Auction

Changelog

1. Version 1.5.383 9 Nov 2026

   - On the public demo store, as the licence server confirms it, refunded bid fees come back spend-only, when a lot is bought outright and when an auction is cancelled. Every other store refunds them exactly as before.

2. Version 1.5.382 7 Nov 2026

   - A Buy Now price below a lot's reserve, or below a reverse lot's lowest price, can no longer be saved: the auction form and the seller form say why, so a lot can't be bought outright for less than its own minimum.
   - A penny auction can no longer be saved without a price rise per bid above 0: bids would charge their fee and never move the price. A lot already saved that way keeps running, and its next save asks for a step.

3. Version 1.5.381 4 Nov 2026

   - On a hosted Cloud plan, a new auction item (from the admin form, a seller, consignment or autopilot) is refused once the store reaches its plan's product limit; the admin sees the limit, a seller is told the store isn't taking new products, before any listing fee or upload. Auctions of existing items, and self-hosted stores, are unaffected. Needs kernel support for plan limits to take effect; on an older kernel nothing changes.
   - Consignment and autopilot can now say why an auction item wasn't added on a hosted Cloud plan: the plan's product limit, in the same words the Create Auction form uses.
   - For developers: this plugin now tells the coming Clear test data tool what to do with each of its tables (empty it, keep it, or remove it only with customer accounts). Nothing changes for store owners yet.

4. Version 1.5.380 1 Nov 2026

   - Auction list: the seller shows as "Sold by" under the item name instead of in a column of its own.
   - Lot page on phones: the bid bar keeps the amount on one line with its money sign, in every theme. The amount gets a little smaller on a narrow screen, and when the row is still tight the Place bid button's words wrap instead. On the narrowest phones the button's label also tightens so it and its arrow stay inside the button.
   - Lot page on narrow phones: a long current bid no longer pushes the page sideways. In the bid desk the figure moves to its own line when it can't fit beside the starting bid, and in Gadget Lab the live bid scales with the screen below 400px.
   - The listing pages no longer keep a backup link to an outside site for the slider; the slider files bundled with the store are always used.

5. Version 1.5.379 30 Oct 2026

   - If your server still has this add-on's cron file from before the plugin system, it now runs this add-on's current job instead of its old code.
   - The auction admin pages show an 'Online docs' link to the Auctions page of the online documentation.
   - When the new version is set up over a store from before the plugin system, the setup wizard ticks this add-on only if its old on/off switch was on.
   - On a store upgraded from an old version, cancelling an auction works again: the status column now takes 'cancelled'. Before, the cancel failed, or the auction ended up in no list. Each auction's web address is now kept unique too.
   - On a store upgraded from an old version, the fix that lets auctions be cancelled again now leaves the rest of the status column as it was.

6. Version 1.5.378 29 Oct 2026

   - Auctions now leads the admin's Extensions menu.

7. Version 1.5.377 29 Oct 2026

   - On a store running MySQL 8, after a seller is banned or let back in, the storefront no longer goes on showing their lots as they were before the change.
   - On a store running MySQL 8, the reserve price hint's bands stay the same from one visit to the next.
   - Section headings keep their closing dot on the same line as the last word, in every language.
   - Amharic (አማርኛ) translation, machine-translated (review welcome).
   - Oromo (Afaan Oromoo) translation, machine-translated (review welcome).
   - A section heading whose text ends in a space keeps its closing dot on the same line as the last word.

8. Version 1.5.376 28 Oct 2026

   - The Thai sign-in and home page lines now read the same whichever prize add-ons the store runs.
   - The wallet balance in the phone page header follows the store's amount style, so a coins-only store shows whole coins (2,500) instead of 2,500.00.
   - New stores with a prize add-on and no hero line of their own show "Dream it. Play it. Collect it."; stores that saved their own keep it.