# 🌟 News and Releases in Mergado

**URL:** <https://forum.mergado.com/t/news-and-releases-in-mergado/212>\
**Category:** News & Announcements\
**Tags:** release-notes\
**Created:** [January 16, 2019, 11:00am UTC](https://forum.mergado.com/t/news-and-releases-in-mergado/212 "2019-01-16T11:00:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Post date:** [October 5, 2023, 9:16am UTC](https://forum.mergado.com/t/news-and-releases-in-mergado/212/81 "2023-10-05T09:16:43Z")

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# New version of Mergado

## Release date and time

Wednesday 19 July 2023 15:30

 ![release-notes-7](https://forum.mergado.com/uploads/default/original/2X/2/2bdf333e81b4ca8a47dc2f0d873d1fdae6fb6316.jpeg)

## News

- 🤩 Mergado supports **new formats** :
  - [**Google Product Reviews**](https://support.google.com/merchants/answer/7124319) - straight for a range of countries.
  - [**Malfini**](https://www.malfini.com/en/intro) - also for a range of countries.

- 🍏 **We have updated** format converters:
  - The format converter for **Google** , **Facebook** , **TikTok** and **Pinterest** now adds currency to the `g:shipping | g:price` element even if the **shipping price** is zero.
  - Converter to **Kaufland Marketplace - inventory** formats now only populates the `price_cs` element with the price of the item.

- 🍒 We have improved the UX to easily **click on related values** on the specific element value page - we now **design more relevant related elements**.
- In the component for **automatic conversion** of _ **Mergado 1** _ projects to [_ **MERGADO 2** _ projects](https://forum.mergado.com/t/introducing-mergado-2/538), the Mergado 1 elements `EXTENDED_WARRANTY|Something` and `SALES_VOUCHER|Something` were not converting correctly for [**Heureka**](https://www.heureka.cz/) formats. This is now **fixed**.
- ⚒ **We have fixed** a bug in the [`Data Import`](https://www.mergado.com/blog/csv-import-to-ease-your-work-with-mergado) rule that caused rules to end up applying with an error if the imported CSV data file contained a column with a non-existent element that contained an accent in the name.
- 🍬 We added icons for other known services _(and updated some existing ones)_.
- And a bunch of other minor fixes and improvements.

You may experience some minor Mergado outages at the times indicated. Thank you for your understanding and patience as we deploy the new version.

If you have any questions, please feel free to [contact us](https://www.mergado.com/contact).

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**Post date:** [October 9, 2023, 1:55pm UTC](https://forum.mergado.com/t/news-and-releases-in-mergado/212/82 "2023-10-09T13:55:40Z")

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# New version of Mergado

## Release date and time

Thursday 3 August 2023 15:30

 ![mergado_release](https://forum.mergado.com/uploads/default/original/2X/6/6b214226b78954d0352769cfa7744648a6090878.jpeg)

## News

- 🤩 Mergado supports new integrations:
  - **[Baselinker](https://baselinker.com/)**
  - **[Spolehliverecenze.cz](https://spolehliverecenze.cz/)**

- We have extended the format families for **Google Ads DSA** and **Facebook** to support countries: 🇨🇱 **Chile** and 🇨🇴 **Colombia**.
- We have added certification-related elements to the [**Google Shopping**](https://shopping.google.com) format: `certification_authority`, `certification_name` and `certification_code` and support for additional countries 🇦🇷 🇧🇾 🇨🇱 🇨🇴 🇪🇬 🇫🇮 🇭🇰 🇮🇩 🇮🇱 🇯🇴 🇰🇼 🇱🇧 🇲🇾 🇵🇭 🇿🇦 🇦🇪 🇺🇾 .
- In the [**Kaufland Bidding**](https://www.kaufland.de/seller-signup/) format, the currency is now filled in correctly according to the country.
- The converter in [**Shoptet CSV**](https://www.shoptet.cz/slovnik-pojmu/csv/) will now correctly convert values with `°C`.
- We have deployed a new version of [**Element path**](https://forum.mergado.com/t/new-tool-element-path/775). It now provides **examples of specific paths** to help you understand the **changes from Mergado 1**.
- In the _Bulk Rewriting by Value_ rule, we have improved the data retrieval for pre-filling values into the left column of the form.
- The **UI:** product name can now be only two lines. Subsequently, it will wrap and display in full only when the mouse is hovered over.
- 🐛 We fixed a lot of minor bugs in the UI. For example:
  - Error displaying designs on the Elements page.
  - A bug where some values were not being offered in the parameter whisperer when entering the path to an element.
  - A bug in the MQL input field on the **Elements** page where the element whisperer did not display when the `[` keyboard shortcut was pressed.
  - Sometimes it could happen that the rule listing for a rule type `Hide Products` showed the target element _(which doesn’t make sense)_. We have treated the situation that could cause this to happen and it will no longer happen for newly saved rules.

- We fixed a bug in the component for **automatic conversion** of Mergado 1 to **Mergado 2** where the special element `@MERGADO_ID` was not converting correctly in saved selections.
- The component for **conversion to Mergado 2** has undergone another round of improvements and fixes.
- And a bunch of other minor fixes and improvements.

You may experience some minor Mergado outages at the time indicated. Thank you for your understanding and patience as we deploy the new version.

If you have any questions, please feel free to [contact us](https://www.mergado.com/contact)

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**Post date:** [October 9, 2023, 2:24pm UTC](https://forum.mergado.com/t/news-and-releases-in-mergado/212/83 "2023-10-09T14:24:16Z")

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# New version of Mergado

## Release date and time

Wednesday 16 August 2023 15:30

 ![mergado_release_august](https://forum.mergado.com/uploads/default/original/2X/d/ddaa493ebb4cde6627996fd5aa9ab4900bcca9a7.jpeg)

## News

- 🍎 📝 The **registration process** for Mergado has undergone **significant changes** :
  - Registration itself is now simplified to **a few steps**. 🚀
  - **We have improved the design** of our [Accounts](https://accounts.mergado.com/) login authority interface.
  - The actual **invoicing data will not be needed until the end of the trial period** of the online store _(in 30 days)_. If the user does not have the payment details filled in, then after the trial period all projects in the user’s online store will be disabled.
  - 💳 We prefer **payment by credit card debit**. For new users, this is now the only form of payment we allow. Existing users can set it up as well.

- ⚒ **The project conversion component** of **Mergado 2** no longer converts unused variables.
- 🌟 We have modified the converters for **[Shoptet](https://www.shoptet.cz/)** _(supplier, complete, CSV)_ formats.
  - The converter now correctly converts values between `ITEM_TYPE` _(Shoptet)_ and elements with meaning `CONDITION` _([Mergado XML](https://www.mergado.cz/product_xml_specifikace.pdf))_, as follows:
    - `CONDITION = "new"` ↔ `ITEM_TYPE = "product"` and
    - `CONDITION = "used"` ↔ `ITEM_TYPE = "bazaar"`.

  - 🧩 We fixed **action price conversion** _(element `ACTION_PRICE`)_ - if this price already contained tax, we will not count it in the converter a second time.

- 🔎 Based on feedback, we **have** enlarged the search box\*\* on the main page; this makes it easier to find, for example, the URLs of your feeds.
- 🍬 **UI:** If the URL of your input feed contains a login password and a name _(in the form `https://jmeno:heslo@nejaky-eshop.cz/...`)_, the project overview page _(where we hide the name and password from the URL for security reasons)_ now shows that the URL contains a name and password at all.
  - The button to _copy URL_ **now also copies the entire URL** with this information, not without it as before. This means that the full URL copied in this way can now be used in searches on the main Mergado online store overview page.

