We are pleased to announce the availability for download 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 wiki post on how to create a payment module).

Yoav, Varien's CTO discusses the release in the video below (recorded a few hours before the release):

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Major Changes:

• Added product tags multistore functionality


• Implemented currency administration


• Currency rates updating via webservices was reworked, the tutorial on currency rate webservices integration will be posted in Magento blog soon


• Locale settings configuration added to choose allowed Zend_Locale data


• Fixed multiwebsite cache and sessions issues (i.e. different secure/nonsecure domains)


• Unified events and layouts names, documentation will follow soon


• Mage_Core, Mage_Checkout, Mage_Catalog, Mage_Cms and Mage_Review modules helpers implemented for better performance


• Improved countries and regions saving logic, saving ISO country codes rather then ids


• Few minor bugs fixed in installation wizard


• Added custom database port/socket setting in installation wizard


• Refactored controllers, moved operations from constructor to preDispatch


• Rewritten Mage_Log module


• Implemented cache management to allow disabling and enabling specific cache (configuration, layouts, blocks HTML output, EAV types and attributes, translations)


• Fixed theme translation loading

Known Issues:

• 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


• Configurable product price doesn't use locale format to display

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