We are pleased to announce that the new X-Cart branch 4.3.x is now available for beta testing, which is scheduled to continue till August 3, 2009. This beta release aims primarily at regular X-Cart users and developers who now have a great opportunity to test and evaluate the next X-Cart branch and help us make X-Cart 4.3. better.

Important: X-Cart 4.3 is not yet recommended for production use at this stage. What's new in X-Cart 4.3 The new X-Cart branch includes numerous little enhancement and refinement, and a number of considerable improvements, most of which go behind the scene.

The visible changes introduced with X-Cart 4.3 include:

* AJAX technology for the mini-cart, product rating, etc.
* Quick Search panel
* X-Fancy Categories, X-AOM and X-RMA are now included into the X-Cart distribution package
* Two new skin templates