- 🔽 🔨 We have fixed some issues when **downloading products** of complicated feeds in CSV format on the **Products** page. We continue to explore further ways to optimize this.
- When detecting a format in the **New Project Wizard** , we now prefer the “main format” instead of formats that are only based on it. We prefer `Google` _(e.g. over the very similar `Pinterest` format)_, `Heureka` _(e.g. over the very similar `Glami` format)_, and `Shoptet complete`.
- UI: **We’ve optimized the project management interface** so that now project pages will load at all even if the project contains a _very large_ number of rules.
- 🐛 **We fixed** a rare bug in the rules that occurred when **automatically creating element values** _(see [news, June](https://forum.mergado.com/t/news-and-releases-in-mergado/212/78#new-version-of-mergado-1))_ if an additional nested condition was used in the path of the element to be written to.
- And other minor changes and improvements.

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**Post date:** [October 9, 2023, 2:43pm UTC](https://forum.mergado.com/t/news-and-releases-in-mergado/212/84 "2023-10-09T14:43:37Z")

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# New version of Mergado

## Release date and time

Wednesday 30 August 2023 15:30

## News

 ![mergado_release_notes](https://forum.mergado.com/uploads/default/original/2X/1/1bf947ed02b0b18f4a2ac41316a8f49bf873c4c5.jpeg)

- 🌟 🍎 The element-path component _(element-path)_ has undergone another wave of **improvements**.
  - The valid element-path now displays a **green firefly**. The ✅
  - We are now **highlighting the syntax** - just like in the MQL entry form.
  - Use the `ALT+q` and `ALT+Q` keyboard shortcuts to **switch between tabs**.
  - New **suggest operators** that can be used.
  - The **search** in elements is now supported by [fuzzy-search](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approximate_string_matching).

> ℹ For information on where to work with the new component, see this [article](https://forum.mergado.com/t/element-path/753#where-do-we-target-element-values-13).

- 🧩 **Alza Marketplace** integration formats will now be called **AlzaTrade**.
- 🔨 **We’ve fixed the converter** for the 🇨🇿 **Zboží.cz** format - we will no longer convert the `CONDITION` meaning element with the value `"used"` to the value `"bazaar"`, but leave it with the original value.
- 🍕 We have slightly updated the specification for **Malfini** formats.
  - The value that used to be put under the `ATTRIBUTES | ATTRIBUTE | ICON` element will now be put as the _attribute_ value under the `ATTRIBUTES | ATTRIBUTE | VALUE | @icon` path.

- 💬 We have modified the behavior of the XML file exporter so that **XML attributes are now wrapped with double quotes** `` instead of single `'`.
- 🍏 We have reduced the **amount of warnings** generated when applying rules.
  - If an element path _(element-path)_ targets a non-existent value, we will now **only warn for element paths that contain conditions**.

- 📅 **We’ve fixed** an interesting bug in **detecting and comparing the date of the last input feed change** when that date is provided by the remote server in the `last-modified` HTTP header. This could cause a problem with comparing datetimes written in different timezones. This should now be fixed.
- 🧮 \*\*We have **refined** the mechanism for detecting the **number of changed products on import**. Inaccuracies could occur when there was an element without a value inside the XML structure of the imported product, e.g. `<VAT></VAT>`.
- 🌤 when whispering categories for **Kaufland** formats, we will now suggest plural instead of singular forms. Thus, for example, we will suggest the form `Fertilizer` instead of the form `Fertilizer`.
- 🚀 We’ve also spent time on **optimizations in the `XML` parsers** that Mergado uses to read your input feeds. They are now **slightly faster** , but most importantly they now require **less memory** , which _(among other things)_ will ultimately help to make reading larger/more complex XML files more stable.
- 🍬 We’ve gone through piles of text in the Mergado UI and updated it.
- The **UI:** In the rules listing for the `Set Click Pricing` rule, we will now display the **correct target CPC** element of that format.
- And other minor improvements and fixes.

## Platform 🔧

- 💸 As of `1 Sep 2023`, we are changing the **ratio of the amount paid out of revenue** for paid apps. The new ratio is 10% better towards app developers, i.e.:
  - `80%` goes to **developers** and
  - `20%` goes to MERGAD.

- As part of the phasing out of Appcloud as a repository for apps, we have **removed the ability for newly created apps to reside on Appcloud**. Existing apps that already use Appcloud can continue to use it.

You may experience minor outages of MERGADA at the times indicated. Thank you for your understanding and patience as we deploy the new version.

If you have any questions, please feel free to [contact us](https://www.mergado.com/contact).

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**Post date:** [October 10, 2023, 10:48am UTC](https://forum.mergado.com/t/news-and-releases-in-mergado/212/85 "2023-10-10T10:48:29Z")

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# New version of Mergado

## Release date and time

Wednesday 13 September 2023 15:30

 ![release_notes_9](https://forum.mergado.com/uploads/default/original/2X/f/f1338eef1b469b00a00f14bdb83b4d249b6a7e72.jpeg)

## News

- 🌟 🍏 Bringing the next version of the **user [re-generation scheduler](https://forum.mergado.com/t/we-have-added-a-regeneration-scheduler-to-the-mergado-editor/772)**.
  - With it, you can set the **ideal time** for you when you want Mergado to start re-generating your project.
  - You can now set up to **3 time slots per day** with a minimum of 4 hours apart. 📅

- #️⃣ ⭐ You can now **edit your product descriptions** via the new **[WYSIWYG](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYSIWYG) editor**. This allows you to easily edit the `HTML` **content** of an element value.
  - To start it, simply click on the _“edit value”_ button next to the element with the meaning `DESCRIPTION`.

- 🆕 🍎 We support **new integration of 🇭🇺 [Pepita](https://pepita.com/)**. This is one of the largest markeplaces in Hungary. It contains the formats:
  - **Pepita.hu** and
  - **Pepita.hu - stock** , which is an availability variant of the format.

- The component for automatic conversion to **Mergado 2** is now ready for projects containing the **rule** [`import data file`](https://www.mergado.com/blog/csv-import-to-ease-your-work-with-mergado). Previously, we could not automatically convert these projects.
- 🍬 \*\*We have **adjusted** the behavior of the `data file import` rule so that columns with the name of the target elements are matched even **regardless of case** _(unless a match with the same case is found first)_. This is to make the rule a little easier to work with. 😊
- 🚀 We also spent time on **additional optimizations**. Among other things, we have investigated and **treated inefficiencies** in storing data for products that have passed the rule application, but in reality the values of their elements may not have changed at all.
- The 🩹 embedded elements are now **exported in the correct order** when exporting the output `CSV` feeds in the header.
- 🧀 We’ve cleaned up the input product **import process** so that it doesn’t unnecessarily reset the values of multiple elements unless needed.
  - On the one hand, this makes the detection of the number of changed products\*\* during import a bit more **refined** , on the other hand it is a **slight optimization** of the import process and the process of applying rules. The 🏗

- :batch_copy_values: We added the ability to easily copy the output feed URL in the last step of the **create new project wizard**.
- 🔨 **We fixed** the incorrect display of status icons in the **Selection Manager** on the **Products** page.
- 🔡 We edited the text in the application according to [MERGADO Dictionary](https://forum.mergado.cz/t/mergado-slovnik/2470).
- 🐛 When you click on the product listing **on the element values page** , you will now correctly see products containing the name and diacritics.
- And other minor improvements and fixes.

## Platform 🔧

- We will now log the following events for projects after operations through the **M2 API** :
  - **Queries** - create, edit and delete.
  - **Rules** - create, edit and delete.
  - **Elements** - create and delete.
  - **Variables** - create, edit and delete.

You may experience minor Mergado outages at the times indicated. Thank you for your understanding and patience while deploying the new version.

