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Mage-OS 2.2.2 – Bug Fixes & Compatibility Improvements

mage-os-team — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 18:00:00 GMT

Mage-OS Distribution 2.2.2 is now available. This release brings bug fixes and compatibility improvements across several Mage-OS modules. We recommend updating at your convenience.

Note that it is no longer possible to install the previous version due to a security advisory on webonyx/graphql-php. This update allows the latest versions of that package to fix it.

What’s changed

GraphQL dependency constraint refined Updated webonyx/graphql-php constraint from <15.31.0 to !=15.31.0 !=15.31.1, allowing future 15.31.2+ releases while continuing to block the two known-broken versions. (#218) by @rhoerr
Automatic Translation module updated to 2.1.0
- PHP 8.2 compatibility: removed typed constants that caused errors on PHP 8.2+ (#56) by @SamueleMartini
- Fixed CMS page plain text fields not being translated (#54) by @SamueleMartini
- Fixed CMS block ID and type errors (#60) by @rikwillems
Inventory Reservations Grid: admin OutOfRangeException fixed Added Magento_InventoryAdminUi to the module sequence to resolve an OutOfRangeException in the admin panel. (#16) by @proxiblue

Our foundation

Mage-OS 2.2.2 is built on Magento Open Source 2.4.8-p4, the same upstream base as 2.2.0 and 2.2.1. For details on upstream changes, see the Magento Open Source 2.4.8 release notes and 2.4.8 security patch notes.

Thanks to everyone who contributed!

This release was made possible by:

@rikwillems (Rik Willems) — type error and CMS block fixes in Automatic Translation
@SamueleMartini (Samuele Martini) — PHP 8.2 compatibility and CMS translation fixes
@dadolun95 (Luca Visciola) — PR reviews for Automatic Translation
@proxiblue (Lucas van Staden) — Inventory Reservations Grid fix
@rhoerr (Ryan Hoerr) — GraphQL constraint update and Page Builder cleanup

Want to participate?

Mage-OS is a community-driven project, and we welcome contributions of all kinds. Whether you’re fixing bugs, adding features, improving documentation, or helping with testing, your contributions make a difference.

Installation

New installations

composer create-project --repository-url=https://repo.mage-os.org/ mage-os/project-community-edition=2.2.2 <install-directory-name>

Upgrading from Mage-OS 2.2.x

composer require mage-os/product-community-edition=2.2.2 --no-update
composer update
bin/magento setup:upgrade

Upgrading from an older Mage-OS version

composer require mage-os/product-community-edition=^2.2 --no-update
composer update
bin/magento setup:upgrade

Migrating from Adobe Commerce or Magento Open Source

See our migration guide for detailed instructions on switching to Mage-OS.

We hope you enjoy Mage-OS 2.2.2. As always, please report any issues on GitHub and join the conversation on Discord.

Mage-OS March Update

mage-os-team — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

March was a productive month for Mage-OS, with a focus on releases, infrastructure improvements, and continued ecosystem growth.

Community Discussion: AI and the Future of Software Development

AI is rapidly reshaping how software is built, maintained, and scaled. This shift is increasingly visible within the Magento ecosystem, raising important questions about its long term impact.

Topics under discussion include:

The potential impact of AI on jobs within the Magento ecosystem
Whether AI reduces opportunities or increases competitiveness
The role of broader market evolution vs AI itself
How the community can actively influence future developments

To provide a space for these discussions, an open community session is being organized. Join us on discord!

Mage-OS 2.2 and 2.2.1 Released

We released Mage-OS 2.2, based on the latest Magento security patch (2.4.8-p4). This version includes important upstream security updates along with ongoing Mage-OS improvements. Shortly after, version 2.2.1 was released to address several issues, including a reCAPTCHA bug affecting checkout payments, a GraphQL issue, and a polyfill-related security vulnerability. If you have not upgraded yet, updating is strongly recommended.

Progress Toward Mage-OS 3.0

Work is underway on Mage-OS 3.0, currently targeted for mid May in alignment with the expected Magento 2.4.9 release. The scope is being finalized, and contributions are welcome. This is the right time to propose modules, fixes, or enhancements for inclusion. You can track progress on the milestone and join the discussion in Mage-OS Lab.

We hired Marcel Martinez as Release Manager

To improve release consistency and reliability, Marcel Martinez joined as dedicated Release Manager. Marcel has already been hard at work getting the nightly builds back on track, fixing CI issues, and making sure the release pipeline runs smoothly. Having a dedicated person on this means faster turnaround on security patches and more confidence in every release we put out.

New Mage-OS website

You may have noticed: Thanks to Ryan Hoerr, mage-os.org got a fresh new look! The new website went live in February and gives the project a more polished and welcoming home. The code is open source, so if you spot something that could be improved, pull requests are welcome. We’re continuing to improve it and working on getting installation options, devdocs, and other resources more prominently documented there as well.

Hackathon

In February, we held another online hackathon. Herve submitted PRs for a Playwright end-to-end test suite for Mage-OS core, Samuele built a new open source RMA module and fixed up the GeoIP module, Ryan improved the catalog-data-ai module, Vinai contributed to the Elgentos Magento 2 dev MCP server, and Damien built a JS profile viewer for xdebug cachegrind files. We’re planning more hackathons throughout the year, so keep an eye on our socials for the next date.

David’s talk to the Magento Association

The Magento Association holds a Townhall meeting every quarter. This time our vice president David Lambauer joined us to give a presentation about the current state of Mage-OS and how the broader Magento ecosystem can work together going forward. The Association also has an open call for maintainers - if you’re interested in helping process Magento contributions, applications are open now.

Tech News

Testing & CI Improvements

Significant progress has been made on the Playwright E2E test suite, with around 100 tests currently passing locally. Work is ongoing to stabilize CI integration via GitHub Actions and expand coverage (checkout, cart, and dynamic pricing scenarios). The current direction is to consolidate existing testing efforts rather than duplicate them.

Installer Enhancements

The Mage-OS installer now supports both DDEV and Warden environments. Initial automated tests have been added to validate setup, CLI functionality, and HTTP availability. Further improvements are planned, including broader test coverage and optional installation configurations.

Ecosystem and Visibility Improvements

Mage-OS is now detectable via Wappalyzer (HTTPArchive fork) and BuiltWith. This increases visibility and allows better tracking of adoption across the ecosystem.

Ongoing Lab Development

Mage-OS Lab continues to expand with several notable modules:

Admin Activity Log for backend tracking (ongoing improvements and PRs under review)
Open-source RMA module supporting EU requirements
Page Builder enhancements with previews and translation support
Advanced Widget & WidgetKit packages
Passkey authentication module for passwordless login

These modules are actively being tested and may be candidates for inclusion in future core releases.

New Tooling Initiatives

Work has started on a Magento-specific Language Server Protocol (LSP) server. It provides improved developer experience through autocompletion, navigation between Magento components (XML, layouts, templates), and awareness of platform-specific concepts. An MCP integration is included to support AI-assisted workflows. The project may be promoted from Labs to a core repository pending feedback.

Additionally, Magento-focused snippets for the Zed editor have been introduced, aiming to improve developer productivity in alternative editor environments.

Search & Performance Exploration

Work is ongoing to integrate Meilisearch as an alternative search engine. A revised architecture using a dedicated controller and server-side rendering has been implemented to ensure compatibility with caching layers such as Varnish. The solution is already working with Hyvä, with Luma support in progress.

Bug Investigations & Fixes

Several issues are currently under investigation:

A plugin interceptor/compiler issue causing silent failures in specific module combinations
Checkout input validation gaps (e.g., missing trimming of whitespace) Efforts are focused on isolating root causes and preparing fixes.

Security Follow-up

A previously identified security incident involving a reverse shell was investigated and resolved. The system has been verified as clean. This incident reinforced the importance of monitoring and validation in production environments.

Community and Contributions

Mage-OS is taking over maintenance of the Magento PHPStan integration to ensure continued support for this key developer tool. Contributors with experience in static analysis are encouraged to participate.

Experimental AI Work

A prototype AI-based product recommendation widget was introduced. It interprets user intent, maps it to catalog attributes, and returns structured product results. Additional validation layers are being implemented to ensure reliability and reduce incorrect outputs. Further testing on real catalogs is planned.

Looking Ahead

Preparations continue for upcoming community activities, including discussions around AI in software development and future hackathons. Collaboration efforts will focus on CI stabilization, test coverage expansion, and tooling improvements.

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Mage-OS 2.2.1 – Security & Stability Patch

mage-os-team — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 18:00:00 GMT

Update: Mage-OS 2.2.2 is now available with bug fixes and compatibility improvements. Read the 2.2.2 release post.

Mage-OS Distribution 2.2.1 is now available. This is a security and stability patch for the 2.2 release line — we strongly recommend updating as soon as possible.

What’s fixed

“PolyShell” upload vulnerability blocked (security) Cherry-picked upstream Magento patch (ACP2E-4138) that prevents an attacker from sending an RCE payload via REST API POST requests. This addresses the “PolyShell” vulnerability that can affect insecure server environments. (#210) by @marcelmtz
GraphQL API compatibility restored Pinned webonyx/graphql-php to <15.31.0 to work around a breaking change in that library that broke Magento’s GraphQL API. (#211) by @rhoerr
Checkout reCAPTCHA regression reverted Reverted the reCAPTCHA deferred-loading optimization introduced in 2.2.0, which caused reCAPTCHA failures on checkout pages using hosted/iframe payment forms (e.g. Braintree) and some other integrations. (mageos-security-package#8) by @rhoerr

Our foundation

Mage-OS 2.2.1 is built on Magento Open Source 2.4.8-p4, the same upstream base as 2.2.0. For details on upstream changes, see the Magento Open Source 2.4.8 release notes and 2.4.8 security patch notes.

Thanks to everyone who contributed!

Thank you to @rhoerr (Ryan Hoerr) and @marcelmtz (Marcel Martinez) for handling this release!

Thanks also to @ProxiBlue (Lucas van Staden), @damienwebdev (Damien Retzinger), and @Vinai (Vinai Kopp) for assistance with discovery and testing of the issues and solutions.

Want to participate?

Installation

New installations

composer create-project --repository-url=https://repo.mage-os.org/ mage-os/project-community-edition=2.2.1 <install-directory-name>

Upgrading from Mage-OS 2.2.0

composer require mage-os/product-community-edition=2.2.1 --no-update
composer update
bin/magento setup:upgrade

Upgrading from an older Mage-OS version

composer require mage-os/product-community-edition=^2.2 --no-update
composer update
bin/magento setup:upgrade

Migrating from Adobe Commerce or Magento Open Source

See our migration guide for detailed instructions on switching to Mage-OS.

We hope you enjoy Mage-OS 2.2.1. As always, please report any issues on GitHub and join the conversation on Discord.

Mage-OS 2.2 is out now!

mage-os-team — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 18:00:00 GMT

Update: Mage-OS 2.2.1 is now available with important security and stability fixes. Read the 2.2.1 release post.

We are excited to announce the release of Mage-OS Distribution 2.2.0, incorporating important security patches from upstream, along with bug fixes and UI improvements. We strongly recommend updating as soon as possible.

Our foundation

Mage-OS 2.2.0 is built on Magento Open Source 2.4.8-p4, released today with a variety of security fixes.

Please check the Magento Open Source 2.4.8 release notes and the 2.4.8 security patch notes for details on upstream changes.

Software	Version
Composer	2.9
OpenSearch	3.x (or Elasticsearch 8.x)
MariaDB	11.4
MySQL	8.4
nginx	1.28
PHP	8.3, 8.4
RabbitMQ	4.1
Redis	Valkey 8 (or Redis 7.2+)
Varnish	7.7

What’s changed

Real column type introspection fix Fixed an issue where setup:db:status and setup:db-schema:upgrade perpetually reported pending modify_column changes for certain DOUBLE UNSIGNED columns. (#205) by @furan917
Mage-OS Admin Theme (m137) updated from 1.3.2 to 1.3.4
- Refactored action-split, page-builder standard/connected buttons to align with Google Material Design 3
- UI improvements to field labels, control spacing, modal messaging, newsletter, and order/shipment styling
- Replaced GIF loader with SVG
PCI 4 Compatibility module updated from 1.3.1 to 1.4.1
- Structural improvements to the session expiry modal
- Fixed z-index to ensure the session expiry modal renders above all other page elements

Mirror updates

The latest Magento versions, including 2.4.8-p4, are also available from our public Magento mirror at mirror.mage-os.org. This mirror is a drop-in replacement for repo.magento.com (except Magento Marketplace), allowing you to install Magento without any login credentials.

Thanks to everyone who contributed!

Thank you to @rhoerr (Ryan Hoerr) and @marcelmtz (Marcel Martinez) for handling this release!

This release was also made possible by the contributions of:

@artKozynets (Artem Kozynets)
@furan917 (Francis Gallagher)
@aligent-lturner (Lachlan Turner, Aligent)

Want to participate?

Installation

New installations

composer create-project --repository-url=https://repo.mage-os.org/ mage-os/project-community-edition=2.2.0 <install-directory-name>

Upgrading from a previous Mage-OS version

composer require mage-os/product-community-edition=^2.2 --no-update
composer update
bin/magento setup:upgrade

Migrating from Adobe Commerce or Magento Open Source

See our migration guide for detailed instructions on switching to Mage-OS.

We hope you enjoy Mage-OS 2.2.0. As always, please report any issues on GitHub and join the conversation on Discord.

Mage-OS February Update

mage-os-team — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT

February was an active month for Mage-OS, with important progress in development, testing, infrastructure, and community collaboration.

New Release Manager

Please welcome Marcel Martinez as our new Release Manager. Marcel will coordinate releases, improve processes, and help ensure stability and consistency across future Mage-OS versions. This is an important step toward a more structured and predictable release cycle.

New Website

A new Mage-OS website went live. It is based on a static site generator and replaces the previous WordPress setup. The repository is public, and content can be edited directly via GitHub, supporting transparency and easier community contributions.

2nd Mage-OS Hackathon

On 13 February, we held our second Mage-OS Hackathon. Community members collaborated on several initiatives:

Extension of the Mage-Check GitHub Action, including Mage-OS support and potential integration of PHPStan and additional static analysis tools.
Work on Playwright testing and CI integration.
Progress on a JavaScript optimizer and RequireJS-related improvements.
Development of an open source RMA (Return Merchandise Authorization) module, providing built-in return management functionality for merchants.
Initial ideas for a simplified Mage-OS installer that can auto-detect environments such as DDEV or Warden and guide users through setup.

The hackathon showed strong collaboration and delivered practical improvements to the ecosystem.

Playwright Testing Progress

Significant work was done on integrating Playwright end-to-end tests into Mage-OS.

Around two-thirds of the existing Elgentos Playwright test suite are currently passing.
A CI workflow was prepared to execute Playwright tests directly within the Mage-OS repository.
Key challenges include differences between Mage-OS and Adobe Commerce (especially in the Admin UI), as well as dependencies on themes, sample data, and checkout implementations.
It was discussed that a fork or Mage-OS–specific adaptation of the test suite is likely necessary.
An alternative modular Playwright architecture was introduced, separating base tests, theme tests, and checkout tests, and supporting multiple locales and checkout variations.

The goal is to achieve reliable end-to-end coverage that fits Mage-OS requirements.

Development Environment Improvements

A new GitHub Codespaces based development container was presented. The goal is to simplify local development and reduce setup friction.

Key characteristics:

Support for multiple Magento versions.
Alpine-based images with daily builds.
Preconfigured tools such as Xdebug and common developer utilities.
VS Code integration.
Designed as a maintainable alternative to older Docker-based setups.

This approach aims to standardize development environments and lower the entry barrier for contributors.

Design System Update

The Mage-OS design system was updated to version 1.1.0. The UI now aligns more closely with Google Material guidelines, with improved consistency in layout, spacing, and interaction behavior. Several component-level refinements were introduced to improve visual alignment and usability.

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Mage-OS January Update

mage-os-team — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Hackathon

The Mage-OS community will host a live, fully online hackathon on February 13, bringing developers from around the world together to collaborate in real time. The event is open to everyone, from long-time Mage-OS contributors to newcomers who are eager to help improve the ecosystem. Participants are encouraged to bring their own ideas, challenges, or improvements they would like to work on, with the agenda shaped organically by the community throughout the day. The hackathon is designed to be flexible and inclusive, allowing contributors to join at any time and collaborate globally via Discord. This is an opportunity to build together, share knowledge, and actively help shape the future of Mage-OS.

Mage-OS Progress and the 2.1.0 Release

The past month marked an important milestone for the Mage-OS project with the official release of Mage-OS Distribution 2.1.0. Alongside the release itself, the community delivered meaningful improvements across stability, performance, tooling, and long-term platform direction.

Mage-OS 2.1.0 Released

Mage-OS 2.1.0 is now available and represents the most polished and robust Mage-OS release to date. The distribution continues to build on a foundation of proven, well-supported technologies, including PHP 8.3 and 8.4, Composer 2.9, OpenSearch 3.x (or Elasticsearch 8), MySQL 8.4, MariaDB 11.x, Redis/Valkey, RabbitMQ, and Varnish.

This release focuses on real-world reliability and developer confidence, with fixes that address long-standing pain points in production environments.

Bug Fixes and Stability Improvements

Several notable issues were resolved in this release:

Customer group extension attributes are now preserved correctly instead of being overwritten.
Customer file attribute handling was fixed to prevent unnecessary filesystem writes.
Native Full Page Cache behavior for logged-in customers was restored.
Subresource Integrity (SRI) hash failures caused by JS bundling and minification were resolved.
Dependency injection compilation now generates plugins in the correct area order, preventing unnecessary frontend cache regeneration.

In addition, the Mage-OS Page Builder Widgets module was updated to version 1.3.3, fixing hidden modal labels and resolving issues with virtual types used as widget block classes.

New Developer and Operations Features

Mage-OS 2.1.0 introduces new CLI tooling aimed at safer, zero-downtime deployments:

Theme registration status command
Detects themes that exist on disk but are not registered in the database, helping teams identify when setup upgrades are required.
Queue configuration status command
Identifies inconsistencies in MySQL and AMQP-based message queue configurations, improving observability and deployment safety.

These tools are especially valuable for teams running blue-green or rolling deployment strategies.

Expanded Database Compatibility

Database support was expanded to better reflect real-world hosting environments:

MySQL: 5.7, 8.0 through 8.4
MariaDB: 10.2 through 10.11, and all 11.x versions

This broader compatibility reduces friction during upgrades and gives operators more flexibility when choosing infrastructure.

Ecosystem and Infrastructure Progress

Beyond the core release, work continued on improving Mage-OS infrastructure and future direction:

Repository mirrors were rebuilt and stabilized, resolving Composer 2.9 compatibility and integrity issues.
Preview and demo environments were restored and are fully operational.
The minimal distribution initiative made major progress, reducing the core module set by more than half in a proof-of-concept build and significantly improving compilation times.
CI coverage for the release generator was expanded, improving confidence in future releases.
New community tools and experiments were shared, including devcontainer-based local development setups and testing strategies using Playwright.

Community Contributions

Mage-OS 2.1.0 was made possible by contributions from across the community, including work on core fixes, tooling, documentation, and extensions. The release reflects ongoing collaboration between maintainers, contributors, and users who continue to shape the platform in the open.

Looking Ahead

With Mage-OS 2.1.0 now live, attention is already shifting toward future goals, including preparation for Mage-OS 3.0 alongside Magento 2.4.9, PHP 8.5 compatibility, continued work on a minimal distribution, and further improvements to testing and developer experience.

As always, feedback, testing, and contributions are welcome. Join the discussion on GitHub or Discord and help guide the next phase of Mage-OS development.

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Mage-OS: the natural evolution of the Magento ecosystem

ruggero-landolina — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT

For more than fifteen years, Magento has stood as one of the most solid, flexible, and complete e-commerce platforms in the world. Thousands of merchants, agencies, and developers have built their digital growth on it, thanks to an open-source model that has always enabled freedom, innovation, and collaboration.

In recent years, Magento’s evolution has followed different paths: on one side, the commercial version managed by Adobe; on the other, the growing need — strongly felt by merchants and developers — to preserve the open-source philosophy and ensure long-term continuity for the platform.

This is where Mage-OS was born: an independent, community-driven, and completely free project that carries forward Magento’s legacy into the future.

Continuity and full compatibility

Mage-OS is not a new or alternative platform — it is the direct evolution of Magento Open Source.

The codebase remains fully compatible, ensuring that existing modules, extensions, and themes continue to work without modification.

For merchants and agencies, this means stability and continuity, without the need to start from scratch.

The goal is to offer a modern, secure, and constantly updated platform while preserving everything that makes Magento so powerful: its modular structure, flexibility, and technological independence.

An active and growing community

Mage-OS is a community-driven project: developers, agencies, and businesses around the world contribute every day to its development, documentation, testing, and promotion.

This network of people and expertise is the beating heart of the project — not a community waiting for updates, but a community creating them.

The work is transparent and public: every contribution can be seen on GitHub, and anyone can participate, suggest improvements, or join working groups dedicated to performance, security, compatibility, or communication.

Open source. Always.

One of the core principles of Mage-OS is its open-source license, which will remain that way forever.

The project is and will always be free, with no “premium” versions or paid tiers.

Its mission is to keep the platform accessible to everyone, supporting a sustainable model where innovation is shared and benefits the entire ecosystem.

In a market where many platforms are becoming closed or subscription-based, Mage-OS stands as a choice of freedom, transparency, and long-term reliability.

A long-term vision

Mage-OS is not a temporary fork — it’s a project with a clear, long-term vision.

Thanks to the coordinated work of an international board, active contributors, and the support of strategic partners, Mage-OS ensures regular updates, ongoing security improvements, and compatibility with the latest PHP versions and libraries.

Its roadmap is open and public, giving anyone who adopts Mage-OS the confidence that the platform will continue to grow and evolve to support their business in the years ahead.

A future built together

Mage-OS doesn’t belong to a single company — it belongs to a global community.

Every merchant, agency, and developer who chooses Mage-OS helps it grow and thrive.

This shared vision is what makes the project truly unique: an open, living, and ever-evolving ecosystem capable of providing both stability today and innovation tomorrow.

In a digital landscape that’s changing faster than ever, Mage-OS represents the perfect balance between heritage and innovation — the technical continuity of Magento, powered by the passion and commitment of a community that believes in the open-source future.

Mage-OS doesn’t replace Magento. It evolves it.

Mage-OS 2.1 is out now!

mage-os-team — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 20:55:00 GMT

We are excited to announce the release of Mage-OS Distribution 2.1.0, continuing our mission to provide a community-driven, open, and reliable e-commerce platform.

This release includes bug fixes, performance improvements, expanded database compatibility, and new developer tools.

Our foundation

Mage-OS 2.1.0 is based on a solid foundation of proven, well-supported software:

Software	Version
Composer	2.9.3
OpenSearch	3.x (or Elasticsearch 8.x)
MariaDB	11.4
MySQL	8.4
nginx	1.28
PHP	8.3, 8.4
RabbitMQ	4.1
Redis	Valkey 8 (or Redis 7.2+)
Varnish	7.7

Bug fixes

Several issues have been resolved in this release:

Customer group extension attributes Fixed a plugin that was overwriting existing extension attributes instead of preserving them (#53)
Customer file attribute handling Prevents session files from being written to the filesystem for non-file customer attributes (#174)
Full Page Cache after login Resolved an issue where native FPC didn’t work properly for logged in customers (AC-14999) (#176)
SRI hash failures Fixed Subresource Integrity hash failures that occurred when using JavaScript bundling and minification together (#177)
Plugin generation area order Fixed setup:di:compile to generate plugins in the correct area order, preventing frontend cache regeneration on first request (#194)
Mage-OS Page Builder Widgets module updated to 1.3.3
- Fixed css hiding other modal form labels (#10)
- Fixed virtualTypes on Block classes used by widgets (#13)

New features

Theme registration status command

A new CLI command helps developers identify themes that exist in the filesystem but are not registered in the database:

bin/magento theme:registration:status

This helps detect when theme changes require setup to be run, for zero-downtime deployment processes. (#186)

Queue configuration status command

A new CLI command detects inconsistencies in message queue configuration for both MySQL and AMQP (RabbitMQ/AmazonMQ) backends:

bin/magento queue:config:status

This helps detect when message queue changes require setup to be run, for zero-downtime deployment processes and health checks. (#188)

Expanded database support

We’ve expanded database compatibility to better match real-world hosting environments:

MySQL: 5.7, 8.0 through 8.4
MariaDB: 10.2 through 10.11, and all 11.x versions

This gives you more flexibility in choosing your database server and makes upgrades smoother. (#189)

Thanks to everyone who contributed!

This release was made possible by the contributions of our community members:

@avstudnitz (Andreas von Studnitz)
@dadolun95 (Davide Lunardon)
@furan917 (Francis Gallagher)
@jakwinkler (Jakub Winkler)
@melindash (Melinda Humphrey)
@rhoerr (Ryan Hoerr)
@rogerdz
@samdjames (Sam James)

Want to participate?

Installation

New installations

composer create-project --repository-url=https://repo.mage-os.org/ mage-os/project-community-edition=2.1.0 <install-directory-name>

Upgrading from a previous Mage-OS version

composer require mage-os/product-community-edition=^2.1 --no-update
composer update
bin/magento setup:upgrade

Migrating from Adobe Commerce or Magento Open Source

See our migration guide for detailed instructions on switching to Mage-OS.

We hope you enjoy Mage-OS 2.1.0. As always, please report any issues on GitHub and join the conversation on Discord.

Mage-OS 2025 in Review: Growth, Releases, and Community Achievements

anita-miller — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT

As 2025 draws to a close, it’s time to reflect on a remarkable year for Mage-OS. From major software releases to community expansion and strengthened governance, this year has demonstrated the full potential of collaborative open-source development.

One of the most visible highlights was the release of the new Mage-OS admin theme by Artem Kozynets. More than just a visual refresh, it delivered a modern, clean, and accessible backend experience compatible with Mage-OS, Magento 2.4, and Adobe Commerce. Independently developed, open source, and rapidly adopted, the theme quickly became a cornerstone of Mage-OS 1.1 and is on track to become the default. Its supporting tools, the theme switcher and the M137 Figma design system, lowered barriers for testing, design, and further innovation.

Community activity remained strong throughout the year. Mage-OS welcomed new members and partners, expanded its contributor base, and increased its presence at key ecosystem events.

Governance and structure evolved as well. Board and committee elections opened new leadership opportunities, discussions around module maturity and semantic versioning began, and documentation saw a leap forward with AI-powered indexing via DeepWiki, making Mage-OS more accessible for newcomers and contributors alike.

Mage-OS also hosted its first online hackathon, which was a resounding success. Participants contributed actively and engaged with the community, laying the groundwork for future events.

Taken together, 2025 underscored what Mage-OS is becoming: a serious, community-led alternative in the ecommerce space, capable of shipping, adapting, and growing without compromising its open-source core. The direction is clear, and the foundation is stronger than ever.

Major Releases

Mage-OS continued to evolve with significant releases:

Mage-OS 1.2.0 (June) – Based on Magento Open Source 2.4.8-p1, this release included backend theme enhancements, smoother view transitions, scrollbar-gutter fixes, and improved media handling.

Mage-OS 1.3.0 (August) – Built on Magento Open Source 2.4.8-p2, this update delivered refined backend interfaces, optimized data grids and modals, enhanced media galleries, bug fixes, and improved LESS configuration. Both releases reflect the tireless contributions of our community and the importance of collaborative testing and feedback.

Mage-OS 2.0 (October) – Built on Magento Open Source 2.4.8-p3, this major release introduces enhanced security with PCI DSS 4.0 compliance, AI-powered automatic translation, advanced inventory management, SEO tuning improvements, and significant Page Builder enhancements including embedded widgets and template import/export. Performance upgrades like back/forward cache support and speculative preloading improve Core Web Vitals, while community contributions address PHP 8.4 compatibility, admin JavaScript fixes, and USPS API migration. Mage-OS 2.0 reflects the power of community-driven innovation and the continuous evolution of open-source e-commerce.

Community Growth and Leadership

2025 marked a year of organizational milestones:

Mage-OS held its second General Assembly, welcoming 135 members and 13 partner organizations.
A new board was elected for the 2025-2027 term: Vinai Kopp as President, David Lambauer as Vice President, and Cezary Kozon as Treasurer. Francis Michael Gallagher joined the Business Control Committee.
The assembly reaffirmed a commitment to transparency, passing all resolutions unanimously and sharing a detailed financial report. Mage-OS generated over 270,000 PLN in revenue in 2024, with a net surplus exceeding 163,000 PLN.

Events

Mage-OS strengthened its global presence through active participation in key industry events:

Meet Magento France was a standout, bringing together hundreds of merchants, developers, agencies, and partners in a sold-out, high-energy event that showcased the continuing relevance of open-source commerce in Europe.
Meet Magento Italy offered valuable networking and community feedback, helping Mage-OS improve its visibility and approach for future events.
Meet Magento Kiev highlighted local community engagement, with presentations such as Vinai’s on Hyvä certifications being well received.
Meet Magento Netherlands included a Mage-OS hackathon focused on UI Kit themes, AI modules, and performance tools.
Meet Magento New York, Canada, and Poland brought together developers and merchants to explore modern commerce trends, modular architecture, and real-world use cases.
Online Hackathon: participants experimented with AI modules, rebuilt installers, and worked on a simple blog module, all in a collaborative, live environment.

Technical Progress

On the technical front, progress was steady and tangible. Infrastructure improvements, including the migration from Terraform to OpenTofu, enhanced system resilience. Core features such as the reservations grid were improved, CMS and SEO tools advanced, and AI-assisted features quietly became more capable behind the scenes. Mage-OS 1.1 and 1.1.1 releases aligned the platform with Magento 2.4.8 while introducing significant UX and stability enhancements.

Challenges also shaped the year. A temporary GitHub outage highlighted the risks of third-party dependencies. The community responded quickly, maintained system integrity, and emerged with a stronger focus on redundancy and long-term resilience.

Key technical achievements focused on stability, usability, and community engagement:

The new Admin theme and UIKit frontend theme significantly improved the merchant and developer experience.
The Community Modules Directory launched, providing a centralized hub for extensions, including AI-powered tools and projects in progress.
Mage-OS began exploring PCI-DSS compliance, security enhancements, and independent module versioning to support a more modular and maintainable ecosystem.
Several projects were archived to reduce clutter, while new modules, such as the Theme Optimization Module, delivered faster page transitions and polished interactions.

Significant work this year focused on the demo environment and preparing the community for Mage-OS 2.0:

The demo environment now automatically resets every six hours, with reliable sample data installation and PHP 8.3, OpenSearch, and Redis support. Plans for Varnish integration, UI Kit theme inclusion, multiple store views, and clear module documentation will further improve usability.
Mage-OS 1.3.1 addressed build process issues quickly, while Mage-OS 2.0 development advanced with improved version management, package generator refactoring, and preview builds for early testing.
Frontend improvements included the Theme Optimization module with Back-Forward Cache support and UI Kit refinements, removing Knockout.js and reducing RequireJS dependencies to enhance performance and compatibility.

Mage-OS 2.0: A Major MilestoneOctober 2025 marked the release of Mage-OS 2.0, a transformative version built on Magento Open Source 2.4.8-p3. This release represents the culmination of months of community collaboration, innovation, and technical development.

Key highlights include:

Enhanced Security: PCI DSS 4.0 compliance with stricter admin policies, session handling, and password rules.
AI-Powered Automatic Translation: Full catalog translation with DeepL, OpenAI, or Google Gemini, including cron-based automation and manual override options.
Advanced Inventory Management: A new Inventory Reservations Grid for better stock visibility and management.
SEO and Page Builder Enhancements: Meta Robots Tag module for fine-grained control over search indexing, CMS Widget integration in Page Builder, and Import/Export workflows for templates across instances.
Performance Optimization: Back/Forward Cache, speculative preloading, and smooth page transitions improve user experience and Core Web Vitals.
Core Platform Improvements: Community contributions included fixes for admin JavaScript errors, configurable product exports, PHP 8.4 compatibility, and USPS API migration.

Mage-OS Lab: Fostering InnovationThe Mage-OS Lab has proven to be a critical incubator for new ideas. Multiple Lab modules were graduated into the core distribution this year, demonstrating how experimentation and community contributions can drive the evolution of open-source e-commerce.

Open Source HighlightsNovember saw a major boost for the Mage-OS ecosystem as the Hyvä Theme became fully open source, enabling unrestricted customization, contributions, and broader adoption across Mage-OS stores.

Other technical advancements in 2025 include:

AI Integration: Planning for a central AI module to manage API credentials, model selection, and feature integration across Mage-OS, including Page Builder enhancements.
Installer and Migration Tools: Development of CLI and web installers, plus a streamlined meta-package to simplify migration from Magento.
Performance Optimizations: Early testing of PHP 8.4 lazy object loading showed ~10% performance gains, with ongoing improvements in bfcache and Theme Optimization modules.
Infrastructure and DevOps: Docker-based “Magento-in-a-box” environments, GitHub Actions standardization, and demo environments with automated resets to ensure consistency.
Documentation and Benchmarks: Updated guides for performance, Page Builder, Varnish bfcache, and Mage-OS module best practices.

Events and Outreach

The community thrived offline as well:

Mage-OS participated in conferences like Meet Magento events and meet ups, connecting with contributors, merchants, and enthusiasts.
Local community gatherings fostered collaboration beyond the screen, allowing members to share experiences, challenges, and solutions in person.

Looking Ahead to 2026

Mage-OS enters 2026 in a strong position, with clear priorities:

Continuing major releases, including Mage-OS 3.0, with modular packaging and possible AI enhancements.
Strengthening community contributions through tech meetings, module development, and documentation.
Expanding outreach via the upcoming Ambassador Program to grow our global presence.

Acknowledgements

None of this would be possible without our dedicated community. From developers to testers, financial overseers to event organizers, every contribution matters.

Join Us

Mage-OS is built by the community, for the community. Whether you’re a developer, merchant, or enthusiast, 2026 is the perfect year to get involved. Join our weekly tech meetings on Discord, contribute to modules and documentation, or share your ideas on GitHub. Every contribution drives the platform forward.

Here’s to another year of innovation, collaboration, and open-source excellence. Mage-OS continues to grow, thanks to you.

Mage-OS November Update

anita-miller — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT

November has been an exciting and busy month for the Mage-OS community. Between major announcements, global conferences, and hackathon sessions, there’s a lot to share.

Big News

Hyvä Theme Goes Open Source
The biggest highlight of the month is that the Hyvä Theme is now fully open source. This means anyone can use, modify, and contribute to the theme without worrying about licensing. For Mage-OS users and developers, it opens new possibilities to customize and streamline storefronts.

Upcoming Hackathon: December 14

We are hosting an online, live-streamed Mage-OS Hackathon on December 14. Connect via Discord and join anytime during the day, participation is flexible!

Challenge Yourself:

Rebuild the Magento Installer with support for multiple frontends
Create a standardized AI module
Build a simple blog module

Why Participate?

Showcase your skills in a collaborative, live environment
Connect with developers and tech enthusiasts worldwide
Receive a free t-shirt sponsored by run_as_root based on participation

Sign Up: Reserve your spot and submit t-shirt size

This hackathon is a great opportunity to innovate, collaborate, and level up your development skills while having fun with the Mage-OS community.

Conferences and Community Events

Meet Magento New York
In late October, Meet Magento New York brought together developers and merchants to discuss modern commerce trends, performance optimization, and frontend solutions. Hyvä, Mage-OS, and other community members shared insights and updates, with plenty of opportunities for networking and collaboration.

Meet Magento Netherlands
The Netherlands edition kicked off with a Mage-OS hackathon. Around 15–20 developers worked on UIkit themes, AI modules, and performance tools. The hackathon was a productive space for experimentation, collaboration, and direct feedback from active contributors.

Meet Magento Canada
The first Meet Magento Canada featured a Mage-OS warm-up session. Participants got a chance to explore new ideas, discuss performance improvements, and connect with other community members across North America.

Meet Magento Poland
The Poland conference focused on practical implementations, theme integrations, and modular architecture. Speakers shared case studies and migration experiences, highlighting how Mage-OS and Magento alternatives are shaping European commerce.

Join Us: Release Manager Wanted

Mage-OS is currently looking for a part-time Release Manager. This role is critical to maintaining release quality, coordinating builds, and supporting the community. If you’re interested in helping shape the next Mage-OS releases, check out the details here: Join Mage-OS as a part-time Release Manager.

November has been a month of growth, experimentation, and community engagement. With the open-sourcing of Hyvä, hackathons, and active development on core tools, the Mage-OS ecosystem is stronger and more collaborative than ever.

Technical Highlights

Release and Build Infrastructure
The team is exploring moving release packages into bucket storage to speed up builds and improve consistency. Static Composer repositories are being considered to reduce the need for full server builds, though incremental builds would require some deeper changes.

Meta Packages and Minimal Distribution
Work continues on refactoring Mage-OS meta packages, allowing for flexible configurations and a new “minimal” distribution that includes only essential modules. This helps reduce dependencies and simplifies maintenance.

Dependency Validation and Composer Tools
Several initiatives aim to make dependency management easier:

Detect modules relying on replaced packages.
Validate missing or incorrect dependencies.
Analyze circular dependencies in Magento’s module graph.

Performance and AI

Performance Testing: Plans are underway to benchmark Mage-OS against Magento Open Source using automated load tests to highlight improvements.
AI Base Module: A central module is being proposed to manage AI integrations, store API keys, and configure models. This would unify tools like OpenAI and Anthropic under a single interface.
AI Content for Page Builder: Damien demonstrated an open-source Angular AI content generator. Davide is exploring integrating it into Page Builder workflows.

Tools, Installers, and Themes

Interactive Installer
Development is ongoing for a CLI installer that can optionally install Hyvä during setup. Options include adding parameters to setup:install or offering a separate command similar to sample data.

Web Installer
The web installer is working on Nginx, and volunteers are testing it on Apache. Contributions are welcome, especially as the repo was recently re-opened.

Admin Theme Updates
Minor improvements have been made, including a new body class (m137-admin-theme) for alignment fixes, along with updated documentation.

PHP 8.4 and Lazy Object Loading

Early tests of PHP 8.4’s native lazy-loading show about a 10% performance improvement. Some modules need adjustments because certain native PHP objects cannot yet be lazy-loaded. Progress started during hackathons and continues.

Migration Tools

A prototype migration meta-package aims to simplify the process of moving from Magento to Mage-OS. It reduces multiple manual Composer commands into a single, streamlined approach. Community testing is encouraged to refine it further.

DevOps and Infrastructure

Terraform state on Google Cloud is currently blocked due to an expired billing card.
Mirror packages have been updated.
A security fix for the Session Reaper module is ready to merge, protecting against spam uploads.

Documentation and Community Support

Documentation is being updated to cover new Mage-OS 2 features, including VCL configuration for bfcache support and Page Builder enhancements. There’s also work to standardize GitHub Actions for testing Mage-OS modules, making it easier for contributors to validate their work.

Looking Ahead to Mage-OS 3.0

The community is sharing ideas for Mage-OS 3.0, including:

Admin activity logging
A simple blog module
AI-powered catalog tools
Optional configuration files for LLM integration

Even partial implementation of these features will make a significant difference, and everyone is encouraged to contribute.

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Join Mage-OS as a Part-Time Release Manager

anita-miller — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Help Keep Magento Moving Forward

Release Manager

Location: Remote
Schedule: Meeting: Tuesdays 15:00 CET on Discord
Compensation: Up to €1000 per month
Position - Contract Position, flexible hours (~8 hrs/wk)

About Mage-OS

Mage-OS exists to Accelerate Change & Pioneer Innovation in the Magento Open Source ecosystem. We are an open-source community project building a truly open, modern, and sustainable eCommerce platform based on a fork of Magento 2. Our mission is to ensure the longevity, accessibility, and innovation of the Magento ecosystem.

We’re looking for a Release Manager to help coordinate, stabilize, and improve our release processes. This is a great fit for someone who understands Magento deeply, enjoys structured releases, and loves helping an open-source project thrive.Contract Position Summary:

Mage-OS is seeking an experienced and trustworthy Release Manager to join our team. The Release Manager will oversee the end-to-end release process, ensuring timely and quality delivery of software updates and new features. This role involves coordination with various team members, managing release schedules, and maintaining the integrity of the release pipeline. Reporting to the Mage-OS technical lead.

Key Responsibilities:

Leadership & Planning

Manage release schedules, ensuring alignment with project goals and community priorities.
Coordinate with staff and contributors to deliver smooth, reliable releases.

Technical Oversight & Execution

Manage version control and branching strategies (Git/GitHub) to maintain codebase stability.
Conduct code reviews and provide feedback to ensure quality, consistency, and adherence to Magento standards.
Enforce release criteria and maintain high technical standards.
Maintain and improve release pipelines (CI/CD), continuously improving efficiency and reliability.

Documentation & Communication

Prepare and publish release notes, summarizing key changes for both developers and users.
Maintain and improve release documentation to ensure transparency and repeatability.
Attend weekly technical meetings (Tuesdays, 3 PM CET on Discord) to stay aligned with the community and technical team.

Requirements:

Strong knowledge of Magento 2 (both front-end and back-end development).
Familiarity with Magento coding standards and best practices.
Understanding of web performance optimization techniques.
Proficiency with CI/CD pipelines and version control systems, particularly Git and GitHub.
Proficiency in PHP, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and MySQL.
A couple of references known in the global Magento community that we can speak to.

What We Offer

A meaningful role in a high-impact open-source project.
Flexible working hours — about ~8 hours per week.
€1,000/month compensation.
The chance to work with a passionate, globally recognized Magento community.

To apply:

Fill out this form
Write short introduction about yourself and your Magento experience
Include inks to your GitHub or other relevant work
Attach two community references

You can email us at info@mage-os.org or reach out via Discord in the Mage-OS community.

Mage-OS October Update

anita-miller — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT

🎃 A Halloween Recap of October’s Highlights 🎃

Mage-OS 2.0 Has Arrived

Happy Halloween, developers and merchants! 👻

While others are out hunting for candy, the Mage-OS community has been serving up something even sweeter, the official release of Mage-OS 2.0.

After months of work, testing, and collaboration, Mage-OS 2.0 marks a major milestone in the evolution of open commerce. This release focuses on stability, modular flexibility, and performance, setting the foundation for everything coming next.

