Hello all
Welcome to the February edition of the Community Monthly Update.
Adobe Commerce and Magento Open Source 2.4.4 are coming soon
Version 2.4.4 marks a new step forward in commerce capabilities, security, and performance. Built on the newest version of PHP, 8.1, it enables users to future-proof their digital commerce businesses with faster access to innovative features delivered as independent services, easier maintenance and upgrades, additional headless commerce support, and significant increases in performance and scalability.
Staying on the latest version of Adobe Commerce or Magento Open Source is critical to business success. To help our community and partners stay current, we’ve put together several resources to plan and prepare for the upgrade to version 2.4.4:
Adobe Commerce 2.3 Support Timeline Update and Extended Support Options
The Adobe Commerce 2.3 End of Support (EOS) date has been shifted to September 8, 2022, to provide additional time to upgrade to 2.4.4.
For Adobe Commerce customers, Adobe will also offer a paid extended support option for versions 2.3.7 and 2.4.0-2.4.3 for up to one year after the versions’ EOS date. With extended support, the Adobe support team will continue to provide quality fixes and security patches, giving merchants more time under support as they plan and execute their upgrade to 2.4.4 or later releases.
For more information, visit the Adobe blog and this FAQ.
Security update available for Adobe Commerce APSB22-12
Adobe has released security updates for Adobe Commerce and Magento Open Source. These updates resolve a vulnerability rated critical. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution.
Affected versions are - Adobe Commerce and Magento Open Source 2.3.3-p1-2.3.7-p2 and 2.4.0-2.4.3-p1 .
Download the patch at https://support.magento.com/hc/en-us/articles/4426353041293-Security-updates-available-for-Adobe-Com...
The Adobe Commerce Documentation team is planning to migrate content from the devdocs.magento.com and docs.magento.com sites to the Adobe DevSite and Adobe Experience League sites this year. Our goal is to improve the overall user experience by consolidating Adobe Commerce and Magento Open Source technical documentation on Adobe subdomains so that customers and community members have fewer sites to navigate. Don't worry! Our documentation will continue to be open source and available for community contributions on the Adobe sites.
To help us understand the impact on user experience before committing to a full-scale migration, we've conducted targeted test migrations (including the Amazon Sales Channel user guide, Upgrade Guide, and PWA Studio developer guide). Thanks to community feedback about missing site search results, we have taken extra steps to ensure that site search continues returning results for migrated content until all migration is complete. We've updated our migration plan based on this feedback so that the site search experience will not be disrupted and will continue returning results for migrated content.
We'll share more detailed information about exactly what is being moved, where it's being moved, and when, in future posts. If you want to connect with the team in the meantime, send us a message in one of our community Slack channels (#devdocs and #merchdocs).
Product Recommendations improvements
Adobe is excited to announce new storefront styling features based on custom attributes for Product Recommendations. Product Recommendations service response will include custom product attribute values, so you can style your recommendations on the storefront based on custom data. This allows merchants to add custom visual treatment or badges such as “Expedited Shipping,” “Clearance,” or other common merchandising design elements based on the custom product attributes.
This was the top requested feature from our users, and we are thrilled to announce its release. Learn more here.
Payment Services Expansion Update
We are excited to announce the upcoming availability for payment services in Canada. Starting on March 31st, Canadian Adobe Commerce and Magento Open Source merchants will be able to accept payments from customers globally and settle in CAD. Payment services is a fully-integrated, Adobe Commerce service that optimizes acceptance, while reducing complexities and friction by providing an all-in-one payments and commerce solution. To learn more or if you have a Canadian customer in mind, please reach out to Nitu Walker – nivedithaw@adobe.com.
Beta Opportunity: Express Checkout for Adobe Commerce and Magento Open Source, powered by Bolt
We know that cart abandonment can be an issue for online merchants, especially amongst mobile shoppers. Have you had issues with checkout conversion? Would you like a solution where shoppers could easily make a purchase without having to remember credit card details or passwords? If so, Commerce Services has an exciting new beta opportunity could be a good fit for your business.
Express Checkout is a new extension developed and supported by Adobe, and powered by Bolt - the market leader in checkout solutions. Express Checkout helps to solve mobile conversion rate issues by reducing the number of fields that need to be completed during checkout. Using this extension is low-effort, low-risk, and high-reward as it is built to work with your existing Magento Open Source checkout and payment providers. Plus, as part of the beta program, you will have white-glove service and support to help along the way.
Have questions or have think you or your merchant are a fit, please contact nivedithaw@adobe.com for more information.
Magento Open Source Roadmap
Magento Open Source roadmap is publicly available here - https://bitly.com/magento-roadmap. Do check it out, if you haven't already.
Adobe Summit — The Digital Experience Conference March 15–17, 2022
Join us at Adobe Summit 2022! This FREE virtual event is packed with inspiring talks and content on the future of customer experience. Adobe Summit 2022 will include more than 200 sessions, interactive training workshops, and a variety of virtual learning opportunities. Keynote addresses from Shantanu Narayan, Chairman, President, and CEO, and Anil Chakravarthy, President of Adobe’s digital experience business will focus on high-level themes and topics impacting Experience Makers today. Day two will wrap with Sneaks, an attendee favourite featuring the latest innovations emerging from Adobe’s product development labs. A list of Commerce sessions can be found here.
Register now at - https://summit.adobe.com/
Adobe Developers Live: Commerce Recap
Earlier this month, we held our Adobe Developers Live: event of the year. The event featured sessions by our product and engineering teams, with topics ranging from maintaining and upgrading the platform to exciting innovations in developer tooling, APIs, and services that enable merchants to deliver amazing shopping experiences.
Visit the Adobe blog for a recap of the event.
If you were unable to attend the event live, the content is available on-demand on Experience League.
Community Engineering Hangout
Community Engineering Hangout is a public event aimed to share latest platform updates, gather feedback and spread technical knowledge with the Adobe Commerce and Magento Open Source Community.
Join us on April 6 at 11 am CST to talk all things commerce.
Please visit https://developer.adobe.com/open/magento/calendar to get the dial-in details and watch the recordings of our earlier sessions. Dial-in details will be added to the community calendar next week.
Reach out to us if you would like to speak at one of these sessions.
See you next month,
Parul Sinha
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