Hello Magento Folks 👋,

Latest news 📢, Magento has released Magento 2.4.1 on 15th October 2020. Magento 2.4.1 release notes bring the new updates for Magento OpenSource and also Magento Commerce. Let’s discover what the latest Magento version has to offer 🚀

Magento 2.4.1 release includes samesite attribute cookie support, enhanced security scan tool, added CAPTCHA protection, and improvements in performance, infrastructure, and security. Apart from this, the latest Magento release covers GraphQL, PWA studio, and New Media Gallery.

Security Enhancements:

The release includes 15 security improvements and fixes.
CAPTCHA protection is the add on with Magento 2.4.1 for payment and place order related REST and GraphQL endpoints.
Support for Samesite cookie update for Magento classes that handles cookies.
Enhanced Security scan tool for merchants to get actual insights of their site security.

New Media Gallery:

The new media gallery will be enabled by default in the admin of Magento 2.4.1.
Now, the admin can delete the images in bulk.
Remove repeated images and the ones that are not used in-store frontend.
Filter images based on category images, product images, and CMS blocks.
Work and edit image metadata. Also, search for images by their metadata.

GraphQL:

The customers and guests can add product reviews and even look for the review history.
The customers and guests are able to include gift options like gift wrapping, gift receipts, and printed cards.
The customers can look at their order history, which includes invoice, shipping, and refunds.

PWA Studio:

PWA Studio v8.0.0 has new features and enhancements.
Betterment in the Venia mini-cart experience.
Several improvements to the My Account experience of the Venia storefront.
Upgrade the Venia style guide to apply design tokens, typography, color, core components, and page layouts.

Infrastructure Improvements:

The release notes brought improvements in the quality of framework and functional areas which include customer account, catalog, CMS, OMS, Import/Export, Promotion and Targeting, Cart and Checkout, staging, and Review.

Performance Improvements:

A decrease in the size of network transfers between Redis and Magento.
Enhanced run time for the bin/magento commands.
Improved message queue consumer performance.

Magento Commerce 2.4.1 update highlights:

Page builder now supports full screen that enables easy editing of content.
B2B merchants can control shipping methods that are offered to other companies.
The merchants can now allow customers to clear the shopping cart items in a single action.
Magento Commerce 2.4.1 also brings new features for admin.

Final Words:

Therefore, catching up on the new features and updates with Magento 2.4.1, download the latest Magento 2 version, and enhance your store. Get more info on the latest Magento 2.4.1 release notes, in our recently published article, Magento 2.4.1: Release Notes (Everything You Need to Know).

Happy Upgrading 😊

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