The min / max quantity and amount of coupons had some glitch in some cases following the rewrite of this mechanism.
We've fixed a potential rare issue with special characters on the Authorize.net plugin hash generation.
The "add to waitlist" button could potentially lead to the waitlist form to appear on the homepage of the website in some rare cases.
We fixed an issue we had with the way tax amount was calculated for shippings via "Hikashop -> Taxes -> Rates"
The end and start date of prices of variants wasn't properly taken into account when displayed as the main product price on the listings.
The XML file generated by the Google Products plugin could potentially have invalid characters if the name/description of the products was too long and the language of these would be in multibytes and the cut off would happen in the middle of a character.
The link to the order sent to the customer in the order status notification might lead to the website being in another language in some cases on multilingual websites.
The creation of a new instance of HikaShop content module on Joomla 4 and PHP8 would result in an error.
We've fixed an issue with PHP8 support when adding products to an existing order from the backend.
The shipping prices might not appear on the product page even when properly configured in some rare cases.
The pagination didn't work properly on product listings of menu items of the type "category listing" once the number of elements per page was changed by the user.
The registration redirect plugin didn't work properly on Joomla 4.
The payment and shipping information was not always exported properly with mass actions.
We've fixed some errors on Joomla 4 with some redirects here and there.
We've fixed an error which could happen with the payment notifications on Joomla 4 when generating the address display for email notifications.
We fixed a bug with the filters on custom fields with values dynamically loaded.
We fixed a bug with the replacement of product content tags.
We fixed an issue with not being able to access the cart page in some cases.
When a thumbnail could not be generated on PHP8, it would create an error and stop the processing of the page instead of a soft fail due to the strictness of PHP8.
The HikaShop user synchronization plugin would create an error on Joomla 4 for console applications.
The saving of "additional information" of an order in the backend could fail when a custom order field would be restricted on categories or products and required.
We've fixed an issue with PHP8 for custom fields of the type "custom text" in some rare cases.
We fixed an issue we had with the way shipping prices were calculated for carts with products not available anymore.
The "attribute" setting of dropdown filters was not taken into account.

Improvements (21)

The calculation of taxes now doesn't take into account the shipping address selected in the cart if shipping is not needed, even if the 'Type of address used for tax' setting is set to "Shipping".
You can now select products with an access level different from "all" in the "product" content tag popup in the Joomla editor. It will respect the access levels of the current user on the frontend.
We've added a hidden parameter so that you can override the order of the categories in filters on categories.
The waitlist form submission now leave you on the same menu item instead of switching to the default one for a better workflow for the customers and a better setup for the admin.
We've added support of Joomla 4 to the XMap plugin.
We've improved the debug data in the authorize.net plugin.
The waitlist button will now appear for out of stock variants with the "list" mode too.
We improved the cart page so that the menu item is retained regardless of the Joomla template when the quantity of a product in the cart is changed.
We now redirect to the user activation page after the registration on the checkout when done through AJAX so that the user doesn't see anymore the "next" button since it won't work anyways until he uses the activation link sent to him by email.
We updated the URLs for the ATOS SIPS payment plugin. If you're using that payment plugin, you need to update your HikaShop.
The {quantity} tag of the "formula" setting will now only take into account products with a weight if the "include virtual products price" setting is activated in the shipping method.
The "points earning on categories" interface of the user points plugin didn't work anymore after the modifications necessary for Joomla 4. We've changed that interface so that it's nicer to use than before and work again on all Joomla versions.
We now deactivate the refresh icon next to the quantity input field of the checkout cart view as long as the quantity entered hasn't been changed.
Action buttons now use the button HTML tag instead of a tags for better SEO
The displayFormat option of nameboxes can now be overridden when calling the display function of the namebox system for third party developers.
We've added the events onUserAddressesLoad(&$addresses, $user_id, $type) and onUserAddressLoad( &$address, $address_id) so that you can modify/add/remove addresses for the current user on the fly while they are being loaded on the frontend.
We updated the HTML2PDF library in the PDF invoice plugin to support PHP8
We improved the javascript error handling when running AJAX requests to refresh some content.
The tax on prices of bundled products is now also stored with the order so that it can potentially be used in the future.
We've added a hidden wishlist mechanism to the TaxCloud plugin so that it's possible to reduce the amount of calls to the TaxCloud API, if necessary.
We have made some adjustement in order to better manage alert popups on HikaShop pages for Joomla 4

New features (5)

The Servired payment plugin now has an option to select a pay method. This allows the support of the Bizum payment gateway.
We've made modifications to the PayBox plugin to properly support e-transactions (Crédit Agricole) as it varies slightly from the general PayBox API. This lead to the addition of an extra parameter for that payment method so that you can select the bank.
We've added a "store images locally" setting to the product cron update plugin.
We've added an image width and image height setting to the "table" layout menu items.
We've added a debug option to the PayBox plugin in order to be able to get debug data from the plugin when needed for easier debugging.

HikaShop 4.4.4

Release date : October, 8 2021

List of all the files changed between the 4.4.3 and the 4.4.4

Bug fixes (48)

