v0.5.0: SuperTax, Advanced Subscriptions, and more

FoxyCart v0.5.0 has a lot of new things going on. Please make sure you read the changelog below before upgrading, and please report any issues you may have in the 0.5.0 thread on our forum.

Upgrading

Please view the upgrade notes in the wiki.

Features

System Wide

API. A user API has been added that allows setting and retrieving of customer records (including multiple ship-to addresses).
Subscriptions. The subscription handling functionality has been overhauled, allowing customers to modify and cancel their own subscriptions, as well as improved administrative functionality in the admin.
Subscription past due amount. Subscriptions now have a "past due amount" that keeps track of failed subscription transactions.
Subscription XML datafeed. A new subscription-specific XML datafeed has been added which posts to your existing datafeed location.
System-wide messaging. Cart, Checkout, JSON and XML have gained consistent system-wide messaging (errors, warnings, information).

Cart

Taxes. Fully featured detailed line item tax entry system configurable per category.
JSONP.output=json now accepts an optional callback parameter to support true JSONP. As such, callback is now a reserved parameter name, and cannot be used as a product option name.
Coupon Codes. You can now set a limit to the number of uses per coupon code. This was also patched back to version 0.4.0.
Subscription end dates. sub_enddate can now be set to configure end dates for subscriptions.
The default size for the "foxybox" has been increased.
Added the category code to the cart display with class fc_cart_category_code.
output=json no longer requires cart=view.
The default action even if no parameters are passed to the cart is now to view the cart
You can now use a price modifier such as {p:50} on a subscription frequency.
You can now add up to 999 products to the cart at one time (instead of just 99)
Removed name="fc_cart_form" from the form on the cart template. The id="fc_cart_form" remains.

Checkout

"Unified Order Entry" allows a store to set a "super password" that allows FoxyCart to function like a glorified and integrated virtual terminal. Useful for handling phone or fax orders.
Taxes and shipping are now correctly broken out into details for Authorize.net.
When selecting an alternate shipping address, the shipping country and state will be pulled from the customer address if no shipping address is defined.
Added JQuery to the receipt page.

Receipt

Revisitable receipts. Receipts can now be reloaded by customers.
New ^^receipt_only_begin^^ and ^^receipt_only_end^^ placeholders to contain analytics, affiliate, or other tracking code.

FoxyCart JavaScript

The fc_json cart JSON object now includes weight_each and weight for each product item as well as a total_weight value. This was also patched back to version 0.4.0.
The foxycart.js file included in the foxycart_includes.js now comes with a fc_CurrencyFormatted method which you can override that will format your currency for display in the "minicart" (which is a div with an id of fc_total_price).

Admin

Improved subscription management and functionality.

Improvements & Bug Fixes

Cart

output=json now returns valid JSON (not wrapped in fc_FoxyJSON()).
Fixed a bug which lost the transaction when using downloadables and cart=checkout (patched back to 0.4.0 as well).

Checkout

Fix for future subscription price which was not including the product quantity.
When a customer requests their password on the checkout page, it now uses the from_email for the store if one is defined.
Fixed a bug in Multiship for returning customers that, in some cases, was not correctly setting the select box to the correct address name after authenticating.
Returning customers who have subscriptions with that store are now required to check the "save my payment info" checkbox, even if the current order doesn't contain subscriptions.
"#" in the address were breaking shipping rate calculations. Patched back to 0.3.1, 0.3.2 and 0.4.0.
Fixed a bug where the "lost my password" email was not using custom language settings. Patched back to 0.4.0.
Fixed a bug where returning customers who selected a new payment card and checked out didn't get an updated masked card number (though the actual saved card number was updated). Patched back to 0.4.0.
Fixed a bug when a customer logs in as one customer and then changes their email address to be a different customer or a new customer, the old customer id is still used and gets updated.
Update Customer actions no longer create "no shipping option available" errors. Patched back to 0.4.0.
~~FedEx no longer shows Ground as an option when shipping internationally to Canada.~~ - reverted as this was preventing Canadian stores from seeing any shipping rates.