You can install Mage-OS 2.0 right now:

composer create-project --repository-url=https://repo.mage-os.org/ mage-os/project-community-edition .

📄 Release Notes
💬 LinkedIn Announcement

The release includes a wide range of enhancements, from streamlined frontend tooling to more robust CI workflows and new module capabilities. Community contributors across the world, developers, maintainers, and testers alike, made this milestone possible.

Looking Ahead to Mage-OS 3

With version 2.0 now stable, the community is already setting its sights on Mage-OS 3. The next major release aims to further modernize the platform and explore intelligent, data-driven features.

Some early ideas include:

Agentic Commerce Protocol - enabling more automated and adaptive commerce flows.
Admin Activity Logs - for better transparency and auditing.
Basic Blog Module - integrated publishing for merchants.
Catalog Data AI - smarter product data management and enrichment.
LLMs.txt - a proposed standard for AI-friendly site metadata.

There’s also discussion around a base AI module, which would provide configuration for API credentials, model selection, and integration hooks. This would make it easy to plug in different AI models for various features across Mage-OS. The idea will likely be developed further during an upcoming hackathon.

Upcoming Events: Meet Magento Netherlands & Mage-OS Hackathon

The next big community event is just around the corner:
Meet Magento Netherlands takes place on November 6, 2025, in Amsterdam.

The day before the conference (on November 5) Mage-OS Netherlands is hosting a Mage-OS Hackathon at Bold Commerce, conveniently located near the main venue.

The hackathon will focus on real-world module development, collaborative experimentation, and testing new ideas for Mage-OS 3, including the proposed AI module framework and theme optimizations.

Spots are limited, so make sure to reserve yours here:
👉 Register for the Hackathon

Expect a day of creative problem-solving, coding, and open discussion with Mage-OS maintainers and community contributors.

Technical Updates and Progress

CMS Page Localization and SEO Improvements

Davide Lunardon introduced a new module enabling CMS pages to behave like products and categories across different websites and store views.
This feature brings proper hreflang and canonical support for multilingual content, helping prevent duplicate pages while improving SEO linking between translations.

The system is functional and may soon expand to other entity types beyond CMS pages.

UI Kit Optimization and Meta-Packaging

A new UI Kit meta-package is in development, bundling the base theme with key optimization modules.
This approach will simplify frontend development while maintaining modular flexibility and third-party compatibility.

GitHub Actions and Legacy Package Policy

Ryan Hoerr reported improvements to the semantic version matrix used in GitHub Actions.
Older Composer 1 packages caused testing issues, the workflow now limits tests to supported versions.

The group agreed to retain legacy packages for historical completeness, even though they will no longer be tested. Future focus will include build time optimization.

GeoIP Redirect Module Update

Sam upgraded the GeoIP Redirect module to support MaxMind v3, ensuring full PHP 8 compatibility.
It is now production-ready and will migrate from the MageLab namespace to Mage-OS.
Simon and Vinai are coordinating this migration with Terraform automation.

Repository Organization and Discoverability

With the growing number of modules, the team discussed ways to make repositories easier to find.
Options included GitHub “topics” for filtering and meta-repositories for experimental or bundled code.
The group decided to keep a unified organization structure for now, focusing on simplicity.

Documentation and Benchmarking

David is preparing a comprehensive update to Mage-OS documentation, which will include:

Guides for configuring bfcache (back-forward cache) in Varnish using the Theme Optimization module.
Documentation on new Page Builder features and developer best practices.

Additionally, David Lambauer will be exploring performance benchmarks comparing Mage-OS and Magento, potentially assisted by AI for metrics and insights.

Infrastructure and Testing Improvements

Michiel developed a new “Magento-in-a-box” Docker environment for integration testing on GitHub Actions.
Standardized GitHub Actions templates are being designed for Mage-OS add-on modules, making it easier for developers to test and validate their code.
The demo environment at demo.mage-os.org now resets automatically every 6 hours, ensuring consistent testing conditions.

What’s Next

Mage-OS continues to evolve as a modern, open alternative for the Magento ecosystem, powered by collaboration, transparency, and innovation.

Upcoming priorities include:

Advancing CMS localization and UI Kit meta-packaging.
Refining build performance and repository structure.
Expanding Mage-OS documentation and benchmarks.
Driving innovation toward Mage-OS 3 through community hackathons and experimental modules.

The journey toward Mage-OS 3 has already begun and it’s an exciting one!
Join the conversation, contribute to the repositories, and help shape the future of open commerce.

Opportunities

Mage-OS is built by the community, for the community. You can help by:

Have a contribution idea or interested in the Mage-OS Distribution? Join our weekly tech meetings, public on Discord at 3 PM CET / 2 PM UTC / 9 AM EST every Tuesday: chat.mage-os.org
Contributing to modules, documentation, or the website
Track open work on our Technical Initiatives Board
Or explore ideas in Mage-OS Lab
Providing feedback on new features or release candidates
Sharing your ideas in the Discord server or GitHub discussions
We’re looking for new features to enhance Mage-OS this year that will help to modernize and excite merchants. This might include AI enhancements, low/no code processes, or more. Talk to Vinai Kopp or #tech if you’re interested!

Whether you’re a developer, merchant, or just interested in open source, there’s always a way to get involved

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We are proud to collaborate with industry leaders who believe in open source and help accelerate the Mage-OS ecosystem.

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Mage-OS 2.0: Innovation Takes Flight

fabrizio-balliano — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT

We are excited to announce the release of Mage-OS Distribution 2.0, a major milestone that shows the power of community-driven innovation. This release represents a significant step forward in Mage-OS’s commitment to advancing open-source e-commerce.

Our Foundation

Mage-OS 2.0 builds on Magento Open Source 2.4.8-p3, including all the latest security fixes and platform improvements from the upstream release. This ensures that our distribution maintains the solid foundation that hundreds of thousands of developers and merchants worldwide depend on, while adding the improvements that make Mage-OS special.

See recommended software versions

Component	Recommended Version
Composer	2.8
OpenSearch	2.19
MariaDB	11.4
MySQL	8.4
PHP	8.4/8.3
RabbitMQ	4
Redis	Valkey 8 (or Redis 7.2+)
Varnish	7.6
Apache	2.4
nginx	1.26

Version and Support Policy

We adopted a new versioning policy, starting with Mage-OS 1.2 in June. This is our first major update.

#.0.0 Major Updates
- 2x per year, around April/May and October.
- These may include new features, useful bundled extensions, significant changes, or changes to system requirements like PHP versions.
- They should stay mostly compatible with Magento and existing extensions, allowing you to easily switch between Mage-OS and Magento.
2.#.0 Minor Updates
- Any Magento release or security patch between a feature release will become a Mage-OS minor version update, unless there is a change in system requirements.
- These should be compatible with existing installations.
2.0.# Patch Updates
- Small but critical off-schedule fixes to a Mage-OS release. These should be rare.

This reflects our plan for more rapid releases and innovation, and lets everyone know and plan for updates in advance.

Adobe announced plans to release security patches on the second Tuesday of each month in 2026. Mage-OS will publish an update each time with the latest security patches included.

As a mostly-volunteer-run nonprofit, our resources are limited. As such, for now, Mage-OS will only support the latest release branch at a time. You must stay up to date with the latest Mage-OS release to stay secure.

The Mage-OS Lab: Where Innovation Develops

One of the most exciting aspects of Mage-OS 2.0 is that we’ve graduated multiple Mage-OS Lab modules into the core distribution. The Mage-OS Lab is our innovation space, where we welcome everyone in the community to experiment, improve, and perfect new ideas and improvements for the Magento ecosystem.

The Lab represents our future of open-source Magento: collaborative, experimental, and community-driven. It’s where new ideas are tested, improved, and ultimately brought to life for the benefit of the entire ecosystem.

These modules represent months of dedicated work by talented developers who believe in pushing the platform forward.

New Features

Enhanced Security with PCI DSS 4.0 Compliance

Mage-OS 2.0 bundles the aligent/magento2-pci-4-compatibility module, which updates default admin policies for PCI DSS 4.0 requirements. This includes:

Automatic account deactivation after 90 days of inactivity
Enhanced session security with 15-minute idle timeout enforcement
Strengthened authentication with improved lockout policies
More strict password requirements with 12-character minimum length and complexity rules

AI-Powered Automatic Translation

The Automatic Translation module changes how merchants expand globally. This powerful tool uses AI services from DeepL, OpenAI, or Google Gemini to provide:

Product catalog translation with support for both text and select/multiselect attributes
Automated cron-based translation workflows for hands-off operation
Manual translation controls for categories, CMS pages, and static blocks
Intelligent retranslation prevention that respects manual edits while adapting to source changes

Use of AI translation requires a separate AI service account and API key, and will involve costs by usage.

Advanced Inventory Management

The new Inventory Reservations Grid brings better visibility to your inventory management, allowing you to directly see and manage stock reservations in Magento’s inventory system.

SEO Tuning Made Simple

The Meta Robots Tag module gives you detailed control over search engine indexing. With three new attributes in the “Search Engine Optimization” section of products, categories, and CMS pages, you can fine-tune your NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW, and NOARCHIVE tags page by page.

Page Builder Enhancements

Two powerful Page Builder enhancements from Mage-OS Lab are now part of Mage-OS 2:

Embedded Widgets

Page Builder Widgets adds “CMS Widget” support directly into Page Builder, including previews of the widget output. This can be used anywhere Page Builder is supported, including pages, blocks, and content descriptions.

Import/Export and Remote Sync

PageBuilder Template Import/Export enables Page Builder templates to be easily shared between Magento instances. This module supports both local file transfers and cloud-based Dropbox integration for template management workflows across multiple websites or instances.

Performance Optimization

The Theme Optimization module delivers better user experience based on the latest browser features:

Back/Forward Cache (bfcache) support gives almost instant browser navigation backwards/forwards on cacheable pages
Speculative preloading intelligently preloads links before the user clicks them
Smooth page transitions create a premium user experience

All of these combine to give a smoother experience and better Core Web Vitals than without.

Core Platform Improvements

Beyond the new modules, Mage-OS 2.0 includes several important platform improvements developed by our community:

GitHub Pull Request Contributions

Several key contributions from the community have been integrated:

Admin Dashboard JavaScript Fix (#164): Ryan Hoerr resolved a JavaScript error that could occur on admin login.
Config Load Safety Check (#167): ProxiBlue added a config safety check to better handle missing config id values.
Configurable Product Export Fix (#169): Ryan Hoerr fixed product export issues for configurable products with multiple super attributes.
PHP 8.4 Compatibility (#157): aelmizeb fixed PHP 8.4 deprecation errors on compilation.
USPS API Migration (#170): We added Magento patch AC-15210 for support of the USPS REST API. USPS will be turning off the legacy Web Services API on January 26, 2026.

Celebrating Our Community

Mage-OS wouldn’t exist without the support of our growing community. We extend our thanks to our 172 financial contributors who have collectively contributed over €106,000 to fund this mission since 2022. This has gotten us where we are today, but every bit more will help us to do more faster. Please add your support and help us do something great!

Our Partner Ecosystem

Gold Partners (€10,000/year):

MDOQ - Leading the way with €20,000 in total contributions
Interactiv4 - Our first Gold Partner with €10,000 contributed

Silver Partners (€4,000/year):

ParadoxLabs
Hyvä Themes
Vendic
Inchoo
Mollie
WilMa Digital

Bronze Partners (€1,250/year):

JetRails, Develo, FindCanary, JH, integer_net, and basecom

We also celebrate our 81 Community Members and 67 Professional Members who power the grassroots support that makes everything possible.

Special Recognition

Thank you to the people who made Mage-OS 2.0 possible:

Davide Lunardon, Luca Fuser, and Samuele Martini for the Automatic Translation and PageBuilder modules
Ryan Hoerr, Oliver Jaufmann/JaJuMa GmbH, Sean van Zuidam, and David Lambauer for the Theme Optimization module
The Aligent team for their PCI 4.0 Compatibility module
Ryan Hoerr and Fabrizio Balliano for multiple platform fixes and release management
ProxiBlue and aelmizeb for their platform improvements

And to the many more that participated, tested, commented, worked in Mage-OS Lab, or otherwise supported our efforts.

Join the Community

Do you want to be part of the future of e-commerce?

The success of Mage-OS depends on community support and involvement. Whether you’re a developer, merchant, agency, or technology partner, we need you.

For Individuals

Community Member: €10/year - Show your support and get voting rights
Professional Member: €100/year - For those making a living with the platform

For Businesses

Bronze Partner: €1,250/year - Perfect for small companies
Silver Partner: €4,000/year - Includes logo placement on Mage-OS.org
Gold Partner: €10,000/year - Premium visibility and partnership benefits
Platinum Partner: €25,000/year - Be the first! Maximum impact and recognition

Become a sponsor today: mage-os.org/about/mage-os-membership

Get Involved in Development

Join our weekly tech meetings every Tuesday at 3 PM CET on Discord. Contribute to the Mage-OS Lab, submit pull requests, or share your ideas with the community.

Repository: github.com/mage-os/mageos-magento2
Lab Projects: github.com/mage-os-lab
Community Chat: chat.mage-os.org

If you have an Open Source module you are interested in including or contributing, get in touch!

Installing Mage-OS 2.0

Ready to experience the future? Create a new Mage-OS project with:

composer create-project --repository-url=https://repo.mage-os.org/ mage-os/project-community-edition .

Upgrading from Magento

You can convert from Magento to Mage-OS with one line (sort of):

composer config repositories.0 composer https://repo.mage-os.org/ &&
composer require mage-os/product-community-edition --no-update &&
composer remove magento/product-community-edition magento/composer-dependency-version-audit-plugin magento/composer-root-update-plugin --no-update &&
composer update --no-plugins --with-all-dependencies

We recommend updating to the latest available Magento version before switching to Mage-OS, to make the process as smooth as possible.

The Future

Mage-OS 2.0 represents more than just a software release, it’s proof that community-driven innovation works. Every module that graduated from the Lab, every security enhancement, and every performance improvement exists because dedicated developers and forward-thinking businesses chose to invest in the future of open-source e-commerce.

This is just the beginning. With your support, Mage-OS will continue to evolve, innovate, and lead the way toward a more accessible, powerful, and community-controlled e-commerce future.

Welcome to Mage-OS 2.0. Welcome to the future of e-commerce.

For complete installation instructions and technical details, visit devdocs.mage-os.org. Join our community discussions on Discord, and follow our progress on GitHub.

Mage OS Sept Update

anita-miller — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Events and Community Engagement

Meet Magento Italy was attended by several Mage-OS contributors. While the event was more marketing-oriented with fewer technical sessions, the networking opportunities and community feedback were valuable. Suggestions were made to improve Mage-OS visibility at future events.

Vinai shared impressions from Meet Magento Kiev, highlighting both the normal rhythm of city life and the strong local community connections. His presentation on Hyvä certifications was well received.

Looking ahead, Meet Magento Netherlands takes place on November 6, with a Mage-OS hackathon hosted by the Dutch chapter the day before.

Demo Environment Improvements

Work on the demo environment has been a major focus this month. The setup now automatically resets every six hours, ensuring a fresh state for testing and exploration. The sample data installation workflow has been fixed, resolving earlier reliability issues.

The environment now runs with PHP 8.3, OpenSearch, and Redis enabled. Some issues remain with category images not displaying, likely due to file permission or product type differences, but these are being investigated. Discussions around robots.txt confirmed that Magento’s configuration already covers this.

Varnish activation is being considered to further improve caching and performance. There were also suggestions to include the UI Kit theme in the demo, possibly add multiple store views, and clearly document which modules and themes are included to avoid confusion when comparing with default installations.

The demo repository is now public: mage-os-lab/demo.mage-os.org.

Releases and Repository Management

Mage-OS 1.3.1 was released earlier this month. Some issues with missing historical JSON data in the build process were quickly resolved.

The work on Mage-OS 2.0 continues. Review of bundled community modules shows that most adjustments are minor and fixes are in progress. The release process refactor, including improved version management, is ready pending final approval. Preview builds are recommended before merging into production.

The package generator saw important improvements this month, including structural refactoring for maintainability. These changes were merged after broad agreement during the technical meetings. Further refinements and minor releases are planned, including compatibility updates for PHP 8.4.

Performance and Frontend Work

The theme optimization module continues to evolve. Back-Forward Cache (BF Cache) support has been implemented and merged. Additional enhancements such as VCL configuration adjustments are under discussion, though not urgent.

The UI Kit work is progressing with a focus on removing Knockout.js and reducing RequireJS dependencies for specific page types. The goal is a lighter, faster storefront experience, while balancing compatibility with third-party modules. Related work on performance modules is also underway.

Modules and Ecosystem

Several community and lab modules received updates, including a geoIP redirect module and a new caching module for configurable and bundle product variants. Module management and versioning remain an active area of discussion, particularly around whether to lock dependencies or allow greater flexibility.

Technical Highlights

A new version of Magerun was released with support for creating Magento 2 module skeletons.
Experiments with headless Magento demos showcased GraphQL API usage and potential for multi-platform storefronts.
CSP compliance improvements remain on the agenda, with ongoing discussions about GDPR and security considerations.
The SeaVoice bot continues to provide free meeting transcription, working with around 80-90% accuracy.

Opportunities

Mage-OS is built by the community, for the community. You can help by:

Have a contribution idea or interested in the Mage-OS Distribution? Join our weekly tech meetings, public on Discord at 3 PM CET / 2 PM UTC / 9 AM EST every Tuesday: chat.mage-os.org
Contributing to modules, documentation, or the website
Track open work on our Technical Initiatives Board
Or explore ideas in Mage-OS Lab
Providing feedback on new features or release candidates
Sharing your ideas in the Discord server or GitHub discussions
We’re looking for new features to enhance Mage-OS this year that will help to modernize and excite merchants. This might include AI enhancements, low/no code processes, or more. Talk to Vinai Kopp or #tech if you’re interested!

Whether you’re a developer, merchant, or just interested in open source, there’s always a way to get involved

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From Anime Streams to Open Source Dreams

anita-miller — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT

From Accidental Magento Developer to Community Builder

Francis M. Gallagher’s journey into the world of Magento, and later Mage-OS, began almost by accident. In 2012, while still fresh out of university, Francis was looking for a new direction after an early success in anime streaming ran into legal trouble. A friend mentioned a job opening for a Magento developer. Although he had never worked with Magento before, his years of coding since age fourteen gave him the confidence to try.

At the interview, the hiring team knew little about PHP or Magento, so he wrote his own interview questions and tasks, passing “with flying colors”. Within his first two weeks he launched two small Magento sites and quickly proved his talent. What started as a junior developer role soon became a career that moved through agencies and well-known retailers such as Oh Polly and Trespass.

Finding a Home in the Magento Community

Francis quickly discovered that Magento was more than just an e-commerce platform, it was a vibrant community. In the early days he sought help in IRC channels, but before long he was the one providing it. He became an “OP”, essentially a Slack-style administrator, and found a professional home.

Other frameworks he worked with, such as Laravel or Drupal, never gave him the same sense of belonging. Magento’s culture of openness and collaboration kept him engaged and inspired.

Mage-OS: A New Chapter

When Adobe’s stewardship of Magento created uncertainty, the open-source community rallied. In 2021, an open letter to Adobe helped spark Mage-OS, a community-driven fork and incubator for innovation. For Francis, who had long relied on Magento’s vibrant community for support and growth, Mage-OS felt like a natural continuation of the values he cherished: openness, collaboration, and grassroots empowerment.

He immediately recognized its potential and committed to supporting this “new invigorated part of the community”. Mage-OS aims to nurture grassroots development and provide a platform where contributors can rely on the association’s technical and marketing muscle. Francis describes it as an “incubator” for open-source projects: a place where developers can build freely, get feedback from experienced peers, and see their work gain visibility and adoption.

Note from Mage-OS: We truly welcome anyone with fresh ideas or a passion for Magento to reach out, get involved, and explore how we can help bring those ideas to life.

Challenges and Opportunities

For Francis, the greatest challenge in community projects is not generating ideas but turning them into action. People often bring excellent concepts, but few have the time or confidence to carry them forward. He stresses the need for psychological safety, a culture where contributors can experiment, fail, and learn without fear.

Marketing and visibility are also recurring concerns. Many developers outside Mage-OS’s inner circle are unaware of its ongoing work because they rarely check Discord, LinkedIn, or the project’s website. Francis advocates for more frequent, bite-sized updates and grassroots events to keep the wider community engaged.

Grassroots Events and Local Engagement

Francis believes smaller, local meet-ups are key to sustaining excitement between major annual conferences. He envisions informal gatherings (pizza, beer, and lightning talks) similar to the meet-ups organized by the Umbraco community. These events lower the barrier to entry, allowing developers and small agencies to network and share ideas without the high costs of big conferences.

We would be happy if community members volunteered to organize such events at the local level. Anyone interested can reach out directly through the Mage-OS Discord to get support and connect with others.

Such grassroots engagement, he argues, is how Mage-OS can remain visible, attract new contributors, and ensure that the spirit of Magento’s open-source heritage thrives.

Looking Ahead

Francis M. Gallagher’s story reflects the evolution of the Magento ecosystem itself: from scrappy beginnings to a mature, collaborative network of professionals. His commitment to Mage-OS demonstrates how individuals can shape the future of open source, not just through code, but by fostering community, encouraging innovation, and creating spaces where others can grow.

As Mage-OS continues to expand, Francis’ vision of transparent governance, strong community support, and grassroots connection offers a roadmap for how open-source projects can remain vibrant and relevant for years to come.

Mage-OS 1.3.1: Important security update

fabrizio-balliano — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT

We are excited to announce the release of Mage-OS Distribution 1.3.1, another step in the building of the definitive open source e-commerce platform!

Mage-OS 1.3.1 is built on Magento Open Source 2.4.8-p2, and includes an important security update from Magento Open Source that was released just this morning.

This update fixes vulnerability CVE-2025-54236, by applying the official Adobe security patch to Mage-OS. There are no other changes from Mage-OS 1.3.0.

Security Bulletin: APSB25-88
Magento Security Patch: Action Required: Critical Security Update Available for Adobe Commerce  (APSB25-88)

Please update any Mage-OS instances to version 1.3.1 as soon as possible to prevent security issues.

composer require mage-os/product-community-edition:1.3.1
bin/magento setup:upgrade

If you have Magento or Adobe Commerce, you will need to apply the Adobe security patch available through the link above.

Want to participate?

Are you interested in contributing to Mage-OS, or have a bug or improvement you’d like to make? We welcome pull requests at https://github.com/mage-os/mageos-magento2!

If you have a bigger project in mind, please join Discord and chat about your idea. We’d be delighted to hear from you, and help figure out how your idea best fits into Mage-OS!

Installing Mage-OS

You can create a new Mage-OS project with the following SSH command:

composer create-project --repository-url=https://repo.mage-os.org/ mage-os/project-community-edition .

After a successful composer download, you will need to run the installer. Please see DevDocs: Installation Guide for Mage-OS

Moving to Mage-OS

If you are already using Magento 2.4 and PHP 8.2+, you can change to Mage-OS by running the following in SSH:

composer config repositories.0 composer https://repo.mage-os.org/ && 
    composer require mage-os/product-community-edition --no-update && 
    composer remove magento/product-community-edition magento/composer-dependency-version-audit-plugin magento/composer-root-update-plugin --no-update && 
    composer remove sebastian/comparator --dev --no-update && 
    composer update --no-plugins --with-all-dependencies

We strongly recommend updating to the latest Magento version (currently 2.4.8) before changing to Mage-OS, to minimize issues.

Your specific situation may require additional changes to your composer.json file. Generally this will involve changing magento/ package names to mage-os/, or updating dependency versions.

Mage-OS Aug Update

mage-os-team — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Community & Events

Conference season is right around the corner! The first stop is Meet Magento Ukraine on September 4, an excellent chance to connect with fellow Mage-OS contributors, merchants, and community members. We’d love to see you there.

And this is just the beginning, more community events are scheduled in the coming weeks. Take a look at our events calendar, join in, share your insights, and be part of strengthening the Mage-OS ecosystem.

Technical Progress

Mage-OS 1.3.0 Release

We’re happy to announce that Mage-OS Distribution 1.3.0 is officially out! Built on Magento Open Source 2.4.8-p2, it includes all upstream updates as well as community-driven fixes.

Highlights of this release:

Foundation: Based on Magento Open Source 2.4.8-p2 with all upstream updates.
Recommended stack: Composer 2.8, OpenSearch 2.19, MariaDB 11.4 / MySQL 8.4, PHP 8.4 or 8.3, RabbitMQ 4, Valkey 8 (or Redis 7.2+), Varnish 7.6, Apache 2.4, nginx 1.26.
Backend theme updates: Freshened icons, cleaner newsletter and email template views, optimized data grids and modals, improved media galleries, refactored URL rewrites, and better LESS configuration.
Bug fixes: Addressed JavaScript errors, improved integration tests, enhanced LESS handling, and expanded city validation rules.

A big thank you goes to all contributors: Artem Kozynets, Bhushan Kumar, Fabrizio Balliano, Lucas van Staden, Ryan Hoerr, Simon Humeau (Antadis), Vinai Kopp, Vova Yatsyuk, and many others for making this release happen.

Read the full release notes here.

Project Archiving

To bring more clarity to active projects, the Web Installer and Backup Module have been archived.

Why: Lack of maintenance and unresolved issues, never reaching a stable release.
Note: Any project can be revived if a maintainer steps up.
Goal: Reduce clutter and highlight what’s actively maintained.

New Module: Theme Optimization

We’re happy to introduce the Theme Optimization Module by Ryan.

Delivers smooth page transitions on both frontend and backend for a faster, more polished user experience.
Already included in Mage-OS packages and listed in the community directory.
Future plans include possible BFCache support to make browsing even faster.

Mage-OS 2.0 – Coming in October

Work continues on Mage-OS 2.0, targeted for October 2025. Our release strategy is to provide two major updates per year, independent of Adobe Magento’s cycle.

Candidate modules being considered:

Meta Robots Tag
Theme Optimization
Potential AI-related tools

We’re also debating how to package Mage-OS best:

A full bundle with many features included.
A lean core with add-ons available as needed.
Or even multiple “flavors” (minimal vs. full-featured) generated through a custom installer.

What do you think?

Technical Work in Progress

Ryan is working on independent module versioning to give more modular control. This will:

Simplify maintenance.
Allow cleaner, more flexible updates.

Opportunities

Mage-OS is built by the community, for the community. You can help by:

Have a contribution idea or interested in the Mage-OS Distribution? Join our weekly tech meetings, public on Discord at 3 PM CET / 2 PM UTC / 9 AM EST every Tuesday: chat.mage-os.org
Contributing to modules, documentation, or the website
Track open work on our Technical Initiatives Board
Or explore ideas in Mage-OS Lab
Providing feedback on new features or release candidates
Sharing your ideas in the Discord server or GitHub discussions
We’re looking for new features to enhance Mage-OS this year that will help to modernize and excite merchants. This might include AI enhancements, low/no code processes, or more. Talk to Vinai Kopp or #tech if you’re interested!

Whether you’re a developer, merchant, or just interested in open source, there’s always a way to get involved

Powered by Strong Partnerships

We are proud to collaborate with industry leaders who believe in open source and help accelerate the Mage-OS ecosystem.

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Mage-OS 1.3.0 is out now!

fabrizio-balliano — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT

We are excited to announce the release of Mage-OS Distribution 1.3.0, another step in the building of the definitive open source e-commerce platform!

Our foundation

Mage-OS 1.3.0 is built on Magento Open Source 2.4.8-p2, and includes all platform updates and community fixes from the upstream release. See the full Magento Open Source 2.4.8-p2 Release Notes for details.

The latest recommended software versions are:

Composer	2.8
Elasticsearch	— (no longer supported)
OpenSearch	2.19
MariaDB	11.4
MySQL	8.4
PHP	8.4/8.3
RabbitMQ	4
Redis	Valkey 8 (or Redis 7.2+)
Varnish	7.6
Apache	2.4
nginx	1.26

Updates to our backend theme

In this release, we enhanced the user interface with improved icon styling, refined newsletter and email template views, optimized data grids and modals, updated jstree components and media galleries, refactored URL rewrites, and fixed LESS configuration issues for greater usability.

Other updates

Fixed JavaScript error encountered when selecting “All Resources” by Lucas van Staden
Fixed integration tests for Magento_Backend and Magento_Bundle by Simon Humeau (Antadis)
Fixed missing screen-l styles added using .media-width mixin by Vova Yatsyuk
Fixed city name validation to allow digits, &, ., () characters by Bhushan Kumar

Thanks to everyone that helped with this release!

Mage-OS wouldn’t exist without a great community. ❤️ Among others, thank you to:

Artem Kozynets
Bhushan Kumar
Fabrizio Balliano
Lucas van Staden
Ryan Hoerr
Simon Humeau (Antadis)
Vinai Kopp
Vova Yatsyuk

And to everyone that has helped with testing, feedback, and our weekly tech meetings!

Want to participate?

Are you interested in contributing to Mage-OS, or have a bug or improvement you’d like to make? We welcome pull requests at https://github.com/mage-os/mageos-magento2!

If you have a bigger project in mind, please join Discord and chat about your idea. We’d be delighted to hear from you, and help figure out how your idea best fits into Mage-OS!

Installing Mage-OS

You can create a new Mage-OS project with the following SSH command:

composer create-project --repository-url=https://repo.mage-os.org/ mage-os/project-community-edition .

After a successful composer download, you will need to run the installer. Please see DevDocs: Installation Guide for Mage-OS

Moving to Mage-OS

If you are already using Magento 2.4 and PHP 8.2+, you can change to Mage-OS by running the following in SSH:

composer config repositories.0 composer https://repo.mage-os.org/ && 
    composer require mage-os/product-community-edition --no-update && 
    composer remove magento/product-community-edition magento/composer-dependency-version-audit-plugin magento/composer-root-update-plugin --no-update && 
    composer remove sebastian/comparator --dev --no-update && 
    composer update --no-plugins --with-all-dependencies

We strongly recommend updating to the latest Magento version (currently 2.4.8) before changing to Mage-OS, to minimize issues.

Your specific situation may require additional changes to your composer.json file. Generally this will involve changing magento/ package names to mage-os/, or updating dependency versions.

Mage-OS July Update

anita-miller — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Community and Leadership

Themes, Transitions, and Tactical Wins

July has been a pivotal month for Mage-OS, marked by major strides across frontend innovation, developer documentation, infrastructure planning, and ecosystem health. This update brings together the key milestones, debates, and next steps as the team sharpens both vision and execution.

Let’s Meet: Pizza, Code, and Community

We’ve been shipping code, squashing bugs, and debating theme architecture… but when was the last time we just sat down over pizza and talked face-to-face?

If you’re part of the Mage-OS or Magento community and want to meet others near you (no slides, no pressure, just pizza and good conversation) why not help organize a local hangout?

Would you be up for hosting a small gathering in your city?
Whether it’s five people at a local pizzeria or ten in a coworking space, it’s a great way to connect beyond the screen. We’ll help spread the word, just drop a message in Discord with your location and interest.

Let’s get together. Share stories, challenges, and maybe a few terrible deployment war tales.

Technical Progress

The new Community Modules Directory went live, giving users a central place to find open-source extensions built for Mage-OS. Modules are now organized by category. including AI-powered and in-development tools, and contributors are encouraged to get involved directly via the site. Alongside this, a draft of the Versioning Strategy page was shared internally to formalize how Mage-OS communicates release cycles. DevDocs saw several improvements, including a new contributors section, a tutorial for custom product links, and updated installation recommendations favoring MariaDB to better align with upstream.

On the frontend, the UIKit Theme project, led by Davide, hit a milestone with the publication of its base module. Thanks to automatic CSS class detection, the theme no longer requires custom XML files for class safelisting. Performance testing showed promising CSS file size reductions, and conversations began around trimming JS dependencies based on routes, though compatibility concerns (especially with third-party modules) remain. Meanwhile, admin theme work continued steadily, focusing on improved newsletter queues, editor previews, and better widget styling. The next release is targeted for mid-August.

Looking ahead to August, the team is preparing for the next admin theme release, continuing UIKit development, and watching closely for Adobe’s response on Zend Framework, CSP compliance, and TinyMCE. Migration of contribution guidelines into DevDocs is also on the horizon.

Mage-OS is moving with intention, streamlining where it can, rethinking what needs rethinking, and focusing on building a cleaner, more flexible future for Magento users and contributors alike.

Opportunities

Mage-OS is built by the community, for the community. You can help by:

Have a contribution idea or interested in the Mage-OS Distribution? Join our weekly tech meetings, public on Discord at 3 PM CET / 2 PM UTC / 9 AM EST every Tuesday: chat.mage-os.org
Contributing to modules, documentation, or the website
Track open work on our Technical Initiatives Board
Or explore ideas in Mage-OS Lab
Providing feedback on new features or release candidates
Sharing your ideas in the Discord server or GitHub discussions
We’re looking for new features to enhance Mage-OS this year that will help to modernize and excite merchants. This might include AI enhancements, low/no code processes, or more. Talk to Vinai Kopp or #tech if you’re interested!

Whether you’re a developer, merchant, or just interested in open source, there’s always a way to get involved

Launching the Very First Mage-OS Store Ever – Our Journey...

john-prendergast — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT

For years, our agency website was a bit like that old rag rug everyone has—a collection of patches and mismatched pieces that somehow managed to hold together while somehow getting the job done.
It had evolved into something it wasn’t originally intended for and served as both a playground for junior developers testing out new ideas and a real-life training ground for experimental tech. While we embraced the chaos (and learned a lot about performance optimization – some of our current Magento extensions started their lives on that site!), it was clear that our online presence needed an upgrade.

We cherished the memories and lessons, but it was time to transition to something more powerful and modern – a platform worthy of showcasing our expertise in eCommerce and aligning better with our evolving business, specifically expanding into selling Magento extensions**.**

Time to Move to Something Better: Magento!

We jumped into the project with the kind of enthusiasm usually reserved for pizza on a Friday night, ready to build on the most robust eCommerce platform out there, the tech stack we happily use in our client projects since more than 10 years:

Magento, of course! – and pair it with the lightning-fast, cutting-edge Hyvä Theme.

Easy peasy, right? Wrong!
Building our own site as an agency proved to be one of the toughest challenges we faced!

It’s like trying to renovate your house while still living in it – client projects and urgent deadlines always jumped the queue, leaving our own site languishing on the back burner. It became the forgotten project, the website equivalent of that one sock that always goes missing in the laundry.

Mage-OS – A New E-Commerce Star Was Born

Just when our internal Magento project was gasping for air amidst the constant demands of client work, Mage-OS entered the scene , shining like a beacon of hope (and open-source awesomeness!) and reignited our passion for this project.

We were instantly hooked, this community-driven, innovative platform, was made for Magento developers like us, the kind of folks who get excited about exploring new frontiers in eCommerce.
Perfect for agencies like us that are obsessed with delivering high-performing and user-friendly online experiences for our clients.

The decision was clear: we’d put our Magento project on a new footing with Mage-OS and dive back into development with renewed enthusiasm!

**Switching from Magento to Mage-OS? Smoother than a baby’s bottom!
**Seriously, it was surprisingly easy. We had a couple of tiny hiccups – a quick fix for Magewire (which we were thrilled to contribute to – open source FTW!) and a minor tweak in one of our extensions – but overall, the transition was a breeze.

Today, we can proudly say we’re the very first Mage-OS store – a testament to our dedication to eCommerce innovation and a big high-five to the exciting future of open-source based online retail!

Cool! It Just Works With Mage-OS…

Using Mage-OS for our own site was the perfect opportunity to put our extensions through their paces. Yes, we’re those guys who “eat their own dog food” (metaphorically speaking, of course!) and use our own products.
We validated the compatibility of all our extensions on Mage-OS – zero issues! – and even set up the first public demo for Mage-OS: mage-os.extension.jajuma.de.

We’re honored to be the first extension provider with official Mage-OS support – a tradition we’re proud of. (Remember, we were also the first to offer Hyvä support – we like being pioneers!).

Going Live as the Very First Mage-OS Store!

In early April 2024, we finally completed our fun and exciting project and launched our new homepage, proudly becoming the very first live store on Mage-OS.

Throughout this journey, we learned a great deal and developed a genuine appreciation for Mage-OS (and don’t worry, Magento still holds a special place in our hearts!).

We remain truly impressed by the dedication of the Mage-OS team and their commitment to community-driven eCommerce — a slogan that perfectly encapsulates the spirit of Mage-OS.

Looking Forward: The Future is Bright with Both Magento and Mage-OS!

Our biggest takeaway? Switching from Magento to Mage-OS is surprisingly simple, and working with Mage-OS is just as awesome as working with Magento.

If you’re a tech-savvy merchant looking for something new and innovative, Mage-OS is definitely worth considering.

Even if you’re not ready to make the full switch yet, keep Mage-OS on your radar – it’s evolving into a robust, community-supported platform with huge potential.

**Magento merchants, meet your new superpower: freedom of choice!
**In this fast-paced world of eCommerce, being independent, having options and full control is key. With Mage-OS around, you now have the freedom to choose:
Build your business on the proven flexibility and power of Magento, the reliable workhorse.
Or leverage the community-driven, innovative game-changer Mage-OS on top of the rock-solid reliability of Magento you know and love.
Either way, always with free license for life, always owning your data, while scaling and growing with no limits and staying independent.
It’s definitely a more resilient strategy than giving up all your freedom and control by putting all your eggs in one basket with Shopify!

P.S.: One thing hasn’t changed with our new site—we’re still using it as a testing ground for innovative ideas, cutting-edge tech, and breakthrough solutions.
Stay tuned for more awesome extensions for both Mage-OS and Magento!
Follow us on LinkedIn to not miss the good things coming.

And if you’re looking to build or optimize your store on either platform, hit us up.
With over 10 years of Magento experience, Hyvä partner since 4 years and now leading the charge with Mage-OS, JaJuMa is uniquely positioned to help you migrating to Mage-OS or building a custom Magento solution - Let’s discuss your project!

Revitalizing Magento Through Mage-OS and Smarter Frontend Design

anita-miller — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT

In a world where Magento has often felt caught between its open-source roots and corporate oversight, Davide Lunardon is one of the developers pushing it back toward its community-driven origins. Known to many as dadolun95, Davide is a freelance web developer based in Italy, spending his days crafting Magento solutions and his downtime at the ping pong table.

With Mage-OS gaining momentum as a true open-source alternative to Adobe’s version of Magento, Davide’s contributions, especially in improving content editing and frontend flexibility, are helping redefine what it means to build with Magento in 2025.

Building a Smarter Page Builder

One of Davide’s standout contributions is the page-builder-widgets module, a clever workaround for Magento’s long-standing struggle with user-friendly content management.

Page Builder has always felt like it was missing something critical, Davide explains. Especially when it comes to creating custom components. You end up diving into a labyrinth of UI components and JavaScript structures that barely make sense, even for seasoned Magento devs.

His module fixes this by allowing CMS widgets to be previewed directly inside Page Builder, complete with the actual data the user enters. Before this, adding a widget meant inserting a shortcode and hoping it worked on the frontend. Now, merchants get real previews, and developers only need a small XML snippet and a PHTML file to make it happen.

The result is a massive improvement in usability without sacrificing the Magento philosophy of extensibility and modularity.

The Pain Behind the Progress

Building the module wasn’t exactly a walk in the park. Magento’s admin UI is infamously complex, and developing something that integrates cleanly without breaking standards required some serious determination.

“The hard part was designing its behavior at the UI/UX level in the admin and wiring the various calls needed in the component by untangling xml and js. All without changing any mode in widget development while remaining totally faithful to the standard in use.” he says. I had to find ways to allow for custom JS, CSS, and backend logic without rewriting the core structure.

Davide also had to account for admin-specific behavior, such as using backend-only block classes, while making the preview system flexible enough to support future use cases. The entire development process took around 10 days of focused, intense work.

“Developing such a complex uiComponent is in itself something that is debilitating and that leads you on several occasions to think that you will not be able to complete the work” - he admits.

A Theme for the Future Without Losing the Past

Davide isn’t just looking at Page Builder; he has his eyes on the frontend, too. His next big proposal involves revamping Magento’s default theme Luma to make it more modern, flexible, and compliant with evolving digital standards.

Instead of replacing Luma entirely, he’s building a new Blank-based theme that incorporates UIkit3, a lightweight frontend framework that works perfectly with Magento’s static content deploy process. Unlike other modern frontend stacks, it doesn’t require Node.js or a custom build toolchain. It compiles via LESS, just like Magento expects.

“We cannot afford as an opensource community to have to tell those who want to use the software we support << You have to install theme X or module Y to be able to sell online >> and vendors cannot be asked to make an extra effort to adapt to yet another new ‘standard.’”

This new theme brings in responsive design utilities, UI components, and a faster path to modern layouts, all while preserving compatibility with Magento’s frontend architecture.

It’s already in beta, and Davide has shared it with the Mage-OS community for feedback. The next steps include refining it to meet regulatory requirements like the EU’s Cyber Resilience Act and eventually tackling Magento’s checkout experience, which still lacks proper CSP compliance.

From Early Magento to Open-Source Advocacy

Davide discovered Magento back in 2016, when Magento 1 was still the dominant version and Magento 2 hadn’t yet stabilized. He was working at a company that used the platform and quickly fell in love with its structure and power.

The flexibility it gives you, with dependency injection, plugins, preferences, is just unmatched, he says. If you know what you’re doing, you can really shape it to your business.

After going freelance in 2020, he began focusing more on community-led efforts, which is what eventually brought him to Mage-OS.

Why Mage-OS Matters to Him

Mage-OS isn’t just a technical fork, for Davide, it’s a chance to give back to a platform that’s shaped his career. Adobe’s stewardship of Magento left many community members feeling locked out. Mage-OS gave them a new way in.

Mage-OS lets me contribute directly without all the limitations and red tape, Davide says. “I owe a lot to Magento in terms of my own career so I’m glad to pay my ‘debt’ to it and that thanks to Mage-OS.”

He’s not alone in seeing Mage-OS as the spiritual successor to the Magento many developers first fell in love with a project led by people who actually use and build with it every day.

Looking Ahead

With the Page Builder Widgets module released, the frontend theme in beta, and a vision to bring widgets, layouts, and admin tools into a more modern ecosystem, Davide’s work is helping Mage-OS move from potential to reality.

