Adobe Commerce: What’s new?

Forrester: Don’t play “software company”

According to Forrester predictions, in 2023 one-third of digital businesses will regret playing “software company”. They will abandon or restructure midstream projects that prove too complex to execute or maintain.

The main reason for that is that these companies try to embrace the most custom and flexible, but at the same time massively complex commerce tech ecosystems. These systems require firms to orchestrate and maintain every aspect of the ecosystem and after a few years new implementations will fail and custom UIs will crumble from post-launch neglect.

New App Builder is coming

Building apps will be easier than ever before. With the new Adobe Developer App builder.

• It is a cloud-native low code environment that will help you rapidly build integrations and customizations.
• An event-drive framework will allow you to build near real-time applications and integrations.
• One of the greatest benefits of applications built on App Builder is that they do not require provisioning or scaling of infrastructure and there is minimal code to maintain.
• It also simplifies platform upgrades and maintenance.

Catalog service

SaaS service that augments current APIs and provides fast catalog data retrieval for performant shopping experiences and improved conversion rates.

Benefits:

• Improved performance: up to 10x faster catalog data retrieval (<200 ms)
• Higher reliability: adobe-managed, cloud-native, first party multi-tenant SaaS service offering, lower traffic burden on Commerce servers
• Works stand-alone or together with existing application SaaS services (Product Recs, Live Search, etc.)
• Latest enhancements: API Mesh integration, automatic onboarding via Commerce Services Connector

Better support

Expanded support window

• 3 years from GA (general availability) date
• includes security and quality patches for Commerce and PHP
• Applies to Adobe Commerce 2.4.4+

More security updates

• 4 security patch releases in 2023

Accelerated innovation

• New capabilities delivered as composable SaaS services
• Core Adobe Commerce patch released once per year

Adobe Commerce 2.4.6

We are just testing the new beta version (GA 14.3.2023).

Here’s what you can look for:

• IP allowlisting
• New Two-Factor
• New ability to use VPN
• New ability to use unique location (instead of /admin)
• Import performance – it is able to process more than 100K records per minute
• Tech view: PHP 8.2, Composer 2.2.x, Redis 7.0, MariaDB 10.6