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Zen Cart 1.4 NOT being released!
Howdy folks. This announcement has been a long time a’comin’ but the zen cart developers have finally announced that zencart 1.4 will not ever come out. Does this mean the end of zen cart? Is the soon to be released 1.3.9 to be the summation, the culmination, the termination of all things zen cart?
Hmmm. well no. What it actually means is that Zen Cart 2.0 is coming out! The advancements put in place are revolutionary in scope. Latest versions of php and mysql are REQUIRED. ALL templates and plugins will need to be redesigned! ALL. This is a major redesign… kinda like going from Windows to a Mac. Everything is going to be different and radically faster. There are less queries to the database which means a massive increase in speed of pages rendering and a big decrease in load on mysql on the server.
I feel this is a massive announcement and quite bold. Add-ons will become plug and play like in WordPress. Less design work will be needed as a lot of this will be taken care of in the admin section. I personally hope this DOES lead to something elegant like the admin of a wordpress. It will be a radical change for people to learn it but it will be beautiful and fast and a needed revolution.
Stay tuned folks. I’ll be demoing the beta soon and will provide screencasts of these improvements and hopefully avoiding all of the bugs! 
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April 16th, 2009 at 6:49 pm
I can’t wait, but I keep checking for updates and don’t hear anything. Are we there yet?
April 17th, 2009 at 11:56 pm
Unfortunately, but yes there seems to be a delay in the development of Zen Cart 2.0. Everybody just needs to hang in tight though because this will create a shockwave in the ecommerce world when it is released! The amount of attention to detail these guys are doing for us, is just amazing! Everyone needs to definitely donate a cup of coffee to these folks at zencart in deep appreciation after zencart 2.0 is released!
April 11th, 2010 at 9:28 pm
I understand how long it can take to stabilize a major software release, but I think the long delay warrants releases in the 1.3.x branch. I know 1.3.9 is coming out, but it’s a long-time coming, too.
That said, I tip my hat to their hard work.
April 11th, 2010 at 10:49 pm
I feel your pain Ted. When you think about how many scripts are in zencart it is enough to make your head spin… I try to remind clients of that all of the time and that when they are looking at a SINGLE page, they think something changed or added should NOT be a big deal… some of these things can require 100s of scripts getting changed! Anyways, yes the Zen Cart Development team is doing a real bang up job and I know they are going to just blow our minds with some great new code eventually! Soonishly? Hopefully!
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