The stock of the bundled products on products listing with several products with bundled products was not always properly taken into account.
We fixed several javascript errors with the mass action "display the results" system whereby modifying the cells wouldn't work properly on Joomla 4.
The checkout could be stuck in some rare cases, the system not selecting the zone on the billing/shipping address properly on one cart load from the database and then thinking that the cart total with taxes had been changed.
The {VAR:customer.name} tag didn't work properly in the order admin notification email.
The product selector could result in 500 MySQL query errors when searching for something that actually doesn't match with any product / variant / category in the shop.
We fixed an error which could happen with some images when uploading them via the backend interface on PHP8.
We fixed some errors on Joomla 4 with the event registration mechanism.
We fixed an error on Joomla 4 on the affiliate program page.
We fixed some fatal errors on Joomla 4.
We fixed a warning which could happen when you configured a mass action to change the category of variants (which don't have categories).
We fixed a MySQL query error with the mass action export on files, images, options and related products since the modifications we made to better handle data types auto detection.
Categories listing menu items on the frontend could create errors on Joomla 4 when having sub menu items configured as categories listings.
There was a wrong translation for the variants separator with the nl-NL translation file.
We've added a fix for an error which could occur in some cases when deleting votes in the backend.
We fixed a fatal error on PHP 8 with the CSV import filter of mass actions which could happen in some cases with CSV files with only a handful of columns.
The random option didn't work properly on listings with pagination in the last pages of the pagination.
The alias was not translated properly in some cases on the frontend for products and categories URLs.
We've added a patch for cursor filters for the display of the title when values are selected in some cases.
We've added a patch for a MySQL query error for filters with several values selectable and done on custom fields with value ranges provided in the filter.
We fixed a warning on the waitlist page when no product is selected and the page is accessed.
There could be a structured data error on listings with votes in some cases.
We fixed an error on the product page on the frontend on Joomla 4 with recent versions of PHP.
We've added a little fix for the management of collapsable filter options.
We fixed an issue with the upload of several files in custom ajax file fields.
The "export" button didn't work properly anymore when "all" was selected in the status filter of the orders listing.
The search in the shipping methods and payment methods listing could lead to the zone restrictions displaying "invalid" instead of displaying the real zone name on the listing itself.
In some cases, the language switcher module could generate an invalid URL on menu items of the type "category listing".
We added some little css fixes to correctly handle badges with the hover_x_img layout.
The smart search plugin could create a bug on Joomla 2.5 when saving a product in the backend with the smart search system activated.
When editing several prices at the same time in the product edit page, it was be possible to loose some of them after saving as the javascript could generate identical names for the inputs.
The name of the recipient in the payment notification email would be the customer name instead of being empty.
The auto fill of the latitude and longitude when entering the address in the geocoding shipping method was not working in some cases.
There could be an error with the MIGS VPC payment method in "hosted" mode with the AZN payment gateway.
The "backend form" setting of custom order fields was always forced to "yes".
The read-only mode of the custom fields view on the checkout would not display the values in some cases.
The support of Joomla 4 in the ReCaptCha plugin lead to an issue with the javascript refresh of the registration form on the checkout which would prevent the captcha to display when the registration area was refreshed in AJAX. We've added a patch to fix that.
The "copy" button didn't process the massactions properly.
The wishlist sharing email notification didn't have a properly translated email subject by default.
We've fixed some errors with the hkshow content tags on PHP 8.
The cart module would not empty itself when deleting the last product from it via the delete icon of the cart module itself.
Custom item fields of the type "checkbox" or "multiple dropdown" didn't save properly in the backend order edit page.
The start date for prices of variants would not be saved properly in the backend interface when no end date was selected.
Data in custom item fields displayed on the frontend but not in the backend order edition interface could sometimes be lost when modifying the products of orders in the backend.
We've added a patch so that after you use the "invoice" and "shipping invoice" buttons of the PDF invoice plugin on the orders listing, you can still use the pagination and filters on the page, without having to manually refresh it.
The onBeforeOrderListing event on the frontend orders listing has been renamed to onBeforeFrontendOrderListing in order to avoid a conflit of parameters with the event onBeforeOrderListing on the backend orders listing.
Empty custom fields of the type "link" would still appear on the frontend product details page.
The action "update related products" would fail and generate a MySQL query error when handling more than 500 products at once.
There was a bug with the address zone processing in some rare cases in the checkout.

Improvements (42)

We've added two new events onBeforeProductStockUpdate and onAfterProductStockUpdate when product is added / modified in an order.
We've made some modifications to support custom item fields for content tags.
We've added some minor improvements to the CSS of the cell edition of results displayed by mass actions.
We now better handle the return of the customer from the WL SIPS v2 payment page when the customer cancelled the payment.
The tracking URL generated by MyParcel is now included in the email notifications when available if you're using the MyParcel plugin.
The legacy carousel setting has been removed for Joomla 4 as it didn't work on Joomla 4 and it doesn't make sense to keep supporting it. On Joomla 4, the new carousel system (available since HikaShop 3) is now used all the time.
The content tag plugin now replaces the product tag by the products in the same order as the ids in the tag.
We improved the URL of the page after the contact form is submitted so that we don't loose the current menu item.
The system will now generate the alias automatically for the translation of products / categories when providing a translated name without providing a translated alias if the "alias auto fill" setting of the HikaShop configuration is activated.
You can now search the orders with the coupon code that was used on the orders listing in the backend.
The system now properly redirects to the empty cart URL even after a product has been added and then removed.
We've added a hidden setting cart_show_page_redirect_on_empty that you can set to 0 in the hikashop_config table of the database to stay on the cart details page instead of redirecting when the cart is empty.
We now skip the tax calculations of the taxcloud plugin before the user is logged in or filled the guest form since the address of the user is not known and thus there is no point in doing an API call.
The controllers and backend classes can now also be overridden with the override system in place.
When two menu separators are one after the other in a dropdown menu of the backend interface (usually due to ACLs), we now only display one separator.
We removed a message we had displayed for legacy parameters of modules associated with menu items which doesn't exist anymore since HikaShop 2.x
The URL generated for the Joomla language switcher module on the category listing now better take into account menu item parameters in some cases.
We've added the support of translated aliases when done with translation overrides to the routing system so that the alias of products / categories changes in the URL based on the current language.
The cart reminder plugin now checks that the cart has products added to it before sending the notification.
The collapsable button of filters has been improved.
We now avoid updating the cart in the database when the shipping/billing address set in it in already the one we want. This can avoid checkout progression issues in some rare cases and it also avoids unecessary processing.
We now support the canonical URLs for the language switcher module on the product details page and the categories/products listings.
We changed the parameters of the onAfterFileDelete event so that it can be useful.
We added a onBeforeFileDelete event so that plugins can do things before the files are removed.
The products selector in the backend forms now allow you to search not only on the information of the products but also on the information of the variants when variants can be selected in the selector.
We've improved the state field refresh mechanism to make sure that the state selected for the address is one possible for the country selected.
We've improved the CSS in some places to follow Joomla 4 changes.
We've improved the CSS for the swipe mechanism on products with multiple images for RTL (Right To Left) display.
The collapsable filter button will now use fontawesome like the rest of the interface.
We now properly throw a 404 error when the page controller cannot be found. That will allow for proper logging of the 404 error by Joomla.
The products selector in the backend now allow you to search for products taking into account custom product fields.
We now include the email address of the customer in the order contact request email.
In emails, the Pay Now link is now styled so that it looks like a button and is easier to see for the customer.
We now add the email of the customer to the "reply to" of the "payment notification" email so that the administrator can easily contact the customer when receiving that email notification.
We now display password rules error messages and custom address fields error messages on the registration form as proper errors instead of warnings or success messages.
The automatic taxes mode of shipping methods now take into account the "include virtual products price" setting of the shipping methods so that taxes can be calculated only based on the non virtual products in the cart instead of all of them.
We now automatically sort the products taking into account first the categories and then the normal ordering of the products in their respective categories when the "sub element filter" is set to "group by category".
We improved the canonical URL tag for the listings so that the pagination is taken into account.
The popup of images of variants displayed in "list" mode on the product details page is now using Vex.
We've improved the badge system so that the badge size is consistent on products listings even with the "keep size" setting turned off in the badge.
We've added French and Dutch translations to the reminder plugin.
We've added a variant tag to the install package manifest for Watchful integration.

