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Magento 2.4.3

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A few days ago, Magento announced one of the most important releases on the platform: Magento 2.4.3. This release packs the Page Builder as a bundled extension in Magento Open Source edition for the first time ever. And like its predecessor, it brings out enhancements and security plus significant platform improvements.

Let’s have a quick look at the list of features from this release:

  • 370 new fixes to core code
  • 33 security issues resolved
  • Page Builder as a bundled extension is now the default content editing tool for Magento Open Source (It is used to be a part of core code in the Magento Commerce only). A list of Adobe Commerce-exclusive features will be excluded from the Magento Open Source like Dynamic Blocks, Staging & Preview, Native integrations such as Product Recommendations.
  • Expansion of reCAPTCHA coverage that protects endpoints from spam attacks
  • New composer plugin
  • Upgraded core composer dependencies and third-party libraries that are compatible with PHP 8.x.
  • Live Search improvements
  • Support Paypal Pay Later
  • Built-in API rate-limiting for security improvements
  • Expansion of GraphQL API coverage
  • Magento B2B version 1.3.2
  • PWA Studio 11 release (although code for PWA Studio is bundled with quarterly releases of the Magento core code, the new PWA Studio version is released independently. See PWA Studio releases)

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UB Content Slider for Magento 2

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Changeling for (Magento 2) UB Content Slider extension (version 1.2.2)
Latest update: May 17, 2022

1.2.2
  • Fixed compatible with Magento open source 2.4.4
  • PHP 8.1 support
  • Fixed bug when inline editing a Slide Item
  • Fixed conflict styles with Slider built via Page builder
1.2.1 (Adding UBContentSlider-PWA_v1.0.0)
  • Compatibility testing with CE 2.4.3
  • Minor update for UB ContentSliderGraphQl v1.0.0
  • Re-updated the module’s structure and workflow as a module for a PWA Studio project (based on the latest changes of Magento PWA Studio v10.0.0)
  • Improved the GraphQl queries for caching the GraphQL responses.
  • Fine-tuning code and compatibility update for PWA Studio v10.0.0.
1.2.1
  • Compatibility testing with CE 2.4.2-p1
  • Improved the slide’s image HTML markup
  • Allow to specify a separate cover image of the video on Mobile
  • Improved Less source code
1.2.0
1.1.9
  • Integrate UB Base v1.0.5 (The base module added a JS component that allowed switching responsive images in client-side).
  • Incremental fine-tuning and bug fixes.
1.1.8
  • Compatibility testing with Magento 2.4.2
  • Improved: Allows switching mobile/desktop images on client-side
  • Fine-tuning PHP codebase and incremental bug fixes
1.1.7
  • Compatibility testing with Magento 2.4.1
  • Integrate Slick Carousel by default with full options
  • Improved LESS files structure and LESS code
  • Support additional layouts using extra CSS classes
  • Improved Slider Widget’s configuration in the backend
1.1.6
  • Testing for compatibility with Magento 2.4.0
  • Fixed: compatibility with the new change in PHP Mobile Detect Resource APIs installation
1.1.5
  • Testing for compatibility with Magento 2.3.5
  • Added: Newly added service layer for UB Content Slider ( ContentSliderGraphQL with GraphQL APIs ready for PWA Storefront)
  • Allow to upload separate Slide Image for Mobile.
  • Allow to upload Cover image for Slide item (Video type)

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Magento 2 UB Mega Menu

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Changelog for (Magento 2) UB Mega Menu extension (version 1.2.8)
Latest update: May 6, 2022

1.2.8
  • Fixed compatible vs Magento open source 2.4.4 and PHP 8.1
  • Fine-tuning for ACL configuration
  • Improve spacing on the sub menu with single column
  • Improve typography on the block title
  • Improve workaround to show/hide sub menu
  • Supported one more new extras CSS class: three-items-per-row (to show 3 items per row, default 4 items per row)
1.2.7 (Adding UBMegaMenu-PWA_v1.0.1)
  • Compatibility testing with Magento 2.4.3.
  • Re-updated the module’s structure and workflow as a module for a PWA Studio project (based on the latest changes of Magento PWA Studio v10.0.0)
  • Improved the GraphQl queries for caching the GraphQL responses.
  • Allow enabling/disabling mega content of a menu item by devices
  • Fine-tuning code and compatibility update for PWA Studio v10.0.0.
1.2.5
  • Added: Support to enable/disable sticky menu.
  • Incremental bug fixes and optimization.
1.2.4
  • Compatibility testing with Magento 2.4.2-p1.
  • Added: Allow to enable Off-canvas menu on Desktop
  • Added: Allow to use UB Mega Menu to set up and manage Footer menu.
  • Improved the style of the vertical sidebar menu.
  • Updated Font-awesome library
  • Added: mobile-detect functionality to check device types on client-side
  • Fine-tuning LESS and JS code base.
1.2.3

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UB Atoms v1.0.2

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Sept 13, 2021 Update: UB Atoms v1.0.4 is fully compatible with Magento 2.4.3.

