VIrtueMart 2.0.0 takes off!

Written by Max Milbers, Patrick Kohl, Valérie Isaksen

Monday, 19 December 2011 23:52

Finally after 2 years of development, the VirtueMart team proudly releases the first stable version of the new VirtueMart 2 Core. More than 100 people were involved, 8500 posts were written and endless lines of skype chats were done to create this new

VirtueMart 2.0.0.

Free Open Source Online Shop Solution,

an extension for Joomla in GPL2.

VirtueMart 2.0.0 is compatible Joomla 1.5 and Joomla 1.7.

A bunch of features are included, such as:

Products with expandable custom fields
Advanced Tax system
True multi-currencies management
Checkout process as registered user or as guest
One click checkout or multi-page checkout
Multilingual store as a native solution
SSL checkout

Based on Joomla MVC framework with all its advantage:

Template overwritting,
Implementation of Joomla Plugins for: payment, shipment, coupons, calculation rules, custom product fields, ...
Simple installation and integration of other joomla extensions.

More features are listed here: http://forum.virtuemart.net/index.php?topic=91199.0

Perspective

The next months we will mainly concentrate on module and plugin development and supporting 3rd party developers. We will also update the wiki with a manual, and do workshops.

Credits

We thank the whole VirtueMart community. We all helped together to create a new fantastic solution. We thank in special Sören Eberhardt-Biermann who made this community possible and Kelvyn Sheppard our forum master and our most endurance tester Devendra Kumar Shukla.

Max Milbers, Patrick Kohl, Valérie Isaksen, Rick Glunt, Roland Dalmulder, Oscar van Eijk, Urs Brülhart, Devendra Kumar Shukla, Eugen Stranz, Alex Steiner, Jörg Kiekebusch, Christopher Roussel, John Acosta, George Kostopoulos, Zbigniew Mazur, Joe Motacek, John Wicks, Markus Öhler, Stephanie Schmidt, Vu Hoang Viet, Simon Hodgkiss, Mickaël Cabanas, Holbok Istvàn, Fred Bidon, Alexander Kludt, Akarawuth Tamrareang, Konstantin Dzvonik

and a lot different translators, supporters, and testers.

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mok: yes

thanks guys!

December 20, 2011
Votes: +16

Alessandro-76: I can't believe it!

Guys congratulations!... I was ready to write "they didn't specify the year of the release date!".. But I was wrong!
So great work! thanks in name of all the community and wish you Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

December 20, 2011
Votes: +4

Ciptamedia Development: Nice Work http://ciptamedia.net

Thanks to all member and VM developer, this is a great news. We will use VM 2.0 for our online store development.

December 20, 2011
Votes: +8

Ad: Many Thanks!!

This is SUPER!!
Thank you for your super great work!
This is the best step forwards you can do!
Enjoy your hollidays, you all earned it!

December 20, 2011
Votes: +6

Bjorn Hoogeveen: Great! http://www.bjornhoogeveen.nl

Great job guy's! After waited some weeks (and in special this day) it's great to see the final version smilies/grin.gif

December 20, 2011
Votes: +1

MERINEO, s.r.o.: THANKS http://www.merineo.sk/

Hi all,
many thanks for VM 2.0, we are waiting for this for a long time. Perfect work, thanks again...

December 20, 2011
Votes: +1

Claus Olsen: Nice job and super you guys did it !

Will for sure use it for clients and support it.

And I do like the forntpage: 2.0.0 stable

Claus

December 20, 2011
Votes: +1

Guillermo Caballero: Thank you very much http://www.adcrem.com

thank you very much, we've waited this long version really appreciate all your esfuerso to develop

December 20, 2011
Votes: +2

Alberto Biard: Thanks http://www.aguascalienteslife.com

Since the start of development we have followed the developments and is promising this great new version.

We wish you much success.

December 20, 2011
Votes: +2

Emilian Manolache: Awesome news!! http://www.globacide.com

Incredible news! Can't praise enough what a terrific job you guys did!

Santa came early this year.

Gotta prep VM Affiliate for VM 2.0 stable as soon as possible. Will update with news!

Again, thank you!

December 20, 2011
Votes: +0

Holm: ...

Finally! thanks dev team!

December 20, 2011
Votes: +1

Sadiq Zaman: This is great! http://www.Rapidearth.com

I was waiting for long time. But the waiting is over with a happy ending. I will implement to my website soon. Great work! Wish you Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Thanks again.