New features (10)

So far you could set a minimum order value and a minimum number of products for your coupons. You can now also set a maximum order value and a maximum number of products.
The minus and plus buttons on the quantity input field in the cart module and cart view of the checkout now auto submit the new quantity, similarily to when you change the quantity in the input field.
You can now enter shipping labels for your products for the Google Products XML.
We've added ACLs in the HikaShop configuration for the "Order statuses" manager.
The PayBox payment plugin has been updated for DSP2. Users using this plugin have to update to this version as older versions won't be supported by PayBox anymore soon
We added instalments support to the ATOS SIPS v2 payment plugin.
The ATOS SIPS v2 payment plugin has now an extra "mode" option so that you can choose to use either the normal V2 mode, or the v2 simplified mode, or the V2 mode without transaction reference so that you can support the different modes possible based on the contract you have with your bank. If you're updating, you might need to review that setting to adapt it to your situation.
There is now a new option in custom fields to be able to load the values with a MySQL query instead of entering the values through the interface.
There is now a "add new value" setting in custom fields of the type "radio", "checkbox", "single dropdown" and "multiple dropdown" to allow the user to directly add new selectable values from the form where the custom field is being displayed.
We've added an extra option to the google products plugin to be able to list products with access levels not set to "public". You'll now be able to select in the options of the plugin the user groups which you want to include in the XML.

HikaShop 4.4.3

Release date : June, 4 2021

List of all the files changed between the 4.4.2 and the 4.4.3

Bug fixes (27)

The saving of custom fields of the table "entry" and of the type "checkbox" could create an error in some cases.
You had to save the menu item once when its type was Hikashop products listing or HikaShop categories listing on PHP8 to be able to see the "products options" and "categories options" tab.
There were some display issue with custom fields of the type "ajax file" / "ajax image" with the "multiple" setting activated.
The image upload system didn't work properly for variants and duplicated the images.
The export button of the orders listing didn't work properly when "all statuses" was selected in the order status dropdown selector.
The "last update" setting of the HikaShop products cron update plugin wasn't properly updated each time the plugin process was triggered.
The shipping untaxed amount was not properly taken into account when creating the order at the end of the checkout which could result in that amount not added to the total amount calculated in the tax rates listing.
The order status notification's "per status override" could generate an error in some cases.
The edition of products with both characteristics and options from the edit popup of the checkout cart view would lead to the options not displaying in the popup and being deleted from the cart after saving.
We've fixed a warning in the edition popup of products in the checkout cart view when the products have options or characteristics but no custom item fields.
The order status filter didn't work properly since Hikashop 4.4.2 on the tax rates listing.
We've fixed a MySQL error which could happen in some rare cases on the checkout.
The dropdowns of actions in the popup of the new "Actions" button didn't work properly on Joomla 3 in some cases.
VAT number and phone number could happen to be displayed on the same line in some cases for addresses.
We fixed an issue we had when saving the override tax zone field through shipping methods configuration page.
Saving elements without translations could cause issues in some rare cases.
The creation of custom fields on PHP8 now works properly.
With the Chozen library loaded on the frontend, the dropdowns could end up being transformed several times when AJAX processes were occuring following a modification in HikaShop 4.4.2.
We've fixed some errors which could happen in some cases during the registration process on Joomla 4.
There could be an issue with the display of the configuration page on recent versions of PHP with the affiliate plugin not installed / configured properly.
We've fixed a small warning with the loading of the affiliate plugin parameters in the HikaShop configuration page.
The "order status" filter on reports and widgets didn't work properly because of changes made in the 4.4.2 for the order status selector.
The filters on the frontend orders listing didn't work properly in some cases which could lead to no order being found when some should be.
We've fixed an issue with the HikaShop rates auto plugin on PHP 8 when the plugin settings are not configured yet.
The installation of the EU tax rates plugin would generate an error on PHP8.
We've added a few fixes for Joomla 4 RC.
We've fixed a deprecated message on the report edit form for PHP8.

Improvements (19)

The category restriction of custom category fields is now taken into account when creating new categories/brands.
We've added a checkbox to the "new" address form in the backend so that you can add the address as both a billing and a shipping address at the same time instead of having to do it twice if it's the same for both types.
We've improved the product selection for the "add option" and "select" buttons of the order details page. You can now more easily select variants and products to add as extra products or extra options to your orders.
The reports and widgets on "customers" and "partners" now base their time limitations on the order creation / order invoice creation dates and not on the user account creation date, which is much more logical and useful.
We now properly handle view overrides with file names changed when displaying the modifications and we ask the user to select the source file if it is not known.
We've added some extra messages to the products cron update plugin so that you can more easily see that it's working fine in the reports from the cron system.
We've improved the way the untaxed total amount is calculated on the tax rates listing for orders with 0% taxes.
When you add a product to a cart in the backend and the product can't be added (no stock, limit, and other restrictions...), you now get an error message explaining why it couldn't be added instead of just not seeing the product added to the cart.
We now display the edit icon for products with options in the cart even when no option has been selected for it by the user if the "group options with product" setting is activated.
UK has been removed from the EU for the total of "orders without tax inside EU" on the tax rates listing and moved to the "orders without tax outside EU" row instead.
The "specifications" title would display unnecessarily inside the specifications tab when using the "tabular" layout for products with variants and custom product fields and only after the variant selection would be changed.
The ReCaptcha plugin now supports Joomla 4.
We've added onBeforeProductsImport(&$importHelper, &$importProducts, & $do) and onAfterProductsImport(&$importHelper, &$importProducts) triggers to the import system so that third party plugins can dynamically process the products before the import or do additional process after it.
We've added hidden options to the contact request form to be able to disable some of the required fields that are there by default.
We've added an error message to explain to the user that variants cannot be copied when he tries to copy a variant from the products listing.
We've added a hidden option default_file_free_download_on_upload to activate the "free download" option automatically when uploading new files.
We've improved the handling of the language switcher module on category and product listings.
The HTML editor's iframe is now displaying with the full height available on Joomla 4.
We've added a hidden setting user_account_admin_email to override the recipient of the user account admin notification.

New features (6)

It is now possible to have a contact button on orders so that the customer can contact the shop owner for his order. You can configure that in the System>Order Statuses menu thans to the "Contact button" column.
We've added the possibility to use mincart=XXX and maxcart=YYY attributes to the hkshow and hkhide tags so that you can display texts based on the current cart total amount.
We've added a Drag & Drop system to views so that you can easily do simple customization without the need for HTML / PHP / CSS knowledge.
We've added the support of XLSX files to the mass action export action.
We've added a new action "Run PHP code" for mass actions so that you can run custom PHP code using the data from the elements being processed (you can access the data of the elements with tags like {product_id} or {order_id} in your code.
HikaShop is now compatible with PHP8.

