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Important changes

Most important changes will be listed here, all other changes since 19.4.0 can be found in release notes.

Between Magento 1.9.4.5 and OpenMage 19.x

  • bug fixes and PHP 7.x, 8.0, 8.1 and 8.2 compatibility
  • added config cache for system.xml (#1916)
  • added frontend_type color (#2945)
  • search for null (“NULL”) in backend grids (#1203)
  • removed lib/flex containing unused ActionScript “file uploader” files (#2271)
  • Mage_Catalog_Model_Resource_Abstract::getAttributeRawValue() now returns '0' instead of false if the value stored in the database is 0 (#572)
  • PHP extension intl is required
  • Deprecation errors are not suppressed anymore
  • removed modules:
    • Mage_Backup (#2811)
    • Mage_Compiler
    • Mage_GoogleBase
    • Mage_PageCache (#2258)
    • Mage_Poll (#3098)
    • Mage_Xmlconnect
    • Phoenix_Moneybookers

If you rely on those modules you can reinstall them with composer:

  • Module Mage_Backup
composer require openmage/module-mage-backup
  • Module Mage_PageCache
composer require openmage/module-mage-pagecache
  • Module Mage_Poll
composer require openmage/module-mage-poll
  • Legacy frontend themes
composer require openmage/legacy-frontend-themes

Between OpenMage 19.x and 20.x

Do not use 20.x.x if you need IE support.

  • removed IE conditional comments, IE styles, IE scripts and IE eot files (#1073)
  • removed frontend default themes (default, modern, iphone, german, french, blank, blue) (#1600)
  • fixed incorrect datetime in customer block ($useTimezone parameter) (#1525)
  • added redis as a valid option for global/session_save (#1513)
  • reduce needless saves by avoiding setting _hasDataChanges flag (#2066)
  • removed support for global/sales/old_fields_map defined in XML (#921)
  • enabled website level config cache (#2355)
  • made overrides of Mage_Core_Model_Resource_Db_Abstract::delete respect parent api (#1257)
  • rewrote Mage_Eav_Model_Config as cache for all eav entity and attribute reads (#2993)

For full list of changes, you can compare tags.

Since OpenMage 19.5.0 / 20.1.0

PHP 7.4 is now the minimum required version.

Most of the 3rd party libraries/modules that were bundled in our repository were removed and migrated to composer dependencies. This allows for better maintenance and upgradability.

Specifically:

  • phpseclib
  • mcrypt_compat
  • Cm_RedisSession
  • Cm_Cache_Backend_Redis
  • Pelago_Emogrifier (#2411)
  • Zend Framework 1 (#2827)

If your project uses OpenMage through composer then all dependencies will be managed automatically.
If you just extracted the release zip/tarball in your project’s main folder then be sure to: - remove the old copy of aforementioned libraries from your project, you can do that with this command: 

rm -rf app/code/core/Zend lib/Cm lib/Credis lib/mcryptcompat lib/Pelago lib/phpseclib lib/Zend

  • download the new release zip file that is named openmage-VERSIONNUMBER.zip, this one is built to contain the vendor folder generated by composer, with all the dependencies in it
  • extract the zip file in your project’s repository as you always did

We also decided to remove our Zend_DB patches (that were stored in app/code/core/Zend) because they were very old and not compatible with the new implementations made by ZF1-Future, which is much more advanced and feature rich. This may generate a problem with Zend_Db_Select statements that do not use Zend_Db_Expr to quote expressions. If you see SQL errors after upgrading please remember to check for this specific issue in your code.

UPS shut down their old CGI APIs, so we removed the support for it from the Mage_Usa module.

Between OpenMage 20.x and 21.x (unreleased, available on branch next)

  • PHP 8.1 as minimum required version
  • Removed scriptaculous/dragdrop.js (#3215)
  • RWD theme: updated jQuery to 3.7.0 (#3204)
  • Unified CSRF configuration (#3147) and added form key validation to Contacts form (#3146)
  • Removed double span element from HTML buttons (#3123)
  • Removed all deprecated Mysql4_ classes (#2730). If there are any old modules/extensions in your installation that use such classes, you must run shell/rename-mysql4-class-to-resource.php in the command line in order to convert them. Backup all files before running the script
  • Removed “admin routing compatibility mode” (#1551)