PrestaShop Core Weekly - Week 44 of 2018

This edition of the Core Weekly report highlights changes in PrestaShop’s core codebase during the last week, from Monday 29th of October to Sunday 4th of November 2018.

General messages

Dear Developers,

In case you missed it, 1.7.5 beta 1 is released and avaialable for testing. Please test on your servers, with your modules and themes, and report your feedback and issues on GitHub.

This Thursday afternoon, if you are in Paris, there is a very interesting Azure + PrestaShop workshop, with performance and cloud experts, plus a cocktail for attendees in the evening. Only a few places are still available, so if you are interested, just comment this article or ping @PrestaShop or @ttoine on Twitter.

A quick update about GitHub issues

Last week, 58 new issues have been created in PrestaShop’s core repository, and 10 fixed issues have been closed.

Code changes in the ‘develop’ branch (for v1.7.6.0)

Core

• #11072: Merge 1.7.5.x into develop, by @PierreRambaud
• #11151: Fixed MailsProvider service declaration name, by @mickaelandrieu
• #11245: Merge 1.7.5.x in develop, by @Quetzacoalt91

Code changes in the ‘1.7.5.x’ branch (for v1.7.5.0)

Core

• #10446: Increase max size of reference, meta_title, meta_description email, password, firstname, lastname and company.. Thank you @MathiasReker

• #11168: Remove Throwable from core. Thank you @sarjon

Back office

• #10898: Fixed performance rights on Performance Clear Cache action, by @mickaelandrieu
• #11035: Optimize legacy links in dev mode, by @jolelievre
• #11136: Fix param name on email delete all bulk action, by @tomlev
• #11182: The deletion of themes must depends on Employee permissions, by @mickaelandrieu

Tests

• #11122: Add some fixes to the campaign Full. Thank you @YosraAk
• #11239: Do not install Addons modules for Test BDD creation, by @matks

Install

• #10909: Made the installed theme configurable, by @mickaelandrieu
• #11206: Installer: always clean test assets even if filesystem tests fail, an…, by @matks
• #11209: Ignore irrelevant SF warning aout composer at install, by @matks

Code changes in the ‘1.7.4.x’ branch (for v1.7.4.4)

Tests

• #10708: Add some fixes to the script. Thank you @hadrich-hatem

Code changes in modules, themes & tools

Gamification

• #33: Make module compatible with PHP 5.2, by @mickaelandrieu
• #34: Deploying v2.2.1 of the gamification module, by @Quetzacoalt91

Changes in Documentation

• #159: Add relation between 1.6 & 1.7 modules, by @Quetzacoalt91

Thank you to the contributors whose pull requests were merged since the last Core Weekly Report: @hadrich-hatem, @MathiasReker, @sarjon, @YosraAk!

Thank you to the contributors whose PRs haven’t been merged yet! And of course, a big thank you to all those who contribute with issues and comments on GitHub!

If you want to contribute to PrestaShop with code, please read these pages first:

• Contributing code to PrestaShop
• Coding standards

…and if you do not know how to fix an issue but wish to report it, please read this: How to use GitHub to report an issue. Thank you!

Happy contributin’ everyone!