HikaShop 4.4.2

Release date : April, 13 2021

List of all the files changed between the 4.4.1 and the 4.4.2

Bug fixes (28)

The product content tags resulted in a fatal error on Joomla 4.
The email and view edition on Joomla 4 didn't work properly in some cases.
In some cases the "block" checkbox of products could potentially not be taken into account when displaying the available shipping methods on the checkout shipping view.
The display of custom product fields in the backend products listing could sometimes lead to an error there.
We've added a fix to the integration with Falang to avoid saving empty translations in some cases.
The "reset" button of the image gallery system popup on the frontend didn't work properly.
Custom product fields would not display properly on the frontend products listings in "table" mode in HikaShop Essential.
A warning could happen when exporting products with a mass action in some cases which could lead to the export not working properly.
We've fixed an issue with the calculation of the associated menu items for multilingual websites which would lead to 404 errors in some cases.
There was a problem with the vote & comment system in some cases with guest votes.
We fixed some errors with the bottom pagination on products listings.
The error messages from custom fields of the type "advanced date picker" didn't appear correctly in some cases.
We've fixed a deprecated message with categories in some rare cases.
An image meta tag for products on listings could generate a 403 for Googlebot-image.
We've fixed a notice with in stock filters when their "submit on click" setting is deactivated.
There was a fatal error in some cases with the product content tag plugin after the modifications to support the new hkshow and hkhide tags in HikaShop 4.4.1.
The refresh icon on the cart module didn't work properly when using the minus and plus icons to change the quantity.
The hkhide and hkshow tags didn't display properly when using the product_id.
The refresh icon would display twice on the cart details page in some cases.
We fixed the ordering saving on listings in the backend for Joomla 4.
Custom fields of the table "address" and of the type "boolean" didn't work properly on the frontend.
We fixed a fatal error which could happen in some rare case when editing an order without products while the smart search (finder) plugin would be enabled.
We've fixed a notice message that could sometimes appear with the finder plugin when deleting a product from the backend.
We've added a fix to avoid issues with Falang when saving votes on the frontend in some cases which could lead to the main product name/description receiving the current language translation.
The "ajax file" downloads were not downloading properly in some cases following a modification made in the 4.4.1 to make the "ajax image" images clickable.
Cursor filters didn't translate the dimension/weight unit when displaying it.
Cursor filters now support the auto submit when entering the values in their input fields instead of using the cursors.
Following an update to the Google visualization API, the dashboard and reports didn't display properly anymore.

Improvements (22)

We now display the product content tag button on the WYSIWYG editor when displayed for a module settings page (like the custom content module).
We've improved the image display on the product page to properly support mixing external images and internal images while the webP images are generated for the internal images.
We've added extra spans with classes around the discount amount so that it is easier to style the different parts of the price display.
We've improved the order status filter on the orders listing in the backend.
The custom order fields error messages were displayed in green instead of red on the checkout.
We now display the VAT number in the address if filled in when before it was not displayed by default and it had to be added in the "address format" option.
We have updated the URL endpoint of the USPS shipping plugin to force SSL communication.
We removed the UK from the checks on the VAT number following the brexit.
When some products cannot be added to the cart while reordering an order with now still allow the other products to be added and redirecting to the checkout and only displaying error messages to indicate what could not be added.
We now prevent disabled values from being selected in custom field dropdowns.
The characteristic dynamic display system can now work for one characteristic only based on how you configured the "Characteristics dynamic display" setting in the HikaShop configuration.
The trigger onBeforeOrderListing has been added to the frontend orders listing so that plugins can add filters to the orders listing if necessary.
Filters will now be empty when they have the dynamic display option activated and that other filters result in no products found on the current listing instead of displaying all the values.
There is now a hidden setting fields_multiple_values_separator to be able to change the comma separator for custom fields with multiple values selectable.
There is now a hidden setting translate_HTML_value_in_backend_for_fields so that you can activate the translation of values of custom fields in the backend.
We've added triggers for tax rules and tax rates deletion as well as fixed the name of the triggers for the tax rates saving.
The size of the main image on a product page for images once you hover on the thumbnails and when they come from an external source (because you entered the URL of the image in the product) now takes into account the setting "product page image" of the HikaShop configuration.
The PDF invoice would display an empty popup in the backend when download the PDF invoice file. This is no longer the case with the latest version of the plugin.
The AJAX processes of HikaShop now support loading extra javascript files on the page to cope with several situations where this is needed throughout HikaShop's interface (for example, for the support of tabs anywhere or modal anywhere content tags).
Cursor filters now support commas as decimal separators in their input fields.
The download links are now displayed as buttons for the frontend, backend views and email notifications.
We've improved the display of the next and previous buttons on the product details page.

New features (15)

You can now easily see the modifications on the email and view overrides.
We've added a new icon on the description area of the product edit page so that you can expend it in order to have more space to write your product descriptions.
We've added a new option "Thumbnails slider for product page" so that you can you can use arrows to switch between the multiple images of a product on the product details page.
There is now an "Access level" setting for files with the "Free download" setting activated so that you can restrict the availability of the file based on the user group of the user.
There is now a new option "download time limit" for paid download files so that you can setup a different available period for each file separately instead of only having the global setting in the HikaShop configuration.
On mobile devices, it's now possible to "swipe" horizontally to switch between the muliple images of a product.
We've added an "actions" button on the products, categories, orders and users listings so that you can directly select the elements on the listing and apply actions on them without having to go through the mass action system and having to create filters to choose the ones on which you want the actions to apply.
The geocoding plugin now has an additional setting to enter a minimum distance for the shipping method to appear on the checkout.
There is now an option for the smart search plugin (finder) to index products only once and not once by category as it was always the case before.
We've added a display option to the user points plugin to display the used and earned points on the orders listing in the backend.
We've added an extra option to be able to change the width and height of the translation popups in the HikaShop backend.
We created a "Check dates" option for Advanced date picker custom fields which will define where HikaShop have to check the dates.
We have added a new payment method option "Post code RegEx" which will enable you to restrict payment method based on addresses post code.
We've added a "house number field" setting to both the MyParcel and the MyParcel Pickup plugins so that you can specify the column name of a custom address field for the house number if you don't want the customers to enter the house number and the street name in the "street" field that is available by default.
We've added a new option to the "shipping" view of the "checkout workflow" to be able to hide errors (useful when you don't want to display them before the user enters his address, necessary for the shipping methods to display).

