New features in Magento 2.3
At Magento Imagine in Las Vegas, Magento revealed what to expect from its latest release. Magento 2.3 includes another solid round of improvements and bug fixes, along with several new features. The release is expected in the third quarter.
Support for PHP 7.2
Magento 2.3 supports PHP 7.2, the newest version of PHP. Benchmarks show it’s faster than its predecessor, so web pages will load more quickly.
Progressive Web Apps (PWA)
Progressive Web Apps (PWA) were a major topic at Magento Imagine. This promising technology bridges the gap between the browser and native apps on mobile devices. PWAs are also extremely fast, because they fetch only the data needed to display content such as product information. Magento is also getting a new theme built specifically for creating PWAs.
TinyMCE editor update
The TinyMCE editor is being updated to its latest release, version 4. The new version produces cleaner HTML output, which benefits your SEO score.
Magento Page Builder
Bluefoot CMS & Page Builder, which Magento acquired, is being renamed Magento Page Builder. The tool lets marketers build content pages on their own from a range of components. By combining those components, they can create engaging promotional pages without any technical knowledge.
Magento Page Builder comes standard with the commercial Magento Commerce edition. Magento will also sell the extension on the Magento Marketplace for Magento Open Source, making the functionality available to everyone.
Multi Source Inventory
Right now, Magento lets you enter just one stock level per product. To change that, Magento launched the Multi Source Inventory project together with the Magento Community. The feature lets you enter inventory from multiple locations and have Magento decide which source should supply a given order. This makes a true omnichannel strategy possible: you could show in-store stock, for example, or fulfill orders from a store that still has the item on hand. It also makes it easy to roll out an international strategy with inventory spread across multiple locations in Europe or around the world.
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