With a holiday in the US (Thanksgiving), this week’s report/newsletter covers two weeks! We’ve had an eventful end to November with the GA release of 2.3.0, 2.2.7, 2.1.16, and M1 security patches. New features also rolled out with significant Community Engineering development and support including MSI Inventory Management, GraphQL, PWA Studio, and Core issue fixes and additions!
Get a quick update on all Community Engineering projects including completed and in-progress stories, features, and testing. Welcome new contributors joining your community projects. Check open requests and good first issues in the project boards. If you missed a meeting or demo, want to contribute, or have questions, check the links to recordings, project boards, and more.
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New Release News!
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- On November 21, 2018, we released a DevBlog announcing New Security Patches and Releases.
- On November 28, 2018, we released (GA) the following packages:
- 23.3.0 Open Source, Commerce
- 2.2.7 Open Source, Commerce
- 2.1.16 Open Source, Commerce
- M1 19.4.0, 1.14.4.0
- 2.3.0 includes new features developed with Community Engineering including MSI Inventory Management, GraphQL, and PWA Studio
MSI
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Magento Coordinator: Igor Minialilo and Igor Gorin
- Work these 2 weeks:
- Learn more about installing Magento + MSI. You must install via Composer with a Meta Package.
- MSI released with Magento 2.3.0 GA!
- Milestone 3 prepared and in-progress
- Igor Miniailo provided insights on the 2.3.0 GA release and milestones to come. MSI releases as a Magento Developed Extension (MDE) will release on a separate schedule, independent of Magento 2 core.
- Riccardo Tempesta (@RicTempesta)from MageSpecialist discussed and demoed the latest updates for the Distance Based Source Selection Algorithm: Online via Google Maps API and offline calculation of distances between Shipping address and Distribution centers
- Mark Brinton discussed potential improvements and feedback on the SSA, and additional product info.
- Slava Moskalyuk reviewed and discussed continuing regression.
- Tom Erskine shared weekly updates on MFTF and manual testing coverage.
- We determined an issue with performance degradation. See the Black Friday demo for detailed information, and the 2.3 Release Notes.
- Igor Miniailo updated the Salable Quantity Calculation and Mechanism of Reservations with examples and additional information to better understand how MSI manages and calculates reservations and aggregated salable quantity.
- Bartek Szmanski (@bartek_szy) presented a webinar on Magento 2.3 + MSI November 20th and released the article The world’s first version of Magento 2.3 + MSI works in production and even more: it is fast and sta....
Meetings:
- Grooming: Thursdays 10-11am CDT, https://magento.zoom.us/j/355586473
- Demo: Fridays 10-11am CDT, https://magento.zoom.us/j/355586473
Meeting recordings:
- Demo Black Friday edition: https://youtu.be/PpP2w0FKDA8
- Demo Nov 30: https://youtu.be/50dbJyGCIe4
GraphQL
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Magento Coordinator: Valeriy Nayda and Igor Gorin
Current PRs status:
- 7 new PRs have been created
- 9 PRs have been merged
- 14 PRs have "Development / Review in Progress" status
- 1 PR has broken builds but without progress
PRs Special Achievements status:
- https://github.com/magento/graphql-ce/pull/188(Travis API-functional testsuite automated execution)
Special Achievement. Primary tests for GraphQL are API-functional. But now they don’t run on Travis. (MERGED)
Demo presentations:
- GraphQL is a part of 2.3.0 (Products / Categories / Customer / CMS / Coupons / Store Config). Discussed plans for 2.3.1, by Misha Kotov
- GraphQl-93/PR259: Implement support for variables in query (@Alexandr Ischenko)
- GraphQl-66/PR266: [Query] Fetch registered shopper cart, by Yaroslav Rogoza(@rogyar)from Atwix
- GraphQl-229/PR267: Add support for queries via HTTP GET, by Yaroslav Rogoza(@rogyar)from Atwix
- GraphQl-250/PR252: Configurable Options Label doesn't return the Store View Label, by Alexandr Voronoy (@VoronoyAlexandr)
- GraphQl-256/PR265: Configurable products > Variants > Attributes are empty, by Alexandr Voronoy (@VoronoyAlexandr)
- GraphQl-200/PR253: Product Compare, by Alexandr Kozyr
Meetings:
- No meeting recording this week due to tech difficulties.
- Moving meetings to BlueJeans, nicer options for streams, recording, and better plugin. Watch for the updated meeting links!
PWA Studio
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Magento Coordinator: Eric Erway, James Zetlen, Andrew Wilcox, and Igor Gorin
- PWA is now availableas an open source initiative along with Magento 2.3.0 release
- Community grooming was rescheduled this week, but updated tickets/priorities can be viewed on the project board.
- PR#548 Including Search and Auto-complete features, by Adrian Bece (@codeAdrian)
- PR#486 created a strong foundation for offline support in Venia, by Paul (@pcvonz)
- 196 commits (+15%) over the final two-week sprint for 2.3 release
- 16 Contributors (+45%) over that same time
- As of 12:39PM CT on 11/30, achieved a 100 Lighthouse score for Magento PWA after latest release:
- For details on hours and efficiency, see @Gitential reporting
Meetings:
- Grooming: Fridays, 10-11am CST, https://bluejeans.com/8660352328
- Demo: Mondays, 10-11am CST, https://bluejeans.com/8660352328
Meeting recordings:
- Demo Nov. 19:https://youtu.be/gbpTJR7UaXU
Async Import & Bulk API Project
Project Board | GitHub | Slack | DevDocs Bulk API & Async API
Community Project Maintainer: Alex Lyzun from comwrap
Magento Coordinator: Volodymyr Kublytskiy and Igor Gorin
- Alex Lyzun (@nuzil) from comwrap created PR with improvements proposal for changing of ProcessorsPool logic for WebApi implementation: #28
- Architectural PR was finally merged, and now Asynchronous import implementation is officially confirmed: #40
Import/Export
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Magento Coordinator: David Manners and Igor Gorin
Merged PRs:
- Define $session property in History model, by Denis Papec (@denispapec): #150
Continuing work:
- ImportExport: BEHAVIOR_REPLACE deleted products, DevDocs feedback provided, by Federico Rivollier (@federivo): issue #89.
Meeting recording:
- Demo Nov. 23: https://youtu.be/6CB95nI11Po
- Demo Nov. 30: https://youtu.be/BkYTuPS6Yvo
Cloud ece-tools
- Starting November 26, 2018, the Magento Cloud ece-tools repository is open to Community contributions!
- Updates will post in the weekly newsletter tracking contributions and updates.
Magento 2
- GA releases for 2.3.0, 2.2.7, 2.1.16!
- 46Pull Requests merged to core
- 84 Pull Requests created
- 40 new issues created
- 54 closed issues
Magento Architecture
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- See the latest meeting notes for November and December 2018
- Updated Security Guidelines in Technical Guidelines, by Olga Kopylova, DevDocs PR2886
- Writing updates to Technical Guidelines: domain vs presentation, by Olga Kopylova, DevDocs PR3316
Meetings:
- Biweekly - Wednesday, 10:30am CST/CDT, https://magento.zoom.us/j/147176855
- Meeting Notes and Agendas
DevDocs & MerchDocs
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- GA releases of new documentation!
- DevDocs 2.3.0, 2.2.7, 2.1.16
- Merchant Admin User Guides (all versions and editions available)
- Additional content releasing as we receive updates and feedback