HikaShop 4.4.1

Release date : February, 12 2021

List of all the files changed between the 4.4.0 and the 4.4.1

Bug fixes (83)

Custom fields of the table "address" and of the type "boolean" didn't work properly on the frontend.
A mass action on the user data with an action "update the values" on a column from a custom field not starting with "user_" would generate a fatal error.
We've fixed some notice message on the cart display page on the frontend in some rare case.
The "users with ACL" filter on the "user" data was not working properly when executed through a trigger.
The custom field title wasn't properly used for sort filters in some cases.
The mass action import filter now porperly handle files encoded in UTF8 with BOM.
Synchronized modules would use the main category of the module itself instead of the main category of the current menu item when the current menu item would be a category / product listing menu item and the page would be the default page of the menu item (not a sub category products listing, or a product page).
The saving of values containing some special HTML characters could sometimes be problematic in custom fields.
When having more than 50 custom order fields, the field selector in the fields view of the checkout workflow wouldn't work properly for the fields after the 50 first ones.
The table switcher would display once per page of the infinite scroll, instead of just once at the top.
We've fixed the mass action creation process which lead to errors on Joomla 4.
The date format wasn't properly taken into account in exports from the mass action system.
There was a MySQL query error generated by mass actions when selecting columns of the joomla user table for an export mass action.
When using operations in mass actions, with strings with dots in them, it could generate errors and prevent the mass action from running.
Orders placed after a specific hour with the ATOS plugin could in some rare cases stay created instead of being confirmed based on how the "pending" setting would be configured and how the bank would handle the payment (delayed or not).
The tax information would not appear on the checkout cart view when only the payment fee would be taxed or when only the payment feee would be taxed at a specific tax rate.
The exported floating numbers with mass actions could have the wrong decimal separator in some cases not properly taking into account the "decimal separator" setting of the HikaShop configuration.
The unit price of products with options without a main product price would actually display the total price (taking into account the quantity) on the cart view of the checkout.
We've fixed some notice and deprecated messages for PHP 7.4.
The products of orders on the orders listing were not displayable properly on Joomla 4.
The sort filters on custom fields limited to products or categories would not display the field name properly in the filter.
The brand name was not properly filled in the product_manufacturer_id column of the product export due to another patch we had added in the 4.3.0.
We've added a fix to avoid the quantity dropdown of a product with variants to have the same id in the cart than on the product page.
The preview of images uploaded with custom fields of the type "ajax image" and the table "user" didn't work properly on the frontend.
It wasn't possible to display the shipping address differently from the billing address on the address manager.
For custom fields of the type "zone", with the zone type "state" and the table "item" didn't work properly in some cases.
The img_pane product layout didn't work properly.
The Smart Search now takes into account the published/unpublished state of the products properly.
The custom address field "address type" wouldn't be taken into account properly when editing an address from the address manager.
We've fixes a few warning messages with the display of taxes for orders in some rare cases.
We've added a patch to avoid the PDF generation failing when a warning or notice is displayed before itself.
There could sometimes be an error on the downloads area for the customer when the downloads would be attached to products with variants.
The mass action email's HTML content wasn't displayed properly by default.
We've fixed a warning which could happen when generating the link to a product which has been deleted from an order in the backend.
We've removed a warning which can appear in some rare cases with the add to cart system when the first product is added to the cart.
We fix an issue with the advanced date picker custom field which wasn't properly supporting the "Custom error message" option.
We've fixed a warning with the calculations of taxes with payment method fees in some cases.
The orders paid with PayPal Express could be missing some information in some cases.
The user and addresses areas of the order are now correctly refreshed when you change the user of an order in the backend.
We fixed an issue we had with Payment methods minimum/maximum weight/volume options.
The preview of order notification emails didn't work properly on Joomla 4.
We now properly reload the checkout field step when a shipping method is selected on a warehouse.
The cursor filter would not display anymore in some cases after another filter would be used when the filters would be displayed on top of the products listing.
The errors from the shipping methods loading system for products with warehouses didn't work properly in some cases.
We've fixed a warning with the calculations on the shipping fees in the cart in some rare cases.
The categories listing carousel didn't take into account properly the setting "only if products".
We fixed an issue with required order custom fields restricted to shipping / payment methods which were preventing the save of orders on the back-end.
We've fixed some issues with the translation override system.
Non-existing variants might be displayed by the dynamic characteristics selection mode in some cases due to a side effect of another fix we added in the 4.4.0. We've added another fix to take into account properly all the cases.
The "Limit by type" option in the user points plugin didn't work properly.
We fixed an issue we had with the shipping method restriction on order custom fields which wasn't supporting the "required" option correctly.
We fixed an issue we had with the shipping method restriction on order custom fields.
We've fixed a deprecated issue with PHP 7.4 and the meta description auto complete feature.
The checkout wouldn't pass the address step if the user account didn't had any shipping address evne though there was a shipping address override configured in the shipping method selected.
The link to the product page on the downloads listing on the frontend didn't take into account the canonical URL of the product.
We fixed the user registration form page when the switcher mode is activated as it could lead to a non working registration form.
The access level and user settings of the price area in the product edit interface didn't work properly on Joomla 4.
We've improved the AJAX mechanism so that the HTML editors are properly loaded when editing a variant in the backend product edit screen.
We fixed several issues with the edition of variants in the backend on Joomla 4.
The characteristic selector when adding new variants to a product didn't work properly on Joomla 4.
The default characteristic value selector of the product edit interface wouldn't work properly on Joomla 4.
We fixed a warning with the wishlist/cart edition interface in the backend when a product doesn't have any price.
We fixed a deprecated message on the badge edition screen with PHP 7.3.
We fix an issue we had with reports to fully support timezones.
The category explorer on the products selection popup in the backend didn't work properly anymore.
The * and + characters are now allowed in the "attribute" setting of custom fields.
The "Characteristics dynamic display" setting, when activated could generate an error in some cases on the product page when the first characteristic would be displayed as radio.
The comment form and the authorize.net and PayPal Pro plugins didn't work properly on Joomla 4.
The Joomla search could lead to a MySQL error after configuring the HikaShop products search plugin.
We've added a patch to avoid some notice at the end of the order creation process in some cases, with the calculations on the total order weight and total order volume.
The weight and dimensions of the product were not properly retreived when adding a product to an order in the backend.
We've added a fix to avoid a notice in some rare cases with the cart loading process when no shipping methods are available and products in the cart are in warehouses.
The guest form would be removed from the login view of the checkout in some cases with the user group after purchase plugin enabled due to a modification introduced in the 4.4.0 to improve the way it works.
We now force the add to cart legacy and checkout legacy settings to be turned off even if they were activated before updating to the 4.4.0.
The "URL where you will be redirected when the cart is empty" option of the HikaShop configuration would be ignored when emptying the cart from the cart details page a second time.
The "URL where you will be redirected when the cart is empty" option of the HikaShop configuration would be ignored when emptying the cart from the checkout page a second time.
The amounts sent to Google analytics when converted by the GA plugin were actually not taking into account the conversion rate of the currencies involved.
The tax rates listing could display a notice message if the tax rate of an order had been deleted.
We removed legacy CSS code which could cause some display problem with some templates.
The product_parent_id column wasn't exported properly since the 4.4.0.
The "show proceed to checkout button" option of the Wishlist module should not appear in the settings of the module.
The URL of the products on the comparison page didn't use the current menu item id as supposed.
We fixed the ordering saving on listings in the backend for Joomla 4.

