Magento is back with its new update on June 27th ‘18. Too soon to be here, Magento is already on a roll!
It has been a short while that Magento 2.2.4 was launched and we are already in the era of Magento 2.2.5. The version is out to fix the unfixed issues in its previous version along with new security advancements. The prime focus of this Magento release is entirely on product security and bug fixes.
Magento Open Source 2.2.5 and Magento Commerce 2.2.5 are out for the merchants to upgrade their web portals to the recent version of Magento and maximize their benefits. It is believed that the latest version of Magento has overcome the bugs found in its 2.2.4 version. Mesmerizingly, more than 150 bug fixes were contributed by the Magento community, and explicit security enhancements are found in the recent release of Magento. Moreover, Magento highly supports its potential users to upgrade to its latest version to foreclose any hindrance in admin control or customer information.
Now, let us have a detailed analysis of the new features added in Magento 2.2.5 release and how it can help protect your websites from any imminent threat!
Updates: Magento 2.2.5
1. Specific improvements that help close stored XSS, SQL injection, and CSRF (cross-site request forgery) vulnerabilities.
2. Resolved issues experienced while upgrading to Magento 2.2.4 in deployment across multiple websites.
3. Improved indexing performance
4. Developed performance of core bundled extensions
5. Over 150 contributions by the community
6. The developed core code of Magento:
6.1. Merchants are now able to run catalog search full-text indexer and category product indexer in parallel mode by store view that significantly reduces the execution time when running Magento with multiple stores and shared catalogs.
6.2. Restructuring of catalog full-text indexer has effectively improved index performance by 15% for large profiles and products catalogs with many configurable options.
6.3. Enhancements in swatch product attribute improved the overall performance of search result pages up to 31% for catalogs with multiple configurable product options
Enhancements: Magento 2.2.5
1. Core Returns: Merchants will now be able to select carriers to use for returns and send a return label along with forwarding fulfillment with core returns.
2. Batch Processing: Improvement in merchant efficiency as it simplifies the processing of large shipments in the form of batches thereby increasing automation.
3. Collection points: Provides the customers with the ability to choose drop points instead of giving residential addresses for delivery.
Apart from these significant enhancements, there are some minor improvements, which include pagination improving the Admin experience and multi-version API.
Besides security enhancements, the latest release contains some bug fixes too.
Notable bug fixes: Magento 2.2.5
- No permissions to re-run an already running cron job
- Successfully delete an option from a product bundle
- Correct application of coupon codes excluding bundled products
- Applicable catalog rules on product sorting by price
- Improved functionality of product sort with required custom options by price
- Enhanced tier price working for a single product unit
- Successful product update with the locale format of dates: DD/MM/YYYY
- Correct display of the image for a configurable product on the wishlist
- Enhanced the required minimal PHP version to 7.0.13
- Data check on imported customer information now completes as expected
- Multithreaded search indexer that improves layered navigation, indexing, search for complex sites with multiple store views and shared catalogs
- Filtering of recent orders by the store on customer account page
- Correctly retrieves PayPal Payflow Pro credentials
- count() method removal from condition section for some loops in a small subset of backend files as it would degrade the performance if used in a loop condition
- Out-of-stock options won’t show up in search and layered navigation results
- Magento caches popular search results for faster response time on popular searches
- Both the prices, included/excluded tax, are displayed on the checkout page
- Customers are now allowed to create Vertex invoice refund once the order gets canceled
- Minor issues related to Amazon Pay, Vertex, and dotmailer are handled
You may also have more information about all the enhancements in Release Notes and visit Security Center page for additional information regarding security updates that are included in the latest release of Magento.
A word for Magento Merchants
The newer Magento version is here for you with a whole lot of security and bug fixes. It is advisable that you must upgrade your site to the latest version of Magento and enjoy the little benefits that it provides.
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