MAGENTO 2.4.2 RELEASED – WHAT’S IN IT FOR MERCHANTS AND PARTNERS?

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Magento 2.4.2 is out and is loaded with upgrades benefitting both eCommerce store owners and Magento partners as well. Let us look at the performance, security enhancements, platform upgrades and other improvements in Magento 2.4.2 extracted from the official release notes.

MAGENTO 2.4.2 RELEASED – WHAT’S IN IT FOR MERCHANTS AND PARTNERS?

SECURITY ENHANCEMENTS :

Magento 2.4.2’s security enhancements include 35+ bug fixes. The latest version includes support for cross-site scripting (XSS), close remote code execution (RCE) and SameSite attribute for cookies. Core Content Security Policy (CSP) has also been resolved. By standardizing the file system operations across Magento components, the latest version can prevent malicious uploads making your eCommerce store more defensive.

MAGENTO UPGRADE COMPATIBILITY TOOL :

Say hello to Magento’s Upgrade Compatibility Tool’. With its ability to identify incompatible code customizations, the tool helps support and maintenance teams to be proactive while planning for an upgrade.

The tool can evaluate Magento PHP APIs and the GraphQL schema and generate reports containing issues that need to be resolved before upgrading. Though the tool aims at making the upgrade process more transparent and seamless, it is advised to perform regression testing to ensure zero incompatibilities.

The Alpha version of the Upgrade Compatibility is available for Magento Commerce users upgrading from 2.x to 2.3 and successive versions.

PLATFORM ENHANCEMENTS :

Supports Elasticsearch 7.9.x
Compatible with Varnish 6.4
Supports Redix 6.x
Compatible with Composer 2.x
In-product guidance makes it easy for administrators to explore the system quickly.

IMPROVED FRAMEWORKS :

Magento 2.4.2 has come up with functional improvements in areas like :

Customer Account
Catalog
CMS
OMS
Import/Export
Promotions
Targeting
Cart and Checkout
Staging and Preview

PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENTS :

On the performance front, the latest version of Magento has the capability to natively support complex catalogs up to 20x larger than Magento 2.4.1. Improved admin response time for deploying large catalogs and code level enhancements to better API performance are other significant performance improvements of Magento 2.4.2.

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