Hi,
You have to re-save the country custom field. The default value should be "France" but this country is not visible in your website so, it is not listed in the drop down.
That's why it seams that the default value is "Autralia" but it's just the single selectable value. So by updating the default country value, the state would be synchronize to it.
Otherwise, we send newsletter for new versions. We would change the frequency of releases in order to have major updates with big new features and several minor updates with fixes and little features.
Next release would be a major update (2.1.0). Minors updates would be displayed in the automatic update system (in HikaShop or in Joomla > 2.5).
Regards,
Jerome - Obsidev.com
HikaMarket & HikaSerial developer / HikaShop core dev team.
Also helping the HikaShop support team when having some time or couldn't sleep.
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