Magento 2.3 EOL
Recently, Magento has an announcement to all Magento community people and developers to release an upgrade of Magento 2, which is Magento 2.4. This new upgrade is supposed to be launched in the first month of 2020.
Highlights of Magento 2.4.0 (Beta)
Security enhancements:
- Two-factor authentication (2FA) is now enabled by default for the Magento
- By default -template filter strict mode is now enabled.
- By default Data rendering for UI data providers is now disabled.
- Content Security Policy (CSP) improvements.
Platform upgrades :
- PHP 7.1 and 7.2 deprecated, PHP 7.4 support introduced.
- Deprecation of PHPUnit 6.5, Support for PHPUnit 9.x (PHP 7.4 requires the use of the latest PHPUnit 9.x).
- Elasticsearch 7.x support.
- MySQL 8.0 support.
- Removal of the MySQL catalog search engine (replaced as the default search engine with Elasticsearch).
- MariaDB 10.4 support.
- Migration of dependencies on Zend Framework to the Laminas project (Zend Framework has been deprecated. reflect the transitioning of Zend Framework to the Linux Foundation’s Laminas Project).
- Removal of the core integration of the Signifyd fraud protection code.
- Core Braintree module has been removed from the codebase
Infrastructure improvements
- Removal of core integration of third-party payment methods.
- Support for a partial-word search for Elasticsearch (new default search engine).
- PayPal JavaScript SDK upgrade.
- Deprecation and removal of the Web Set Up Wizard.
- Composer update plugin (Composer plugin streamlines).
Performance improvements
- Improvements to customer data section invalidation logic.
- Multiple optimizations to Redis performance.
- Improved caching of results of SQL queries to inventory tables.
- Improvement of up to 25-30% to Quick Order add-to-cart performance.
Magento release notes here
