Sat Dec 31 14:49:08 2005

The Interchange Development Group is pleased to announce the release
of Interchange 5.4, the latest production-ready version of our web
application server. Of the many changes, a few highlights include:

* Improved pre-fork server model supports even higher traffic.

* Extensible architecture improvements allow more customization as well
as removal of unneeded capabilities.

* AccumulateCode capability enables more efficient use of memory for
production systems.

* Email enhancements include easy attachment of HTML and files, and
development-mode interception of outgoing mail.

* Cart triggers allow custom subroutines to be executed whenever the
cart changes.

* Better internal XHTML support.

* New $Row object provides access to the current list row in embedded
Perl.

* DispatchRoutines allows inserting initialization routines without
modifying the core.

* New demo application called "Standard" improves upon the previous
"Foundation" demo.

* More payment gateways supported, including an interface to CPAN's
Business::OnlinePayment.

* More languages are supported by the admin UI.

* Of course, many other feature enhancements and bugfixes.

The software and a more detailed change log are available here:

http://ftp.icdevgroup.org/interchange/5.4/

Cryptographic hashes for interchange-5.4.0.tar.gz:

MD5: def855c7cfca000ad41f44cd4db83476
SHA1: 04acdc39e8ae5d5ba68708b3d1469b0a675deeda

We recommend that this version be used for new development. Many users
of earlier versions of Interchange will want to consider upgrading to
Interchange 5.4 after testing it for suitability with their catalogs in
a development environment.

We'd also like to call your attention to the new Interchange website
at http://www.icdevgroup.org/ which also links to the new developer
documentation ("xmldocs").

Questions should be directed to the Interchange user discussion mailing
list:

interchange-users at icdevgroup.org

We hope you enjoy using Interchange and find it as useful as we do.

Jon Jensen
Interchange Development Group