Last night ZenMagick 0.9.9 was released. It took me a while, but I am pleased with the result. As usual, the actual release process was the most painful step! I don’t know – somehow these admin tasks do not appeal to me

I think changes to theme files have been reasonable and there is a good chance that this is going to be less and less with each coming release.

The changes to the MVC code make up most of the release. I think it’s been like this for a few releases now. Just as well that this time a couple new plugins have found their way into the release.
The productGroupPricing plugin is perhaps the biggest news. It allows to configure individual prices for each product and each customer group. Since prices can be either discounts (absolute or percent) or absolute prices, its possible to use this to implement price tables, based on user group. Furthermore, each price/discount can have a start/end date and may also be excluded from being used for other discounts.

The other plugin is the productTags plugin. It allows to tag products. Effectively, this may be just used for a tag cloud or, perhaps more interesting, to create relationships between products.
It is possible to query products for given tags or all products that share tags with a given start product.

With the work on a new default theme somewhat stalled, work on the next release will focus a lot on admin improvements. However, there is also a lot of other interesting stuff in store, so worthwhile to keep an eye on the development and this blog
If yo feel there is anything important missing from the roadmap/feature list, let me know.