Highlights
Compared with magento version 2.1.5, this new version comprises over 15 important highlights as following:
The Category Page is now working faster
- Velocity of loading configurable products from the database is as 5x much as previous version.
- The way of calculating price is now 3 - 5% faster
- Validating stock is also faster up to 20%
Image resizing is optimized
- Image resize operations performed from the command line interface now generate images of all sizes.
- Image resize operations from the Admin have been fixed
- Significant decrease in the number of file system operations when processing images on front-end
- Caching of image metadata is up to 50% faster, depending on store size
Layered navigation now performs better
- Layered navigation is now up to 3% faster resulted from the caching of attribute options
Minimized indexing operations after product import
Functional fixes and enhancements
Let’s see following to find which functions are fixed and enhanced in this release!
Catalog
- The category_product_entity table will be unlocked in this version. This will limits the ability of lock-related timeouts which can occur when indexing and checkout operations run in parallel.
- The storefront now displays images that Magento resizes during product save operations, rather than resizing the product on the storefront. Previously, the image path contained store_id, and during save operations, Magento resized images for images the default store only.
- The \Magento\CatalogInventory\Model\Stock\Status\getStockId() method now returns the correct values.
Configurable products
- The check that Magento runs to confirm a configurable product’s readiness for sale is now faster. (The isSalable method checks that a configurable product can be sold (that is, is in a saleable state)).
- Magento no longer calculates configurable product special prices on the category page. Previously, Magento calculated special prices on the category page, but did not display them.
Indexers
- When you enable Update on Schedule, Magento will run a selective partial re-indexing operation
- Magento now runs a selective partial re-indexing operation after import if you enabled Update on Schedule. Previously, Magento ran a full reindex no matter which index mode was set.
Import
- Magento now displays imported product images in this order: first, the base image, then the additional images in the order in which they were listed in the CSV file. Previously, Magento displayed images in this unexpected order: first, an additional image, then the base image, and finally, all remaining additional images.
Miscellaneous
- Magento now caches attribute options for the layered navigation feature. This reduces the number of queries to the database, and consequently improves performance.
- Magento no longer performs unnecessary file check operations (for example, file_exists, is_file), which improves the performance of the category and product pages.
- Magento now caches image metadata, which avoids the time-consuming need to read images for metadata loading.
- Magento now shows a significant decrease in Redis traffic after upgrading 2.1.2 to 2.1.4.
Swatches
- Magento no longer creates redundant objects when initializing a configurable product on the Category page.
- You can now disable swatches for both the Catalog page and search results (quick or advanced). To disable swatches from these requests, disable Stores > Configuration > Catalog > Storefront > Show Swatches in Product List.
- The logic that Magento uses to validate swatch attributes has been optimized.
- Magento now caches swatch data in the block cache, which improves the responsiveness of the configurable product pages.
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Source: magento.com
