Prestashop 1.7 is officially available!
Finally, the official Prestashop 1.7 is released after 495 days since the release of 1.6.1.0.
This is the 7th major release of Prestashop. It is a long period when they start the project to create the latest version Prestashop 1.7. The PrestaShop team and our community have been working hand-in-hand to develop a new version of PrestaShop with some significant features and improvements. We’re incredibly excited to announce that 1.7 is ready to launch.
The main purpose for 1.7 is to help everyone to overcome the challenges of building and growing online store with Prestashop. Key features will permit you to improve more, with better quality and faster.
Sell Faster:
Prestashop have completely designed new the product and modules pages. With the latest version, adding products, manage categories and control modules will take significantly less time and effort. They also revamped the product check out process which will be improved the experiences for customer. By simplifying the front and back office, shop owner can sell more products faster than ever.
Create Easier:
The user experience in your store is wonderful way to create a great brand experience online. You will generate and convert more visits into sales. For frontend developers and theme designers, you will discover a brand new Starter Theme in 1.7. Free from any enable you to build wonderful theme in no time.
Code Better:
The latest version 17 is integrated new tools and standards which including popular Symfony Framework and PHP 7 compatibility. These changes help to improve site performance, code security and new development on Prestashop. To use a popular open source framework will enable developers to code with more efficiency and to benefit from a globally recognized framework.
NOTE: To be honest, there is no reason to forget Prestashop 1.6.1.x, this is the most stable version in Prestashop. To push up theme we will create a Big Promotion for customer in this month.
