MAGENTO UPDATE
management - patches - security - customization - updates - upgrades
Vicus manages, maintains and assists with the porting of Magento web shops to an up-to-date version
Magento Update
Magento Updates are performed by Vicus in a fast and professional manner. This ensures you have a secure, as well as a functionally well-functioning website.
Vicus manages, maintains and assists with migrating Magento web shops to the latest version.
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What Magento updates are there?
Magento updates are new versions or so-called patches released by Adobe. These updates are there for various reasons. Think for example of improved security for your Magento webshop, or renewed user conveniences. A Magento webshop that is not up-to-date is often easier to hack. Not only your own data will be exposed, but also that of your customers.
There are also regular updates for new functionalities within your Magento webshop. This not only makes your work within Magento more efficient, but these updates often also improve the loading times and speeds of your Magento webshop. Of course, these speeds benefit Google and your customers, resulting in increased conversions.
What are Magento updates?
Magento updates come in different shapes and sizes. Below we explain to you what the update variants entail.
Magento Major Updates
As the name suggests, this is the biggest Magento update. However, this ''update'' almost never happens, because this update indicates a completely new version of Magento. In the past, we have only experienced one such update, when Magento 1 migrated to 2. When we speak of a Major update, the update has a huge impact on your Magento environment and requires a lot of attention and time.
Magento Minor updates
Although the name suggests that the Minor update is minor, in practice this is different. A Minor updates changes the second digit of your Magento, for example 2.3 to 2.4. The so-called Minor updates often bring new user comforts and optimize your Magento webshop as a whole. This ensures that your webshop must be thoroughly tested after this update, to make sure that all your customizations and applications still work properly on this updated Magento version.
Magento Patches
Compared to Minor updates, Magento patches are smaller updates for your Magento webshop. These so-called Patches are released on a regular basis and ensure that your Magento webshop meets the correct security and stability. Although these patches are smaller in size, they do have a great impact on your Magento environment. Testing your Magento after installation of these patches is a must. To see on which patch your Magento is running, you can look at the third digit and so in this case for example 2.4.9
Magento Security patches
The smallest, but certainly not unimportant, are the Security patches for Magento. As the name suggests, these are security updates see are released regularly. To keep your Magento webshop as secure as possible, Adobe releases a new Security patch every quarter. The installation of these patches are relatively quick to manage and take less monitoring time. To see which Security patch your Magento webshop is running on, you can look at the last digit that has a P in front of it. An example of what this looks like is: 2.4.8-P3
When are there updates?
As previously mentioned, the most common updates that come out with some regularity are the 'Security Patches'. Adobe is very reliable in its release schedule and always shares these on Adobe's website. Check out the release calendar here, or keep an eye on this page to always be up-to-date.
Don't miss a Magento update
It is advisable to always keep your Magento webshop up-to-date. Especially when it comes to security, you always want to comply with the latest patches. This way, you are always assured of the latest developments in the field of security. This is not only good for your own data, but perhaps more importantly, that of your customers.
To prevent you from missing these important patches, Vicus offers the possibility of taking out a service subscription. With this subscription, you are always assured of a Magento webshop that is up to date. We schedule the patches for you when they are released by Adobe and install them on your environment on the agreed date. The only thing left to do is testing. This subscription is not only for the security patches, but applies to every Magento update.
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