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Magento Versions – 15 Years Of Ecommerce Excellence

Updated on September 5, 2022

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The first beta Magento version was launched in August 2007 with the vision that this ecommerce platform would provide more than the prevailing ecommerce platforms.

Roy Rubin, the creator of the Magento platform, had the idea of creating an ecommerce platform that offers stability and flexibility to all ecommerce stakeholders. And to this day, Magento has maintained its top position because of unrivaled support and an extensive ecosystem.

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  1. Magento Community Edition 1.0 – Beta
  2. Magento Community Edition 1.0
  3. Magento Community Edition 1.1
  4. Magento Community Edition 1.2
  5. Magento Community Edition 1.3
  6. Magento Community Edition 1.4
  7. Magento Community Edition 1.5
  8. Magento Community Edition 1.6
  9. Magento 2.0 Development Starts
  10. Magento Community Edition 1.7
  11. Magento Community Edition 1.8
  12. Magento Community Edition 1.9.x
  13. Magento 2 Community Edition 2.0.0
  14. Magento 2 Community Edition 2.0.1
  15. Magento 2 Community Edition 2.0.2
  16. Magento 2 Community Edition 2.0.3
  17. Magento 2 Community Edition 2.0.4
  18. Magento 2 Community Edition 2.0.5
  19. Magento 2 Community Edition 2.0.6
  20. Magento 2 Community Edition 2.0.7
  21. Magento 2 Community Edition 2.0.8
  22. Magento 2 Community Edition 2.0.9
  23. Magento 2 Community Edition 2.0.10
  24. Magento 2 Community Edition 2.0.11
  25. Magento 2 Community Edition 2.0.12
  26. Magento 2 Community Edition 2.0.13
  27. Magento 2 Community Edition 2.0.14
  28. Magento 2 Community Edition 2.0.15
  29. Magento 2 Community Edition 2.1.0
  30. Magento 2 Community Edition 2.1.1
  31. Magento 2 Community Edition 2.1.2
  32. Magento 2 Community Edition 2.1.3
  33. Magento 2 Community Edition 2.1.4
  34. Magento 2 Community Edition 2.1.5
  35. Magento 2 Community Edition 2.1.6
  36. Magento 2 Community Edition 2.1.7
  37. Magento 2 Community Edition 2.2.0 – RC
  38. Magento 2 Community Edition 2.1.8
  39. Magento 2 Community Edition 2.1.9
  40. Magento 2 Community Edition 2.2.0
  41. Magento 2 Community Edition 2.2.1
  42. Magento 2 Community Edition 2.2.2
  43. Magento 2 Community Edition 2.2.3
  44. Magento 2 Community Edition 2.2.4
  45. Magento 2 Community Edition 2.2.5
  46. Magento 2 Community Edition 2.2.6
  47. Magento 2 Community Edition 2.2.7
  48. Magento Open Source 2.3.0 Community Edition
  49. Magento 2 Community Edition 2.2.8
  50. Magento 2 Community Edition 2.3.1
  51. Magento 2 Community Edition 2.3.2
  52. Magento 2 Community Edition 2.3.3
  53. Magento 2 Community Edition 2.3.4
  54. Magento 2 Community Edition 2.3.5
  55. Magento 2 Community Edition 2.3.6
  56. Magento 2 Community Edition 2.3.7
  57. Magento 2 Community Edition 2.4.0
  58. Magento 2 Community Edition 2.4.1
  59. Magento 2 Community Edition 2.4.2
  60. Magento 2 Community Edition 2.4.3
  61. Magento 2 Community Edition 2.4.4
  62. Magento 2 Community Edition 2.4.5
  63. Magento 2 Community Edition 2.4.6

 

Magento CE 1.0 – Beta
August 31, 2007
First public beta version in Magento history

Magento CE 1.0
June 24, 2008
API, bundled and virtual products, custom product options

Magento CE 1.1
2008
The first stable Magento version of Community Edition was publicly available to download

Magento CE 1.2
December 29, 2008
Included downloadable products, layered navigation and FTP

Magento CE 1.3
March 30, 2009
Introduced Catalogues

Magento CE 1.4
February 12, 2010
Changes in customizability of appearance and introduced widgets and WYSIWYG editor

Magento CE 1.5
February 8, 2011
iPad and Android added to Magento Mobile

Magento CE 1.6
August 8, 2011
Ability to manage several parallel running ecommerce stores- Multi DB support

Magento 2.0 Development Starts
November 30, 2011
The new and transformed version of Magento Platform

Magento CE 1.7
April 24, 2012
Introduction of mobile theme, auto-generate coupon codes and customer group pricing

Magento CE 1.8
December 11, 2013
Enhanced tax calculations and Redis cache in core

Magento CE 1.9.x
2014 – 2015
Several improvements including the addition of infinite themes, responsive theme, responsive emails, etc.

