Oh, happy days! v. 1.5.3 available now. http://sourceforge.net/projects/zencart/files/

"It includes stronger password handling with blowfish encryption, and many other improvements for security and performance and compatibility.

A final PCI-Certified version will be released (with a new version number) in hopefully only a couple months. This release is going out now so the community can benefit from the many improvements, including PHP 5.4 and PHP 5.5 compatibility, to keep up with current server upgrades happening with many hosting companies. "

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