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May’s edition of Atwix MageNews is here!
MageNews is all about eCommerce community conversations, and there is much discussion taking place this month. As always we listen and collect the most significant news and updates that buzzed across the Magento landscape, and now bring them to you. This month we included Magento 2.3.5 release highlights, high impact technical updates, continuing COVID-19 related consumer trends, Mageno 2 SEO improvements, and much more.

There was a solid amount of peer-to-peer sharing taking place. Let’s pick up the steam 🚂

We work closely with merchants across many industries all over the world. When it comes to choosing a hosting platform, it turns out they have much in common. Namely, the need to carefully think through business requirements and customer experiences as they select the right hosting solution.

General availability for Magento 2.3.5 was on April 28. This release introduced new security and performance improvements. As any patch release, it’s recommended to update to the latest version of Magento application at your earliest convenience to apply not only functional enhancements but what is most important all the recent security fixes. To help you plan and budget software updates, let’s first clarify types of Magento code releases. 

Working on the same technology, on the same project, on the same code – year over year – will inevitably make a developer strong, knowledgeable and something of a subject matter expert.  However, being hyper-focused for such long stretches of time introduces a variety of risks to the developer and the project assignment, namely a potential loss of interest or worse – burnout.

One compelling reason to shop online is there are no lines. Another reason to shop online is the ability to search virtual aisles – however one wants and whenever one wants. When you combine those two shopping benefits, be it B2C or B2B, and then force multiply by anticipated sales transactions, merchants can become consumed with thoughts how best to ready themselves.

This article is aimed to share our vision and predictions on what is in store for Magento this year along with some of my thoughts and speculations. Your feedback is greatly appreciated. Enjoy!

There are versions of Magento to satisfy all types of eCommerce merchants — from SMB to larger enterprise retailers. In this article we explore differences between Magento Open Source and Magento Commerce.

COVID-19 has affected the Magento community in different ways, both on a personal level and more broadly as it relates to each of our working environments. On behalf of the Atwix #MageNews team, we hope everyone is safe and healthy.

This issue, like past posts, centers on providing you timely and significant updates that will impact the Magento landscape and change the eCommerce world. However, we made sure to include potential impacts COVID-19 has caused, as well as our recommended solutions and guidance.

…so get yourself comfortable, there is a lot of material to cover this month.

We are opening spring season with MageNews March 🙌
Amidst the COVID-19 outbreak we provide you with a different type of news – everything you need to know about what happened in the Magento world.
So take a deep breath and scroll down!

Through time all humanity dreams were pointed towards doing less and getting more. Elevators, washing machines, the Internet – all of those are aiming to save our time and spear some for enjoying life instead of doing mundane things.

On the contrary, life is just getting faster requesting more new things to be done. And of course ASAP. Now, let’s take a cup of coffee and spend a few minutes to consider how can we save time on small things later.