Magento CE 2.0.0
November 18, 2015
Transformation of Magento Platform. Flexible architecture supporting innovation and fast time to market and enterprise-level scalability and performance

Magento CE 2.0.1
January 20, 2016
Several important functional updates, including official support for PHP 7.0.2

Magento CE 2.0.2
January 29, 2016
Resolved issues of upgrading from Magento 2.0.0 to Magento 2.0.1

Magento CE 2.0.3
March 31, 2016
This Magento version was replaced by version 2.0.4, which was released the next day

Magento CE 2.0.4
April 1, 2016
All of the security enhancements and performance improvements of Magento 2.0.3, in improved packaging

Magento CE 2.0.5
April 28, 2016
Miscellaneous functional fixes

Magento CE 2.0.6
May 17, 2016
Security enhancements as well as several functional fixes and enhancements

Magento CE 2.0.7
May 24, 2016
One functional fix in payment gateway

Magento CE 2.0.8
July 19, 2016
Several functional fixes

Magento CE 2.0.9
August 11, 2016
Several functional fixes

Magento CE 2.0.10
October, 2016
Multiple security and functional enhancements as well as enhancements to the Sales API

Magento CE 2.0.11
December, 2016
Over 70 bug fixes and enhancements

Magento CE 2.0.12
February, 2017
Over 20 functional fixes and enhancements, and one security enhancement

Magento CE 2.0.13
April 17, 2017
Several functional fixes

Magento CE 2.0.14
May 31, 2017
Critical enhancements to the security of your Magento software

Magento CE 2.0.15
June 21, 2017
Support for changes in PayPal’s Instant Payment Notification (IPN) service

Magento CE 2.1.0
June 23, 2016
Numerous functional fixes and enhancements

Magento CE 2.1.1
August 30, 2016
Several functional fixes and enhancements to the deployment of static assets

Magento CE 2.1.2
October 12, 2016
Release includes security enhancements and several functional fixes

Magento CE 2.1.3
December 14, 2016
Release includes many functional enhancements and fixes

Magento CE 2.1.4
February 7, 2016
Numerous functional fixes and enhancements

Magento CE 2.1.5
February 21, 2017
Several functional fixes

Magento CE 2.1.6
April 28, 2017
Performance enhancements, especially for operations that involve the category page and image resizing

Magento CE 2.1.7
May 31, 2017
Release includes critical enhancements to the security

Magento CE 2.2.0 – RC
August 4, 2017
Magento Community Edition 2.2.0 Release Candidate includes significant new features as well as many bug fixes

Magento Open Source 2.1.8
August 9, 2017
Magento Open Source (formerly Community Edition). Includes enhancements to Magento software

Magento Open Source 2.1.9
September 14, 2017
Includes security fixes and enhancements to Magento software

Magento Open Source 2.2.0
September 26, 2017
This Magento version comes with many new & exciting features and tons of enhancements and fixes

Magento Open Source 2.2.1
November 07, 2017
Magento Open Source (formerly Community Edition). Includes functional fixes and enhancements to Magento software

Magento Open Source 2.2.2
December 12, 2017
Includes new tools, functional fixes and enhancements, along with number of contributions from Magento community to Magento software

Magento Open Source 2.2.3
February 27, 2018
Enhancements to product security and to ACL control for cache management through Magento Admin

Magento Open Source 2.2.4
May 02, 2018
New tools and numerous functional fixes and enhancements

Magento Open Source 2.2.5
July 01, 2018
Improvement in product security, bug fixes and enhancements

Magento Open Source 2.2.6
September 18, 2018
Critical improvements in product security, core code fixes and enhancements