Improvements (41)

The trigger onBeforeOrderListing has been added to the frontend orders listing so that plugins can add filters to the orders listing if necessary.
We've added the support of the ceil, intval, floor, round and exp functions to the formula field of shipping and payment methods.
You can now configure a translation key in the "cancel URL" of payment methods with that option in order to have a different URL for each language of your shop.
The "random" option can now be used together with pagination on products listings.
The "random" and "infinite scroll" options can now be used together on products listings.
We now allow more easily the override of the hikashopCheckoutHelper class.
We now automatically remove the "same address" checkbox on the registration form even if activated in the login view if the selected shipping method overrides the shipping address or if the current cart doesn't need shipping.
It is now possible to add date tags to the payment log file so that different files will be used automatically. For example, the tag {date format="y_m"} would result in 21_02 if the log will be generated in February of 2021.
The quantity input mode is now taken into account on the cart module and the checkout cart display.
We've improved a bit the way the input fields of the waitlist form work.
We now allow for relative URLs without the need for double quotes around the text for custom fields of the type "Link".
The PDF invoice plugin now also split the options name to avoid breaking the style of the products table on the invoice when the option name is too big.
The comments tab on the product page with the "tabular" layout will now only display if at least one comment has been posted.
The comments tab on the product page with the "tabular" layout will now contain the number of comments on the tab title.
We've added an improvement to the Google Analytics plugin so that when the campaign data is missing in the order, it doesn't overwrite what GA might already have calculated on its end.
You can now add #notrans# to the beginning of a text in a translatable field so that it won't be translated.
We've added an extra filter to the products listing so that you can filter the products based on whether they have a weight or not.
Limits can now be restricted to several categories instead of only one.
We now only replace the body of the mass action email when something has been entered in the "body" setting of the "send email" action so that email overrides can still be taken into account if necessary.
We've added a specific class to each element of the left menu on the control panel so that it can be easily styled with CSS.
We've added a check so that a mass action cannot add a product to an order which is not yet created and that way avoid the order creation process from crashing when such mass action is configured.
Some actions and filters of mass actions would require first a save of the mass action to be able to use the selector (of categories, products, etc). They can now work directly right after selecting them.
We now remove the "add to cart" and "checkout" buttons from the wishlist details page and the cart details page when the catalogue mode is activated.
We now better handle the language switching mechanism so that you can stay on the page you are when you change your language.
We've improved the MySQL query loading the products on listings on the frontend so that it loads faster when a lot of products are in the database.
We've improved the upload error handling in the import tool.
The google Wallet and Google Checkout plugins have been removed as the APIs have been discontinued by Google.
We improved the image link of AJAX image custom fields so that it directly opens the image in a new tab of the browser instead of saving it as a download.
We now synchronize the email address of the user when it is changed from the CB interface.
We've updated the code for the reports map display to migrate to the new API of Google visualization so that the map can display again.
There is now a hidden option to change the algorithm to select the sort price.
The variants listing on the frontend product page might display a column when not needed. We've improved the algorithm to properly handle edge cases.
We removed the "simple date picker" type for custom fields as it doesn't work anymore in some cases with recent versions of Joomla and the advanced date picker is better anyways.
When the user doesn't have any shipping addresses, we normally display the new shipping address form. However, if the shipping address is being overridden by the shipping method and we don't want that as we only want to display the shipping address override. So we've modified the address view of the checkout to take that into account.
We've added the currency symbol next to the input fields where you need to enter an amount for the affiliate settings of the HikaShop configuration.
The image switcher on the images on the product page now works even with the "image popup mode" setting deactivated.
There are now hidden settings to change the default ordering of the products and orders listings in the backend.
We've removed the "Mootools" choice in the "image popup mode" setting as it cannot work anymore on Joomla 4 and it was the old image popup mechanism, while the recommended and default one has been "shadowbox".
We now allow providing a cart object to the createFromCart function of class.order instead of just the cart_id.
You can now click on the thumbnail of an image uploaded via a custom field of the type "ajax image" in order to get the full size image.
The default images of shipping and payment methods have been cleaned up, updated and normalized.

New features (11)

There is now an option "one product per row" in the action "Export a CSV file" for mass actions of the type "order" so that you can more easily extra product sales data.
We added the support of the privacy consent system of Joomla to the waitlist form.
We've added a new option to the MyParcel shipping plugin to automatically export orders to MyParcel.
We have added an UPS Saturday shipping option which will enable saturday deliveries.
We have added the support of "Regional boxes A & B" containers in our USPS shipping method.
We've added a new option to the cart notification plugin so that the click on the notification box can redirect to the checkout automatically.
There is now an extra option "Same address checkbox pre-checked" for the "Address" view in the checkout workflow so that the "same address" checkbox can be unchecked by default.
You can now use tags like or on your website to display content based on whether someone purchased the product xx or didn't purchase anything.
There is now a "store files locally" setting in the HikaShop - Product Cron Update plugin, similar to the option that was already in the import screen from the Products>Import menu.
You can now restrict custom fields of the table "order" based on the selected shipping and payment methods.
The characteristic dynamic display system can now work for one characteristic only based on how you configured the "Characteristics dynamic display" setting in the HikaShop configuration.

HikaShop 4.4.0

Release date : September, 29 2020

List of all the files changed between the 4.3.0 and the 4.4.0

Bug fixes (74)

