Carento - Car Rental Booking Laravel System v1.2.7

Version 1.2.7 – May 01, 2026​

- Upgraded frontend build pipeline to Vite 8
- Added vendor KYC verification system with status filter, file constraints, and WebP support
- Added pricing calendar to vendor dashboard
- Added Pay Once / Per Day pricing option for services
- Added model name filter for cars
- Added more filter hooks for developer extensibility
- Added hourly auto-clear cache cron for framework cache
- Added configurable cache size warning threshold
- Added cascading source/module/group filters and search in translations manager
- Added Google Consent Mode v2 for Google Tag Manager in cookie consent
- Added pluggable cookie consent styles
- Added plugin validation error messages on activation
- Added persistent search and status filters in plugin management
- Added explicit database mapping support in theme presets installer
- Added configurable session serializer via environment variable
- Improved wishlist
- Improved translations across multiple languages
- Improved installer and system updater reliability
- Improved media with responsive srcset and WebP support
- Improved PDF generation
- Improved page speed and overall performance
- Improved German translations with proper terms
- Improved command to check missing theme options
- Fixed view-name injection vulnerability in car detail page (security patch)
- Fixed currency not respected in cached car shortcodes
- Fixed currency exchange rate calculation error
- Fixed featured cars filter in featured style shortcode
- Fixed payer name missing for guest bookings
- Fixed multiple booking, vendor management, and email bugs
- Fixed RTL mobile navigation panel
- Fixed missing morph type migrations for car-rentals to car-manager rename
- Fixed media uploads to surface real PHP errors on shared hosting
- Fixed session invalidation migration and login listener
- Fixed language auto-detection when default locale visible in URL
- Fixed locale download to only copy target locale files
- Fixed translation save to invalidate opcache and broadened search
- Fixed update downloads with retry on flaky connections and corrupted zips
- Fixed theme typography options to be shared across locales
- Fixed font fallback for non-Latin scripts to use system stack
- Fixed theme auto-image reset to allow utility class overrides
- Fixed datepicker year visibility and improved search tab ordering
- Fixed URL generation for translated slug key and prefix in non-default locales
- Fixed selector download modal

Version 1.2.6 – Mar 31, 2026​

- Upgraded to Laravel 13
- Added public cache control headers for Varnish/CDN compatibility
- Added email notifications for blog comments and replies
- Added terms & conditions checkbox linked to privacy policy in contact form
- Added .ico format support in media uploads
- Added configurable batch size, start offset, and progress bar for thumbnail generation
- Improved content importer with included files support
- Improved caching and database query performance
- Improved user profile with password placeholders and hash-based tab navigation
- Improved location selectors with AJAX search and pagination
- Improved email settings and password field UX
- Improved multi-language support and language switcher
- Improved media manager: video handling, file moving, and toolbar behavior on iPad
- Improved theme options and shortcode caching
- Improved thumbnail generation command
- Improved SEO and overall performance
- Fixed locale-specific permalink prefixes not applied to slug translations
- Fixed visitor locale not preserved in confirmation emails
- Fixed visual builder toolbar hidden behind browser chrome on iPad/Safari
- Fixed media rename allowing executable file extensions (security patch)
- Fixed serialization and caching issues
- Added external booking URL display independent of booking system toggle
- Added localization support for booking form calendar
- Improved testimonial section styling
- Improved mobile responsive design
- Fixed cars filter query
- Fixed locale values in translation importers

