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Magento 2.1.8 Review: The Latest and Most Professional

September 13, 2017

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In this article, we will give you a full overview about the latest version Magento 2.1.8. Here, you will catch up with highlights, enhancement, requirements, download links with and without sample data of the latest version Magento 2.1.8. Last but not least, don’t miss out the upgrade forÂ latest version Magento 2.1.8 themes and extensions.

Table of Contents

I. Highlights

First, we would like to identify the outstanding features of the latest version Magento 2.1.8. Magento Enterprise Edition 2.1.8 contains over 100 functional fixes and enhancements as well as pulling requests from the community. Â Look for the following highlights in this release:

Multiple enhancements to static content deployment and generation
Improvements to elastic search performance, indexing of large catalogs, cache tuning, and url re-writes
Reduction in the amount of memory that mass actions require, and performance optimization
Faster cloud deployments for multi-language sites

II. Enhancement

Next, we are presenting the developments of the latest version Magento 2.1.8 comparing to the previous versions. You would see much more cool features added in terms of managing and displaying product information, handy widgets, and a more powerful admin panel. Now, check the table below for detailed information.

Version 2.1.8	Previous versions
Create a custom category attribute with custom image for each category.	You could create the attribute, but not save the image.
Displays product information after performing an operation on more than one item.	Product information was not correctly aligned on the page.
Displays custom options at the store view level	No
Currency switcher now works for widgets on the home page.	With the multiple currencies website, the currency switcher did not update the currencies for widgets on the home page.
Accurately displays the total count of products on the Category page.	No
When deleting an image in the admin panel Magento no longer deletes it on the server.	Magento deleted it from the server as well, which caused errors for other products.
Displays only the price for product for the store view level.	The category listing page showed the default store view price.
Displays the product image even when product_image_white_borders isn’t enabled in the theme.	Magento displayed a 404 instead of the image.
The product attribute category_ids only has Global scope.	You could change the scope value of category_ids to store.
The Use Default URL Key setting now works on the store-view level.	No
Displays the correct image when switching between a configurable product’s options.	Magento loaded product images from a different product.
The ability to set an SKU mask to empty.	When a product SKU mask was set to empty it resulted in problems in loading the Product Add page.
Save product without checking any of its attribute values.	When saving product, attribute values remained checked.
Magento now correctly assigns images to duplicated products.	Create a blank attribute option using the drop-down input option on products that do not require an attribute.

III.Â Requirements

The latest version Magento 2.1.8 system requirements include required Magento 2.1.8 compatible extensions and themes, supported web browsers. Also, there are recent requirements to securely connect with software repository and with PayPal.

See the following for more detail: