Default Magento 2.1

Magento 2 Platform Updates

• This pre-release software has gone through rigorous QA and testing in house and will be fairly close in look, feel, and function to the GA product. It will be tested in real-world conditions as part of the Merchant Beta program to fully vet the software before general availability later in the year.

• It incorporates new and enhanced functionality like streamlined checkout and new payment processing,

• The Enterprise Edition module includes updates to merchant features like import/export functionality, configurable swatches, transactional emails and more.

• It demonstrates significant performance improvements for both the Magento Community Edition and Enterprise Edition with holistic updates to both server-side and client-side architecture. Server-side updates include out of box Varnish 4, full page caching, and support for HHVM3.6. Client-side updates include static content caching in browser, image compression, use of jQuery, and RequireJS for better management of JavaScript and bundling to reduce file download counts.

• The Magento Enterprise Edition codebase includes comprehensive scalability enhancements to the database, order management, checkout, catalog, and more. Improvements include asynchronous grid fulfillment, standalone database for checkout, compatibility with MySQL cluster, more concurrent admins for order, and product management and complete separation of store sub-systems.

Developers get access to core platform and functionality improvements included in the Community Edition platform.