and for all add-ons, until someone updates it to be compatible, this is the nature of the beast.. **shrugs** The Zen Cart admins do not update add-ons when there is an update in the basecode.. they never have.. and no other open source project works this way either.. so this is not a new way of doing things at all..
Google abandoned their support for Zen Cart YEARS ago.. There's a fair amount of documentation in this in this thread about this..
Not true.. First off, if all your mods are not v1.5 ready, you don't NEED to update RIGHT NOW.. v1.3.9 is safe, and you can continue to use it until all your mods are v1.5 ready (dunno why everyone is in a BIG rush to upgrade RIGHT NOW..)
BUT not all mods have an active "maintainer".. If your business relies on on a module where there is no active "maintainer", and you NEED to update your store, then you can INVEST in the services of a developer to update the mods you use.. or simply wait until the mods you want to use are updated..
I believe if you look back a few posts mattclements answered this for you..
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