Magento is a feature-rich eCommerce platform solution that offers merchants complete flexibility and control over the functionality of their online channels. Magento’s search engine optimization, catalog management, and powerful marketing tools give merchants the ability to create sites that provide an unrivaled shopping experience for their customers.

Magento’s intuitive administration interface allows you to tailor your site to your unique business needs. Completely scalable and backed by an extensive support network, Magento is the ultimate eCommerce solution.

Security Enhancements:

Adobe is dedicated to enhancing the security of the Magento platform, and the latest release, Magento 2.4.6, includes various improvements to accomplish this. Some notable updates in this release include:

• Eight security fixes & platform security improvements. Read more at Adobe Security Bulletin.
• Filled the gaps in Admin action logs with more specific auditing of admin actions.
• Fixed issue regarding reCAPTCHA validation failure at unexpected error during payment processing.
• A new setting system configuration (disabled by default) was added to require email confirmation when an admin user changes their email.

Platform Enhancements:

Magento 2.4.6 has made several enhancements to improve the overall user experience.

• Additionally, Composer 2.2.x and ElasticSearch 8.x are now supported, and Redis 7.0.x is supported while Redis 6.2 remains compatible until April 2024.
• OpenSearch has become the default search engine for Adobe Commerce, and it is also supported as an independent search engine for Magento Open Source.
• While support for MariaDB (LTS version) remains, upgrading to MariaDB 10.6 is recommended.

Performance and Scalability Enhancements:

This release has a major focus on improving speed and performance. The enhancements to the platform improve ease of use, particularly for Merchants. With these improvements, Merchants can now perform bulk operations in just minutes, saving them valuable time and effort.

• Category Children Tree Processing
• Bulk Cart Operation Response Time
• Limit Number of Products
• Enhance Order Processing

Accessibility Updates:

Magento 2.4.6 release has prioritized the development of an improved retail experience on Venia (PWA) that is more accessible, functional, understandable, and resilient. The release includes significant enhancements, some of which are worth mentioning:

• Search filters on the shop now have verbal descriptive captions for Has Video checkboxes to enhance accessibility.
• The storefront’s page functionalities are now fully accessible to users who rely solely on a keyboard for navigation.

GraphQL Performance Enhancements:

In the latest release of Magento, Adobe has implemented several enhancements aimed at improving the performance of Magento 2 GraphQL. Some notable enhancements include:

• Response times have improved when querying products in categories for which category permissions are enabled and that contain many customer groups or shared catalogs.
• GraphQL resolver operation has been optimized.
• Product permissions are now optimized to be applied to product collections instead on a per-product basis improving performance.
• New mutations have been added named as deleteCustomer.
• Improved response time of the bulk cart operations through GraphQL.

Braintree Payment Features Upgrade:

This release of Magento 2 includes improvements in the Braintree Payment system, such as:

• The Pay Later buttons and banners have been enabled for Italy and Spain.
• LPM (Local Payment Methods) webhook has been added.
• Added Fraud Protection and ACH webhooks.
• The PayLater messaging has been activated for the PayPal Vault.