What's Next for Zen Cart?

PLEASE NOTE: The releases listed below have not yet been finalized, and this document is a work in progress.
These are goals, not commitments. Any of the improvements listed here might be delayed beyond the stated target release.

2.2.0

The improvements targeted for v2.2.0 include:

• New Feature: The Products Options Stock plugin will be integrated with Zen Cart. This feature will help storeowners who have product variants whose stock needs to be tracked (red large t-shirts vs blue medium t-shirts, for example). It is designed to replace the various “Stock by Attributes” plugins which are currently in use.

2.1.0

The improvements targeted for v2.1.0 include:

• New Feature: Child Templates will be supported, so that storeowners can more easily determine what has been changed from the base release of a template.
• New Feature: The Zen Cart admin will be secured with Multi Factor Authentication.
• Admin: The template settings file may now be viewed from your admin page.
• Admin: The date of last password change is now shown on the Users page in admin.
• Admin: Product Price fields “Gross” and “Net” have been renamed to “Tax Included” and “Tax Excluded.”
• Core: Shipping modules now inherit from ZenShipping base class to reduce code duplication and ensure consistency.
• Core: Zones module now has exception rules notifier. See this page for details on usage.

2.0.1

Release 2.0.1 has been delivered; changes are now listed in What’s New in 2.0.x.