Magento 1.4 is out and here are some notable features:

• Implemented 3D Secure credit card validation (Visa and Mastercard)
• Full reimplementation of PayPal modules, includes lot of new functionality and numerous bugfixes
• Full review of frontend themes, introduced design cross-package fallback and the base/default theme. Includes SEO and accessibility enhancements. Changes are oriented to dramatically reduce themes maintenance.
• Added ability to define arbitrary cache backends
• Optimized performance of sales reports, added new sales report types
• Added image/media uploader/browser, that can browse entire media folder
• Optimized performance of search indexer
• Made order processing workflow more informative and severe
• Reimplemented 404 and report pages, introduced 503 page, specifically for maintenance purposes
• Improved javascript files merging, added CSS files merging
• Added Widgets functionality, added several widgets out of the box
• Added Custom Variables functionality
• Added lot of new System Configuration options
• Improved order placement reliability
• Added WYSIWYG for CMS and Catalog
• Optimized cache initialization during startup
• Optimized export from grids in admin area
• Improved tax and discount totals calculation
• Replaced admin notification flash popup into a simple HTML overlay
• Implemented product and category URLs per store view
• Added ability to configure entry point using virtualhost environment configuration, rather than creating another physical entry point
• Optimized simple product view without custom options

These are a good move in the platform. We are going to keep current clients on the older version for few weeks but all new projects are going to be developed on 1.4. We are stoked to do awesome projects on the framework.

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round3media a is proud to announce version 0.1.0 Beta of Etsy Integration. The module is here: http://www.magentocommerce.com/extension/2458/etsy-integration on Magento Connect. This is our first of many Magento modules to be released.

Overview

Features:
Download Etsy items into Magento
Creates:
- Categories
- Product
- Images
- Inventory
- Prices

Notes:
Currently only tested on a single store setup
Magento SKU = Etsy Listing ID
One way from Etsy to Magento. If Etsy creates a 2-way API, we will add that feature.

Install plugin

Clear Cache

If you receive an access denied error: System > Roles > Administrators > Save

System > Configuration > Etsy > Account Settings

Under Shop Info, enter your user name and API key and save config

Under Etsy > List Items click Download Product

Select which products to sync to Magento

Under the Actions dropdown, choose sync and click Submit

There will be a new category called Etsy with your Etsy categories under it.

Set your store to use the Etsy category as the root.

Screenshots

Configuration Panel:

Sync Management

We are making great progress on the Etsy module for Magento. As of today, the Etsy module now creates a category in Magento named Etsy and assigns all products to that category with a Magento SKU that matches the Etsy listing_id. We are looking to release toward the end of the week. The next steps for us are:

• Mimic the Etsy category tree in Magento
• Assign images to the Magento product
• Create a workflow that will allow user to select which product to sync and also allow inventory updates

If anyone has any suggestions, please send them our way.

After eating all the turkey and stuffing we figured might as well do some more work on the Etsy plugin for Magento.

Right now when you install, it creates a table called etsy with 8 fields:

etsy_id

title

image_url

listing_id

price

quantity

created_time

update time

At the moment, the following is functional:

Creates an Etsy section in the admin->config to store username in the database

Creates an Etsy section in the admin with a grid to show currently downloaded products

Stores all downloaded products in the database

Here is a screen shot inside of magento.