Hi guys
I have gathered in a compact list all CS-Cart Releases I could found, in order for me to identify Customers ability to Update (which versions, Prolonogate etc) cause in Blogs I needed always to search with Release.
I intend to write on the side the major milestones the next days, but feel free to fill in the blanks or make any suggestions.
I will try to keep this alive, and if Forum Admins find this informative they can pin it.
Fotis
CS-Cart History!!!
2005
Dec 1, 2005 - CS-Cart 1.3.0 -- Upgrade center added, Site news and emails/newsletter add-on, New ‘Customers who bought this product also bought’,Integrated JavaScript-based template editor, MySQL 5 compatibility, Advanced inventory tracking options,Product features, Ads addon,Improved checkout process
2006
Feb 6, 2006 - CS-Cart 1.3.2 -- Discounts/coupons ,Customizable Form Builder,Product options forbidden combinations,New payment gateways,New template set ,New shippings features,Drop-down manufacturers ,Title setting,Installation improvements,Flash animation support ,Extended product search ,HTML 4.0 Transitional complied code ,Drop-down menu in the administrator back-end
May 17, 2006 - CS-Cart 1.3.3 -- Order management, Reporting tool, Multicurrency ,Images for product options New template set , 4 new professional skin themes, Privileges system, Ability to use email as login
Ability to create thumbnails for products and categories automatically,New payment gateways
Nov 11, 2006 - CS-Cart 1.3.4 -- Affiliate module,Product configurator,Feature comparison,Gift Registry,QuickBooks export,MaxMind antifraud integration,SEO URLs(uses Apache mod_rewrite module),New set of extra skins,New payment gateways
2007
Sept 7, 2007 - 1.3.5 RC1 was released
Oct 22 2007 - 1.3.5-SP1 maintenance release
Dec 25, 2007 - 1.3.5 SP2 maintenance release
2008
Apr 8, 2008 - CS-Cart 1.3.5 SP3 -- reduces the number of database queries
Oct 7, 2008 - CS-Cart 1.3.5 SP4 -- certified with Google Checkout
2009
May 7, 2009 - CS-Cart 2.0.1 -- Major Release , brand new design and a set of extra skins, ayout block manager, design mode, web-based upgrade center, product filters
Mar 7, 2009 - CS-Cart 2.0.2 -- Styles in customer area were splitted to 2 file, Top menu in customer area is configurable, Pages: search added,Ability to display products from subcategories
May 7, 2009 - CS-Cart 2.0.3 -- 4 new skins
May 25, 2009 - CS-Cart 2.0.4 -- Database restore, Number of news to display
July 1, 2009 - CS-Cart 2.0.5 -- updated Google Base addon and new skins
July 15, 2009 - CS-Cart 2.0.6 -- three new skins, print packing slips, integration of the Camtech XML online payment gateway
Aug 24, 2009 - CS-Cart 2.0.7 -- improvements to product options and bestsellers, performance optimization, extended category layout option
Sep 15, 2009 - CS-Cart 2.0.8 -- maintenance release - upgrade from 1.3.5 is supported.