Magento Open Source 2.2.7
November 28, 2018
Improvements in product security, core code fixes and enhancements

Magento Open Source 2.3.0
November 28, 2018
This release includes numerous functional fixes and enhancements. For further details you can visit our Magento 2.3.0 release article

Magento Open Source 2.2.8
March 26, 2019
Critical improvements in product security, core code fixes and enhancements

Magento Open Source 2.3.1
March 26, 2019
Functional fixes to the core product, over 500 pull requests contributed by the community and security enhancements

Magento Open Source 2.3.2
June 25, 2019
This Magento version includes functional fixes to the core product, 350 pull requests contributed by the community, and above 75 security enhancements.

Magento Open Source 2.3.3
October 8, 2019
Includes functional fixes to the core product, more than 75 security enhancements, and over 200 contributions from community members.

Magento Open Source 2.3.4
January 28, 2020
Includes functional fixes to the core product, more than 30 security enhancements, and resolution of over 275 contributions by community members

Magento Open Source 2.3.5
April 28, 2020
This is the latest Magento version that includes functional fixes to the core product, security enhancements, and resolution of 46 GitHub issues by the community.

Magento Open Source 2.3.6
October 15, 2020
This Magento 2 version made significant platform upgrades, some security changes, and improved Magento performance. This release covers around 160 functional fixes in the core product and around 15 security improvements.

Magento Open Source 2.3.7
May 11, 2021
This Magento 2 version supported PHP 7.4, Elasticsearch 7.9.X, Varnish 6.5.1, and Redis 6.X. Along with that, significant improvements through security enhancements and functional fixes in the core product.

Magento Open Source 2.4.0
July 28, 2020
This was the first Magento 2 version to support PHP 7.4; it also supported Elasticsearch 7.6.X and MySQL 8.0. This Magento version offered major security improvements and two-factor authentication in the admin by default.

Magento Open Source 2.4.1
October 15, 2020
This Magento 2 version enhanced the platform’s security and performance. It supported CAPTCHA protection for payment-related, order-related API endpoints and the Place Order Storefront page in security enhancement. This version has made over 150 core fixes and 15+ security enhancements to the platform.

Magento Open Source 2.4.2
February 09, 2021
This Magento 2 version improved platform performance, enhanced security, and some improvement in the platform too. This release includes over 280 new fixes and 35 security enhancements and resolved almost 290 GitHub issues by our community members.

Magento Open Source 2.4.3
August 10, 2021
This Magento 2 version improved platform performance, security, and some improvement to the platform too. This release includes expansion to the use of reCAPTCHA. Core composer and third-party libraries were compatible with PHP 8.X. Page builder was part of the bundle extension.

Magento Open Source 2.4.4
April 12, 2022
This Magento 2 version supports PHP 8.1, which means all project libraries, dependencies, core composer dependencies, and third-party libraries are compatible with PHP 8.1. It also supports OpenSearch 1.2 and 250 quality fixes and enhancements.

Magento Open Source 2.4.5
August 09, 2022
This is the Magento 2 version that offers improved platform quality, payment methods, GraphQL caching performance, and accessibility. Also, this version includes updates to integrated Google modules and brought over 290 quality fixes and enhancements.

Magento Open Source 2.4.6
March 14, 2023
This is the latest and greatest Magento version. It includes over 300+ quality fixes and enhancements with the support of PHP 8.2 and 8.1. This release introduces a new Magento Community Prioritization process to vote on the issues on core code publicly. Redis, Elasticsearch, and MariaDb also got upgraded to new versions with backward compatability. Also this includes eight security fix and platform security improvements.

The image below summarizes the Magento version history and how it has evolved over the past 15 years.

Magento Versions Details

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Conclusion

The purpose of each Magento latest version is to provide numerous functional and bugs fixes, enhancements and critical updates. Therefore it is always advised to update to latest Magento version no surprise that Magento powers thousands of online stores since it continues to enhance the efficiency of its platform.

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Abdur Rahman

Abdur Rahman is the Magento whizz at Cloudways. He is growth ambitious, and aims to learn & share information about Ecommerce & Magento Development through practice and experimentation. He loves to travel and explore new ideas whenever he finds time. Get in touch with him at [email protected]

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