If you have any questions, please feel free to [contact us](https://www.mergado.com/contact).

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**Post date:** [October 10, 2023, 11:20am UTC](https://forum.mergado.com/t/news-and-releases-in-mergado/212/86 "2023-10-10T11:20:47Z")

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# New version of Mergado

## Release date and time

Wednesday 4 October 2023 15:30

 ![relase-notes](https://forum.mergado.com/uploads/default/original/2X/d/d32f994a02d544b25f4aa5215973b601460d1cb9.jpeg)

## News

- 🌟 We have modified the converters from [**Malfini**](https://www.malfini.com/) to **[Shoptet](https://www.shoptet.cz/) CSV** format.
  - The `SUPPLIER` element is now automatically converted to the `supplier` element.
  - The elements `ATTRIBUTE | NAME` and `ATTRIBUTE | VALUE` are now converted to `textProperty` elements _(and if there are more than one, to `textProperty2`, etc.)_.

- 🍏 We’ve added **a bunch of new localizations** for existing integrations:
  - **Google Merchants** :
    - 🇮🇪 Ireland (IE), 🇱🇻 Latvia (LV), 🇱🇺 Luxembourg (LU), and 🇵🇹 Portugal (PT).

  - **Google Ads** :

> **List**
>
> 🇧🇬 Bulgaria (BG)  
> 🇪🇬 Egypt (EG)  
> 🇪🇪 Estonia (EE)  
> 🇫🇮 Finland (FI)  
> 🇮🇩 Indonesia (ID)  
> 🇮🇱 Israel (IL)  
> 🇿🇦 South Africa (ZA)  
> 🇰🇷 South Korea (KR)  
> 🇱🇹 Lithuania (LT)  
> 🇱🇻 Latvia (LV)  
> 🇲🇾 Malaysia (MY)  
> 🇬🇷 Greece (GR)  
> 🇸🇬 Singapore (SG)  
> 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates (AE)

  - **Google Ads Dynamic Remarketing** :

> **List**
>
> 🇦🇺 Australia (AU)  
> 🇧🇷 Brazil (BR)  
> 🇧🇬 Bulgaria (BG)  
> 🇨🇱 Chile (CL)  
> 🇪🇬 Egypt (EG)  
> 🇪🇪 Estonia (EE)  
> 🇮🇳 India (IN)  
> 🇮🇩 Indonesia (ID)  
> 🇮🇪 Ireland (IE)  
> 🏝 Iceland (IS)  
> 🇮🇱 Israel (IL)  
> 🇯🇵 Japan (JP)  
> 🇿🇦 South Africa (ZA)  
> 🇰🇷 South Korea (KR)  
> 🇨🇦 Canada (CA)  
> 🇨🇴 Colombia (CO)  
> 🇨🇾 Cyprus (CY)  
> 🇱🇹 Lithuania (LT)  
> 🇱🇻 Latvia (LV)  
> 🇱🇺 Luxembourg (LU)  
> 🇲🇾 Malaysia (MY)  
> 🇲🇹 Malta (MT)  
> 🇲🇽 Mexico (MX)  
> 🇳🇴 Norway (NO)  
> 🇵🇹 Portugal (PT)  
> 🇷🇺 Russia (RU)  
> 🇸🇬 Singapore (SG)  
> 🇸🇮 Slovenia (SI)  
> 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates (AE)  
> 🇬🇧 United Kingdom (UK)  
> 🇸🇪 Sweden (SE)  
> 🇹🇷 Turkey (TR)  
> 🇺🇾 Uruguay (UY)

- 🍎 For the [**automatic category suggestions**](https://www.mergado.com/blog/mergado-category-matching) `Bulk category renaming` rule, we have added support for the following formats:
  - Formats for **Facebook** :
    - CZ, SK, HU, PL, AT, BR, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, IT, NL, NO, RO, RU, SE, TR, UK, US.

  - Formats for **Google Merchants** :
    - AT, BR, DK, ES, FI, FR, ID, IT, KR, NL, NO, RO, RU, SE, TR, UK.

- 🌲 The component for automatic conversion of projects from **Mergado 1** to **Mergado 2** got a lot of improvements and fixes.
- 📊 In the listing of your e-shops and projects on the main Mergado page **we show basic statistics from Google Analytics** , if the online store is linked to GA. Now we **display data from GA4** as well.
- ☀ When **reading the input `CSV` files** we were sometimes unable to correctly identify the [CSV dialect](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma-separated_values) of the file. We have now improved this **detection**.
- 🐿 Improvements on the **Rules** page:
  - 🕵️‍♂️ **Filtering rules by element used** now works correctly even if the rule targets a justified element path _(element-path)_.
    - So now, for example, searching by the element `IMGURL_ALTERNATIVE` will also find rules that target the element path `IMGURL_ALTERNATIVE { @@POSITION = 2 }`.

  - The **Rule Listing** for rules like `Set Product Parameters` and `Set Shipping Rate` will now no longer show nonsensical target elements that may have appeared in certain cases.0

- 🏗 after **duplication of a project** , it will now automatically **start the regeneration** of the newly created project.
- 🥑 Again, we have slightly **refined** the detection of the number of changed products\*\* when importing input feeds.
- We have **fixed** an error when displaying the **Project Settings** page that was occurring when a project was using the output feed of another project in Mergado as an input feed - and that other project was freshly deleted.
- And lots of other small changes and improvements.

You may experience minor Mergado outages at the times indicated. Thank you for your understanding and patience while deploying the new version.

If you have any questions, please feel free to [contact us](https://www.mergado.com/contact).

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**Post date:** [October 23, 2023, 2:07pm UTC](https://forum.mergado.com/t/news-and-releases-in-mergado/212/87 "2023-10-23T14:07:49Z")

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# New version of Mergado

## Release date and time

Wednesday 18 October 2023 15:30

## News

 ![release_october](https://forum.mergado.com/uploads/default/original/2X/d/d8ede54cbe7a68a5592d00736773aa28102fcdf4.jpeg)

- 🚀 For **Mergado 2** projects we have implemented **optimized rule application**.
- 🛰 We **accelerated** the compilation of [MQL queries](https://forum.mergado.com/t/mql-language/755).
  - This applies especially to **huge MQLs** , e.g. of the type `ITEM_ID IN ("xyz", ... 20 thousand items in total)`, which took extremely long to process and often ended up with an error. Now this should be much more **efficient and faster**.

- 🍍 **We have improved** [feed audits](https://audit.mergado.com/):
  - For the 🇨🇿 and 🇸🇰 variants of the **[Kaufland Marketplace - bid](https://www.kaufland.cz/)** format, we now treat the value `0` as a valid value in the `handling_time` element.
  - For the audit for **[Heureka](https://www.heureka.cz/)** formats, we now report multiple identical `PARAM_NAME` values not as an error, but as a recommendation that Heureka may ignore the remaining parameters with the same name.

- 🐿 **We have updated** the specification for **[Shoptet](https://www.shoptet.cz/)** integration.
  - We now support `ARUKERESO_HIDDEN` and `ARUKERESO_MARKETPLACE_HIDDEN` elements.

- 📅 to improve the usability of the [**user rescheduler**](https://forum.mergado.com/t/we-have-added-a-regeneration-scheduler-to-the-mergado-editor/772), we have **added performance** to Mergado so that projects scheduled in this way can be handled better.
- 🛠 Our component for **automatic conversion of Mergado 1 projects to Mergado 2 projects** has received further improvements and fixes.
- 🧮 **UI:** On the _ **Elements** _ page, for elements that are used **as multi-value** _(if we know this information)_ for at least one product in a project, we now display their **known maximum number** _(i.e. the highest value of `@@POSITION` that makes sense to use in the path to that element.)_  
 ![elements_multi-value](https://forum.mergado.com/uploads/default/original/2X/a/ae5e626f804fc011f9aafd6a2e2c50b9eef2ea19.png)
- 🚛 Again, we’ve **improved** the download of the `CSV` product file on the _ **Products** _ page.
  - It should now **handle larger projects** than before, and also the resulting CSV now contains **more information** about the products and their elements.

