Sterc's Extras will be free from August 1st

After selling premium extras via modmore (and modstore) for the past few years, Sterc has decided to refocus their energy on their core business of creating awesome websites and applications with MODX. This means that their currently-premium extras (Digital Signage, Formalicious, SEOSuite, and VerifyLogin) will become free to use on August 1st, 2020.

Critical Commerce update for EU VAT users

If you sell to customers in the European Union, there's a good chance you've set that up with the built-in EU VAT module. That module uses a service to provide you with up-to-date tax rates for all countries in the EU. ?Last night, that service was suddenly shut down. To avoid issues, you need to update Commerce to 1.1.4 or 1.0.4 right away.

Update: minimum PHP version increase on hold

Last month we sent out a reminder about the minimum PHP version increasing to PHP 7.2+, which went into effect two weeks ago. As there's still a significant number of sites on PHP 7.1 or before, we're going to slow down our minimum version increase.