There’s still a lot to do, he says. But we’re at the point where we can finally make Magento or Mage-OS fun again.

Whether it’s giving non-developers better tools or improving compatibility for third-party developers, Davide’s contributions are a reminder of what open source is supposed to be: practical, inclusive, and community-driven.

And with developers like him in the mix, the future of Mage-OS looks a whole lot brighter.

Mage-OS June Update

mage-os-team — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Association News

Welcome to our newest partners and members!
- Carl – community member
- Jacqueline Gerritsen – community member
- Ben – community member
- Ksenia – community member
- Pawel – community member
- Jakub Frieb – community member
- Xavier Ojeda – community member
- Gianluca Porta – community member
You too can become a Mage-OS member and join our vibrant community, starting from just €10 per year!

As summer gets into full swing, the Mage-OS project has continued to grow and evolve. Over the past month, we’ve seen progress on technical improvements, community projects, website updates, and leadership changes. Here’s a look at everything that happened recently.

Community and Leadership

General Assembly and Elections

Mage-OS held its second-ever General Assembly, where members came together to vote on leadership roles and reflect on the progress made so far. A new board was elected for the 2025–2027 term, including:

Vinai Kopp (President)
David Lambauer (Vice President)
Cezary Kozon (Treasurer)
John Prendergast (Actuary)
Michiel Gerritsen, Ruggero Landolina, and others as board members
Francis Michael Gallagher joined the Business Control Committee

The community also thanked the outgoing board members for their time and dedication. Read more about the General Assembly here.

Finances and Transparency

The Business Control Committee shared the 2024 financial report, showing that Mage-OS is in strong financial shape. The organization had more than 270,000 PLN in revenue and ended the year with a surplus of over 163,000 PLN. All finances were handled according to Polish nonprofit standards, and regular updates have kept the community informed.

Technical Progress

Website and Performance

A new page called the “Community Modules Directory” was added to the Mage-OS website. It highlights useful extensions made by the community, organized into different categories, and invites feedback.
Website performance improved thanks to a new caching plugin, making the site faster for visitors.

Build Process and Releases

Work is ongoing to improve how Mage-OS builds and distributes releases. Efforts are focused on reusing existing files and reducing the time needed to build new versions.
The team is experimenting with ways to run builds in parallel, but some limitations still exist due to tooling and infrastructure.
Version 1.2 was released recently, and early feedback has been very positive. The new admin theme received praise, and no major issues were reported.

Frontend and Checkout Compliance

New Theme in Progress

A new default frontend theme is in development. It’s based on the existing Blank theme and uses UIKit 3. The goal is to improve the customer-facing experience while staying compatible with existing modules. A preview version is being prepared for the community to try and give feedback.

CSP and PCI-DSS Security

Checkout compliance continues to be a high priority. The team is exploring different ways to meet stricter security requirements (like PCI-DSS 4.0). Ideas include removing certain scripts and possibly using sandboxed iframes, similar to what Shopify does. These changes are not easy but are important for long-term security and compatibility with payment providers.

Community Modules and Contributions

Several modules have been moved into the official Mage-OS namespace, including Vinai’s cache-cleaning module and others that were previously hosted in MageOSLab..
Contributions continue from agencies and developers, showing strong and steady engagement.

Looking Ahead

Mage-OS is moving into a new phase focused on innovation and growth. The team is exploring an ambassador program to help spread the word and support the project globally.

There are also discussions about replacing the current WordPress site with a static site generator (like Hugo), which would make the website easier to maintain and contribute to.

Opportunities

Mage-OS is built by the community, for the community. You can help by:

Have a contribution idea or interested in the Mage-OS Distribution? Join our weekly tech meetings, public on Discord at 3 PM CET / 2 PM UTC / 9 AM EST every Tuesday: chat.mage-os.org
Contributing to modules, documentation, or the website
Providing feedback on new features or release candidates
Sharing your ideas in the Discord server or GitHub discussions
We’re looking for new features to enhance Mage-OS this year that will help to modernize and excite merchants. This might include AI enhancements, low/no code processes, or more. Talk to Vinai Kopp or #tech if you’re interested!

Whether you’re a developer, merchant, or just interested in open source, there’s always a way to get involved.

Local Magento Community initiative: the case of Opengento

thien-lan-weber — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT

On 25th March, a couple of Mage-OS active members attended the first ever Meet Magento France, and since many recaps have already been published online, we thought we’d provide a different angle to the story and shed more light on the organisation that was behind this whole event.

Opengento, took inspiration from how Mage-OS Nederland organizes Meet Magento Netherlands, to ensure that - sometimes competing - agencies work in good spirit and collaboration and are all treated fairly alongside other contributing vendors.

They took on the responsibility of being the legal entity behind all the paperwork, be it legal or financial, including budget and taking financial risk for this very first edition, which turned out to be 10 times bigger than their usual week-ends.

What is Opengento’s story?

Opengento is a non for profit organization (French law of 1901) whose purpose is to organize open-source events for the French-speaking developer community.

To better understand this, let’s go back to 2013, the year of the first MageConf (.org, not to be confused with .com). It was a sort of counter-event to the Bargento event, which would be less commercial and more organised for and by developers.

In 2014, the Opengento association was born during MageConf. The idea was simple: to bring together the French developer community for a weekend to code and network!

Since the first Opengento event, which took place in 2015 in Toulouse, seven other weekends have been organized!

To put it briefly, Opengento is an association that publishes POCs & modules during its hackathons (our famous Opengento weekends) in order to support innovation within the e-commerce developer community.

Who is Opengento

The board is renewed every year and is currently represented by

A president: Frederic Martinez
A Treasurer: Christophe Ferreboeuf
A Secretary: Thomas Klein

Today there are over 150 individual members working for agencies, as freelancers but also for software vendors and merchants too, supported by 13 sponsors.

Their mission is to

Promote the Magento Open Source initiatives
Organize events for the Magento Community
- Weekend Opengento (developer paradise like)
- Meetups (networking)
Publish Open-Source modules for free on packagist! (https://github.com/opengento)
Share knowledge & expertise (events, Slack)

What innovation has been brought by Opengento?

Opengento came up with a variety of modules that allow you to add several types of loggers (GELF, Slack, and others), or access Magento without a password (Hoodoor)

Other functionalities developed over Opengento Hackathons include:

geolocation management by country
GDPR
Sidegrade Commerce to Open Source
linking multiple countries to a store
importing/exporting categories in flat format
the ability to disable purchasing or pricing for one or more customer groups or by product
the ability to replace the store code in the URL path with a custom or predefined value (local, for example)
SSR generation of breadcrumbs (very useful for SEO)
database management (document management, automated imports, automatic linking to products, search, etc.)
the ability to manage sales increment IDs (prefix, suffix, format)
advanced sort management on PLPs (managing the order or no, include it or have a dedicated cta..)
minimal price management
currency accuracy management (fork of the official M2-JP which is not maintained)
webapi logger (fork of ghostunicorn)
openai connector…

VIsit Opengento Github Repository here

How does Opengento fit with Adobe, the Magento Association or Mage-OS?

Adobe

Adobe is dedicated to maintaining the Magento Open Source codebase, a commitment that has been strong since they acquired Magento in 2018. They directly manage the core code, releasing consistent updates that include security fixes and performance enhancements.

For this, they have been investing in two key people:

Parul Sinha, a Software Engineering Manager at Adobe, focuses on fostering stronger ties with the developer community, managing programs that encourage contributions, and advocating for the community’s needs to ensure their input shapes the roadmap.

Ritesh Somani, a Principal Product Manager at Adobe and a Magento Association board member, contributes to defining the product vision and roadmap, particularly for commerce and payments, and works to strengthen collaboration between Adobe and the community to keep Magento Open Source robust and merchant-focused.

You can meet them at key Meet Magento events in North America, and together, they work on maintaining the Magento Open Source codebase through initiatives such as:

Community Prioritization Process, to empower the community to influence the roadmap by upvoting pull requests for features and fixes they deem most important.
Core Codebase Ownership: Adobe is the official steward, handling development, security, and compatibility.
Regular Releases: They consistently issue updates, including security fixes and quality improvements, ensuring the platform stays current.
Showcasing Magento Open Source and how it helps SMB merchants scale their eCommerce stores and capabilities at their own pace.

Presentation of Parking Zone case study by Ritesh at Meet Magento Florida 2025

The Magento Association

The Magento Association is backed by Adobe. Their main objective is to promote the Magento brand and eCommerce platform and Community.

They grant the rights to use the “Meet Magento” branding for events and they provide strong support to those events.
Now you can refer to the Magento Open Source official website to find key resources about the platform’s features, including the key advantages of Open Source vs SaaS in eCommerce
You can also tag Magento Open Source on LinkedIn again, to give it more visibility as a brand and code base in its own right, showcasing fantastic projects that go live everyday.

In the last year or so, the Magento Association gave a big boost to its activities and more clarity to its governance.

Here are their 2025 big priorities and board members’ roles and responsibilities to achieve their goals:

1. Financial Health & Funding the Future

2. Membership, Sponsorship & Sustainability

3. Events: The Heartbeat of the Community

4. Marketing, Transparency, and Community Engagement

5. Empowering Developers & Contributors

6. Elevating Agency Value

7. Magento Champion Programme

8. Documentation Reimagined

9. Governance & Sustainability

10. Adobe’s Vision for the Future

What has been quite visible so far is how their Marketing task force, led by Laura Folco staffed up big times with high profile members such as Emily Sturges, Rebecca Brocton and Ola Czapiewska , and you can already see the momentum they are gaining, starting with their LinkedIn activities.

Mage-OS

As a foundation to raise awareness about the structural advantages of the Magento Open Source platform, we gathered all the reasons why Open Source is beneficial for eCommerce merchants, including ownership and control of their stores, data, security, resilience but also unmatched flexibility and differentiation and THE COMMUNITY.

Now that the promotion of the Magento brand is now in safe hands with the Magento Association, we are shifting our focus to becoming a technology incubator, giving Magento developers a playground to build and test things such as:

A brand new Admin Panel to make it more modern, intuitive and fun for Magento users!
AI powered documentation so developers spend more time on what they love and less on tedious tasks
Automatic Translation Modules, Import/Export for Page Builder Modules
And many more

Our role is to nurture innovation, and provide opportunities and path to be rolled out into the core platform to maintain its competitive edge and relevance while the eCommerce landscape is undergoing a huge revolution both technology wise but also regulatory wise.

Localised Magento developers associations: Opengento, Firegento, Magentiamo, Mage-OS Netherlands and more

Grassroot initiatives are at the heart of the Magento Community and is the tightest bond that brings people together.

The same way Opengento comes up with innovative solutions to problems they see in their markets, other countries also have their local associations:

Firegento (Germany)

The German association (e.V.) with a long history of contributing to Magento Open Source is known for organizing community events: hackathons, meetups and most importantly Unconferences, and developing useful tools and modules for the platform.

GitHub: https://github.com/firegento

Mage-OS NL (Netherlands)

Local chapter of the broader Mage-OS initiative, they are a non-profit association specifically for the Dutch Magento community, aiming to revive and represent the Magento/Adobe Commerce/Mage-OS ecosystem in the Netherlands through events, information sharing, and community facilitation. Their biggest achievement is the big come back of Meet Magento Netherlands!

Magentiamo (Italy)

For over 10 years now, the Italian association has been organizing events and community initiatives such as a Community Portal/Resource that provides support, development insights, consulting, and hosting solutions specifically for Magento users in Italy.

Get ready for the comeback of Meet Magento Italy 2025!

And this is just the visible tip of the iceberg.

In short, the more the merrier. From super localised initiatives just like all the regional meet ups like in Magento Meet-up Austria, or Magento Stammtisch Rhein Main who recently celebrated their 50th edition to giant gathering at eCommerce expo like Webwinkelvakdagen or at Adobe Summit, every occasion to meet sparks passion, ideas, innovation and strengthen friendship, which the core and heart of our Magento Community.

No local chapter? Contact us to help you set one up.

Mage-OS 2nd General Assembly: A Big Thank You to the Community

anita-miller — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT

This week, we wrapped up our second-ever General Assembly, and we’re honestly feeling energized, proud, and deeply grateful for everyone who helped make it happen. From the new elections to exciting project updates, this was more than just a meeting, it was a celebration of what we’ve built together.

Progress from the Community

This year’s updates reminded us just how much this community can accomplish. A few highlights:

100+ pull requests merged into the Mage-OS Distribution
New Admin theme developed for both Mage-OS and Magento Open Source
CMS widget preview and AI-based catalog content modules launched
Solid infrastructure improvements and steady code maintenance

None of this happens without the time, care, and skill of contributors. Thank you!

Growing Together

Mage-OS is now supported by:

13 partner organizations
135 paying members
And a dedicated community of volunteers who show up each week to move things forward

It’s clear we’ve shifted out of “rescue mode” and into a new phase focused on innovation, collaboration, and growth. We’re also planning to launch an Ambassador Program to help represent and grow Mage-OS around the world.

Looking Ahead

Our priorities for the coming year are clear:

Keep building cool things
Keep working closely with the Magento Association
Stay open, transparent, and community-driven
Make Mage-OS the best possible platform for everyone using and contributing to Magento Open Source

Welcome to Our New Board & BCC Members

We’re happy to officially welcome the newly elected members of the Mage-OS Association Board (2025–2027):

David Lambauer
John Prendergast
Michiel Gerritsen
Ruggero Landolina

And a warm welcome to Francis Michael Gallagher, who joins the Business Control Committee (BCC) alongside returning member Laura Folco.

We also want to extend a huge thank you to the outgoing board and BCC members. Your time, ideas, and hard work have laid the foundation we’re all standing on. You will always be part of this community’s story.

New Leadership Roles

After a close and thoughtful vote, the Mage-OS Board roles are now confirmed:

President: Vinai Kopp
Vice President: David Lambauer
Treasurer: Cezary Kozon
Actuary: John Prendergast
Ryan Hoerr
Maciej Kalkowski
Ruggero Landolina
Michiel Gerritsen

Vote Results Recap

We had a fantastic level of participation in this year’s election. Here’s a quick look at how the votes landed:

Board of Directors (2025–2027):

David Lambauer: 86%
John Prendergast: 66%
Michiel Gerritsen: 62%
Ruggero Landolina: 55%
Sergej Derzap: 42%
Marek Kubačák: 42%
Ksenia Zvereva: 44%

Business Control Committee:

Francis Michael Gallagher: 100% votes

Role Elections for 2025–2026:

President:
- Vinai Kopp: 61%
- Ryan Hoerr: 29%
- Abstain: 10%
Vice President:
- David Lambauer: 34%
- Ryan Hoerr: 31%
- Ruggero Landolina: 16%
- Others: 19% combined
Treasurer:
- Cezary Kozon: 80%
- Ruggero Landolina: 10%
- Others: 10% combined
Actuary:
- John Prendergast: 83%
- Ruggero Landolina: 10%
- Michiel Gerritsen: 7%

Resolutions:

All eight General Assembly resolutions, including approval of reports and discharge of outgoing board members, passed with 100% in favor.

Financial Snapshot

We’re proud to share that Mage-OS is in great financial shape:

2024 revenue: 270,000+ PLN
Net surplus: 163,342 PLN
Assets at year-end: 213,093 PLN

Everything has been reviewed, approved, and documented according to Polish accounting standards. Transparency continues to be a top priority, and we thank our BCC for their detailed work and oversight.

BCC Report

Financial Transparency and Strong Stewardship at Mage-OS in 2024

The 2024 Business Control Committee report for Mage-OS reveals a year of sound financial stewardship and transparency. The organization generated a total of 270,398.75 PLN (~€62,170), raised entirely through donations and sponsorships via Open Collective. These contributions came from both individual supporters and companies aligned with Mage-OS’s open-source mission.

Total expenditures reached 107,056.62 PLN (~€24,610), primarily allocated to necessary non-profit operations. This included payments for legal and tax services, wages, and subscriptions to vital tools such as MailerLite, Bitwarden, and Zoom. As a result, Mage-OS ended the fiscal year with a healthy net surplus of 163,342.13 PLN (~€37,560).

The BCC also highlighted the board’s exemplary commitment to transparency. Monthly financial updates were punctual and thorough, communication was responsive, and a financial FAQ, first recommended in the previous year, remained accurate and informative. The committee praised the board for cultivating a transparent and cooperative environment, laying a strong foundation for continued success in 2025.

Thank You

To everyone who voted, joined the assembly, contributed code, helped with finances, supported others, or just showed up: thank you. Mage-OS is what it is because of you. This assembly reminded us how far we’ve come and how much more we can do together.

Here’s to another great year ahead!

Opportunities

Have a contribution idea or interested in the Mage-OS Distribution? Join our weekly tech meetings, public on Discord at 3 PM CET / 2 PM UTC / 9 AM EST every Tuesday: chat.mage-os.org
We’re looking for new features to enhance Mage-OS this year that will help to modernize and excite merchants. This might include AI enhancements, low/no code processes, or more. Talk to Vinai Kopp or #tech if you’re interested!

Mage-OS 1.2.0 is out now!

fabrizio-balliano — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT

We are excited to announce the release of Mage-OS Distribution 1.2.0, another step in the building of the definitive open source e-commerce platform!

Our foundation

Mage-OS 1.2.0 is built on Magento Open Source 2.4.8-p1, and includes all platform updates and community fixes from the upstream release. See the full Magento Open Source 2.4.8-p1 Release Notes for details.

The latest recommended software versions are:

Composer	2.8
Elasticsearch	— (no longer supported)
OpenSearch	2.19
MariaDB	11.4
MySQL	8.4
PHP	8.4/8.3
RabbitMQ	4
Redis	Valkey 8 (or Redis 7.2+)
Varnish	7.6
Apache	2.4
nginx	1.26

Updates to our backend theme

In this release, we’ve improved the user experience by fixing username clipping, introducing smooth view transitions, preventing layout jumps with a new scrollbar-gutter, adjusting footer copyright spacing, and resolving an issue where media search overlapped the upload image message.

Thanks to everyone that helped with this release!

Mage-OS wouldn’t exist without a great community. ❤️ Among others, thank you to:

Artem Kozynets
Damien Retzinger
Fabrizio Balliano
Ryan Hoerr
Sean van Zuidam
Vinai Kopp

Along with recent Mage-OS Lab contributors:

Davide Lunardon
Luca Fuser
Ryan Sun
Samuele Martini
Stefano Tusino

And to everyone that has helped with testing, feedback, and our weekly tech meetings!

Want to participate?

Are you interested in contributing to Mage-OS, or have a bug or improvement you’d like to make? We welcome pull requests at https://github.com/mage-os/mageos-magento2!

If you have a bigger project in mind, please join Discord and chat about your idea. We’d be delighted to hear from you, and help figure out how your idea best fits into Mage-OS!

Installing Mage-OS

You can create a new Mage-OS project with the following SSH command:

composer create-project --repository-url=https://repo.mage-os.org/ mage-os/project-community-edition .

After a successful composer download, you will need to run the installer. Please see DevDocs: Installation Guide for Mage-OS

Moving to Mage-OS

If you are already using Magento 2.4 and PHP 8.2+, you can change to Mage-OS by running the following in SSH:

composer config repositories.0 composer https://repo.mage-os.org/ && 
    composer require mage-os/product-community-edition --no-update && 
    composer remove magento/product-community-edition magento/composer-dependency-version-audit-plugin magento/composer-root-update-plugin --no-update && 
    composer remove sebastian/comparator --dev --no-update && 
    composer update --no-plugins --with-all-dependencies

We strongly recommend updating to the latest Magento version (currently 2.4.8) before changing to Mage-OS, to minimize issues.

Your specific situation may require additional changes to your composer.json file. Generally this will involve changing magento/ package names to mage-os/, or updating dependency versions.

Mage-OS May Recap

anita-miller — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Association News

Welcome to our newest partners and members!
- Abi Green – professional member
- Ruthger Idema – community member
You too can become a Mage-OS member and join our vibrant community, starting from just €10 per year!

Mage-OS Elections, Assembly & Community Feedback

General Assembly – June 18 @ 3PM CET
Our next General Assembly is happening June 18. All members are invited to attend, vote on the topics, and even nominate themselves for the Mage-OS Board. Don’t miss this important moment in shaping Mage-OS’s future!

Board Election & Candidate Nominations
If you’d like to participate more directly in decision-making, nominate yourself for the board!

Visit the Mage-OS Booth at Meet Magento UK – June 10
Mage-OS is attending MMUK thanks to Jamie Huskisson. Stop by the booth to say hello, meet contributors, and see the latest progress!
If you’re attending MMUK or any other upcoming event and would like to help represent Mage-OS, we’d love to hear from you, please reach out!

Share Your Thoughts: Mage-OS Feedback Form
We want your input! Fill out our community feedback form to help improve Mage-OS:
MageOS Feedback Form

Mage-OS Technical Highlights - May Recap

A new CMS Widget Preview module is complete and undergoing testing, making it easier to preview widgets directly in Page Builder.
A proposal was made for a “Discover MageOS” module hub, allowing admin users to browse featured modules inside Magento.
A lightweight GeoIP Redirect Module was introduced using MaxMind’s free database, no external API required.
The MetaTag and MetaRobots modules were moved into the main MageOS namespace. A Newsletter Coupon module was also contributed.
Continued work on the Admin Theme, including fixes for emulation issues. Adoption is increasing steadily.
Discussion around switching from Semantic Versioning (SemVer) to Calendar Versioning (CalVer) is ongoing.
A plugin naming edge case was identified; guidance will be added for affected modules.

Opportunities

Have a contribution idea or interested in the Mage-OS Distribution? Join our weekly tech meetings, public on Discord at 3 PM CET / 2 PM UTC / 9 AM EST every Tuesday: chat.mage-os.org
We’re looking for new features to enhance Mage-OS this year that will help to modernize and excite merchants. This might include AI enhancements, low/no code processes, or more. Talk to Vinai Kopp or #tech if you’re interested!

Hyvä Developers Paradise 2025: The Power of Community Driving Magento’s Future

ruggero-landolina — Wed, 21 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Article by Ruggero Landolina

From February 27 to March 1, 2025, the first-ever Hyvä Developers Paradise took place at the Lopesan Baobab Resort in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. This remarkable event was dedicated to Magento developers and eCommerce professionals. But this was more than just a technical conference. It was a gathering of like-minded individuals, celebrating community, collaboration, and shared purpose.

New milestones for the Hyvä ecosystem were unveiled during the event, including Hyvä Commerce—a suite of products enhancing Magento Open Source with a modern admin panel and advanced features—and Hyvä CMS, a fully redesigned content management system built for flexibility and usability. These innovations are a testament to the fact that, with strong community support, Magento remains one of the most powerful and adaptable eCommerce platforms.

A Community at the Center: Unity Through Collaboration

One of the clearest takeaways from these action-packed days was a renewed awareness: Magento still holds a vital place in the eCommerce world, but maintaining that position requires collective effort. The presence of Mage-OS and the Magento Association as community sponsors underscored the importance of joining forces to strengthen and evolve the Magento ecosystem.

Many Mage-OS contributors were present, openly discussing what it would take to bring Magento back to the market position it deserves. One message was clear: collaboration is the only path forward—between developers, agencies, vendors, and professionals across the industry.

Attending Hyvä Developers Paradise wasn’t just about discovering new tech or hearing the latest product updates. It was about actively participating in a community shaping the future of open-source eCommerce. Magento remains the only valid alternative for those who value customization, flexibility, and robust capabilities. And it’s this community—when united and energized—that can help the platform survive and thrive.

Mage-OS and the Power of Open Collaboration

One of the most exciting aspects of the event was the in-depth, real-time dialogue around Mage-OS—the community-driven fork of Magento. Talking with other developers provided invaluable insights into the platform’s evolution and direction.

Despite coming from different backgrounds, teams, and experiences, everyone shared a common goal: to make Mage-OS a stable, reliable, and forward-thinking alternative.

Some developers have already begun experimenting with Mage-OS in staging environments, while others are even running it in production—evaluating its compatibility with third-party extensions and testing its real-world stability. These trials are critical in identifying strengths, pinpointing gaps, and steering future improvements. The fact that so many professionals are dedicating time and effort to test and contribute to Mage-OS shows how deeply this community believes in its potential.

A Shared Goal That Knows No Borders

One recurring theme in every conversation was the importance of having a shared vision. It doesn’t matter where we come from, what language we speak, or what part of the world we’re coding in. What matters is having a common purpose and moving forward—together.

Meeting other developers face-to-face drove home the point: without unity, we risk fragmentation, which slows progress. It’s the community glue—continuous, open, and constructive dialogue—that holds this ecosystem together. Without it, we risk missing out on the innovations that only collective effort can bring.

Becoming a Voice for the Community

One thing that struck me during the event was how many agencies that have worked with Magento for years still weren’t aware of Mage-OS. That realization pushed me to become more than a user—I became an advocate. I spent time talking to teams, sharing what’s been achieved so far, and encouraging them to use Mage-OS and become part of the journey.

Magento has always had a strong community. However, to grow, the project needs not only developers but also agencies, professionals, and stakeholders to get involved. It’s time to move from passive users to active contributors—whether that means writing code, giving feedback, improving documentation, or simply spreading the word.

As Helen Keller once said:
“Alone, we can do so little; together, we can do so much.”

Beyond Code: Human Connections Matter

Hyvä Developers Paradise wasn’t just about code and tech talks. At its heart, this was an event about people. Yes, there were deep-dive sessions and technical content—but there were also bowling, tennis matches, dance parties, and sunset drinks by the ocean.

These shared moments created bonds that went far beyond the professional. Often, the best ideas come from the most unexpected conversations—over a drink, during a tennis match, or walking along the beach. The real power of the Magento community lies in this, too: the ability to build authentic relationships around a shared passion.

Magento Has a Future—But It’s Up to Us

Hyvä Developers Paradise 2025 was a bold reminder that Magento’s strength isn’t just in the code—it’s in the people who believe in it and commit to improving it daily.

More than an event, this was a statement of purpose: Magento has a bright future—but only if the community stays united, engaged, and committed.

For those working with Magento or curious about the future of open-source eCommerce, events like this aren’t just professional opportunities. They’re a chance to contribute to a mission bigger than any single company or product.

Magento needs its community.
And the community needs Magento.

As Aristotle once said:
“The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.”

Now more than ever, that truth resonates deeply within our community.

Help Shape the Future of Mage-OS — Board & BCC Candidate Applications Now Open!

anita-miller — Wed, 14 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Are you passionate about open-source eCommerce? Do you believe in the power of community-led innovation? Mage-OS is growing — and now is your chance to help lead the charge.

We are excited to announce that candidate applications are now open for the Mage-OS Board of Directors and the Business Control Committee (BCC). As we prepare for our June 2025 election, we’re calling on committed individuals from across the community to step forward and get involved.

Apply now: Mage-OS Candidate Application Form

Why Join the Mage-OS Leadership?

Mage-OS is more than a fork — it’s a movement. As a board or committee member, you’ll play a key role in shaping the vision, strategy, and future of Mage-OS. Whether your strengths lie in governance, communication, community building, or technical insight, there’s a place for your voice at the table.

Open Positions:

Four (4) Board of Directors seats
One (1) Business Control Committee seat
Standby candidates for both roles

All elected roles serve two-year terms and are open to any active Mage-OS Association member.

What Does the Board Do?

The Board of Directors drives the heart of Mage-OS. Board members are deeply involved in setting organizational direction, leading key initiatives, and representing the project both within the community and to the wider world. Formal and informal roles may include:

Strategy & governance
Community & partner engagement
Marketing, outreach, and events
Infrastructure & technical planning
Legal and financial oversight

We’re looking for hands-on leaders — people who don’t just believe in open source, but who are ready to help build a better one.

Get to know the Mage-OS Leadership Team to see who’s currently serving and get inspired to take part.

What About the BCC?

The Business Control Committee (BCC) is our financial and organizational watchdog — an independent body ensuring that Mage-OS remains transparent, accountable, and in line with its mission. It’s a smaller time commitment (quarterly meetings), but with big impact.

Ready to Run?

To apply, you must:

Be a current Mage-OS Association member (membership starts at just €10/year)
Complete a short application form sharing your background, ideas, and availability

Deadline: Applications are open now ahead of the June 2025 General Assembly

The deadline to apply is 31 May 2025. Whether you’ve contributed to Magento, Mage-OS, or just have a passion for community-driven software — your perspective matters. This is your opportunity to step up, speak out, and help steer one of the most promising open-source commerce projects today.

Submit your application here

Opportunities

Have a contribution idea or interested in the Mage-OS Distribution? Join our weekly tech meetings, public on Discord at 3 PM CET / 2 PM UTC / 9 AM EST every Tuesday: chat.mage-os.org
We’re looking for new features to enhance Mage-OS this year that will help to modernize and excite merchants. This might include AI enhancements, low/no code processes, or more. Talk to Vinai Kopp or #tech if you’re interested!

The Evolution of Documentation in the Age of AI: A Magento Case Study

anita-miller — Tue, 06 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT

David Lambauer and run_as_root: Innovating Magento Documentation with AI

In the ever-evolving world of e-commerce, documentation remains a critical but often overlooked component. David Lambauer, founder of run_as_root, has been at the forefront of improving Magento documentation through innovative approaches, leveraging AI and open-source collaboration.

Who is David Lambauer?

David Lambauer is a seasoned developer and entrepreneur with a deep passion for open-source software and high-quality development practices. His journey into the tech world began with a traditional German Fachinformatiker apprenticeship (IT Specialist Training), followed by university studies in computer science. However, his real expertise was shaped through hands-on experience in the industry, particularly in Magento development.

How Did He End Up with Magento?

David was introduced to Magento while working at his first workplace, at Netz98, under the mentorship of Christian Münch. His first real test came when he attempted a Magento-related coding challenge. After spending an entire day on it, Münch demonstrated a far more efficient solution in just a few minutes—an eye-opening moment that inspired him to fully commit to learning Magento.

He later expanded his knowledge in infrastructure and scalable systems. These experiences paved the way for him to launch his own agency, run_as_root, with a focus on high-quality Magento solutions.

run_as_root: A New Approach to Magento Development

Founded with the goal of simplifying Magento development, run_as_root emphasizes long-term client relationships and transparency. Unlike traditional agencies that focus on constantly acquiring new clients, run_as_root is dedicated to providing sustainable, well-documented, and high-quality solutions. One of its standout features is its detailed, automated billing system, which ensures that clients know exactly what they’re paying for.

How Did He Develop AI-Generated Magento Documentation?

One of David’s biggest contributions to the Magento community is his work on developer documentation. After Adobe acquired Magento, there was concern over the future of open-source contributions. During this time, David was already contributing to Magento’s DevDocs and saw an opportunity to improve them using automation.

To address this, he created Dev Docs v1.0, a documentation project designed to help new developers get started with Magento.

Using GPT-3.5, he built an AI-powered system that could generate well-structured developer documentation. He based his approach on Laravel’s documentation model, where content is stored as Markdown files in a repository. His process included:

Creating a structured outline of essential Magento topics using AI.
Generating content for each topic with AI assistance.
Formatting everything into Markdown, making it easy to maintain and update.

To make improvements easier, he also added an “Edit on GitHub” button, allowing anyone to contribute fixes or updates. This method leverages a simple reality: people are more likely to correct mistakes than to write new documentation from scratch.

What Were the Challenges?

Despite its success, developing AI-driven documentation wasn’t without obstacles:

Ensuring Accuracy: AI-generated content needed manual review to ensure reliability.
Building a Solid Knowledge Base: The documentation had to cover enough depth to be useful.
Keeping Up with AI Improvements: AI models continue to evolve, meaning the process needs to be updated over time.

David continues to explore new ways to refine AI-generated documentation. One possibility is an AI-assisted query system, where instead of reading static documentation, developers ask an AI assistant questions and receive real-time responses based on well-structured prompts.

How Does He Want to Continue Developing the Documentation?

David sees multiple ways to evolve Magento documentation further:

Enhancing AI-Generated Documentation – Using more advanced AI models like GPT-4 and future iterations to improve content quality, making it more detailed and technically accurate.
AI-Driven Interactive Assistance – Instead of static documentation, an AI-powered chatbot or search tool could provide tailored answers to developer questions in real time.
Crowdsourced Community Contributions – Expanding community involvement by making it easier for developers to suggest edits, provide examples, and validate content.
Integrating Documentation into Development Tools – Embedding documentation directly into developer environments, making it accessible while coding.
Iterative Prompting for Higher Quality – Structuring AI-generated documentation by first defining tone, keywords, reference materials, and output formats before generating final content.

These approaches reflect Lambauer’s commitment to making Magento documentation more dynamic, accessible, and reliable for developers worldwide.

What Does He Like About Magento?

David appreciates Magento for its maturity and strong developer community. Unlike other platforms where basic coding practices are still debated, the Magento ecosystem fully embraces advanced development methodologies like Unit Testing, Integration Testing, and Continuous Integration/Deployment.

He also values Magento’s flexibility and scalability, making it an excellent choice for complex e-commerce solutions. Its open-source nature encourages innovation and long-term community contributions.

What Is His Relation to Mage-OS?

Mage-OS was created in response to the slowdown in Magento’s open-source development after Adobe’s acquisition. David saw Mage-OS as a way to unify the fragmented Magento community, which had been scattered across different Slack groups, regional meetups, and independent developer initiatives.

Seeing the need for better documentation, he took charge of Mage-OS’s documentation project, ensuring that developers have access to up-to-date resources. His work with Mage-OS reinforces his commitment to keeping Magento open-source and community-driven.

Looking Ahead: The Future of Magento Documentation

David Lambauer’s work highlights the power of community-driven innovation in open-source software. His contributions to Magento documentation, combined with modern AI-driven approaches, showcase a new way forward for developer resources.

With run_as_root continuing to push boundaries in Magento development, one key question remains: Is traditional documentation still relevant, or will AI-powered interactive systems take over? No matter the outcome, David and his team are at the forefront of this exciting transformation in developer support.

Mage-OS April Recap

anita-miller — Thu, 01 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Association News

Welcome to our newest partners and members!
- Melinda Humphrey – professional member
- Webcode – community member
- Cainan Senra – community member
You too can become a Mage-OS member and join our vibrant community, starting from just €10 per year!

Board & Business Control Committee Applications Open

We are now accepting candidate applications for the Mage-OS Board of Directors and Business Control Committee (BCC). If you’re committed to open-source commerce and ready to take a leadership role, we invite you to apply.

Apply here: https://forms.gle/mshhfApG4EjHNJFRA

In the June 2025 election, we will select four new board members and one BCC member, along with standby candidates. All terms are for two years. You must be a Mage-OS Association member to apply. Memberships start at €10/year.

Mage-OS 1.1.1 Released

Mage-OS version 1.1.0 has been released, featuring a redesigned admin theme created by Artem Kozynets. This release introduced visual improvements and received positive feedback from users and contributors. Learn more here.

Version 1.1.1 was released shortly after to fix a bug in configurable products and make small adjustments to the admin theme. Additional user experience enhancements, including message layout and accessibility improvements, are planned for future updates.

The new admin theme is being widely adopted, with over 200 Figma design uses and growing engagement on GitHub. It is likely to become the default in upcoming releases.

Module Management and Namespace Strategy

There is ongoing discussion about how and when modules from the mageos-lab namespace should graduate to the official mageos namespace. While no formal process exists yet, the current consensus is that modules should only be moved when they meet specific criteria such as wide usage, maturity, or inclusion in a Mage-OS release.

Task #59 in Taiga is tracking the development of formal acceptance criteria. Feel free to help with the ticket!

DeepWiki Integration

A set of Mage-OS repositories has been indexed by DeepWiki, providing AI-powered, explorable documentation for:

This makes our codebase and tooling more accessible for newcomers and contributors alike..

Community Discussions & RFCs

A few important technical proposals are under discussion:

Ideas for improving build and release independence of Mage-OS packages were raised — helpful for contributors managing their own version cycles.

Semantic Versioning RFC: Should Mage-OS adopt semantic versioning to signal breaking changes more clearly? Join the discussion.

Bundled Module Proposal: There’s a proposal to include Creatuity Interception in the default Mage-OS release.

Opportunities

Have a contribution idea or interested in the Mage-OS Distribution? Join our weekly tech meetings, public on Discord at 3 PM CET / 2 PM UTC / 9 AM EST every Tuesday: chat.mage-os.org
We’re looking for new features to enhance Mage-OS this year that will help to modernize and excite merchants. This might include AI enhancements, low/no code processes, or more. Talk to Vinai Kopp or #tech if you’re interested!

Mage-OS 1.1: A new admin experience, and so much more!

fabrizio-balliano — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT

We are excited to announce the release of Mage-OS Distribution 1.1.0, a milestone in the development of our community project!

This release packs one huge change, some major ones and many minor security improvements, for the biggest release we’ve ever had!

But first of all, let’s start with…

Our foundation

Mage-OS 1.1 is built on Magento Open Source 2.4.8, and includes all platform updates and community fixes from the upstream release. See the full Magento Open Source 2.4.8 Release Notes for details.

As part of that, Mage-OS 1.1 adds support for PHP 8.4, drops support for PHP 8.1, and requires OpenSearch 2.x going forward.

The latest recommended software versions are:

Composer	2.8
Elasticsearch	— (no longer supported)
OpenSearch	2.19
MariaDB	11.4
MySQL	8.4
PHP	8.4/8.3
RabbitMQ	4
Redis	Valkey 8 (or Redis 7.2+)
Varnish	7.6
Apache	2.4
nginx	1.26

A new backend experience

Thanks to the hard work of Artem Kozynets, one of the members of our community, we’re proud to announce that Mage-OS 1.1 includes a completely redesigned theme for the admin panel!

This is not just a quick style, it’s a complete design system inspired by Material Design 3. The design system is available for you to preview and use on Figma. We would like to extend a huge thank you to Artem for all of his effort and dedication here.

This is such a big change that we’ve dedicated a full blog post to it!

Major performance improvements

In addition to the new admin theme, we’ve chosen to bundle the Creatuity Compiled Interceptors open source module. Thank you to Franciszek Wawrzak for his tireless work creating and maintaining this solution.

This module changes the way Magento 2 generates Interceptor classes (a mechanism that allows plugins to work together), to make plugins faster to execute. This is a drop-in replacement for Magento’s normal interceptor classes. In the process, since Magento uses a lot of plugins, including this lowers the production TTFB (response times) by an average of 10%!

Security improvements and bugfix

Magento 2.4.8 allows for disclosing of all catalog/sales promotion rules, and customer groups, via GraphQL API calls. We believe these details should stay private unless merchants opt in to sharing them. Thanks to Damien Retzinger, Mage-OS 1.1.0 disables these calls.

We also found an error in the calculation of the lowest price of a products when child products are out of stock… and fixed it thanks to Melinda Humphrey.

Thanks to everyone that helped with this release!

Mage-OS wouldn’t exist without a great community. ❤️ Among others, thank you to:

Artem Kozynets
Damien Retzinger
Fabrizio Balliano
Franciszek S Wawrzak
Lucas van Staden
Melinda Humphrey
Ryan Hoerr
Tjitse Efdé
Vinai Kopp

Along with recent Mage-OS Lab contributors:

Antonio Carboni
Christian Münch
Davide Lunardon
Jakub winkler
Luca Fuser
Nils Preuß
Ryan Sun
Samuele Martini
Stefano Tusino

And to everyone that has helped with testing, feedback, and our weekly tech meetings!

Want to participate?

Are you interested in contributing to Mage-OS, or have a bug or improvement you’d like to make? We welcome pull requests at https://github.com/mage-os/mageos-magento2!

If you have a bigger project in mind, please join Discord and chat about your idea. We’d be delighted to hear from you, and help figure out how your idea best fits into Mage-OS!

Installing Mage-OS

You can create a new Mage-OS project with the following SSH command:

composer create-project --repository-url=https://repo.mage-os.org/ mage-os/project-community-edition .

After a successful composer download, you will need to run the installer. Please see DevDocs: Installation Guide for Mage-OS

Moving to Mage-OS

If you are already using Magento 2.4 and PHP 8.2+, you can change to Mage-OS by running the following in SSH:

composer config repositories.0 composer https://repo.mage-os.org/ && 
    composer require mage-os/product-community-edition --no-update && 
    composer remove magento/product-community-edition magento/composer-dependency-version-audit-plugin magento/composer-root-update-plugin --no-update && 
    composer remove sebastian/comparator --dev --no-update && 
    composer update --no-plugins --with-all-dependencies

We strongly recommend updating to the latest Magento version (currently 2.4.8) before changing to Mage-OS, to minimize issues.

Your specific situation may require additional changes to your composer.json file. Generally this will involve changing magento/ package names to mage-os/, or updating dependency versions.

New Mage-OS/Magento Admin Theme: Sleek! Shiny! Available now!

anita-miller — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT

We’re excited to announce a major milestone for the Mage-OS community: Artem has officially released the Admin Theme for Mage-OS, bringing a fresh, modern look to the Magento-derived platform’s admin panel.

That’s right: the brand-new Admin Theme is live — and it’s a game changer for the Magento 2.4, Adobe Commerce, or Mage-OS admin panel. It’s clean. It’s modern. And the best part? You can install it today with just a few Composer commands!

This is Artem’s Work — and It’s Outstanding

This entire effort is the result of Artem’s initiative, creativity, and expertise. Developed in his personal time, the Admin Theme reflects his long-standing commitment to the Magento ecosystem and Mage-OS community. It’s a testament to what individuals can achieve when they care deeply about the platform and its future.

His contribution doesn’t just provide a better user experience — it raises the bar for what Mage-OS can offer. And it’s a great reminder that anyone in the community can help move things forward, just like Artem has.

What’s the theme all about?

Fresh new look for the admin panel
Better contrast, typography, and layout
A faster, more comfortable experience for merchants, devs, support folks — anyone who lives in the backend
Fully open source, lightweight, and works out of the box with Mage-OS (and Magento 2.4+)
Compatible with Mage-OS 1.0 and 1.1
Compatible with Magento 2.4
Usable with Adobe Commerce 2.4 (but compatibility with Commerce features not guaranteed)

Install it with:

composer require mage-os/theme-adminhtml-m137bin/magento setup:upgrade

Links:

Theme: github.com/mage-os-lab/theme-adminhtml-m137
Switcher: github.com/mage-os-lab/module-theme-adminhtml-switcher
Figma design system: figma.com/community/file/1486802857979032188/m137-design-system-and-ui-kit

A Clean, Modern UX for the Admin Panel

The Admin Theme delivers a sleek, professional interface that stays true to the spirit of Magento while pushing its visual design into the modern era. Clear typography, improved color contrast, and a refined layout make the admin experience more pleasant and productive for developers, merchants, and support teams alike.

