I’ve just (last night) uploaded the first release candidate for yak 1.0.

Quite a few changes going into this release. All the yak admin screens are merged into a single access point off the Manage->yak menu option (big-ups to Spam Karma 2, for that idea!), and some new (very basic) reports have been added. I’ve tried to tidy up the settings (formerly options) screen according to what they do in SK2 as well, because it’s much easier to distinguish between the major sections.

Payment types are now completely configurable, where before there was a fixed list of “Deposit, Cheque, Credit Card and Paypal”. The negative side effect of this change is that before upgrading you should go to the yak options screen, and write down the redirect urls for each of these payment types, and then you have to go back after upgrading and re-add them all. The postive effect is that you can now add more Payment types that redirect to different pages, and you can enter them in your own language.

On the internationalisation side, I’ve removed i18n code from the admin screens, because the amount of text was a barrier to translators. So now the front end pages can be localised, whereas the backend won’t be. There’s now a japanese message file for yak as well (thanks to Ronny from mobitemple), but I think the Thai one is now out of date, so I’ll get that fixed before the final release of 1.0. Anyone else wanting to provide translations for other languages, please let me know.

Other changes are the new shipping options (don’t remember if that was included in the previous ‘experimental’ releases or not… and can’t be bothered looking), WP2.1 compatibility changes, the ability to add notes to an order (writing to the order log table), and a few minor bug fixes. There’s more, so take a look at the release notes in the distribution if you’re interested.

DISCLAIMER: This is the first release candidate, so your mileage may vary. Anyone testing, please get back to me as soon as possible with any problems you might experience, because I’d like to release the final of 1.0 within the next couple of weeks.