OXID Community Newsletter (6)

Welcome to the sixth issue of the OXID Community Newsletter. With the upcoming holiday season, we are excited to share the latest news at OXID.

New minor release 4.1.6 of OXID eShop published
A new minor update was released, which fixes many bugs. See the blog post about version 4.1.6 of OXID eShop for the main changes:

http://www.oxid-esales.com/de/news/blog/oxid-eshop-minor-release-416-published

Changed roadmap for version 4.2.0
The roadmap for version 4.2.0 of OXID eShop has been changed. The internationalization plans had to be postponed, thus other features will be implemented. Read more about the reasons and the new roadmap in this blog post:

http://www.oxid-esales.com/en/news/blog/roadmap-oxid-eshop-version-420-changed

OXID-to-Sugar Connector, Celebros interface and new templates
Some new extensions are available in the OXID eXchange. We'd like to highlight some very interesting newcomers: MyCRM OXID-to-Sugar Connector, some nice template sets and a Celebros Interface.

http://www.oxid-esales.com/de/news/blog/new-extensions-oxid-eshop-available-oxid2sugar-connector-celebros-and-template-sets

Join the OXID groups at LinkedIn and Facebook
If you feel addicted to social media and want to get in touch with us, take a look at our groups on LinkedIn and Facebook. Besides our blog, the forums and Twitter, we will also publish important news in these groups. We are looking forward to having interesting discussions with you there!

OXID's official view about removing the copyright notice from the footer
Several times we were asked: "Can I remove the copyright notice from the footer?" As this is not a trivial issue in every open source community, we took time to investigate most aspects and common points of view. Read this blog post to see OXID's official view: http://www.oxid-esales.com/en/news/blog/is-it-legal-remove-oxid-logo-eshop-front-end

Should OXID eShop use Zend Framework?
If you are a technical person, you might be interested in another discussion that is ongoing in the community. When evaluating the merits of implementing the Zend Framework in OXID eShop, there are a lot of pros and cons to consider. Read about it and join the discussion at http://www.oxid-esales.com/en/news/blog/zend-framework-and-oxid-eshop

OXID at German DMEXCO and MOW events
September was full of events. OXID eSales attended both leading trade fairs for internet marketing and online merchants, DMEXCO and MOW with it's own booths. See the blogpost about DMEXCO and the picture stream from MOW.

German and Swiss User Group meetings
Besides the well-known user group "Lahn-Party" a new event took place: The Swiss user group started it's own meeting in Zürich.

http://www.oxid-esales.com/de/news/blog/two-user-group-events-come-in-september

New sections provided on OXIDforge
On OXIDforge, a few new and useful pages have appeared:


 * In the tutorial section, you will find two interesting articles about writing modules for the integration of payment methods using the examples alertpay and authorize.net.
 * There is a new page called "Security" where you can find information about how to report security issues and how to stay informed about that topic.
 * The calendar tracks all known events where you can meet other shop owners, developers, online merchants, partners and OXID employees that are interested in exchanging their experience.
 * In a new category, you will find the available language files for the OXID eShop front end. Please feel free to add new pages to share your translation of the shop to an additional language or correct typos in existing files.