The page heading was not properly taken into account for the wishlist page when accessed directly from a menu item of the HikaShop cart page type.
When the product details page was accessed with a non-SEF URL while the SEF is activated, the filter module wouldn't work porperly on the page.
The shipping and payment views on the checkout were not refreshed when the cart was updated from the cart view in some cases.
The custom fields of the table "product" didn't take into account the "invoice" display setting properly on the invoice and order details page on the frontend.
We fixed a notice message with the use of the user points plugin with points given basd on the user group of the user.
There was an issue with the "user group after purchase" feature which would display in some cases an error message on the checkout before registering if a product with a "user group after purchase" configured would be in the cart.
We've fixed a notice with the message display system in some rare case on the checkout.
We fixed a notice message with the filtering of orders for the CSV export on the orders listing.
We fixed two notice messages when displaying the information of an order with a shipping method that has been deleted.
We've fixed a notice message which could happen during the orders export process if an order didn't had any product.
The thumbnail size parameters in the URL of custom ajax image fields where not properly taken into account.
The default values of custom fields of the type "link" where not properly taken into account.
The shipping methods might not appear in some cases when displaying the available shipping methods on the product page thanks to the shipping price per product plugin.
We've fixed a notice which could happen in some rare cases after categories were deleted.
The vote count could be incorrect when deleting votes from the backend.
The order address edition in HikaMarket frontend interface couldn't work due to some changes in the way the address API work.
We've fixed a conflict with the height of the divs when both the list/div switcher and the check consistency settings are used together.
We removed a deprecated message on recent versions of PHP with the saving of the HikaShop configuration.
The modules added in the description of the category with a content plugin tag could potentially not display properly in some cases.
The shipping prices per products would not display properly on the product page in some cases.
The login/registration/guest switcher on the login view of the checkout wouldn't work properly in some cases after clicking on the "change guest information" button with the "user bootstrap v2 design" setting activated.
The system would display a "product successfully added to the cart" when adding a product to the cart when the total quantity of the products in the cart had already reached the limit configured in the setting "Maximum number of items in the cart" of the HikaShop configuration. It now displays a proper error message.
The "module class suffix setting wasn't taken into account properly for the cart module.
The custom contact fields were not added to the notification email when sent from a contact page not linked to a product.
The onAfterProductCreate and onAfterProductUpdate triggers did not trigger properly when saving variants from the backend.
The user group after purchase plugin would display an unecessary error message when logged in on the checkout with products using the "user group after purchase" option.
The title of the address was not properly translated on the address manager on the frontend.
The shipping prices area where not always displayed when creating a new product from the HikaMarket frontend if the shipping method was restricted to the vendor.
We fixed an issue regarding shipping maximum / minimum weight and volume, now every decimals are taken into account.
We fixed an issue we had when paying for an auction and getting a "forbidden access" error message through the checkout final step.
We fixed an issue we had with the displaying of shipping restrictions through the back-end shipping method listing.
Printing the invoice in the backend with Safari would result in empty pages.
The characteristic selector with the "dynamic display" setting activated and the wishlist system activated could lead to the add to cart of the default variant appearing when selecting a value in a characteristic for which no variant had stock.
Prices entered with a comma on the product edition interface would have their decimals cut off.
The shipping cost's tax was counted twice on the tax rates listing reporting tool in some cases.
We've added a patch to display a proper error message when the payment method is not available for the order the customer is trying to pay from his control panel / orders history.
The end date restriction was not properly showing on the tax rules listing.
An error message with the text "error" was displayed when the address had an error.
We fixed an issue we had through the checkout when using multiple warehouses with products which didn't had any shipping method available.
We now properly take into account the tax rate for the tax rates listing statistics even if the tax rate is 0%.
The vote edition interface in the backend didn't work properly.
In some rare cases where a product has variants but it doesn't have a name, the add to cart would not display the popup notification after the click on the add to cart button.
If you had the "address_state" custom field required and you had some countries without state (which is the case by default for some countries), the system would prevent you from finishing the checkout due to an improvement we made in a recent version of HikaShop to check the address integrity when the order is created.
The selected values of a multiple dropdown filter with the "deletable" setting activated didn't display properly.
The VirtualMerchant ( Elavon ) plugin didn't sent the address of the customer in the correct format, resulting in special characters, like accents to be HTML entities.
The quantity input and page layout settings of the product where not taken into account when copying the product.
If a translation override file is invalid, and you would save translation overrides, the system would empty the translation override file.
When saving a translation override without having first filled in the main field, it would add a translation override with an empty namekey, breaking the translation override file. We've added a check to avoid that and instead display an error message to explain the situation to the user.
We improved the dynamic characteristic display mode to avoid a javascript error when no variant is available.
The date format translation overrides were not taken into account for the orders listing on the frontend.
The cancellation from the payment gateway was not doing a redirect back to the "cancel URL" specified in the payment method if the checkout was done in "guest mode".
The HikaShop group plugin could potentially allow the creation of an order even if another plugin would have denied it based on the order of execution of the plugins.
The "shipping prices" area wouldn't display in some cases on the HikaMarket frontend product edition interface for new products when it should have.
The display of the number of results for a characteristics filter on a product mass action could create a MySQL error in some cases.
The taxes were not calculated automatically for variants in some cases when selecting one via the selection popup in the backend order edition area.
We fixed an error with the legacy checkout and PHP 7.3 which would lead to the checkout crashing.
The translation override system now properly handle escaped double quotes in the translations.
We've added a bit of CSS by default to fix the display of the social networks buttons on the product page in some cases.
The min/max weight, price, volume restrictions of shipping methods and payment methods could have issues due to floating point comparisons.
The category name did not support the translation override system on the "grouped by category" products listing.
The saving of translation overrides for the product / category name would be lost if the original alias of the product / category would be the same as the original name of the product / category.
We fixed an issue with the name of the product code field on the filters of the type "sort".
There was a javascript issue on tablets with really old android versions and the default android browser whereby the checkout "next" button wouldn't be clickable due to a javascript error.
The redirect back URL was not taken properly into account when saving the user account profile settings on the frontend. You now get redirected back to the HikaShop user control panel.
The counting of results on filters of mass actions could generate an error in some cases.
In some really rare cases, a notice could appear on the products listing in the backend if the currently selected category in the category explorer on the left would not be found anymore in the database.
The cart view was not refreshing in some cases after the modification of a product's attributes with the edition popup.
The removal of a translation override from the translation popup didn't work properly.
The zone restriction setting of payment methods didn't allow the selection of payment zones.
We fixed an error with the legacy checkout.
We've fixed the translation interface saving for shipping and payment methods.
We've fixes some warnings which could happen rarely with bad price data in the database.
The "shipping per price" area on the HikaMarket frontend product edition interface could sometimes duplicate the "shipping per price" entries when saving the product.
The improved SEF URL generation based on the category of the product didn't always use the main category of the product.

Improvements (66)