- The 🆔 **UI:** In the rules form, when entering variables, we now also correctly whisper the special variable `@MERGADO_ID` _(representing the unique product identifier in Mergado)_.
- 🩹 **UI:** On the project overview page, the `Product Count Variability` graph was sometimes rendered with the wrong data. This **has been corrected**.
- :rules: **UI:** On the _ **Rules** _ page, the rules rows now display a number with their order _(to make it clear at a glance that their order matters)_.  
 ![image](https://forum.mergado.com/uploads/default/original/2X/4/42c01a169f28f452c8167bd3d68212dee55e9e94.png)
- ⌛ **UI: We fixed** an error when displaying the project history if the current page was displaying [app](https://store.mergado.com/) on/off records.

## Platform 🔧

- At the endpoint `https://api.mergado.com/shops/<id>/info/` in the `number_of_projects` field, we now display the **correct number of active projects**.
- On the endpoint `https://api.mergado.com/queries/<id>/products/`, which returns [products from qeuries](https://mergado.docs.apiary.io/#reference/core/products/query-products) _(which are under projects)_, we can now **filter** products by their `created_at` field _(i.e. when they first appeared in MERGAD)_.
  - Example: `https://api.mergado.com/queries/<id>/products/<id>/?filter=created_at>=2023-03-03`

You may experience minor Mergado outages at the time indicated. Thank you for your understanding and patience as we deploy the new version.

If you have any questions, please feel free to [contact us](https://www.mergado.com/contact)

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# New version of Mergado

## Release date and time

Wednesday 01 November 2023 15:30

## News

 ![release-notes-8](https://forum.mergado.com/uploads/default/original/2X/f/f29cf140eb689831e18fdd1648c8f745471e9398.jpeg)

- 🍏 **We have updated** format specifications 🌍 [**Upgates**](https://www.upgates.cz/).
- For the **TikTok** integration, we have added **support for additional countries** :
  - 🇨🇱 Chile
  - 🇨🇴 Colombia
  - 🇲🇽 Mexico
  - 🇷🇺 Russia
  - 🇺🇦 Ukraine

- 🥧 **We have updated** the specifications for the 🌍 [**Glami**](https://www.glami.cz/) formats.
  - We support **the `GTIN`** element\*\* _(the `EAN` element is now marked as outdated)_.
  - We have added support for 🇵🇱 **Glami.pl**.

- 🏗 We have spent time working on internal and _“invisible”_ improvements to our code, which will then greatly **simplify and speed up the implementation of new functionality** in Mergado - e.g. **new rule types**.
- 🏖 In the section for [**Audit output feed**](https://audit.mergado.com/) on the **project overview page** , we have fixed the **behaviour of the audit progress indicator** - it should now correctly show the status of the audit in progress.
- 🔨 **We have fixed** an error that could occur when trying to **save project settings** if the project was using [custom format](https://forum.mergado.com/t/custom-format/508), which had previously had its state changed in the settings.
- The ⏩ Component for **automatic conversion** of Mergado 1 projects to [**MERGADO 2**](https://forum.mergado.com/t/what-is-mergado-2/761) projects has received additional improvements and fixes.
- And other minor fixes and improvements.

You may experience minor Mergado outages at the times indicated. Thank you for your understanding and patience as we deploy the new version.

If you have any questions, please feel free to [contact us](https://www.mergado.com/contact).

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**Post date:** [November 22, 2023, 3:20pm UTC](https://forum.mergado.com/t/news-and-releases-in-mergado/212/89 "2023-11-22T15:20:54Z")

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# New version of Mergado

## Release date and time

Monday 20 November 2023 15:30

## News

 ![release](https://forum.mergado.com/uploads/default/original/2X/9/9df2dfa17c13c0b4938f6b0ba1fe6ed55c514083.jpeg)

- 🍏 🌠 In MERGAD there is a **new rule type:** `Remove parameter values`.
  - With this rule it is possible to **remove parameters according to their value**.
    - For example, it is possible to remove all `Color` parameters with values `Green` and `Red` in this way,
    - or it is **also possible to remove all values** with a specific parameter name _(i.e. remove all parameters with the name `Color` regardless of their value)_.

  - The :variables: field for specifying the values to be removed **can use [variables](https://forum.mergado.com/t/variables/506)**.
  - If the output format has multiple potential target elements _(or paths to an element)_ containing parameters, then **you can select a target element** from under which to remove parameter values.
    - For example, for **Shoptet** formats, you can choose between the target elements `TEXT_PROPERTIES | TEXT_PROPERTY` and `VARIANTS | VARIANT | PARAMETERS | PARAMETER`.

  - This rule type is only available for [MERGADO 2 projects](https://forum.mergado.com/t/introducing-mergado-2/538).
  - ℹ _An article with a more detailed description of the new rule type is in preparation._

- 🚀 On the **Products** and **Rules** pages, we have **optimized the retrieval of data** needed to display the pages. Now **large projects with a large number of selections** with long MQL conditions _(e.g. `ITEM\_ID IN (…20 thousand items…)_ will load much faster and be less prone to rendering errors.
- 🔑 **Keychain** : We fixed a bug when saving the `Mergado Analytic XML` URL settings.
- 🍬 **UI:** We have restored **alphabetical paging** above the online store listing on the main Mergado page to easily **switch the listed shops** according to whether their name starts with the selected letter.
- 📅 **UI:** On the **Rules** page, we have **corrected** the display of the [**rules planner**](https://forum.mergado.com/t/rule-planner-in-mergado/267) status icon.
- 💾 **UI:** On the **Products** page, we fixed the display of the `Save Changes` button after changing the condition of the saved and currently displayed selection.
- 🗒 **UI:** We fixed the behavior of the [**WYSIWYG**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYSIWYG) **Element Value Editor** on the **Products** page that added unwanted `<p>` elements when repeatedly switching the editor view mode.
- 🔨 We have improved [**character encoding**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character_encoding) detection of the input feed when importing it to better handle characters of other languages _(e.g. Danish)_.
- Again, other minor fixes and improvements.

If you have any questions, please feel free to [contact us](https://www.mergado.com/contact).

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**Post date:** [January 17, 2024, 3:25pm UTC](https://forum.mergado.com/t/news-and-releases-in-mergado/212/90 "2024-01-17T15:25:24Z")

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# New version of Mergado

## Release date and time

Wednesday 24 January 2024 15:30

🏂 After the traditional Christmas break, Mergado is back with another batch of regular new features and improvements!

## News

 ![EN (1)](https://forum.mergado.com/uploads/default/original/2X/8/8b41395cfade32f019f7bcc88d76260c960800b3.jpeg)

- 🌟 :rewriting: **Rule** `Rewrite` **is now multi-line** _(only for [MERGADO 2](https://forum.mergado.com/t/introducing-mergado-2/538)projects)_.
- The **rewriting of values for different elements can now be handled by a single rule** instead of having to set multiple rewrite rules for different elements, as was previously the case.
  - Each line in this rule specifies the target element _(or element path)_ and its new value.
  - 

 ![image](https://forum.mergado.com/uploads/default/original/2X/b/b93acdfca20e9ddf659229f90bab5d216a0fb38c.png)

> ℹ _ **clever insertion** _ works in the row list - that is, two-column data in the clipboard can be inserted as new rows when editing a rule.