In the last few weeks, we worked on stabilizing the UB Atoms theme as well as adding some new features. The 1.0.2 release today brings a complete improvement of the Color configuration, integration of the latest UB Mega Menu v1.2.4, optimization for Core Web Vitals, and compatibility updates to Magento 2.4.2-p1.

Here’s a short overview of the most important changes.

Improved Color, Primary/Secondary Button configuration

UB Atoms v1.0.2 improved the whole theme’s Colors including:

  • Base colors that set predefined global colors for Background, Border, Text, and Link.
  • Brand colors for Primary, Secondary, and semantic colors like Success, Warning, Alerts, etc.
  • Specific sections’ colors for Top Bar, Header, Mega Menu, Footer, Product Labels, Primary/Secondary Buttons.

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Summer sales 2021

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Let’s celebrate Summer together! You will be pleased to know that we are offering special sale pricing with 20% OFF on our top Magento 2 extensions and themes, which run now through July 9. You can take advantage of great savings for the renewal too.

This is the chance for you to grab our UB Data Migration Pro or M2 Extension Bundle at a lower price. Here’s what you get, with the M2 Extension Bundle:

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Changelog for (Magento 2) UB Instant Layered Navigation extension (version 1.0.8)
Latest update: May 17, 2022

1.0.8
  • Fixed compatible with Magento open source 2.4.4
  • PHP 8.1 support
  • Fine-tuning Less coding
1.0.7
  • Testing for compatibility with Magento 2.4.2, 2.4.2-p1, 2.4.3.
  • Fine-tuning PHP codebase.
1.0.6
  • Testing for compatibility with Magento 2.3.1, 2.3.2, 2.3.4, 2.3.5, 2.4.0, 2.4.1.
  • Improved: update the codebase to be fully compatible with our new UB Base extension that manages all Ubertheme’s extensions under one backend UI dashboard.

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UB One Step Checkout for Magento 2

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Changelog for (Magento 2) UB One Step Checkout extension (version 1.1.4)
Latest update: May 17, 2022

1.1.4
  • Fixed compatible vs Magento open source 2.4.4
  • PHP 8.1 support
  • Fixed bugs and improved styles, less coding
1.1.3
  • Testing for compatibility with Magento 2.4.2-p1, 2.4.3.
  • Improved email validation.
  • Improved PHP Functions and incremental bug fixes.
1.1.2
  • Testing for compatibility with Magento 2.4.2
  • Improved PHP Functions and incremental bug fixes.
1.1.1
  • Testing for compatibility with Magento 2.4.1
  • Fixed: The issue with Delivery Time > Time Picker on Magento 2.4.1
  • Fixed: Could not checkout with Downloadable Products on Magento 2.4.1
1.1.0
  • Testing for compatibility with Magento 2.4.0
  • Fixed the issue with the new changes from MaxMind > GeoIP
  • Automatically saving customer’s address after the first checkout with a registered account
  • Fine tuning the style
1.0.9
  • Testing for compatibility with Magento 2.3.4, 2.3.5.
  • Fixed the compatibility issue with Amazon payment module core
  • Handled the multi language translation of the label of street fields
1.0.8
  • Testing for compatibility with Magento 2.3.2, 2.3.3
  • Testing for compatible with UB Base extension ver.1.0.0 and later
1.0.7
  • Testing for compatibility with Magento 2.3.1
  • Fixed the issue when removing an old address and checking with the new address (getting an address from previously placed orders of (customers) billing and shipping address). More details about this scenario: by default the checkbox “same as shipping” is unchecked (make sure that you don’t check the checkbox); select the address (whatever billing address by default in the address book) that displays in the shipping address (Don’t select default shipping address) and default billing address (don’t change the billing address) in the drop-down. In this scenario, one of our users did get popup error.
  • Improved: update the codebase to be fully compatible with our new UB Base extension that manages all Ubertheme’s extensions under one backend UI dashboard.

