PrestaShop Changelog

What's new in PrestaShop 1.6.1.0

• ack Office Facelift:
• Changes to the back office are mainly cosmetic, but we managed to squeeze in a few improvements to contrast and visibility in the navigation. Essentially, we gave it a facelift. It still resembles the back office you’re used to – it’s just better. Changes include new logos, images, colors, and a few other design elements.
• Better, faster, stronger!:
• prestashop-release-1.6.1.0-preston01Borrowing from Daft Punk, we’ve made significant improvements to software performance by targeting SQL queries. We’ve made one optimization after another to ensure that your store works lightning fast! How fast you ask? Up to 200% faster at carrying out back office operations – talk about saving time!
• This also means your website will be better equipped for traffic peaks. Great news for high traffic sale days! Get the details about our tests and results on our developer blog.
• New Coding Standards:
• We’ve reached a new chapter in PrestaShop’s coding history. To optimize the software, we adopted a new coding architecture. Moving forward, all new code contributed on GitHub should follow the PSR-2 Coding Style Guide. Implementing these new rules will help keep code integrity. This will also be instrumental in the unit testing process.
• “Advanced EU Compliance” Module:
• The European Union took almost a decade to form. This new union comes with a complex set of rules and regulations that can be very challenging for online merchants with international stores. Many of you have asked for features that help you meet local EU regulations, and we’ve responded! We’ve added 15 options into the “Advanced EU Compliance module” that you can use to achieve better legal compliance, faster.
• Taxes and price calculations:
• No one loves taxes, but it’s at the heart of the check-out process so we spent time working on your taxes! Specifically, we refined the rounding of prices and tax management.
• In addition to our major fixes, we’ve refined the installation, the update process, the search function and back office controls. All bug updates can be reviewed in our changelog.
• With this new release, we’re adopting another new practice: an updated Semantic Versioning Scheme. This helps to clarify each software release and lets you see all changes faster.