- 🍎 :custom_format: For [**custom formats**](https://forum.mergado.com/t/custom-format/508), the URL of the file from which to retrieve the **category list for the custom format** can now be specified.
  - Mergado expects a **list in the target file where categories are specified; one category per line**.
    - A single-column CSV without quotes around the values corresponds to this format - so you can **also use, for example, a dynamically exported CSV** from [Google Sheets](https://sheets.google.com) _(see image below)_.
    - This file will **not be downloaded once, but repeatedly as needed** ; the downloaded list is then remembered for a while _(currently 30 minutes)_ before Mergado downloads it again if needed.

  - The categories from this file will then be offered in the user interface **wherever we offer categories for common formats** _(e.g. Heureka.cz)_, i.e. **e.g. in the category rules form** or when editing the manual value of a category element.
  - 

 ![image](https://forum.mergado.com/uploads/default/original/2X/3/3c72ad99a16f6bc7534ebcd3a7f1a786392c6ab2.png)

- 🍏 **News in formats** :
  - Mergado has a new format [**Flexdog**](https://www.flexdog.cz/), for the states such as:
    - 🇨🇿 Czech Republic,
    - 🇸🇰 Slovakia,
    - 🇩🇪 Germany,
    - 🇪🇸 Spain,
    - 🇫🇷 France,
    - 🇮🇹 Italy,
    - 🇵🇱 Poland, and
    - 🇷🇴 Romania.

  - We have updated the [**Malfini**](https://www.malfini.com/) format to the latest specification.
  - 🕵️‍♂️ We can now [audit](https://audit.mergado.com) process the feed for [**Pepita.hu**](https://pepita.hu/) format.

- 🚀 **We have optimized** the application of [rule](https://forum.mergado.com/t/find-and-replace/490) `Find and Replace` in situations where **search by regular expressions** mode is used and at the same time there are **more than ~500** such expressions _(i.e., lines in the rule setting)_.
  - According to our measurements, this leads to a **significant speedup** of applying such a rule.

- 🔨 **Queries:** In the selections form on the **Products** page, we considered entries like `ITEM__ID = 00123` to be an error, because a number cannot start with zero. This is **now fixed** because **a number can actually start with zero**.
- :rules: **Rules:** The rule order number _(in which order the rules are applied in sequence)_ visible in the rule list now holds the correct value even when searching or filtering rules.
- 🍬 **UI:** In the (extended) **element-path** component _(element-path)_ the `Right and Parameters` tab has a new, brighter icon.
- :variables: **Variables:** When **creating or editing a variable** to test a regular expression, we provide a random value for the selected element. Previously, this random value was taken only from the input values, and this mechanism could not be reasonably used to create variables from elements that are filled only when the rules are applied. This **has been improved** and now these random values are also taken from the output values of the selected element.
- 🍕 **Queries:** In the simplified mini-list of selections on the **Products** page, **queries can now also be deleted**.
  - This mini-list is also now open **by default**.

- 🌳 Improvements to the **new project creation wizard** :
  - We now **preferably** offer input and output **formats by user state**.
  - As suggestions for **pairing elements** , we now correctly **offer nested elements** , if any - e.g. `VARIANTS | VARIANT | EAN`.

- 💦 On the **Products** page, we sometimes had text “bleeding” to the right when displaying the differences between input and output element values. This is now fixed.
- :history: In the header of the component for displaying the e-shop listing its projects, there is now a **click to quickly jump to the online store history**.
- 📊 We have fixed a bug in **displaying the pairing chart** of products _(this applies to **Heureka.cz** and **Heureka.sk** formats)_.
- When **importing an unchanged input feed** an error could occur in certain cases instead of the usual skipping of the import. We have fixed this.
- ⚓ When **downloading product data as CSV** on the **Products** page, we were returning the values in the resulting CSV position in the element path as `ELEMENT { POSITION = 1 }` instead of the correct `ELEMENT { @@POSITION = 1 }`. This has now been fixed.
- ⚒ We have fixed a bug in [app **Repairman**](https://store.mergado.com/detail/xmlrepairman/) when creating rules.
- And lots of other minor fixes and improvements.

# Platform 🔧

- We can send a **new hook** `process.apply.failed` in case of **rule application errors**. Sending it can be set in the **webhook settings** for your app in [Developers](https://app.mergado.com/developers/).

If you have any questions, feel free to [contact us](https://www.mergado.com/contact).

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# New version of Mergado

## Release date and time

Wednesday 7 February 2024 15:30

 ![EN (1)](https://forum.mergado.com/uploads/default/original/2X/b/b7149c3ad2d834f72452085cc21f8864c3417998.jpeg)

## News

- 🍏 🛼 **Rule application** now **processes variables iteratively**.
  - 🤔 **What does this mean?**
    - It means that when values from a variable/path to an element originating from a multi-value element are written to a multi-value element, then **pairs** of **source**  **vs** `target\*\* are **newly processed sequentially**. That is, the first found value is used to write to the first target element, the second found value is used to write to the second target element, etc.
    - 🤯 **What?!**
      - For example, multiplying the prices of all variants under a product can now be done via **one single rule** `calculation`, in which you set the `VARIANTS | VARIANT | PRICE_VAT` element to write `%VARIANTS | VARIANT | PRICE% * 1.21`:
        - The value `%VARIANTS | VARIANT | PRICE%` of the first variant is multiplied by `1.21` and inserted into the element `VARIANTS | VARIANT | PRICE_VAT` only for the first variant.
        - The value `%VARIANTS | VARIANT | PRICE%` from the second variant is multiplied by `1.21` and inserted into the element `VARIANTS | VARIANT | PRICE_VAT` only for the second variant.
        - And so on.

  - This applies to the following rule types:
    - [**Rerwrite**](https://forum.mergado.com/t/rewrite/491)
    - [**Bulk rewriting by query**](https://forum.mergado.com/t/bulk-rewriting-by-query/487)
    - [**Bulk rewriting by values**](https://forum.mergado.com/t/bulk-rewriting-by-values/488)
    - [**Calculation**](https://forum.mergado.com/t/calculation/479)

- ⚒ Mergado inserted a newline at the end of the element value when creating the output `XML` in certain cases **for an element with an attribute**. **This is now fixed.**
- 🍬 **UI:** In some places in the **multi-line rule editing form** we support **smart paste** from the clipboard. However, in certain situations, such smart pasting is undesirable - so you can now disable **smart paste** in those places.
- 🍕 In the **create new project wizard** we now **suggest appropriate matching elements for [custom formats](https://forum.mergado.com/t/custom-format/508)** as well.
- 🚴‍♂️ Minor redesign of the top right corner of the Mergado interface with the user menu. It is now easier to **click on e.g. payment settings or invoices**.
- And other minor adjustments, fixes and improvements.

# Platform 🔧

- Endpoint `/queries/<id>/products/` now supports the `values_to_extract` parameter, with which you can easily extract the values of their element-paths or variables to the returned products. See [API documentation](https://mergado.docs.apiary.io/#reference/core/products) for more information.
- Endpoint `/elements/<id>/` now supports the `PATCH` method, through which you can change `name` _(string)_, `hidden` _(bool)_, `order` _(int, only in Mergado 2)_, `is_attribute` _(bool, only in Mergado 2)_.
- We fixed sending webhooks after queries operations for projects, some of which were accidentally not being sent.

We have customized **Invoicing for each customer**.  
We’ve made useful changes to billing for use of Mergado paid services. Customers will now receive differential invoices during the month **depending on the origination of the paid service** under their user account - not _until the 1st day_ of the following month.

If you have any questions, please feel free to [contact us](https://www.mergado.com/contact).

