Magento 2.3.3 open source release notes — New features & Fixed Issues

EmizenTech

3 min readDec 10, 2019

1. Security Updates

Magento has induced 3 pivotal security enhancements in Magento 2.3.3. instance.

Made core payment methods compliant with PSD2.
To eliminate cross-site scripting (XSS) and remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities, Magento fixes security issues to consolidate the security of newly released Magento 2.3.3.
Magento fixes colossal 75 principal security issues.

2. Platform Upgrades

To boost up Magento platform security and support PCI compliance, several upgrades are made. Let’s review them.

Magento 2.3.3 now fully supports Varnish 6.2.0
Magento 2.3.3 fully supports PHP 7.3.x and PHP 7.2.x
Upgradation of Zend framework 2 components to the active/LTS versions.

3. Performance Boosts

Page load speed was quite a severe issue in Magento 2.3.2 which has been fixed in Magento 2.3.3 version by moving the superfluous CSS elements to the bottom of the page. It is a disabled setting by default. However, you can enable it using Stores > Configuration > Advanced > Developer > CSS Settings > Use CSS critical path.
To ensure core modules load only those widgets they need, the jQuery library has been refactored into separate widgets. This upgrade will amplify the performance of the core storefront tasks by leaps and bounds.
Now, merchants can control the automatic URL rewrite generation aspect in Magento 2.3.3 instance. When this feature is active, Magento generates a massive amount of data for assigned products. This unsolicited data is saved into rewrite tables that actually dwindle the Magento performance.
The text on store pages displays in readable fonts while loading custom fonts, which augments the overall page load speed.

4. Merchant Tool Enhancements

This is unquestionably one of the most intriguing aspects of Magento 2.3.3 open source release notes.

The ultimate aim of any Merchant is to delivering par excellent user experience to its customers. And that is only possible either by tracking your users’ behavior or by improvising the quality and design of your products.

magento 2.3.3 instance allows merchants to track user’s activities and events on the Admin. When you upgrade to Magento 2.3.3 instance, you can enable the admin usage data collection attribute to capture all Admin activities and send it to Adobe Analytics for analysing.

5. Infrastructure Improvements

Infrastructure improvement release is related to the improvement in the quality of framework and modules like checkout/one-page checkout, sales, catalogue, URLRewrite, customer, UI, and the list goes on.

Moreover, the ‘what you see is what you get’ editor has been upgraded to TinyMCE v.4.9.5.

6. PWA Studio

PWA is one of the most striking attributes of the Magento 2.3 version. In the Magento 2.3.3 open source release notes, enhancements have been made in PWA studio.

Now, PWA studio 4.0.0 encloses the brand new hooks in Peregrine. The prevailing components in PWA studio have also been refactored to re-use as Peregrine hooks.

7. Magento Shipping

Magento has made a massive change in the Magento shipping attribute. Earlier, it was possible for merchants to create the Magento shipping account. However, that’s not possible anymore because of the drastic shutdown of Tornado (the technology behind Magento shipping). The new-shipping implementations have been done in Magento 2.3.3 which includes -

Improvement in carrier integration, batch-order processing, checkout, and the shipping order preview in the shipping portal
Relentless support for pre-package options and bundled products

8. Google Shopping Ads Channel

The Google shopping ads channel extension which was missing in Magento 2.3.2 is no available as a bundled extension in Magento 2.3.3.

9. Vendor-developed Extension Enhancements

The release of the latest Magento 2.3.3 version encloses extensions created by third-party vendors. Apart from prevailing vendor extensions, it comprises a newly developed extension-Yotpo.

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