Major new features

Modular API-first architecture

We've completely decoupled Storefront (spree_frontend), Admin Panel (spree_backend) and extracted transactional Emails into their own gem (spree_emails). Thanks to this you can:

Easily replace Storefront and Admin Panel with your own
Use the version of Storefront and Admin you like, so you can update the Spree Core and API without the need to upgrade these two
Easily replace standard transactional emails with Klaviyo, Mailchimp, and other 3rd parties

We're also making Spree less dependent on the Rails framework while supporting Rails 5.2, 6.0, and 6.1 on Ruby 2 and 3.

Next.js Commerce integration

Next.js Commerce is an all-in-one React starter kit for high-performance eCommerce sites. With the new API-first architecture it was very easy to connect Spree APIs via Spree SDK to the new blazing fast react storefront.

BTW we have more storefront integrations news lined up in the coming weeks!

Pages & Navigation CMS

This release gives Spree users a powerful content management system that goes beyond creating basic text pages.

Spree Content Management System allows you to create:

Home Pages

Create many home pages per store.
Each home page is unique by language.
Add multiple sections to each home page.

Standard Pages

Standard pages consist of WYSIWYG text editor content.
Each standard page has a slug that is unique to the store.
Each page is assigned a language.

Feature pages

Feature pages use page sections.
Each feature page has a slug that is unique to the store.
Feature pages are assigned a language.

Menus
Users can create navigation menus for their Spree stores.

Each menu is unique by language and location within the store and has the following features:

Menus contain many menu items. Each menu item can link to a product, taxon, URLs, home page, or CMS page.
Menu items can be nested inside other menu items creating nested links.
Menus can have container items used to organize links within the menu.
Menu items can have images allowing you to create promotions within the main menu.

Platform API Developer Preview

A new set of fast and modern APIs for application to application integrations based on oAuth 2.0 authentication and permissions.
This API completely replaces API v1 which will be extracted from Spree core in 5.0. Platform API is built on the same foundations and technology as Storefront API which means JSON API format, Swagger (Open API) documentation, and oAuth 2.0 authentication.

Platform API is the biggest and most robust API for Spree with the biggest number of API endpoints to cover all features
available in Admin Panel plus more.

Advanced Product Filters

We've greatly expanded the product filters feature. Now you can:

Filter by Properties - you can set which Properties should be filterable and the ones you choose will be visible and supported in the Storefront and API
Filter by Option Types - you can set which Option Types should be filterable and the ones you choose will be visible and supported in the Storefront and API
Storefront API will also return available filters for products in the Product API endpoint

This way you can create new custom filters in the Admin UI from Option Types or Properties and the system will do the rest work for you.

Installation

Follow Getting Started guide

Upgrade

Follow 4.2 to 4.3 upgrade guide

Noteworthy changes

Please review each of the noteworthy changes to ensure your customizations or extensions are not affected. If you are affected by a change and have any suggestions, please submit a PR to help the next person!

API

Added caching to API v2 serialized increasing API responsiveness 3-5 times Damian Legawiec
This also includes new confirmation option Spree::Api::Config[:api_v2_cache_ttl] for the cache expiration TTL. Default value is 3600 (1 hour). Cache also auto-expires when cachd record is updated, more on this topic: https://github.com/jsonapi-serializer/jsonapi-serializer#caching
Added universal collection caching for Platform/Storefront API responses #11245
Increased API v2 per page limit to 500 #11257
Multi-Store Storefront Products API returns Products from the current Store Damian Legawiec
Multi-Store Storefront Account Orders API returns Orders from the current Store Damian Legawiec
Multi-Store Storefront Order Status API returns Order from the current Store Damian Legawiec
Multi-Store Return only Store resources in Storefront API, Platform API, and Storefront UI #11126 (damianlegawiec)
Fix API V2 Platform products by price sorting #11276 (szymoniwacz)
Platform API Classifications endpoints #11195 (damianlegawiec)
Platform API - Products endpoints #11194 (damianlegawiec)
Added API endpoint for changing cart currency #11331 (rafalcymerys)
Storefront API Products endpoint returns filter options with products #11318 (rafalcymerys)
Storefront API Adresses endpoint - display addresses from countries supported in the current store #11271 (v10110)
Add public preferences to payment methods in Storefront API Checkout endpoints #11301 (damianlegawiec)
Storefront Countries API returns all countries on a single page #11289 (damianlegawiec)
Fix API V2 Platform products by price sorting #11276 (szymoniwacz)
Storefront API / Platform API - allow to dynamically specify image dimensions/quality in API URLs to get the transformed image #11264 (damianlegawiec)

Core

Multi-Store Order#available_payment_methods by default will return only Payment Methods available in Order's Store Damian Legawiec
Passing store argument to that method will result in deprecation warning
Multi-Store Deprecated Store.current in favour of Stores::FindCurrent Damian Legawiec
Also, this finder class can be replaced by custom one by setting
```
Spree::Dependencies.current_store_finder = YourCustomStoreFinder
```
in config/initializers/spree.rb (please check documentation)
Multi-Store Product, Promotion and PaymentMethod models require at least one Store associated Damian Legawiec
Multi-Store Promotion is now associated to multiple Store records via StorePromotion model Damian Legawiec
You can disable this behaviour by setting:
```
Spree::Config[:disable_store_presence_validation] = true
```
in your config/initializers/spree.rb file
Multi-Store Store Credit model is now associated with Store Szymon Iwacz
Taxon model now requires Taxonomy presence and that Taxonymy needs to match Taxon's Parent (if present) Damian Legawiec
Transactional emails were extracted into a separate gem called spree_emails Damian Legawiec
Replaced twitter_cldr gem with much smaller validates_zipcode Damian Kaczmarczyk
Removed premailer-rails gem dependency Damian Legawiec
Removed rails dependency - only require Rails gems that we really use Damian Legawiec
Removed responders dependency Damian Legawiec
Removed sprockets dependency Damian Legawiec
Moved spree.js file to frontend/backend Damian Legawiec
Moved polyfill.min.js and fetch.umd.js files to frontend Damian Legawiec
Moved cleave.js file to frontend/backend Damian Legawiec
Moved jquery.payment.js file to frontend Damian Legawiec
Migrate User Roles code from Spree Auth Devise to Spree Core #11108 (damianlegawiec)
Change integer id columns into bigint #11182 (szymoniwacz)

Admin Panel

Full Multi Store support with Store switcher #11099 (Vegann & MatthewKennedy)
Change the taxon autocomplete to use Platform API. #11244 (MatthewKennedy)
Use RTE for product description. #11181 (MatthewKennedy)
Automatically set Store and Currency when creating resources in Admin UI #11096 (damianlegawiec)
Added admin panel stock menu for stock locations and transfers #11134 (aplegatt)

Storefront

Upgraded Sprockets to v4 and added support for ES6, Source Maps and Manifest.js Damian Legawiec
Multi-Store Only Store Orders are returned Damian Legawiec
Multi-Store Only Store Products are returned Damian Legawiec
Added clearing all filters on PLP / Taxon page Lukasz Adamczyk
Added filtering Products on PLP by a custom price range Lukasz Adamczyk
Display only these Product Filters that have Products attached Lukasz Adamczyk
Allow user to sort products by name on PLP #11091 (Vegann)

Full Changelog

CHANGELOG.md

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