[iSenseLabs Weekly 84] New OpenCart Features & Fixes, Video Tutorials and Latest E-Commerce News

Happy Friday, everyone! Normal people will rest, as for entrepreneurs… they will still be working.

So, here are our updated OpenCart modules for this week. Make sure to download their latest versions if your store is running them!

This week’s highlight is that we got a fresh NitroPack release for OpenCart 1.x, 2.x and 3.x.

Upcoming updates for next week include SEO Backpack.

NitroPack 1.8.12 (OC 1.5.x), 2.5.12 (OC 2.x - 2.3.x), 3.5.12 (OC 3.0.x)

New Feature: Image lazy loading

Improvement: Improved performance of the DOM parser

Improvement: Automatically close unclosed CSS scopes when generating a combined CSS file

Improvement: Switch to a better way of deferring CSS

Improvement: Use NitroPack's temp directory instead of the system's temp to resolve rare permission issues

Improvement: Minify the base CSS

Improvement: Automatically disable Journal's cache while fetching image dimensions, so the image groups can be captured more accurately

Bug fix: Fix an issue with the pre-caching when compression is enabled

Bug fix: Fix an issue with the automatic image dimensions override when the same image dimensions are used in multiple modules on the same page.

Bug fix: Display NitroPack's title properly when image dimension overrides are configured

NotifyWhenAvailable 2.8.6 (OC 2.0.1.x to 2.3.x) & 3.8.3 (OC 3.0.x)

Bug fix: Do not allow duplicate entries for the same email + product combination

CustomPages 3.1.1 (OC 3.0.x)

Improvement: Compatible with OpenCart 3.0.x

GiftTeaser 2.5.5 (OC 2.0.x - 2.3.x)

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Improvement: Code cleanup and refactoring

Improvement: Gifts removed by the customer will be checked again after a full cart clear

Improvement: Better compatibility with themes and 3rd party cart extensions

New feature: Added a new gift condition based on reward points

New feature: Customer is now prompted to provide options for his gifts in more places

Bug fix: Customer can no longer manipulate gift quantities

Bug fix: Changing cart product quantities now triggers revalidation of gift conditions

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