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**Post date:** [February 29, 2024, 10:30am UTC](https://forum.mergado.com/t/news-and-releases-in-mergado/212/92 "2024-02-29T10:30:58Z")

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# New version of Mergado

## Release date and time

Wednesday 28 February 2024 15:30

 ![release_mergado_feb](https://forum.mergado.com/uploads/default/original/2X/5/5893b51fc7c54c382415dfa4bdfa54d55eb63a65.jpeg)

## News

- 🛍 Mergado supports **new format [Kvinono.cz](https://www.kvinono.cz/)**.

- 🌟 The `Set product parameters` rule **has been significantly improved**.

- 🍏 **We have improved the import behavior of the input XML** feed.

- 💰 **We have updated the Czech VAT specifications** for [feed audit](https://audit.mergado.com/).

- 🕵️‍♂️ **In MQL queries** you can now use element names `NUMBER` and `NATURAL` _(which are also MQL keywords)_ without wrapping them in `[square brackets]\_.

- 🚀 We have devoted considerable effort to **preparing a more scalable infrastructure**. This will open up opportunities to **increase the frequency of project re-generation** and also allow us to work on further improvements to Mergado’s performance.

- ⚙ On the **Rules** page, a list of target elements is displayed for rules like `Rewrite`, `Remove parameter values` and `Set product parameters`.  

- 🔨 For the **Spartoo** format converter, we fixed a bug in the price conversion.

- 🎁 In the form for **creating variables** there is a **button to extract a random value** from the target element, which allows you to test [regular expressions](https://forum.mergado.com/t/where-to-prepare-regular-expressions-for-mergado-at-regex101-com/910). Now this value is **randomly extracted from both the output and input values of the element**.

- 🩹 If an **element with a numeric name** _(e.g. `13456`)_ occurred in a project with the `CSV` format, displaying the **Elements** page could result in an error. This problem is now fixed.

- The 🤯 we have fixed cases where some pages in Mergado interface could not be loaded due to too **high number of warnings** generated during one rule application.

- 🍬 On the Mergado main page with the list of online stores, we now **keep the search box** if the user has access to only one online store.

- And other minor changes and improvements.

You may experience minor Mergado outages at the times listed. Thank you for your understanding and patience as we deploy the new version.

If you have any questions, please feel free to [contact us](https://www.mergado.com/contact).

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# New version of Mergado

## Release date and time

Wednesday 13 March 2024 15:30

## News

 ![new_release_march](https://forum.mergado.com/uploads/default/original/2X/f/f751ba4808208f43fad1529a0ea493fb22d8a8dc.jpeg)

- 🔎 The **Heureka** and **Zboží.cz** services have updated the calculation method and prices per clicks. Therefore, we have **adjusted the rule** [**Cost per click pricing**](https://forum.mergado.com/t/cost-per-click-pricing/485) to match their requirements.
- 🍎 **We have updated [Mergado Audit](https://audit.mergado.com)** to integrate **Heureka and Google** to the current specification. For example, we added a check for:
  - Date format for the `G:SALE_PRICE_EFFECTIVE_DATE` element,
  - the value of the `SIZE_TYPE` element. It can only take the values: `regular`, `petite`, `maternity`, `big`, `tall`, `plus`,
  - whether the `TITLE` element contains any words related to the discount, etc,
  - elements `DESCRIPTION`, `G:ID` and `LINK`, where we check their content or uniqueness in the feed.

- 🆕 When creating a new project, we now **report more accurate errors** in the first step. You will now learn that:
  - you did not insert any url of the input feed,
  - the input feed url is not valid,
  - the input feed address is too long,
  - your feed server is unavailable,
  - your feed server is blocking our access,
  - there is no file at the supplied address, or
  - your server is not responding (or if there is a connection error).

- We have **hidden a left menu to switch online stores and projects** for users who only have access to one online store that contains only one project.
- The **`Set Product Parameters` rule can now delete a value** by leaving the value field blank. This works similarly for the `Set shipping price` rule, for example.
- 🐛 We have fixed a bug where a project that was converted from `ISO 8859-15` to `UTF-8` encoding could not be created.
- 🐛 [MQL](https://forum.mergado.com/t/mql-language/755) queries containing the character `?` in the element name will now be evaluated correctly.
- 🐛 In some cases, we may not have offered pairing elements in the _create new project_ wizard. This is now fixed.
- 🚀 We continue to **prepare a more scalable infrastructure** that will allow us to work on further improvements regarding Mergado performance.
- And other minor changes and improvements.

You may experience some minor Mergado outages at the time indicated. Thank you for your understanding and patience as we deploy the new version.

If you have any questions, please feel free to [contact us](https://www.mergado.com/contact).

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# New version of Mergado

## Release date and time

Wednesday 27 March 2024 15:30

## News

 ![release_mergado_april](https://forum.mergado.com/uploads/default/original/2X/e/e55e1cc128482bf937b8ed0d42fe2dcbf93e09f0.jpeg)

- 🍏 **Simplifying the user interface** of Mergado.
  - On the **Rules** page, instead of the original `Apply Rules` button, there are now two actions to choose from: `Regenerate Changed`, `Apply Rules` or `Apply to Traced Items Only`. For more information, see the article [Run processes manually on the Rules page](https://forum.mergado.com/t/run-processes-manually-on-rules-page/952).
  - The online store settings are now **consolidated** into a single tabbed page - here you will find both general settings and the user permissions manager.
  - On the main page, the `Custom Automation` (formerly `Macros`) item is **now hidden** if the user has not yet defined even one [custom automation](https://www.mergado.com/mergado-macros) _(the first automation can be created inside the project)_.
  - On the main page, the `Custom Formats` item is **now hidden** if the user has not yet defined even one [custom format](https://forum.mergado.com/t/custom-format/508) _(the first custom format can be created within the create new project wizard)_.
  - We have reduced the number of links in the footer of the main left menu **for better clarity**.
    - :mergado: The link to [**Mergado Developers**](https://app.mergado.com/developers/) appears in the menu footer only inside [**Mergado Store**](https://store.mergado.com/).

- 🎁 **We have adjusted the [CJ.com](https://www.cj.com/) integration formats** to **the current specification**.
  - **[CJ.com](http://CJ.com)** accepts **XML feeds** of Google format.
    - We have adapted this for localizations: 🇦🇺 Australia, 🇦🇹 Austria, 🇧🇪 Belgium, 🇨🇦 Canada, 🇧🇷 Brazil, 🇩🇪 Germany, 🇩🇰 Denmark, 🇪🇸 Spain, 🇫🇮 Finland, 🇫🇷 France, 🇭🇰 Hong Kong, 🇨🇭 Switzerland, 🇮🇪 Ireland, 🇯🇵 Japan, 🇰🇷 South Korea, 🇳🇱 Netherlands, 🇳🇴 Norway, 🇳🇿 New Zealand, 🇵🇹 Portugal, 🇸🇪 Sweden, 🇸🇬 Singapore, 🇬🇧 United Kingdom (Great Britain and Northern Ireland) and 🇺🇸 United States of America.

  - For **CSV feeds** for CJ. com feeds, we now support the following localizations: 🇦🇺 Australia, 🇦🇹 Austria, 🇧🇪 Belgium, 🇨🇦 Canada, 🇧🇷 Brazil, 🇩🇰 Denmark, 🇫🇮 Finland, 🇭🇰 Hong Kong, 🇨🇭 Switzerland, 🇮🇪 Ireland, 🇯🇵 Japan, 🇰🇷 South Korea, 🇳🇱 Netherlands, 🇳🇴 Norway, 🇳🇿 New Zealand, 🇵🇹 Portugal and 🇸🇬 Singapore.
  - To differentiate, we have added the suffix `(until 03/2024)\_ to older formats _(according to the old specification)_.

