Breaking Changes

• (DEV) Added IEventMessage marker interface and enforced it across the pub/sub pipeline to standardize and validate event contracts.

WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines)

• Added Skip list button for all product, category, tag, blog and news listings.
• The following frontend sections have been updated to improve accessibility for screen readers:
  • Homepage products, categories, brands and product tags.
  • Compare products, wishlist and cart page.
  • Checkout process.
  • Product lists.
  • "All manufacturers" page.
  • PhotoSwipe
  • PageBuilder story blocks.
• Summernote: Allow query string in mp4, webm and ogg urls.

New Features

• AI
  • Edit images in the Media Manager using a text prompt and selected images.
  • File-based provider metadata used to store and organize information about LLM models.
  • Added Anthropic Claude AI provider.
  • Added Ollama AI provider.
  • ChatGPT:
    • Support text and image generation using GPT 5.1
  • Gemini:
    • Support text generation using Gemini 3.0 Pro
    • Support image generation and editing using Nano Banana Pro (gemini-3-pro-image-preview).
    • Support image generation and editing using Nano Banana (gemini-2.5-flash-image).
• Payment
  • PayPal: Added support for Apple Pay.
  • #1370 Add a payment provider for easyCredit purchase on account.
• CAPTCHA
  • Modular CAPTCHA architecture with a pluggable provider interface.
  • Replaced hard-wired reCAPTCHA logic with a provider model.
  • CaptchaFox integration (commercial module)
  • Friendly Captcha integration (commercial module).
• #112 Visually group specification attributes on product detail page.
• #1381 Add a compare price to attribute combinations.
• #1386 Customer roles: Extend the permission tree so that nodes with descendants show whether descendant permissions have been granted.
• #934 Add cart rules property to PageBuilder stories to dynamically toggle their visibility.
• #1264 Batch-assign products to categories.
• New Rule Builder rules:
  • #1372 Cart rule for the total cart weight.
  • Cart rule that checks whether a product from a category or one of its subcategories is in the shopping cart.
  • Cart rule to check that all products in the shopping cart are from the specified categories.
  • #1425 Cart rule that is fulfilled when the customer is subscribed to the newsletter.
• #1357 Pricing: Add a setting that takes tiered prices of products into account, that are assigned by an attribute of type "linked product".
• #690 Apple Sign-In support
• Added support for extensionless static files in wwwroot/.well-known directory
• FileManager: Enabled language dependent tabs
• GMC
  • #1341 Enable the selection of product images to be exported.
  • Export more shipping data (handling time, length, width and height of a product).
• EmailReminder: Added Google Reviews to the review reminder.
• #1411 Pixlr: The user should decide on a session basis whether to open the express or full editor.

Improvements

• Bumped all jquery.validate libraries
• Asset Bundling: Replaced DouglasCrockford.JsMin with NUglify.
• Summernote
  • Horizontal editor resizer
  • Activated file browser (MediaManager)
  • Responsive video embed
• Blog
  • New global display options: Grid layout, 2/3 column mode, intro length restriction, aspect ratio setting for grid view.
  • Mobile optimization: Pictures will now always be displayed above text on mobile devices.
  • Better control of preview image display by setting the aspect ratio.
  • Better control of detail image display by setting the Maximum height of the picture
  • New setting for the Navigation End Date
  • #1410 Blog posts configured for a single language will no longer return a 404 error when accessed with an unavailable language selection.
• Theming: .art-drop should adopt $art-active-border-color

• #1016 Don't ask registered customers for email when entering billing or shipping address.
• #1327 Product rules/MegaSearch: Consider start and end dates of a discount when applying the "HasDiscount" rule.
• Allow new attribute options to be added when assigning specification attributes to a product.
• EasyCredit: Do not hide the installment calculator if EasyCredit is not offered at checkout due to cart rules.
• etracker: Updated module to use latest script & added event submission for product view, list view and orders.
• Added option for queued email grid to filter for subject.
• #1122 AI: Replace the Betalgo library with the official OpenAI .NET library.
• #1393 Missing bubble help hints in the backend address editor template.
• Public export files have been moved to a new tenant folder for data exchange.
• Return Requests:
  • #1196 Avoid duplicate return requests for a product.
  • The quantity to return reflects the number of products that have already been returned.
  • Display information about products that have already been returned, including their current status.
• Web API: Allow guest customers to be created.
• Convert JSON strings to HTML for notifications.
• Trailing slash URL rule: Don't apply rule to static file requests (e.g. robots.txt).
• #1156 The last items added to the basket must be instantly visible in offcanvas cart.
• #208 Linkbuilder: Added possibility to define a link target.
• #1404 FileManager must not render tab content via AJAX, as search engines must be able to read the content in its entirety.
• PostFinance: Migrated to Wallee REST API v2.
• Support of multiple discounts with the same coupon code.

Bugfixes

• #1433 The shopping cart is not migrated when a new customer account is created using external authentication.
• ChatGPT: Fixed image creation errors "Invalid value".
• Attribute combination image could not be selected on product edit page.
• #1361 Add a migration to consolidate duplicate ActivityLogType entries.
• Fixed unnecessary single navigation dot in slick slider.
• EntityPicker did not remove unselected items from preselection in append mode.
• MegaSearch: Take customer roles and store restrictions into account when selecting the top entities.
• MegaMenu
  • The background image should not overlap the menu item content.
  • The link count in a single column often exceeds the configured setting.
  • Fixed duplicate key error in IX_MegaMenu_EntityId index.
• After applying a discount code or moving a product to the wish list, deactivated shopping cart products were not displayed.
• PageBuilder
  • #1367 Do not hide the setting that displays the manufacturer's name in slider product lists.
  • Video in a video block was not rendering in Chrome.
• Fixed missing log entry and notification for a payment exception.
• Stripe
  • Orders were created after the 3D Secure check, even though the payment was declined.
  • Set selected payment method on customer level was missing when using Link cart button.
  • Restored setting of correct payment status.
  • Better handling of web hook messages.
• PostFinance
  • Fixed an issue where the amount paid sometimes differs from the order total.
  • #1423 Avoid "The provided security token is invalid" error due to security token expiration.
  • Occasionally, orders were not automatically marked as "paid".
• Wallet
  • Fixed formatting of currency amounts in message template.
  • Save the order ID when editing a wallet entry in the wallet grid on the customer edit page.
  • Clicking on the "wallet" link in the notification message produced a 404 error.
  • #1432 Wallet: Use service methods for Web API REST endpoints.
• AmazonPay: Do not apply the customer email address for guests.
• Payment methods with rules are missing on the customer edit page when changing the preferred payment method.
• Verify balanced parentheses in data grid search filter expressions, preventing runaway memory usage from malformed search terms.
• Do not display the default date value when adding reward points via backend grid.
• Avoid HTTP error 500, which can be caused by an attribute alias that is too long.
• When filtering products without category assignment, deleted categories must not be included.
• AI
  • Fixed streaming problem if the original HTML contains comments.
  • Fixed streaming problem with HTML entities (e.g. &)
• Link builder: The editor displayed an URL with an attached link target.
• #1444 SQLite throws "'JULIANDAY' was constructed with 1 arguments, but the nullability was defined for 2 arguments"