– Nov 26th, 2020 – Meet Magento Singapore 2020, Singapore.
Content
- [Business] Holiday Shopping 2020
- [Business] 2021 Planning
- [Good to Know] Is Apple Into Search?
- [Community] MageCONF 2020 Recap
- [Community] Magento Innovations Lab — Round 7
- [Community] Avalara integration enhancements for B2B
- [Technical] New Developer Tools
- [Technical] Hyva [or Hyvä] frontend
- [Technical] Magento Release Line Update
- [PWA and Headless] Magento PWA Studio release 8.0.0
Business
Holiday Shopping 2020
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To state the obvious, we have experienced dramatic and rapid change in our industry for eCommerce retailers and the 2020 year-end holiday shopping season will be very different from any other previous year — in terms of traffic, delivery, security. To keep pace with our customers, we must stay informed, adapt, and bring our best quality solutions… quickly. And we will!
New Apple’s search engine. In iOS 12 Siri is capable of serving its own search results, not powered by Google. Also, recent increased activity from Apple search crawler was spotted. These lead to a possibility of Apple entering the search engine game in 2021 or 2022 and competing with Google and other players.
Magento Innovations Lab is aimed to empower early-stage bleeding-edge tech and promote it through the Magento community of merchants and developers. In the scope of Innovations Lab solutions like Instant Purchase Magento 2 plugin were introduced. Magento Innovations Lab is expected to deliver new, innovative technology into the Magento ecosystem. Submit your innovation by December 31st, 2020 to qualify.
2021 Planning
Magento Innovations Lab is aimed to empower early-stage bleeding-edge tech and promote it through the Magento community of merchants and developers. In the scope of Innovations Lab solutions like Instant Purchase Magento 2 plugin were introduced. Magento Innovations Lab is expected to deliver new, innovative technology into the Magento ecosystem. Submit your innovation by December 31st, 2020 to qualify.
Good to Know
Is Apple Into Search?
Magento Innovations Lab is aimed to empower early-stage bleeding-edge tech and promote it through the Magento community of merchants and developers. In the scope of Innovations Lab solutions like Instant Purchase Magento 2 plugin were introduced. Magento Innovations Lab is expected to deliver new, innovative technology into the Magento ecosystem. Submit your innovation by December 31st, 2020 to qualify.
MageCONF 2020 Recap
Magento Innovations Lab is aimed to empower early-stage bleeding-edge tech and promote it through the Magento community of merchants and developers. In the scope of Innovations Lab solutions like Instant Purchase Magento 2 plugin were introduced. Magento Innovations Lab is expected to deliver new, innovative technology into the Magento ecosystem. Submit your innovation by December 31st, 2020 to qualify.
Avalara Integration Enhancements for B2B
Magento Innovations Lab is aimed to empower early-stage bleeding-edge tech and promote it through the Magento community of merchants and developers. In the scope of Innovations Lab solutions like Instant Purchase Magento 2 plugin were introduced. Magento Innovations Lab is expected to deliver new, innovative technology into the Magento ecosystem. Submit your innovation by December 31st, 2020 to qualify.
Hyva [or Hyvä] frontend
Magento Innovations Lab is aimed to empower early-stage bleeding-edge tech and promote it through the Magento community of merchants and developers. In the scope of Innovations Lab solutions like Instant Purchase Magento 2 plugin were introduced. Magento Innovations Lab is expected to deliver new, innovative technology into the Magento ecosystem. Submit your innovation by December 31st, 2020 to qualify.
PWA and Headless
Magento PWA Studio Release 8.0.0
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This month we shared advice on how to prepare your Magento 2 store for the holidays. We covered in our article with Nexcess — a hosting provider — Prepare Your Online Store for Holiday Season 2020.
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- Complete cart and checkout experience:
- Shopping Bag feature (aka mini cart).
- Branding updates — a new version of Venia was introduced.
- My Account code preview — this release includes a sneak peek at features associated with My Account, such as Wishlist, Order History, and Address Book.
More info:
Adobe is updating Magento Commerce and Open Source release line. More details are provided below but the point is that all new features and patches will be delivered only against the latest release line (2.4.x) — for example, SWAT in Magento Admin available for Commerce Cloud customers in the Admin. The older release line (2.3.x) will have security-only releases (think of “-p” releases). Bug fixes will be available via Magento Quality Patches Tool (MQP).
Upcoming Events
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Adobe and Atwix are sharing advice on how working with partners actively engaged in Magento’s Community Engineering Program can benefit merchants. This advice should be helpful when planning partnerships for 2021.
– Apr 13-15th, 2021 — Adobe Summit 2021, Online.
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Adobe enables developers with a set of tools to leverage getting Adobe apps up and running with the least effort required. Those tools include:
Atwix and other contributors help with GraphQL coverage development greatly. You can read a Q3 recap of open source contributions on our site.
