Magento is regarded as one of the powerful and most popular platforms in the E-commerce business by releasing essential upgrades on time. Magento regularly improves its ability to adapt to higher performance and scalable requirements. By updating the latest Magento 2.4.0, you will be able to leverage the latest technology and significantly improve your eCommerce store’s performance.
According to Magento, the latest version of Magento Commerce and Magento Open Source will provide merchants with capabilities to capture new opportunities in the current commerce landscape. The Magento 2.4.0 release comes with 98 new functions, 68 bug fixes, 50 security improvements, 7 test cycles, 12 packages & modules as well as support for Php 7.4. Apart from these, you can see the key highlight of Magento 2.4.0.
- 2FA security for Magento admin panel
- Purchase approval workflows
- Seller assisted shopping
- In-store pickup
- New media gallery
- PWA Development
- Headless commerce
1. Department store In-store pickup
With In-Store Pick Up in Inventory Management (previously Multi-Source Inventory, or MSI), retails can easily choose which physical inventory locations are suitable as a customer pickup location. During the checkout process, shoppers can easily look for a location near them and see other important information, such as opening and closing time of the store. Once orders have been performed, store associates can notify them when their orders are ready for pickup with a simple click.
Furthermore, this can be suitable for curbside pickup technology, which has become the favorite way for many customers to pick up their items and reduce health risks. These new updates are available in both Magento Commerce and Magento Open Source versions.
2. 2FA and Security improvements
This release of Magento 2.4.0 comes with over 30 security fixes and additional platform security enhancement.
- 2FA security for Magento 2 admin panel: Two-factor authentication (2FA) is now implemented by default for the Magento Admin and cannot be disabled. Admin must first configure their 2FA before logging into the Admin through either the UI or a web API. In the backend, this function helps admins to specify which authentication providers are supported, control and configure authenticator settings globally or for per user account, as well as reset authenticators for users.
- Content Security Policy (CSP) enhancements: SecureHtmlRenderer has been enabled to the Magento Framework and is available in .phtml templates to assist the whitelisting of inline style and script tags. Inline scripts and styles are not commonly allowed with the default CSP configuration.
3. B2B capabilities in Magento 2.4.0 Commerce
Seller assisted shopping
New Seller Assisted Shopping feature allows sellers to improve customer engagement and deliver exceptional service by empowering sales or customer service reps to log into their site as the customer from the Magento Admin. Having access to the customers’ experience allows the rep to assist them in various ways:
- Solve some issues in the purchasing process — for example, support the customer find an item, guide them to create a wishlist, or address something that doesn’t work as expected.
- Show the customer custom function that may only be accessible in the storefront experience, such as a product configurator.
- Save the customer time by placing orders and quotes on their behalf or solving administrative problems, such as adding purchasing and setting up approval rules.
However, to ensure customer account security, all sessions will be deleted after the admin store signs out and shopper passwords cannot be accessed.
Performance & Efficiency
Not only provides new features to assist B2B owner store, but Magento 2.4 is also improved to accelerate B2B purchasing. Re-ordering for large orders will be up to 50% faster and Quick Order add-to-cart performance is up to 30% better.
In addition, adding configurable products to the shopping cart in this Magento version can be 12% faster than that in the previous version. Magento 2.4 also improves the loading speed of CMS, category, and product pages by 25–43%.
Order Approval Workflows
To quickly boost B2B commerce sales, companies need to support their clients’ varying purchasing policies and requirements. New approval workflow functionality in Magento 2.4.0 empowers B2B buying companies to customize their approval processes using a simple form. With this function, managers of buying organizations can configure approval rules for their purchasers.
4. New Media Gallery with a searchable interface
Magento 2.4 provides merchants with a New Media Gallery that has been completely rebuilt and assist management, saving time and
efforts for creative stakeholders.
- Search and filter images faster with new image attributes, combining tags uploaded from Adobe Stock and licensing status.
- Save time with an updated Adobe Stock that moves the image licensing and management workflow absolutely into the Media Gallery.
- Effortlessly manage images used throughout your website with new picture details that combine how often and where an image is utilized across pages, categories, or products.
This will be an optional feature for sellers. In version 2.4.0, the current Media Gallery is still set up as default and the admin has to enable the Enhanced Media Gallery to use. Then, it will become the default feature in the next Magento 2.4.1, but the old one will stay available in the backend.
5. Headless commerce and PWA Development
The updated version of PWA Studio has been launched with Magento 2.4. Available for both Commerce and Open Source, it comes with new Venia storefront experiences and accelerated development process.
- A complete cart and checkout workflow;
- An extensibility framework to customize the capabilities of PWA Studio more efficiently
Magento 2.4.0 also, continues to expand the support for headless commerce. Venia UI components can be used with Adobe Experience Manager powered storefronts to allow commerce in personalized customer journeys. Besides, the greater coverage of GraphQL APIs assists sellers to create custom experiences for all digital touchpoints utilizing their favorite front-end development tool.
6. Platform upgrades
There are platform upgrades available for security enhancements and improve the performance of the website. The PHP supported versions come with Elasticsearch, PHPUnit, MySQL, and many other dependencies required for the technology stack of Magento 2.4.0.
- Includes PHP 7.4 support and PHP 7.1 and 7.2 deprecated.
- MariaDB 10.4 support.
- Supports PHPUnit 9.x and eliminated PHPUnit 6.5
- Eliminated MySQL catalog search engine
- Elasticsearch 7.x support.
- MySQL 8.0 support
- Eliminated the core integration of the Signifyd fraud protection code.
- Laminas project includes the Migration of dependencies on the Zend Framework.
- Eliminated the core Braintree module from the codebase
7. Fixed issues
Many issues are solved with the release of the Magento 2.4.0 core code.
- Email templates (Admin > Marketing > Communications > Email Templates) can now be previewed from the Admin when JavaScript minification is enabled. Previously, when you tried to preview an email template, the Email Preview popup window was empty.
- With the new version, the performance of the catalog_product_price re-index operation for bundle items has been enhanced.
- Magento 2.4.0 shows the important message when an item in the mini cart becomes out-of-stock before checkout. When you’ve removed the out-of-stock product, Magento will show the Proceed to Checkout button
- You can now save and duplicate all CMS pages. Previously, Magento threw this exception when you tried to duplicate certain pages.
- The new version assists you to generate CMS blocks with identical names if the blocks are assigned to different store views.
- Shoppers who are subscribed to newsletters as a guest is no longer unsubscribed after registering for a new account
Magento 2.4.0 is ready to take your business to a next-level growth this year. the merchants are requested to upgrade the Magento 2 website to the latest version in order to avail of these amazing functions, provide secure online shopping platform, and get the competitive edge!
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