December 20, 2011
Votes: +1

Beach Life: Awesome Work! http://www.soulrsurfboards.com/

Congrats on the release, this is a major accomplishment and a huge contribution to the Joomla! community. Thanks for all the hard work and dedication. smilies/cool.gif

December 20, 2011
Votes: +2

ShoppyTheShopper: Thank you!

Hey - thank your a lot! Nice present for X-Mas!

To all: Donate some money for this guys. I'm sure this was hard work!

December 20, 2011
Votes: +2

Marko.C: Thank you !!!! http://www.unistrada.pl

Hi
Many thanks for VM 2.0.
Thank you for your super great work!
I Wish you Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Thanks again

December 20, 2011
Votes: +2

sysro: DANKE

Hallo Leute,

DANKE Thank you Merci .....
eine super Weihnachtsgeschenkt.

LG

December 20, 2011
Votes: +2

AndriusB: Thank you http://www.barkauskas.lt

Hi,
Congratulations on stable release.
Merry Christmas for everybody.

December 20, 2011
Votes: +1

sakurahm: Great News http://www.smartaddons.com

I am happy to have stable release. Thank you very much.

We will update extensions to this version ASAP

Merry Christmas for everybody.

December 20, 2011
Votes: +2

Jan van Kuijk: Super! http://www.janvankuijk.nl

Nice work! It looks really good.
A wonderful step forward for VirtueMart and Joomla!

Merry Christmas

December 20, 2011
Votes: +1

MaXXZ: Great news

I am excited about trying out the latest 2.0 release. I am happy VM is really Joomla framework compatible, so users can use overrides and other slick joomla features

December 20, 2011
Votes: +1

Jan Adams: Danke! Thank you! Merci beaucoup! http://www.data-and-vision.de

Ich will hier mal Lena Zitieren: That's absolutely Awesome. I can't believe it! This is not real!?
Danke für die tolle Arbeit an Max und das gesamte Team.
Bei dem nächsten Virtuemart Kundenauftrag werde ich spenden.

December 20, 2011
Votes: +0

DesignSubway: Thanks http://www.designsubway.com

Just wanted to say thank you for your hard work smilies/cheesy.gif

December 20, 2011
Votes: +1

suon: congratulations!

congratulations! smilies/grin.gif

December 20, 2011
Votes: +1

Brian Teeman:: Congratulations http://brian.teeman.net

I know it's been a long and hard journey with many false dawns but massive congratulations on finally reaching your goal.

December 20, 2011
Votes: +3

gish: thanks

congratulations, and big thanks

December 20, 2011
Votes: +2

Mirko E: Gongrats! http://www.clicker.fi

Nice work! Put a donate a beer button somewhere... I will buy the first

December 20, 2011
Votes: +1

Dick Verschuur: THANKS http://www.onpole.nl

Merry Christmas... and a happy 2.)!

December 20, 2011
Votes: +1

Matthieu-b: ...

Thank you guys! YOU ROCK!!!

December 20, 2011
Votes: +0

Toffffe: congratulations! http://www.agence-web-stylitek.fr

very nice gift for Christmas
thank you very much
And congratulations to all developers

December 20, 2011
Votes: +1

zhous: Wonderful! http://joomla.cn

Great news! Great job!

BTW, I couldn't get into the forum and publish the Simplified Chinese Language. Am I blocked?

Maybe accidently, please contact me directly, max on virtuemart.net

December 20, 2011
Votes: +1

Dannnnny: Cool! Great Thank You!

Good job! I'm testing VM2.0 from yesterday and from the webdesigner point of view everything is cool but before I'll recommend to my customers an upgrade to VirtueMart 2.0 I will wait till most of possible bugs will be detected and fixed. I think that this version should to be more mature for production stores.

Any way, VM 2.0 is cool - a lot better than an older versions. Big THANK YOU and Congratulations to all members of the development team.

Thanks!

December 20, 2011
Votes: +3

Ryan Boog: Congratulations http://www.happydogwebproductions.com

Congratulations. Here's to everything going smoothly for you.

December 20, 2011
Votes: +2

AnYPC: Thanx!!!! http://www.AnY-Computers.nl

Thanx for the great release! I know you put a lot of effort into it, and it really shows! Great layout, great functionallity i simply love it!
I'll do some testing with it before using it for real, but i simply can't wait!!!

December 20, 2011
Votes: +0

Virtuemartuser Yeah: thank you

Thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you THANK YOU!!! smilies/cheesy.gif

Appreciate all your great work!! Much love!