Screenshots shared by early adopters show a crisp and visually balanced UI that dramatically improves the feel of the default admin dashboard—while remaining lightweight and compatible with Mage-OS out of the box.

Why This Matters

As Mage-OS continues to gain traction as a community-driven fork of Magento Open Source, having high-quality frontend and backend experiences is key to encouraging adoption. Artem’s work provides exactly that: a more intuitive and aesthetically pleasing admin interface, built by someone deeply embedded in the Magento and Mage-OS ecosystem.

The Admin Theme + Switcher simplifies the testing and adoption process by letting you switch between the old and new theme directly from the admin panel—great for agencies, theme developers, and site maintainers.

The M137 Design System lets you design your own admin components and mockups easily in Figma.

Powered by Community — and You Can Help

Both the theme and the switcher module are part of the Mage-OS Lab, an open-source space for experimentation and innovation. They’re free to use, open to contributions, and designed to encourage collaboration.

Work like this is only possible thanks to individual contributors like Artem — and through the support of our Mage-OS Partners and members. Their backing helps fund infrastructure, coordination, and initiatives that directly benefit the community.

If you’re passionate about Magento or Mage-OS, consider contributing — whether it’s code, design, testing, or financial support. Everyone can play a role.

Get Involved

Both the theme and switcher module are open source under the Mage-OS Lab umbrella. If you’re using Mage-OS, consider giving the new theme a try and providing feedback. Contributions, pull requests, and issue reports are more than welcome.

With contributions like this, Mage-OS continues to evolve as a flexible, modern, and community-centric ecommerce platform. Hats off to Artem for helping move the ecosystem forward in such a visible and valuable way.

If you like what you see, consider supporting the Mage-OS project. Financial contributions don’t just keep the lights on—they enable visible progress, boost morale, and encourage more developers to step forward with their own ideas.

Opportunities

Have a contribution idea or interested in the Mage-OS Distribution? Join our weekly tech meetings, public on Discord at 3 PM CET / 2 PM UTC / 9 AM EST every Tuesday: chat.mage-os.org
We’re looking for new features to enhance Mage-OS this year that will help to modernize and excite merchants. This might include AI enhancements, low/no code processes, or more. Talk to Vinai Kopp or #tech if you’re interested!

Mage-OS March Recap

anita-miller — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Association News

Welcome to our newest partners and members!
- Jonathan Visser – community member
- Alin Munteanu – community member
- Illya Arefiev – community member
You too can become a Mage-OS member and join our vibrant community, starting from just €10 per year!

Meet Magento France

Meet Magento France 2025 was a resounding success and a landmark moment for the Magento ecosystem in France. Held on March 25 at the Étoile Business Center in Paris, the inaugural event gathered over 350 participants from across Europe, including merchants, developers, agencies, and technology partners. For Thien-Lan, participating in Meet Magento France 2025 was especially meaningful, as it brought the Magento community together in her hometown—a place where she was born, raised, and began her professional journey.

The sold-out edition radiated energy, innovation, and community spirit. From visionary keynotes by leaders to technical deep-dives and strategic sessions, attendees were treated to a day rich in insights and inspiration. Beyond the talks, the event celebrated its open-source DNA with strong representation from Magento Open Source, Adobe Commerce, Mage-OS and many more offering something for everyone. The organizers—led by Camille Bénard and supported by an all-star team—created a vibrant, unforgettable experience, topped off with lively networking, a cocktail party, and even an afterparty for the night owls. This first-ever Meet Magento France didn’t just meet expectations—it set a new standard for community-driven events in the ecosystem.

Check out the official LinkedIn page for Meet Magento France for updates, highlights, and community insights!

Tech Updates

We started strong:

Terraform to OpenTofu migration wrapped up smoothly.
Reservations Grid got a facelift thanks to David Tabatadze (who powered through even while recovering from surgery—hero move ).
New Admin Theme is nearly done. Artem squashed the bugs and made it 1.1-ready.

And in the background, AI tools kept getting sharper. The backend assistant now runs on multiple models, executes SQL, and is waiting for its own Lab repo.

GitHub Drama

Mid-month, everything vanished—Mage-OS GitHub orgs were flagged. No access. No explanation. Just… 404s.

The community rallied: backups were made, mirrors tested, GitHub tickets opened.
Eventually, the orgs were cleared. It was a spam false-positive. No apology, but we’re back online and stronger for it. (Also, shoutout to everyone who kept cool during the blackout) It was a wake-up call about how much we rely on third-party services. We’re now actively exploring backup strategies and alternative plans to be better prepared if something like this happens again.

CMS, SEO, and Smarter Widgets

Davide Lunardon explored integrating GrapesJS, but pivoted after discovering Magento CMS widgets are trickier than they look. Now, he’s building a more powerful “CMS Widget” component instead—with previews and repeatable fields.

Meanwhile, Samuele dropped a module for meta robots control (think: noindex, nofollow)—now ready for testing.

Prepping for Mage-OS 1.1

The big 1.1 release is brewing. We’re syncing with Magento 2.4.8 and lining up features:

New Admin Theme
Optional Creatuity interceptor module
Possibly even a revamped web installer
Testing and merges are ramping up in April.

Opportunities

Want to help promote Magento and Mage-OS? Join our weekly marketing meeting, public on Discord at 4 PM CET/3 PM UTC / 10 AM EST every Monday: chat.mage-os.org
Have a contribution idea or interested in the Mage-OS Distribution? Join our weekly tech meetings, public on Discord at 3 PM CET / 2 PM UTC / 9 AM EST every Tuesday: chat.mage-os.org
We’re looking for new features to enhance Mage-OS this year that will help to modernize and excite merchants. This might include AI enhancements, low/no code processes, or more. Talk to Vinai Kopp or #tech if you’re interested!

Mage-OS Feb Recap

anita-miller — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Content and Community Initiatives:

MageOS is evolving into a tech incubator, focusing on innovation and making development easier for the community. This shift aims to encourage research, improve tools, and create a more efficient ecosystem for Magento-based solutions. The goal is to support developers, merchants, and businesses of all sizes by making the platform more accessible and user-friendly.

In other news, an upcoming article featuring David Lambauer will dive into Dev Docs v1.0. This article will take readers behind the scenes, exploring how the documentation was developed, the challenges faced during its creation, and the future improvements planned to enhance the developer experience. Keep an eye out for this update as we continue to enhance the platform’s documentation and resources!

Community & Platform Updates

MageOS 1.0.6 & Mirror 2.4.7-p4 Released

MageOS 1.0.6 and the latest Magento Mirror 2.4.7-p4 are now available! Developers should note that Adobe Payment Services will need updates in the next release cycle.

Mage2TV Videos & Cache Cleaner Tool

Exciting news—Vinai is making all Mage2TV videos available on YouTube for free! Additionally, there’s talk about moving the Cache Cleaner tool under the MageOS namespace since so many people use it.

Development Progress

GrapesJS Page Builder Integration (#57)

Discussions are underway to introduce GrapesJS, a JavaScript-based page builder, as a more flexible and user-friendly way to manage CMS content. Davide Lunardon proposed this integration to simplify the development process while keeping Magento’s existing Page Builder intact. The main challenge is balancing ease of use with maintaining consistent design standards. Further discussions and testing will follow.

Reservations Grid Improvements (#34)

David Tabatadze has made great progress on Reservations Grid enhancements, adding an easy-to-use UI for managing reservations. The PR is complete and is awaiting final reviews and testing before being merged.

Terraform to OpenTofu Migration (#37)

The migration from Terraform to OpenTofu is officially complete. A final review is required before merging the changes, ensuring everything works as expected.

AI Translation Module Updates (#32)

Davide Lunardon and Sam made updates to the AI-powered translation module, resolving key issues with configurable product translations. A few smaller fixes are still in the pipeline.

Backend AI Assistant (#19)

A Backend AI Assistant module is ready for Mage-OS! The next step is to set up a repository in Mage-OS Lab so it can be shared and further developed by the community.

Opportunities

Want to help promote Magento and Mage-OS? Feel free to share your ideas on Discord!
Have a contribution idea or interested in the Mage-OS Distribution? Join our weekly tech meetings, public on Discord at 3 PM CET / 2 PM UTC / 9 AM EST every Tuesday: chat.mage-os.org
We’re looking for new features to enhance Mage-OS this year that will help to modernize and excite merchants. This might include AI enhancements, low/no code processes, or more. Talk to Vinai Kopp or #tech if you’re interested!

Release: Mage-OS Distribution 1.0.6

fabrizio-balliano — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT

We are excited to announce the release of Mage-OS Distribution 1.0.6!

Release Notes

This release achieves full parity with Magento Open Source 2.4.7-p4, which incorporates critical platform security enhancements.

Please check the release notes for Magento Open Source 2.4.7 and the patch notes for 2.4.7-p4.

You can get Mage-OS from our primary composer repository, repo.mage-os.org.

What’s Changed

Full Changelog: 1.0.5…1.0.6

Thanks to everyone that helped with this release! Including: Fabrizio Balliano, Ryan Hoerr, Vinai Kopp, Lucas van Staden, Francis Gallagher, Tu Van, Peter Jaap Blaakmeer.

Mirror Updates

The latest Magento versions are also available from our public Magento mirror, mirror.mage-os.org:

2.4.4-p12
2.4.5-p11
2.4.6-p9
2.4.7-p4

This mirror composer repository is a drop-in replacement for Magento packages from repo.magento.com. This way you can install Magento without any login, using our public and repeatable build process from the official Magento sources.

Contribute

Are you interested in contributing to Mage-OS, or have a bug or improvement you’d like to make? We welcome pull requests at https://github.com/mage-os/mageos-magento2!

If you have a bigger project in mind, please join Discord and summarize your idea. We’d be delighted to hear from you, and help figure out how your idea best fits into Mage-OS!

Installing Mage-OS

You can create a new Mage-OS project with the following SSH command:

composer create-project --repository-url=https://repo.mage-os.org/ mage-os/project-community-edition .

After a successful composer download, you will need to run the installer. Please see DevDocs: Installation Guide for Mage-OS

Moving to Mage-OS

If you are already using Magento 2.4 and PHP 8.1+, you can change to Mage-OS by running the following in SSH:

composer config repositories.0 composer https://repo.mage-os.org/ && 
    composer require mage-os/product-community-edition --no-update && 
    composer remove magento/product-community-edition magento/composer-dependency-version-audit-plugin magento/composer-root-update-plugin --no-update && 
    composer remove sebastian/comparator --dev --no-update && 
    composer update --no-plugins --with-all-dependencies

We strongly recommend updating to the latest Magento version (currently 2.4.7-p2) before changing to Mage-OS, to minimize issues.

Your specific situation may require additional changes to your composer.json file. Generally this will involve changing magento/ package names to mage-os/, or updating dependency versions.

What’s Next?

Our Vision for Mage-OS

The Mage-OS Distribution is an upstream compatible metapackage based on Magento Open Source. Think of it as an independent version of Magento—based on Magento source code, but including additional changes specific to Mage-OS.

The purpose of the Mage-OS core distribution is to provide

Improved decoupling of packages
Improved developer experience while working with the product
Improved developer experience while contributing to the product
Full compatibility with Magento extensions
Focus on additional security
Reduced infrastructure stack dependencies
Low-level code improvements, for example in the areas of caching and indexing
Removal of most bundled extensions contained in upstream (still independently installable if desired)
A simple documented migration path to Magento Open Source or Adobe Commerce

Mage-OS Distribution releases are made independently of upstream releases. This enables us to move faster when desired, for example when enabling compatibility with new PHP versions.

New functional features will be introduced through independently installable modules. This follows the same decoupling approach that Adobe Commerce is using, allowing for a more stable core and an independent feature module release schedule.

The goal of the reduced infrastructure stack dependencies is to enable new developers to be onboarded more easily. The goal is to be able to use a plain XAMPP stack on any machine, including Windows, to run and develop with Mage-OS. This requires making Elasticsearch optional, as well as ensuring services like Redis, RabbitMQ, Node.js and such remain optional.

Mage-OS will also maintain backwards compatibility and the ability to migrate upstream at multiple levels:

Compatibility with third-party extensions
Database level compatibility (data and schema)
API stability

All of our work on creating custom releases based on Magento is open source, meaning:

Mage-OS builds can be independently built and verified, and are fully reproducible;
If you want to create your own fork and version of Magento or Mage-OS, you can do that too.

That’s all for now!

Transforming Magento: The Power of Community, Contributions, and Innovation

anita-miller — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT

E-commerce is constantly changing, and Magento continues to be a leading platform, providing great tools for developers and businesses. Two exciting additions to this system have recently stood out: the Automatic Translations Module and the PageBuilder Import-Export Module. Created by Davide Lunardon, Luca Fuser and Samuele Martini, these tools aim to make Magento even more useful and easy to use.

The Automatic Translations Module

How It Was Developed

During the Covid period, Samuele Martini began exploring generative AI technologies, particularly OpenAI, with the goal of innovating within e-commerce. An old challenge resurfaced: years ago, a client requested automatic product description generation during ERP imports, which was not feasible at the time.

Fast-forward to a new client of Davide Lunardon, who needed to expand into the French market but lacked translated product data. Given high translation costs and the prospect of further expansions, Samuele and Davide revisited the AI-based module concept, integrating it with DeepL, OpenAI, and Google Gemini to create high-quality translations at a fraction of the cost. The result was an efficient, scalable translation module for Magento.

The module enables the translation of all entities, including products, categories, CMS pages, and static blocks, into almost any language. For the product catalog, it offers two modes: a manual option, accessible via a button in the admin panel, and an automatic mode using cron jobs. The automatic mode includes configurable control systems to prevent the retranslation of manually modified products while allowing forced retranslation if descriptions in the primary language change. Categories, CMS pages, and static blocks, however, can only be translated manually via the admin panel button. Given the module’s effectiveness, we decided to make it available to communities through Mage-OS.

Challenges in Development

Handling HTML in Descriptions – Ensuring AI engines preserved structural elements while translating text was complex.
Prompt Engineering – While DeepL required no prompts, OpenAI and Gemini needed specific instructions to produce quality translations.
Attribute Translation – Unlike textual attributes, select and multiselect attributes store only IDs, requiring a separate translation mechanism.
Alt Text Handling – Since Magento associates alt text with a “gallery” entity, special logic was needed to integrate it seamlessly.

Today, the module allows merchants to translate products, categories, CMS pages, and static blocks either manually or automatically via cron jobs, ensuring efficient multilingual expansion. Recognizing its potential, Samuele and Davide made it available to the Mage-OS community.

PageBuilder Import-Export Module

How It Was Developed

Magento’s PageBuilder is widely used for content management, but one major limitation has always been the inability to export and import CMS pages and blocks between environments. Recognizing this issue, Davide Lunardon proposed an extension to enable seamless content transfers.

The module allows users to export templates as zip files containing:

template.html (HTML content)
preview.jpg (visual representation)
config.xml (metadata configuration)
Children folder (nested CMS blocks)
Asset folder (related images)

Additionally, a Dropbox API integration enables remote template imports. This innovation means merchants can now version and distribute CMS content efficiently across sites.

Challenges in Development

Recursive CMS Dependency Handling – Extracting interdependent assets and templates in a structured manner was a significant challenge.
Choosing the Right Remote Service – A flexible API solution was needed for sustainable integration with Mage-OS.

Supported by fellow developers Luca Fuser and Samuele Martini, Davide’s vision took shape, and the module is now actively being refined for stability and efficiency.

The module was created by Samuele Martini and Davide Lunardon, two experienced developers with a strong background in e-commerce solutions.

About the Developers

Samuele, a developer from Treviso, Italy, has a diverse academic background in statistics, business management, and computer science. After earning his degree from the University of Padua in 2011, he built his career across multiple web agencies, progressing from developer to technical director. In 2025, he decided to start his own business, collaborating with Davide, a longtime friend and former colleague.

Davide is a passionate web developer and an amateur table tennis player. Since becoming a freelancer in late 2020, he has primarily worked with companies and agencies in Italy, bringing his expertise in web development to various projects. Together, Samuele and Davide combined their skills to develop this module, aiming to make translation in e-commerce more efficient and accessible.

How They Discovered Magento

Samuele and Davide’s journey with Magento began at different times, but for similar reasons – its flexibility and power as an e-commerce platform.

Davide first encountered Magento in 2016 while working on projects for one of the companies he was employed at. It was instant love, especially with Magento 1, as Magento 2 was not yet fully stable at the time. The platform’s capabilities and potential drew him in, sparking his deep interest in e-commerce development.

For Samuele, the transition to Magento came as a strategic decision. Initially working on corporate websites with WordPress, he witnessed the agency he worked for pivot toward e-commerce due to the industry’s rapid growth. During their research, they evaluated multiple platforms, including Prestashop, Shopware, and Magento. After a detailed analysis, Samuele recommended Magento because it functioned more like a framework than a traditional CMS, making it ideal for custom, scalable developments. This adaptability made it the perfect choice for handling complex, tailored e-commerce projects.

Their shared passion for Magento eventually led them to specialize in the platform, laying the foundation for their later collaboration and the development of their module.

What They Love About Magento

Both Samuele and Davide appreciate Magento for its robustness, flexibility, and developer-friendly architecture, which makes it a powerful tool for building and maintaining e-commerce platforms.

For Samuele, Magento’s greatest strength is its comprehensiveness. Unlike other platforms that are still catching up on essential features like wishlists and bundled products, Magento has offered these since 2007. From a developer’s perspective, Magento provides an innovative yet intuitive set of patterns that make extending functionality seamless. Features like preferences, plugins, viewModels, virtual types, argument preferences, and dependency injection are unique tools not commonly found in other PHP frameworks, making Magento an extremely versatile and customizable platform.

Davide values Magento’s elasticity and the structured framework that enables scalability and maintainability when managed correctly. The dependency injection system, virtual types, and plugin architecture give developers unparalleled control over customizations. Additionally, its open-source nature allows for deep, ad-hoc integrations tailored to specific business needs. He also highlights the out-of-the-box features that have been present since Magento 1 and continue in Magento 2, making it a large, stable, and complete codebase for e-commerce development. For Davide, working on complex e-commerce projects without Magento would be unimaginable.

Their Relationship with Mage-OS

Mage-OS provides an independent, community-driven environment for Magento development. It ensures that Magento remains open-source and continues evolving with valuable features. Through their contributions, Davide and Samuele have enhanced Magento’s capabilities, making it more accessible and powerful for businesses worldwide. Both Samuele and Davide see Mage-OS as a crucial initiative for preserving and expanding Magento’s open-source ecosystem, allowing them to contribute to the platform in ways that weren’t possible before.

Samuele first learned about Mage-OS through Alessandro Ronchi and was immediately drawn to its clear objectives. He sees its role as twofold: first, ensuring that Magento remains open source, no matter what; and second, enhancing Magento’s core functionality, rather than just integrating Adobe SaaS services. Samuele has actively contributed by working on an AI-powered automatic translation suite alongside Davide, and participating in the OpenAI integration module developed by Ryan Sun.

For Davide, Mage-OS represents freedom – the ability to contribute to Magento without restrictions imposed by corporate ownership. While he acknowledges Adobe’s contributions, he feels that Magento has changed significantly since the acquisition. With Mage-OS, he can now develop and release tools that directly benefit the Magento ecosystem, something he couldn’t do while working within agencies. Seeing how much Magento has shaped his career, he is eager to give back to the community and help restore Magento’s reputation and strength through Mage-OS.

With the Automatic Translations Module and PageBuilder Import-Export Module, Magento developers and merchants can now work more efficiently, scale into new markets, and manage content seamlessly. As Mage-OS grows, these innovations will help shape the future of the Magento ecosystem.

Mage-OS Jan Recap

mage-os-team — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Association News

Welcome to our newest partners and members!
- Mino – community member
- David Nimorwicz – professional member
You too can become a Mage-OS member and join our vibrant community, starting from just €10 per year!

Content and Community Initiatives

The Magento Association Marketing Team is experiencing significant growth, with ongoing onboarding efforts. New team members are being assigned responsibilities for social media management and content scheduling. To ensure better organization, Laura has been appointed as the marketing team’s board liaison, helping to establish a clearer structure and delegation of responsibilities.

In an effort to maintain focus, the team discussed ensuring that MageOS Discord remains dedicated to MageOS-specific discussions, rather than becoming a general support channel for Magento Open Source.

A new initiative aims to facilitate knowledge sharing within the community. Once a month, the team plans to regroup and share best practices, such as marketing strategies for Magento agencies, as previously initiated within the Lady Magento group.

Finally, the Monday content meetings won’t take place anymore, but the team remains open to discussions and collaboration via Discord.

Development Progress

The Mage-OS team has made significant progress in various areas, including the Mage-OS Dashboard Migration, now live at dashboard.mage-os.org. We are also transitioning to Taiga for improved task tracking, where the document will now

In preparation for the upcoming Mage-OS 1.1 Release (#45), package bundling is being reviewed on a case-by-case basis. The Creatuity Compiled Interceptors are under consideration for inclusion but require bug fixes before integration. The Admin Theme is confirmed for the release, but its timing depends on the release of Magento 2.4.8 on April 8 and development progress.

Several ongoing developments are in the works. David has taken over the Reservations Grid (#34) enhancements, and the EcomScan Actions (#35) still face an issue with license key retrieval, with investigations ongoing. Nikola provided valuable insights into the DevDocs Infrastructure, explaining how documentation is built and stored. For OpenTofu (#37), the repository name will remain mage-os/terraform to avoid potential risks, and it is now ready to be merged.

A Gitpod Cleanup was also completed, with an old setup being archived while the team continues with the newer version (GitHub link). Additionally, the team is considering switching to OpenTofu for Terraform compliance with open-source standards, with David leading the initiative.

The Admin AI Assistant (#19) saw a demo of a tool that executes SQL queries and returns results. Magento Version Compatibility (#41) is another focus area, with Ryan Hoerr having developed a solution currently undergoing testing. The AI Catalog Translation Extension (#32) faces an issue with URL rewrite generation, which is being addressed. Furthermore, a proposal has been made to create a webpage listing Mage-OS Modules Promotion (#43), categorizing stable modules separately from those needing testing to increase adoption and engagement.

Opportunities

Want to help promote Magento and Mage-OS? Feel free to share your ideas on Discord!
Have a contribution idea or interested in the Mage-OS Distribution? Join our weekly tech meetings, public on Discord at 3 PM CET / 2 PM UTC / 9 AM EST every Tuesday: chat.mage-os.org
We’re looking for new features to enhance Mage-OS this year that will help to modernize and excite merchants. This might include AI enhancements, low/no code processes, or more. Talk to Vinai Kopp or #tech if you’re interested!

End of Year Recap - That was 2024

anita-miller — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Looking Back on an Awesome Year with Mage-OS – Happy New Year!

As 2024 wraps up, we want to take a moment to celebrate everything we’ve accomplished together and thank the amazing Mage-OS and Magento communities who made it all happen. This year has been incredible, full of progress, teamwork, and creative ideas.

Highlights from the Year

January - March: We started the year strong, kicking off exciting projects and sparking conversations about Magento’s future. Some big moments included the Mage-OS async events and Gowri’s inspiring journey with asynchronous systems. February’s Mage-OS Nederland member meeting was another highlight, showing how global our community truly is.

April - June: Spring kept the momentum going! In April, we celebrated new contributions and shared exciting plans for the platform. By June, we saw awesome progress in tools and community engagement, cementing Mage-OS as a space for fresh ideas and growth. We also had our first hire!

July - September: Summer was packed with activity, including community events like the Magento meetups across North America and Europe. These gatherings brought us closer together and sparked creative solutions for the future. This September defined our community, showcasing just how much we can achieve when we work together.

October - December: The final months of the year were full of energy and achievements. November’s release of Mage-OS Distribution 1.0.5 was a new milestone, reflecting the incredible effort and expertise of contributors worldwide. The behind-the-scenes stories from September’s and November’s events gave us a glimpse into the exciting possibilities ahead. The tech channel also became a lively hub, buzzing with ideas and collaboration. We were happy to welcome Fabrizio to the team, whose fresh perspective and innovative ideas have already made a big impact. We had our first retro and identified some exciting changes ahead to help improve our processes. The Italian community and events were set up and we’re excited to see the new activity and ideas!

Reclaiming the Magento Brand

Together with the Magento Association, we achieved something truly historic this year: we bought back the Magento brand. This is a massive achievement for our community and a testament to what we can accomplish together. To celebrate and raise awareness about Magento, we ran an extensive campaign across social media, with many LinkedIn posts showcasing the vibrant, dedicated community. If you haven’t already, check out our LinkedIn page for more highlights and stories: Mage-OS LinkedIn.

The Magento Association and Mage-OS have been collaborating to strengthen the Magento community through joint initiatives. We’ve engaged the community with collaborative discussions, and events to gather ideas and feedback, aiming to enhance the Magento Open Source ecosystem. Additionally, we are co-developing improved merchant documentation, hosted on a new domain (magento-opensource.com), which provides comprehensive guidance for configuring and using Magento 2, with options for both Magento Open Source and Mage-OS screenshots.

An Incredible Community

Throughout 2024, our community has been at the heart of everything we’ve done. Your passion, creativity, and support have made all the difference. From writing code to attending events and sharing ideas, every contribution has mattered.

Thank you to everyone who’s been part of this journey. Mage-OS wouldn’t be what it is without you, and together we’ve shown what’s possible when we work as a team.

Looking Ahead to 2025

As we head into the new year, we’re excited to keep building on everything we’ve achieved. 2025 is shaping up to be another big year with new projects, partnerships, and chances to grow. We can’t wait to see what we’ll accomplish together.

Join us at our Marketing and Tech meetings or the Italian sessions—we’re always glad to see new and familiar faces there!

Happy New Year!

From everyone at Mage-OS, we hope you have a fantastic New Year. Here’s to more milestones, more teamwork, and another awesome year with the Mage-OS community. Let’s make 2025 our best year yet!

Mage-OS Nov Recap

mage-os-team — Sun, 01 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Association News

Welcome to our newest partners and members!
- Jeanmarcos - community member
- Kyle - community member
- Ben Wake - community member
- Ivaylo Alexandrov - community member
- SamJUK - professional member
- Ajay Khampariya - professional member
- Jim Gilbert - community member
You too can become a Mage-OS member and join our vibrant community, starting from just €10 per year!

Content and Community Initiatives

A Compatibility Badge information page was successfully created this month, making it easier for the community to understand and adopt the badge. This initiative is seen as a step forward in creating clarity around compatibility with Mage-OS. Members are encouraged to spread the word to ensure broader awareness and adoption.

A case studies directory is in the works, aiming to centralize short-form studies categorized by verticals, business size, and region. Agencies could also link to their detailed studies, boosting visibility for their contributions.

The Project Showcase Initiative introduced metadata tags to highlight whether projects were built with Adobe Commerce, Magento, or Mage-OS. This change aims to showcase the ecosystem’s versatility and improve engagement, addressing the previous lackluster performance of the case study section.

Community engagement remains a priority. Updates were shared on ongoing community-led initiatives, including admin theme development and compatibility enhancements with Magento Open Source. To encourage more contributions, efforts are being made to recognize and promote contributors more effectively.

From a marketing perspective, the focus has been on promoting Mage-OS and Magento through SEO-optimized content, targeted campaigns, and case studies. The success of these efforts was evident at Meet Magento Netherlands, which saw an impressive turnout of 450 attendees. Preparations are underway for upcoming events in Amsterdam, India, and Florida to share platform updates and engage the global community.

Development Progress

Admin Theme Progress

This month saw significant progress on the admin theme. Key features like attributes, ratings, and attribute sets were completed, with ongoing work focusing on system imports and tax rules under the Taxes section. The team also unveiled a new admin theme demo that received positive feedback, bringing the project closer to an alpha release. Improvements in usability and visual appeal remain a priority.

Web Installer Advancements

The web installer is almost complete and ready for testing. Pending tasks include QA, security reviews, and documentation updates. Performance issues related to DI XML loading without caching were identified, and an interactive CLI installer is under development. These updates aim to streamline the installation process for users and improve overall performance.

AI Tools Development

Several AI-powered tools made significant strides:

AI Catalog Translation: The module, supporting DeepL, OpenAI, and Gemini engines, is fully functional and awaiting publication on Packagist after additional QA.
Backend Assistant: A proof-of-concept for real-time assistance in the admin panel was presented, with deployment options being explored.
AI Product Data Generation: Version 3.1 is live, with feedback being collected to refine the tool further.

Shared Page Builder Templates

Work began on features allowing the export and import of page builder templates, including all required CMS blocks. Development of an admin UI for this functionality is underway, with plans to publish the module on Packagist once stable. The initiative is part of a broader effort to simplify template management across sites.

Security and Updates

The team focused on improving responsiveness to security patches. Discussions centered on streamlining processes to address vulnerabilities more quickly. Additionally, Mage-OS 1.0.5 was released, achieving parity with Magento Open Source 2.4.7-p3 and addressing issues like search autocomplete and TinyMCE bugs.

AI Models and Shared Configurations

Discussions explored the potential for a unified configuration across AI modules, possibly using tools like LLPhant. While the idea was deferred for now, module-specific configurations will continue to evolve as more AI tools are adopted.

Community Engagement and Contributions

Efforts to raise awareness about Mage-OS included plans for an ambassador program (WIP) and increased presence at events. The importance of contributions back to Magento Open Source is important, encouraging community members to share improvements while leaving the decision up to individual contributors.

Branding and Compatibility Badge

Steps were taken to modernize Magento Open Source branding and align it with current standards. Work on the MageOS Compatibility Badge finished, with documentation and a dedicated info page in development to provide clarity on compatibility standards.

This month showcased remarkable progress across development, AI initiatives, community building, and security, setting a strong foundation for the months ahead.

Opportunities

Want to help promote Magento and Mage-OS? Join our weekly marketing meeting, public on Discord at 4 PM CET/3 PM UTC / 10 AM EST every Monday: chat.mage-os.org
Have a contribution idea or interested in the Mage-OS Distribution? Join our weekly tech meetings, public on Discord at 3 PM CET / 2 PM UTC / 9 AM EST every Tuesday: chat.mage-os.org
We’re looking for new features to enhance Mage-OS this year that will help to modernize and excite merchants. This might include AI enhancements, low/no code processes, or more. Talk to Vinai Kopp or #tech if you’re interested!

Release: Mage-OS Distribution 1.0.5

fabrizio-balliano — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMT

We are excited to announce the release of Mage-OS Distribution 1.0.5!

Release Notes

This release achieves full parity with Magento Open Source 2.4.7-p3, which incorporates critical platform security enhancements.

Please check the release notes for Magento Open Source 2.4.7 and the patch notes for 2.4.7-p3.

You can get Mage-OS from our primary composer repository, repo.mage-os.org.

What’s Changed

Full Changelog: 1.0.4…1.0.5

Mirror Updates

The latest Magento versions are also available from our public Magento mirror, mirror.mage-os.org:

2.4.4-p11
2.4.5-p10
2.4.6-p8
2.4.7-p3

Contribute

Are you interested in contributing to Mage-OS, or have a bug or improvement you’d like to make? We welcome pull requests at https://github.com/mage-os/mageos-magento2!

If you have a bigger project in mind, please join Discord and summarize your idea. We’d be delighted to hear from you, and help figure out how your idea best fits into Mage-OS!

Installing Mage-OS

You can create a new Mage-OS project with the following SSH command:

composer create-project --repository-url=https://repo.mage-os.org/ mage-os/project-community-edition .

After a successful composer download, you will need to run the installer. Please see DevDocs: Installation Guide for Mage-OS

Moving to Mage-OS

If you are already using Magento 2.4 and PHP 8.1+, you can change to Mage-OS by running the following in SSH:

composer config repositories.0 composer https://repo.mage-os.org/ && 
    composer require mage-os/product-community-edition --no-update && 
    composer remove magento/product-community-edition magento/composer-dependency-version-audit-plugin magento/composer-root-update-plugin --no-update && 
    composer remove sebastian/comparator --dev --no-update && 
    composer update --no-plugins --with-all-dependencies

We strongly recommend updating to the latest Magento version (currently 2.4.7-p2) before changing to Mage-OS, to minimize issues.

Your specific situation may require additional changes to your composer.json file. Generally this will involve changing magento/ package names to mage-os/, or updating dependency versions.

What’s Next?

Our Vision for Mage-OS

The purpose of the Mage-OS core distribution is to provide

Improved decoupling of packages
Improved developer experience while working with the product
Improved developer experience while contributing to the product
Full compatibility with Magento extensions
Focus on additional security
Reduced infrastructure stack dependencies
Low-level code improvements, for example in the areas of caching and indexing
Removal of most bundled extensions contained in upstream (still independently installable if desired)
A simple documented migration path to Magento Open Source or Adobe Commerce

Mage-OS Distribution releases are made independently of upstream releases. This enables us to move faster when desired, for example when enabling compatibility with new PHP versions.

Mage-OS will also maintain backwards compatibility and the ability to migrate upstream at multiple levels:

Compatibility with third-party extensions
Database level compatibility (data and schema)
API stability

All of our work on creating custom releases based on Magento is open source, meaning:

Mage-OS builds can be independently built and verified, and are fully reproducible;
If you want to create your own fork and version of Magento or Mage-OS, you can do that too.

That’s all for now!

Mage-OS Oct Recap

mage-os-team — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Association News

It was a busy month! Welcome to our newest partners and members!
- Jim Gilbert - community member
- Wouter Steenmeijer - community member
- Jeroen Boersma - professional member
- Ajay Khampariya - professional member
- Marco - professional member
- Davide - community member
- Salvatore - community member
- Paolo Capritta - community member
- Samuele - community member
- Sam - community member
- Luca Alessio Fuser - professional member
- Peter Banchev - community member
- Jiří Brada - community member
- Akarawuth Tamrareang \(Krit\) - professional member
- Mike Parker - professional member
You too can become a Mage-OS member and join our vibrant community, starting from just €10 per year!

Events

This season has been packed with Magento events, all reflecting the community’s dedication to innovation, open collaboration, and a bright future for Magento Open Source. Here’s a look at recent highlights:

Meet Magento Poland: Hosted in Poznań, this event centered on the theme of performance and sustainability. The “Future of Magento Open Source vol. 2” panel spotlighted the crucial role of community involvement in guiding the platform’s future direction.
Meet Magento NYC: This event brought together developers, merchants, and Adobe representatives, emphasizing Magento Open Source’s strategic importance within Adobe. Attendees enjoyed updates on deployment processes and community-led initiatives for the platform.
MageTitans Groningen: The Netherlands welcomed back MageTitans after a five-year break, featuring technical talks and community networking. Key highlights included MageWire Version 3, payment integration with Hyvä Checkout, and discussions on career growth within the Magento ecosystem.
Magentiamo Day: In Italy, the community came together after three years to celebrate Magento Open Source and its latest developments. Talks by Alessandro Ronchi and Rebecca Brocton highlighted efforts to simplify frontend development and revitalize the platform.

Content and Community Initiatives

Trade Shows and Magento Marketing In our push to elevate Magento Open Source’s profile, we discussed the importance of trade show presence. To manage budgets effectively, we’re exploring shared booth spaces and additional channels to increase Magento’s visibility. Our SEO strategies include encouraging partner agencies to link back to Magento Open Source.

Membership Badge A Magento Association membership badge is in development! This badge will allow members to show their affiliation proudly on their websites. Check out the MageOS membership and compatibility badges too!

Web Accessibility & ADA Compliance With accessibility in mind, we’ve started an ADA/EAA audit to address contrast issues and ensure compliance with upcoming 2025 EU standards. With that opportunity, we’re considering a shift away from the current WordPress theme to a simpler, more accessible design that will streamline updates. Additionally, the Italian version of the website is underway, and we’re aiming for a smooth language transition soon.

Upcoming Magento Association Board Elections

Get involved in shaping the future of the Magento ecosystem! The Magento Association is holding its annual board elections soon, with nominations and voting right around the corner. This is a valuable opportunity to contribute to the community’s direction and priorities.

Not a member yet at Magento Association? Joining is easy—become a part of the Magento community and gain access to vote in the election, network with other professionals, and stay updated on MA developments. Read the full election timeline here and join as a member here.

Development Progress

Mage-OS Version 1.0.5 is nearing release, led by Vinai and Fabrizio. The team is actively preparing for the launch, with the new version expected to be available soon.

Admin Theme Revamp Progress continues on the revamped admin theme, with a focus on Stores > Settings improvements. Updates to widgets, the page builder, and media gallery elements are nearly complete, thanks to the hard work from Artem..

AI-Driven Backend Assistant Our AI initiatives are gaining momentum! Ryan Sun presented a proof of concept for an AI-driven backend assistant designed to support merchants with real-time help. Additionally, a catalog translation extension from Davide Lunardon and Samuele is set for launch on Mage-OS Labs.

Search and Indexing Enhancements We’re implementing fixes for Magento’s search suggestions to avoid zero-result issues and working on improvements to the indexing framework. With Jakub and Ivan’s collaboration, these indexing updates aim to support large catalog stores with better performance and scalability.

DevDocs and SEO Improvements Documentation is a priority this month, with Nikola refining the developer docs by addressing broken links and enhancing installation guides. SEO efforts also include footer updates and strategies to boost MageOS.org’s search ranking.

Merge Conflicts & Branch Protection We tackled ongoing merge conflicts by testing solutions to avoid recurring issues, with Ryan and the team adjusting squash merges and branch protection rules. We’re also exploring ways to manage the protected 2.4-develop-upstream branch.

Opportunities

Want to help promote Magento and Mage-OS? Join our weekly marketing meeting, public on Discord at 4 PM CET/3 PM UTC / 10 AM EST every Monday: chat.mage-os.org
Have a contribution idea or interested in the Mage-OS Distribution? Join our weekly tech meetings, public on Discord at 3 PM CET / 2 PM UTC / 9 AM EST every Tuesday: chat.mage-os.org
We’re looking for new features to enhance Mage-OS this year that will help to modernize and excite merchants. This might include AI enhancements, low/no code processes, or more. Talk to Vinai Kopp or #tech if you’re interested!

Upcoming Events

Stay updated with the latest events and gatherings in the worldwide Magento community:

Mage Unconference – 01-03 November 2024, Cologne, Germany
Meet Commerce Spain - 12 November 2024, Barcelona, Spain

Stay tuned for more updates and announcements from Mage-OS!

Magento Community Events September: Highlights and Insights

anita-miller — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMT

The Magento community has had an exciting month filled with key events that showcased innovation, collaboration, and the drive to keep Magento Open Source at the forefront of eCommerce technology. From Poland to New York, the community has come together to explore new features, discuss future strategies, and share valuable knowledge. Here’s a roundup of the highlights from some of the biggest Magento events in September 2024.

Meet Magento Poland 2024: Speed and Sustainability

Hosted in the historic city of Poznań, Meet Magento Poland focused on performance under the theme “Need for Speed.” The event emphasized the importance of balancing high-performance eCommerce platforms with sustainability efforts.

At Meet Magento Poland 2024, one of the most anticipated discussions was the “Future of Magento Open Source vol. 2” panel. This session was pivotal in addressing the ongoing evolution of the Magento ecosystem, focusing on the collaboration between the Magento Association and Mage-OS. Both entities have been working closely to ensure Magento remains a robust, open-source platform for eCommerce, especially amid the rapid changes in the digital landscape.

One of the key themes discussed during the panel was the importance of community involvement in shaping Magento’s future. Both Mage-OS and the Magento Association emphasized the power of community-led initiatives, underscoring how the open-source platform relies on the collective effort of developers, agencies, and merchants.

The panel called for continued community participation in prioritizing updates, enhancements, and innovations that keep Magento relevant in a competitive market and #MagentoOpenForLife.

In his LinkedIn post, Paulius Nagy celebrated the vibrant and growing Magento community, noting how events like Meet Magento Poland are breathing new life into the platform. Key takeaways from the event included Adobe’s continued support for the open-source community and the exciting collaborations between Mage-OS and the Magento Association. The future of Magento Open Source, as discussed in the “Future of Magento Open Source Vol. 2” panel, shows a bright path ahead, with new features and stronger community-driven initiatives.

Meet Magento NYC 2024: A Call to Action

Meet Magento NYC 2024 was another major highlight, bringing together developers, merchants, and Adobe representatives.

Ritesh Somani’s keynote from Adobe acknowledged the critical role Magento Open Source plays in Adobe’s strategy, emphasizing community-led prioritization.

Mathias Schreiber of the Magento Association further energized the community by calling for more active participation in shaping the platform’s future.

The event also featured updates on deployment processes, community voting, and exciting new features in the Adobe ecosystem.

Check out the full Meet Magento NYC roundup.

MageTitans Groningen 2024: Code, Community, and Career

After a five-year break, MageTitans returned to the Netherlands, offering an exciting mix of technical talks and community networking.

Highlights included Willem Poortman’s unveiling of MageWire Version 3 and insights into payment integrations with Hyvä Checkout. The event also focused on career development within the Magento ecosystem, with Andreas von Studnitz sharing personal reflections on career paths for senior developers.

Read about MageTitans Groningen 2024 here and here

Magentiamo Day 2024: The Italian Magento Revival

After a three-year hiatus, the Italian Magento community came together for Magentiamo Day 2024. The event highlighted the resurgence of interest in Magento Open Source, with significant contributions from the Mage-OS and Hyvä projects.

Alessandro Ronchi’s presentation on Mage-OS provided a fresh perspective on how the community is revitalizing Magento, while Rebecca Brocton’s session on Hyvä showcased its potential for simplifying frontend development.

Check out Magentiamo Day 2024.

These events demonstrate the Magento community’s dedication to innovation, sustainability, and open collaboration. With continued support from Adobe, Mage-OS, and developers worldwide, the future of Magento Open Source remains bright, with exciting new features and strategic developments on the horizon.

Stay tuned for more updates from the community as the year progresses!

Mage-OS Sept Recap

anita-miller — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Association News

Welcome to our newest partners and members!
- Ricardo Muñoz Zuñiga - community member
- Michiel Gerritsen - professional member
You too can become a Mage-OS member and join our vibrant community, starting from just €10 per year!

