Announcements

We are pleased to announce the release of version 1.0.5 of the Fontis Australia extension for Magento 2. This is a minor update that fixes an issue with NT postcodes.

Changes in this version are:

• Remove integer type cast on postcodes, which causes problems for postcodes starting with 0.

The Fontis Australia extension for Magento 2 is available for immediate download on GitHub. If you have any feedback or would like to contribute, please submit an issue on GitHub.

We are pleased to announce the release of version 2.0 of the Australia Post API SDK for PHP. This library is widely used throughout the community and we hope that the new version will address a few of the issues we've had with it over the years, and make it even easier to use for other developers.

Some of the highlights from this release are:

• The Guzzle 3 client has been replaced with the more generic HTTPlug PSR-7/PSR-18 client. HTTPlug is a more modern adapter library that uses the current PSR standards for HTTP clients, and removing the Guzzle dependency should also get rid of the annoying "package guzzle/guzzle is abandoned, you should avoid using it" warning Composer shows when installing or updating packages.
• The library is now using PSR-4 autoloading, and we took the opportunity to move all of the classes into a top-level Fontis namespace.
• PHP 7.1 or greater is now a requirement. Aside from now being the lowest support version of PHP, this allows us to make use of strict types and argument and return type hints.
• The license has been changed from LGPL 2.0 to OSL 3.0, for consistency with our other packages. Both are reasonably permissive licenses so this should not have a tangible impact on anyone using the library.
• Unit tests have been removed since none of them were relevant any more, and we found the existing tests did not provide much value.

Please note that this release does not include support for the Delivery Choices API. Since Australia Post removed address validation we have not had any need for it, but we'd welcome anyone who wants to contribute changes to add Delivery Choices in.

Happy Australia Day everyone! Hope everyone down under had a great long weekend. We have a couple of announcements in celebration.

Version 1.0.4 of the Australia extension for Magento 2 has now been released. This is a maintenance release that just adds compatibility for Magento 2.3. We'd like to thank Nathaniel Rogers for his contributions to this release.

We have also started migrating our free extensions to be installable directly through packagist.org. This means that you will no longer need to order the extensions on our website to access them and you will not need to add our private repository to your composer.json file.

We are pleased to announce the release of version 1.0.3 of the Fontis Australia extension for Magento 2. This is a minor update that adds the ability to export orders to CSV using the Click & Send format, and adds compatibility with recent versions of PHP and Magento.

Changes in this version are:

• Add Click & Send CSV export
• Add support for PHP 7.1 and 7.2
• Add support for Magento 2.2

The Fontis Australia extension for Magento 2 is available for immediate download on GitHub and is available to install through Composer from our site. If you have any feedback or would like to contribute, please submit an issue on GitHub.

We are pleased to announce the released of version 1.0.3 of our Customer Group Access library for Magento 2. This version updates the library for compatibility with Magento 2.2, and PHP 7.1 and 7.2.

This update is important for the Fontis Australia extension, which depends on and automatically installs this library and would have been preventing installation on newer versions of Magento 2.

The Customer Group Access library for Magento 2 is now available for immediate download on GitHub and will be installed as a Composer dependency alongside the Fontis Australia extension for Magento 2. If you have any feedback or would like to contribute, please submit an issue on GitHub.

We are pleased to announce the Enhanced Category Products extension for Magento 1 (Magento 2 support is not available at this time). This extension provides a new interface to manage positioning of items in a category, making it faster and easier to merchandise products.

To reorder products with the Enhanced Category Products extension (ECP) you can simply drag and drop products around in a grid, or use quick access buttons to move products to the front or back of the list. Each product is displayed with its image and basic properties such as price and stock on hand, to give you the information needed for merchandising. You can even filter products and use an auto-sort to do most of the heavy lifting for you.

We are pleased to announce the release of version 3.4.5 of the Fontis Australia extension for Magento 1. This is a minor version release of the extension which includes the following changes:

• Change signature on delivery options to the new Auspost codes
• Update consignment CSV import file importer to match the new eParcel format
• Fix the JavaScript path in modman file

Thanks to Bevan Holman, Thomas Hery and Raphael Petrini for their contributions in this release.

Merchants signed up for Australia Post services will have recently received an email explaining that the SSL certificates used by Australia Post will soon be updated. As many of our customers will be connecting to Auspost APIs through the Fontis Australia extension, we will explain the impact to Magento merchants.

When is this happening?

The cutover time is scheduled for August 2nd, 2017 at 12:00 AEST.

Does this affect the Australia extensions for Magento 1 & 2?

No.

We are pleased to announce the release of version 1.0.1 of the Fontis Australia extension for Magento 2. This is a minor update that fixes an issue with eParcel shipping.

Changes in this version are:

• Fixed issue where eParcel shipping would throw an error when saving without uploading a CSV file of rates

The Fontis Australia extension for Magento 2 is available for immediate download on GitHub and is available to install through Composer from our site. If you have any feedback or would like to contribute, please submit an issue on GitHub.

We are pleased to announce the release of version 1.0.0 of the Fontis Australia extension for Magento 2. The extension is now also available through Magento Marketplace.

Changes in this version are:

• Add postcode autocomplete
• Fix an error when running in production mode

This brings the Magento 2 version of the extension to feature parity with the Magento 1 version.

The Fontis Australia extension for Magento 2 is now available for immediate download on GitHub and is available to install through Composer from our site and Magento Marketplace. If you have any feedback or would like to contribute, please submit an issue on GitHub.