The two biggest reasons to stay up to date with Magento versions are security and user experience. Every Magento release is intended to make your e-commerce more secure and perform better.
Magento, an Adobe Company recently released version 2.4.0 of Magento Commerce and Magento Open Source. The new Magento 2.4.0 comes with over 100 new fixes to the core code, 30+ security enhancements, and by default enablement of Two-Factor Authentication in the Admin.
Let’s have a look at the highlights of this release:
2FA is now enabled by default and can’t be disabled. This authentication will make it harder for malicious users to access the Admin without authorization.
Magento Framework now has the SecureHtmlRenderer available in .phtml templates for script tags and whitelisting of inline style support. These scripts and styles were not permitted with the default configuration of CSP.
Magento 2.4.0 introduces support for
Also, the MySQL catalog search engine is removed from Magento 2.4 and replaced with Elasticsearch as the default search engine.
The Magento 2.4 release contains enhancements to core quality and modules, including Catalog, Customer Account, CMS, Order Approval Workflow feature for B2B, Import, Inventory Management, Cart and Checkout.
Magento 2.4 introduces a new way of invalidating customer sections data to avoid a known local storage issue while section.xml invalidations are active. Also, with multiple optimizations to Redis performance, Magento 2.4 will minimize the number of queries to Redis – performed on each Magento request.
MFTFv3.0.0 will allow creating custom actions beyond the test framework, nested assertion syntax, sub-folder in test modules, schema updates for test entities, and static check to check and report references.
Magento 2.4 Media Gallery will offer a new, searchable interface to search, filter, and sort images up to 30x faster. Merchants can also use this new media tool for evaluating storefront image usage.
Merchants will now be able to find any Adobe Stock preview image in their Media Gallery. This will reduce the number of steps required for licensing any stock preview image.
With Magento 2.4.0 release, the payment method integrations for Authorize.Net, eWay, CyberSource, and Worldpay have been removed from the core code.
Upgrade your Magento store to Magento 2.4.0 offer a more intuitive user experience and increase your e-commerce sales.
If you have any questions or are looking to partner with an e-commerce agency to improve your Magento website design, development, security or user experience get in touch with one of our e-commerce specialists here at ioVista.
Mike Patel is a digital marketing enthusiast, innovator and President of a leading Digital and E-commerce Development Agency in Dallas, Texas. Mike holds a BS, Computer Science degree from Wayne State University and is a key player in the E-commerce development and digital marketing industry since 2004. The scope of technology in his extensive experience of more than 15 years ranges from Magento, Shopify, BigCommerce SEO (Search Engine Optimization), PPC (Pay Per Click) management, E-commerce SEO, Google Shopping Ads and more.
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