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UB QuickView for Magento 2

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Changelog for (Magento 2) UB Quick View extension -- version 1.1.3.
Latest update: May 6, 2022

1.1.3
  • (re-packaged). Included testing compatible vs CE 2.4.4 and PHP 8.1
  • Improved the reviews data loading on the quick view popup
  • Improved LESS source code in accordance with UB Bookshop v1.1.5 theme release.
1.1.2
  • Compatibility testing with Magento 2.4.3.
  • Improved Gallery functions
  • Improved LESS source code in accordance with UB Atoms v1.0.4 release
  • Fixed: the style issue with Grouped Products on iPad
  • Fine-tuning source code in accordance with UB Bookshop v1.1.3 release.
1.1.0
  • Compatibility testing with Magento 2.4.2-p1.
  • Fine-tuning source code in accordance with UB Atoms v1.0.1 release.
1.0.9
  • Integrated UB Base v1.0.5 (The base module added a JS component that allowed switching responsive images in client-side).
  • Fine-tuning codebase.
1.0.8
  • Testing for compatibility with Magento CE 2.4.2
  • Fine-tuning codebase

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UB Data Migration Pro

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Changelog for (Magento 2) UB Data Migration Pro extension (version 3.2.7)
Latest update: April 26, 2022

3.2.7
  • Allowed migrating the custom URLs rewrite
  • Fixed bugs on reviews’s dates after migrated
  • Fixed to handle more special settings cases of data in Magento1.x database
  • Upgraded Yii core to version 1.1.25
  • Fixed compatible with Magento Open Source 2.4.4
3.2.6
  • Fully compatible with PHP7.4 and Magento CE 2.4.2, 242-p1, 2.4.3.
  • Improves customer’s password migration
  • Allows migrating the customer’s wishlist data
  • Allows automatically collecting M1 Timezone in the system settings of M1 DB, and auto-converting DateTime values by timezone in some contexts of data migration
  • Fine-tuning coding to better handle the Delta migration in all steps
  • Allows specifying the startDate/endDate when running the delta migration using the CLI command with the `update` mode. These parameters are applicable to all steps and valid to any data objects that have attributes/fields associated with the created date/updated dates. For example: php -f bin/ubdatamigration run --step=5 --mode=”update” --startDate=”2019-01-01″ --endDate=”2019-12-31″;
  • Fine-tuning the ‘Keep original IDs’ feature
  • Improves the CLI command to clean the migration log
  • Improves Step #7 > Sales coupons migration that allows to better handle a big volume of coupons in a sales rule.
  • Better handle the following cases:
    • Fine-tuning rules when migrating only products
    • Fine-tuning rules when migrating only customers
    • Fine-tuning rules when migrating only sales data
3.2.5
  • Compatibility testing with Magento CE 2.4.1.
  • Allow to migrate Category’s display settings and related CMS Blocks.
  • Improve coding and fine-tuning to handle more special cases.
3.2.4
  • Compatibility testing with Magento CE 2.4.0
  • Support for converting special price, special_price from/to datetime and variation prices setting in a Configurable product.
  • Fine-tuning to handle additional special cases and delta migration phase optimization.
3.2.3
  • Compatibility testing with Magento 2.3.4, 2.3.5
  • Fixed the issue on special bitnami database settings
  • Fixed the issue on the label/alt value of product galleries in the multiple stores context
3.2.2
  • Compatibility testing with Magento 2.3.3
  • Allowed to convert core’s email template paths in the migrated email template’s content
  • Allowed to migrate CMS Blocks, CMS Pages data, as noted here.
  • Added CLI commands to check and remove migrated data objects in M2 which no longer exist in Magento 1 since the last migration.
  • Fine-tuning source code in all steps and adding extra tweak code to handle special cases of bad data.
3.2.1
  • Fine-tuning to handle additional special cases of data settings
  • Improved server side processing to enhance the access token.
3.2.0
  • Supported to convert hidden tax data fields (in the sales data section)
  • Added additional CLI commands to clean data migration log in all steps:
      • php -f bin/ubdatamigration clean
      • php -f bin/ubdatamigration clean --step=2 (You replace with your specific step 2,3,4,5,6,7 or 8 respectively)

    NOTE: This CLI is limited to the case that you deleted any migrated items in Magento 2 after the first migration. This CLI is handy to remove the migration log of those removed items so that you can continue the delta migration as normal.

  • Supported to migrate active Sales Quotes data (The sales quotes which have not been converted to sales order yet)
  • Added additional tweak code to migrate delta for (1) migrated items which have changed since the last migration and (2) newly added data items. This improvements are limited to the 6 data objects below:
    • catalog_category_entity and related child data
    • catalog_product_entity and related child data
    • customer_entity and related child data
    • sales_flat_order and related child data
    • sales_flat_quote and related child data
    • sales aggregated data
  • Fixed the issue “Payment method is not available. You still can process offline actions”. Our migration tool now automatically maps the payment methods ‘paypal_direct’ to ‘payflowpro’, ‘paypal_standard’ to ‘paypal_express’ respectively.
  • Fixed compatibility issues with Magento CE ver.2.3.2

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