Version 1.2.5 – Mar 05, 2026​

- Added vendor account blocking system with email notifications for blocked/unblocked accounts
- Added sort order field to car form for custom car listing order
- Added default tab option to car-advance-search shortcode
- Added configurable primary button text color theme option
- Added calendar translation support for daterangepicker across 25+ languages
- Added SendGrid web API as an email provider option
- Added country search in phone number field for easier selection
- Added per-widget analytics period setting
- Added toast notifications in theme options
- Improved form fields for customer and vendor registration
- Improved system updater experience
- Improved widget management modal design
- Improved notification messages
- Improved caching and database performance
- Improved theme SEO information
- Improved Google Analytics settings
- Improved translations across multiple languages
- Improved overall admin panel UI consistency
- Fixed gallery buttons overflow on mobile when YouTube video link is present
- Fixed tax still showing on booking when tax is disabled in settings
- Fixed car-advance-search first tab not active when default type doesn't match selected tabs
- Fixed car-advance-search tabs not saving empty selection
- Fixed avatar upload failing with Facebook URLs on cloud storage (R2/S3)
- Fixed language switcher error when language code is missing
- Fixed themes not showing on Appearance page
- Fixed table loading issue in admin panel
- Upgraded Laravel framework to the latest version

Version 1.2.4 – Jan 22, 2026​

- Pricing Calendar - Set custom prices for specific dates/seasons
- Sales-Only Mode - Better support when using only car sales (no rentals)
- Auto-hide rental menus when booking disabled
- Fixed date picker validation and stability issues
- Improved browser compatibility
- Menus and widgets now auto-copy when adding a new language
- Visual builder works better with multiple languages
- Dark mode styling improved for charts, alerts, and notifications
- New folder move feature in Media Library
- New default author option for blog posts
- Better validation messages and new icons
- Fixed email variables when using queued emails
- Fixed RTL phone country code on mobile
- Improved table layouts and dropdown actions in admin
- Improved some translations
- Various UI and stability improvements

Version 1.2.3 – Dec 24, 2025​

- Fixed messaging/contact form not working properly
- Fixed blog sidebar display errors
- Fixed right-to-left (RTL) display issue in phone number country code
- Fixed cache for shortcodes/widgets issue when using Visual Builder
- Fixed cache-related issues
- Fixed missing page title for email template edit page
- Added Car Tag browsing page for filtering cars by tags
- Added support for more languages
- Added blog report page
- Added iframe shortcode for embedding external content
- Improved phone validation
- Improved widget and theme management interface
- Improved shortcode settings in admin panel
- Improved contact form interface
- Improved Visual Builder with multiple fixes
- Improved website tracking settings
- Improved cronjob settings
- Improved database performance with additional indexes
- Improved overall performance and stability
- Various bug fixes and performance improvements

Version 1.2.2 – Nov 18, 2025​

- Focus on performance improvements, this version loads faster than previous
- Add visual builder to pages for easier UI management. Demo: https://cms.botble.com/admin/pages/1/visual-builder
- Add phone country code support for phone fields in contact forms, user profiles, etc.
- Add missing translations for Arabic, French, and Vietnamese
- Fix watermark issue when using Cloudflare R2 storage
- Fix minor issues on Windows hosting
- Make the script fully compatible with UUID
- Improve admin panel UI/UX, add helper texts for settings and other forms
- Update all libraries to their latest versions

Version 1.2.0 – Oct 14, 2025​

- Fully translated to 40+ languages: Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, Vietnamese and more
- Fix dark mode UI issues in the admin panel
- Fix icon components on Windows hosting
- Fix small bugs reported by customers
- Add option to manually verify customer email
- Add option to upgrade customer account to vendor from the admin panel
- Add option to allow customer upgrades their account to vendor
- Improve currency settings & add Indian currency format
- Improve hreflang SEO for multilingual sites
- Improve UI
- Focus on performance improvements, make site load faster
- Update libraries to the latest versions

Version 1.1.9 – Sep 03, 2025​

- Added security page to admin dashboard, check Admin -> Platform Administration -> Security Settings
- Added car owner verified badge
- Added option to make email optional in comment form
- Added customer menu on mobile menu
- Added option to disable offsite booking feature
- Added option to allow customer deletes their reviews in customer dashboard
- Added car dealers UI block
- Improved locations for car (remove pickup and drop-off location in car edit page)
- Improved UI for car reviews section in car detail page
- Improved UI for Appearance -> Widgets page
- Improved website tracking settings form, allow to enter custom tracking code
- Improved performance, make some database queries more efficient