Our first Release Manager

A warm welcome to Fabrizio Balliano , the new release manager for MageOS! Fabrizio brings a wealth of experience from his time with OpenMage and the Magento open-source community. Exciting times ahead as he gets up to speed with the processes!

Events

We’re gearing up for Meet Magento New York in just a few weeks! This is the perfect opportunity for the Mage-OS community to meet, network, and share ideas.

Don’t forget to capture the moment—share your photos with us on social media!

Women in eCommerce NYC
We’re excited to announce a special event— Lady Magento, Women in eCommerce NYC! This is a fantastic opportunity to connect with inspiring women in the Magento community and beyond. Join us as we celebrate leadership, innovation, and collaboration in the world of eCommerce. Register here to be part of this empowering event!

Community Hangout

Also, join us for a Community Hangout with the Mage-OS and Magento Associations the next day! Let’s talk about the future of eCommerce. More info here: Community Hangout.

Tell us about Meet Magento Poland!

We’d love to hear about your experience at Meet Magento Poland!
If you attended, feel free to share your thoughts or photos with us!

Great insights and visuals from the event—check out the photos on LinkedIn! Feel free to share your experiences if you attended.

Content

Theme Issues: Our current theme is limiting post creation for initiative pages. We’re working on code fixes to remove unwanted elements like dates and authors.

WordPress Community: Temporary suspension of automatic plugin/theme updates due to community disruptions. We’re monitoring the situation.

Partner Page: Updating sponsor logos for partner pages with gold, silver, and bronze backgrounds, but progress has been slowed by technical issues.

Community InvolvementYour voice matters! Join our upcoming meetings and contribute to shaping the future of Mage-OS. We’re aiming for strong community participation after the summer break!

Development Progress

Mage-OS Store Launch: The first live stores, Traktor Servis store created by Inchoo (who are proud Mage-Os members). And Jajuma store, both feature custom functionalities using Mage-OS and Hyvä. A case study was created about Traktor Servis by Inchoo.

Web Installer Progress: We’re 99% done! Kudos to Jakub Winkler for leading this important project.

Magento: Magento has a security update coming out 8 Oct, we’ve started preparing repositories for it.

Admin Theme Overhaul: Significant progress has been made on the new admin theme. The Customer section is complete, and the Marketing section is next!

AI Backend Assistant: Ryan Sun is developing an AI-driven assistant to simplify Magento’s backend tasks, improving usability for new merchants.

Search Suggestion Fixes: A new patch by Ryan Sun will improve Magento 2’s search suggestions, addressing the “zero results” issue.

Opportunities

Want to help promote Magento and Mage-OS? Join our weekly marketing meeting, public on Discord at 4 PM CET/3 PM UTC / 10 AM EST every Monday: chat.mage-os.org
Have a contribution idea or interested in the Mage-OS Distribution? Join our weekly tech meetings, public on Discord at 3 PM CET / 2 PM UTC / 9 AM EST every Tuesday: chat.mage-os.org
We’re looking for new features to enhance Mage-OS this year that will help to modernize and excite merchants. This might include AI enhancements, low/no code processes, or more. Talk to Vinai Kopp or #tech if you’re interested!

Upcoming Events

Stay updated with the latest events and gatherings in the worldwide Magento community:

Meet Magento New York - 10 October 2024, New York
Meet Magento NL – 31 October 2024, in Amsterdam

Check out our events page.

Stay tuned for more updates and announcements from Mage-OS!

Mage-OS Aug Recap

anita-miller — Sat, 31 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Association News

Welcome to our newest partners and members!
- Joshua Hughes - community member
- Greg Caughill - community member
- Lucas van Staden - professional member
- Sean Breeden - professional member
You too can become a Mage-OS member and join our vibrant community, starting from just €10 per year!

Events

We’re thrilled to announce that Meet Magento Poland is coming to Poznań, where Mage-OS is proudly registered! This year’s event will be extra special as some of our founding members hail from Poznań. Don’t miss the chance to meet Maciej Kalkowski, one of our key figures, in person—connect with him on LinkedIn.

At the event, we’ll be hosting an exciting panel talk featuring multiple participants, showcasing the latest developments and insights from the Mage-OS community. It’s going to be an incredible time for networking, learning, and celebrating our vibrant ecosystem.

We are also excited to share that Vinai Kopp will be speaking at Meet Magento Poland (MM24PL), discussing Mage-OS and what it has become since its first inception at MM12PL. Connect with Vinai on LinkedIn to learn more!

As a special benefit for Mage-OS members, use the discount code MOSmember2024 to enjoy exclusive savings on your registration. We can’t wait to see you there!

Join Us at Meet Magento New York!

Get ready for Meet Magento New York, happening soon! This is a prime opportunity to connect with fellow community members, industry leaders, and key Mage-OS contributors who will be there in full force. It’s a fantastic chance to engage, learn, and share insights on all things Magento.

Thien-Lan Weber will be moderating an “Ask Me Anything” panel at MM24NYC to dispel misconceptions that prevent merchants from choosing Magento/Adobe. For this, we need the Community to submit their questions! You can submit your questions here. Connect with Thien-Lan on LinkedIn to stay updated!

For a limited time, get 20% off your tickets to Meet Magento New York 2024! Use Code - mageos20 valid till Sep 30.

Don’t miss out—grab your tickets now at Meet Magento New York and make sure to join us for an event packed with innovation and collaboration!

Marketing

**First Round Success!**Our initial social media posts were well-received. Here’s what’s next:

Guidebook: We’re creating a guidebook to simplify future posts.
Partner Outreach: A thank-you email went out to Mage-OS partners, encouraging them to use our visuals.
Website Update: We’ll add a page or blog post with instructions and asset links, and share this on Discord.
Unified Messaging: Using the hashtag #openforlife to strengthen our message.
Calendar Finalization: We’re finalizing our social media calendar for ongoing campaigns.

**New Logos & Assets
**We’ve released new logos and visual assets! There are three design options available; you can find them here. Thanks to Rebecca for her great work!

LinkedIn Campaign
Our first LinkedIn campaign used these assets was launched, check out the posts here:

Thien-Lan’s post

Ryan Copeland’s post

John Prendergast’s post

Rohan Doshi’s post

Luke Collymore’s post

Anita Miller’s post

Oliver Jaufmann’s post

Foundation Commerce

Develo’s post

MageOS InitiativesWe’re reviewing our current initiatives and planning updates to show our progress. Look out for videos or screenshots highlighting our work, and check for updates on the homepage.

Partner Engagement StrategyWe’re prepared an email to partners with campaign assets, offering clear guidance on how to share our content effectively.

**Boosting Social Media Presence
**We’re ramping up our social media activities on Magento Open Source channels. The Magento Association is also looking for volunteers to help run social media to promote the “Magento Open Source” brand, initiatives, and everything happening in the Community. Only 2 to 4 hours per week are needed. Details here.

Upcoming ContentA new ‘Join and Participate’ page is being planned, with more posts to raise awareness and direct traffic.

Promoting Success StoriesWe’re discussing ways to promote success stories, like a recent case of a UK agency choosing Magento over Shopify. Let us know if you can write a case study!

Product PositioningWe’ve been refining our messaging to help merchants understand the best fit between SaaS and Magento Open Source. Our goal is to provide transparency and clarity.

Upcoming Panel Discussion at MMPLPreparations are underway for a panel featuring industry experts—including agencies, merchants, and hosting professionals—to explore key topics affecting our community.

**Myth-Busting SaaS vs. Open Source
**We’re committed to debunking myths surrounding SaaS and Open Source with clear, business-focused facts. Check it out here.

Community InvolvementYour voice matters! Join our upcoming meetings and contribute to shaping the future of Mage-OS. We’re aiming for strong community participation after the summer break!

Development Progress

New Admin Theme ProgressArtem is making great strides with the new admin theme— the Customer section is complete, and the Marketing section is next!

Search EnhancementsRyan Sun has submitted a merge request to improve search suggestions, which should make a better experience for new merchants. Check out the merge request.

**Mage-OS 1.0.4 Released!
**The new distribution is out, this release brings parity with #Magento Open Source 2.4.7-p2, with the latest platform security fixes. See the full release notes and install/update instructions here

Nightly Builds ResumedNightly builds are generating again, ensuring we stay on track!

New ChatGPT Model for Document GenerationDavid and Nikola are collaborating on an innovative model for docs generation. Updates are available in the documentation channel.

If you can help, check out the Taiga board for available tickets: Mage-OS Technical Initiatives Kanban.

Opportunities

Want to help promote Magento and Mage-OS? Join our weekly marketing meeting, public on Discord at 4 PM CET/3 PM UTC / 10 AM EST every Monday: chat.mage-os.org
Have a contribution idea or interested in the Mage-OS Distribution? Join our weekly tech meetings, public on Discord at 3 PM CET / 2 PM UTC / 9 AM EST every Tuesday: chat.mage-os.org
We’re looking for new features to enhance Mage-OS this year that will help to modernize and excite merchants. This might include AI enhancements, low/no code processes, or more. Talk to Vinai Kopp or #tech if you’re interested!

Upcoming Events

Stay updated with the latest events and gatherings in the worldwide Magento community:

Mage Titans Groningen – 13 September 2024, Groningen
Meet Magento Poland - 30 September 2024, Poznan
Meet Magento New York - 10 October 2024, New York
Magentiamo Day - 11 October, Milan: the Italian Magentocommunity is celebrating its 10th birthday
Meet Magento NL – 31 October 2024, in Amsterdam

Stay tuned for more updates and announcements from Mage-OS!

Release: Mage-OS Distribution 1.0.4

mage-os-team — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMT

We are proud to announce Mage-OS Distribution version 1.0.4 is now available!

Release Notes

This Mage-OS update brings parity with Magento Open Source 2.4.7-p2, which was recently released with platform security fixes. When upgrading from an earlier version, please be sure to rotate your encryption key.

Please see the release notes for Magento Open Source 2.4.7 and the patch notes for 2.4.7-p2.

You can get Mage-OS from our primary composer repository, repo.mage-os.org.

What’s Changed

Security changes from upstream 2.4.7-p2 by @rhoerr in #101

Full Changelog: 1.0.3…1.0.4

Mirror Updates

The latest Magento versions are also available from our public Magento mirror, mirror.mage-os.org:

2.4.4-p10
2.4.5-p9
2.4.6-p7
2.4.7-p2

Contributors

Thank you to Ryan Hoerr for managing this release, and to all that contributed to the Magento Open Source security reports and fixes.

Thank you also to all who attend our weekly tech meetings, and to all who have ongoing efforts underway!

Contribute

Are you interested in contributing to Mage-OS, or have a bug or improvement you’d like to make? We welcome pull requests at https://github.com/mage-os/mageos-magento2!

If you have a bigger project in mind, please join Discord and summarize your idea. We’d be delighted to hear from you, and help figure out how your idea best fits into Mage-OS!

Installing Mage-OS

You can create a new Mage-OS project with the following SSH command:

composer create-project --repository-url=https://repo.mage-os.org/ mage-os/project-community-edition .

After a successful composer download, you will need to run the installer. Please see DevDocs: Installation Guide for Mage-OS

Moving to Mage-OS

If you are already using Magento 2.4 and PHP 8.1+, you can change to Mage-OS by running the following in SSH:

composer config repositories.0 composer https://repo.mage-os.org/ && \
    composer require mage-os/product-community-edition --no-update && \
    composer remove magento/product-community-edition magento/composer-dependency-version-audit-plugin magento/composer-root-update-plugin --no-update && \
    composer remove sebastian/comparator --dev --no-update && \
    composer update --no-plugins --with-all-dependencies

We strongly recommend updating to the latest Magento version (currently 2.4.7-p2) before changing to Mage-OS, to minimize issues.

Your specific situation may require additional changes to your composer.json file. Generally this will involve changing magento/ package names to mage-os/, or updating dependency versions.

What’s Next?

Our Vision for Mage-OS

The purpose of the Mage-OS core distribution is to provide

Improved decoupling of packages
Improved developer experience while working with the product
Improved developer experience while contributing to the product
Full compatibility with Magento extensions
Focus on additional security
Reduced infrastructure stack dependencies
Low-level code improvements, for example in the areas of caching and indexing
Removal of most bundled extensions contained in upstream (still independently installable if desired)
A simple documented migration path to Magento Open Source or Adobe Commerce

Mage-OS Distribution releases are made independently of upstream releases. This enables us to move faster when desired, for example when enabling compatibility with new PHP versions.

Mage-OS will also maintain backwards compatibility and the ability to migrate upstream at multiple levels:

Compatibility with third-party extensions
Database level compatibility (data and schema)
API stability

All of our work on creating custom releases based on Magento is open source, meaning:

Mage-OS builds can be independently built and verified, and are fully reproducible;
If you want to create your own fork and version of Magento or Mage-OS, you can do that too.

That’s all for now!

Mage-OS July 2024 Recap

mage-os-team — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Association News

Welcome to our newest partners and members!
- Develo - Bronze partner

“At Develo our support for Mage-OS is about embracing the true essence of Magento’s community-driven spirit. We are confident that Mage-OS is going to play a pivotal role in advancing the Magento Open Source platform and ecosystem so we’re very excited to be a part of the journey!

Over the years, the Magento community has been invaluable to us, and now Mage-OS alongside the Magento Association gives us a new way to offer our support to the community.

If you can, please consider sponsoring — together we will make a significant impact on the future of Magento.” -Luke Collymore

Nataliia - Professional member
Big Pixel - Professional member
Andrea Saccà - Professional member
Bob - Community member
You too can become a Mage-OS member and join our vibrant community, starting from just €10 per year!

July Events

MxLDN London User Group: July 31st. Let’s discuss the Magento brand campaign and connect with the community!

Development Progress

New Releases and Community Updates

Mage-OS Distribution 1.0.3: The latest release aligns with Magento Open Source 2.4.7-p1, along with improvements in testing suites. Check out the full release notes and join the conversation on LinkedIn.
Crypt Key Rotation: Gene Commerce has released a package to help encryption key rotation for the recent security patch. Check it out: Gene_EncryptionKeyManager

Ongoing Projects

Contribution Back to Magento Open Source: We’re looking for contributors to open and follow up on PRs to the magento/magento2 repo. Your involvement can make a difference!
Admin Theme & Build Updates: Admin theme improvements and build improvements are ongoing. We’re working on resolving GitHub permissions and nightly build issues.
AI Product Data Generation: Our AI product data generation module is nearing a stable status (v0.2.1). Feedback is welcome!

Content and Marketing

For the last couple of months, we’ve been focusing on collaborating with the Magento Association to provide content, launch, promote and enrich the new Magento-opensource.com website.

This website is targeting merchants and helping agencies support their recommendations to use Magento.

Our marketing and content meetings (on Mondays 3pm CEST) are bringing together anyone who is interested in increasing the share of voice for the Magento brand in general and here is what we can now offer:

Clear Magento brand guidelines. Yes, we can now use the Magento logo and share with the world why the platform still works wonder for you and your merchant.
Talking points to highlight the benefits of Open Source vs Saas when it comes to eCommerce.
Social Media support: We’ve launched new social accounts for Magento Open Source:
- @magentoOSS on Twitter
- Magento Open Source on LinkedIn

=> We need help to manage these social media accounts. Apply here

Current projects

Case Studies & B2B Features: We are working on compiling case studies, while John P. has been focusing on organizing B2B features in a way that tells a compelling story. We’re adding user stories to illustrate each feature’s impact. A dedicated B2B page is coming soon. Contribute your knowledge and ideas: B2B Feature List
Have more content to include into the magento-opensource.com website? Get in touch.
Events in Italy: Ruggero and Alessandro are gearing up for Magentiamo Day on October 11th. There’s also a series of webinars lined up, including sessions in Italian, to engage the local developer community.

Coming soon

Technical projects highlight: We want to provide more visibility on all our innovative projects including progress and how more people can contribute. One way is to set specific cards or landing page on Mage-OS.org website
Magento Brand marketing campaign: We are working on a couple of visual that Magento supporters can use to consistently and impactfully bring back positive conversation about our eCommerce platform

Community contribution

Mage Dispatch: Community newsletter
Got more ideas? Join our weekly meetings and we can help you bring it to life!

Opportunities

Want to help promote Magento and Mage-OS? Join our weekly marketing meeting, public on Discord at 4 PM CET/3 PM UTC / 10 AM EST every Monday: chat.mage-os.org
Have a contribution idea or interested in the Mage-OS Distribution? Join our weekly tech meetings, public on Discord at 3 PM CET / 2 PM UTC / 9 AM EST every Tuesday: chat.mage-os.org
We’re looking for new features to enhance Mage-OS this year that will help to modernize and excite merchants. This might include AI enhancements, low/no code processes, or more. Talk to Vinai Kopp or #tech if you’re interested!

Upcoming Events

Stay updated with the latest events and gatherings in the worldwide Magento community:

MxLDN - 31 July 2024, London
Meet Magento Malaysia - 27 August 2024, Kuala Lumpur
Mage Titans Groningen – 13 September 2024
Meet Magento Poland - 30 September 2024, Poznan
Meet Magento New York - 10 October 2024, New York
Magentiamo & Webinars: - 11 October 2024, Milan
Don’t miss our Italian-focused webinars on September 10th, October 22nd, and November 20th.
Meet Magento NL – 31 October 2024, in Amsterdam
Mage Unconference - 1-3 November 2024, Cologne
Meet Commerce ES - 12 November 2024, Barcelona

Get the full list on our Events Calendar

Stay tuned for more updates and announcements from Mage-OS!

Release: Mage-OS Distribution 1.0.3

ryan-hoerr — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMT

We are proud to announce Mage-OS Distribution version 1.0.3 is now available!

Release Notes

This Mage-OS update brings parity with Magento Open Source 2.4.7 and 2.4.7-p1, plus additional contributions particularly to the unit and integration testing suites.

Please see the release notes for Magento Open Source 2.4.7 and the patch notes for 2.4.7-p1.

What’s Changed

Changes and fixes from upstream 2.4.7
Security changes from upstream 2.4.7-p1 by @rhoerr in #98
GitHub Actions
- Add inputs to mage-os/github-actions/coding-standard-baseline by @Tjitse-E in #59
- Add full integration tests workflow by @vpodorozh in #57
- Add Nx integration tests by @adamzero1 in #64
Unit and Integration Test Fixes
- Integration tests/ fix failed tests by @vpodorozh in #61
- Resolve merge conflicts by @Vinai in #87
- Update incorrect dataprovider for Catalog\SortingTest by @vpodorozh in #89
- GraphQl mutation state check | PlaceOrder and Customer actions - skip list adjustments by @vpodorozh in #90
- Skip some of the Bundle tests as the underlying problems are too big … by @vpodorozh in #92
- Fix expireDate formating for integration test by @vpodorozh in #91
- #79 - add shutdown functions wrapper to make sure TestModules will be… by @vpodorozh in #93
- Fix failed tests after the upstream update - db&app isolation were missed by @vpodorozh in #94
- Fix invalid data-sets for unit tests by @vpodorozh in #95
Resolve merge conflict https://github.com/mage-os/mageos-magen… by @vitaliy-golomoziy in #58

Full Changelog: 1.0.1…1.0.3

Contributors

@vitaliy-golomoziy made their first contribution in #58
@vpodorozh made their first contribution in #57

Thank you to all that contributed toward this release, including:

Adam Crossland
Christian Münch
Damien Retzinger
Ihor Sviziev
Jakub Winkler
Max Novik
Ryan Hoerr
Simon Sprankel
Tjitse Efdé
Vinai Kopp
Vladyslav Podorozhnyi

Thank you also to all who attend our weekly tech meetings, and to all who have ongoing efforts underway!

Contribute

Are you interested in contributing to Mage-OS, or have a bug or improvement you’d like to make? We welcome pull requests at https://github.com/mage-os/mageos-magento2!

If you have a bigger project in mind, please join Discord and summarize your idea. We’d be delighted to hear from you, and help figure out how your idea best fits into Mage-OS!

Installing Mage-OS

You can create a new Mage-OS project with the following SSH command:

composer create-project --repository-url=https://repo.mage-os.org/ mage-os/project-community-edition .

After a successful composer download, you will need to run the installer. Please see DevDocs: Installation Guide for Mage-OS

Moving to Mage-OS

If you are already using Magento 2.4 and PHP 8.1+, you can change to Mage-OS by running the following in SSH:

composer config repositories.0 composer https://repo.mage-os.org/ && \
    composer require mage-os/product-community-edition --no-update && \
    composer remove magento/product-community-edition magento/composer-dependency-version-audit-plugin magento/composer-root-update-plugin --no-update && \
    composer remove sebastian/comparator --dev --no-update && \
    composer update --no-plugins --with-all-dependencies

We strongly recommend updating to the latest Magento version (currently 2.4.7-p1) before changing to Mage-OS, to minimize issues.

Your specific situation may require additional changes to your composer.json file. Generally this will involve changing magento/ package names to mage-os/, or updating dependency versions.

What’s Next?

Our Vision for Mage-OS

The purpose of the Mage-OS core distribution is to provide

Improved decoupling of packages
Improved developer experience while working with the product
Improved developer experience while contributing to the product
Full compatibility with Magento extensions
Focus on additional security
Reduced infrastructure stack dependencies
Low-level code improvements, for example in the areas of caching and indexing
Removal of most bundled extensions contained in upstream (still independently installable if desired)
A simple documented migration path to Magento Open Source or Adobe Commerce

Mage-OS Distribution releases are made independently of upstream releases. This enables us to move faster when desired, for example when enabling compatibility with new PHP versions.

Mage-OS will also maintain backwards compatibility and the ability to migrate upstream at multiple levels:

Compatibility with third-party extensions
Database level compatibility (data and schema)
API stability

All of our work on creating custom releases based on Magento is open source, meaning:

Mage-OS builds can be independently built and verified, and are fully reproducible;
If you want to create your own fork and version of Magento or Mage-OS, you can do that too.

That’s all for now!

Mage-OS June 2024 Recap

mage-os-team — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Association News

Welcome to our newest partners and members!
- Nikola - community member
- Szymon Niedziela - professional member
- Ryan Sun - community member
- Neo - professional member
- Lukasz Linczewski - community member
- Mark van der Sanden - professional member
You too can become a Mage-OS member and join our vibrant community, starting from just €10 per year!

Governance

It’s annual meeting time! In June both Mage-OS and Mage-OS NL held their annual general assemblies to review and close out the previous year. In both cases, the members voted to approve all reports and release board members for the 2023 year.

Mage-OS Live 2024:

Agenda
- What we’ve been up to (Vinai Kopp, President)
- 2023 financial report (Maciej Kalkowski, Board)
- Business Control Committee report (Laura Folco, Business Control Committee)
- Open Q&A
- 2023 closing resolutions and votes
- Free votes and motions
Check out Maciej’s recap
Link to recording

Mage-OS Nederlands General Assembly:

The board meeting at Boerengoed Enspijk was lively and productive! They approved the 2023 financial statements and bid farewell to Michiel Gerritsen, with Jeroen Boersma stepping in as treasurer for the rest of 2024. Exciting events are coming up: Women in eCommerce Texel on July 25, MageTitans Groningen on September 13, and Meet Magento NL on October 31. After the updates, they enjoyed a BBQ in perfect weather, catching up with members. Thanks to Buckaroo, Rens Gerritsen, Evelina Lemmers-Molenaar, and board members Tabitha Karta and Karlijn Löwik for organizing. Join next time for just 10 euros!

Check out their recap at LinkedIn Recap

Miscellaneous

Busy times at Mage-OS: We’ve been quite active with numerous projects and improvements.
Magento Association Changes: We are pleased to see positive changes in the Magento Association, such as the addition of Mathias Schreiber to the community.
Strengthening the Community: Our primary goal is to make the Magento community stronger.
Ongoing Projects: Exciting developments include a new web installer, an improved admin panel, and improving indexer performance.
Kudos from Thien-Lan Weber: Special recognition was given to Mage-OS Nederland for their efforts.

Events Recaps

Meet Magento UK: This year’s Meet Magento UK was the biggest and most successful yet! We successfully participated in Meet Magento UK on June 17-18. The event featured insightful sessions on the latest Magento developments, strategies for optimizing e-commerce performance, and innovative solutions for enhancing customer experiences. Keynote speakers, including industry leaders and Magento experts, highlighted the evolution of Magento and the impact of open-source contributions. It was an inspiring event that underscored the strength and dedication of our MageOS community. Check out the recap from John.

Meet Magento Brasil Meet Magento Brasil was a fantastic event held on June 24, 2024, in São Paulo. We were thrilled to have Cainan represent Mage-OS with his outstanding presentation. We are grateful for his efforts and dedication in showcasing Mage-OS, and to the Brasil community for their interest in the project.

Development Progress

Our development team has been hard at work, making significant strides in various areas:

New admin theme:

Refactored various sections and backgrounds, enhancing consistency.
Identified discrepancies in sections and naming from different developers and migrations.
Focused on configuring the product edit page, including prices and related products.

AI Product Data Generation:

Stable release 0.2.1, with documentation to be added.
Plan to gather feedback before marking it as a stable release.

Magento Open Source Website:

Our MVP launch of Magento-opensource.com was a great success, receiving positive feedback and attracting over 115 daily visitors in the first week. The content team is now planning Phase One improvements and a major marketing campaign. Join our Monday meeting if you want to help out.

Analytics & SEO:

We are implementing detailed analytics and refining our SEO strategy to better understand and attract our audience.

Opportunities

Want to help promote Magento and Mage-OS? Join our weekly marketing meeting, public on Discord at 4 PM CET/3 PM UTC / 10 AM EST every Monday: chat.mage-os.org
Have a contribution idea or interested in the Mage-OS Distribution? Join our weekly tech meetings, public on Discord at 3 PM CET / 2 PM UTC / 9 AM EST every Tuesday: chat.mage-os.org
We’re looking for new features to enhance Mage-OS this year that will help to modernize and excite merchants. This might include AI enhancements, low/no code processes, or more. Talk to Vinai Kopp or #tech if you’re interested!

Upcoming Events

Stay updated with the latest events and gatherings in the worldwide Magento community:

Mage Titans Groningen – 13 September 2024
Meet Magento NL – 31 October 2024, in Amsterdam

Stay tuned for more updates and announcements from Mage-OS!

Mage-OS May 2024 Recap

mage-os-team — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Association News

Welcome and thank you to our newest partners and members:
- MDOQ - Gold Partner
  
  “Making the decision to sponsor Mage-OS and become a gold partner was the easiest decision we’ve made. We are very excited for the future of the Magento platform.” - Aaron Moss
- JH - Bronze Partner
  
  “JH consistently embraces innovation and supports open-source projects. Mage-OS exemplifies this by improving often overlooked areas of Magento. We are committed to backing Mage-OS both financially and with our time, recognizing that a strong community, like the one around Mage-OS and the Magento Association, is essential for a great platform.” - Jamie Huskisson
- Joost Wanetie - Professional Member
- Wim De Nocker - Professional Member
- Theunis Boomsma - Community Member
- Artem Kozynets - Community Member
- Krzysztof Ratajczyk - Community Member
- Martino Massalini - Community Member
- Muhammed Can Özdemir - Community Member
- Nils Preuß - Community Member
You too can become a Mage-OS member, starting from 10 EUR/year! Join Mage-OS, and show the world this is something worth supporting.
The annual Mage-OS member meeting will be June 19th from 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. CET via an online meeting. We are excited to host you all soon, fill you in on what we’ve been doing and what we have planned, and hear your thoughts too! This is a members-only event, but we do plan on recording it for any that cannot attend. Meeting invitations will be sent to all members soon.

Marketing Updates

Focus: increase Magento brand awareness, countering competitors and debunking the myth that Magento is dead. We’re launching a new campaign with consistent visuals and taglines to highlight the strength of Magento’s community and ecosystem.
Magento-opensource.com Project Progress:
- The objective of magento-opensource.com is to provide merchants with information about the benefits of choosing Magento Open Source for their eCommerce website.
- It will complement Mage-OS.org, which is more technical and developer focused.
- This initiative is being led by Danny Verkade from the Magento Association, ensuring alignment with community goals to bring the Magento brand back to the market.
- The goal is to launch a MVP site by Meet Magento UK (June 18th, 2024) to highlight the platform’s unmatched features, the advantages of open source, and Magento’s community and history.
LinkedIn Campaign: Our goal is to increase Magento’s share of voice. Strong campaign visuals development is being led by David Lambauer and UK agency Vovi studio. The idea is to leverage media assets from the whole community to create cut through and compete with other platforms and their massive marketing budget.

See our Marketing project board or Website project board for more info or to help out.

Development Progress

Admin UI Enhancements: Artem Kozynets is working on a new sticky mode and other UI enhancements to admin grids.
Build Issues: Vinai Kopp is resolving version conflicts in libraries and Magento functional testing framework compatibility, in preparation for our next Mage-OS Distribution release.
AI Product Data Generation: Ryan Sun has released version 0.2.1 of the AI module, with a new back-off mechanism for API responses. See, use, or contribute to it on the Mage-OS Lab repository.

See our Technical Initiatives project board for more info or to help out. We have many tasks available to pick up!

Community Engagement

Member Contributions: We’re always looking for more participation from the community to improve Magento’s functionalities.
Recognition System: We’re starting a new badge system to reward active community members and showcase the impact of their contributions. Stay tuned.

Thank you for your continued support and contributions. Together, we’re building a stronger Magento!

Upcoming Events

Meet Magento UK – 17-18 June 2024, in London – This great event is coming up quickly. Find Vinai Kopp, John Hughes, Thien-Lan Weber, Aaron Moss, John Prendergast, and others to talk about Mage-OS. We hope to see you there!
Women in Magento drinks at MM24UK – 17th June 4pm to 6pm at Patch St Paul London
Meet Magento Brasil – 24 June 2024, in São Paulo – Cainan Senra will be talking about Mage-OS and the future of Magento. Don’t miss it!
Meet Magento Singapore – August 2024, more details to come
Mage Titans Groningen – 13 September 2024
Meet Magento Poland – 30 September - 1 October 2024, in Poznań
Meet Magento New York – 10 October 2024, in New York City
Meet Magento Netherlands – 31 October 2024, in Amsterdam

Stay connected,
Mage-OS Association

Join us for the General Assembly:
Date: June 19th
Time: 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. (CET)
Not a member yet? Join now for €10/year to participate! Become a member.

Mage-OS April 2024 Recap

mage-os-team — Tue, 07 May 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Association News

Welcome to our newest members!
- Kliment Ognianov - Community Member
- Cainan Senra - Community Member
- Ryan Grippeling - Community Member
You too can become a Mage-OS member, starting from 10 EUR/year! Show your support, and show the world this is something worth supporting.
We have projects now to help manage efforts! Thanks to Anita for pushing this forward. Please contact Anita to join a project board, or if you are interested in contributing to Mage-OS.
- Mage-OS technical initiatives: https://tree.taiga.io/project/mage-os-mage-os-technical-initiatives/kanban
- Mage-OS website: https://tree.taiga.io/project/mage-os-mage-os-website/kanban
- Mage-OS marketing: https://tree.taiga.io/project/mage-os-mage-os-marketing/kanban
- Magento-OpenSource.org planning and content creation: https://tree.taiga.io/project/mage-os-mage-os-magento-opensourceorg/kanban

Development Progress

Artem Kozynets is working on implementing the new admin theme! Progress is going great, the structure is in place, and login and dashboard are already done.
Gowri Sankar is working on enhancements to the async events suite, including adding additional repositories for cloud service event providers.
Ryan Sun is continuing improvements to a catalog data AI generation module, within the Mage-OS Lab. If you’re interested in exploring or helping out, check out https://github.com/mage-os-lab/module-catalog-data-ai/issues and get in touch with him!
Vinai and Christian continue working on updates to the Magento Mirrors and Mage-OS Distribution for the recent Magento updates. They’ve handled issues with a broken upstream release of Magento 2.4.4, as well as incorporating the new closed-source cloud modules from Adobe, and they continue working toward getting it all finalized and published.

Opportunities

Have a contribution idea or interested in the Mage-OS Distribution? Join our weekly tech meetings, public on Discord at 3 PM CET/2 PM UTC / 9 AM EST every Tuesday: chat.mage-os.org
Want to help promote Magento and Mage-OS? Join our weekly marketing meeting, public on Discord at 4 PM CET/3 PM UTC / 10 AM EST every Monday: chat.mage-os.org
Magento Association is creating a new content site for magento-opensource.com, and our content committee is working right now to plan and build that out. Talk to John Hughes if you’re interested.
We’re looking for new features to enhance Mage-OS this year that will help to modernize and excite merchants. This might include AI enhancements, low/no code processes, or more. Talk to Vinai Kopp or #tech if you’re interested!

Events

Meet Magento Romania - Mage-OS Panel
- Board Members Maceij and John formed part of an impromptu panel, to replace Mathias Schreiber’s Magento Association talk, given he was sadly unable to attend. Alongside long-time Mage-OS contributors Ivan Chepurnyi and Jakub Winkler, and hosted by event organizer Vald Stanescu, the panel discussed all things Magento, Adobe, Magento Association, and of course, Mage-OS, including the positivity we see in the community, our joint collaboration efforts (with the MA) and the need to promote the Magento brand/platform.
Here are some upcoming events:
- Meet Magento UK - 17-18 June 2024, in London
- Meet Magento Brasil - 24 June 2024, in São Paulo
- Meet Magento Singapore - August 2024, more details to come
- Mage Titans Groningen - 13 September 2024
- Meet Magento New York - September/October 2024, more details to come
- Meet Magento Netherlands - 31 October 2024, in Amsterdam

Mage-OS March 2024 Recap

mage-os-team — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Association News

Welcome to our newest partners and members!
- Interactiv4 - Gold Partner
- JetRails - Bronze Partner
- Crisp Chat - Professional Member
- Tihomir Vranješ - Professional Member
- Artur F. - Professional Member
- Rick Daalhuizen - Community Member
- Marcio Maciel - Community Member
You too can become a Mage-OS member, starting from 10 EUR/year! Show your support, and show the world this is something worth supporting.
New Hire! Please welcome Anita Miller as our Chief of Staff! Anita will be helping to organize our efforts and take Mage-OS to the next level. Anita has been working with Magento for a long time, both as a developer and as a project manager, and we’re excited at what she’ll help us to accomplish with Mage-OS.

We received many good quality applications in just one week, and want to sincerely thank everyone who took the time to apply. We hope to see you around on Discord and through our various activities.

Miscellaneous

In case you missed them, see our recent articles!
- Mage-OS Nederland member meeting recap - Read about Mage-OS NL’s annual meeting, elections, and lessons learned from their first year in organizing a local community association
- Mage-OS Async Events: Gowri’s Journey - Learn the story behind the async events module contributed by Gowri and Agilent Technologies, and how it works and can help you create reliable and robust integrations with Mage-OS and Magento.
David Lambauer and Thorben Höhn have started a German-language podcast about Mage-OS and what’s going on around it. In the latest episode, they interview Vinai Kopp, board president and tech lead of Mage-OS. You can find the episodes and subscribe here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA28nKbnKeskROMmMqhhxwxPeNaA9N8jf

Development Progress

Artem Kozynets has completed a second round of UAT feedback sessions for his new admin theme concept, and has started developing the new admin theme. Thank you for everyone who participated!
Vladyslav Podorozhnyi has gotten the unit testing suite working! We are immensely grateful for the work of Vlad and others on these unglamorous but immensely important features for ensuring the stability of the Mage-OS platform.

Opportunities

Have a contribution idea or interested in the Mage-OS Distribution? Join our weekly tech meetings, public on Discord at 3 PM CET/2 PM UTC / 9 AM EST every Tuesday: chat.mage-os.org
Want to help promote Magento and Mage-OS? Join our weekly marketing meeting, public on Discord at 4 PM CET/3 PM UTC / 10 AM EST every Monday: chat.mage-os.org
Magento Association is creating a new content site for magento-opensource.com, and our content committee is working right now to plan and build that out. Talk to John Hughes if you’re interested.
We’re looking for new features to enhance Mage-OS this year that will help to modernize and excite merchants. This might include AI enhancements, low/no code processes, or more. Talk to Vinai Kopp or #tech if you’re interested!

Events

We have an updated events page! It’s now easier than ever to find all the events and gatherings in the worldwide Magento community. Please let us know if you have or know of an event that isn’t listed. Huge thanks to Marek Kubacak for making this happen.
If you weren’t able to attend Adobe Summit, see this recap from our board member John Hughes: Adobe Summit 2024: Commerce Recap & Key Takeaways

Upcoming Events

Meet Commerce Poland - 15 April 2024, in Warsaw - Mage-OS board members Cezary and Maciej will be in attendance! Find Cezary at our Mage-OS booth at the event. Huge thanks to Meet Commerce and Kuba Zwolinski for giving us this opportunity.
Meet Magento Romania - 22 April 2024, in Cluj-Napoca
April MxLDN: Magento London Meetup - 24 April 2024, in London
Meet Magento UK - 17-18 June 2024, in London
Meet Magento Brazil - 24 June 2024, in São Paulo
Mage Titans Groningen - 13 September 2024
Meet Magento NL - 31 October 2024, in Amsterdam

Mage-OS Async Events: Gowri's Journey

gowri-sankar — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Gowri Sankar is a DevOps engineer from down under with a lot of interest in distributed systems and programming and solving problems at scale. Gowri is a frequent attendee and contributor to Mage-OS via the technical working group.

Introduction

Over the past few months I’ve been helping out Mage-OS with getting asynchronous events over the finish line. A lot has happened since then. I got to visit Amsterdam and its picturesque canals, experience one of the longest direct flights in the world from Perth to London [1], enjoy a lot of Dutch pastries and speak at a conference about building real-time webhooks with Magento.

In this post, I want to build on our work so far, expanding on what asynchronous events are and its applications, and why they’re useful.

Event-Driven Architecture

If you’ve written a module (or even any framework) before, you’re probably familiar with event observers [2]. They are a way to write code which reacts to a certain event happening within the system. For example, when a new user signs in, you may want to record their login activity. This in a sense, is an application of event-driven architecture.

In object-oriented programming it can refer to the observer pattern. In distributed systems it could mean different services communicate asynchronously through a message broker.

There’s a variety of applications, but the underlying idea is the same. Event-driven architecture is a software design pattern that focuses on the production, consumption, and reaction to events in a system.

Integrations

There’s one area where event-driven architecture can shine in Magento and it is integrations. Currently, there are many different and often bespoke approaches when sending data out of Magento.

I’ve often seen integrations that are file-based where a simple cron job runs on a schedule and writes to /var. This is far from ideal for many reasons. There’s also network-based integrations that’s akin to a single system or a vendor. For example, a payment provider’s module will likely only be able to send data out to their own services.

There’s an obvious problem here though. The framework doesn’t provide any standard tooling. A module’s author is responsible for managing how that data is pulled out. It could be file-based, FTP, HTTP or with emails if you’d like to live on the edge.

Then there’s the murky problem of error handling. Anything that can go wrong will go wrong. The external system could be in a scheduled maintenance window, have an outage or even have network packets lost in transit. It is within the module to decide how failures should be handled. It could take the simple route of simply logging it to a custom log file, to a more sophisticated approach of having a retry job somewhere.

They also need to be more flexible. If I wanted to send the same event to a second system, a third and a fourth, chances are I’ll have to modify the module each time and deploy the changes. If I want to send a different set of data but to an existing system(s), that’s again another deployment.

I would also be confident in saying that observability is the one thing that’s nearly impossible to achieve in integrations today. There simply isn’t a way to collect any sort of metrics to later pull up a dashboard and say “Ok, how many individual integrations have failed, where, when and why?” I believe we can do far better than looking through thousands of lines of error log files or emails to an error inbox saying something failed.

It’s also far from ideal when we’re migrating between systems. For example, if we had customer platform A and we’re migrating to customer platform B, we’d likely have to install platform B’s module alongside platform A. Make them work together for a while, and then at some time in the future, disable and remove platform A’s module.

That’s already a fair few points that describe the subpar developer, operations and merchant experience.

We would like our integrations to be

Fast and scalable, so we can have a high throughput stream of events enabling real-time systems like webhooks.
Fault-tolerant. If something fails, it shouldn’t be lost in an ocean of events. We should be able to retry as many times as we want automatically and manually.
Flexible such that modifications don’t need a code change and a deployment.
Observable so that we can add telemetry tools to collect and aggregate metrics.

Gowri speaking at Meet Magento NL

Streaming Events

With the asynchronous events module, it’s possible to build a real-time webhooks delivery system like GitHub, Stripe or Shopify. Webhooks are a perfect candidate to build an event-driven integration system because it is possible to make them real-time, observable and fault-tolerant.

To provide some more flavour of what I’m talking about, we can look at how a webhook-based integration system addresses the shortcomings we just discussed.

Webhooks powered by asynchronous events run in a dedicated queue consumer process. It’s possible to offload this entirely off of your main web server.
Asynchronous events are fault-tolerant by default. The framework will retry retryable errors (think 50x error codes for HTTP) with exponential backoff.
Asynchronous events are subscription-based, it’s possible to add or disable subscriptions without needing to touch code or do a deployment.
Events are recorded in a log and they are optionally indexed into Elasticsearch, which makes it a breeze to query failures and anomalies with queries.

At its core, the module provides a framework to define events that can be listened to outside of the main request thread in Magento. When we talk about asynchronous, we’re actually talking about this and not promises or futures found in other languages.

Defining an asynchronous event is similar to a regular event.

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<config

    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"

    xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:module:MageOS_AsyncEvents:etc/async_events.xsd"

>

    <async_event name="sales.order.created">

        <service class="Magento\Sales\Api\OrderRepositoryInterface" method="get"/>

    </async_event>

</config>

Similar to an event observer, an async event has a name. The service class and method define what the shape of the event’s data should resolve to (Remember that we only dispatch the event with minimal parameters; the data is resolved later, hence asynchronous).

In my opinion, this is a great way to declare async events because there’s the huge benefit of reusability. Should the data interface be changed in a future version of Magento, you can be sure that the async event (and your webhook integrations) will automatically receive them too! This is because we’re re-using the same data transfer objects as the web APIs. Not only that, but it works with any plugins added on them too!

