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Development Update

It's been a while since I last posted a development update on Pixaria so I thought I'd take a moment to share details of the latest work that's in progress. After realising that attempting to cram thousands of new features into Pixaria 3.0 was going to be impossible, I've decided to break the feature list down into more manageable chunks and implement them more slowly - a process that began with version 2.6.

With that in mind and continuing the theme of recent improvements to the admin components of Pixaria, the next release (2.7) will include extensive changes to the tools for managing images and galleries. In the recently introduced web upload tool for example, it will be possible to seamlessly add newly uploaded images directly to existing galleries or to create a gallery from scratch. Other changes coming in version 2.7 include support for Cooliris for galleries, gallery RSS syndication and improved gallery admin tools among many other minor enhancements and bug fixes.

Beyond 2.7, the next big development milestone will be version 2.8 where I will be concentrating on expanging and enhancing the e-commerce capabilities of Pixaria. Of particular note here is that a number of big features originally intended for inclusion in Pixaria 3.0 will hopefully find their way into this release including:

1. Improved support for multiple and region specific taxes.
2. Support for limited availability, non image products such as workshops, CDs or books.
3. (Possibly) vouchers and credits.

Over the course of the summer, I will also be restarting the Divestock website with a new look and full integration with Pixaria. Watch out for more details on that coming in the next few weeks.

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