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I previously blogged about the Roadmap for version 4.2.0 of the OXID eShop, but plans were changed due to following reason:

• Our Open Source community grew rapidly in the past few weeks and contributed several bug reports that we quickly fixed first. See the changelog for version 4.1.6 for details.

In fact, the following functionality initially planned for 4.2.0 has already been implemented:

• OXID eShop allows a fall back scenario by using session ID-URLs in case no cookies are allowed by user agent. (OXID eShop 4.1.3)

Implementation of new features that allow easily localizing OXID eShop will be postponed as well as some out-of-the-box localization modules for certain regions. The reason being that we want to make the internationalization functionality of OXID eShop even better than initially planned.

We decided to instead include some faster to implement features in the upcoming 4.2.0 release:

• APS (Application Packaging Standard), which is a format designed to help implement Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) business models for all industry cloud service providers. You will also be able to install OXID eShop on a hosted environment of a provider offering APS.

• Multidimensional Variants: This new functionality enables OXID eShop to manage a variant of a shop article that can have variants. For example, a red T-Shirt can have different sizes.

• As you might have heard, the product Zend Platform was switched to a new product called Zend Server. As we have an interface for the integration of Zend Platform with OXID eShop Enterprise Edition, we want to update this interface and enable the Zend Server integration.

• Built in non-native libraries in OXID eShop will be updated, at least JPGraph and YUI. As we wrote to dev-general, the YUI library can be made much more lightweight by cutting parts not used in the shop.