The Async Runtime

By design, the core module does not define or dispatch any events. A separate package like mageos-common-async-events covers several standard events and dispatches them at the appropriate places. But dispatching an event is straightforward in itself.

public function execute(Observer $observer): void

{

    /** @var Order $object */

    $object = $observer->getEvent()->getData('order');

    // arguments are the inputs required by the service class in the asynchronous

    // event definition in async_events.xml

    // e.g: Magento\Sales\Api\OrderRepositoryInterface::get

    $arguments = ['id' => $object->getId()];

    $data = ['sales.order.created', $this->json->serialize($arguments)];

    $this->publisher->publish(

        QueueMetadataInterface::EVENT_QUEUE,

        $data

    );

}

It is not any different from publishing a message to a topic in Magento. The PublisherInterface takes in the event queue as the topic name and a serialised set of arguments that are needed to resolve the data later.

Notifying Subscribers

Example event-driven integrations from Mage-OS to various external platforms

Events are delivered to the recipient by a concept called notifiers. They’re a topic for another day, but just remember that a notifier is responsible for sending it somewhere. It could support any protocol or application in theory. For example, HTTP, Amazon EventBridge, AMQP, Kafka, raw TCP or even just stdout if you want to simply stream it.

A subscription comes in place to tie in the event to the destination. Subscriptions are created via the rest API provided by the module.

curl --request POST 'https://dev.mageos.internal/rest/V1/async_event' \

--header 'Authorization: Bearer TOKEN' \

--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \

--data-raw '{

    "asyncEvent": {

        "event_name": "sales.order.created",

        "recipient_url": "https://example.com/order_created",

        "verification_token": "sha-signing-secret",

        "metadata": "http"

    }

}'

The metadata field is important. Here it describes that this subscription is http-based. Once this subscription is created, all sales.order.created in Magento will be sent to the recipent url specified in the subscription.

curl --request POST 'https://dev.mageos.internal/rest/V1/async_event'' \

--data-raw '{

    "asyncEvent": {

        "event_name": "sales.order.created",

        "recipient_url": "arn:aws:events:ap-southeast-2:005158166381:rule/Test.EventBridge.Rule",

        "verification_token": "sha-signing-secret",

        "metadata": "amazon-eventbrige"

    }

}'

Here’s another example to send the data to Amazon EventBrige. Once this subscription is created, the sales.order.created will flow to the HTTP endpoint and the Amazon Event Bus. Note that we did not have to do a deployment in order to send the data to another platform!

With that, we would have

All sales.order.created events will be processed asynchronously without having a hiccup on your request thread, meaning it doesn’t affect users directly if one of those destinations is down or needs multiple retries.
Failures and back pressure handling are taken care of by the framework. If one or both destinations are unreachable, the framework will appropriately schedule retries with backoff. If they’re still unreachable, we have an archive of events that we can replay in the future.
All deliveries are logged and indexed in the admin panel, which we can query using the Lucene Query Syntax [3].

These are just the beginnings of what is possible with asynchronous events. The goal is to have wider adoption of async events just like regular events. If extension vendors and developers leverage the tools provided by the framework, it should develop into a very robust ecosystem that is standardised, functional and one that benefits everyone.

I’m delighted that Async Events is a part of Mage-OS. I’ve enjoyed working on it and it has been fantastic to present it at a conference in Amsterdam and see all the support for it.

Now of course, I had to put on my tourist hat for the next few days and explore every nook and cranny of this vibrant city, immersing myself in its culture, history, and hidden gems, leaving me with unforgettable memories.

Thank you, and see you next time Amsterdam!

Learn More

Find out more about Mage-OS’s Async Events on GitHub:

Get Involved

If you want to help contribute to Asnyc Events or anything else Mage-OS related then join our Discord server and one of our weekly meetings

Join Discord

Get Involved

References

We're Hiring! Project Manager / Chief of Staff Role

mage-os-team — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Due to the funds raised from our generous partners and members since we opened membership last September, we’re now looking to make our first hire to accelerate our growth even further!

The initial role we’re looking to fill is for a part-time Project Manager / Chief of Staff, and you can see the job description below.

To apply or for more information please email board@mage-os.org by Friday, March 22.

Job Description

Role

Project Manager / Chief of Staff (part time)

Why we need you

As we grow, we have lots of volunteers among the 1000 members on Discord, with many projects, ideas, and desire to contribute
We want to move faster. As people all have day jobs, your mission is to make it easier for more people to contribute (break down tasks, follow up, etc.)

Core Tasks

Attend all the Mage-OS meetings:
- Content Mondays 4pm CET
- Tech Tuesdays 3pm CET
- Board Wednesdays 3pm CET
Drive the agenda, and determine tasks, owners, next steps, and timelines
Follow up on tasks and commitments to see things through
Onboard new people, show them around, and find a place for them
Help with governance (General Assemblies) with the Secretary

Added Responsibilities based on availability

Project manage legal work relating to the association
Help manage the budget for each activity with the Treasurer
Organize events presence (online and physical) to engage and nurture the community
Explore and pursue potential opportunities for partnership

Must have

Understanding of the Magento community and ecosystem
Doer, a sense of responsibility, drive for action
Fluent in English
Work in EU and NA timezones
Comfortable managing multiple stakeholders
Influential skills (to encourage contributors who are volunteers)

Nice to have

A good reputation in the Magento community
Extroverted tendencies
Polish language is a plus
All backgrounds and identities welcome to apply

What you get

Salary range: up to €12,000 per year based on 8-16 hours per week
Negotiable based on experience and available hours
Remote work, Flexibility (except for the Committee times)
Leading involvement at the forefront of the Magento ecosystem
A strong sense of purpose and belonging
Great organizational culture and work environment where you will feel rewarded, appreciated, and motivated

Apply now

Email us your CV and why you’re interested to board@mage-os.org by March 22.

Mage-OS Nederland member meeting

mage-os-team — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMT

On February 29th (a leap day), the second member meeting of Mage-OS Nederland took place: Hosted at the beautiful venue of De Rechtbank in the center of Utrecht (very close to the famous Dom Tower), a group of about 40 people came together to push the association into a new year. Here is a recap, but also some lessons for other local Mage-OS groups to learn from.

We did it: An association

The association was started by a group of people in 2022, who wanted to revive the Dutch Magento community after COVID and after some people left. Pretty soon, it was decided to revive things under the hood of a non-profit organization. At first, we subscribed as an informal association. However, the fact that all 7 board members were liable and the fact that bank accounts could only be opened with a formal association, moved us towards a notary and in the end, the association of Mage-OS Nederland was founded for real.

Disclaimer: Mage-OS Nederland its prime objective is to facilitate the Dutch Magento community. This definitely includes organizing Dutch events like Meet Magento Nederland and various other social gatherings. It also includes a proper mapping of the community. Clearing up confusion on the various distributions (Adobe Commerce, Magento Open Source, Mage-OS) could also be part of its activities.

But Mage-OS Nederland is not part of the open source initiative of Mage-OS. We are part of the same community though. The name Mage-OS Nederland was requested for usage by asking the board of Mage-OS worldwide.

See also https://nl.mage-os.org/ (Dutch and English)

New board

In 2022, various Magento community members joined forces - including Jeroen Boersma, Jisse Reitsma, Peter Jaap Blaakmeer, Sander de Graaf, Sanne Bolkenstein and Willem Wigman. In 2023, these people, excluding Peter Jaap and Willem, but with the addition of Core de Reeper, Michiel Gerritsen and Roland Haselager, formed the initial board of Mage-OS NL.

During the member meeting of February 29th, Core and Roland stepped down. Jeroen, Jisse, Michiel, Sander and Sanne remained their seat. And Karlijn Löwik and Tabitha Karta joined forces.

Technical mistakes

However, the democratic process of electing the board had some flaws though. Months before the meeting, we started to promote empty board seats. But only one month before, during the WWVD borrel, new candidates were found - that either wanted to be an actual board member or just do something nice for the community. In no time, the amount of candidates went up to 6, which was a bit too much. This led us to say that we only should add 2 board members (a total of 7 or 8) and that all others should be initiated as commissioner of some working group. We didn’t think of such an organization yet properly and because of this, we started to rush things. In the end, during the meeting, the board decided to stay seated and to allow for two more board members, which were strongly recommended by the board. No open elections, less democratic. But very practical to keep the energy.

Another flaw was that the finances were not presented yet before the meeting and there was no audit committee beforehand either. Because of this, the finances couldn’t be verified by the audit committee and therefore the board could not be granted discharge.

Because of these flaws and others, we decided to keep the board large this year, but split it up in two parts: One board-board that dives into the technicalities of running an association. And another board of committees to kickstart all of the work that needs to be done under the hood of the association.

Our lessons learned

Here are some of the lessons learned so far:

Make sure you start with the right legal form. In our case, opting for a formal association right away would have saved us a lot of time and frustration.

Draft a proper organization. Decide upon the size of the board. Form working groups that are accountable to the board for specific tasks - events, promotion, etc. Every working group should have a lead member (commissioner) and the responsibilities of both board and working groups should be clear from the start. We decided to go for a large board, which is at first okayish but will become more difficult to deal with over time.

Pick a small board (president, secretary, treasurer, possibly a fourth member), but make sure that these roles are easily swapped out. Currently with MOSNL, some things are tied to specific persons in the board (president, treasurer), while ideally this is swapped out. Also make sure to agree upon a maximum period for being a board member.

Setup a voting process for board members as detailed as possible. Make sure that candidates are found months in advance. As soon as they are found, even if it is just a single person, start promoting that person publicly. This might attract more candidates.

Because of all of the above, make sure to setup articles of association, which is a legal requirement in most countries. But it also important to have an agreement with all people involved on how this comes to being.

Without doubt, there are many more lessons here.

The why

Still, all of these struggles are worth it: The Dutch Magento community is currently in the hands of an association, not a commercial company. We are free from the copyright of Magento, which is nowadays a thing. And because we are a non-profit organization, it is straight-forward that anyone who is helping the association is doing this for the community its sake.

Already we are seeing the signs: Meet Magento NL, MageUnconference NL, MageTitans NL. Lots of volunteers to do things. And a healthy kickstart of an association to make all of this possible.

Mage-OS February 2024 Recap

mage-os-team — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Association News

Welcome to our newest partners and members!
Partners
- Silver Partners

Inchoo

Mollie

Members
- Professional Members
  - Rick Willett
  - Simon Sprankel
  - Tomislav Bilic
- Community Members
  - Vivek
  - Alex Teller
  - Divyesh Thadani
  - Sanjay Chaudhary
  - Niels Kolijn
  - Andrzej Szylar
You too can become a Mage-OS member, for as little as 10 EUR/year! Show your support, and show the world this is something worth supporting. mage-os.org/about/mage-os-membership/

Local Initiatives

Mage-OS Nederland had its second annual member meeting on Feb 29th. Look for a detailed update on it soon! Mage-OS NL will be setting up committees (MMNL, events, content) to push different aspects of the community. More information can be found here: nl.mage-os.org/
David Lambauer and Thorben Höhn have started a German-language podcast about Mage-OS and what’s going on around it. You can find the first episode and subscribe here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA28nKbnKeskROMmMqhhxwxPeNaA9N8jf

Development Progress

The recent Magento security patch 2.4.6-p4 is available from our Magento mirror repository. Look for a new Mage-OS Distribution release soon including these fixes.
Artem Kozynets has completed the first round of UAT feedback sessions for his new admin theme concept, and is starting round 2 soon. Thank you for everyone who put their hands up to participate!
Vladyslav Podorozhnyi, Ihor Sviziev, and Maksym Novik have been doing great work on fixes to the integration testing suite, so that we can do reliable testing of pull requests in the near future!
Thijs Feryn and Toon Van Dooren have been working on improvements to the default VCL configurations, to improve the baseline FPC performance of all Magento/Mage-OS sites using Varnish caching.
Ryan Sun has been working on AI content generation, and will be looking for contributor help soon. Stay tuned for more.

Opportunities

If you want to participate in admin theme UAT testing, please fill out this form by March 8: https://forms.gle/wdTi5X2xhZXVtjqc9
Have a contribution idea or interested in the Mage-OS Distribution? Join our weekly tech meetings, public on Discord at 3 PM CET/2 PM UTC / 9 AM EST every Tuesday: chat.mage-os.org
Want to help promote Magento and Mage-OS? Join our weekly marketing meeting, public on Discord at 4 PM CET/3 PM UTC / 10 AM EST every Monday: chat.mage-os.org
Magento Association is creating a new content site for magento-opensource.com, and our content committee is working right now to plan and build that out. Talk to John Hughes if you’re interested.
We’re looking for new features to enhance Mage-OS this year that will help to modernize and excite merchants. This might include AI enhancements, low/no code processes, or more. Talk to Vinai Kopp or #tech if you’re interested!

Events

We have an updated events page! It’s now easier than ever to find all the events and gatherings in the worldwide Magento community. Please let us know if you have or know of an event that isn’t listed. Huge thanks to Marek Kubacak for making this happen.
Upcoming events:
- Adobe Summit - 26-28 March 2024, in Las Vegas. John (board member and Content lead) will be attending
- Meet Commerce Poland - 15 April 2024, in Warsaw
- Meet Magento Romania - 22 April 2024, in Cluj-Napoca
- London Meetup - 24 April 2024
- Meet Magento UK - 17- 18 June 2024, in London. The call for speakers is open. Submit your session ideas by March 8th! https://bit.ly/3Ub5Gd8
- Meet Magento Brazil - 24 June 2024
- Mage Titans Groningen - 13 September 2024
- Meet Magento New York - September 2024, TBD

Mage-OS January 2024 Recap

mage-os-team — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMT

2024 Goals

With increased collaboration with Magento Association and Adobe, we’ve decided to shift our goals for the coming year. In 2024, our intentions are to:

Make Mage-OS a tech incubator and place of innovation for the Magento ecosystem.
- Mage-OS is an independent distribution of Magento Open Source.
- Mage-OS will be a proving ground for innovation. As this works out, we will encourage Magento Open Source to include those same changes for future releases.
We need your help developing the features and improvements that will help to keep Magento competitive and set it apart!
Show that ‘Magento is Alive’, and still a competitive modern ecommerce platform, through:
- Helping to create an all new magento-opensource.com marketing website
- Platform comparisons and selling resources (‘battle cards’)
- Exposure of the features, enhancements, and community that make Magento special

Association News

Join us in a warm welcome to Cezary Kozon as treasurer of Mage-OS Association! He was elected by a special assembly of our members on Jan 17th, to replace our previous treasurer who departed for family reasons.
Welcome to our newest partners and members!
- basecom GmbH & Co. KG - Bronze Partner
- Brian Wade - Professional Member
- Henk Valk - Professional Member
- Oskars Tuns - Professional Member
- Tobias Niebergall - Professional Member
- Vadym - Community Member
You too can become a Mage-OS member, for as little as 10 EUR/year! Show your support, and show the world this is something worth supporting.
We recently hit 1000 members who have joined our Discord server!

Development Progress

Artem Kozynets presented a new admin theme concept in a recent Mage-OS tech meeting, and will be doing a small number of feedback sessions with Magento specialists this month. If you’re interested: https://forms.gle/ewPX9X6J1XUqneKn6 (UPDATE: All slots are full now. Thanks for your interest!)
Vladyslav Podorozhnyi, Ihor Sviziev, and Maksym Novik have been doing great work on fixes to the integration testing suite, so that we can do reliable testing of pull requests in the near future!
Thijs Feryn and Toon Van Dooren have been working on improvements to the default VCL configurations, to improve the baseline FPC performance of all Magento/Mage-OS sites using Varnish caching.
- If you’re interested in reviewing: https://github.com/mage-os/mageos-magento2/pull/62

Opportunities

Have a contribution idea or interested in the Mage-OS Distribution? Join our weekly tech meetings, public on Discord at 3 PM CET/2 PM UTC / 9 AM EST every Tuesday
Want to help promote Magento and Mage-OS? Join our weekly marketing meeting, public on Discord at 4 PM CET/3 PM UTC / 10 AM EST every Monday
Magento Association is creating a new content site for magento-opensource.com, and our content committee is working right now to plan and build that out. Talk to John Hughes if you’re interested.
Artem Kozynets is working on a modernized admin theme for Mage-OS and Magento, and will be running short sessions for one-on-one feedback soon. If you’re interested: https://forms.gle/ewPX9X6J1XUqneKn6 (UPDATE: All slots are full now. Thanks for your interest!)
Vladyslav Podorozhnyi is leading work on integration test improvements. Read and help out at https://github.com/mage-os/mageos-magento2/pull/61
We’re looking for new features to enhance Mage-OS this year that will help to modernize and excite merchants. This might include AI enhancements, low/no code processes, or more. Talk to Vinai Kopp or #tech if you’re interested!

Events

Women In Magento

The Women in Magento group has gotten off to a roaring start! Woman empowerment benefits us all. Feel the incredible vibes in the recaps of the first events organized across Europe, US, and Asia:

Netherlands dinner, organized by Sanne Bolkenstein of Mage-OS Netherlands and sponsored by MageChat, Youwe, Hypernode, Elgentos, Mollie and Integer_net
Cocktail Party at Meet Magento Florida, organized by Marsha Naidoo and sponsored by Rave Digital and Aheadworks with Parul Sinha from Women at Adobe as special guest
Women’s dinner at Meet Magento India, organized by Zeel Patel of Evrig and sponsored by Marsha Naidoo.

Want to set up such an event in your area? Ping Thien Lan, Sanne or Marsha on Discord.

Events Recaps

Mage-OS NL drinks at Webwinkel Vakdagen 23rd Jan 2024 (who has pictures to share?)
Meet Magento Florida 31st Jan - 1st Feb 2024 confirmed the vitality of Magento and collaboration between Adobe, the Magento Association and Mage-OS. Read the Recap from Nicole Teriaca Colella. Some artistic pictures are also already available.

Upcoming Events

Meet Magento India - 10 February 2024, in Ahmedabad
- Vinai (board president) will be representing Mage-OS, and looks forward to meeting the huge and vibrant Magento community there.
Mollie Magento Developer Meetup - 22 February 2024, in Amsterdam
MxLDN Meetup - 28 February 2024, Magento and Adobe Commerce meet up in London
- John (board member and Content lead) will be attending
Adobe Summit - 26-28 March 2024, in Las Vegas
- John (board member and Content lead) will be attending
Meet Commerce Poland - 15 April 2024, in Warsaw
Meet Magento Romania - 22 April 2024, in Cluj-Napoca
Meet Magento UK - June 2024, in London
- The call for speakers is open. Submit your session ideas by March 8th! https://bit.ly/3Ub5Gd8

That’s all until next time! The Mage-OS team.

December 2023 Update

mage-os-team — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Below is our Mage-OS recap for December 2023, but first off a Happy New Year to everyone in the Magento ecosystem from all of us at Mage-OS!

Welcome to our New Partner

Thank you integer_net for becoming a Bronze sponsor this month!

Mage-OS stands for everything we believe in: a strong community and creative minds.
W_e love to work in a cooperative and future-oriented way - that’s why we’ve been active in the Magento community for a long time. The foundation of Mage-OS has shown us once again that we believe in the right platform and that together we will advance the world of e-commerce!_

Christian Philipp, CEO at integer_net

If you, too, want to help us shape the future of the Magento ecosystem, join us!

Join Mage-OS

Magento Meetup Aachen

It was great to connect with people in Aachen! Our president, Vinai, attended and gave a talk, and you can read a nice recap of the event from integer_net: https://www.integer-net.com/blog_english/magento-meetup-aachen-christmas-mage-os-magento-association-en

Magento Women Initiative

Recently a talk at Meet Magento Netherlands 2023 called “7 ways to be an ally for Women in Tech” sparked conversation and bonding between women at the event. Women are underrepresented, at only 27% of the workforce in the industry. This inequality intensifies the more you go up in the responsibility levels, with only 1 in 7 of CEOs being women.

On the other side of the Atlantic, Parul Sinha (who is looking after the Open Source Community at Adobe) is the Austin site lead for Women at Adobe. That program is very mature and includes career highlights, sessions on women’s health, as well as a platform to facilitate networking and support on any topic from relationship and parenting advice to soft and hard skills like crafting slides or improving communication.

For Magento and Mage-OS, where diversity and inclusion have always been part of our Community culture and values, the purpose of this initiative is huge as it will help both grow the Magento Community and skill up each business in the ecosystem. Here’s how:

By attracting more women to the Magento ecosystem, we get a bigger talent pool of more diverse people
If every woman in the Magento ecosystem gains confidence, a stronger network, and soft and hard skills with the help of their peers, that will help businesses to flourish, and everybody wins

With those objectives in mind, we took a couple a first steps, in cooperation with Parul, Marsha Naidoo, Sanne Bolkenstein, Thien-Lan Weber, Suzanne von Ameronen, and others:

We already gathered nearly 50 women on the Mage-Chat Slack channel sharing some useful tips and lots of good vibes. Join us by emailing suzanne@magechat.club
We’ve lined up in-person meetings on three continents over the next three months

Save the Dates:

Europe: Dinner in Utrecht (the Netherlands) on January 22nd
USA: Get together at Meet Magento Florida on January 31th from 5.30 to 6.30pm
Asia: Get together at Meet Magento India February 10th

Join us on Slack for details and to register. Also follow us on LinkedIn to be notified when event registrations opens.

Is your organization supporting Women in Tech? To sponsor one of the events or the whole global program, please contact:

Sanne@hyva.io for Europe
Marshaus0@gmail.com for US and Asia

Where to find Mage-OS in 2024?

Webwinkel Vakdagen drinks

23 January 2024 | Utrecht, Netherlands

As a tradition, the Dutch Magento Community gathers over drinks during Webwinkel Vakdagen, the biggest eCommerce expo in the Netherlands. In 2024, the event is taking place in Utrecht on January 23 and 24.

After the first day, Mage-OS Netherlands is shouting New Year’s drinks for the Magento community, thanks to generous sponsors.

When: January 23rd, 17:00
Where: Uncle Jim, Utrecht (https://uncle-jim.nl/)

Magento Stammtisch Rhein-Main

24th January 2024 | Mainz, Germany

The 46th edition of this German Magento meetup is taking place at netz98 (Valantic) offices in Mainz

From 7pm to 10pm
Guest speakers include Marco Kahler, PIM-Expert at Valantic and Tobias Niebergall, CTO at e3n

Meet Magento Florida

31 January & 1st February 2024 | Hollywood, FL, USA

This two day event at the iconic Hard Rock Cafe Resort offers plenty of ancillary events and sightseeing tours. Laura Folco, from our Business Control Committee, Thien-Lan, our Vice President, and Sanne Bolkenstein on the board of Mage-OS Netherlands will be there, alongside contributors and friends of Mage-OS including Jakub Winkler, Maier Bianchi, Kuba Zwolinski, and more.

What’s more, there will be a special treat for Women of Magento, so book your ticket with code 30-MAGE-OS for 30% off on conference tickets.

Visit MM24FL

Meet Magento India

10th February 2024 | Ahmedabad, India

Vinai, our president, will be representing Mage-OS at Meet Magento India and looks forward to meeting the vibrant and huge Magento community there.

We are really looking forward to spreading the excitement about the future of Magento and sharing our 2024 plans with the wider Community.

Visit MM24IN

Meet Commerce

15th April 2024 | Warsaw, Poland

Warsaw is where the Mage-OS Association was legally founded. It sure is a special place for us. Join us for this multi-platform eCommerce event, and meet the wonderful Polish agencies and community who have been supporting us from the beginning.

Learn more about Meet Commerce Poland

Don’t want to get FOMO on all the Magento events?

Bookmark our Events Calendar

That’s all for this time! The Mage-OS team.

November 2023 Update

mage-os-team — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMT

We hope that everyone in the Community had a successful Black Friday and Cyber Monday. In the meantime, while it might already be snowing in your part of the world, here’s a recap of what has been going on recently–not just dance parties like at Meet Magento Netherlands, but also taking collaboration within the ecosystem to the next step and funding our future.

Membership is open!

You can become a member or partner of Mage-OS now! Companies can back us as partners, and individuals as members.

Why support Mage-OS?

For many, it’s about giving back to the ecosystem that has carried your business for almost 15 years and making sure it doesn’t just remain but grows bigger, better, faster. For others, it’s about truly believing in Open Source and all the greatness it can do for the eCommerce industry in terms of choice and possibilities, innovation, agility, and inclusiveness.

We need your membership and support to demonstrate the seriousness of our mission and community, and to help fund our efforts to take this to the next level.

Read our Membership announcement for more details on our purpose, long term and short terms plans and options for joining.

Mage-OS Partners: Early adopters shout out

Sincere thank you to the following businesses for being the first to partner with Mage-OS:

Platinum Partners

Gold Partners

Silver Partners

Bronze Partners

FindCanary

If you want to help us shape the future of the Magento ecosystem, join us!

Join Mage-OS

Meet Magento Netherlands 2023 Recap: the Renaissance

Image credits: https://berbephotography.pixieset.com/hypernodebasiswegamsterdam/

On 2nd November 2023, our Dutch Chapter Mage-OS Netherlands organized the fantastic Meet Magento Netherlands event. It was sold out two weeks ahead, with over 300 enthusiasts participating. Read the MM23NL recap written by Jisse Reitsma, part of the organizing team.

Despite the weather, the vibe was truly amazing and people within the Community were so happy to connect again. In his LinkedIn article titled “Magento: Time for a Renaissance”, Jakub Winkler expresses the positive energy that he felt again after many dark years and what he thinks contributed to it.

Hot off the press, you can now see the professional photos and recap video from the event!

See all the pictures

Watch the after movie

Engaging in proactive collaboration

In the last few months, Mage-OS participated in many Meet Magento events and got the opportunity to collect feedback and questions. Many of you have asked for clarity on how we relate to Magento Association, and what it all means for this ecosystem.

On the Monday after Meet Magento Netherlands, Vinai and Mathias Schreiber met to discuss goals alignment and opportunities for collaboration. Here is the recap co-written by Vinai and Mathias on what came out of this first meeting.

To strengthen our focus and not dilute the energy of volunteers who contribute actively to our working groups, we felt it was important to look at current roles and responsibilities between Mage-OS and the Magento Association and how we can best collaborate.

Here are some things that we see are specific to the Magento Association:

Work with Adobe to strengthen Magento Open Source and grow the understanding of the value of Open Source within the corporate environment
Grow the community through Meet Magento events organization, support and promotion
Manage Magento Open Source contributors by building the Community Council

We are delighted that the Magento Association has already launched a brand new meet-magento.com website, and are hard at work with the magento-opensource.com website. We’re exploring whether that site could leverage some of the content our content group and others have planned and written over the last two years.

On the Mage-OS end, we keep focusing on:

Community growth and engagement: we gather more people and bring magic to events, we widen the community’s footprint on social media, carrying our positive, open and inclusive values everywhere we go
Product enhancement: improve our infrastructure so that
- the platform is easy and cost effective to maintain
- it is rewarding for Magento community members to enrich it with creativity, innovation and Magento mastery
Product long term support: we plan to set up a commercial entity and provide long term support to the Mage-OS eCommerce platform for merchants of all shapes and sizes.

Let’s catch up at the following Magento events!

Europe: Magento Meetup in Aachen, Germany 11th December

Special Christmas Edition!

Both Mathias, from the Magento Association, and Vinai, our President, will be there to continue the conversation with you on how we can, together, strengthen the Magento Ecosystem further.

As for the Christmas feel, there will be fun activities including an escape room and a visit to the historical Aachen city center and local Christmas market.

Europe: Magento Meetup in Poznań, 13th December

The long-running Polish Magento Meetup is back in Poznań before the end of the year! Expect lots of great technical content and even better company!

Europe: Webvinkelvagdaag Mage OS NL drinks, January 23rd 2024

In 2024, the Webwinkel Vakdagen (Dutch eCommerce days) takes place in Utrecht on January 23 and 24. After the first day, on January 23rd, 17:00, Mage-OS Netherlands is organizing New Year’s drinks for the Magento community, together with sponsors at Uncle Jim, Utrecht (https://uncle-jim.nl/).

You are welcome to attend and cheer the new year with us!

Europe: Magento Meetup Rhein-Main, January 24th 2024

The new year kicks off in Germany with the return of the Magento Meetup Rhein-Main. This new years edition focuses on product data, and in particular PIMs (Product Information Management) systems. Don’t miss it!

USA: Meet Magento Florida, 31 Jan - 1st Feb 2024

The best weather in the US, in February! We’ll get our dose of Vitamin D with our US based contributors and active members, and Thien-Lan, our Vice President, is flying over from Europe for more fun!

Use code 30-MAGE-OS for 30% off on conference tickets

Visit MM24FL

Asia: Meet Magento India, Ahmedabad, 10th February 2024

The Magento community is huge in India, with over 1,000 attendees to the event and 40 speakers! We hope you can join, as we know the Meet Magento India team and sponsors will put on a great and vibrant event.

Visit MM24IN

Find all about upcoming Magento events in our Events Calendar.

That’s all for this edition, but we’ll be back in the new year with even more updates! The Mage-OS team.

Magento Association & Mage-OS Collaboration

vinai-kopp — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMT

The Mage-OS Association and the Magento Association serve the interests of the broader Magento community. We understand the confusion surrounding the existence of two associations, with questions such as “Why are there two?”, “What are the differences?”, “Which one should I support?” being the most common.

To clarify, Adobe backs the Magento Association, which owns the right to use the Magento brand. In contrast, Mage-OS is an independent initiative uniting enthusiastic members of the Magento Community who want to contribute to Magento in a different way. Mathias Schreiber (Executive Director of Magento Association) and Vinai Kopp (President of Mage-OS Association) sat together to explore how we can synergize our approaches to better serve the entire Magento Community and Ecosystem.

We will not cover the history that no one can change but will instead focus on the current situation and future plans that we all can be a part of.

Merchant Documentation

David Lambauer initiated the developer documentation project, inspiring us to launch a collaborative effort for improved merchant documentation. We aim to facilitate the installation, configuration, and use of Magento 2 stores for merchants.

Our strategy involves utilizing AI, a field familiar to David, to initiate the content. Subsequently, we will manually revise, enhance, and sustain the documentation. The merchant documentation will reside on a new domain, providing an option to switch between Magento Open Source and Mage-OS for the screenshots.

Community Council Participation

Adobe has tasked the Magento Association with creating a Community Council to enhance the community’s impact on Magento Open Source development. Council members will manage upvoted merge requests and collaborate with community maintainers to incorporate them.

As Mage-OS integrates all changes into Magento Open Source, this presents a valuable opportunity for Mage-OS to contribute upstream, and vice versa in the future. We actively encourage contributors from the Mage-OS community to participate in the Community Council.

Addressing a valid point of criticism regarding merges in repositories other than magento/magento2 not being processed, this occurs because Adobe aims to establish and refine the process and workflow in the main repository first before extending it to other repositories. From a corporate perspective, this approach is sensible, considering that altering processes in a large enterprise is challenging and time-consuming.

And More…

We also discussed additional areas of cooperation during our discussion, including joint community polls and memberships, with a focus on mid- to long-term collaboration. We encourage you to share your ideas and reach out to us on Discord or meet with us at upcoming 2024 Magento events.

Join Us:

On December 11, both Mathias and I will be at the Christmage Meetup organized by Integer-net in Aachen, Germany. If you are in the vicinity, please join us in person. If not, send us your questions and comments beforehand to discuss them at the event.To contact us, join the Mage-OS Discord server or send an email to Mathias Schreiber.

Mage-OS Membership Now Open

mage-os-team — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMT

Hello friends!

As you may know, one of the main ways we plan for Mage-OS to be funded is through a membership and partner program. This is a chance to support the ecosystem that has allowed your business to thrive for all these years and shape its future.

We’re proud to announce Mage-OS membership is now open!

Join Now

Why should you back the Mage-OS Association?

Financing Mage-OS is about innovating and sustaining an awesome platform into something we can continue to rely on for the next decade or more. As a company, you can speed up our growth and fund initiatives around two major pillars:

Community: Now that we’ve reignited the Magento fire, we need to continue to grow the community, nurture it, and channel all of the great energy and talent around us to achieve even more amazing things.

Product: This is all about enhancing the Mage-OS platform capabilities (stability, extensibility, innovation, cost efficiency), with the long-term goal of making it a fully fledged product, backed by a commercial entity which will be owned by our non-profit Association.

Our shorter term vision for Mage-OS is to provide a high-quality, dependable, and faster-moving alternative to the Magento Open Source project. We will demonstrate an ability to process contributions quickly and effectively, improve the quality and accessibility of the platform, and release updates on a regular cadence that users can plan around.

If you join as an individual, in addition to your membership fees going toward the above, you also get a direct say in how Mage-OS works. You can participate in our annual Mage-OS Assembly, elect the board, propose/vote on resolutions, and apply for grant funds.

How will funds be used?

Your funding contribution helps build up the Mage-OS Association and accelerate the development of the platform.

Right now the entire Mage-OS operation, including the Board of Directors, is voluntary. Everything you see was created by passionate community members who believe that we can create something special.

The Mage-OS Association is not profit driven, and will be investing your money carefully to amplify the impact of volunteers to enhance the product. Our goal is to create a stable and sustainable organization from which we can support the platform’s long-term improvement and growth.

Funds will be spent on:

Hiring staff
Commissioning feature development
Driving brand awareness and engagement among existing and potential partners, members, and contributors
Nurturing the entire community and ecosystem

As a legally registered organization, we are bound by our statutes, which include multiple approvals for all spending; audits by our Business Control Committee; and an annual budget and financials approved by the members (which could mean you).

What are the options for joining?

If you’re an individual, you can become a Community Member from just €10/yr. If you make a living with the platform, we suggest becoming a Professional Member, starting at €100/year.

Note that “Tips” suggested by the platform go to Open Collective and not to Mage-OS, but there is a separate “custom contribution amount” option that goes directly to Mage-OS.

For companies of all shapes and sizes, you can become a partner at Bronze, Silver, Gold, or Platinum tier based on your backing power. You will receive a Partner Badge that will both our appreciation, help you sell your services to prospects, and help us increase our footprint within your area and ecosystem.

Please consider using a bank transfer to minimize fees.

Contributions are in Euros because that’s where the Mage-OS Association is registered, but we are represented and encourage participation worldwide.

As Niek Verkolen and Tjitse Efdé co-founder of Dutch agency Vendic put it:

“For us, supporting Mage-OS means taking Magento 2 back to its community roots. We believe this organisation will propel the Magento ecosystem forward.

The Magento community has given us so much over the years, now it’s our turn to contribute. Sponsor if you can. It will help the entire community massively.”

Vendic, Silver Partner of Mage-OS since November 2023

Contact us if you’re interested in a bigger contribution or support role. We don’t do pay-for-access, we won’t sell data, but we are open to ideas. This includes the ability to sponsor development of a specific feature or improvement.

If you are from a low-cost-of-living country, we offer purchasing power parity based on the ‘Big Mac Index’ for individuals and non-multinational companies. If you would like a discount, join at your chosen level, and then contact us for reimbursement, or contact us to discuss further.

After you join, let the world know, and you should find your picture on the mage-os.org homepage!

Join Mage-OS

Meet Magento NL 2023 Recap - The Dutch are back

mage-os-team — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMT

This post was written and submitted by Jisse Reitsma, Chair of Mage-OS Nederland, in conjunction with our global marketing working group.

Thursday, November 2nd 2023, it happened. Again. Meet Magento Netherlands (MMNL) took place. And what a success. Tickets were sold out, everyone was blown away (literally), enthusiasm was great. The Dutch are truly back!

Quick overview

Meet Magento NL was organized by a fresh team where the members originated from various agencies, backed by the new Mage-OS Nederland association (keep reading), based entirely on voluntary effort - so: non-profit.

The event took place in Amsterdam, at the venue of LIEF Amsterdam, which was great on the inside and which would have been great on the outside, if it were not for the southwestern storm that raged across The Netherlands. And as for rage, the entire event was just outrageously fun.

A first (new) Meet Magento NL?

The last Meet Magento NL (before this one) was ages ago (about 4 years ago). Nothing happened in between due to a different structure of the ecosystem, COVID and life. For many who attended this year’s MMNL edition, this was actually the first Meet Magento event they ever attended: The ecosystem sees many that come and many that leave, a healthy thing if I could say so.

And with so many attending a Meet Magento event for the very first time (by show of hands, at least 100 people), it really gives you the feeling that Magento is not dead yet. We are experiencing a *Magento renaissance* (trademark: Jakub Winkler).

To others (like myself), it felt like a homecoming. It was great to see so many familiar faces again, to hug friends. But the event also felt very different: Different people that organized the event, new venue, newcomers (as mentioned), an ecosystem that evolved, a different vibe. And everything with a touch of Mage-OS flavor.

Backed, but not organized by Mage-OS Nederland

Various sessions were focused on Mage-OS, many were focused on Hyvä. No further introduction needed. However, the event was co-organized by Mage-OS Nederland and this was another way to see that this year’s MMNL was different from earlier editions. No more company-owned communities. Instead, a new Mage-OS Nederland association.

Earlier in 2023, Mage-OS NL was founded by a group of seven individuals (me included) which are now forming the board. Next, the association organized various community drinks. And it helped create MageUnconference NL, organized by Yireo (me).

In the same way, MMNL was put together. Not necessarily by Mage-OS Nederland though. The new association’s task is to facilitate the community, to bring together people, to inform people on the state of the ecosystem. However, we decided that it would be better if the association would be more about governing instead of doing the actual thing.

With that, two board members - Core and Sanne - stepped up to organize MMNL and the rest of the board mainly took on a supporting role. Core and Sanne assembled a group of ten volunteers and with that the MMNL team became a real thing.

Big thank you to our ten MM23NL organizers

I’m kind of glad that it went this way. The board doesn’t become solely responsible for events in The Netherlands: It only makes sure that people are able to organize events in such a manner that as many people as possible are reached. And on the other hand, *anyone* is able to create an event and have it backed up by Mage-OS Nederland, as long as the event is helping out the Magento / Adobe Commerce / Mage-OS ecosystem.

All in all, I’m so happy that we actually reached two very important social goals this year: We formed a board. And an event team for Meet Magento organically came to being!

Carried by the Dutch Magento community

Oh and we organized a Meet Magento. And not *we* as in a small group of people. But *we* as in a large group of Magento fans: The board of seven. The Meet Magento NL team of ten. But also a large group of sponsors that stood up as one to make sure the event was financially doable (with the association having zero budget to begin with). And a group of speakers. And a group of people listening to speakers. The event really brought everyone together.

And I would say that the reboot of the Dutch Magento ecosystem is now fully in effect: MageUnconf, hackathon, Meet Magento, Webwinkel Vakdagen drinks, an association. We are back!

Also a big thank you to our sponsors, huge and strong supporters of Open Source and of our Magento Community:

For more fun pictures taken across the Community, use the hashtag #MM23NL on LinkedIn or Twitter.

We Are Magento

We were delighted to come together as the whole Magento ecosystem. Mathias Schreiber from the Magento Association joined us for the whole day including a speaking session sharing all the latest updates on his end. Thank you to Dewi Wassenaar from Adobe for coming and supporting us as a local. Vinai Kopp also shared updates about Mage-OS, the international organization, in his closing remarks, highlighting how we need to all collaborate with Adobe and the Magento Association. Stay tuned on that one!

What is next?

The year is almost over and we are making plans already for next year: Meet Magento NL will be repeated on October 31st, 2024 - most likely again in Amsterdam. But earlier that year, there will be plenty of other opportunities to meet up:

The Webwinkel Vakdagen will take place on 23rd and 24th of January 2024, with most likely at the end of the first day community drinks in Uncle Jim, Utrecht. Somewhere early 2024, the association will organize a new second member meeting. And there might very well be a MageTitans Groningen 2024. We’ll keep you informed.

Want to meet the Dutch Magento community? You got plenty of opportunities!

Want to know where you can hang out with Mage-OS globally? Visit our Events Calendar.

October 2023 Update

mage-os-team — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMT

Another month in 2023 has passed, and yet again, we’ve got lots of updates to bring you! The big news from October is the initial release of the Mage-OS Distribution, but we’ve also got details on our recently launched membership offering as well community updates from recent (and upcoming) events.

Mage-OS Distribution Initial Release!

A huge milestone was met this month. After more than a year of work with an increasing number of passionate and talented volunteers, our technical team has released the first version of the Mage-OS Distribution. Until now, we’ve offered mirrors of Magento Open Source, including our unique nightly builds, but as the name suggests, these mirrors simply provide an alternative way to install and manage the same Magento Open Source codebase.

However, with this release, we now have a completely standalone distribution. While this still includes Magento Open Source, we can implement additional modifications, paving the way for us to differentiate our offering with new functionality, along with enhancements and bug fixes.

While the initial version only includes a handful of changes, including refreshed admin panel branding, we plan to roll out further (and more impactful) changes over time, as they are contributed from the open source community.

Want To Contribute? Get Involved

While we are now forging our own path, we will maintain compatibility with Magento Open Source, ensuring that all your existing extensions and integrations are supported. We also aim to ensure compatibility updates are rolled out as swiftly as possible, which is highlighted by our adding support for the 2.4.6-p3 patch release, which was released within 24 hours of our initial launch, meaning we released 1.0.1 already!

For more details, read our full announcement article, which includes installation/migration steps.

Membership

In last month’s update, we announced the soft launch of our membership offering, which has already raised over €8,000 in our first month. A big thank you to all our initial backers.

When we launched, we supported credit/debit card payments only, but we’ve now added bank transfer/direct bank payment offerings to aid larger contributions, plus reduce the fees paid (i.e. ensuring more of your contribution money goes to Mage-OS).

This initial rollout has given us some insight into the quirks around the platform we use to manage contributions (Open Collective), and as such, we’re working on a detailed guide to help simplify the process of signing up and clarify intricacies, like the tip system that benefits Open Collective (not Mage-OS).

If you want a reminder on our different membership (individual) and partner (business) tiers, then head over to our Membership page to find out more.

Support Mage-OS

Community Feedback

Now that the Magento event season is in full swing, we took the opportunity to get exposure and raise awareness and comprehension of what Mage-OS is, why we exist and why others should consider supporting/joining us.

Burning questions were asked at MageUnconference in Cologne and Meet Magento New York Meet Magento New York (see recaps below), and this provided a lot of food for thought to our team, especially around how to provide more clarity about our vision and roadmap.

One key point that we can address straight away is the collaboration between Adobe, the Magento Association and Mage-OS. Although our original movement came from the frustration of feeling less support from Adobe, we are now in a different space.

