Magento plans to close all traffic from older Magento 1 instances via the Magento Connection Manager (MCM) on March 4th, 2019, for the domain connect.magentocommerce.com. M1 merchants on 1.9.X and 1.8.X are not affected. See the post for complete details!

Find out the latest updates 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.

Learn more about API design with examples from Magento 2 and MSI. API design is a crucial part of software development. This blog post delves deeper into API design, service contracts, and much more -- including Community involved for development decisions!

Major work continuing in GraphQL, MSI 1.1.0 release getting closer, great discussions on-going for Architecture and Coding Standards, and much more. Check out the latest updates for Magento Community Engineering and special projects.

Great news and incredible enhancements to the Bug Bounty Program are coming January 28, 2019. We are moving to HackerOne. Read more for all of the details!

Updates on all Community Engineering projects, Livestream highlights, Partner rankings, and much more! Check out this week's updates and completed work in the Magento community, special projects, and core Magento!

With 2018 completed, it’s time to review contribution results and achievements by each of the Solution Partner teams participating in the Magento Partners Contribution Reward Program for the entire year.

Happy New Year from everyone here in Community Engineering and Magento! We have already started towards new special project and core Magento goals this year with new contributors, entered issues, and submitted PRs!

Happy holidays and a fantastic New Year from everyone here in Community Engineering and Magento! This has been an extraordinary year for contributions to Magento 2 core and numerous special projects, aided by the super-powered support of Maintainers!

Incredible continuing work in all special projects and Magento 2 as we get closer to the holidays! Get a quick update on all Community Engineering projects including completed and in-progress stories, features, and testing. 

What an incredible month! November saw final beta work for 2.3.0 and GA releases for multiple release lines.  Magento 2.3.0 was released on November 28^th with an amazing list of new features and a massive amount of quality improvements provided by the community.

Entering the final month of 2018, and community projects start their next phases of planning, grooming, and development! 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.

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!

Learn how to quickly and efficiently upgrade your Magento installation to the latest and greatest version 2.3.0! 

During the month of October, we saw the return of Squashtoberfest. For the whole of October, communities around the world united to show some love for their favorite GitHub repositories. The Magento community was no different. We saw a total of 796 pull requests created over all of our repositories and a total of 99 known issues fixed by our community and partners.

We also saw incredible support and contributions through many independently organized Contributor Days and events, with many first-time contributors joining veteran contributors and maintainers alike.

Time to get prepared! On Tuesday,  November 28, Magento plans to release Magento 2.3.0  delivering new features, security updates, performance enhancements, and support for PHP 7.2. We also plan to release updates for Magento  1,  2.1, and 2.2  on the same day. These releases include important security enhancements, and it is recommended to prepare to update your Magento versions promptly.

Last week was busy and filled with incredible work and updates by contributors, maintainers, and partners! We held a livestream with Squashtoberfest updates and showcased MSI. Many projects completed milestones and achieved some amazing feats, including GraphQL hitting its 100th PR! And MMJP 2018 had some great Translations work and submissions. Check out what you missed today.

Incredible week in Community Engineering! Check out special project announcements, info on the Livestream Friday November 16th for MSI, 2.3.0 release news, and much more. Miss anything? Learn more with a quick overview on your favorite projects.

What an incredible week and ending to October 2018! We also entered the final stretch for the 2.3.0 release. Get ready and keep contributing! Miss a meeting or need to catch up on a project? Learn more about this week in Community Engineering!

Another busy week in EngCom, and we have a new manager for Special Projects. Catch up on all of the highlights including 2.3.0 Beta, project updates, and additions from DevDocs! Check open requests and good first issues in the project boards.

With the third quarter of 2018 completed, it’s time to review contribution results and achievements by each of the Solution Partner teams participating in the Magento Partners Contribution Reward Program. 

https://twitter.com/iminyaylo/status/1053574115389509632Twitter messageGet 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.

Thank you to everyone that took part in the Magento Live EU Contribution Day and other events! Get a quick update on all Community Engineering projects including completed and in-progress stories, features, and testing. If you missed a meeting or demo, want to contribute, or have questions, check the links to recordings, project boards, and more.

Get a quick update on all Community Engineering projects including completed and in-progress stories, features, and testing. Also learn more about SQUASHTOBEFEST 2018 and 2.3.0-Beta! Next week will have updates from MLEU 2018.

September saw a high number of contribution days which provided a great way for our team to connect with the community of contributors and maintainers, and introduce new people to the process. We also saw a continuation of a high number of pull requests both being submitted and processed, with 438 created and 493 processed across all our repositories.

The Magento Marketplace team is very proud to announce the launch of the new Developer Portal and updated EQP submission process!

Another great week in Magento Community Engineering! Check out the latest updates for MSI, PWA, GraphQL, Async and Bulk API, and much more. And get ready, SQUASHTOBERFEST begins Oct 1st! 

Starting with the 2.2.6 release, Magento indexers are scoped and multi-threaded and support reindexing in parallel mode. To see the benefits, this post provides our collected results of index operation optimization and best practices. Brought to you from Vitalii Zabaznov (@vzabaznov). 

Release news and much more in this week's Community Engineering Newsletter! 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.

During the month of August, we saw incredible work and a higher numbers of PRs across all our Community Engineering projects and Magento 2. This month we saw 738 pull requests processed and 346 issues closed.