- ⚒ \*\*We have **adjusted** the behavior of [rules **Set product parameters**](https://forum.mergado.com/t/set-product-parameters/477). The new behavior is that if the value of a variable to be inserted into the value of a parameter is empty for that product, the **parameter will not be created** _(previously the parameter was created - but with an empty value)_.
- 🚀 We spent time optimizing the loading of product data on the **Products** page - loading huge and complex products _(e.g. products with tens of thousands of elements with complicated indentations)_ should now **be more nimble**.
- 🐛 We have fixed a bug in the [create new project wizard](https://app.mergado.com/new-project/) where an error could occur if input feed elements contained some unexpected characters _(this is handled in the context of offering suitable matching elements)_.
- 🍬 We have added new icons for **[CJ.com](http://CJ.com)** and [**FLEXDOG**](https://www.flexdog.com/).
- And other minor tweaks and improvements.

If you have any questions, please feel free to [contact us](https://www.mergado.com/contact).

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**Post date:** [April 10, 2024, 9:06am UTC](https://forum.mergado.com/t/news-and-releases-in-mergado/212/95 "2024-04-10T09:06:19Z")

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# New version of Mergado

## Release date and time

Wednesday 10 April 2024 15:30

## News

 ![EN](https://forum.mergado.com/uploads/default/original/2X/0/0edca61066f774c9cbdd55494e3c66a33e016170.jpeg)

- 🍏 We continue to **simplify the user interface** of Mergado.
  - Several pages related to **project settings** (and e.g. the delete project page)\_ have been consolidated into one page with several tabs - more about **settings** in [article on our forum](https://forum.mergado.com/t/settting-in-mergado/958/1).

- ⚙ **We’ve optimized** the behavior of **analyzing the input XML feed** in the project creation wizard:
  - In cases where there were a huge number of HTML/XML attributes in XML elements _(but also, for example, in HTML elements inside [CDATA](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDATA) in XML element values)_, such analysis could take an extremely long time. The new Mergado should handle such a situation better.

- 🌟 We have added **support for additional formats** for our [**automatic category suggestions**](https://www.mergado.com/blog/mergado-category-matching) under the `Rename categories in bulk` rule. We are now handling smart and automatic suggestions for these integrations:
  - **Glami** : Global 🌐, Czech Republic 🇨🇿, Slovakia 🇸🇰, Poland 🇵🇱, Germany 🇩🇪, Bulgaria 🇧🇬, Brazil 🇧🇷, Spain 🇪🇸, France 🇫🇷, Italy 🇮🇹, Croatia 🇭🇷, Hungary 🇭🇺, Turkey :türkiye:, Slovenia 🇸🇮, Romania 🇷🇴, Latvia 🇱🇻, Lithuania 🇱🇹, Greece 🇬🇷, Estonia 🇪🇪.

- :rules: We have slightly improved the filtering behavior of the rules by target elements on the **Rules** page.
- From the **Help** window in the top menu you can now click on:
  - 🎲 [**EP Playground**](https://app.mergado.com/tools/ep-playground/), where you can try out **how to work with elements** _(and [element paths](https://forum.mergado.com/t/element-path/753))_ in Mergado.
  - :movie\_projector: **A bunch of useful video tutorials** to help you get up to speed on basic Mergado interface tasks.

- 🍭 **UI:** We’ve improved the display of some special characters that were not appearing correctly in the “entity” names on the project history page.
- 🥹 **UI:** We have fixed the position of the user’s avatar in the top left corner of the interface.
- And other minor fixes and minor improvements.

## Platform 🔧

- Mergado was not sending [webhook](https://mergado.github.io/docs/apps/app-hooks.html#processapplystart) `process.apply.start` about the start of the rule application process when there were zero rules for a project. This is fixed and the webhook is now sent in this case as well.

You may experience minor Mergado outages at the time indicated. Thank you for your understanding and patience as we deploy the new version.

If you have any questions, please feel free to [contact us](https://www.mergado.com/contact).

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**Post date:** [April 25, 2024, 10:38am UTC](https://forum.mergado.com/t/news-and-releases-in-mergado/212/96 "2024-04-25T10:38:48Z")

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# New version of Mergado

## Release date and time

Wednesday 24 April 2024 15:30

## News

- ⭐ 🍏 We have a **long awaited** news - **new rule** `Merge variants`.

- 🌠 We now **support a new format** , which is **Kaufland Marketplace - offer XML** - in variants for 🇨🇿 Czech Republic, 🇸🇰 Slovakia and 🇩🇪 Germany.

- 🚀 We explored another option for **optimizing the application of rules** :

- In the **create new project wizard** we fixed the behavior of the keys when selecting from the suggested input feeds. You can now use the `ENTER` key to confirm the selected URL.

- 🔗 When logging in to external services _(Heureka, etc.)_ in [**Keychain**](https://www.mergado.com/tag/mergado-keychain), you will now get a nice informative message, not an error, if you don’t have any online store in that service that can be selected to connect to Mergado.

- And other minor improvements and fixes.

## Platform 🔧

- When sending the `process.apply.failed` hook to payload, we’ve added some additional useful fields with information about the cause of the crash if the crash is caused by an error in an app rule.
- We fixed the behavior of the endpoint `project/<id>/rules` so that it doesn’t crash if the project contains a rule of type `params_remove_by_value`.

You may experience minor Mergado crashes at the specified time. Thank you for your understanding and patience as we deploy the new version.

If you have any questions, please feel free to [contact us](https://www.mergado.com/contact).

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**Post date:** [May 10, 2024, 12:28pm UTC](https://forum.mergado.com/t/news-and-releases-in-mergado/212/97 "2024-05-10T12:28:12Z")

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# New version of Mergado

## Deployment date and time

Monday 6 May 2024 15:30

## News

- 💸 **Heureka** (Czech and Slovak) has updated [click-through rates](https://heureka.group/cz-cs/pro-e-shopy/placeny-rezim-ppc/cenik-prokliku/). Therefore, we have also taken these changes into account in Mergado _(these price lists affect e.g. the rule [**Setting prices per click**](https://forum.mergado.com/t/cost-per-click-pricing/485))_.
- 🗒 Within the project, some actions could be saved twice in project history. This is now fixed.
- ⚒ For the [**Data Import**](https://www.mergado.com/blog/csv-import-rule) rule, we have fixed two different errors that could occur in certain cases when applying the rules.
- 🍰 A bunch of minor fixes in the UI.

## Platform 🔧

- Sending `process.apply.failed` webhooks should now be fixed.

You may experience some minor Mergado outages at the time indicated. Thank you for your understanding and patience as we deploy the new version.

If you have any questions, please feel free to [contact us](https://www.mergado.com/contact).

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**Post date:** [May 22, 2024, 2:16pm UTC](https://forum.mergado.com/t/news-and-releases-in-mergado/212/98 "2024-05-22T14:16:15Z")

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# New version of Mergado

## Deployment date and time

Wednesday 22 May 2024 12:30

## News

 ![EN (2)](https://forum.mergado.com/uploads/default/original/2X/1/1efdd12ab0e7ee534c2fc9868e2da62df022a907.jpeg)

- 🍎 Mergado has a new format: [**Google Merchant TSV**](https://support.google.com/merchants/answer/160588?hl=en), in a version for 🇭🇺 Hungary and also for 🗺 world in general.
- For some formats we have added a **version for 🇮🇸 Iceland** :
  - **Google Ads DSA** [IS].
  - **Google Merchants** [IS]
  - **[Facebook.com](http://Facebook.com)**
  - **[Facebook.com](http://Facebook.com) CSV** [IS]
  - **[Snapchat.com](http://Snapchat.com)** [IS]

- 🍏 **Newly created** selections like `number of characters equals...` and co. **will now work correctly** even if the element values contain newlines.
- ⚒ We fixed a bug in the [**Setting shipping rates**](https://www.mergado.com/blog/set-up-shipping) rule that could occur when setting prices for multiple carriers at the same time, when blank values were being set in the prices of one of those carriers.
- 📦 Modifications around the recently added rule type [**Merge Variants**](https://forum.mergado.com/t/merging-variants-rule/967/1):
  - Now such a rule cannot be reprioritized on the **Rules** page. Merging variants is _always_ applied after all other rules.
  - Rules of this type can now be **imported between projects**.