We acknowledge all the efforts put in since, with the appointment of Mathias Schreiber on the Magento Association side, as well as Parul Sinha and Ritesh Somani on the Adobe side. We are also very thankful to the whole Meet Magento events team for their continuous effort to allow the Community to all gather in person and nurture our shared passion. We are very grateful that the organizers of various events like Meet Commerce, Mage Titans, Mage Unconference NL and DE, the Mage-OS Hackathon and Meet Magento New York have welcomed Mage-OS with open arms and allowed us to be represented.

With that in mind, we are now opening up more channels and reaching out more proactively to various stakeholders of the Magento ecosystem to collaborate, ensure our goals are aligned and avoid duplication of work wherever possible. However, in parallel, we will continue to set our own pace as the urgency to maintain and grow the Magento ecosystem and bring reassurance to all stakeholders (e.g. merchants/agencies/vendors) still exists.

We also pledge to remain open and transparent, and to continue this, we’ve reviewed all the additional (and unanswered) questions we received during the Q&A session at Meet Magento New York and provided our responses in our recent update post.

Events & Community

MageUnconference DE

At the end of September, the legendary MageUnconference returned to Cologne, Germany, and Mage-OS was a hot topic during the weekend, which led to many burning questions (as noted above), plus an influx of new contributors! For more details, see our recap article, contributed by attendee and Mage-OS DevDocs creator, David Lambauer.

Meet Magento New York

Thanks to the many of you who joined us at Meet Magento New York! Mage-OS was front and center throughout the 4 days, starting with the pre-party on Monday, through the 2-day main event and into the final day on Thursday, where we hosted our very first in-person meetup: Mage-OS & Friends Get Together.

We were well represented throughout the event, with our own booth, involvement in multiple panels, as well as talk covering our journey to date, achievements and future plans. We’d like to extend our thanks to Marsha Naidoo and the team at Above the Fray for supporting our presence on every level and allow us to make a real splash in the US market.

If you want to learn more, then see our recap article (another shoutout to David Lambauer for helping pull this article together, too!)

Magento Events Listing and Recaps

Events are an essential part of our community. As such, we feel it is important to provide the go-to place to find all the upcoming Magento events happening around the world. Check out our Magento events calendar page, which is run manually by Mage-OS volunteers and enriched with recaps after each event. Plus, look out for a refreshed events page/system coming soon!

Big thank you to John Prendergast, David Lambauer, and others for this effort.

Meet Magento Netherlands 2023

Meet Magento Netherlands is back for 2023 after a 4-year hiatus, and takes place in Amsterdam on November 2nd. This is our last big event for 2023, and we couldn’t be more proud of our Dutch local chapter, Mage-OS Nederlands, for organizing such a successful event before it even takes place! The initial ticket allocation sold out two weeks prior, and further tickets that were made available (thanks to additional sponsors) have now sold out, too. All this means an attendance of over 300 community enthusiasts, which is incredible!

Not only that, but the lineup of speakers is diverse and features many high-profile merchants and community experts. We’re also very excited about the afterparty, where a live band has been hired to get the dance floor on fire!

At Mage-OS, we will be well represented, with over half of our board members in attendance - Ignacio, John, Maciej, Thien-Lan, Vinai, and Wouter - plus many more of our valued contributors and working group members. In fact, this may be the biggest gathering of Mage-OS folks to date. So, if you have questions or want to learn more about our plans, this would be an ideal time to ask!

To round out the day, our president, Vinai, will be taking part in the closing keynote of the event, so don’t miss it!

A big thank you to all the sponsors for making this event possible.

Swagshop

Finally, if you’re looking to wear Mage-OS, we have lots of options for you to pick from! You can find the Mage-OS apparel shop at:

Until next time! The Mage-OS team.

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Meet Magento NYC 2023: A Gathering of the Mage-OS Community

mage-os-team — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 00:00:00 GMT

Setting the Stage in The Big Apple

October’s cool New York City breeze witnessed the confluence of Magento aficionados. Nestled in the heart of the city, the New World stage off-broadway theater came alive on 10th and 11th October 2023 with the electric vibe of Meet Magento NYC.

Kickstarting with the Pre-Party

Before the main event even began, the tone was set with a pre-party on Monday evening, giving everyone a chance to mingle and set the mood for the impending conference. There was a great turnout and this was the first time many of the Mage-OS board and contributors met in person, which was a great moment. A big thank you to ShipperHQ for sponsoring/hosting and crafting such a welcoming and energetic start to our week.

Mage-OS Booth: The Epicenter of Activity

Tuesday saw the venue buzzing with enthusiasts. The Mage-OS booth emerged as a popular spot, thanks to Ryan Hoerr’s commendable management. It was heartening to see notable Mage-OS stalwarts like David Lambauer, Damien Retzinger, Anton Kril, Jakub Winkler, and John Hughes rally around, amplifying the energy.

Innovating Magento: Damien’s Revelation

The afternoon sessions commenced with one of our longest-serving and most active technical contributors, Damien Ratzinger, who gave an enlightening and in-depth talk on NX. The promise? Making Magento a whopping 1000x faster. An interesting note: this groundbreaking tech is currently the pride of Mage-OS and is regularly discussed in our weekly technical meetings, with contributions ongoing (and more welcome!)

AI & Devdocs: David’s Journey

David Lambauer later took center stage, narrating his compelling journey to create the Mage-OS DevDocs. The awe-inspiring aspect? A massive 70,000 words, crafted with a sprinkle of AI magic. But it wasn’t just about quantity. The revamped devdocs are meticulously designed with newcomers in mind, emphasizing developer friendliness. Enhanced with Algolia doc search, finding information has never been more seamless. And the best part? Contributing to the DevDocs is now as effortless as clicking a single button.

Blazing Fast Catalog Performance: Ivan’s Mission

Yet another long-term Mage-OS tech contributor and one of the original Magento core developers, Ivan Chepurnyi, also focused on performance. This time in relation to catalog data processing and streaming optimization, showing how his solution can reduce data indexation times from multiple hours to a few seconds!

Mage-OS & Magento Association: A Symbiotic Dialogue

The day reached its zenith with a fireside (panel) chat about the current state of the Magento ecosystem and the synergy between Mage-OS and the Magento Association. Kudos to our Board Member Ryan Hoerr for representing Mage-OS. Not to forget, Matthias Schreiber, Executive Director at the Magento Association, who painted a promising picture of the association’s future too.

There were also many burning (and some controversial) questions submitted from the audience (and farther afield) that weren’t answered on the day due to time constraints. However, we felt these were important to respond to, which is why we spent time collectively reviewing these questions, which culminated in us recently publishing a follow up article to outline our responses.

An Evening of Camaraderie

While there was no official post-conference celebration on the evening of the first night, the spirit of community was too strong. Attendees formed spontaneous groups, cherishing the NYC culinary scene and forging connections over delightful dinners and engaging debate.

The Chronicles of Mage-OS

Diving straight into Wednesday, the day was enriched with informative sessions. The standout was undoubtedly our Board Member John Hughes enlightening the audience on the essence of Mage-OS. From its humble beginnings, the current achievements (such as our initial Mage-Os Distribution release and recent membership rollout), to a future shimmering with promise - the narrative was both engaging and insightful.

Bowling & Bonding: An After-Party to Remember

As day turned to evening, the ambiance shifted from formal to fun. Attendees were treated to an after-party with a twist - a bowling alley setting. Not just pins and balls; there was a delectable spread to satiate the foodies. But the night was young, and the energy unyielding.

Midnight Tales at The Perfect Pint

Post bowling, many ventured to The Perfect Pint, a charming pub that would be a recurring locale. Here, amidst clinks of glasses and hearty laughter, conversations flowed seamlessly, stretching till 3 am. Tales were exchanged, memories forged, and Magento stories shared under the dim lights of the pub.

Mage-OS Meetup: Concluding with a Bang

Thursday, though signaling the end, was far from a winding down. The Perfect Pint once again played host, this time to the Mage-OS & Friends Get Together. The week might have been packed, but the enthusiasm was undiminished. A substantial crowd turned up, proving that when it comes to Mage-OS, the community’s spirit is indefatigable.

Takeaways: Many Thanks & Food For Thought

Firstly, a big thank you to Marsha Naidoo and the team at Above the Fray, not just for being incredible event hosts and organizers, but for supporting our presence on every level and allowing us to make a real splash in the US market. The event was an undeniable success for all involved and everyone deserves recognition, from the talented speakers, the sponsors who make these events possible, the organizers who made it a reality, to each and every one of the attendees - as there would not be events without you!

Secondly, the event was incredibly insightful for us and we had many stimulating, and even at times some heated (but all good-natured), debates that have helped us learn and reflect on our mission and goals and we’ve come away with a renewed purpose and a focus on positivity and better collaboration within the ecosystem (such as with the Magento Association and Adobe), while not inhibiting our desire for rapid change and improvement with our recently released Mage-OS Distribution.

Until the next event! The Mage-OS team

MM23NY Follow Up: Q+A

mage-os-team — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 00:00:00 GMT

Thank you to all that turned out to Meet Magento 2023 in New York! It was great to connect with so many of you and share in your hopes and dreams.

We got a lot of questions from people during the conference, and maybe you’ve thought them too. Here are our answers, if so!

Have more questions? Check out our FAQ, or ask away at chat.mage-os.org! We’re an open book.

Why should I recommend Mage-OS over Magento?

The Mage-OS Distribution is still just getting started, and so right now there are not a lot of differences between it and Magento Open Source. The first release of Mage-OS already includes a number of improvements, so merchants who like using the bleeding edge are welcome to build on Mage-OS.

At Mage-OS we’re focusing on platform improvements, enhancements, and rapid progress that builds on top of the long-term stability that Magento provides. Both platforms give you full access to the complete ecosystem of Magento providers, extensions, and integrations.

At this time, using Magento Open Source is a great option for most merchants. It’s a great platform for merchants, and more stable and secure than it’s ever been. Should the requirements change, it will always be possible to migrate to Mage-OS at a later time.

Will Mage-OS have a very different code base than Magento? How will that impact developers and extensions?

Our mission has always been to support the whole Magento ecosystem and allow it to thrive. As such we will always take into account the interests of merchants, agencies, extension vendors, and other service providers that need an easy integration path to the platform.

Our intention is to keep the Mage-OS Distribution as compatible as possible with Magento extensions and solutions, for as long as possible. There will be differences as fixes and improvements are made to Mage-OS, but those should be of limited scope and won’t involve major changes to the nature of how Magento works.

Any solutions that work for Magento should also work for Mage-OS with little or no changes, and anyone that learns Magento or Mage-OS programming will be able to work with the other too.

We are also working with some extension vendors, like Amasty. By testing their extensions on Mage-OS we gather valuable insight in compatibility. We welcome any extension vendors and integrators to join the effort and do the same.

With Adobe not marketing Magento, who’s going to take that on?

Good question! This is right up the alley of Magento Association, and they’re jumping right into that with the creation of a new magento-opensource.com website for the purpose. If you’re interested in getting involved with that, get in touch with the MA Content Committee.

We are focusing mostly on the technical and business sides of the ecosystem. Marketing, outreach, and sales can be expensive. Between wanting to put our resources to the best use, and not having access to the Magento brand, we believe our efforts are best spent strengthening the platform and ecosystem.

How will Mage-OS not distract from the progress of Magento Association?

We’re focusing on different things. Our aim is to collaboratively cover all the activities that will help strengthen the Magento ecosystem.

The Magento Association, which has an agreement with Adobe to use the Magento brand, is focused primarily on the ownership of that brand and everything that goes along with that – marketing, events, content, and outreach. All of those things are massively important! And the MA, Meet Magento, and people involved with them have done a great job with them.

Mage-OS is focused primarily on enhancement, longevity, and innovation of the Magento platform. That includes bug fixes, performance improvements, modernization, and more. It also means elevating and empowering others in the ecosystem to reach further and work better. We’ll do that through exposure, development tools and workflows, easier setup processes and environments, documentation, and more.

We are totally open to collaborating with Magento Association where possible, and we are actively discussing with them where and how we can do so.

If Magento Association is successful, does Mage-OS become redundant?

The Magento Association’s focus and goals are currently different and distinct from those of Mage-OS (as discussed above). If the Magento Association comes to fulfill all the purposes of Mage-OS, then that’s great! We would love to be redundant. But for now, we expect that the associations will continue in generally the same direction they are now and have very supportive roles.

If all goes well, success on the part of Magento Association in increasing Magento brand awareness would likely increase adoption of the Mage-OS Distribution in the process, and vice versa.

Could Magento Association start funding Mage-OS as a technology maintainer and incubator?

That’s not our decision to make, but we’re open to all arrangements that benefit the Magento community.

What are three things Mage-OS has learned or will do differently from MA?

Communication is essential.
Empowerment is essential.
Owning your own destiny is essential.

Isn’t Mage-OS competing with its agency ecosystem by offering paid services?

Mage-OS is run by the community and the agencies and vendors within it. We will not be competing with any integrator or service provider in the ecosystem, to the best of our ability. Our goal is to uplift and support the ecosystem, not cannibalize it, and agencies are a critical part of that. Since Mage-OS is run by the community, the members can ensure any services do not endanger their business.

By offering service level agreements and extended long-term support for the core platform, our goal is to enable agencies to sell their services to merchants that require vendor support.

The Mage-OS support company will allow a merchant to pay for a guarantee of support and fixes to the Mage-OS core. It will not extend to any extensions, customizations, integrations, consulting, or development services – all of which would be referred back to the merchant’s agency/developer or to the Mage-OS partners list if they don’t have one.

Our intention is to supplement agency offerings, and enhance the appeal of the Mage-OS/Magento platform to an agency’s merchants and prospects by offloading support responsibility of the core platform. This would function in many ways like Adobe Commerce Support, which every Commerce partner already interacts with.

This is a major part of our plan for Mage-OS, on several counts:

Any profit from the support services company will feed back to the Mage-OS Association to put toward development of Mage-OS itself, through development grants and community empowerment.
Any bug fixes completed in the course of support services will become part of Mage-OS, and available to everyone.
Software support and reliance can be a major consideration for merchants when deciding on a platform. This is something not directly available to SMB merchants right now, except through Adobe Commerce licensing.

What’s stopping Mage-OS from getting bought out in the future?

The Mage-OS Distribution and brand are fully owned by the non-profit Mage-OS Association, and the association is owned and run entirely by its members.

This was a major consideration of ours when forming Mage-OS, based on the learned experiences of other open source projects. We believe in open source, and believe in Mage-OS staying truly open source. The Mage-OS Association is bound by the operating rules of its legal statutes, and those include member approval for any sale, transfer, or merging of assets or Mage-OS as a whole (per articles 27 and 30 of the Mage-OS Association statutes).

Any person can become a member of the Mage-OS Association, for as little as 10 EUR a year.

Do we need a new technical roadmap, or do we need organization and marketing around work already underway?

We believe we need both, and we are working on it from every angle. Please join us! You can help or follow along with everything we’re doing at chat.mage-os.org .

Do you think Adobe should relinquish the Magento brand?

We would love for Adobe to release the Magento brand and trademarks in full to the Magento Association. That being said, it is a valuable asset that Adobe purchased and owns, so we have to be realistic that it’s not likely to happen.

What is the most impactful problem that Mage-OS will solve in the next year?

Overall, Mage-OS is working on guaranteeing the longevity of the Magento ecosystem, not on specific individual features.

There are a number of technical projects we expect to see meaningful progress on within the next year, including reducing technical debt by cleaning up the module dependency graph, a better onboarding experience for new developers, revamping the indexer system, and other performance improvements.

We believe these improvements will lead to a reduced total cost of ownership for merchants, which in turn will make the ecosystem more competitive for agencies to offer and work with.

What about the increased community engagement by Parul Sinha and team?

We appreciate all the work Parul and the Community Engineering team is doing! Because all changes to Magento Open Source are merged into Mage-OS, every improvement to the platform works to the benefit of all. By all means, people should continue submitting code to Magento and help with processing of pull requests!

That being said, there are limits to what Adobe will allow to change in Magento Open Source because it’s the foundation of their Adobe Commerce product suite. Essentially, these limitations mean no new meaningful features are likely to come in the core codebase. In the past there have been issues with speed of the contribution cycle and with developer trust, of no fault of Parul or the current Community Engineering team. On both counts, we can help by providing an outlet and processes for developers to fulfill their dreams.

We are optimistic about collaborating with Magento and the Community Engineering team. Our goal is to ensure that contributions made within Mage-OS are effective and tested in real-world scenarios, so they could be seamlessly integrated into Magento.

Want to learn more or join in?

MageUnConference 2023: A Deep Dive into Mage-OS's Momentum

mage-os-team — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 00:00:00 GMT

Hello Mage-OS community!

Last month marked another successful MageUnConference in Cologne, Germany, organized by FireGento e.V., and the energy surrounding Mage-OS was truly remarkable. The feedback, the questions, and the ever-growing interest reinforced the importance and potential of this open-source platform.

A Torrent of Positive Feedback

It’s heartwarming to witness how much Mage-OS is resonating within our community. The feedback we’ve garnered has been overwhelmingly positive, touching on its usability, potential for growth, and the sense of community it fosters. This feedback is more than just words; it’s the fuel that propels us forward, igniting our passion and determination to continue refining and enhancing Mage-OS for all of you.

An Influx of New Contributors

One of the most exhilarating outcomes of the MageUnConference was the surge of new contributors who’ve joined our Discord channel. With fresh perspectives and a shared drive to innovate, their inclusion is set to make a significant impact on the growth trajectory of Mage-OS. To our new recruits, we extend a warm welcome! We are eagerly anticipating the fresh perspectives and innovative ideas you’ll bring to the table.

Mage-OS-centric Sessions Galore!

Mage-OS was the star of several dedicated sessions, shedding light on various facets of the platform. Notably:

David’s Session on Contribution

An insightful deep dive into the intricacies of contributing to Mage-OS. For both veterans and newcomers, David’s presentation was a treasure trove of information, offering clarity on how one can actively participate and shape the future of Mage-OS.

Jo Baker on Commercialization

The intriguing session by Jo Baker explored the commercial aspect of Mage-OS. As we bridge the gap between open-source ethos and commercial viability, Jo’s insights were invaluable, sparking stimulating discussions and opening doors to new possibilities.

Funding and Roadmap Queries

Given the rising interest and momentum around Mage-OS, it was only natural that questions about our funding and roadmap surfaced. We recognize and appreciate the community’s keen interest in understanding the future trajectory of Mage-OS.
Rest assured, we are committed to maintaining transparency and will be sharing detailed insights on our funding sources, allocation, and a clearer roadmap in the coming weeks.

Huge Thanks to FireGento e.V.

A huge thanks to FireGento e.V. for hosting this Magento UnConference. Community events like this are the heart of this ecosystem, and we hope to see many more.

Supporting Mage-OS: Empower the Movement

In our journey to cultivate and grow Mage-OS, memebrships and partnerships are pivotal. We understand that every individual and organization has different capacities, and in that spirit, we’re excited to introduce varied supporter tiers tailored to different preferences and capabilities.

Please head to our membership page to get more information:

Support Mage-OS

Company partnerships are not just welcome, but are an integral part of the Mage-OS ecosystem. Your support amplifies our efforts, fuels innovation, and fosters a collaborative environment.

Mage-OS Swag Shop: Wear Your Support!

For those who’ve been eager to flaunt their Mage-OS pride, we have exciting news! Our official Mage-OS Swag Shop is now live on Spreadshirt. From trendy tees and hoodies to accessories that make a statement, there’s something for every Mage-OS enthusiast.

Get your Mage-OS Swag here:

Whether you’re gearing up for the next UnConference, looking to surprise a fellow Mage-OS admirer, or just want to sport some cool gear, our Swag Shop has got you covered.

In Conclusion

The MageUnConference 2023 was more than just an event; it was a testament to the growth, relevance, and potential of Mage-OS. As we move forward, these gatherings play a pivotal role in shaping our direction and ensuring Mage-OS remains a platform built by the community, for the community.

To every participant, speaker, and enthusiast who joined us, either in-person or in spirit, thank you. Here’s to a brighter, collaborative future for Mage-OS!

Stay connected, stay inspired, and let’s keep building together!

The Mage-OS Team

Introducing the Mage-OS Distribution

mage-os-team — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 00:00:00 GMT

We are proud to announce version 1 of the Mage-OS Distribution!

This release is based on Magento 2.4.6-p3, plus additional contributions including a refreshed admin panel. We will continue making enhancements over time, as they’re contributed by the open source community.

Because they’re based on the same code, all of your existing Magento extensions will work with Mage-OS too!

UPDATE 2023-10-11: With the release of Magento security patch 2.4.6-p3 today, we’ve also published Mage-OS Distribution 1.0.1.

Installing Mage-OS

You can create a new Mage-OS project with the following SSH command:

composer create-project --repository-url=https://repo.mage-os.org/ mage-os/project-community-edition .

After a successful composer download, you will need to run the installer. Please see DevDocs: Installation Guide for Mage-OS

Moving to Mage-OS

If you are already using Magento 2.4 and PHP 8.1+, you can change to Mage-OS by running the following in SSH:

composer config repositories.0 composer https://repo.mage-os.org/ && \
    composer require mage-os/product-community-edition --no-update && \
    composer remove magento/product-community-edition magento/composer-dependency-version-audit-plugin magento/composer-root-update-plugin --no-update && \
    composer remove sebastian/comparator --dev --no-update && \
    composer update --no-plugins --with-all-dependencies

We strongly recommend updating to the latest Magento version (currently 2.4.6-p3) before changing to Mage-OS, to minimize issues.

Your specific situation may require additional changes to your composer.json file. Generally this will involve changing magento/ package names to mage-os/, or updating dependency versions.

Release Notes

This release is based on Magento 2.4.6-p3, plus community contributions merged since. It also includes the following Mage-OS-specific changes:

Removed adobe-commerce/adobe-ims-metapackage, magento/adobe-stock-integration, magento/google-shopping-ads, paypal/module-braintree, temando/module-shipping (thanks to Vinai Kopp)
Admin theme Mage-OS re-brand (thanks to Ryan Hoerr)
Mage-OS brand logo and name changes (thanks to Kiel Pykett)
Fixed Maestro Domestic CC detection pattern to prevent false positives (thanks to Ryan Hoerr)
Increased the default max admin session size to 1 MB (thanks to Ryan Hoerr, and Maciej Tomaszewski and others involved on the upstream discussions)
Faster category product count (thanks to Damien Retzinger, and Vincent Enjalbert who created the original upstream PR)

Huge thank you to everyone that has contributed to the Mage-OS infrastructure, tests, actions, and more to get us here, including:

Vinai Kopp
Damien Retzinger
Daniel Sloof
Adam Crossland
Tjitse Efdé
Gowri Sankar
Vitaliy Golomozy
David Lambauer
Simon Sprankel
Kamlesh Luhana
Kiel Pykett
Christian Münch
Fabian Schmengler
Vladyslav Podorozhnyi
and so many more

What’s Next?

Our Vision for Mage-OS

The purpose of the Mage-OS core distribution is to provide

Improved decoupling of packages
Improved developer experience while working with the product
Improved developer experience while contributing to the product
Full compatibility with Magento extensions
Focus on additional security
Reduced infrastructure stack dependencies
Low-level code improvements, for example in the areas of code generation and caching
Removal of most bundled extensions contained in upstream (they can still be independently installed if desired)
A simple documented migration path to Magento Open Source or Adobe Commerce

Mage-OS Distribution releases are made independently of upstream releases. This enables us to move faster when desired, for example when enabling compatibility with new PHP versions.

Mage-OS will also maintain backwards compatibility and the ability to migrate upstream at multiple levels:

Compatibility with third-party extensions
Database level compatibility (data and schema)
API stability

All of our work on creating custom releases based on Magento is open source, meaning:

Mage-OS builds can be independently built and verified, and are fully reproducible;
If you want to create your own fork and version of Magento or Mage-OS, you can do that too.

Up Next: Mage-OS Flavored Distributions

Soon, we will be working toward producing different ‘flavors’ of Mage-OS. These flavors will be different bundles of Mage-OS packages, for specific purposes. For example:

The Mage-OS headless distribution might contain no storefront theme
The Mage-OS minimal distribution might contain only a minimal set of packages to enable building lightweight applications
The Mage-OS headful distribution might contain no GraphQL packages

Fundamentally these will be the same Mage-OS/Magento you’ve come to know and love, but without features that don’t apply to a given use case — and maybe with additional features that use case uniquely benefits from. In the process, Mage-OS will become more performant, more flexible, and appeal to an even broader market.

Our goal is also to allow others to create their own ‘distributions as ‘flavored’ distributions too.

Contribute

Are you interested in contributing to Mage-OS, or have a bug or improvement you’d like to make? We’re open for pull requests now at https://github.com/mage-os/mageos-magento2!

If you have a bigger project in mind, please join Discord and summarize your idea in #discussions. We’d be delighted to hear from you, and help figure out how your idea best fits into Mage-OS!

That’s all for now!

September 2023 Update

john-hughes — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMT

Product

Mage-OS Distribution

A big step was made thanks to our first-ever Mage-OS Hackathon! Huge thanks to David Lambauer and the Run As Root team for putting that on, and for everyone that participated!

We are in the final stages of preparing for a release of our very own Mage-OS Distribution! Recently that includes:

Changes to the package generation process;
Finalizing a GitHub Action for baseline coding standards testing of pull requests;
Preparing a release process, including changing package names and versions in a way that’s intercompatible with Magento;
Admin branding changes;
GitHub Actions maintenance;
And more

We are looking forward to sharing big news here soon!

Dev Docs

Mage-OS developer documentation is coming together well!

Here is where we need more help:

Provide Feedback: Let us know your thoughts on the existing documentation. Are there areas that could be clearer? Is there information that’s missing or could be expanded upon?
Suggest Topics: Are there specific topics or areas in Magento 2 development that you feel need more detailed documentation? Share your suggestions, and we’ll work on incorporating them!
Contribute Content: If you have expertise in a particular area of Magento 2 and are willing to share your knowledge, we’d love for you to contribute content to the DevDocs.
Report Issues: If you come across any inaccuracies, ambiguities, or bugs in the documentation, please report them so we can address them promptly.
Spread the Word: Help us reach more Magento 2 developers by sharing Mage-OS DevDocs within your networks and on social media. The more contributors we have, the richer and more comprehensive our documentation will be!

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Join our tech calls on Tuesdays 9 a.m. EST/ 3 p.m. CET

Memberships

We’ve lined all but one duck in the row. In the last months we’ve arranged our bank account, accounting company, settled legal matters, and set up a Stripe account so that we can now accept membership contributions on our Open Collective page.

We have not shouted about it yet because we would like a lower-fee option before collecting large amounts. As such we are working hard to accept bank transfers, and getting close. We’re also working on lowering the credit card fees, so that as much of the money as possible goes toward building the Mage-OS platform.

That being said, if you want to be among the first to join Mage-OS and add your pretty face to our homepage, you can do so now!

Please be aware:

When Open Collective asks for a “Tip”, that goes to their platform, not to Mage-OS

Swag store

The Mage-OS Swag store is here!

Thanks to the diligent benchmark and vetting process run by Ryan Hoerr, we now have a Mage-OS Swag Store that offers:

Quality and eco-friendly products
A wide range of apparel, accessories, and stickers, in a variety of colors
Shipping from various parts of the globe for less CO2 emission and less tax duty and shipping costs
Good value – Mage-OS is not taking any profit from the sales, which means the prices are as low as possible for you

In our testing, it takes about a week to receive your order in most of the US and EU (but that depends on the specific products and the size of your order).

Make sure to shop in your local currency for the best shipping costs and time. You can choose your location in the shop footer.

Want to show off? Use the hashtag #MAGEOSWAG on Twitter or LinkedIn to show off!

Marketing

Now that the Mage-OS Distribution eCommerce platform is almost ready, marketing and outreach are becoming a big part of discussions.

Originally, the Content Committee was mainly focused on gathering and writing about the Magento platform’s features and possibilities. Recently this has started to evolve. The meeting time is unchanged, but we now spend the first half hour on Marketing topics, and the second half on our Mage-OS website functionalities and content.

Here are more details about what we are trying to achieve. If you have ideas, resources, energy or just want to tag along, please join us and lend a hand!

Marketing Committee

Build awareness, comprehension of Mage-OS
Build adoption of the soon-to-launch distribution
Grow our community of members, partners, and contributors

Website Committee

How do we drive comprehension of the Association and the Distribution
How do we keep the community engaged and rewarded (Contributors Page, Events module, Updates…)

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Community

Events

Meet Magento New York 2023 - Oct 9th to 12th

Meet Magento New York is in less than two weeks. This is going to be big! Some have started calling it the “Spiritual successor of Magento Imagine”. In fact, this will be the biggest event for Mage-OS so far as we’ll have an official booth, and several talks across the Technical Track and Business Tracks, including a massive interview with Mage-OS and Magento Association, and some great minds on Open Source!

We would like to extend a huge thank you to Above The Fray for their generosity and hospitality in this event, and to Marsha Naidoo and team specifically for organizing!

We are also organizing a morning-after Get Together for anyone that wants to hang out with us and chat Mage-OS!

Read about everything Mage-OS has going on at MM23NYC

Meet Magento Netherlands 2023 - Nov 2nd

This event is the first one organized by a local chapter: Mage-OS Nederlands! The MM23NL website is absolutely beautiful and gives justice to the rich cultural history of the Netherlands, which is also one of the strongest markets for Magento. You can still become a sponsor, get your ticket and perhaps submit a talk.

Trust us to be there in large numbers, with our Mage-OS swag on, and wear anything orange as the Dutch would do.

Mage-OS Local Chapters

The British are coming, and they’ve set up their own channel on Discord with the Irish. There’s a lot of excitement brewing in the community, and we can’t wait to see what’s in store!

Check our Local Chapters page to join your regional group. There are currently groups open for France, India, Italy, Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Ukraine, UK and Ireland, and USA. Connect with people from your area, speak ecommerce at them, and maybe talk them into arranging a meetup!

Want to start organizing your own local Magento community? Let us know, get your local ecommerce friends and coworkers to join you, and run with it.

Thanks, until next time!

Meet us in New York

ryan-hoerr — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMT

In case you missed the news, Meet Magento New York 2023 is coming up! If you can make your way to New York City on October 10th and 11th, you should.

Mage-OS will be at the conference in force, including multiple sessions and a booth.

Making Magento 1000x Faster to Build, aka The Power of the Directed Acyclic Graph
Damien Retzinger
Founder, Software Engineer
Graycore, LLC
Vibing the Mage-OS DevDocs
David Lambauer
CEO
run_as_root GmbH
Mage-OS - Fork It, Own It, Grow It, Better!
John Hughes
Board Member (& Content Committee Lead)
Mage-OS
Edit the Core (Open Source Panel)
Ryan Hoerr
Anton Kril
Damien Retzinger
Willem Wigman
Fireside Chat: What’s Up Magento? Let’s cut to the Crunch. A Conversation With the Magento Association and Mage-OS Addressing Community-Curated Inquiries
Jo Baker
Mathias Schreiber
Ryan Hoerr

And look for these friends of Mage-OS on stage or at the event!:

We’re super excited about everything going on with Mage-OS lately, and we’d love to talk with you about it!

If you haven’t yet booked your trip, make sure to reserve your spot soon! meetmagentonyc.com/ Space is limited, and the event is going to be jam-packed with great content and conversation. If you’re a merchant, get in touch with us for a 50% discount.

We’d like to extend a huge thank you to Marsha and the whole team at Above The Fray, for their hospitality and generosity in hosting this event and allowing Mage-OS a presence at it. This wouldn’t be happening without them.

ALSO, we will be having an informal Mage-OS get-together the day after the event! Come out, have a meal or drink, and chat with us about the future of ecommerce! More Details

Finally, don’t miss our recently opened Swag Store if you want to show your Mage-OS support at the event: https://mage-os.myspreadshop.com/.
Note: Choose you location in the Footer for fastest delivery options and local currency.

We hope to see you there!

Mage-OS Magic in Action

david-lambauer — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMT

Recapping the Mage-OS Hackathon Weekend in Würzburg

Hallo everyone! I have much excitement to share about our latest adventure in the world of coding and camaraderie. Our team came together for a hackathon that was, how do we say… einfach fantastisch!

When and Where?
So, this great gathering? It was happening on Thursday 7th and Friday 8th September. And the place? The run_as_root office in the wonderful Würzburg city.

Our Purpose? Mage-OS!
Mage-OS was our shining star. With 14 of us, all buzzing with ideas, it was quite the atmosphere. Vinai, he shared many thoughts on Mage-OS. And I (David) gave some rules for the house. Then, ah, the brainstorming! Ideas were like rivers, flowing non-stop.

Projects? Oh, So Many!

Thorben, Manuel, Cristiano from faraway Brazil, and yours truly, we played with TypeSense. It’s like Algolia, but open-source. Thanks to time zones, we worked like a relay race. Non-stop!
Andreas, he went deep into the world of Async Events. Imagine connecting any webhook to Magento Events. Toll, right?
Vinai, Fabian, Vlad - these three musketeers made the Mage-OS Release Process even cooler, creating custom distributions.
Maryna and Rico? Ah, artists! They gave a new face to Mage-OS DevDocs, and shared knowledge on contributor workflows.
Tjitje, he was a busy bee with PHP Codestyle GitHub Action, making things faster with a Baseline.
Matthias, our hero, made Elasticsearch optional. A big, big move!
Laura, she was our sunshine. Taking photos, making everyone smile. Ein wunderbar person!

Much Work, Much Results!
In such short time, can you believe, we merged about 35 PRs across 8 repositories? It’s like magic!

And Fun Times? Of course!
We had lovely dinner in a Würzburg biergarten. Laughs, food, and good memories.

Go Team

Mage-OS bonding

Ready for action

Coffee Tutorial

An Unforgettable Friday Afternoon
Now, a special memory from Friday afternoon. I wanted to say some closing words, but I saw something beautiful. The whole office, everyone, was in a deep focus tunnel. No sound, just passion and work. It was like watching a silent orchestra. Very impressive and heartwarming.

To finish, this hackathon was not only about coding. It was about friendship, learning, and much joy. Here’s to many more such events and the bright future of Mage-OS! Prost! :tada::tada::tada:

Links:
Typesense: https://github.com/torhoehn/module-typesense-mageosDevDocs: https://github.com/mage-os/devdocsDevDocs Website: https://github.com/mage-os/devdocs-websiteMageOS: https://github.com/mage-os/mageos-magento2Mirror Script: https://github.com/mage-os/generate-mirror-repo-jsGitHub Actions: https://github.com/mage-os/github-actionsAsync Events Admin: https://github.com/mage-os/mageos-async-events-admin-uiAsync Events Lib: https://github.com/mage-os/mageos-async-events

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Mirror Package Checksum Changes

mage-os-team — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMT

On Saturday, the 16. September 2023, the checksum of several of the composer packages on mirror.mage-os.org will change. This will likely lead to warnings during subsequent composer operations on projects utilizing the mirror.

There is no reason for alarm - there is a technical reason for the update.

We recently discovered a flaw in the integrity check used to confirm that Mage-OS mirror packages are identical to Magento Open Source packages. We have fixed the flaw, and have ensured all Mage-OS mirror packages are identical to their Magento Open Source counterparts.

We do not expect to have to change the checksums of released packages again.

If you are interested in details, please read on.

Why are the checksums changing?

Ever since we started publishing self-built packages on mirror.mage-os.org we have been using GitHub actions to ensure our packages are a drop-in replacement for the packages from repo.magento.com.

The old package integrity check process

After the packages for a given Magento Open Source Mirror release were generated, that release was installed twice:
once using the Mage-OS composer repository, and once using the Magento composer repository.

Composer create-project --repository-url="https://mirror.mage-os.org" magento/project-community-edition:$VERSION ./mageos
composer create-project --repository-url="https://repo.magento.com" magento/project-community-edition:$VERSION ./magento

Then the check compared the versions of all installed packages using composer show.

diff <(composer show -d ./magento | sort) <(composer show -d ./mageos | sort)

If there were no differences, the same package versions were used in both installations, meaning the requirements of all composer.json files were resolved to the same package versions.

Finally, the check compared all files, excluding composer and caching files.

diff -rq -x "*composer*" -x "*autoload*" -x "*mage---*" ./magento ./mageos

If any differences were found, the mirror release failed. If all versions and files were the same, the check succeeded.

The problem

The old integrity check only checked the installed versions were identical at the point in time the two installations were made.

It turned out that in some composer.json files of Magento Open Source, wildcard constraints were used, while Mage-OS used exact version constraints.

For example, version 1.3.0 of the package magento/module-adobe-stock-image requires (among others) the package magento/module-adobe-stock-client-api.

Magento Open Source uses the version constraint 2.1.*, while Mage-OS used to use 2.1.0.

Now, when Adobe releases a new package that matches such a wildcard constraint, the new version would be installed on Magento Open Source installations, but not on Mage-OS installations.
Consequently, the integrity check for a release that previously passed would no longer succeed, because the Mage-OS installation would not change.

Regardless of which approach to package version constraints is “better”, since the goal of the Mage-OS mirror is to provide drop-in replacement packages, the Mage-OS packages had to be updated to also use the same wildcard constraints as Magento Open Source.

For more information, please refer to the GitHub issue, where Damien Retzinger describes the problem in depth.

The new package integrity check process

To fix the problem, the integrity check now no longer compares only the version of installed packages, but instead compares the require, require-dev, and suggests sections of all Mage-OS packages with their corresponding Magento Open Source counterpart directly.

This allowed us to identify all packages that might have caused installations to diverge over time.

The new integrity check was written by Vladyslav Podorozhnyi during the Mage-OS Hackathon in Würzburg a few days ago. Thank you very much!

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August 2023 Update

thien-lan-weber — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 00:00:00 GMT

Welcome to our August progress update! Here’s what’s been happening recently around Mage-OS:

Content

Frontend Options Page

We published a page covering frontend options available for Magento! This includes the built-in theme and variations; major alternatives; headless; and more.

Check it out: https://mage-os.org/why-magento/features/front-end-options/

The community response has been great! Several more vendors have reached out about the list, and we are more than keen to include them and show the breadth and depth of the ecosystem. If you have another frontend system you’d like to include, let us know through the contact form or on Discord.

Magento Developer Documentation (devdocs.mage-os.org)

Check out our developer documentation, if you haven’t already! devdocs.mage-os.org

Since last month, contributors have added and reviewed 80,000 words with the help of AI! It also has a powerful and quick search, powered by Algolia for Open Source.

Huge thanks to David Lambauer for leading and pushing the documentation forward.

The new documentation is getting indexed by search engines, so be on the lookout for Mage-OS devdocs results on your next searches!

It’s super easy to edit and submit changes on Github, so if you have some time, maybe add your expertise to the docs as well!

Go to DevDocs

Technical

Magento security updates were released earlier this month, and are also available on our public Magento mirror! mirror.mage-os.org

The new versions are:

2.4.6-p2
2.4.5-p4
2.4.4-p5

The technical contribution team is focused on finalizing the details and process for our very own Mage-OS Distribution, as well as a number of special features for inclusion. More to come!

Membership

We are in the process of finalizing arrangements with an accounting firm. Because we are an international not-for-profit organization, strict identification and tax rules apply and have to be diligently followed. The unusual nature of our association and international membership have proven tricky for navigating legal and financial arrangements, but we hope to get this all worked out very soon.

If you want to start budgeting for next year, here are the Sponsorship Tiers we are looking at.

As soon as we are ready to collect funds, we’ll let you know via Discord, our newsletter, and on social media.

Events

First ever Mage-OS Hackathon!

Würzburg, Germany, 7-8th September

15 or so experienced and talented developers are participating in the upcoming Mage-OS Hackathon, including people from Basecom, Integer_Net, and Hyvä. Huge thanks to run_as_root for organizing and hosting this at their headquarter offices.

If you’re interested, there is still time to join! Make history in allowing the Mage-OS Distribution to reach a new milestone before general availability.

Mage-OS Hackathon

MageUnconference Germany

Cologne, Germany, 29th September – 1st October

If you enjoyed Mage Unconference Netherlands back in July, or were sad to miss it, consider joining for Magento Unconference (MageUC), the first of its kind in Germany!

Unconferences are a laid back and informal alternative to conferences, where none of the talks are selected in advance, and the conversations and breaks are the focus.

MageUnconference DE

Meet Magento New York

New York, USA, 10-11th October

Coming up soon is the premiere event for the northeast, Meet Magento New York! Many of our US-based representatives will be there, including Ryan Hoerr, Laura Folco, Damien Retzinger, and many more.

The event will span two full days this year, packed with sessions, panels, and conversation. We’ll be there to share our vision for the future of Magento, and we hope you’ll be there to chip in.

If you’re a merchant interested in attending, you can contact us for a 50% discount code. The event is also still open for sponsorships. Don’t wait to reserve your spot!

Meet Magento New York

Meet Magento Netherlands

Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 2nd November

Mage-OS Nederlands, our tall and proud Dutch chapter is bringing back Meet Magento Netherlands!

Want to submit a talk? Fill out this form

Want to sponsor? Email: bestuur@nl.mage-os.org

Meet Magento Netherlands

Get Involved

Remember, you can find us every week here:

Content Meeting: Mondays 4pm CEST/ 10am EDT
Technical Meeting: Tuesdays 3pm CEST/ 9am EDT

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Pedal to the Metal: Acceleration of Titan Rig’s Magento Store by Amasty

sergej-derzap — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 00:00:00 GMT

A popular US-based provider of PC cooling components, Titan Rig, helps thousands of customers keep their technical equipment at maximum performance with minimum risks via their Magento Open Source store. However, due to poor implementation they were facing multiple technical and performance related challenges.

To accelerate the big rig hauling their entire business forward and help them smoothly deal with any traffic, the company turned to Amasty’s “repair shop” with a request to realize Magento’s full potential.

Drop-Off

After contacting Amasty, who developed over 80% of the extensions used on the cooling components store, Titan Rig explained that the maintenance of their Magento-powered website was being outsourced. However, the results of their cooperation so far had been underwhelming.

Many store pages took from 12 to whopping 25 seconds to load and search results appeared in no less than 16 seconds. Waiting times got even longer in the evenings, when the traffic was at its peak. Worse than that, the website would regularly crash and stay down for around 10 minutes – on a lucky day, that is.

No doubt, all of this had a very negative effect on organic traffic, customer satisfaction, conversions, and online sales. But Titan Rig was not looking to move e-commerce systems. They appreciated Magento’s flexible, omnichannel, and open-source nature and simply wanted to have their store optimized.