We've added a hidden option check_regex_if_not_required to process the regex of custom text fields even if the field is not required.
We've added a new trigger onAfterLoadFullOrder when the order is being loaded so that plugins can easily modify the data of the order on the fly.
We've added the possibility to dynamically convert the amounts of the orders from one currency to another before sending them to Google Analytics. This will be useful if some of the currencies used in the shop are not supported by Google Analytics or if you want to have all the order amounts in the same currency.
We do not display anymore a message in the cart/wishlist module when a product has been unpublished as the customer has no way or removing the message and he can't see the product information in his cart/wishlist anyways when the product is unpublished.
We've improved the loading of search results with the Joomla search when translations are made with Falang.
We improve the checkout to better skip empty steps.
The South Sudan has been added to the list of countries and Zaire has been removed.
You can now use a translation override for the "return URL" parameter of payment plugins.
We've improved the address handling in the Monetico payment plugin.
The "enable validation mode" is now turned off by default for the PayPal payment plugin.
The prices from the "product sort price" on the filters now display with the currency format settings taken into account like it was already the case for the "price".
The Recaptcha plugin now skips the guest registration form as it is not needed there.
We can now display the shipping address override when multiple shipping methods are selected if all of them have the override.
We switched the backend tabs system to our own so that it works fine on Joomla 4.
We improved the way shipping minimum / maximum weight and dimension were compared to the cart dimension and weight.
It is now possible to use an override on the area displaying the shipping prices on the product page in the frontend.
The AustraliaPost shipping plugin V1 has been removed from the HikaShop install package as the AustraliaPost API has been deprecated by AustraliaPost and the plugin can't be used anymore. Please use the V2 plugin.
The CanadaPost shipping plugin has been removed from the HikaShop install package as the CanadaPost API has been deprecated by CanadaPost and the plugin can't be used anymore.
The IP of the user when he registered is now displayed on the user edition interface if the "log IP" of the "registration and login" section of the Hikashop configuration is activated.
The address IP of the customer is now displayed on the order details page in the backend when the "Log order IP" option is activated and an IP address has been detected and stored for the order.
We now force the display of a quantity field on the wishlist/cart details page when the product is configured to not display a quantity field.
There are now classes on the subtotal/total/tax/shipping/payment rows of the order email notifications to be able to easily style them independently from one another.
The publish/unpublish toggle of the products listing in the backend now supports the tags system properly so the product will be removed from the tags' items list if it is unpbulished and will be added back if it is published while before it only worked from the product edition page.
We now remove HTML tags from the product name when added to the breadcrumb system of Joomla to avoid having them displayed as HTML entities by the breadcrumb module.
There is now a hidden option to unpbulish the copy of products after their copy.
When a backend menu doesn't have any menu element but only has dividers, we now skip its display.
The user group after purchase feature is now removing the guest choice on the checkout if there is at least one product in the cart with a group added to the user after the purchase.
There is now a hidden option discounted_only_with_variants to support discounts on variants with the "discounted only" setting of products listing so that products with discounts on some of their variants will also appear on the listing.
We now let the variant selectable with the "characteristic dynamic display" setting turned on even if it doesn't have stock if the waitlist is activated for all the products or for the current product.
We now display a message saying that the comment will be reviewed when the user submit a comment and the "Auto publish new comments" setting is deactivated.
Kosovo has been added to the list of countries.
Custom product fields filled in the main product but not in the variants will now display on the products listing of the order details page if the corresponding display option is activated in the custom field.
We have added another Australia post shipping service and fixed an issue we were facing when they returned only 1 service.
You can now redirect the customer to the login form if he tries to add a product to the wishlist while he is not logged in (Possible only if the wishlist feature is active and if the 'Hide wishlist button for guest users' setting is turned off in the HikaShop configuration).
We've improved the product CSV export to be based on the type of the columns in the database in order to better handle convertion of types when generating the CSV file.
We've added the events onBeforeHikashopLoad and onAfterHikashopLoad so that system plugins can now act on HikaShop being loaded.
The filter "text" type now supports translation overrides.
We now disable the infinite scroll automatically on products listings when the pages are displayed with WbAmp so that the normal pagination can be used.
We've added an error message to the contact form field when some of the fields are not filled to better guide the user.
The product details page now take into account the "robots" setting of the current menu item.
We added a class for the buttons of the user control panel so that they can be styled / hidden easily with just simple CSS.
The telephone text in the address format will now only appear if a phone number has been entered by the user.
The shortcut (next and previous) buttons on the product page now take into account the ordering column and ordering direction of the current menu item in order to get the next and previous products.
The payment methods with a big textarea for the merchant to enter some information to be displayed to the customer at the end of the checkout now have an HTML editor instead of a text area to make it easier to style the text.
We have added a tooltip for the category option through filters configuration page.
In characteristic dynamic display mode, the characteristics are now checked during the page loading so that if only one value is available in the characteristic, it is automatically selected.
You can now enter either 0.X or 0,X for the rate of the user points payment method.
We improved the display of weeks statistics.
We've added an attribute on the contact button on the product page so that the contact form for each product is not indexed by search engines as it's normally not needed.
The characteristics name and values display in the backend now take into account the translation overrides in the backend.
We now use addHeadLink instead of addCustomTag to add the canonical URLs in the headers.
The "Name" and "Description" settings of the RSS feeds section now also support translation overrides.
We've added the support of translation overrides for the product CSV import tool.
We've added a mechanism to update the key of the translations when the main text of a translatable field is changed.
We've improved the handling of translations for characteristics as to remove old translation overrides.
We now automatically cut the product name to 200 characters when sending it to ShipStation as it doesn't allow for longer product names.
We now accept more characters in the attributes setting of custom fields.
We improved the error handling of the PayPlug 2 payment plugin.
We have added the Retail ground service through the USPS shipping method.
We've updated the nam of the Ho Chi Min City state.
We've added a plugin to synchronize the main product quantity with the quantity of the variants.
There are now the triggers onBeforeDiscountOnlyCheckQuery( & $selects, & $joins, & $discount_filter) and onAfterDiscountOnlyCheckQuery( & $discounts, & $join_discount_links, & $filters) to be able to add additional checks to the "discount only" product listing.
We now hide the price area on the product page when the "Characteristics dynamic display" setting is activated and that the product has different prices for the variants so that it appears only after the variant has been selected, which makes more sense in this case.
When the merchant entered a URL which would make the browser loop in redirects in the "URL where you will be redirected when the cart is empty" setting of the HikaShop configuration, we now override the URL to the default one if such infinite loop is detected.
The post code prefix and suffix restrictions on the shipping methods are now case insensitive.
We removed the "shared URL" option of the "force SSL on checkout" setting as this is not used anymore.

New features (17)

HikaShop now supports Joomla 4.
We've added a new "filter options" button on the listings in the backend in order to display/hide the filters. That will allow us to add more filters in the future without fear of running out of space at the top of the listing because of too many of them. That's also to adhere to Joomla 4 aesthetics.
We have created options to hide and display shipping, payment, and coupon prices from the checkout cart.
We've added a new option to the HikaShop configuration in order to configure the email address for the contact request form recipient. Before, it would use the "from" email address.
We have added a new shipping "Post code RegEx" option which will enable you to restrict shipping method based on the shipping address post code using regular expressions.
The weight and dimensions of each products are now stored in the order when the order is created and can be changed when you edit the product in the order in the backend.
The weight of the products and of the order are now displayed on the backend order edition interface.
The total weight and total volume is now calculated and stored in the order.
There are now hidden settings to display the weight of the products and the total weight of the order in the invoice and shipping invoice.
We've added an option to be able to handle several images / files with only one custom field for the "ajax file" and "ajax image" custom field types.
You can now add options to products of orders already created in the backend interface.
There is now a "formula" input field for shipping methods so that you can calculate the cost of the shipping using operations and variables available {weight}, {volume}, {quantity} and {price}.
There is now a new, easier to use, selector for the columns to search on in the HikaShop search plugin settings page.
There is a new option for both the shipping and the payment views on the checkout workflow to display the shipping/payment fee with or without taxes.
We've added an option to pre-check the Terms and Conditions checkbox on the checkout.
We have created options to hide and display shipping/payment prices from the checkout cart.
We added an option in the user edition interface so that you can now change the partner affected to a user when using the affiliate system.