Magento 2.4.3 Release – Everything You Need to Know [August 10, 2021]

Magento 2.4.3 is released on August 10, 2021!

The Magento 2.4.3 version comes with features to enhance performance, security, and platform improvements.

So, Magento developers, be ready to download Magento 2.4.3 and upgrade the store to the latest Magento 2 version!

The latest Magento version equips the store owners to offer a better online platform in terms of performance, security, and on-site shopping experience!

Magento 2.4.3 includes more than 370 new fixes to core code,  33 security enhancements, and solutions to 290 GitHub issues.

Highlights of Magento 2.4.3 Release:

• PageBuilder for Magento Open Source
• Expansion of reCAPTCHA coverage
• Includes built-in rate limiting
• Upgraded core composer dependencies
• Upgraded third-party libraries
• Supports PayPal Pay Later
• GraphQL coverage for shared routes
• Improved quality of the framework
• Updated in Vendor Developed Extensions
• Introduced B2B v1.3.2 for Adobe Commerce

Everything About Latest Magento 2.4.3 Release:

Substantial Security Enhancements

• 33 security improvements to close remote code execution (RCE) and cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities
• Prevent dependency confusion and identify malicious packages with the same names as internal packages on the public package repository with a new Composer plugin
• Prevent DoS attacks with built-in rate limiting
• Extended reCAPTCHA coverage

Infrastructure Improvements

• Improved quality of framework and areas like:
  • Customer Account
  • Catalog
  • CMS
  • OMS
  • Import/Export
  • Promotions and Targeting
  • Cart and Checkout
  • B2B
  • Staging and Preview
• Support for PayPal Pay Later for stores accepting payments in PayPal. However, if you are using other payment gateways and want to facilitate your customers with partial payments and EMIs, you can use Magento 2 Partial Payment extension.

Platform Enhancements

• Upgraded core composer dependencies
• Upgraded third party libraries
• Upgraded Knockout JS library to v3.5.1
• Supports Redis 6.0.12.

Performance Enhancements

• Decreased indexation time for product price & catalog rules indexers
• Ability to exclude a website from a customer group or shared catalog to reduce indexing time

GraphQL

• GraphQL coverage for shared routes
• The urlResolver query has been deprecated

Page Builder

• Available as a bundled extension for Magento Open Source version
• Replace TinyMCE editor with Page Builder in:
  • CMS Page
  • CMS Block
  • Category Description
  • Product Description

The Magento Commerce 2.4.3 release includes:

• GraphQL support for Wish lists, Gift registries, Negotiable quotes, and Shared routes
• Introduced B2B v1.3.2
• Cloud-managed service updates like AWS S3
• Live search by Adobe Sensei powered by AI and machine-learning algorithms

Magento 2.4.3 Release Notes

• Magento 2.4.3 Open Source
• Adobe Commerce 2.4.3

Also, do check Magento 2.4.2-p2 and Magento 2.3.7-p1 that are released along with Magento 2.4.3

Meetanshi’s Contribution in Magento 2.4.3 Release:

There is no fancy way to express how much proud the team is of Chandresh Chauhan, our senior Magento developer who has contributed a fix to Magento 2.4.3 and the Magento team added his pull request!

Certified Magento developers at Meetanshi are always keen on contributing and making Magento better each day to top the list of best E-commerce platforms!

Now that you have an overview of Magento 2.4.3 features, reason to hire a certified Magento developer right away!

Upgrade Magento 2 store from Magento 2.4.2 to the latest version and leverage its features to not only improve customer experience & sales but to increase sales until the next release of Magento 2.4.4

If you face laminas compile error at update to Magento 2.4.3, you may check the solution given by our expert developers at Meetanshi.

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