December 20, 2011
Votes: +1

Estebian Diggital5 Team: Congratulations Virtuemart Community! http://www.diggital5.com

We are very happy for the announcement of Virtuemart 2.0 Core, Considered by Diggital5 Team the the best Joomla! extension!!!.

We want to help improve the virtuemart new core.
Security Testing and Spanish Translations.

Please tell us if you need some help Virtuemart Community... smilies/wink.gif

December 20, 2011
Votes: +2

Estebian: Great Job! http://www.diggital5.com

Now testing... Congratulations Virtuemart Community!

December 20, 2011
Votes: +2

Kristoffer Sandven, JoomlaBlogger: Great news! http://www.joomlablogger.net/

I was very happy to see this announcement! VM has been crucial to my business for a couple of years now. Looking forward to getting my hands dirty :p
Thanks to the team and community!

December 20, 2011
Votes: +2

Steven Kan: 5 dozen donuts

I was serious about my offer! If you're on the dev team, send me your address and I'll send a dozen donuts to the first 5 devs who respond

December 21, 2011
Votes: +0

Romjke: Multi vendor?

Has a function of multi-vendors? Where does it talk?

December 21, 2011
Votes: +3

adib: Congratulations http://adibaskoro.com

Congratulations & good job.
thank you very much

December 21, 2011
Votes: +0

VMHopeful: Embarrassing Release

There are a lot of people congratulating and saying thank you, clearly have not downloaded it yet. This release is a terrible embarrassment for the VM team who were once the most reliable.

VM2 is missing listed features, it should still be alpha now, beta once all the features are implemented and move to an RC when 99% of the bugs are gone.

Go on, donwload it; Press ctrl+f and search for 'todo' >_>

Not to mention trying to use basic functionality such as stockable children brings up missing strings, php errors and the front end display code is commented out by default as its not finished.

This is a RELEASE??

December 21, 2011
Votes: +17

Thomas shirvington: Payment plugins http://percys.com.au

When will payment plugins be made for vm2

December 21, 2011
Votes: +0

Sergio Real: OMG http://www.acacel.com

I've waited this long version will update the vm from my site now smilies/cheesy.gif

December 21, 2011
Votes: +0

Daagon Nguyen: Congratulations Virtuemart Team !!! http://vietdragon.asia

Congratulations & good job.
Thanks you so much !!! That's so great !!!

December 21, 2011
Votes: +0

John Solar: Wow http://www.kolozus.cl

Interesting update. Update my version.

Thank you.

December 21, 2011
Votes: +1

Reason8910: Well done! http://www.yds.com.au

Well done! Know what ill be doing for chrismass.

December 21, 2011
Votes: +0

Andrew Brett Watson: Made it! http://www.andrewbrettwatson.com

Well done all. It's a shame you had to put up with all the nagging, your community was just anxious and unsure what was going on. You guys didn't do a brilliant job of keeping the comunity informed, but after all you were putting your spare time into a free product and I think I speak for us all when I say now that its here, and we can get some of the projects that have been waiting underway, we are all very very thankfull.

Dev team, and contributers, you can be very very proud. Congrats.

www.andrewbrettwatson.com

December 21, 2011
Votes: -3

Kafwana: At long last! http://www.gigakaf.com

Finally a sigh of relief.. Nice job... Enjoy your festive season all...

December 21, 2011
Votes: +0

Nuno Aparicio: Many Thanks! Mery Xmas and a happy new year! http://www.darkbuda.org

Many thanks for this excelente work!

December 21, 2011
Votes: +0

Theglove: Not ready

I just finished implementing this solution for a client after working with it from 1.9.8 and updating as you released up to 2.0. Finally after updating to the final 2.0 I handed the shop off for the clients to start adding products.

They were suprised to find that they couldn't stock variants or display child products at all, I attempted (embarrassingly) to show them how to do that only to find that this final release is a long way from final. The store is utterly useless to them; to me and to anyone who needs to sell sized or varied items.

December 22, 2011
Votes: +9

Motor Parts: ... http://www.banggood.com/Wholesale-Motor-Parts-c-1134.html

I agree with many of the points made in this article. They are made in a thoughtful and interesting manner. This is really interesting reading.

December 22, 2011
Votes: -3

Alexe: This is not a stable release

First of all you guys are doing a great job with the new version of Virtuemart for Joomla 1.7 but i have to agree with some of the comments already posted on this page. Virtuemart 2.0.0 is not a stable release and still has a alot of bugs / issues which need fixing before it can be used on a live production website.

