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@Michael-Herzog Michael-Herzog released this 15 Aug 11:27
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5.0.0
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Smartstore 5 is a port of Smartstore 4 - which is based on the classic .NET Framework 4.7.2 - to the new ASP.NET Core 6 platform.

Highlights

  • Smartstore 5 is now cross-platform and supports Linux and macOS alongside Microsoft Windows. This means that Smartstore can be run on almost any hosting server, whether dedicated, cloud or shared.
  • In addition to Microsoft SQL Server, Smartstore now supports MySQL. PostgreSQL is in planning and will follow soon.
  • Smartstore 5 is one of the fastest out-of-the-box e-commerce solutions in the world! A small store with less than 1,000 items and a few dozen categories can achieve an average Time to First Byte (TTFB) of far below 100 milliseconds... even without output cache or other performance measures.
    • Compared to Smartstore 4, 10x faster in some areas
    • Significantly less memory consumption (approx. 50%)
    • Even low-cost (cloud) hosting delivers high performance
  • Powerful DataGrid in the backend
    • Developed in-house, no more 3rd party libaries with annoying license restrictions
    • Intuitive, feature-rich and flexible
    • Supports row selection, multi-column sorting, column reordering, column toggling, paging etc.
    • Grid state is persisted in browser's local storage and restored on page refresh
    • Search filter expressions: run complex search queries, e.g. (*jacket or *shirt) and !leather*
    • (DEV) datagrid TagHelper which lets you control every aspect of the grid
  • Frontend & backend facelifting
  • Create, manage and restore database backups in the backend
  • More external authentication providers: Google, Microsoft, LinkedIn coming soon
  • Advanced settings for image processing: compression, quality, response caching etc.

Breaking or Significant Changes

  • Blog, News, Forum and Polls are now external commercial plugins
  • No support for Microsoft SQL Server Compact Edition (SQLCE) anymore
  • Payment providers need to be reconfigured (API Key etc.)

Project Status

  • Except for the WebApi plugin, the open source Community Edition has been fully ported (WebApi will follow soon)
  • Already ported commercial plugins:
    • Azure
    • BMEcat
    • Common Export Providers
    • Content Slider
    • ETracker
    • GDPR
    • Guenstiger
    • Media Manager
    • Mega Menu
    • Mega Search
    • Mega Search Plus
    • OpenTrans
    • Order Number Formatter
    • Output Cache
    • PageBuilder
    • PdfExport
    • PostFinance
    • Redis
    • SearchLog
    • Skrill
    • Sofortueberweisung
    • TinyImage
    • TrustedShops
    • UrlRewriter
    • Other commercial plugins developed by Smartstore will follow soon
  • Obsolete plugins that will not be ported:
    • AccardaKar
    • BizImporter
    • EasyCredit
    • NewsImporter
    • LeGuide Shopwahl

Development

  • No proprietary Unit of Work & Repository Pattern anymore: gave up IDbContext and IRepository<T> in favor of DbContext and DbSet<T>
  • Less and more lightweight service classes by removing all generic CRUD stuff
  • Much easier plugin development
  • Async function calls all the way through
  • Database schema did not change and therefore remains backward compatible. Still we STRONGLY recommend to create a backup before upgrading
  • Extremely powerful widget system
  • Large TagHelper library with 50+ custom helpers
  • On-demand deployment of native libraries via NuGet
  • Custom entities in plugin projects can now define navigation properties to entities in the application core
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