Solidus v4.4 (2024-11-12)
Minimal requirements:
- v3.1
- v7.0
Solidus v4.4 is out! 🎉
This release continues the amazing work from Madeline to finalize the new Solidus Admin interface, adds Rails 7.2 support and introduces a new promotion system for new stores.
Hello, solidus_promotions
A major new development is the release of solidus_promotions and solidus_legacy_promotions.
Solidus' promotion system, while very flexible and one of the major selling points of the system,
has grown over the years and needed a complete overhaul. This overhaul comes with some behavior change
that reflects our learnings over many years of deploying Spree and Solidus. It comes with performance
improvements, easier-to-read code and features that were hard or impossible to implement with the legacy
promotion system (such as stackable discounts).
However, the refactoring introduced changes in behavior to the promotion system, and it turned out to
be easier to create a new promotion system gem and extract the current one into a gem. The new promotion system,
solidus_promotions, will be Solidus' default from
Solidus 5. The legacy promotion system has been extracted into its own gem, solidus_legacy_promotions.
Now, if your store depends on the full solidus suite of gems and you are upgrading a store with promotions,
things should just work. Some of the promotion configuration endpoints have changed, but these will emit friendly
deprecation messages telling you which changes to make.
If, however, your Gemfile specifies only solidus_core and any other gems that might be part of the suite, you must
also add solidus_legacy_promotions as a dependency in order for your store to continue to work. Once that is done, your
store should work as before.
If setting up a new store, we recommend starting out with the new promotion system. Add
gem "solidus_promotions", "~> 4.4"
to your Gemfile and follow the instructions here.
If you want to upgrade your store to the new promotion system, follow the instructions here
Rails 7.2 support
This made it necessary to bump the minimum Ruby version to 3.1 as well. Upgrading your store to Ruby 3.1 should be easy and you probably already have done it.
Moving solidus_user_roles extension into core and admin
We started to move the solidus_user_roles extension into core and the new admin. The new migrations check the existence of the tables, so it should be save to install
even if you have the extension installed, which you still need if you are using the current solidus_backend admin.
PRs
Deprecate and dashboard code
If you still use dashboards, please copy all controllers and views from solidus_backend to your application.