August 08, 2023

Adobe Commerce announces 2024 release calendar 

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Adobe is proud to announce our 2024 Adobe Commerce release calendar. We are continuing our efforts to provide better support for mission critical customer needs, while reducing total cost of ownership by minimizing the frequency and complexity of our releases. To make releases more predictable in our 2023 release strategy, we expanded the support window to expand the support window, provide more security updates, and accelerate innovation adoption. In 2024, we are expanding improvements for our customers. To help summarize the changes, we look at the 2023 and 2024 strategy to determine what is staying the same and what is changing. 

What stays the same? 

  • Core patch releases focused on security, performance improvements, GraphQL coverage, and high severity bugs fixes.
  • New features are released as independent SaaS services.
  • 1 full core patch release in April 2024 – version 2.4.7 – with an expanded 3-year support window.
  • Providing new ways to integrate, customize, and deploy new features without making changes to the core code. 

What changes? 

  • Increasing to five security-only patch releases for all currently supported Adobe Commerce versions to keep your business secure and compliant.
  • We will remove our two-week pre-release period to provide earlier access to the newest version of the platform through beta releases up to six months in advance. 

Incorporating these strategy changes, our 2024 release schedule includes five releases: 

February 13, 2024

Feature Release

Security-only patch releases for 2.4.6, 2.4.5, 2.4.4 

April 9, 2024

Feature Release

2.4.7 patch release

Security-only patch releases for 2.4.6, 2.4.5, 2.4.4 

June 11, 2024

Feature Release

Security-only patch releases for 2.4.7, 2.4.6, 2.4.5, 2.4.4 

August 13, 2024

Feature Release

Security-only patch releases for 2.4.7, 2.4.6, 2.4.5, 2.4.4

October 8, 2024

Feature Release

Beta version patch release for 2.4.8

Security-only patch releases for 2.4.7, 2.4.6, 2.4.5, 2.4.4 

We hope you can use this schedule in your annual planning cycles to better prepare and allocate resources around these windows. In addition to release schedule updates, this announcement comes along with new Adobe Commerce security-only patches for all versions with support or extended support.

Security-only patches:

Extended Support security-only fixes
  • 2.4.6-p2
  • 2.4.5-p4
  • 2.4.4-p5
  • 2.4.3-p3-ext4 
  • 2.4.2-p2-ext4 
  • 2.4.1-p1-ext4 
  • 2.4.0-p1-ext4 
  • 2.3.7-p4-ext4 

See the release security bulletin for more information. We strongly recommend that users install security updates as soon as they are available. 

New Adobe Commerce Extension

We are also excited to announce a new feature, previously presented at our Sneaks Sessions at Adobe Summit, AR Viewer. This extension allows shoppers to experience augmented reality shopping through their mobile device by scanning a QR code. Merchants just need to upload 3D models of their product to render the augmented reality experience. The AR Viewer extension is now available on the Adobe Commerce Marketplace.

Adobe Commerce Services 

This release also includes several updates to our SaaS-based Commerce Services. Improvements have been made for Catalog Service and Product Recommendations.

Product Recommendations, powered by Adobe Sensei 

Product Recommendations has improved the developer experience with two new enhancements:

  1. Product Recommendations is joining our other SaaS services to have full GraphQL API support. Developers can now query Product Recommendations, Live Search, and Catalog Service through a single-service GraphQL API. This also improves Product Recommendations support for any front-end (VUE, tailwind, mobile native app) and enables merchants with custom and headless implementations to append additional catalog data to recommendation units (e.g., custom attributes, product descriptions, configurable options).
  2. Product Recommendations is also receiving 10x increase in indexation speed to seamlessly handle large catalogs with frequent catalog changes (e.g., pricing changes). Instead of scheduling indexing periods, merchants will experience real-time catalog indexing up to 10,000 catalog updates per second. 

Catalog Service 

Related Products (cross-sell and up-sell) images and data are now included in the Catalog Service API. This decreases the time it takes for all catalog related data to be displayed in a Product Detail Page (PDP). 

Check out our updated release and lifecycle policy today. 

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