Howdy Magento Folks,

There is a rapid growth in all the technologies and with that, the use of Magento in Ecommerce business is also increased. The maximum challenge faced by all the Magento merchants is to give their customers most of it and in helping to this as always the Magento never fails. Where Magento after releasing the Magento 2.3.4 it has come with another release with Magento  2.3.5. So, are you excited to know what are the updates and upgrades provided by Magento? The Magento 2.3.5 is officially released on April 28th, 2020  Here is full detailed information on the Magento 2.3.5 update. Also, you will get the link to Magento 2.3.5 download.

Let’s Get Into Magento 2.3.5 Changelog, 

Magento 2.3.5 is released!

The latest Magento Commerce and enhancements releases include tools to improve our merchants’ capabilities, security, and performance, and help them react swiftly to rapid changing conditions. Read more: https://t.co/Hk8gn1mQB4#MagentoCommerce #ecommerce pic.twitter.com/bDIds1U2m0

— Magento Commerce (@magento) April 28, 2020

Here, mainly the Magento Open Source 2.3.5 provides a noteworthy platform upgrade with improved performance and very essential security changes. By this release of Magento 2.3.5, Magento has fixed more than 180 functionalities in the core product of it and has 25 advanced security enhancements. There are also many minor changes and including all the contributions the major upgrade is on the core code for the GraphQL and the Inventory Management. 

For more info of Magento Commerce 2.3.5 visit here.

Magento 2.3.5 Major Features:

• Get AI Integrated Magento Commerce to Drive Sales More Efficiently 

With the best feature release, the integration of Adobe Sensei where the merchants will get more benefits for new product recommendations to the customers in their Magento 2 Store, and with the help of this, the customer enhancement will be improved which will result in the overall sales growth. For more detailed study do visit the previously placed article Magento Launched AI-Powered Product Recommendations for Magento Commerce

• Drag & Drop Page Builder Templates for Better Content Creation

Now, merchants are enhanced with the Drag & Drop Page Builder Templates for Better Content Creation which will be very less time consuming and will increase more attraction of customers towards the store. With the use of all the page builder templates, there will be a facility to create new pages very fast and also there is no requirement to build the content pages from scratch. If any circumstances arise like the current circumstance of COVID-19 then the merchants are capable of building the new pages using the templates and let their users be informed about the status of the store.

• New Design Experience with New UI  

With the new Magento 2.3.5 update, there are new designs introduced by Magento. Especially for creating your store elegant and with the help of new designs the customer experience on your store will get improved and also the UI is appreciable where your store can get some rich attractive look.

• Get Free Amazon sales channel extension that works faster onboarding process 

The very effective and powerful extension developed where the Magento retailers are capable to sell the products in the Amazon marketplace wherein advancement to that the increase in connecting your Magento 2 store on Amazon made it easier. With an increase in functionality, there is also an advanced add-on by providing the Amazon sales channel dashboard.

For more info visit here

Substantial security enhancements:

The Substantial security enhancements in this release include more than 25 security enhancements that will be very helpful to close the cross-site scripting (XSS) and also the remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities. There are no attack issues that came over till now and many of the weak points are taken out from where the access of customer details can be found. The main reason to attack is that the attacker directly attacks the Admin and from there all other issues are started so there is open advice to secure your admin. All the known security issues are already resolved by the release of Magento 2.3.5.

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Platform Upgrades:

Here are mainly following Magento 2.3.5 platform upgrades:

Support for Elasticsearch 7.x:

Support for Elasticsearch 7.x: It is supported in both the Magento release open source as well as commerce edition. Get detailed information on Magento 2: How To Configure Elasticsearch

Deprecation of core integration of third-party payment methods:

Deprecation of core integration of third-party payment methods

With the Magento 2.3.5 upgrade, there is also a release of stopping the support of core and inbuilt payment methods from Magento. Get detailed information about the Deprecation of Magento Core Payment Integrations (Everything You Need to Know)

Deprecation of the core integration of the Signifyd fraud protection code:

Mainly, here the inbuilt functionality support is stopped so all the merchants have to migrate to Signifyd Fraud & Chargeback Protection extension which is already available on Magento Marketplace.

