CMS Version 8.0.7 Release Notes
Introduction
CMS 8.0.7 includes the new 2014 UPS and FedEx rates. See below for details. Rates for USPS will also be changing in late January and those rates will be made available in a separate CMS update.
End of Life Announcements
CMS version 8 will no longer receive updates after the release of version 10.0 which is expected Q2 2014. Make your plans now to move to CMS 9.0. Please refer to the 9.0 Release Notes and 9.0 Upgrade Plan for important information and details on upgrading to 9.0 before installing.
Microsoft has announced they will no longer provide support and updates for Windows XP after April 8th, 2014. This is a fairly critical situation. XP will no longer receive security patches after that date which, aside from the obvious security threats, also means that you cannot be PCI compliant.
Our recommendation is to move to Windows 7 Professional which has proven to be a stable operating system suitable for business use, as XP had been for many years. Windows 7 will be supported through January 2020. We are testing CMS with Windows 8 but we think, like Vista, it may not receive wide acceptance in business environments. Unlike Windows 8, the learning curve from XP to Windows 7 is a relatively minor one.
READ BEFORE USING 8.0.7
- Important information to prepare you for the transition to your new version of CMS.PCI Compliance - CMS 8.0 has been successfully validated against the PA-DSS 1.2 specification by Coalfire Systems. Software changes that could affect your compliance are only included in major CMS versions (e.g. 9.0, 10.0) or minor versions (e.g. 9.1, 9.2) and never in releases (e.g. 9.0.5, 9.0.6) or builds (e.g. 9.0.6.159, 9.0.6.160). You can read more about our versioning methodology HERE.
You can find CMS versions 7.0 through 9.0 on the PCI Council’s list of Validated Payment Applications HERE We are currently working on CMS 10.0 which will be validated against the new PA-DSS 3.0 specification.
Integrations - No changes to our standard CMS integrations in 8.0. All will continue to work as they had including CommerceV3, UPS Worldship, FedEx Ship Manager, Endicia/DaZzle, ShipRush, MPS, TransFirst, and Authorize.net.
8.0.7 ENHANCEMENT DETAILS
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2014 UPS Rates - Rates and services updated for the 2014 UPS rate increase, effective December 30, 2013. Details on UPS rate changes can be found on their site at http://www.rates.ups.com/. Nothing unusual, standard increases to rates across the board including service/assessorial charges.
2014 FedEx rates - Rates and services updated for the 2014 FedEx rate increase, effective January 6th, 2014. Details on FedEx rate changes can be found on their site at http://www.fedex.com/us/2014rates/. Nothing unusual, standard increases to rates across the board including service/assessorial charges.
Note: FedEx has recently announced new flat rate pricing options but, since they are zone based, we think they are unlikely to be adopted quickly by our users, if at all, as currently structured. If sufficient demand is expressed for these options though we'll investigate adding support for them to CMS.