There are not a lot of rumors flying around about this latest release but there have definitely been rumors about the advancements in the version that can be a part of Open Source, Cloud, Magento 2.4, and Commerce.
What is there in the new update then?
Rumoured to Release in 2020
Magento 2.4 open source will get released in 2020 with many improvements and featuring a brand new “shiny API”.
You will also be able to have the 2.5-develop segment in the Magento2 project library.
Steps to Get Magento 2.4.0
You can have the beta version of this latest update. However, it is just applicable to those who are participating in the Magento Beta Coding.
The chances are better if you find the code of this 2.4.0 version early. The most important developments in this beta version are listed below:
Beta Release Notes
The primary improvements of this Magento 2.4 open Source are listed below. First of all, the usual upgrades are brought in this version as well such as security changes, platform upgrades, and performance improvements that contain more than 100 bug fixes.
It also contains the quarterly change of backward-incompatibility. Although, there are only minor changes in the new version.
This beta version is the new release that offers the facility to add security patches that do not need any other functional improvements.
The newer patch version delivers all the hotfixes used to the 2.3.5 release from the 2.3.5.2 version.
The PWA Studio and Inventory Management are also documented and released standalone.
Now let’s get into the juice of the Magento commerce 2.4.0 improvements:
Security
There are more than 30 security enhancements in this version. The new features of this version includes XSS vulnerabilities and remote code execution as well. Also there are other upgrades regarding security in this version:
The two-step verification is enabled by default in the admin area. These features are impossible to disable.
The filter strict mode of template is also available in the system for the components to destroy RCE.
This e-commerce platform now is also able to destroy JavaScript execution so that it can disable data rendering facilities for User Interface providers.
Another feature is the Security guidelines for content that whitelist some of the inline style and script in .phtml format.
Performance
- Issues with the Customer data section invalidation logic have been reworked, that contained a known issue within the local storage;
- There have been reworks under the Redis performance as well such as: less CPU cycles consumption, smaller network data transfers and increased efficiency of race conditions for writing operations;
- The caching sequence for SQL queries has been reworked as well that uses a single SQL query to the inventory_stock_sales_channel (including the inventory stocks) table instead of 16;
- Reworked Quick Order add-to-cart performance.
Platform
- PHP 7.4 – 7.1 including 7.2 has been disapproved;
- Elasticsearch 7.x has been added;
- PHPUnit 9 to 6.5 is also disapproved;
- MySQL 8.0 has been included;
- Zend Framework dependencies are now under the Laminas project;
- In place of MySQL catalog, Elasticsearch has been integrated;
- MariaDB 10.4 to 10.0 and 10.1 are terminated;
- The fraud protection script of Signifyd is deleted;
- The module of Braintree is not available.
Synopsis
These are some of the most promising and rumoured updates about Magento 2.4 cloud commerce and open-source solution. We will keep you posted when something new comes up in this regard.
