The story so far
Ever since its advent in 2007, Spree – originally developed by Sean Schofield, is the most popular open source Ruby On Rails E-commerce Software spanning over 17,703 commits, 725 contributes and 208 releases. Spree was acquired by First Data in the late 2015 and since then, there has been fair amount of speculation around Spree remaining as an opensource project and it’s long term future as outlined here in this blog post.
As it turned out Spree didn’t die off, but revived under a new core team. After the acquisition announcement developers from Spark Solutions and Vinsol volunteered to keep spree alive and has been doing a fantastic job, putting shoulders to the wheel by taking Spree from version 3.0.4
to the current Spree 3.3
Whats new in Spree 3.3
On August 22, 2017, Spree released version 3.3 and is packed with the following major features.Rails 5.1 support
Spree 3.3
is Rails 5.1
compatible whereas Spree 3.2
runs on Rails version 5.0
. Which means managing JavaScript dependencies from NPM via `Yarn`, ability to use direct & resolved routes, parameterized mailers and many more goodies `Rails 5.1` has to offer
Ruby 2.4 support
Spree now works with Ruby versions `2.2 (>= 2.2.7)` ,2.2 (>= 2.2.7)
, 2.2 (>= 2.2.7)
, 2.3.x
and the latest 2.4.x
. So Ruby 2.4x
? Yay! that’s Faster Hashes, Unified Integers, and Better Rounding for you right out of the box
Segment tracker integration
Spree 3.3
is bundled with segment.com Tracker system which enables you to
connect your store with over 200 analytics engines, CRMs, live chats, remarketing platforms and much more without any additional development. If that’s not cool enough for you stay tuned for next releases for more third party tracker and analytics integrations.
Hey Tony
You can find the development roadmap for future Spree releases here -> https://github.com/spree/spree/milestones?direction=asc&sort=due_date&state=open . We’re fully transparent in terms of our vision and goals. Everyone can comment, share their ideas and contribute!
Best,
Damian
Thank you Damian, I will update the article with relevant link soon