Nov 12, 2009 - CS-Cart 2.0.9 -- Recurring billing, Google Sitemap, File upload for products, Data feeds Price List, User groups, new HTML block, change the order of product tabs
Nov 24, 2009 - CS-Cart 2.0.10 -- store credit card data in profile, SEO addon page indexing was improved
Dec 21, 2009 - CS-Cart 2.0.11 -- order shipments, “Buy together” add-on, enhanced features for SEO-friendly URLs and Moneybookers payment
2010
Jan 20, 2010 - CS-Cart 2.0.12 - security for admin accounts, support of PayPal 3D Secure, 1 new free skin, 40 ready-made layouts
Mar 16, 2010 - CS-Cart 2.0.13 -- Support for 5 new payment services, 2 new free skins
Mar 23, 2010 - CS-Cart 2.0.14 -- product thumbnails as gallery, position of buttons on the product details
June 3, 2010 - CS-Cart 2.0.15 -- Improved import/export , clear the cache, Separate storage of products info (catalog, ordered), Paypal Express Checkout authentication by API, remove phone number validation
Aug 8, 2010 - CS-Cart 2.1 - Major Release, Checkout process, Block manager, better SEO, Order management, export/import product combinations, Abandoned carts
Sep 6, 2010 - CS-Cart 2.1.1 -- cache back-end
Nov 9, 2010 - CS-Cart 2.1.2 -- Block Caching to Enhance Storefront Performance, Catalog Mode, Instant Product Search
2011
Feb 1, 2011 - CS-Cart 2.1.3 -- precise shipping rate estimation, reduced storefront load time, 3 new skins
Mar 2, 2011 - CS-Cart 2.1.4 -- Moneybookers eWallet, Sales reports available to vendors
July 1, 2011 - CS-Cart 2.2.1 -- Major Release , new admin panel look and feel, customer notifications, Janrain social login feature, Twigmo
Aug 17, 2011 - CS-Cart 2.2.2 -- Product configurator add-on refactored, speed of Product Features page increased, visual editor can now be disabled
Sep 18, 2011 - CS-Cart 2.2.3 -- Google Export add-on, Sort by field in the products search in admin
Nov 16, 2011 - CS-Cart 2.2.4 -- maintenance release, Searchanise
2012
Jun 21, 2012 - CS-Cart 2.2.5 -- maintenance release
May 22, 2012 - CS-Cart 3.0.1 -- Major Release- new edition — CS-Cart Ultimate, 960.gs grid system
July 26, 2012 - CS-Cart 3.0.2 -- Store Import add-on
Seb 5, 2012 - CS-Cart 3.0.3 -- Store Import add-on add-on functionality has been extended, Community Edition Discontinued
Nov 7, 2012 - CS-Cart 3.0.4 -- maintenance release, reinstated ability to store credit card information
2013
Jan 16, 2013 - CS-Cart 3.0.5 -- maintenance release
Feb 14, 2013 - CS-Cart 3.0.6 -- Paypal Security improved, SEo issue fixed
Jun 26, 2013 - CS-Cart 4.0.1 -- Major Release, Change of Prices
Seb 26, 2013 - CS-Cart 4.0.2 -- Store Import tool, CDN Tool, EU Cookie Law support
Nov 6, 2013 - CS-Cart 4.0.3 -- Category Images are Back, On sale Block, 1 new theme
2014
Jan 15, 2014 - CS-Cart 4.1.1 -- Major Release, Add-ons and themes can be installed from stand-alone archives
Jan 28, 2014 - CS-Cart 4.1.2 -- 4.0.x theme compatibility & Google Chrome compatibility issue fix
Mar 18, 2014 - CS-Cart 4.1.3 -- Import of translations from PO
Apr 23, 2014 - CS-Cart 4.1.4 --- Responsive Design
May 20, 2014 - CS-Cart 4.1.5 --- 3 New responsive Styles
Jul 22, 2014 - CS-Cart 4.2.1 -- Major Release, Admin panel changes- Seo improvments, Mailchimp Addon
Aug 28, 2014 - CS-Cart 4.2.2 -- Minor Fixes,
Oct 16, 2014 - CS-Cart 4.2.3 -- Drag n Drop Grids, Edit Content on Site, Buy now with 1 Click, 2 new themes
Nov 27, 2014 - CS-Cart 4.2.4 -- PayPal IPN (its an Addon now) & Realex Payments Support, IPv6 support, fixes
2015
Apr 29 2015 - CS-Cart 4.3.1 -- Major Release, Speed Boost, Blog Addon, Option Variants export-import
Jun 9 2015 - CS-Cart 4.3.2 -- bug Fixes, product filters on the home page
Jun 25 2015 - CS-Cart 4.3.3 -- maintenance release, Upgrade Center Improvment
Sept 9 2015 - CS-Cart 4.3.4 -- assign payment methods to shipping methods, adds birthday promotions, and improves the Upgrade Center.
