Ubercart 1.0 in the wild

Ahh, the sweet smell of a fresh release... if I could turn it into a drink, it would be a pumpkin spice latte (or perhaps a caramel frappuccino which doesn't smell as good but tastes great!). Today, 15 months after the initial alpha release, we've released Ubercart 1.0 for Drupal 5. As I said in our announcement, reaching the milestone is quite an achievement, but doing the work alongside a worldwide community of Drupal/Ubercart users and contributors has been a real joy. Many thanks to the countless folks who have made a 1.0 release possible.

There's still plenty to do, and we're learning so much as the project matures. However, the many donated hours from our users and developers along with encouragements like this keep spurring us on in development:

"... what they've put together in a year and a half surpasses many of the other shopping carts out there that have been stabbing at this ecommerce monster for almost a decade.

Personally, we are migrating from Xcart. It was good to us and I loved it until I discovered Drupal, now only Drupal will do, and for ecommerce, only Ubercart will do."

We look forward to continuing development on Ubercart with the many cool folks who have helped in the forums, chatted in IRC, and hung out with us at the last two Drupalcons. Porting the 1.0 to Drupal 6 is already well underway (way to go Lyle et al!) with a roadmap to come in the near future. Let the brainstorming continue as we consider how to improve the Ubercart core when we move on to 2.0 development.

Personally, I'm heading out of town for four days to help my folks move and attend the wedding of my wife's college friend. I hope you all enjoy the release while I'm away, and good luck to Lyle as he keeps up with the forum activity.