Magento 2.0.10-11 and 2.1.3 Updates

Magento 2.1.3

The latest version of Magento 2.1 was released on December 14 and contains 90 bug fixes and new features. The feature highlights of this version are:

• New PayPal and Braintree payment features
  • Increase conversion rates through faster checkouts by empowering customers to save their PayPal account as a payment option.
  • Reduce chargebacks and support calls by customizing the business name, phone number, and URL that appears on credit card statements for each of your websites through Braintree.
  • Reduce your risk of accidently shipping products to customers flagged by Braintree’s fraud risk feature with a new process that requires you to confirm risk decisions before proceeding with orders.
  • Enable unregistered customers to reorder or add items to an existing order in the Admin without having to re-enter their credit card information. Merchant can now bill the last payment method used during a guest checkout.
  • Simplify the process of configuring payments for your store with a redesigned Payment Methods page in the Admin interface.
• Increased storefront performance by removing excessive and slow SQL media queries.
• Management of configurable products with many variations in the Admin interface without degrading performance.
• Upgrade to Magento 2.1.3 without issue when using multiple master databases for checkout, order management, and product data.
• Successful import or export CSV files with data that contains special symbols.
• The Sales module provides two new web API endpoints that allow you to process refunds from an order or invoice. After you install this patch, you can:
  • Create a credit memo (complete or partial) for a particular invoice or order.
  • Add details about refunded items to an invoice or order.
  • Update the status and state of an invoice or order after actions are performed.
  • Notify a customer about refunded items or invoice or order.
• Enhanced performance in the processing of large catalogs.

The fixes are for performance enhancements and founded bugs. A list of all fixes can be found on devdocs.magento.com.

Magento 2.0.11

Magento 2.0.11 contains nearly the same fixes and features as the update 2.1.3. It was also published on December 14 and contains more than 70 bug fixes and improvements, a few less than the update 2.1.3.

The highlights are:

• Management of configurable products with many variations in the Magento Admin interface without degrading performance.
• Upgrade to Magento 2.0.11 without issue when using multiple master databases for checkout, order management, and product data.
• Successful import or export CSV files with data that contains special symbols.
• The Sales module improvement like in 2.1.3

The fixes are for the cart, checkout, configurable products, email, images, import/export, orders, payment methods, APIs, installation and performance issues.

A detailed list of all the fixes can be found on devdocs.magento.com.

Magento 2.0.10

The version 2.0.10 brings not only the compatibility for MySQL 5.7, also it contains two new web APIs for the Sales module. Besides that, it is a security update which fixes vulnerabilities like CSRF, DoS and brute force attack surfaces, SQL injection, CSRF and XSS.

The update also contains functional fixes for the Sales API, tracking, shipping, checkout, cart and general performance improvements.

A list of all the fixes can be found on devdocs.magento.com.

Remember to backup before installing an update!