Spree Commerce

This patch release includes numerous bug fixes, enhancements, performance optimizations, internationalization improvements, and UI tweaks across the Admin, Storefront, Emails, and API layers.

✨ Enhancements

• Brought back Tax Category dropdown in the product form (#12779)
• Improved Admin per-page config handling for Products & Orders
• Added more memoization to speed up product listings and cart item counts (#12811, #12834)
• Allow third-party payment methods to define custom payment behavior
• Enhanced variant option saving in product forms (#12804)
• Extension Generator 2.0 (#12851)
• Included theme generator preferences/sections to simplify customization
• Enhanced product properties display in Storefront (#12828)
• Improved meta tags, JSON-LD product URLs, and SEO (#12827)
• Featured blog posts section added (#12882)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed broken link when product for a variant is deleted (#12793)
• Fixed missing
  in order summary layout (#12802)
• Fixed undefined method ‘last’ for nil edge case (#12806)
• Fixed line item errors on update/destroy in Cart (#12809)
• Fixed storefront address form, Mastercard icon, image editor, blob partials, and more
• Fixed return authorization cache bug (#12864)
• Corrected Japan flag icon typo (#12844)

🌍 Internationalization

• Checkout messages, labels, button texts
• Price filters, pinch-to-zoom help text
• Devise views, store credit, and error notices
• Localized policy pages and improved date formatting

🧪 Developer Experience

• payment_method_icon_tag is now available in Storefront
• Spree::PaymentSource enhancements for gateway customer profiles

🖼️ UI/UX

• Improved alignment of filter inputs
• Square-shaped taxon images fixed
• “Delete” button for uploaded images in Admin is now visible
• Applied Tom Select name as id to prevent UI bugs

Thanks to all the contributors for this release, including: @lovison, @Vegann, @resool, @mad-eel, @simlegate, @brozek95, @caiodsc