Magento 2.2 is getting ready for official release, let's take a look at some of the improvements and new features included in this platform update. Learn more at: www.customerparadigm.com/magento-2-2-release-notes-colorado-magento-meetup

1. Magento 2.2
It’s coming right for you

2. Key Update Features
• Renaming of the Product
• Magento Business
Intelligence Integration
• Signifyd Fraud Protection
• B2B Module
• Platform Performance
• Deployment Improvements
• And………

3. What’s in a name?
Magento Community Edition = Magento Open Source
Magento Enterprise Edition = Magento Commerce
Magento Cloud = Magento Cloud

4. Magento B.I.
• Magento’s strategy is to
acquire, not create
• Available for Magento
Commerce and Open Source
• Leveraging the internal site
analytics
• Better/Actionable data
• Low cost
magento.com/products/business-intelligence

5. Signifyd Fraud Protection
• 3rd party fraud prevention
integration now baked into the
core
• 100% charge back service
• Aggregate fraud data from all
merchants in the service
• The cost is based on a per
order percentage

6. Magento’s B2B Module
• Available for only Magento
Commerce
• Magento is going after this
market to provided a modern
solution
• Streamlines the customer
experience (mobile centric)
• Links in with existing Magento
ERP integrations
• Competes directly with
OROCommerce
stock photo of an actual
attractive person,
so you know it’s good

7. Platform Improvements
Code Improvements
Component Improvements
The Tech Stack
Performance

8. - Improved security by removing
calls to 'unserialize()'
- Upgraded hashing
- Better JS exception logging (oh
really???)
- Reduced core around plugins
- Added in more @api annotations
- 4X Api from 2.1.7 to 2.2
So…
Code Improvements

9. So…
Code Improvements
All the added api’s are
documented with Swagger.
This improves developer access
to the api system and
solutions to headless
Magento installs
devdocs.magento.com/swagger/

10. So…
The Tech Stack
- Dropped PHP 5.6 and Varnish 3
- Added in PHP 7.1
- Reddis 3.2
- mySQL 5.7
- Updated Composer
- Updated Zend Framework

11. So…
Component Improvements
- Ui Components have XSD validation, better
logging and all widgets come from root UI
Components
- WCGA support for front end themes
- Mass Async Operations (EE only) auto makes
long running biz operation without interfering
with the store
- Pipeline deploy to improve push lives

12. So…
Performance
- Improved indexer, users can now use and
buy from a store while indexing catalog
- Cart can now scale to an absurd 300 line
items in one session
- Tweaked cache, tweaked varnish
- New toolkit that improve performance

13. mike stacey
lead developer at
Customer Paradigm
@circle_six

14. Customer Paradigm
www.CustomerParadigm.com
@CustParadigm