Upgrade of Symfony Components:

It is upgraded to the latest lifetime support where the Symfony components are known as the pair of decoupled PHP libraries which is mainly used by the Magento Framework.

Migration of dependencies on Zend Framework to the Laminas project: 

In addition to the upgrades, the major step in the release of Magento 2.3.5 is the Zend Framework has been deprecated. If you want to use the Laminas libraries then there are very few modifications in the code and configuration which is necessary for the support. 

For more info visit here.

Performance Advances: 

Improvements to customer data section invalidation logic: In the improvement release there is an introduction to a new method for invalidating the customer’s data where the problem with the local storage is solved when there are active custom sections.xml invalidations. 

Multiple optimizations to Redis performance

The improvisation in decreasing the number of errors to the Redis which are carried out on each and every Magento request.

The optimizations are:

• Lesser size of data transfers within Magento and Redis.
• Decrease in Redis usage of CPU cycles by enhancing the adapter’s capability to automatically identify the requirements to be loaded.
• Decreased in race conditions on all the Redis write operations

For more info visit here

Infrastructure improvements:

It includes all the improved core quality of the framework and the following modules:

Catalog, Sales, PayPal, Elasticsearch, Import, and CMS

Paypal Pro Payment: It works perfectly correct and as expected in the chrome 80 browsers. The earlier problem was it had an invocation that required permission to the user’s session and for that, the new cookie feature does not give the permit.

PHP Stan code integration to Magento Static builds: Here the tool gives an outstanding performance to the static code analysis and determines extra problems that are not found by the PHP CodeSniffer and the PHP Mess Detector.

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Inventory Management:

There are newly added extension points for StockDataProvider and SourceDataProvider.

Capability to display all the assigned inventory sources from the Orders list. For more info visit here.

GraphQL:

In the release, for retrieving the details of products and categories one has to use the products and categoryList queries which are already included in the staged campaign.

For more info visit here.

PWA Studio:

PWA Studio 6.0.0 includes new features as well as improvements in existing features.

New PWA extensibility framework release: Now developers are more capable of creating the extensibility API for the front-end of the store or can be able to write the plugins which will be further included in those API and can apply the modification of store front-end logic.

Improved Caching and Data fetching: There is better caching logic and many other data captivating optimizations in the UI component libraries which will be further refactored.

For more info visit here.

Dotdigital:

Engagement Cloud and Magento B2B integration.

• Company data sync
• Sync of shared catalog data.
• Syncing of quoted data
• Better Importer performance 
• Enhanced Coupon code resend.

For more info visit here.

Google Shopping ads Channel:

This extension has reached end-of-life by this release hence it is no longer supported. There are many other extensions similar to this available in the Magento Marketplace.

For more info visit here.

Vendor-developed extension improvements:

With this release, the third-party extensions are improved quality-wise as well as UX wise. It Includes:

Klarna: This extension will be available in Australia and New Zealand. It is improved by some minor bug fixes.

Vertex: There are given below new features in Vertex

• Address Validation. 
• Admin Configuration. 
• Virtual Products. 
• Restorable configuration settings.
• Port in WSDL.
• Code practices.

Magento 2.3.5 Commerce New Improvements:

It includes an improved edition of Magento Commerce 2.3.5 which provides an essential platform upgrade, performance improvements, and security enhancements. All the minor bugs fixed and many clean-up performed in the core code and also very essential improvement in the Inventory Management and GraphQL. It also contains the solution of the 46 GitHub issues solved by all the Magento Community Members

Over to You! 

Hence, the above listed are the major improvements made by Magento in this release and for the detailed bug fixes do visit the official published release note for Magento 2.3.5. For more information on Magento Commerce visit the published release note for Magento 2.3.5. 

I hope the above given information was helpful for you and if you like the article then let us know in the comment section below. Also share the article with your Magento friends and make them aware of this. If there are any Magento 2.3.5 issues then feel free to reach us at MageComp Support.

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