Magento 2.3.3 Is Out Now! Here’s What You Need to Know!

Magento has been revolutionizing the way businesses used to look at eCommerce. Through consistently upgrading their platform, the company is deliberately pushing limits of commerce innovation. The release of Magento 2.3.3 has brought together 170+ functional fixes to the core product and 75+ security enhancements. Apart from that, it includes over 200 contributions – ranging from minor core-code optimization to significant enhancements to inventory management – from the Magento community.
If you’re a Magento store owner, here’s everything you need to know about Magento 2.3.3:

Security Enhancements:

(A). Security-only Patches:
For the first time, Magento has released security-only patch to help merchants install important security fixes that can safeguard their stores from potential vulnerabilities detected from previous versions. With the increasing threat for data breaches, regulations around the world have been tightened by various international authorities. With that in mind, Magento has released these patches to help merchants combat data thefts and save themselves from cyber-attacks that may ruin their business, and more importantly – reputation. However, it is to be noted that these security-only patches do not contain the countless enhancements and functional upgrades that a full-fledged release may come with.
If you are running your store below Magento 2.3.2, you can still secure your store by implementing relevant security patch to it. If you face any challenges while installing the patch to your store, let us know – our certified experts will be right there to help you protect your store from security breaches and such threats.

(B). Other Enhancements:
Through Magento 2.3.3 – the company has pushed forward several other security enhancements including…

• Compliance of core payment methods to Payment Services Directive (PSD2)
• 75 critical security issues resolved
• Improved platform security to boost XSS (cross-site scripting) protection to prevent any future exploits

Platform & Infrastructure Enhancements:

Apart from security enhancements, there have been countless significant platform and infrastructure improvements. Here are few crucial upgrades…

• Compatibility with PHP 7.3.x & 7.2.x & Varnish 6.2.0
• Zend Framework 2 components have been upgraded to Active/LTS versions
• WYSIWYG editor got transformed to TinyMCE v. 4.9.5
• Fixed several bugs in Magento Inventory

Performance Boosts:

Enhancing the overall performance of the platform has always been the prime goal of Magento. This release isn’t an exception. Magento has upgraded their platform greatly to provide maximal performance with minimal resource consumption. Below-mentioned are a few paramount performance boosts…

• Page load speeds have been greatly enhanced
• Merchants can now turn off the automatic URL generation occurring by default on the products belonging to specific category is saved.
• jQuery & ui library has been restructured into individual

Other Improvements:

Besides all the aforementioned improvements, Magento has put together some truly incredible upgrades pertaining to GraphQL, shipping, PWA Studio, inventory management and Google Shopping ads channel. Starting from installation to checkout, Magento has also fixed hundreds of issues in Magento 2.3.3 core code.
With that being said, you can be certain that this release is jam-packed with remarkable feature enhancements, security upgrades, performance boosts and bug fixes – all of it, to help you level-up your commerce game!

Are You Ready to Make the Leap?

According to ZNet, “83.1% of Magento Commerce and Magento Open-source sites that reported hacks were running on outdated versions.” This means, if you’re running your store on any version lower than Magento 2.3.3 – you might be staking a good part of your business in the hands of hackers! The stakes get even higher if you haven’t yet migrated to Magento 2! With the Magento 1 end of life drawing nearer, stores are getting more vulnerable to security breaches.
Let our certified professionals help you safeguard your store from such unethical attacks by upgrading, or migrating it to Magento 2.3.3! Having done this for over 15 years, we know what it takes to get you there. Give in our hands the key to your Magento store and let us unlock its full potential. Consult our experts today to get started!