I know you are under a lot of pressure to release this to the community but i think you should have release this as an RC4 release and asked the community to test and provide feedback.

Anyway keep up the great work you are doing.

December 22, 2011
Votes: +7

Michel Nauwelaers: Thanks for the good work. http://www.webmamba.com

We have been waiting a long time but are happy that the first stable version is available. Thanks again and keep up the good work!

December 22, 2011
Votes: +0

Parfume: Thanks for the good work http://www.parfum-delux.com

Congratulations & good job.
Thanks you so much !!!

December 22, 2011
Votes: +1

Kalen: WEB http://seltrol.com

WHoot! Congratulations! Pumped!

December 22, 2011
Votes: +0

Alexander: Thanks for your work

We are really happy with this realease, thanks for all what you do for Joomla Community all around the world

December 22, 2011
Votes: +0

Joomla! SEO: Backend looks horrible http://seoj.info

I just installed Virtuemart 2.0 and find the backend totally non-joomla looking, confusing, looking user unfriendly and ugly.

I have no idea why, but the VM developers always wanted to reinvent the wheel when speaking about user interface.

Guys, you are just not good at that!!! Absolute nightmare smilies/cry.gif

December 24, 2011
Votes: -4

Voytek: Great NEWS!! http://www.drzwinaswiat.com

It makes a great present for the holidays.
it looks very nice.
Thank you dev team. smilies/grin.gif

December 24, 2011
Votes: -1

Khampol: Wait so long !

oh man, the wait was soooooo loooonggg ! It a very big news : thanks you guys and happy new year !

December 29, 2011
Votes: +1

pepocero: Very thanks!!! http://www.fuerteargentino.site88.net

Very thanks!!!!
I want to thaks all the hard work!!!
I ´m from spain. Happy new year for all!!!

December 29, 2011
Votes: +0

Matthew Hammon: Module Support Question http://ausnerd.com

Hi,

Well done on the new release. It looks excellent. I just wanted to find out what the situation is with all of the supported payment modules.

Over here in OZ we use PayMate quite heavily and it would be good if this was supported into the new version? Any ideas on how to go about implementing Paymate with V2?

Thanks.

December 30, 2011
Votes: +3

imcoolboy: ...

Great effort for the team and supporting units. Thank you so much~!!

January 03, 2012
Votes: +0

Okur: www.okuritriyat.com.tr http://www.okuritriyat.com.tr

Hi, how can we upgrade to Joomla 1.5 version 1.9 version 2.0? English is a bit bad. I'm sorry.

January 04, 2012
Votes: +0

vitash: Many Thanks! http://www.irpin.in.ua/ http://parketdoska.kiev.ua/

Hi! Many thanks for VM 2.0.
Thank you for your super great work!
I Wish you Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

January 05, 2012
Votes: +0

Peter Togel: VirtueMart 2.0 without extensions like a car without wheels. http://www.keux.com

Thank you to all that worked on the redesign of VirtueMart. I'm using VirtueMart since 1.x but I feel that it is useless until we have some of the basic extensions developed for VM 2. First on the list is a shipping module for the United States Postal Service. I wonder if I can use VM 1.1.x with Joomla 1.7.3 ...

January 05, 2012
Votes: +0

dizel: Thanks for the good WORK http://parketdoska.kiev.ua

Merry Christmas.
Many thanks for this work!
Very thanks. smilies/wink.gif

January 05, 2012
Votes: +0

David-Chill_Creations: iDEAL for Virtuemart 2.0 http://www.joomlavirtuemartideal.nl/easy-ideal-joomla-virtuemart-component-module.html

I have tested the stable version of VM2.0 the last weeks, and I must say, well done! It is still young and needs to mature, but its a super start!

If anyone is looking for iDEAL (Dutch payment method) for Virtuemart 2.0 by the way, we managed to create a plugin:
http://www.joomlavirtuemartideal.nl/easy-ideal-joomla-virtuemart-component-module.html

January 07, 2012
Votes: +1

concerned: UPDATE? http://kartoo.com

I see alot of work going on in svn, is there an update in the works?

January 09, 2012
Votes: +2

cheap art: Så kan jeg få ny shop til vores oliemalerier http://www.cheapart.dk

Jeg har ventet længe på at opgraderer vores online galleri med håndlavede oliemalerier, og endelig kommer muligheden for at opgraderer vores online galleri til den nyeste version af virtuemart

great work

January 10, 2012
Votes: +0

Kevin West: Great Start But ??? http://www.ox4tech.co.uk

Love the layout works great, but wheres the product scroller gone? smilies/angry.gif

January 12, 2012
Votes: -1

muhi: Great!! http://www.deluxe-it.ch

Thank you for all your effort!

