News

Today we released LFS 0.5.0 beta 1 - the first public beta release.

What does this mean?

• No new features for the 0.5.0 branch - only bugfixes.
• The API is considered stable. Changes will go through a proper deprecation process.
• We will provide migration scripts for all future versions (if necessary).

New Stuff

• Discounts
• Configurable products
• Product/Price/Property units
• Packaging units

Improvements

• Send mail, when order state is changed to 'sent'
• Added exclude_from_navigation attribute to Page model
• Optimized top sellers
• Cleaned up contact form
• And a lot of bugfixes

After a long time, here are some updates about LFS:

News:

• LFS moved to bitbucket: http://bitbucket.org/diefenbach/django-lfs/
• Cleaned up documentation and added new stuff: http://packages.python.org/django-lfs/

New Code:

• Added vouchers
• Added redirects (based on Django's redirects app)
• Added pluggable templates (Jens Zeidler - iqplusplus)
• Added manufacturers (Michaela Hering - Demmelhuber)
• Added featured products (Michael Thornhill - Maithu IT Solutions)
• Added spain translations (sorry, I forgot who provided this :(
• Added more tests

New live shops:

• http://shop.fischer-jugend.de/
• http://ethnochicbazar.com/
• http://www.molloyspharmacy.com/
• http://www.gadgeteria.ru/
• There are some more in the pipe (we'll give an update soon)

What's coming next:

• Michael is working hard on integration of country specific addresses based on django-countries and django-postal (we hope we are getting it out of the door soon)
• I made some tests with a GXT-based management interface: Screencast. Will see whether this will go in LFS some time.
• Better documentation for users and developers
• Having more lfs-fun :)

After some time here are some news about LFS:

Misc

• The code has been moved to bitbucket: http://bitbucket.org/diefenbach/django-lfs/
• There is a first public release on PyPi: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-lfs. (Please note that LFS is still in alpha, though)
• There is also a new buildout to make installation even easier: http://bitbucket.org/diefenbach/lfs-buildout-quickstart/. To install a whole shop one has just to do the following four steps: 
  1. $ hg clone http://bitbucket.org/diefenbach/lfs-buildout-quickstart/
  2. $ cd lfs-buildout-quickstart
  3. $ python bootstrap.py
  4. $ bin/buildout -v
• There is another buildout for development: http://bitbucket.org/diefenbach/lfs-buildout-development/

Documentation

• Goeff Kelsall provided some documentation on how to install LFS on Windows and some stuff on how to get started: 
  • http://code.google.com/p/django-lfs/wiki/InstallationWindowsTest
  • http://code.google.com/p/django-lfs/wiki/GettingStartedDesign
  • http://code.google.com/p/django-lfs/wiki/GettingStartedShop

New Stuff

• Send rating mails: the shop owner is now able to ask customers to rate their bought products after the order has been closed for some time.

Sorry for being quite for such a long time. We'll try to be more regular in future.

There has been a lot of progress in the last couple of weeks. Here are the important things:

Improvements

• A more generic and flexible category tree (added start level and expand level)
• Better manage views for products, customer, orders, carts, reviews
• Improved topseller portlet
• Removed all URLs from Javascript

Bugfixes

• Calculation of average rating
• Calculation of delivery time for variants
• Take care of non active products at several places (e.g. product navigation).

New stuff

• Pluggable credit cart handling (needs some improvements though)
• Pluggable generic export of products

And that's all for this week. Next week there will be more about LFS.