A quick update on what’s happening with the upocoming version 0.7.0.

I have to admit that I am more that happy with the changes so far. Not only did I implement the stuff I had planned to do, but I also added a few things I didn’t even know about beforehand

For all concerned, 0.7.0 will be working with MySQL 5.0.27. I used to test withMySQL 4.4.1 and 5.0.24. However, somewhere between 5.0.24 and 5.0.27 the MySQL SQL parser got a bit more strict about certain constructs. It affected only a couple queries, but some very central ones.

The version will also contain bugfixes for all bugs I currently know about - Not a lot as that includes only the stuff I pick up when testing other things. Feedback would be really appreciated (see the comment about the MySQL problem!)

What else? I changes the JS validation checks to ignore empty fiels. That means if, for example, the email field is empty there is going to be only one error message: ‘Email required’, but not ‘Email not valid’ any more.

I also finally got around to think about protecting the zenmagick installation folder (and subfolder). As common, this is based on a set of .htaccess files - this means Apache only. As long as there is no proven need for support for other webserver it’s all there is going to be.

I added a few more patches to the installation options. This allows pretty links to work for redirects too. And for all the folks that need more, I integrated the Ultimate SEO mod into ZenMagick. This might sound unneccessary as it works well with ZenMagick as it is. Still, I added another patch to modify the zen-cart files that are currently shipped with Ultimate SEO. Therefore this mod can take advantage of the fact that zen-cart updates do not neccessarily require the mod to be installed. There were also few SQL problems with MySQL 5.0.27 here that are fixed.

The biggest change was of  course the rewrite/refactoring of the themes and locale code. There are a few small changes to themes required, but nothing that should take more than 5 minutes.

Ah, almost forgot: Release is hopefully within the next 10 days