Magento News Sum-Up 2014
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January 2014: Magento was upgraded to support PHP 5.4
To make development more efficient, magento was upgraded to support PHP 5.4 at the beginning of 2014. This new upgrade presents some benefits such as better performance, more efficient memory usage and continuous updates and security fixes.
For any case, it is best for you to upgrade to 5.3.28 as the latest version in the 5.3.x product that include security fix.
April 2014: Magento Connect updated quality control
Magento Connect, as you know, is the most largest ecommerce platform for merchants to sell their magento products. To make this platform better serve both merchants and developer, Magento Connect applied these rules from April 28, 2014.
- All magento extensions on this platform have to support at least Magento Community Edition 1.5 and more recent editions.
- All paid magento extensions must have at least 4 referrals in the last 6 months counted from June 30, 2013.
- All free magento extensions must have at least 6 downloads in the last 6 months counted from June 30, 2013.
Extensions that don’t meet these requirements will have be removed from Magento Connect platform from April 28, 2014.
November 2014: Magento Enterprise Edition 1.14.1
The new drag and drop visual merchandising tool in Magento Enterprise Edition 1.14.1helps store owners to organize products on category pages faster and more professionally:
You can learn more about visual merchandising tool through this tutorial:
November 2014: Magento Community 1.9.1
At the same time of Magento Enterprise 1.14.1 was released, Magento Community Edition 1.9.1 was available for download. It helps store owners create compelling shopping experiences across all devices for customers.
Magento Community 1.9.1 includes these features:
- Configurable swatches enable merchants to show off a range of product attributes
- An enhanced responsive design reference theme
- Better site performance and security
- Magento Support for Google Universal Analytics
Many other features are beneficial for magento store owners in this version.
To sum up, the year of 2014 has experienced many important events in magento field. Which news are most meaningful to you? Share with us your ideas.