- 🔨 Applying a **Data Import** rule could result in an error when using _large_ CSV files _(100 or more thousand rows)_. This should now be fixed.
- 📓 For some “generic” formats, such as [**Plain CSV**](https://www.mergado.com/blog/release-june-20), attempting to tabulate products on the **Products** page could result in an error. This has now been fixed.
- 📥 In the [**custom format**](https://forum.mergado.com/t/custom-format/508) edit form, an error could occur when pre-populating a format according to another, previously saved custom format if that previously saved format specified nested elements. This is now **fixed**.
- 🍬 An error could occur on the **Elements** page if the user clicked the create new element button multiple times in a row. This has been fixed.

## Platform 🔧

- Users who are app developers for [Mergado Apps Platform](https://forum.mergado.com/t/custom-format/508) will now **always** see a link in the footer of the left main menu to easily click through to [**Mergado Developers**](https://developers.mergado.com/).
- We have renamed the `process.apply.failed` webhook to `process.apply.failed.by_this_app`, so that the name better reflects the behavior and purpose of the webhook - to inform a specific app about a rule application crash caused by a rule of that app.

You may experience minor Mergado crashes at the time indicated. Thank you for your understanding and patience as we deploy the new version.

If you have any questions, please feel free to [contact us](https://www.mergado.com/contact).

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**Post date:** [June 14, 2024, 8:16am UTC](https://forum.mergado.com/t/news-and-releases-in-mergado/212/99 "2024-06-14T08:16:41Z")

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# New version of Mergado

## Release date and time

Wednesday 12 June 2024 **12:30**

 ![mergado release notes june](https://forum.mergado.com/uploads/default/original/2X/9/9e0f4f22f4e743f62a4569db4cf49750fb41cf2a.jpeg)

## News

- 🌠 The following improvements have been made to the **new project creation wizard** :
  - 🌍 In the steps for selecting input and output formats, there is now **division of formats by country** - within the list for a specific country, the most used formats are **ranked by popularity** , the rest of the formats are alphabetical.
  - When using an input feed from the Hungarian platform **Unas.hu** , we now also check whether this service has allowed Mergado servers to **access your feed**.

- 🌟 **Many new formats and integrations** 🍀
  - The [**Mergado XML**](https://www.mergado.cz/sites/default/files/perm/document/mergado-product-xml-1-11-en-1.pdf) format is now supported for other countries: **🇧🇬 Bulgaria, 🇫🇮 Finland, 🇮🇸 Iceland, 🇱🇹 Lithuania, 🇱🇻 Latvia, 🇵🇹 Portugal, 🇺🇦 Ukraine, 🗺 World**.
  - Integration for **[Facebook.com](http://Facebook.com)** now supports `XML` and `CSV` formats for 🇮🇸 **Iceland** and 🇺🇦 **Ukraine**.
  - We have also added support for **Iceland** to these integrations as well: **Google Ads DSA** , **Google Merchants** and **[Snapchat.com](http://Snapchat.com)**.
  - The **Zlavy.sme.sk** format is now renamed to **Dovolenka.sme.sk**.
  - The **Artikul** and **Smartbay** integration formats are no longer **offered** as input/output formats.
  - For **Zoot** integration _(newly named **ZOOT Marketplace** )_ we have added support for additional countries: **🇸🇰 Slovakia, 🇭🇷 Croatia, 🇷🇴 Romania, 🇭🇺 Hungary, 🇸🇮 Slovenia, 🇧🇬 Bulgaria and 🇮🇹 Italy**.
  - For **Kaufland** we now support the countries 🇦🇹 Austria and 🇵🇱 Poland.

- 🍏 💰 In case an online store moves to a higher **billing rate** , an informational email is now sent to the online store owner\*\* in Mergado in addition to the notification display.
- The 🎲 In the form for **creating and editing a variable** , it is possible to **extract a random value from the specified element _(or from the specified [element-path](https://forum.mergado.com/t/mergado-2-element-path/540))_ to test [regular expression](https://www.mergado.cz/regex-ebook-zdarma)**. This random value is also _randomly_ picked from the input or output values of the given target element. We have now added the ability for the **user to decide** whether the random value should be selected from input or output values.
- 📔 on the **Elements** page, you can see the **number of unique input and output values** for each element. In the case where the **element is hidden in the output** , however, we don’t have the **number of unique _output_ values** pre-calculated _(because Mergado calculates them when exporting the output feed, where hidden elements don’t even go)_, in which case we could be showing an old and inaccurate number here. We **do not show any new number here** and the user can only get the exact information about the values of such an element when **clicking on the list of its values**.
- 🍕 [The **Rename Category in Bulk Rule**](https://forum.mergado.com/t/rename-categories-in-bulk/489) can now only be created if the input and output format specifies an element for a category.
- ⚛ In [Rule **Merge Variants**](https://forum.mergado.com/t/merging-variants-rule/967), we **fixed a bug** that caused the output product to be duplicated in a certain case.
- 💸 **We have improved the display of user invoices** , where we have also now **added pagination** to access invoices with older dates.
- 🍬 In some cases, there may have been an error when paging products on the **Products** page. This **has been fixed**.
- 🎁 We have fixed a bug that was causing the **user avatar** to not show in the upper right corner for logged in users.
- Other minor improvements and fixes.

You may experience minor Mergad outages at the times indicated. Thank you for your understanding and patience as we deploy the new version.

If you have any questions, please feel free to [contact us](https://www.mergado.com/contact).

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# New version of Mergado

## Release date and time

Wednesday 26 June 2024 **12:30**

## News

- 🦮 Newly registered users will get the opportunity to **be guided through creating a new project**.
- 🌠 When attempting to leave the page with [the **create a new project** wizard](https://app.mergado.com/new-project/), we will now have a confirmation dialog pop up to prevent unwanted exit from this page.
- We have added new local variants of the **Favi** integration formats: 🇧🇬 Bulgaria, 🇸🇮 Slovenia, 🇬🇷 Greece.
- 🚄 We have spent time further exploring **optimizing** the process of applying the rules. This has borne fruit and in certain cases **the application of the rules should be faster**.
- We have corrected the occasional misbehaviour of the rule [**Set shipping rates**](https://www.mergado.com/blog/set-up-shipping).
- 📦 On the **Products** page, we fixed a bug that occurred when switching between the simple interface and the interface for entering a custom MQL query.
  - If the condition was entered as a full-text search, elements in the condition were duplicated when switching to entering a custom MQL query. This will not happen anymore.

- 🦊 **In Firefox** , the input fields for entering MQL or element-path _(element paths)_ could really mess up the cursor behavior when trying to move the cursor using the keyboard _(e.g. the cursor unexpectedly jumped from place to place at certain times)_. We addressed this and tamed the cursor.
- 💰 We fixed a bug that caused us to send **email notifications about the end of the trial period** to online stores that were deleted that month.
- And other minor fixes and improvements.

If you have any questions, please feel free to [contact us](https://www.mergado.com/contact).

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