Cheers

January 12, 2012
Votes: +0

Szolo: Well done! http://www.laboreszkozok.hu

Thank you guys!

January 13, 2012
Votes: +0

Alexander BugFinder: There are many bugs in "2.0.0 stable"

Guys, thanks for job, but i find a lot of bugs in v.2.0.0 stable.

January 14, 2012
Votes: +4

VJ Templates: VM 2.0 Templates http://www.vjtemplates.com

We just released our first VM 2.0 template.

January 14, 2012
Votes: +0

SmartAddons: We upgraded modules for Virtuemart 2.0 http://www.smartaddons.com

Thanks for your news. We upgraded our modules for VM2.0. You can check here http://www.smartaddons.com

January 14, 2012
Votes: +0

saidrustam: Спасибо Ребята. http://joom.uz

After time we start new web site with joomla artcles in uzbek domain http://joom.uz

January 16, 2012
Votes: +0

Emilian Manolache: VMA now VM 2.0 compatible! http://www.globacide.com

VM Affiliate for VirtueMart 2.0 is now completely ready (on both J!1.5 & 1.7).

We've completely re-written VMA's integrated backend to the now supported MVC framework!

Thank you for a great release!

January 18, 2012
Votes: +0

WebsiteTemplatesBZ: Thanks http://www.websitetemplates.bz/virtuemart_templates.html

Our team work with Virtuemart for a long time, and we were really waiting for this release. We have already tested it, and it is really great. Our team even have already started developent of new themes based on this new version. I think soon you may find Virtuemart 2.0 templates at our website. so if any body is interested in, follow us.

January 19, 2012
Votes: +0

Trisjin: ?:( http://-

can't put downlaodable products??

January 19, 2012
Votes: +0

suon: is compatible with joomla 2.5?

is compatible with joomla 2.5?

January 24, 2012
Votes: +9

ouss: Great Joob http://www.istockplus.com

My Favorite E-Commerce Finally come out

January 25, 2012
Votes: +0

suomi: is compatible with joomla 2.5?

is compatible with joomla 2.5?

January 26, 2012
Votes: +6

Tobias2012: Still doenst't work..

Finaly there is a release.. But Virtuemart 2.0.0 and Virtuemart 2.0.1 don't work right.. In Backend there is no possibility to change ordering status and so on. you will get horrible sites and can't do anything.. Virtuemart was great. BEFORE there was the idea to make version 2.. smilies/sad.gif

((((((((

January 26, 2012
Votes: +0

suomi: is compatible with joomla 2.5?

is compatible with joomla 2.5?

January 27, 2012
Votes: +4

NamuE: Compatile 1.7-2.5 http://handmadeplaza.com

2.0 is version is compatible with 1.5-1.7 yep
n we know 1.7 update to 2.5
wonder why 2.0 compatible with 1.7 - 2.5 ?
any?

January 31, 2012
Votes: +2

Cool: Problem

In joomla 2.5.0 virtuemart crack when i try to add product category! What is that?

February 02, 2012
Votes: +1

Cool: ...

vmError: vmTable loadTable 'kerteszet.ob4pg_virtuemart_vendors_hu_hu' doesn't exist SQL=SELECT `ob4pg_virtuemart_vendors_hu_hu`.* ,`ob4pg_virtuemart_vendors`.* FROM `ob4pg_virtuemart_vendors_hu_hu` JOIN ob4pg_virtuemart_vendors using (`virtuemart_vendor_id`) WHERE ob4pg_virtuemart_vendors_hu_hu.`virtuemart_vendor_id` = "1"

February 03, 2012
Votes: +0

Thorsten22264: Virtuemart... Bad.. :(((

Ok my review for the try to change from xtcmodified to virtuemart..
virtuemart features: no downloadable products, no quantity discount, no invoices, no way to price searching portals, no way to affiliate portals, no compatibility to joomla 2.5, no import/export function for other shopsystems, no wishlist function, no automaticaly change to reseller group if a reseller registers, no no no .... Is the new motto of Virtuemart Back to the roots?? Realy important things that work year old shopsoftware is NOT working in virtuemart.. For shops who want to be modern and comfortable to customers there is realy no way to use virtuemart.. Bad, but we changed back to xtcmodified. This shop can everything do you want to. And its GPL and for free too.
Virtuemart: That was realy the right way.

February 04, 2012
Votes: +1