<p>We are pleased to announce the availability for <a href="http://www.magentocommerce.com/download" title="download ">download </a>of Magento Preview version 0.6.13110. The biggest highlights of the release include performance gains, ability to control currencies on a per store level including enabling/disabling currencies from the Zend locale, and the finalization of the shipping and payment API's (see a recent <a href="http://www.magentocommerce.com/wiki/how-to:create-payment-method-module" title="wiki">wiki post on how to create a payment module</a>).</p>
<p> Yoav, Varien's CTO discusses the release in the video below (recorded a few hours before the release):</p>

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<p>--- RELEASE NOTES ---</p>
<p><strong>Major Changes:</strong>
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<li>Added product tags multistore functionality</li>
<li>Implemented currency administration</li>
<li>Currency rates updating via webservices was reworked, the tutorial on currency rate webservices integration will be posted in Magento blog soon</li>
<li>Locale settings configuration added to choose allowed Zend_Locale data</li>
<li>Fixed multiwebsite cache and sessions issues (i.e. different secure/nonsecure domains)</li>
<li>Unified events and layouts names, documentation will follow soon</li>
<li>Mage_Core, Mage_Checkout, Mage_Catalog, Mage_Cms and Mage_Review modules helpers implemented for better performance</li>
<li>Improved countries and regions saving logic, saving ISO country codes rather then ids</li>
<li>Few minor bugs fixed in installation wizard</li>
<li>Added custom database port/socket setting in installation wizard</li>
<li>Refactored controllers, moved operations from constructor to preDispatch</li>
<li>Rewritten Mage_Log module</li>
<li>Implemented cache management to allow disabling and enabling specific cache (configuration, layouts, blocks HTML output, EAV types and attributes, translations)</li>
<li>Fixed theme translation loading</li>
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<strong>Known Issues:
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<li>New allowed currency is immediately available in frontend that causes 'Undefined rate from "XXX-YYY"' messages and wrong calculations in shopping cart and checkout until the currency rates are updated</li>
<li>Configurable product price doesn't use locale format to display</li>
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