ThirtyBees 1.6 OFFICIAL is here!

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Today, we are thrilled to introduce the latest version of Thirty Bees: Version 1.6.

This update wouldn’t have been possible without the support of our dedicated members. Thank you for being part of our journey! And to those who contributed code—your work is invaluable, and we extend our heartfelt thanks.

If you’re not yet a member, consider joining us. Your support, whether through a small donation or by becoming a monthly member, makes a real difference. For just $15 a month with our Silver Membership, you gain access to an array of powerful modules designed to save you time and streamline your workflow.

 

What’s New in Version 1.6?

This release introduces numerous core updates and security improvements, some of which are highlighted below:

• ImageRewrite with AVIF Support: You can now use the AVIF format for images, optimizing quality and load speed.
• Enhanced Email Subject Control: Customize the email subjects sent during order status changes for better customer communication.
• Additional Category Description Field: We've added an extra text field in category descriptions for improved flexibility.
• New Modules: Two new modules are part of this release. One is free for everyone, allowing you to filter specific email domains in the contact form to reduce spam. The other, part of our Premium module pack, limits email-sending attempts from individual IPs, helping to prevent spam attacks. For just $15 a month, the premium pack includes this and other powerful tools to boost your efficiency. You can find all premium modules in the backoffice of your store!
• Love Thirty Bees, Please Support Us: For non-members, we have introduced a campaign to support Thirty Bees’ ongoing development. After a period, you’ll see a pop-up asking if you’d like to join us as a member or make a donation to support our work. Don’t worry; this pop-up won’t reappear for another two months, so it remains far from intrusive. Paying members, however, will not see this pop-up at all.

How can you Support / Help Thirty Bees?
We all love Thirty Bees and it has made many businesses thrive and be successful. The truth is that we’ve come a long way together, but there’s still so much more we can achieve.

To continue growing, we need your help. We’re looking to expand our team, improve our platform, and spread the word about ThirtyBees to new users and developers. But we can’t do it alone. This is where our community comes in.

How You Can Help:

• Leave a Review on TrustPilot: If ThirtyBees has helped your business, we’d love for you to share your experience. Positive reviews on TrustPilot not only help us reach more people but also build trust within the community.
• Support Us with a Donation or become a Supporter: Your contributions will directly help us bring more developers on board, enhance the platform, and support our growing user base. Every little bit counts, and it all goes back into making ThirtyBees even better.
• Spread the Word: Tell your friends, colleagues, and fellow entrepreneurs about ThirtyBees. Your endorsement is the most powerful tool we have to grow our community.
• Continue to Engage with Us and other Users in the Forum: Share your ideas and feedback, continue to help others like you always have. ThirtyBees thrives on the input and energy of our community. We love and appreciate that you are here! You are what makes ThirtyBees great!

We believe in the potential of ThirtyBees and the strength of the community behind it. Together, we can continue to build something amazing—an eCommerce platform that truly serves its users and grows with them.

Thank you for being a part of our journey. Your support means the world to us.

Happy selling!

Petr, Theo & Chiel

 

1. Image rewrite

   • generic mechanism to define and generate image types for any entity (categogry, products, blog posts,...)

   • unified support for all image formats for all entities

   • avif format

2. chores

   • updated librarires

   • Remove dependency on Jaybizzle\CrawlerDetect, replaced by tbdetectcrawler module

3. donate campaign

4. small enhancements

   • Product supplier: new columns name and comment

   • Order Statuses: support for custom email subject

   • Display calculated weight for pack products

   • Category: new field Additional Description

   • Hreflang: ability to override hreflang mappings

   • Support shortcodes in order messages in backoffice

   • Buttons to delete empty/old carts

   • Automatic deletion of old css, js, and log files. Configurable retention

   • Add button to close threads older than 30 days

   • Expose CMS Categories to webservice

   • New hook - displayAdminCartFooter hook

   • Improve search indexation logic

   • Contact form: support custom validation (two new premium modules - ban ip address, filter messages by content)

   • Save maintainance IP addresses globally

   • Import combination: mechanism to delete only combinations for products referenfed in CSV files

   • Pass {invoice_number} placeholders to order status email templates

   • Better Linux and Windows compatibility

   • Information page: use asynchronous test to prevent page timout

   • Cookie serialization: support saving all filter values

• privacy and security

  • lot of security fixes

  • Stop using google fonts in back office

• bugxies

  • PHP compatibility fixes

  • Better logging

  • Fix Saving specific price without rules does not refresh specific prices on products

  • Back office lists error handling

  • Back office lists filter values serialization

  • Category alternate url: check enabled flag

  • Fix SpecificPriceRuleCore::getAffectedProducts

  • Fix deleting default attribute

  • Language deletion - fix directory cleaning

  • Proportionate taxes: Fix shipping tax calculation

  • Contact form: verify that order belongs to customer

  • Fix error with cheapest product cart rules

  • Clear op cache after zip extraction, fixing modules update

  • Fixed translation extraction

  • Fix download product link generation

  • Use debug error page during installation

  • Import: set out_of_stock only when provided

  • KPI: fix refresh functionality

  • Fix issue with incorrect tax breakdown

  • Carrier selection issues

  • Fix carrier weight restriction

[led24ee]

Hi

This "Become supporter" button (or whatever it is called) is EXACTLY on SAVE button. Is it really necessary ? In my case this is also permanently there. I haven't seen more idiotic things very long time.

EDIT: Seems that this thing is present ALL TIME. So I need to use adblocker on my own shop in backoffice ? Really ? Or I'm doing something wrong ?

 

Edited November 7 by led24ee

[datakick]

8 minutes ago, led24ee said:

Hi

This "Become supporter" button (or whatever it is called) is EXACTLY on SAVE button. Is it really necessary ? In my case this is also permanently there. I haven't seen more idiotic things very long time.

 

Well, it must be placed somewhere, and everywhere it will block something.

If you can't close it, it means that you have some javascript error in your back office, most likely caused by some module. That error is probably blocking execution of other javascript, and is therefore most likely causing problems elsewhere as well. This just made it more prominent. Fix your store.

[led24ee]

Well, I finally found where I can close it. But please put there something else than X in corner. Usually this x means closing, but at this particular case it bring another window. Can You replace this X with "See choices" or "See more" or something similar ?