Release: 2.21

Starting 2023 with better images, Algolia for Magento2 improvements, bugfixes… and a teaser

Our first release of 2023 is out!

Front-Commerce 2.21 is focused on bug fixes and minor improvements. Over the past 6 weeks, each team member took a well-deserved break for the holidays. We also had our biannual off-site week, during which all of our team members got together, which is crucial for a mainly remote team like ours.

And we’ve also been working on a little something secret 😉

Image improvements

Following the release of version 2.20, we have further enhanced our image component.

The TwicPics integration has been refactored to use the image adapter introduced in 2.20. It allowed us to improve the performance of this component by rendering performant images during server-side rendering. You now have the best of both worlds!

We also integrated new Web APIs for all images to improve web performance (LCP) for browsers supporting these standards:

• priority images now leverage the fetchpriority hint
• non-priority images are now decoded asynchronously

Magento2: supporting more Algolia facets configurations

In this release, the Algolia Magento2 module in Front-Commerce now supports more configurations from the official Magento module.

Facets now honors the Conjunctive/Disjunctive facet type from the configuration to decide whether several selected values must be considered as an AND or OR criteria condition.

We’ve been working on something…

Here is a small teaser of what we’ve also been working on during this release. In 2023, Front-Commerce aims at being one of the fastest storefront solutions out there.

Be prepared for future releases bringing significant web performance improvements, and new announcements allowing developers and merchants to embrace a performance culture.

We’re excited about what’s next and wanted to start by sharing a screenshot containing several clues 🕵 (Work In Progress).
Stay tuned for more details over the next months!

Other changes

Bug Fixes

• cart: the cart cache is now properly cleared during checkouts using the async order flow (with asynchronous notifications)
  • server-side when using FRONT_COMMERCE_CART_CACHE_ENABLE
  • client-side in Apollo cache
• payment:
  • checkout: only show Apple Pay payment method if the device supports it
  • paypal: fixed a regression where PayPal payments captures would not be correctly send to the backend
• search / facets:
  • magento1: fixed a regression that led to a crash when filtering on a facet
  • magento2: prevent search failures when an arbitrary filter is used
  • prismic/algolia: fixed a regression leading to application not starting when Algolia datasource and Prismic module were active together
• proxy: the image proxy now uses a fixed user agent when proxying requests to remote systems
• helmet: fixed an issue when CSP is enabled with reportOnlyDirectivescontent that led to loosing previous helmet configurations
• magento2: prevent issues due to remote configuration fetching when Magento is in maintenance mode
• LinkListSelector: fixed an issue that could redirect users to an incorrect parent page. In default theme, users on mobile where redirected to /user/orders when navigating to /user/orders/123 from their account.
• log: ensured logs using the console output were fully formatted as JSON for more portability
• deps: update dependency style-to-object to ^0.4.0
• proptype: fixed typo for placeholder in the form Select component

Fixes from 2.21 have also been backported into previous minor versions. The following patch versions were released: 2.20.2, 2.19.8, 2.18.6, 2.17.7, 2.16.8, 2.15.9, 2.14.9, and 2.13.12.

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