Important changes to native payment integrations will be part of Magento 2.3.3, to comply with the new European guidelines, along with the introduction of support for PHP 7.3, because security support for PHP 7.1 is coming to an end. Merchants should plan to take steps to remain PCI compliant if they still use PHP 7.1. For more on this, click here.
The highlights of this Magento 2.3.3 release are:
Security: based on reported issues, Magento included nearly 100 security fixes in this patch, with the intent of strengthening the platform and reducing the number of negative reports.
Performance: the Google PageSpeed Insights score improved by up to 5 points after some of the performance changes in this release. Page load time is faster, which automatically improves the user experience. There is also the display of text while web fonts load in the background, moving non-critical CSS items to the end of the load queue.
Quality: more than 190 product-quality improvements were made in areas that are critical on the platform, such as the sales, catalog, and checkout modules.
There were also some product improvements, including:
Yotpo is an e-commerce marketing platform that helps brands drive growth with integrated solutions. It arrived as a new addition to the core code as a vendor extension. With this preinstalled integration, merchants can reduce development cost and implementation time by activating the platform’s own solutions.
Admin User Experience Research. Magento Commerce introduces tracking of user actions in the Admin panel to understand that experience better and improve product design.
GraphQL. Improved GraphQL API coverage for PayPal payment integration, gift cards, and store credit.
Page Builder. The tool was updated to improve the content-creation experience and give merchants more control.
Google Shopping Ads Channel. The Google Shopping ads channel extension is now part of the core code. This integration lets merchants sign up quickly and start using the benefits of the tool without downloading an extension from the Marketplace.
Included extensions. New security and performance improvements for Dotdigital, Amazon Pay, Vertex, and Magento Shipping.
Additional releases. Through the third quarter, several other improvements were delivered, including the Cloud Platform, Business Intelligence, and PWA Studio 4.0.0.
Yesterday also brought Magento Commerce 2.2.10 and the latest security patch, 2.3.2-p1. Additional information is available on the Magento DevBlog.
As noted above, the recommendation is that the upgrade be done as soon as possible to avoid risks to the security of the platform.
