What’s New in Adobe Commerce’s Latest Release Magento 2.4.5

Adobe commerce has leveled up the Magento game by introducing its Magento 2.4.5 version. Adobe commerce has spread the word by a pre-release in July 2022. It will be released on 8th august for beta testing, and on 9th august for the public.

Store owners might be wondering what’s packed in this new Magento 2.4.5 version.

A simple answer to your questions is enhanced security, performance, quality, caching, accessibility, and payment capabilities. According to official news, the new edition offers a revamp of google modules along with numerous other features. This latest Magento 2.4.5 encompasses 400 quality fixes and optimizations, and the Magento open-source edition has come up with approximately 290 fixes. Besides the advancements, the new Magento model has specifically added modules and features.

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The key updates in Magento 2.4.5

• Addressed 290+ quality issues and advancements.
• Over 20 security fixes and advancements.
• Composer 2.2, TinyMCE 5.10.2, and jQueryUI 1.13.1 are supported.
• Page Builder v.1.7.2 and PWA Studio v.12.5.x compatible.
• Improvements to GraphQL.
• Apple Pay availability for each store owner.
• Upgrade to Google Analytics 4 using the built-in Google Tag module.

Let’s dive into it for a detailed understanding.

Page Builder

Magento 2.4.5 supports Page Builder v1.7.2. This implies that individuals can now effectively add columns. They can recreate, conceal, and delete column groups, as well as modify numerous lines within a single column group.

PWA Studio

Magento 2.4.5 now supports PWA Studio v12.5.x. The key updates include:

• Merchants can gather shopper usage statistics for web analytics services utilizing the PWA studio storefront.
• Merchants can now utilize Google Tag Manager to deploy a service.

Inventory and Live Search

The new edition of the security template has been introduced. As well as product assignments per customer group and pricing are now supported by a live search feature.

Google Analytics

Google has rolled out new analytics and AdWords edition. Now adobe commerce provides google AdWords, analytics, TagManager, and optimizer extensions integrated into it. This will improve content monitoring and management.

GraphQL

GraphQL upgrades are added in Magento 2.4.5. Let’s have a look at key points.

• Reconstructing a unified storefront when deploying GraphQL schema or changing various attributes.
• Faster page load time.
• GraphQL operations session cookies are disabled.
• Only launching session cookies with class proxies if necessary.
• The ability of the GraphQL API to consume the authorization token’s expiration date/time.
• The HTTP header has wiped out the session usage.

Performance advances

Adobe consistently brings improvements to Magento store performances.

• With the 2.4.5 Magento version Price, indexer performance has been streamlined.
• The number of primary indexes has been reduced from three to one
• Indexing time has been improved.

Platform Advances

• Compatible with Composer 2.2, TinyMCE 5.10.2, jQueryUI 1.13.1, and PHPStan 1.5.7.
• The new v6.2 of DHL Integration Schema is added, and the latest version 20 composer dependencies are added.
• All JS libraries are revamped.

Security advances

This new edition has 20 bug fixes and advancements for platform security.

• Assistance for Google reCAPTCHA on Wish List Sharing, Gift Card forms, and New Customer Account creation.
• Inventory has new ACL resources.
• Better security of Inventory template.
• Upgrade of HTMLPurifier library from MaliciousCode filter.

Payment Improvements

Adobe has integrated some new payment gateways. Now Apple Pay is available for all Magento shop owners, and improvement has been made to the PayPal and Braintree payment methods. Let’s check out the key points.

• The ‘Always request 3DS’ option is now available for Braintree payments.
• KOUNT fraud protection integration has been removed from Adobe Commerce Codebase.
• The product details page, cart page, and checkout page now have the Apple Pay option.
• Paypal, Pay Later, and Credit is now available to admin for preview.
• Customers in Italy and Spain can use the PayPal pay later option.

Accessibility Updates

Venia Pwa helps to construct a storefront experience.

• Search results summary information is now available to screen readers.
• Screen readers get notified when a new page loads.
• Enhanced keyboard accessibility and contrast.

The system requirements for Magento 2.4.5.

Make sure to have these to upgrade your old Magento to Magento version 2.4.5.

Compose 2.2

Elasticsearch 7.17

OpenSearch 1.2

MariaDB 10.4

MySQL 8.0

PHP 8.1

RabbitMQ 3.9

Redis 6.2

Varnish 7.0

Apache 2.4

Nginx 1.18

AWS Aurora (MySQL) 8.0

AWS S3 –

AWS MQ 3.9.13

AWS ElastiCache Redis 6

AWS Elasticsearch 7.9

AWS OpenSearch 1.2

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