Yes, it's new for v1.5.0


And the other thing that's new on the storefront side is related to whether payment modules are displayed or not: if your store doesn't have ENABLE_SSL set to true (this process is the same) then any (updated) payment modules which "require" SSL to be available, will (this is what is new:) not show up during payment selection ... because you DO NOT want your store accepting credit card numbers if SSL isn't enabled.