PrestaShop 1.7.4.0 beta 1 is open for feedback!

PrestaShop 1.7.4 is available for download. Please read important informations about it.

Done:

• All pull requests have been merged

New features:

• Improved back office design
  • Works better on mobile devices (all pages are accessible on mobile now!)
  • New menu, can be scrolled
  • Improved header (looks the same on legacy and symfon pages)
  • Based on Bootstrap 4 final
• Theme customization
• New pages migrated to symfony
  • Advanced Parameters > Administration
  • Advanced Parameters > Import
  • Shop Parameters > General
  • Shop Parameters > General > Maintenance
  • Shop Parameters > Product Settings
  • Shop Parameters > Customer Settings
• Added support for PHP 7.2
• SEO improvements
  • Add hreflang links for multilang pages #8652
  • Improved header tags in classic theme
• New functional tests (end to end)
• New switch component in symfony pages #8705
• Refactored cart calculation, including automated tests #8411
  • Improvements for developers
  • Improved hook profiler (shows more data about hooks) #8557 and #8910
  • Improved template structure for the BO Product page (easier to override) #8489
  • ObjectModel structure can now be modified by modules #8853
  • Modules can now add tabs in the menu of an existing page #8814
  • Services exposed by modules can now be autoloaded using composer #8909
  • New authorization system for symfony pages #9028
• New hooks
  • displayDahboardToolbarTopMenu #8947
  • displayAdminEndContent #8947
• Greatly improved performance in BO and FO when a lot of categories are used #8896
• New font for Farsi language
• Fixed broken install in Greek #9052

Todo:

• Check possible regression with RTL in BO
• Import MBO and welcome modules
• Create branch 1.7.4 for the starter theme

Known issues:

• Some wordings aren’t translated
• Upgrade 1733 -> 1740 is not working with current version of the Auto Upgrade module, however this is fixed in the upcoming version of this module (please read the last section of this article)
• Wrong link with “Recommended module” on symfony pages
• Theme custo install module is not working as expected
• The “Recommended modules” link in the header is also added by MBO module
• The puffin in the welcome module doesn’t appear
• When B2B mode is enable, the “Outstanding” menu is not displayed

Updated dependencies:

• Symfony 2.8 -> 3.4
• PHP 5.4 -> 5.6
• (BO) Bootstrap 4 beta 2 -> Bootstrap 4 final
• PrestaShop UI Kit 1.0

Details:

• List of merged PRs
• List of Issues

Download

You can download PrestaShop 1.7.4-beta1 on GitHub:

Download PrestaShop 1.7.4.0 beta 1 now!

How to help us to finish the 1.7.4

Your help will be very appreciated to finish the work on PrestaShop 1.7.4. Even if you are not a developer, your feedback has a lot of value.

You can:

• Install it and test it
• Report bugs on the forge
• To submit a bug fix, create a pull request
• If everything is working well, comment this article to tell us, and share on social networks, we also need this feedback ;-)

1-click upgrade module 4.0 beta

We have completely refactored the 1-click upgrade module. It’s better than ever, with automated tests, capability to upgrade your shop from previous versions, and gives out more detailed information in case of failure so we can keep improving it!

In addition, we have published a detailed documentation on how to migrate an existing shop to the latest version of PrestaShop.

The documentation: https://devdocs.prestashop.com/1.7/basics/keeping_up-to-date/

Improvements to the documentation are welcome! Learn how to contribute.

The plugin:

• Download the beta on GitHub: https://github.com/PrestaShop/autoupgrade/releases/tag/v4.0.0-beta.1

PRs are welcome on the GitHub repository

• Report issues on the forge