New Features:

• Added customization for the full 11-color gray palette from the admin panel.

• Added default cover image generation. They're very light JPEGs, at only 15 KB - 30 KB per.- Categories can now be re-ordered deterministically, whereas before it was alphabetical.

• Modernized many aspects of the UI and made some more consistent across sites.

• Using new tree-based category selector for greater control over categories ordering & parenting. It also now shows icons within the table, if one is present for the category.

• Re-added the "Import products from BuiltByBit" feature removed during the dashboard split.

Fixes & Changes:

• Removed "Test Notification" button on the user edit page. The "Test Email" now performs the exact same task, with the added benefit of being able to choose the target email.

• Optimized "Write a review" section to mobile.

• Optimized vendor page for mobile.

• Appropriately hide hidden & disabled products on vendor pages.

• API docs are now hosted externally. This means the build step for a docs page has been removed. You can browse the docs at https://docs.nortex.dev/docs/store/v1/api.

• Product version numbers no longer have to follow strict semver, allowing you to set versions like 1.0.0-fix.

Changes:

• Significant changes to the way order items pricing is saved. Instead of saving the product in the buyer's currency, the price is now saved in the store's default currency.
  - This means that the prices displayed in the default currency (in charts, as credited to vendors and in transaction tables) will be more accurate due to being calculated at checkout time, and converted right then and there.
  - The original price value of the buyer's currency is still saved.
  - This change might mean that your previous transaction data is inaccurate. While great care has been taken to migrate as much data as possible, due to the lack of saved historical data, stuff like prices in various currencies might be inaccurate because they are converted at the time of upgrading to this version, instead of at sale time. This is not the case for new sales.
  - Addresses issue with invalidly displaying item prices.

• Made the price in the default currency required per each product, and moved other currencies into the "Localized Pricing" tab.

• Added tabs to the creator dashboard product edit page.

Fixes:

• Added missing permission flags for audit logs.

• Fixed layout of social links.

• Added missing index page link on the mobile header.

Misc.:

• Added new video demo on nortex.dev and on BBB

• Updated page design to match newest update in cover image and description "thread" image.

• Square (https://squareup.com/us/en) gateway is now available as an optional addon.

• Fixed 404 after creating external reviews.

• Fixed external reviews not being listed in admin panel

• Fixed currency symbol overlapping with placeholder on min/max price inputs.

New Features:

• NEW Discord Bot is available to perform:

  • customer role sync,

  • sale notifications,

  • set up an update channel,

  • and a review channel.

• Added audit logs to the admin dashboard. Audit logs allow monitoring system events, especially queued / postponed tasks.

• Redesigned the search page and added sorting options for sorting according to relevance, price (asc, desc), popularity according to purchases (asc, desc) and age.

• Redesigned profile page.

• "Landing page reviews" tab has been removed in favor of using "External" reviews and featuring them. Featured reviews will appear on the global "Reviews" page.

• Allowed disabling of the "Support" nav button, if support url is not defined.

• Improved the mobile navigation experience.

Fixes & Changes:

• The default font for the body is now "Inter", with "Poppins" used as a "display"-type font to highlight more prominent texts like the homepage texts, button texts and headings.

• Fixed issue when uploading files with the same names to different versions overlapping.

• Fixed long reviews without spaces overflowing the container.

• Improved styling inconsistencies between "Versions" and "Reviews" tabs.

• Webhook dispatchers use the queue now. If you aren't running the queue worker, webhooks will not be sent. This detaches the webhook sending from the main request cycle, allowing processes to finish even if webhooks fail. They're also postponed for performance.

• Non-200-300 responses from webhook URLs are now considered queue failures. They will be retried according to the queue retry policy (--tries flag). This means they will also now be logged in the audit log as "errors".

Default theme code adjustments:
- Removed bg-background, bg-lifted and bg-lifted-light variables for colors. Use the equivalent gray-950, gray-900 and gray-800 variables instead.

New Features:

- Added new "creator dashboard". The creator & admin dashboards have been split into separate dashboards.
Here's a brief list of reasons why this change was made:
- Accessing the admin panel no longer requires creating a store.
- Products, coupon codes, licenses and transactions can be easily scoped to the user: On the creator dashboard, you only see your items. On the admin dashboard, you see anyone's items. This eliminates the need for the "My Store" and "All Stores" tabs.
- It makes it easier to control the permissions.
- Simplifies development, since we no longer have to worry about scoping everything to the tenant (in this case the vendor).
- Makes a dedicated spot for non vendor-scoped items, like store-wide settings, logs, gateways and API tokens.
- Does not ever allow normal users into the admin dashboard, reducing the risk of unintended privilege escalation.
- Adds a distinct design to the user dashboard and does not break the user out of the overall store design language, like the old combined dashboard did.
- The code base is simpler as a result, which inherently means faster & better development.
INFO: The watermark removal addon now applies for the watermarks under the main page (publicly accessible) and in the creator dashboard (accessible to sellers on your page).
The admin panel has an irremovable product name + version watermark, but it *does not link* to the product page and simply displays a version.
- Products in the store now utilize soft deletes, which allow for recovery of deleted products from the admin panel. You may choose to permanently delete products from there as well.
- In the admin panel, choose "Filters" -> "With deleted records" to view soft-deleted products, and restore them or force delete them.
- You might need to add the `products.restore` and `products.force-delete` permission to your roles if they were made before this update.
- Some actions formerly available in the admin panel have been moved and are now only available in the creator dashboard, because of their irrelevancy to administrative management. These features include:
- Importing from BuiltByBit
- Similarly, some actions previously unavailable in the admin panel have been reinstated (or added). These include:
- Deleting products from table view
- Restoring and force-deleting soft-deleted products
- Added automatic **backup generation**. This backup contains the app state + a database dump. They are saved in the `storage/private/store-backups` directory and regenerated every day at 01:30am of your configured timezone.
- Added category icons and redesigned category navigation.
- Added "Recent Transactions" table widget to the creator dashboard.

Fixes & Changes:

- Removed redundant duplicate classes in `app.css` files.
- Fixed logs file cutting off some content at the end.
- GET /api/register will now redirect to /, which will avoid the possibility of a 405 error when refreshing the page after registering.
- Removed redundant `info.view` and `theme.edit` permission flags.
- Addon products, if hidden, no longer have a link to their page.
- Minor changes to the "check your inbox" text after registration.