Magento 2
Published: 2023-05-17 09:24:41

Magento is the best open-source platform to build custom-coded eCommerce websites. Magento provide overall flexibility to merchants for shopping cart system, functionality, and online store content, Also Magento offers some powerful tools for marketing, SEO, and catalog management
 Magento come up with the latest release of the 2.4.6 version on March 2023.
This version has new features and updates that make a better user experience for merchants and customers.

What's new in Magento 2.4.6 Release?

This time Magento 2 has come up with many updates and fixes some of which are mentioned here:
•	Magento has Fixed 300+ Quality enhancements & fixes
•	PHP 8.2 Support is now available in Magento 2.4.6 
•	Along with this Magento has fixed 8 Security Issues
•	In the latest version, Magento has improved GraphQL Performance and has Reduced the response time
•	Magento 2.4.6 has updated all the outdated libraries to the new version of Javascript.
•	This version is compatible with Page Builder version 1.7.3 and PWA Studio version 1.3.0.x
This time **[Magento](https://www.w3care.com/magento-ecommerce-development-services)** has released a performance-based update for the store owners.
Let's talk about the latest fixes and enhancements that Magento 2.4.6 is having:

Security Fixes & Enhancements
 As we all know Adobe always works on improving Magento's security. In this version, Adobe also introduced some fixes and security Enhancement
1.	8 Security fixes and Improvements have been done in this version.
2.	reCAPTCHA validation failure issue fixed in this version that was happening during the processing of the payment.

Platform Enhancements
Magento is upgrading itself in every release. In the latest version of Magento PHP 8.2 is supported and along with this PHP 8.1 will also remain supported.
Let's Check what is supported in Magento 2.4.6 version:
•	Composer 2.2.x
•	Redis 7.0.x
•	OpenSearch
•	ElasticSearch 8.x
•	MariaDB 10.6 
Performance & Scalability Enhancements
This time Magento has come up with a futuristic approach and it now becomes more efficient & scalable.
For Performance improvement, the Rest API endpoint is available now. It has the Admin import feature and the same import capabilities. Performance has increased up to 100,000 records/min. The endpoint still supports the CSV file format.

PWA Compatibility & Page Builder
In this version of Magento 2.4.6 Page Builder version 1.7.3 & PWA Studio version 13.0.x is supported, Which helps in the performance of the website.

Braintree Payment Method
This Magento version comes with many payment enhancement things that include, Fraud protection and ACH Webhooksin the Braintree payment method, It also enables the Paylater messaging for PayPal Vault, And this time Braintree provides a Paylater option & messages for Italy & Spain.

GraphQL Enhancements
Magento 2 APIs use GraphQL which is a query language.
In Magento 2.4.6 Adobe has introduced so many improvements to improve the performance of Magento GraphQL.
•	The response time of APIs in Magento 2 has been improved for the querying products.
•	Performance in GraphQL has improved for the Category Tree rendering
•	And for Bulk cart operations it has improve the response time.
So these are the fixes and the latest release by Adobe for Magento 2.4.6.

Source - **[Magento 2 Agency W3care](https://www.w3care.com/magento-ecommerce-development-services)**