This is the list of items addressed in Service Pack 5.5. The service pack entered testing on April 2nd and will be released as soon as I can confirm that everything is working as expected and the update process will go smoothly.
Bug Reports to be reviewed for 5.5 Service Pack
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Resolved - FixedHot Fix B: Products with Inventory Variants not displaying correctly under some circumstances
Hot Fix C: Inventory Levels not saving correctly for products with inventory tracking variants
Hot Fix D: Gift Certificate Expiration Date not checked during checkout
Hot Fix E: Password regex on MyAccount_ChangeEmail.aspx / MyAccount_ChangePassword.aspx has hard coded min password length of 6
Hot Fix F: Reset Password is sending new encrypted password instead of plain text version
Hot Fix G: View Order Page in Admin can break when products are no longer in the store database
Hot Fix H: PayPal sending incorrect money format for Express Checkout non-US locales
FIXED: SQL Patcher adds event log entry even when not running updates
FIXED: Changes to custom properties on LineItem do not set dirty flag
FIXED: BVAdmin/Configuration/GiftCertificates.aspx defaults back to '30' days when you re-visit the page, even if you have changed it to '0' and saved.
FIXED: Multi Cart when cart is empty isn't displaying contents on
http://www.domain.com/ca...ti=product2:2;product1:1FIXED: Can't deactivate gift certificate by changing expiration date to long in the past
FIXED: EventValidation with Coupon Code Removal on Cart Page (Gridview enableviewstate="false" id=CouponGrid)
FIXED: ImageRadioButton List not setting value correctly, radioButton.Value = choiceOption.Bvin
FIXED: Kitting and Merge Identical Items broken
FIXED: When buying 1 shipping and 1 non-shipping items the per-item ship rate is calculating 2 instead of one. Individually, they work fine.
FIXED: Google Checkout is charging shipping costs on non-shipping items
FIXED: Anthem needs IE8 meta tag: <meta content=”IE=EmulateIE7” http-equiv=”X-UA-Compatible” />
FIXED: BOGO offer is reported to not correctly calculate when going from (1 paid, 1 free) to (4 with 2 paid, 2 free)
NEW: Avalara Tax Service Included
NEW: Mailto: links added on admin order screens
Resolved - Unable to DuplicateCANTDUPLICATE: URL Rewriter for custom URL not mapping correct for some very specific URLs.
CANTDUPLICATE: Dynamic Category Regenerate button reported not to work for some users
Resolved - OtherASDESIGNED: Duplicate Gift Certificate Codes could potentially be generated when batch creating very large numbers at once (6 digit code) - Use a larger pattern for gift certificate codes or leave blank for GUID values
ASDESIGNED: Can't turn off "Gift Wrap" option on admin screens after 5.4 update - Gift wrap is defaulted to "on" for all products. Need to batch update to turn this off.
ASDESIGNED: IPNHandlder returns failed for all requests? - FindAndMarkStatus() is only called for failure methods and functions as designed
Items Postponed for later service packs* Need to add support for UPS January 2009
* When editing product choices, left nav menus link to incorrect pages
* When creating choice combos, the checkboxes on the "active" screen create product regardless of state.
* GlobalProduct is null exception when creating product with too many variants
* Problems when Batch editing 2000+ skus - URL exceeds max length
Items Postponed - On suggested features list* Add "Tags" for products like blogs sites have
* Add generic "Testimonials" page like product reviews
* "Drill Down" or "Guided" search options
* Removing BVC 2004 style checkout
* Email tags for drop shipper and shipments are not flexible enought
* Flash Image Rotator does not pre-cache images and loads slowly
* "Value" field should be added to product choice options like it was in BVC 2004
* Support Products with Variants in Kits
* Force Upper Case for Addresses option