Magento Community Edition 1.9.1.0 is now available for download, the Magento 2 developer beta is scheduled for a little more than two weeks from now and magename can help you with rebranding your Magento-business: these are the weeks 47 & 48.
Magento
- As announced in the release notes of Magento EE 1.14.1, Magento CE 1.9.1 was “coming soon”. Well, here it is. New features include configurable swatches, improvement of the RWD-theme (including responsive emails), better performance and over 70 miscellaneous enhancements. Details can be found in the release notes.
- The configurable swatches led to a bit of a discussion regarding the implementation. Piotr Kaminski states that by using the media gallery, existing import and export tools are not affected. Let’s just say that each implementation has its ups and downs. If you are looking for an alternative “configurable swatches” module, Easylife Switcher by Marius gets good recommendations.
- What also led to discussion is the badly timed release of the newest Magento CE.
- In October, Appcheck-Ng published a report on various Flash-files being vulnerable for XSS attacks. The exploits were found in Magento 1.9.0.1. It has not yet been verified whether these still exist in 1.9.1.0.
- Christoph Massman got a fine taste of Magento 1.X its costs calculation system and wrote a blog post about it.
- Hérvé Guétin shared a heavily commented piece of code which helps with demonstrating how to set up a Magento form with fields which are dependent on other fields.
- Tuts+ published the first part of a four-article series on Magento Search Engine Optimization.
- With the Magento Project Mess Detector (MPMD) plugin for n98-magerun you can easily generate a report of how much of a Magento core code base has been modified.
- During “AWS re:Invent 2014”, Elastera presented “Running and Scaling Magento on AWS“. The presentation has been recorded and on the Elastera blog a bit of background information can be found.
- LimeSoda_EnvironmentConfiguration got updated to version 1.0.0. The changelog has more information.
- Magento Configurator is the translator between YAML files and the Magento database. It allows for example to set up a common store-configuration which can then easily be distributed, imported and versioned. During MageTitans Rick Steckles showcased the module and the thought behind it.
- Hackathon_IndexerStats, a product of the MM14CH hackathon, has received a few improvements for more accurate and responsive stats.
- Shoppimon analyzed “more than 1000 Magento e-commerce shops” and concludes that 1 in 2 Magento sites are vulnerable for the POODLE attack. That’s… alarming.
- Fabrizio reviews and discusses the various manners in which a Magento module can be installed.
- One of the ways to do it, is by using the magento-hackathon Composer installer. If you are comfortable using that tool and want to help out, be sure to give the 3.0 alpha version a try and give feedback if you have any.
- n98-magerun is rolling out the unstable release candidate for version 1.93.0. To try it out, use the [cci]self-update -unstable[/cci] command.
Magento 2
- 0.1.0-alpha104, 0.1.0-alpha105 and 0.1.0-alpha106 have been pushed to Github. Here are some headlights:
- The local.xml configuration file is no more! It is now an “associated array in config.php”.
- The Bundle, CatalogSearch, CMS, Customer and other modules their functional tests have been stabilized. Criteria for “stabilization” are not given but it sounds good.
- There have been several performance improvements. Including but not limited to drastically decreasing the amount of unused objects, caching product attribute metadata and improving the setup tool.
- As per the PSRs, all interfaces now have the “Interface” suffix. Whole debates can be held around this change but big plus is that if you are looking at code at a glance, it is a lot easier to see whether an interface is being referred to or rather a concrete implementation.
- SQL and Data Upgrades for the Tax, Weee, Customer, CustomerImportExport, ProductAlert, Sendfriend and Wishlist modules have been merged.
- There have been several UI improvements. This includes documentation for the UI library, improved footer alignment, more semantic HTML on several widgets and replacing Plushe with the Luma theme.
- And of course, a long list of bug fixes; “Out of stock” messages not being displayed in rare edge cases, not being able to add an address for a customer from the backend and lots more. Refer to the changelog for all the details.
- On the 18th of December, the Developer Beta will be released. On the same date, Magento is planning a webinar.
- Magento 2 will have native support for nginx.
- Probably in light of the upcoming developer beta, the Magento 2 readme is seeing rapid expansion.
- Earlier explained on Github, Alan Kent has published a blog post which gives a detailed insight on the various phases of the Magento 2 roadmap.
- Marko Martinović presented “Magento 2 Caching Strategies” during Meet Magento Poland 2014.
- For those wondering what the MX, PS and CS labels in the public issue tracker stand for, Max, the Magento 2 engineering lead, has explained that they refer to three different domains:
- MX: Merchant Experience
- PS: Platform Services
- CS: Commerce Services
Community
- Meet Magento Italy is calling for papers for their 2015 edition. The Imagine 2015 CFP has been extended to December the 8th.
- Magenable published their personal experiences with Magento Live Australia.
- Flying under the radar, MageConf 2014 in Paris took place. Write-ups (from Maxime, SOON and Kaliop) are in French and most presentations were also in French. C’est dommage. An exception was Tim’s “Disgusting Truth of Magento Enterprise” talk.
- Cloudways has interviewed Anna Völkl and Sander Mangel.
- Magenticians has been called the “Daft Punk of Magento”. Odd, but it’s worth something, right?
- Underneath Magento: The (accepted) PHP 7 timeline reveals that PHP 7 will see the light circa October 2015.
- Last but not least: magename.me is, quoting the creator, “the dumbest thing I’ve ever made” and can help with generating a name for your next Magento business.
Those who master German, don’t forget to check out Matthias Zeis’ Magento-Neuigkeiten which our round-ups are based on. If we missed a module release, made a mistake or you want to say hello, let us know on Twitter, in the comments below or send us an email.
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