Magento Community Edition 1.9 Released
Magento have announced the latest release of Magento Community Edition 1.9 today.
This latest release, which is available for download as of now, includes major improvements and represents a great step forward. The big news is that the default theme in Magento has been replaced with a fully responsive theme, reducing the time and expense required to make a Magento site responsive.
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Magento Community 1.9 also includes the PHP 5.4 patch to make sure that your Magento site will run well under PHP 5.4, and our initial testing shows that this patch also allows Magento to operate under PHP 5.5, which brings some nice performance gains. The Simple dev team will continue to test this and update their findings on our blog.
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PayPal integration has been overhauled in Magento Community 1.9, with an eye on conversions optimisation by streamlining the PayPal Express Checkout process and adding support for Bill Me Later.
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There are also a large number of security enhancements and fixes, including closing potential cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities, improving file system security and addressing a potential session fixation vulnerability during checkout.
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This latest update to Magento Community means that after upgrading, your site will be more secure and should experience higher conversion rates thanks to the improvements to the payment options.
See the official Magento release
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