Magento Community Edition (CE) 1.8.1.0 released

Highlights include:

1. Tax Calculation Updates

Magento Community Edition 1.8.1.0 provides more accurate and consistent Value Added Tax (VAT) and Fixed Product Tax (FPT) calculations for the Magento admin, invoices, and credit memos. It also improves tax calculations for cross-border transactions, bundled products, and multi-tax scenarios. Especially, it supports the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment recycling tax in the EU.

2. Functional Improvements

Magento Community Edition 1.8.1.0 includes bug fixes across important feature areas, including the shopping cart, checkout, content management system, and product import and export.

3. Security Enhancements:

This version delivers several security enhancements that were identified through our rigorous security assessment process. Magento complements its own comprehensive internal testing with quarterly penetration testing by expert consultants and actively works with the development community to identify security issues in order to harden the platform against potential threats. 

For more info about Magento Community Edition v1.8.0, please see the Release Notes: here

How to upgrade?

Please take a few minutes to carefully review the upgrade instructions, before testing.

If you are ready, let download Magento Community Edition 1.8.1.0 here and take a journey of discovery in your way!