Everything You Need To Know About Magento 2.4.1 Release Notes

Magento has attracted its fans even more by launching its latest Magento 2.4.0 version after the epidemic COVID 19 this year. With the launch of the latest version of Magento 2 Open Source, Adobe has provided greater convenience to Magento developers and eCommerce merchants. But Magento and his team periodically provide updates of  Magento to appease their lovers, just as Magento is raising their expectations even more with the latest Magento 2.4.1 version Release Notes for their fans.

Magento released Magento 2.4.1 on October 15, 2020. With this release, Magento can see many improvements in core quality 2.4.0. It has also included more than 150 improvements to core code, ranging from uploading around 3000 Github issues by trusted members of the Magento community. In this article our Magento experts have depicted, Everything You Need To Know About Magento 2.4.1 Release Notes.

Major Aspects(Highlights) of Magento 2.4.1 Release:

Substantial security enhancements
Infrastructure Improvements 
Performance improvements
Adobe Stock Integration
New Media Gallery
GraphQL
PWA Studio

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Substantial Security Enhancements

Over 15 security enhancements that help close remote code execution (RCE) and cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities.
Enhanced Magento Scan Tool.
Support for the SameSite attribute for cookies. 

CAPTCHA protection has been added to the following product areas:

1. Place Order storefront page and REST and GraphQL endpoints
2. Payment-related REST and GraphQL endpoints.

Infrastructure improvements

Magento 2.4.1 release contains enhancements to core quality, which improve the quality of the Framework and these functional areas:

Customer Account
Catalog
CMS
OMS
Import/Export
Promotions and Targeting
Cart and Checkout
Staging and Preview

Performance improvements

Reduction in the size of network transfers between Redis and Magento.

Enhanced message queue consumer performance.

Improved execution time for bin/magento commands.

Adobe Stock Integration

This release of magento includes Adobe Stock Integration v2.1.0.

GraphQL

This Magneto release adds GraphQL coverage for the following features:

1. Product reviews.
2. Gift options. 
3. Order history. 
4. Add to cart.
5. Stored payment methods. 
6. Support for wish lists in Magento Open Source. 
7. Improved management of customer accounts.
8. Support for Payflow Pro Vault. 
9. Klarna GraphQL. 

PWA Studio

Magento 2.4.1 introduces new features and enhancements for PWA Studio.

Updates to the Venia style guide that apply to design tokens, typography, colors, core components, and page layouts.
Improvements to the Venia mini-cart experience
Initial support for multiple locales and localized content on the Venia storefront
Numerous improvements to the My Account experience of the Venia storefront

New Media Gallery

The New Media Gallery is now enabled by default in the Admin. Merchants can now perform these actions on images in the Media Gallery:

1. Delete images in bulk
2. Optimize media storage by identifying duplicate images and images that are not used on the storefront
3. Filter images by the storefront area they are used in, including product and category content and CMS blocks
4. Work with image metadata
   1. View metadata from the images uploaded into Media Gallery
   2. Edit image metadata (title, description, and keywords)
   3. Search for images by their metadata

• Fixed Issues
  
  We have fixed hundreds of issues in the Magento 2.4.1 core code.

1. Installation, upgrade, deployment
2. Adobe Stock Integration
3. Amazon Pay
4. Bundle products
5. Cache
6. Cart and checkout
7. Catalog
8. Cleanup
9. CMS content
10. Configurable products
11. Cookies
12. Cron
13. CSS
14. Customer
15. Directory
16. Dotdigital
17. Downloadable
18. Email
19. Frameworks
20. General fixes

Magento 2.4.1 Release Notes:

• Magento Open Source 2.4.1 Release Notes
• Magento Commerce 2.4.1 Release Notes

Conclusion

All Magento store owners want to keep their stores updated and we hope that after the release of this latest version, everyone will want to use the Magento updated features and upgrade their Magento 2 to latest version of Magento. Although successfully upgrading a Magento store is a difficult task that requires the best Magento eCommerce developers. If you also want to upgrade your store, you can contact our Magento experts who can help you upgrade your store successfully. If you want to get more information about Magento upgrade or any related Magento Services, then click on the link given below. If you have any questions related to this post, you can also comment on us.