Magento 2.4.2: Release Notes (Everything You Need to Know)

Hello Magento Folks 👋,

Great News for Magento Developers, Magento Merchants, and all those who love Magento 🧡. Mark your calendars 🗓️ - Magento 2.4.2 is unleashing on 09 Feb 2021.

The latest release notes will bring security enhancements, performance enhancements, and platform improvements. Elaborating the support for SameSite attribute for cookies, support for Elasticsearch 7.9.x, and Redis 6.x are other major updates.

Magento 2.4.2 was pre-released on 26 Jan 2021 by the official Magento. The latest release contains 280 new fixes of core code and 30+ security enhancements. Solution for around 290 Github issues has been provided in the new release. Moreover, all the noted issues of Magento 2.4.1 has been resolved in this release.

Let us Unfold The Latest Magento 2.4.2 Release Notes🚀

Security-only patch available:

All the vulnerabilities available in previous versions of Magento are fixed in Magento 2.4.2 with security-only patch 2.4.0.12. The merchants can install time-sensitive security fixes without implementing hundreds of functional fixes.

Security Enhancements:

Above 35 security enhancements to support lose remote code execution (RCE) and cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities. Furthermore, all core cookies support the SameSite attribute.

Infrastructure Improvements:

Improvements in quality of framework in functional areas like Customer Account, Catalog, CMS, OMS, Import/Export, Promotions and Targeting, Cart and Checkout, and Staging and Preview.

Platform Enhancements:

Enhanced support for Elasticsearch 7.9.x. Although the support for Elasticsearch 7.4.x will still be compatible. Enhanced support for Redis 6.x. Although the support for Redis 5.x will still be compatible. Magento 2.4.2 is tested with Varnish 6.4 and is compatible with Composer 2.x.

Performance Enhancements:

With code enhancements, it will help to boost API performance and admin response time implementing large catalogs. Support for complex catalogs up to 20x larger than previous versions.

GraphQL:

It includes support for localization across stores. Includes optimization of product data retrieval for configurable products with many variants. It honors catalog permissions.

PWA Studio:

The PWA Studio release includes internationalization and localization, support for multiple stores, My Account for Venia, enhance extensibility, and performance optimization.

Media Gallery:

Allow admin to control media gallery for the actions like Insert media assets into content, upload, edit and delete assets, manage folder structure and web-optimized images in the content.

Magento Functional Testing Framework (MFTF):

MFTF 3.2.1 is now available. It involves error tolerance in both tests and test suit generation.

AWS S3 Support Enhancements:

The AWS S3 support enhancements for object storage, storage of media files, and future extensibility.

Magento Commerce 2.4.2 Highlights:

Magento 2.4.2 initiates B2B v1.3.1.
Support for online payments and bug fixes.
Substantial enhancement to Page Builder content migration and Page Builder CSS customization.

Final Words:

Hence, it was all about the Magento 2.4.2 latest pre-release notes. Hurry up and upgrade your store to the latest Magento version. Check out more about Magento 2.4.2, Magento 2.4.2: Release Notes (Everything You Need to Know).

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