Dec 15 2015 - CS-Cart4.3.5 -- Trash Category in Admin,Currency conversion for PayPal payments, PayPal in-context checkout, Free shipping methods.
2016
Mar 2 2016 - CS-Cart 4.3.6 -- Performance Release, PHP7, MV Features, store import
May 10 2016 - CS-Cart 4.3.7 -- No more Free version, "Subcategories tree" category filling,Canonical URLs for the blog posts.
June 8 2016 - CS-Cart 4.3.8 -- This version is a patch—it only fixes issues and updates integration with payment and shipping services
July 15 2016 - CS-Cart 4.3.9 -- This version is a patch—important security fix, PayPal partial refund fix, Tracking number fix, and The HiDPI displays support add-on fix.
Oct 18, 2016 - CS-Cart 4.3.10 -- The upgrade fixes eBay Synchronization, PayPal Express Checkout, admin privileges, and the Store Locator add-on.
Nov 14, 2016 - CS-Cart 4.4.1 -- Major Release. New email Tempalte/Documents editor, Files change detector, Vendor subscritpion plans, New Theme logic, Fontawesome fonts in admin
Nov 29, 2016 - CS-Cart 4.4.2 -- This Upgrade presents CS-Cart Ultimate with unlimited Storefronts, Mobile Admin App, and new Bright theme.
Oct 19, 2016 - CS-Cart 4.4.2 SP2 -- fixes vulnerability CVE-2016-10045 in PHPMailer 5.2.19
2017
Jan 26, 2017 - CS-Cart 4.4.3 -- This Upgrade presents Google reCAPTCHA and Store upgrade via console, Besides bug fixes (correct fonts are displayed in email notifications, order notifications for 2Checkout payments).
Feb 28, 2017 - CS-Cart 4.5.1 -- -- Major Release Multi-Vendor changes: automatic vendor payout system ,new demo data. CS-Cart changes :promotions aren’t reapplied on order editing
Mar 6, 2017- 4.5.1.SP1 - solves a problem with block caching
Apr 6, 2017- 4.5.2. - This Upgrade pres solves problems with Facebook API, sales reports, Authoirize.net and supports PHP7.1
Apr 8, 2017- 4.5.2.SP1 - solves a problem with checkout
Apr 11, 2017- 4.5.2.SP2 - solves a problem with authorization
Jun 27, 2017 - CS-Cart 4.6.1 -- Major Release - Product Variations, search suggestions in orders, Phone field to search for orders, Creating the PayPal merchant account in the CS-Cart admin,edit robots.txt & SMTP for each storefront,Fast Service pack installation -MV new features : Theme and Layout editors for Vendors
Feb 22, 2018 - 4.7.2.SP2 - fix for admin Translations
A few remarks that I can see from the above:
Total CS-Cart Versions 105 in the last 15 years
Releases per Version
1.3 -> 7
2.0 -> 15
2.1 -> 5
2.2 -> 5
3.0 -> 6
4.0 -> 3
4.1 -> 5
4.2 -> 5
4.3 -> 10
4.4 -> 3
4.5 -> 5
4.6 -> 4
4.7 -> 9
4.8 -> 5
4.9 -> 8
4.10 -> 6
4.11 -> 5
Version 2 was a very active version (15 releases). Version 4.3 was also very active (10 releases). Versions with Shortest Lifespan are 4.0 and 4.4 (3 releases both).
Also yearly activity is very interesting
2005 -> 1
2006 -> 3
2007 -> 3
2008 -> 2
2009 -> 11
2010 -> 7
2011 -> 6
2012 -> 5
2013 -> 5
2014 -> 9
2015 -> 6
2016 -> 8
2017 -> 13
2018 -> 16
2019 -> 12
2020 -> 2
2018 has the most updates (16), followed by 2007 with 13 versions!
New Versions per Month
- 2017 is the champion with 3 major releases followed by 2014, 2018 & 2019 with 2 releases.
- Years without any releases 2006. 2007 & 2008
- Month with most major releases is May with 3 releases