Breaking Changes

• Web API: The PaymentMethods/GetAllPaymentMethods endpoint has been enhanced to return all information about a payment provider.

WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines)

• The following frontend sections have been made accessible to screen readers:

  • Laguage and currency selectors
  • Customer's "My account", order and shipment details, and return requests.
  • Customer identity features such as login and registration.
  • Catalog and associated products search boxes
  • All elements in the footer
  • Article list actions
  • CookieManager dialog. It also traps the focus until it's closed.
  • Catalog facets
  • Contact us
  • Checkout process
  • Product detail pages
  • Offcanvas Menu
  • Offcanvas Cart

• The following plugins have been updated to provide better accessibility for screen readers:

  • Blog
  • Direct Order
  • Email Reminder
  • File Manager
  • Forums
  • GDPR
  • MegaSearchPlus (extended facet templates)
  • News
  • Offline Payment
  • Polls
  • Wallet

• A script to handle key navigation has been implemented. It identifies the role of several components and determines their navigateable child elements.

  • MenuPlugin handles all items of role="menubar" based on subitems of role="menu" & role="menuitem". It is used in ...
    • the main catalog navigation in the simple version, without the MegaMenu plugin, and in the MegaMenu version.
  • TablistPlugin handles all items of role="tablist" based on subitems role="tab". It is used in ...
    • the Offcanvas Menu
    • the Offcanvas Cart
  • TreePlugin handles all items of role="tree" based on subitems of role="treeitem". It is used in ...
    • the catalog navigation in the Offcanvas Menu
  • ListboxPlugin handles widgets using role="listbox" based on subitems of role="option". It is used in ...
    • language and currency select lists
    • all dropdown menus rendered by menu TagHelper
    • Variant color squares in art list
  • DisclosurePlugin handles standalone disclosures & accordions. It is used in ...
    • CookieManager dialog
    • Article list dropdowns (.art-drop is the element which contains article actions e.g. add to cart, add to wishlist)
    • Product list filter button for mobile devices
    • Footer (on mobile displays)
    • My account toggler (on mobile displays)
  • ComboboxPlugin integrates ListboxPlugin navigation, opens/closes the dropdown, and supports both single- and multi-select via data-ak-multiselect=true. It is used in ...
    • Article list sorting dropdown
    • language and currency selector

• A script has been implemented to handle focus trapping for modal components. While a modal is open, Tab cycles from the last to the first focusable element (and Shift + Tab the reverse), so keyboard focus cannot leave the modal until it is closed.

• Nested nav elements were removed from the top bar.

• Removed zooming constrictions from viewport meta property.

• The 'Skip to main content' button has been implemented.

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New Features

• Idealo Feed plugin (commercial)

Improvements

• Allow an order to be completed if its payment has been refunded.
• The author of a blog or news post has been added to the Open Graph metadata.
• Stripe:
  • Void the order if a message about a failed payment has been sent to the webhook.
  • Payment status (Paid & Authorized) was set too early in the checkout process.

Bugfixes

• The order of products in lists was reversed for featured sorting.
• Fixed a NullReferenceException on the cart page when shopping cart items are activated or deactivated.
• Fixed ArgumentNullException when adding a product to a category if SearchSettings.UseCatalogSearchInBackend is enabled.
• #1360 Deleting a product review that includes helpfulness entries results in a SqlException.
• Fixed Failed to read NuGet.config due to unauthorized access exception.
• Summernote
  • Browsing and selecting files in the link or image dialog also closes the opener dialog.
  • Fixed list/paragraph toggle conflict when li contains p
• Forum: Avoid 404 when viewing deleted customer profile.
• My-account header only shows uploaded avatar after page reload.
• PageBuilder
  • Slick slider cuts off the edit toolbar.
  • Some widget zone names appeared twice when editing a story.
  • Fixed: Product details were not updating when a story with a slick slider was placed in the widget zone productdetail_offer_after.
• The "Latest Orders" dashboard does not display the full name of guests.
• A bug that caused an old script to be loaded from the browser cache, resulting in an endless minibasket loading process, has been fixed.
• The handling of multi-store settings for the AI modules and performance settings has been corrected.
• Added route attribute to the actions Patch and PatchLocalized of the EntityController to avoid a 404 error which occurred under certain undetermined conditions.
• Use a relative product URL instead of an absolute one to avoid the JS error "Failed to execute replaceState on History".
• PayPal: If Google Pay was initially selected on the payment selection page, a script error occurred which prevented all PayPal buttons from loading.
• AmazonPay: Fixed issue of the private key being unintentionally deleted when saving a multistore configuration.
• Added missing xml declaration to sitemap index file.
• Do not create database tables for NamedEntity and VariantValueMetadata.
• Customer profile did not display the private message button or the forum statistics.
• Fixed display of error notification in OffCanvasCart.
• Do not display ActivityLogType with the same system keyword multiple times.