All articles by Pablo Borowicz
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A New Organization For The Open Source Project
A clearer, more transparent, more collaborative organization
Today, I want to share the new organization for decision-making that will be set up for the PrestaShop project. We believe this organization will help our community grow, get even more involved, and work together in building a better PrestaShop, faster.
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An update on the Symfony migration
What's next?
In December 2015, a groundbreaking change in PrestaShop was announced: the introduction of the Symfony framework into the CMS. The goal was to gradually replace PrestaShop’s custom framework with Symfony, and switch its templating system from Smarty to Twig. This project was known as “The Symfony migration”. Looking back, we realize that referring to this project as a “migration” wasn’t really accurate at all.
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PrestaShop beyond 1.7
Here is what we are planning next!
Five years ago, PrestaShop 1.7 was released to the world, introducing Symfony, the Classic theme and child theme features, interface improvements, and so much more. With each one of the eight minor versions that followed, 1.7 kept on growing both in features and stability. Its maturity is recognized by its success: with over 170,000 live shops detected at the time of writing, it’s the most popular PrestaShop version used in production shops on the web.
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Announcing public demos from the maintainers team
We held the first session of the open source project's public demo
Last month, the maintainers team held a special event for the open source project: a public demonstrations session. To better understand what this is about, let’s provide some context.
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From legacy to future architecture: Connecting the dots
Some ideas on how we'll get from Point A to Point B
This is the fourth and final article in a series we introduced last year, that aims to describe where we are, where we are going, and some ideas on how we’ll get there.
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PrestaShop in 2019 and beyond, part 3: The Future Architecture
aka Point B – Where we are going
This is the third in a series of articles we introduced earlier this year, that aims to describe where we are, where we are going, and some ideas on how we’ll get there.
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PrestaShop in 2019 and beyond, part 2: The Pain Points
aka What needs to be improved
This is the second in a series of articles we introduced earlier this year, which aims to describe where we are, where we are going, and some ideas on how we’ll get there.
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Announcing end of support for obsolete PHP versions
It's time to move forward
About a year and a half ago, we announced that PrestaShop 1.7.4.0 would be dropping support for PHP 5.4 and 5.5. At that time, this decision was justified by the impending end-of-maintenance for Symfony 2 and its replacement by Symfony 3, which didn’t support PHP versions older than 5.5.
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Release of PrestaShop 1.7.5.2 and 1.6.1.24
Maintenance version of the 1.7.5.x and 1.6.1.x branch
PrestaShop 1.7.5.2 and 1.6.1.24 are now available. These versions fix a security issue for both 1.7.5.x and 1.6.1.x. For the details, please read below:
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PrestaShop in 2019 and beyond, part 1: The current architecture
aka point A – Where we are
This is the first in a series of articles we introduced a couple days ago, that aims at describing where we are, where we are going, and some ideas on how we’ll get there.
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