Ubercart 1.8 and 2.0-RC7 Released!

Well, we had our biggest release day yet with Ubercart, packaging up two new releases in one fell swoop. Lyle and I have been working pretty hard to take care of release blocking issues since we announced our Ubercart 2.0 Release Plans, and I felt inspired enough after today's Chick-fil-a lunch / code sprint to make sure we put out a new Ubercart 1.0 release as well.

The full release announcement is posted on Ubercart.org, and we've included the changelog in the release notes for both the 5.x-1.8 and 6.x-2.0-rc7 releases. On the 1.x branch, the changes include about 50 bug and typo fixes in addition to the inclusion of the core tax report module backported from the 2.x branch. The latest release candidate includes a similar number of improvements and bug fixes addressing issues related to attributes, stock, product kits, role promotions and file downloads, the price handler system, anonymous checkout, and more!

The best part of both releases is the high level of community involvement. Many thanks to the dozens of contributors to patches in both branches that have gotten us to where we are. Furthermore, thanks to some very active contributors, we're on target for full VAT support in Ubercart 2.0 with the UC VAT module. There are also maturing discount, coupon, and recurring payment systems all under active development in the contrib realm.

We're going to let this release candidate sit for two weeks time, during which we'll continue to address minor issues related to bugs, scalability, and usability. Feel free to pitch in through the project issue tracker on d.o. If all goes well, in two weeks time I'll be holding my baby girl and writing a 2.0 release announcement along with our plans for the future of Ubercart on Drupal 7 and beyond.

(For this interested, the quickest baby updates will come through Twitter. I already have plans to make sure she's very comfortable with Drupal from day one. )