Shipper 3.5 Release

Shipper 3.5 is now available. There are many new features, changes and bug fixes (see the release notes for details). But I'd like to call out three breaking changes. "Breaking changes" is a phrase used in the software industry to describes changes that require manual intervention.

Breaking Changes

1. Shipping Agent for AbleCommerce and Shipping Agent for BV Commerce authentication

Prior to 3.5 none of the Shipping Agents included code to authenticate requests for data. The installation instructions strongly encouraged you to implement HTTP Basic Authentication on the server. Unfortunately, this does not work well with sites that use ASP.NET Forms Authentication such as AbleCommerce.

Starting with 3.5, Shipping Agent for AbleCommerce and Shipping Agent for BV Commerce include authentication. You must configure Shipper to send a username and password that are authorized to access the Admin area of the underlying e-commerce platform.

Please see the article "How do I protect Shipping Agent from unauthorized access?" in Help > Frequently Asked Questions, for more information.

2. Automatic Download Removed

Automatic download was a feature that would automatically run Download New Orders every few minutes. Unfortunately, if you were printing a label at the same time, the order and package data could be corrupted. Until and unless we can figure out a way to prevent this, the Automatic Download feature will no longer be available. The workaround is to click on Download New Orders yourself.

3. ShipRush 7 Required

Shipper 3.5 requires ShipRush 7. You can download ShipRush 7 from the downloads page.

Please head over to the Shipper Update page to read the release notes and download Shipper 3.5.

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