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Magento 2.1.6 Release

Gian Genovesi
04/2017

magento_logo.pngMagento recently released Magento Enterprise, Enterprise Cloud, and Community Editions 2.1.6. This release comes with some great new features and performance enhancements for Magento 2.1 users, including:

  • Quicker category page performance
  • Optimized image resizing
  • Improved layered navigation performance

Magento Enterprise Edition 2.1.6 specifically contains over 15 significant performance enhancements as compared to 2.1.5.

The improved performance of the category page includes five-times-faster loading of configurable products from the database, 3-5% faster price calculations, and 20% faster stock validation. For optimized image resizing, 2.1.6 has fixed image resize operations from the Admin, caching of image metadata is up to 50% faster, and there is a significant decrease in the number of file system operations when processing images on the front end. Layered navigation is also up to 3% faster.

There are also functional fixes and enhancements for catalog, configurable products, import, indexers, swatches, and more. You can read the full release information for Magento Enterprise Edition 2.1.6 here.

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