NCode technologies as a guide for Magento 2.4

KITCHENER, Ontario - Aug. 5, 2020 - PRLog -- Well, the same goes for eCommerce businesses & their website & app admins. This article celebrates the release of the new version of Magento 2.4. The Magento development company, NCode technologies has listed a few things how they are going to help the customers to develop an e-commerce store utilizing the new features introduced by Magento community in this version of the Magento 2. Read it here to get deep penetration into this.

Key Highlights of Magento 2.4 Open Source Release
Security-only patch available
Magento traders are skilled in installing time-sensitive security fixes without involving functional difficulties and improvements. As per the release notes, 2.3.5-p1 is the security-only patch for fixing all the exposure detected in the last quarterly release.

Substantial security enhancements
   • Magento 2.4 release includes more than 30 security fixes and platform security improvements.
   • Necessary 2FA for all the Magento Admin Account.
   • By default authorised the Template filter strict mode.
   • By default blocked the Data rendering for UI data providers.
   • Unconventional Support for new security.txt file

Platform upgrades
   • PHP 7.4 support offered and PHP 7.1 and 7.2 deprecated.
   • Provided assistance for PHPUnit 9.x and deprecation of PHPUnit 6.5
   • Provided support of Elasticsearch 7.6.x.
   • Provided support of MySQL 8.0.
   • Eliminated MySQL catalogue search engine
   • Implemented support of MariaDB 10.4.
   • Migration of dependencies on Zend Framework
   • Dropped the core integration of the Signifyd fraud protection code
   • Excreted the core Braintree module from the codebase

Infrastructure improvements
   • Removal of core integration of third-party payment methods
   • PayPal JavaScript SDK upgrade.
   • Exclusion of the Web Setup Wizard
   • Composer update plugin
   • Applied Seller-assisted shopping.

Performance improvements
   • Improvements to customer data section invalidation logic
   • Multiple optimizations to Redis performance
   • Improved caching of completion of SQL queries to inventory tables

GraphQL
This improvement involves:
   • Support query pickupLocations for inventory in-store pickup functionality.
   • Query categories & categoryList for getting the list of sections and in support of pagination.
   • Query reorderItems authorises the customer to reorder the prior order into the cart.

Other major highlights
   • Competent to license stock image by Adobe Stock Integration v2.0.
   • New Magento Media Gallery up to 30x faster compared to the earlier version.
   • Inventory Management facilitated the in-store pickup and provides bundle product

support
   • PWA Studio enrichment and bug fixes.
   • Updated Vendor-developed extension improvements such as Amazon Pay, Braintree Payments, Klarna, Vertex and Yotpo.