Magento 2.2.4 release comes with over 250 enhancements. The new release features improvements that will help you to reduce cart abandonment, improve checkout speed and transparency, simplify core operations and improve shopping for your customers.
Magento 2.1.13 release promises improvements in reports, swatches, catalog, order management, etc.
This post is about why it is so important to upgrade to the latest Magento versions. We are also proud to say we've done all best to make recent releases of our modules compatible. Keep reading to know more.
Magento 2.2.4
New integrations with Amazon Pay, Vertex, and Klarna
Magento 2.2.4 release provides new bundled extensions that add instant tax and shipping calculations right from the cart.
- With Amazon Pay users get trusted way to check in and check out. Now customers can simply use both payment and address information already stored in their Amazon accounts.
- Pretty new Klarna Payments method allows customers pay now, pay later, or pay by installment for their purchases. Magento 2.2.4 release features the Klarna service integration that will be very helpful in increasing conversion rate.
- Vertex is a leading provider of tax technology solutions. A new partnership with Magento allows you simplify and automate the complexity of calculating sales tax. It helps customers to avoid complex manual processes. Basically, that will help you to reduce cart abandonment.
Enhancements to the Magento Shipping
Magento 2.2.4 release provides numerous fixes and enhancements to the Magento Shipping and dotmailer bundled extensions. So merchants can use dotmailer to create their own transactional email templates. New Magento Shipping capabilities help merchants to provide a wider range of shipping options. In the end, that will improve the overall customer shopping experience.
Performance improvements
Magento 2.2.4 release comes with a possibility to deliver the faster product image loading. It has the great impact on a response time for search result as well as entire shopping.
Community contributions
The latest release also includes over 200 community contributions. They are about performance-tuning enhancements plus at least 80 engineering fixes.
When it comes to community contributions, you can see lots of community-contributed fixes in Magento 2.1.13 release. Keep reading to look over the release.
Magento 2.1.13
Framework improvements
- vendor/magento/framework/composer.json declares a dependency on magento/zendframework1 now.
The configuration framework shows that a scope-based configuration decrypts data as expected. - In session framework Magento redirects you to your account wish list page and adds the product when adding a product after logging in.
- In Web API framework Magento includes category_ids as expected in the custom_attributes section of listed products when the Rest is used to create a paginated search of products.
- The Zend framework Zend_Service component was upgraded.
Order management
- Now the invoices display a coupon code information as expected.
- Now the cancel order and restore quote methods calculate the amount of stock to be returned to inventory when an order is canceled.
Reports
- When generating the output of Reports > Marketing > Products in Cart, Magento no longer calls the data of products that have been deleted from the cart.
- The Admin’s Most Viewed Products tab displays all relevant information about products, even when they are not in the default attribute set.
- Now you can successfully export the Ordered Products report to a CSV file.
It would be pertinent to refer very briefly to some other changes:
- Now a Bundle option title can be specified on a store-view level with changes to more than one store view.
- You can see that inline translations and custom translators work for knockout templates.
- Magento shows the expected state in the Multishipping New Address form when user enters information on the Ship to Multiple Addresses page.
- The newsletter title string in a block template is no longer hardcoded.
In order to figure out more information about Magento 2.1.13 release, please read release documentations from DevDocs.
But we wanted to convey something more to you. We talk about upgrading to the latest Magento releases.
Get up-to-date extensions compatible with recent Magento release
You know that our modules help you to do more with your e-shops. Some modules were updated to provide the perfect functionality on your website.
- The Navigation Pro 1.4.1 module release has got Magento 2.2.4 product page breadcrumbs compatibility.
- The Product Highlight module release is compatible with Magento 2.2.4 now. Starting from the latest Magento release there was a problem with the limited number of products shown by the widget on the homepage. The issue was fixed.
- The best responsive Magento 2 theme Argento 1.3.1 is also compatible with Magento 2.2.4. The number of products shown on the homepage can be limited now.
We also state that all our modules are compatible to Magento 2.1.13 release.
Now you see why you need to upgrade your favorite extensions to the latest Magento releases. We highly recommend you update as soon as possible.
And then you'd have the best functional features and accomplished performance the Magento platform offers.
