What To Expect In the Next JShop Server Update

[JShopSupport]

As our telephone and email has been bristling with enquiries as to whether the admin preview will be online today, we can confirm that it will be and we are currently creating the update installer so we can create an updated version of our demo store.

There are several things that will, initially, not be available on the preview, due to final work still needing completion. These will be:

1. The returns system
2. Some new tax features
3. Some new reports

The preview will only be available to registered users. A full Beta demo store will be available once the system goes out for registered users to beta test on their own servers.

[JShopSupport]

We have now made the administration system preview available to registered users. Please see the Beta Testing forum for details.

[JShopSupport]

Registered User Preview is currently continuing. We should be in a position to make preview available to all visitors at some point next week.

[JShopSupport]

As some people have missed what was said in the admin system screenshots thread, we'll repost it here:

Beta moved to around 12th June. We'll update this post if further time is needed.

[JShopSupport]

It's looking increasingly likely that we won't hit the 12th I'm afraid, so we're going to push Beta back (one final time, honest) until the week of the 19th. It will be by the end of that week at the latest, although hopefully sooner.

We'll be issuing a patch for 1.3.0 to add mySQL 5 support by Monday at the latest though. One caveat that needs to be made on this however, this patch will not add in support for the newer PHP conncection routines, it will simply allow the join queries to be run correctly on mySQL 5 servers. The newer PHP connection routines are supported in 2.0 and will be selectable from the config.php file.

[JShopSupport]

Well you're going to hate us but there's going to be a further delay of hopefully no more than a week or so (3rd July is a Monday, and it makes more sense to release on a Monday, rather than a Friday, so we're aiming for that day), just whilst we rectify some problems that have come to light that need resolving before Beta (otherwise we'd get bombarded about them during Beta).

However, we'll be in a position hopefully to put up the new templates next week on the development demo store so you'll be able to see the new default templates and the new front-end options.

I'll be sleeping on a bed of nails until it's finished as punishment for the delay.

[JShopSupport]

The new templates are still having changes made to them and will be shown either on Monday or Tuesday next week with the Beta release hopefully happening by the end of next week, although this may change until the week after is need be.

Apologies for the delay.