Magento is a mature ecommerce platform that is now more than 6 years old and are currently the most widely used shopping cart software on the market.
Magento CE 2.1 has now been released and includes new functionality and features to boost security, productivity and sales.
Some of the new improvements are:
- Increase conversion rates with a streamlined PayPal In-context Checkout experience.
- Store credit cards with PayPal so returning customers can quickly check out without re-entering their payment information.
- Simplify PCI compliance while controlling your checkout design using Braintree Hosted Fields.
- Improve productivity with new Admin search capabilities and redesigned product, category, and CMS pages.
- Deliver better search results with a new tool to manage search synonyms at a store view, website, or global level.
- JavaScript performance enhancements including among other speed improvements and nesting of categories more than four levels deep.
+++ many more, see the 2.1 change-log for a complete list
Resources:
– Magento CE Downloads
– Magento 2x Upgrade Guide
– Magento CE 2.1 Change-log
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