Inspections & Diagnosis

A performance audit of Titan Rig’s store unveiled a clear imbalance in server resources; they were overpowered for the slow morning traffic yet too weak to handle peak times in the evenings.

Testing also helped to detect a number of code errors and Magento best practices violations, which caused loading speed decline. Some of the key issues were:

ObjectManager direct call in template files
ObjectManager in module logic
Too much logic in PHTML templates
Block objects created in template files
Plugins with around() instead of before() and after()
cacheable=“false” in layout handles

Repair Works

To balance out server resources, Amasty’s “mechanics” decided to enable auto-scaling. Thanks to Magento’s flexible hosting, the team easily activated additional server nodes and further customized hosting services to match the website’s traffic patterns. All these efforts helped to ensure that the website would smoothly tackle even peak loads.

Fixing all the uncovered coding issues and implementing Magento best practices was all it took to significantly increase the website speed. With pages loading in just 2-4 seconds and Time to First Byte (TTFB) equalling 150-180 milliseconds, Titan Rig’s store officially entered the green ‘Good’ speed zone.

Engine Tuning

The results were already excellent but Amasty knew that Magento could go even faster. The team offered to replace the existing MySQL-powered search engine with Algolia –a lightning-fast search technology that fit both the Magento environment and Titan Rig’s business needs like a glove. Implementing Algolia on the store helped to achieve more relevant search results that fully loaded in under 2-3 seconds instead of the crazy 16.

Test Drive

With the page load speed raised from 15-25 seconds to 2-4 and Algolia search showing results in just 2-3 seconds, Titan Rig’s desktop Magento store got a definite ‘Passed’ in Core Web Vitals Assessment by Google’s PageSpeed Insights.

Kevin Keating, Vice President of Marketing and Sales at Titan Rig, provided more details on the results of the collaboration:

“We’ve seen a significant improvement in our overall traffic, and the website has been better equipped to handle it. We’ve had better visibility in Google because we don’t have any more errors on our page. We have A+ ratings on other testing websites, and even our customers have seen a noticeable improvement in the website’s performance.”

Customization

Convinced of Magento’s potential and Amasty’s competence, Titan Rig decided to re-launch one of the projects they had unsuccessfully attempted with the freelancers: the implementation of a real-time PC cable configurator. The solution was aimed at helping customers personalize their cables on the website by choosing different plugs and combining as many as 40 different cable colors.

Because of Magento’s extensive capabilities for customization and integration, the Amasty team successfully developed the product configurator and integrated it with Titan Rig’s entire e-commerce system. Now, whenever a client creates a unique cable right on the website, the order specifications are automatically transferred via Linnworks and APIs to the warehouse. There, the magic of creating one-of-a-kind cables happens.

Back on The Road Again

Refined and upgraded, Titan Rig’s store hit the road – now faster, more stable, and ready to handle any traffic. The enhanced Magento performance helped the company to boost customer satisfaction, conversions, and sales. The cable configurator, a brand-new website feature, successfully attracts new clients and makes the company stand out among competitors.

Pleased with the revitalized Magento store, Titan Rig now entrust Amasty with the full ongoing maintenance of their website.

“It’s the professionalism that’s most impressive. They’re honest. I’ve never worked with a company that’s so responsive, even when dealing with other third-party software applications. They don’t just let things sit around. I feel I can trust them with our website.” — Kevin Keating, VP of Marketing and Sales at Titan Rig.

July 2023 Update

john-hughes — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMT

We know many of you have been impatient to learn more about how Mage-OS is progressing, both from the organization side with our association and also from the product side with the Mage-OS distribution, so here’s a roundup of everything that we’ve been working on over the past couple of months.

Mage-OS Membership

In full transparency, getting to a point to start welcoming members to our association has taken us much longer than expected, and we have encountered many hurdles we didn’t anticipate. This has mainly been around setting up a global not-for-profit organization and all the paperwork required to make sure we do things right, such as accepting funds for legal and legitimate activities along with the appropriate accounting and tax considerations.

This has included the need for our President, Vinai, to travel in person to Poland (where our association has been legally founded) to set up and finalize bank details with fellow board member Maciej, who has been instrumental in forming the association.

Following this visit, we can now proudly announce that we have a bank account, and as soon as we have an accounting firm and some minor details finalized (which will hopefully only take a few more weeks), we can open membership and sponsorships to help finance our next growth stage.

If you want to be notified when our membership scheme opens, sign up to our newsletter!

Tech / Product

Mage-OS Distribution

Things are progressing well, and we’re keeping this update brief, so focus can be kept on finalising our own Distribution. We’ve now been able to build a working Mage-OS install (where packages are installed under the mage-os, not magento composer vendor namespace). The final steps are to perform some code cleanup and finalise the CI (Continuous Integration) process. Keep an eye out for more updates soon!

About the Mage-OS Distribution

2.4.6-p1 update

In case you missed it, Magento Open Source 2.4.6-p1 was released last month, and that’s available on our mirror as well: mirror.mage-os.org

Sonassi Mirror

We are delighted to announce support from Sonassi, a leading hosting company in the UK. Here is the link to their dedicated Mage-OS mirror: mirror.sonassi.com

Content

Mage-OS Website

Since the new Mage-OS website launch earlier this year, the content team has been diligently working to continue enhancing the site. This includes richer content, and much improved design.

In particular, we are very proud of our new Get Involved page and Magento Developers Resource page.

A big shout out to everyone on the Content Committee for spending their spare time volunteering to help make these impactful improvements. In particular we’d like to thank Sergej Derzap and his team at Amasty for the consistently excellent design output, and Indraneil Khedekar at Content Scribers for bringing those designs to reality.

Developer Documentation

One of our next areas of focus is developer documentation. While there has always been substantial documentation for developers since the launch of Magento 2, the docs have become less friendly with the recent move to Adobe’s Experience League. In addition, the devdocs have never provided a great or welcoming introductory section for newcomers and junior developers.

Work has already started on our own simplified and user-friendly version of the docs, initially focused on introductory content. A huge shout-out to David Lambauer from run_as_root for his time spent kicking this off. You can see the early results here: https://devdocs.mage-os.org.

Want to join the fun and contribute? Join our Discord server, and get hands-on with the content and code on GitHub.

DevDocs

Discord

GitHub

Meet Magento UK Recap Article

It might be strange to talk about a recap for an event that hasn’t happened yet! However, we’re planning ahead to make sure we get the best content from one of the biggest Magento specific events in Europe to share with the wider community on our blog.

If you’re attending the event in London on Tuesday 18th July, and would like to share your feedback on any of the talks or your overall experiences from the day, please get in touch with us so we can include it in our article (with full credit of course!)

A big thanks to John Prendergast from Aonach, one of our regular committee members, for putting together this sheet that details the full agenda of the day so we can plan out who would like to cover which topics. Also thanks to Brent Peterson and his team at Content Basis who have offered to help pull the final article(s) together once we have all the contributions.

Get Involved

And That’s Not All…

We’re also working on multiple other areas, such as finalizing membership content for when that opens (which will include business directory listings); looking into an unbiased overview of all the storefront options available for Mage-OS / Magento Open Source; better guidelines and submission process for those that would like to contribute blog articles or case studies; and exploring improvements to our events page.

If any of the above sounds like something you’d be interested to help with, then please join us on our weekly content meetings on Mondays at 4 pm CEST / 10am EDT.

Get Involved

In addition, we’re always after more merchant case studies and insights/best practice articles for the site if you have something you’d like to contribute!

Events

July is filled with hot events, especially in Europe, where you’ll be able to catch up with many Mage-OS board members, supporters and contributors. We’ll be bringing our much sought-after Mage-OS stickers to these events too, so don’t miss out!

MageUnconference Netherlands

Utrecht, 12-14th July

This is an unconference: Be prepared for plenty of fun and sharing. There is no program, there are no official speakers, there is just a group of developers chatting about all kinds of topics. Thank you to Jisse Reistma from Yireo and Mage-OS Nederland for putting this together!

MageUnconference NL

Meet Magento UK

London, 18th July

One of the largest Magento focused conferences in Europe is back for another year of great talks and a chance to meet up with so many folks from across the Magento ecosystem. Multiple folks from our board and committees will be there; be on the lookout!

Meet Magento UK

Meet Magento Singapore

Marina Bay Sands, 17th August

Meet Magento Singapore is back for its 6th edition for another year of great Magento-focused topics and networking in the stunning setting of Marina Bay Sands. You don’t want to miss out on one of the premier Magento events in Asia!

Meet Magento Singapore

First ever Mage-OS Hackathon!

Würzburg, Germany, 7-8th September

Join us as we’ll have the very first Mage-OS Hackathon in the run_as_root headquarter offices. They’‘ll bring pizza and drinks, a nice party, and the location. You’ll bring your ideas, sunny mood, and fast fingers!

Mage-OS Hackathon

MageUnconference Germany

Cologne, 29th September - 1st October

This Magento Unconference (MageUC) will be the first of its kind in Germany. It’s similar to a regular conference, which means experts and specialists attend the event, presenting and listening to various talks, networking and gaining experience. In contrast to a regular conference, the event’s focus is on conversations and open topics. Talks and speakers are collected and elected during the event. Every participant has a chance to get involved.

MageUnconference DE

Embracing Innovation: My Journey to Join Mage-OS

marek-kubacak — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMT

Once upon a time, I found myself seeking a new adventure in the world of e-commerce. Having worked extensively with Magento, I was drawn to its flexibility and robust features. However, I yearned for something more, a chance to be part of an innovative movement that pushes the boundaries of what is possible.

That’s when I discovered Mage-OS, an independent fork of Magento Open Source. I was captivated by the idea of joining a community dedicated to enhancing the Magento platform and driving it forward. Mage-OS represented a new frontier, a realm where creativity and ingenuity knew no bounds.

What intrigued me most about Mage-OS was its vision. It aimed to offer a leaner, more modular codebase that would improve performance and provide greater flexibility and customisation options. This commitment to empowering developers resonated deeply with me, as I craved an environment that encouraged exploration and creativity.

As I delved deeper into the Mage-OS ecosystem, I was impressed by the passion and dedication of the community. The collaborative spirit was infectious, with like-minded individuals coming together to share ideas, solve problems, and shape the future of e-commerce. The support and camaraderie I experienced were unlike anything I had encountered before.

Moreover, joining Mage-OS meant being part of a movement that sought to create its own solution that would challenge traditional norms and drive innovation. This was an opportunity to be at the forefront of a groundbreaking initiative where I could contribute to the development of a modern, performant, and user-centric e-commerce experience.

I was not just joining a platform; I was joining a community united by a shared purpose. Together, we aimed to revolutionise the e-commerce landscape, to push boundaries and redefine what it means to build exceptional online stores. The spirit of Mage-OS aligned perfectly with my own aspirations, and I knew I had found my place.

So here I stand today, proud to be a member of the Mage-OS community. The journey has been nothing short of incredible, filled with continuous learning, collaboration, and growth. Being part of Mage-OS has allowed me to expand my skill set, engage with forward-thinking professionals, and contribute to a project that is reshaping the future of e-commerce.

Suppose you, too, seek an adventure, a chance to be part of a movement that embraces innovation and pushes the boundaries of what is possible. In that case, I invite you to join me on this extraordinary journey with Mage-OS. Together, let us shape the future of e-commerce and make our mark on the industry.

Marek Kubačák

Join Us!

Inspired by Marek’s story and want to find out more? We’d love to hear from you. Marek currently attends our weekly content committee calls on Mondays, but there are multiple ways you can get involved, such as by joining the discussions on our Discord server or our technical meetings on Tuesdays.

Get Involved

About Marek

An ‘orange’ brain from the Czech Republic is now flourishing in Manchester’s Digital North West. For over a decade, Marek, always distinguishable by his signature hat, has been a dynamic catalyst, revolutionising the Magento landscape. As a creative eCommerce Evangelist, Public Speaker, and Agile Wrangler, his unique approach challenges businesses to prioritise effectively. Since 2009, he’s been contributing his eCommerce, digital transformation, and ergonomics expertise on the client side later in time agency, always seeking new challenges, personal growth, and thrilling business opportunities.

You can follow and connect with Marek on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markkubacak/

Mage Titans 2023 - The Mage-OS Recap

john-hughes — Thu, 18 May 2023 00:00:00 GMT

Mage Titans returned to Manchester, UK, on April 22nd 2023, for the first time in nearly 4 and half years, and what a comeback it was!

Over 150 passionate community members attended the event, and while the main focus of any Mage Titans event is aimed at developers, there were also many others from different backgrounds involved. The day itself was an incredible success, with many great speakers, including long-time community members and newcomers to the stage, giving talks on a wide range of topics, from in-depth technical talks to productivity, mental health and well-being.

There was a strong turnout from Mage-OS, including our President, Vinai, Vice President, Thien-Lan, Board Members Alessandro, Peter-Jaap and myself (John), plus many of our incredible contributors from both our technical and content committees, as well as board members from our first local community initiative group: Mage-OS Nederland.

Mage-OS was a hot topic all weekend, starting out on Friday night at the Dev Exchange pre-event meetup, through to talks during the main event and even late into the after-party!

Dev Exchange debate

Mage Titans Dev Exchange

On the Friday evening before the event, around 30 community members gathered together for a small event to catch up and discuss topics suggested by the attendees. Given this was the return of Mage Titans after such a long time, the majority of the event ended up being people catching up with old acquaintances over a beer, but one topic hit a nerve and provided engaging discussion for over an hour. You guessed it… Mage-OS!

The chat ranged from what Mage-OS has achieved so far, why certain things have taken longer than planned (in some people’s opinion), what Mage-OS should focus on next, what developers and agencies want and need from Mage-OS, and what would help Mage-OS move faster (spoiler alert: more contributors and funds!).

While the debate and opinions did get a little heated at times, everyone involved was on board with the overall mission that Mage-OS has set out to achieve - to ensure a successful future for the Magento platform. Furthermore, it highlighted the passion that remains in the Magento ecosystem, along with the desire to nurture and grow this community we all love.

The main event

Rob and Gareth from Space 48 kick off proceedings in the dome

The main day itself took place on a surprisingly sunny Manchester day, and in a new location, after the closure of the much loved Comedy Store. The new venue didn’t disappoint, however, the ‘dome’ being a stunning setting for a day of talks.

Building Mage-OS

After a handful of engaging talks in the morning, it was time for our President, Vinai, to take the stage. Vinai’s clearly no stranger to the stage at Magento events and has talked about Mage-OS on multiple occasions, but this was the first time anyone had given a technical talk on the platform.

Mage-OS President Vinai presenting on stage

Vinai’s talk outlined the process, complexity and challenges of our journey towards building our own distribution. It highlighted the many parts of the Magento release and package management that people often take for granted and the fact that Magento’s (Adobe’s) own process is not actually open source.

Taking the main Magento 2 mono-repo and splitting it up into the many packages that are eventually installed when creating a new project via composer was the main challenge, but Vinai also explained the many other quirks uncovered along the way. This included how Adobe’s own released packages contain many inconsistencies (which we had to replicate), how bundled extensions are not built from publicly accessible repos and the different types of additional packages that needed handling (such as the inventory and page builder repos).

The talk was definitely an eye-opener for many folks, especially those not so close to the technical side of the project. While it certainly outlined the complexity of the challenge and the time it needed for us to reach a point where we could offer our mirror and nightly builds, it also highlighted that when passionate and talented folks get together, we can achieve great things!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBchGPck\_d4

Vinai Kopp - Mage-Os: The Journey

The Future of Magento

After further stimulating talks in the morning and a lunch break, we returned for the afternoon session, which kicked off with a panel discussing the ‘small’ matter of the future of Magento.

The panel was hosted by longtime Magento community advocate Rebecca Brocton and included the inventor of Hyvä, Willem Wigman, Space 48 and Mage Titans founder, Jon Woodall, recently appointed Executive Director of the Magento Association, Mathias Schreiber, and last but not least, our very own Thien-Lan Weber, Vice President of Mage-OS.

The Future of Magento Panel

The panel were presented with a variety of questions that were proposed by community members and event attendees before and during the panel, which included questions around the future of the frontend of the default frontend of Magento (Luma), what the community needs most from Adobe (to listen/transparency), what’s happening with the Magento Association, and of course, the future plans for Mage-OS!

As a quick aside, our plans at Mage-OS remain consistent for the time being: continue building out our tooling so we can get to a point where we can offer our own standalone distribution and accept code contributions from the community and begin innovating on new features, improve the content on Magento Open Source and Mage-OS on this site, and finalise the founding of our association so we can open up membership and begin to take funds to accelerate the above further, along with trying to recruit more contributors to help our cause!

The most poignant takeaway from the panel, however, came when the topic of current community engagement was raised (via a poll about whether people felt more, less or the same amount of engagement with the community than in the past, or are newcomers to the ecosystem). This led the discussion to move on to how we get new generations to join the ecosystem and become excited and engaged with the platform, which prompted Willem to issue a rallying cry to existing community members, especially those in prominent positions, to stop posting negative content (even if partly in jest) and focus on promoting a positive image that accurately portrays the joy and passion we all have for the community and platform.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4f7t10F39cI

The Future of Magento Panel

More talks, more chat, good times!

There were further talks through the afternoon, and Mage Titans legend Tadhg Bowe rounded off the day with his trademark comedy/self-care/productivity routine! Following this, it was time for the after party, where the chat and buzz remained late on into the evening, including some questionable photos!

Mage-OS & Friends at the photo booth!

Recap and Takeaways

The entire event was an overwhelming success and felt like a real reunion for the Magento developer community, but equally, it was great to plenty of new faces enter the ecosystem. We’ve come away re-energized, enthused and it reaffirms our belief that pushing forward with Mage-OS will play a important role in re-invigorating the community and helping the Magento ecosystem to grow and innovate.

Our key takeaways from the event are:

The Magento community is still as passionate and driven as it ever has been - we just need more events like these and working groups/initiatives to push things forward
Like Rome, Mage-OS wasn’t built in a day, and it’s important we take stock of what we’ve achieved so far from unpaid community contributions alone to get to a point where we can begin to start building out our own distribution and start taking on members (and funds) to expedite our growth
If we want to encourage newcomers into the space, positivity is key; we need to ensure we portray the Magento community and ecosystem externally as the welcoming and encouraging space that it is
We need to continue promoting our openness and desire for collaboration; we recruited a few new folks to our weekly tech and content meetings off the back of the event, and we hope to continue to grow these committees moving forward

On that note, if you’d like to get more involved, whether by simply joining the discussion on our Discord Server or by joining one of our committees, please visit our Get Involved page. And, if you want to feel the passion of the community first-hand, then check out our events page for what is upcoming next.

Finally, we’d like to express our thanks to Gareth, Rob, Molly, Jon and the rest of the Space 48 team for bringing back Mage Titans and putting on an incredible event. We look forward to the next edition!

The first Mage-OS meetup in Italy

alessandro-ronchi — Mon, 24 Apr 2023 00:00:00 GMT

Hello from Italy! This is Alessandro Ronchi, on behalf of the Mage-OS Association.

On April 4th, 2023, I participated as a speaker in the first Mage-OS meetup in Italy.

The event was organized by PHP User Group Romagna and hosted by Extera, and it took place both online and in person. About a dozen people were present at Extera’s offices, while around thirty more joined online.

I presented the Mage-OS project using the slides Vinai Kopp had prepared and presented at previous events. I talked about Mage-OS, how and why it was created, who is involved, and what goals we want to achieve.

I also took the opportunity to share some updates, such as that the Mage-OS Association is now legally established.

Alessandro speaking about Mage-OS vision

At the end of the presentation, I was pleased that people showed interest in the project and asked several questions.

The main requests concerned:

Whether we plan to develop B2B functionalities
Whether education and certification paths are planned
What Mage-OS’s position is on the front-end, and whether a technology will be chosen as the default.
The kind of support that Mage-OS will offer to enterprise companies.

Regarding B2B functionalities, one of the reasons we created Mage-OS is to foster the Magento ecosystem. Many vendors develop extensions to offer such functionalities. Therefore, it is not in Mage-OS’s interest to think about developing functionalities the ecosystem can provide with a wide range of options.

We still need to make plans for education and certifications. It is an interesting topic and certainly in line with our mission of ensuring longevity and prosperity for the Magento platform. So be prepared to read some news on this topic in the future.

The request regarding our position on the front-end arises when Magento’s front-end technology is at a standstill. On the one hand, the integrated theme (Luma) is still officially the default technology, the only frontend that is functionally complete and supported by all third-party vendors. On the other hand, it has long seemed that the decoupled theme based on PWA Studio (Venia) should replace the integrated theme; since, after some time, it still doesn’t achieve the required functional completeness, it gives the impression of an abandoned project (but I’m happy to be proven wrong).

In between, free and commercial new technologies have emerged that are winning over developers, making it unclear what the de facto standard is in the Magento world. Stimulated by this request, we are working to provide a complete picture to merchants and agencies to facilitate their choice. Check out our website regularly for content updates on the topic.

Finally, regarding the type of support Mage-OS will offer, we plan to create a company owned by the association solely responsible for providing technical support. The company will not compete with the ecosystem but rather fill the gap between merchants and agencies: it will ensure full support for the core platform. To achieve this project, we will need funds, so the first step will be to launch the membership program, the goal of the current quarter.

Sandwiches

I want to thank PUG Romagna and Extera for the opportunity (and the buffet) and all those who participated. I invite everyone who believes in our project to join us: you can find all the useful references on the Get Involved page.

Alessandro Ronchi
Board Member - Mage-OS Association

Magento 2.4.6 Release

ryan-hoerr — Sun, 26 Mar 2023 00:00:00 GMT

The recently-released Magento 2.4.6 (along with 2.4.5-p2, and 2.4.4-p3) is now available on all Mage-OS mirror and distribution repositories. We had to delay the release briefly because of a missing release tag on one of the upstream Magento repositories, which we reported and has since been corrected.

If you’re interested in using a Mage-OS repository, please see the Mage-OS Distribution page!

Currently all packages are exact copies of the official Magento packages for each release. This will change as soon as we release our own Mage-OS Distribution.

Mage-OS Association Progress

We are making progress on establishing the Mage-OS Association. Recently the Polish court fully approved and filed the association in the national registry. We are now working through legal steps for handling of taxes, opening a bank account, and choosing an accountant. We expect to open membership and finances as soon as those steps come together.

New Mage-OS Website

john-hughes — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 00:00:00 GMT

We’re excited to announce the launch of the brand new Mage-OS website, which brings a fresh new design, more content on Mage-OS itself, and, even more importantly, dedicated merchant-focused content on Magento Open Source and the Magento community and ecosystem. And this is just the start, as our new site provides the base to add even more content and functionality in future.

What does our new site offer?

Like the previous Mage-OS site, our new site contains key information about our association: who we are and what our goals are, details about the Mage-OS distribution, and regular updates on our activities and progress. However, we’ve now expanded this further to include even more content.

Merchant Focused Content

We feel there has been a lack of quality Magento Open Source for merchants for many years, but especially since Adobe removed most of the information about the platform from their site, focusing almost exclusively on Adobe Commerce and retiring the magento.com domain.

Our new site provides useful content on the key strengths and features of the Magento Open Source platform, and we’ll soon be following this up with content focused on use cases and common solutions Magento Open Source can provide. In addition, we’ve collated a list of useful resources for merchants and written a piece explaining the differences between the different editions of Magento.

Magento Open Source Features

Merchant Resources

Magento vs Adobe vs Mage-OS

We’ve also introduced three new sections that we’ll be looking to populate further through community contributions going forward:

eCommerce Insights - our blog that outlines best practices, opinion, and useful guides for merchants
Case Studies - in-depth articles that describe merchant success stories
Brands - a directory listing where merchants (and agencies) can list their sites

eCommerce Insights

Case Studies

Brands

Community Resources

Our community is the greatest asset of the Magento ecosystem, so we’ve got an entire section dedicated just to it.

We’re starting out with an overview page outlining what it means to us and so many others, an events page that outlines all the upcoming conferences and meetups and more resources, this time focused on developers, agencies and other professionals who work with Magento.

About Our Community

Events

Technical Resources

Also, given many local communities are starting to come together under the Mage-OS name, such as the recently formed Mage-OS Nederland, we’ve started a section where they can provide details on their local initiatives.

Local Mage-OS Communities

What benefits does it bring?

Non-developer friendly

While our previous site was built on the great, lightweight Astro framework, it wasn’t very friendly for non-technical people who wanted to contribute content. Our new site is built using WordPress, which means that anyone can now help write, review and publish content.

Content, SEO & marketing tools

WordPress provides us with almost unlimited options when it comes to content authoring and workflows, better SEO tools and more advanced marketing options so we can ensure that the content we write can be easily promoted and discovered.

Quicker feature delivery

Again, given the vast array of plugins available for WordPress, we can much more easily enhance the site with new functionality going forward without needing to spend time custom developing features. We can focus this development resource on the Mage-OS Distribution instead!

What’s next?

Our new site is just the start, and we have plenty more content and functionality we plan to roll out over the coming months, including:

More Magento Open Source content - in addition to the planned solutions content, we’re also looking to add comparisons with other eCommerce platforms, including Adobe Commerce
Community Directory - a directory of listings for merchants, agencies, technology, storefront and hosting providers
Mage-OS Membership Details - once our association has been legally founded, we’ll begin to offer membership for individuals and companies
Mage-OS Product Roadmap - a page to outline the upcoming additions and changes to the Mage-OS Distribution

Thanks to our contributors

Our new site and its content could not have been made possible without the time, effort and contributions of our dedicated content committee. Please check out our contributors’ page to see the many talented people that made this possible.

Contributors

Get involved

If our new site, values or mission have inspired you to join our cause and ensure a brighter future for the Magento Open Source ecosystem, then please get involved in one of our committees or get in touch!

Get Involved

Get In Touch

Happily ever after - Online Spy Shop and Magento 2

mage-os-team — Sun, 12 Mar 2023 00:00:00 GMT

Hollywood love stories usually start with some ups and downs in a relationship and then a big showdown – preferably with a great sunset as a backdrop. True love stories are often much simpler: You find the perfect match and stay together. In the case of Magento 2 and Online Spy Shop, a UK-based company offering surveillance equipment for companies, governments and individuals, one can certainly speak of true love.

How it began

Already in 2018, Steve Roberts, proprietor of OSS Technology Ltd - Online Spy Shop, decided for Magento 2 to take his existing online store to the next level. Steve explains: “We were looking for four elements in a new platform: We wanted it future-proof, we wanted security, ease-of-use and a platform that allowed us to grow.” Although Magento 2 was still in its infancy at that time, Steve and his team believed in the strength and solidity of it and its possibilities for exceptional growth. Steve: “It was a great choice we made, and we are still happy with this choice”.

Top 5 functionalities to fall in love

Back in 2018 – and still valid today – Online Spy Shop’s USP was very simple: transparency.

“For us, transparency means that we provide a good service and offer good products AND treat all clients the same regardless of status – which implies that we always uphold integrity”, Steve explains the company values.

To back this, the online store has, from the beginning, certain functions considered mandatory:

Customer reviews: These show real examples of customer satisfaction to generate trust. (Do you want to implement such a powerful feature? Read more here.)
Site search: Helps the customer to find his product as quickly as possible without any distraction – if not wanted.
Content: Shows that the company has expert knowledge and is, therefore, trustworthy.
Live Chat: To offer superior customer service by answering in real time.
Address Validation verification service: Suggests validated addresses for fast and correct delivery.

They also set a focus on a streamlined and user-friendly yet comprehensive checkout. Including the acceptance of all payments that they needed and being compatible with PCA Predict, they met their expectations to provide their customers with the possibility of placing an order with minimum friction.

Make an effort to grow the love

Surveillance equipment is used by most people these days, whether that be a non-technical individuals using home CCTV to businesses, large corporations, private sectors, public sectors and law enforcement. In short, surveillance equipment can be used as a positive aid to gather important video / audio evidence in sometimes difficult and sensitive situations.

It is, therefore, not surprising that a provider of such equipment should also make sure that the user experience in the store is as positive as possible. Having this in mind, Online Spy Shop implemented plenty of improvements and optimizations over time to ensure a great customer experience.

The first thing customer will notice (and fall in love with) is the significantly improved top navigation bar. Not only did Online Spy Shop include a variety of trust elements such as the delivery time, positive reviews and an easily accessible phone support, but also a focus on “Made in UK”-products and UK-based support.

And to help find the customer’s love interest more easily, Online Spy Shop highlights its bestseller products and offers a mega menu, including a ton of important information. Once you decided on a product, you’ll find more specifications on the according product page. But if you want to win over the customer, you’ll need to offer more – and that’s what Online Spy Shop is doing: On the dedicated product page, not only find the exact delivery date and the possibility of social sharing (and who doesn’t want to share one’s new love with the world) together with express payment options.

The check-out page – provided by OneStepCheckout for Magento 2 – lifts the purchasing process and, therefore, the user experience to another level.

The love for performance

In 2021, Online Spy Shop wanted to boost the website’s findability and increase the browsing experience even more. They did this by launching a new version of the website using Hyvä - a frontend theme for Magento. Steve explains the reason: “The whole point of using Hyvä Themes is the improvement of the Core Web Vitals, which leads to more visibility by ranking higher in Search Engine Result Pages (SERP). And actually, it allows a better, safer and faster browsing experience for any visitor landing on our website.”

Online Spy Shop didn’t stop just there but put extra effort in to become as trustworthy as they need to be for customers of such a business. Steve: “We did that by cramming as much information as we could in that rectangle above the fold. Why? Consumers’ attention span is reducing to just a few seconds, and we wanted to make sure that they’ll get all the important and useful information as quickly as possible.”

To differentiate from the competition, they provided additional transparency by highlighting customer reviews, dispatch time and delivery fees, which is reiterated on the product pages too. By showing the width and breadth of their product assortment – not only showing the range in a mega menu but also highlighting and providing quick links to best-selling products – they also stand out from the competition.

Check-out with your love-interest

Once the customer has found the perfect piece, Online Spy Shop offers an easy-to-use checkout.

For those who don’t want any strings attached, even without a registration or a required login. Email, address and phone number validation is self-evident, but the check-out also offers additional features such as address lookup and autofill.

“We implemented OneStepCheckout in the beginning and are still more than happy with that decision”, says Steve. “What we can clearly see in the various iterations of the checkout design is that the business made sure customers are focused on completing checkout and not tempted to click away from this page.” The iterations include the removal of navigation bars and various icons, but also the replacement of Sage Pay with Stripe so that the customers can stay on the same page to pay.

Although these efforts are certainly made to maximize the checkout conversion, it adds to the flawless user experience on the site. Store owners who want an equally good user experience can find more information here.

Bright future

In every relationship, you’ll need to make an effort to keep the fire burning. Online Spy Shop has found its perfect match with Magento and was – and is – able to meet customer requirements through ongoing improvements and optimizations.

He also found a great agency - Foundation Commerce - to support him in his next growth phase using new innovative technologies like Hyvä. As Steve Robert puts it:

“Ryan’s credentials and skillset are a rare find and bringing Foundation Commerce agency onboard was the best decision we’ve made_.”_

Perfect match with technology and people leads to the customer’s trust, which is the base of a longtime relationship and the “happily ever after”.

For those who need a bit of support finding the way to the customers’ heart, please, check out the various features Magento offers you.

Dependency Graphs, Website, and more

mage-os-team — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMT

Product Update

See Adam Crossland’s NX demo for a sneak peek of where Mage-OS tech is headed.

Adam Crossland and Damien Retzinger have been working on using a tool called NX to build a dependency graph of all code in Mage-OS. This graph lets us use code or commands to trace the files and modules that each bit of code depends on.

Using this, we can identify the exact modules that are affected by each contribution to Mage-OS. That means we can run only the code tests that are relevant to a pull request, which will make for a much faster contribution and testing cycle! The full testing suite takes many hours to complete, so being able to run only part of them will be a huge improvement for everyone.

In the short term, we are creating GitHub Actions that use the graph to run fast unit and integration tests of all changes.

Long-term, we intend to use this work to simplify the dependency graph by decreasing the dependencies between different modules in Mage-OS. That will have all sorts of benefits, especially for being able to only install the modules you need for a specific site.

This is a big step toward enhancing Mage-OS for composable commerce.

Watch the Mage-OS NX graph demo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seMz0iCs5Jo

Mage-OS NX graph demo

New Website

We’re making significant progress on the new website for Mage-OS which includes essential information about Magento Open Source. This content has been sorely missing for many years, especially since magento.com was discontinued.

This wouldn’t have been possible without the help of so many great people in our community 🙌

Thanks to the many who have contributed over the past few months to help get to a point where we are nearly ready to launch!

We plan to launch the new site before the end of March.

If you want to help out before it launches, head over and say hello on the content channel on our Discord server. 👋

http://chat.mage-os.org/

We’d highly value additional case studies, community stories, and pictures, so that the website represents us all!

Association Status

As a follow-up from last month: our lawyers made the appeal, gathered signatures from all founding members in Poland, and resubmitted our case to the court. We hope to have great news to share next month.

Again thank you everyone for your support in the various work streams and on social media. We’ve exceeded 1,000 followers on LinkedIn, and 700 members on the Mage-OS Discord. Join us if you haven’t already!

That’s all for now. Thanks for reading! 🙌🏻

The Mage-OS folks

Calling All Merchants - Purchase Your Own Extensions

arron-moss — Sat, 25 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMT

Simple ways to streamline operations and reduce costs

In almost 15 years of working with Magento we have taken on many projects from other agencies large and small. One distinguishing factor which governs our appreciation for peer agencies, is whether they help merchants manage their own extensions. There are few things worse than taking on a project when their licensing and extensions are masked with confusion over who purchased what. This not only makes it more difficult to work with composer but it also adds legal risk of ownership and adds time and cost to future upgrades.

If as a merchant, you own all the accounts and therefore the contact methods, licenses, accounts and composer keys, then you are in control and can become agnostic and even work with multiple development agencies or teams simultaneously.

Monogency (mono agency)

Yes it’s a made up word! - or Mono Agency. We refer to agencies with a culture aimed not at providing the best service, but protecting their own commercial interests i.e tying the merchant in as much as possible.

Some agencies insist on being the single SI to a Magento merchant, often citing SLA’s as their reasons. This might be the only way they are prepared to work. That’s not to say this is not still normal, however as merchants are now developing more mature dev ops processes, we are seeing merchants choose to work with multiple agencies or development teams at a time. This year alone we have experience of working with 2 very large UK retailers who have both internal development teams and also are working with multiple SI’s at the same time. This requires standardization in operational processes and ultimately ownership of said processes by the merchant.

The future is Polygency (poly agency)

Again not a word!

For us, merchants whom can be agency-agnostic means they can refrain from agency tie-ins, which is ultimately risk-reducing if done properly. In 15 years of Magento development, the costs we have charged to take over projects and help merchants become more independent, has often outweighed the development costs. This should not be part of the modern TCO (total cost of ownership), otherwise the platform and the merchant both suffer.

If you are working with an agency or developer who insists on purchasing your extensions and not helping you manage your own vendor accounts, it’s likely you will become more constrained to their processes, culture, costs, skill-sets. Ultimately this is a risk to your business.

Tips when looking to purchase Magento extensions:

Never leave it to an external supplier, partner or contract developer
Always purchase and manage your extension subscriptions in-house
Keep a record of your extension vendors/accounts/keys
Always try and ensure all contributing parties use Composer when managing vendor extensions

Achieving Zero-Downtime deployments with Magento Open Source

arron-moss — Sat, 25 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMT

Introducing Zero-Downtime deployments facilitates faster, more frequent deployments

As an agency working with Magento since 2009, we are always excited at the prospect of moving faster with developments for our clients. Achieving CI/CD for customers on a budget is no easy task. In this article we discuss the pain points and share some of our processes in achieving regular zero-downtime deployments for merchants using Magento Open Source or Adobe Commerce.

Why is it so difficult with Magento 2?

A standard deployment on Magento 2 usually involves certain commands/processes being ran in the event of certain changes. Here we explain the key deployment types.

bin/Magento setup:static-content: deploy - If you have frontend changes which involved typically Javascript or CSS, then you will need to run this. This can be achieved in *zero-downtime.
bin/Magento setup: upgrade - If you have upgrades to Magento or modules or are installing a new module, these require setup:upgrade to be ran and during this phase, the site should be in maintenance mode.
Custom code changes or patches - Either of these in most cases can be achieved with *zero-downtime

* Zero-downtime deployments can only be achieved if you have some way of executing the deployment commands away from the production site. If you do not have a non-production server or managed deployment pipeline such as MGT Code Deploy, MDOQ or Magento Commerce Cloud, then usually you have to put your website into maintenance mode whilst this runs. You want to avoid this. Without a solid deployment process, the TCO will be significantly more.

How does this benefit the merchant?

As an agency this is the question we always ask.

In summary, most of the work we carry out typically falls into one of the above 3 types. In 2 of these cases, with the correct deployment pipeline (building all your static content away from production), you can achieve these with zero-downtime, therefore, delivering fast, iterative changes (CI/CD). Due to costs, CI/CD is not typically common practice with smaller merchants however, with automation it is more cost-effective. So the up-shot is, if you have a deployment process where you can deploy your static content away from production, then for all your front-end development work, you could deploy many times a day. This is really where the Magento product outshines other platforms, since very few platforms allow such control over code and development processes.

Dare we comment on Adobe Commerce Cloud?

In a word yes. It’s fair to say this product has yet to yield real success of it’s own making. Since launch it has flown on the coat-tails of the Magento reputation and been hampered with many issues. Key issues remain. There is no facilitation of development instances or the use of RDE technology, which means however quick a non-production instance can be rolled up on Commerce Cloud, the developer is still ultimately responsible for themselves before they can become a productive ‘coder’. Secondly, the short-sightedness and complete lack of consideration for the Open Source product around dev ops standardisation, continues to yield project/platform failures and ultimately remains a weakness in the future of Magento Open Source for SME’s. Good agencies work very hard in developing their operational processes to best manage this risk, but ultimately, different agencies have their own intellectual property and this makes it more difficult for merchants to feel in control and potentially work with multiple agencies. This needs to evolve! Since it is clear that Adobe have no interest in Open Source, then now is the time they should relinquish the platform to an independent organisation.

How to achieve zero-downtime deployments

I’m almost certainly going to miss options here however this content is here to be revised and updated accordingly.

Magento Commerce Cloud: Reading their documentation, it does not actually sound like true zero-downtime is achieved, however if there are no database changes or module upgrades then we assume that deployments could take place with minimal front-end customer impact. Ie the site does always go into maintenance mode however the amount of time could be very small. I’ve noted this here more for perspective, but since this article is focussed on supporting concepts with Magento Open Source, it’s an irrelevant option.
MGT Code Deploy: Looks powerful, but since it’s only for AWS and carries a monthly fee of 99 Euros, it might not suit the smaller merchants. That said I would recommend any small business on Magento consider something like this to improve stability and therefore frequency of your deployment process. If you only deploy once every 6 months you should be asking yourself the question, did I pick the right platform?
MDOQ offers intelligent deployments and is compatible with AWS and any other production hosting, however with integrated production hosting, MDOQ slashes development costs even when deployment multiple times per day.
If you have any recommendations on solid deployment tools for Magento, please feel free to suggest them for inclusion here. We intend for this article to be live and up-to-date

January 2023 Updates

mage-os-team — Fri, 27 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT

Happy New Year, dear friends!

Over the holidays we took some time to rest and reflect on all that we’ve achieved last year. We hope you found as much energy as we did to help reach your 2023 goals.

While it was quiet on the outside, we still got a lot done, thanks to your contributions.

Founding the Mage-OS Association

In full transparency, we are still waiting for the Mage-OS Association foundation to be finalized. Our first application and appeal were returned by the court of Warsaw for statutory changes. We’ve been working with our lawyers and the court to resolve the situation. The latest word is the court and our lawyers are treating our case as a top priority, and we hope to have good news soon.

This delay has prevented us from opening a bank account or conducting any business that requires a registered entity. Until then, we aren’t able to open our membership program, or collect or disburse funds to speed up the pace of our activities.

The silver lining is that this has given us more time to prepare the membership program, budget, and plans for the coming year. Here’s a sneak preview of the Mage-OS supporter program badges:

A massive thank you to Sergej Derzap and the Amasty graphic team for their work designing these badges!

Technical Update

We have discovered that the nightly-mirror builds are an excellent way to be aware of what is happening inside Magento Open Source.

Recently, an issue in the Magento Open Source repository caused the Mage-OS nightly builds to fail. Adobe implemented a workaround in the 2.4.6 beta builds (outside of the Magento repository), which we have also applied to the nightly builds until a proper and permanent solution is applied.

In brief: A new Magento_Elasticsearch8 module is added to Magento Open Source 2.4.6, and requires elasticsearch/elasticsearch library version 8. That directly conflicts with the existing Magento_Elasticsearch7 module, which requires version 7 of the same library. Only one can be installed at a time, so this causes an unresolvable dependency failure and a broken build.

In 2.4.6-beta1, Adobe resolved this by removing the requirement from Magento_Elasticsearch8. However, that makes the Elasticsearch8 module non-functional, because composer will always install elasticsearch/elasticsearch version 7. Damien Retzinger opened an issue on the Magento Open Source repository to track and discuss this problem.

These kinds of issues can go undetected for a long time between releases, and this is another reason we are happy to have the nightly builds in place as an early warning system.

During the holiday season most of us involved in the technical development of Mage-OS took a break, though some continued to power on (shout out to Adam Crossland!). Since the new year, momentum has picked up again. Work is progressing on the continuous integration pipeline, which is critical to us accepting contributions to the Mage-OS Distribution.

There is also discussion ongoing about the first new feature we will add to the upcoming Mage-OS Distribution.

We invite you to join our technical meetings every week on Tuesdays at 3 PM CET (9 AM EST) at chat.mage-os.org!

Content Update

Things have been moving along nicely on the new Mage-OS website. The new website will give vital information about Mage-OS and Magento Open Source to merchants and professionals, since such content no longer has a home at Magento.com.

Since the last update, the content team has migrated all content from the existing Mage-OS site, decided on all the additional content we need for launch, added many content pages, and updated the navigation menu following a strategic review.

We’re now working on the final content and design for our initial content site launch. We are hopeful to meet (if not exceed) our target of launching the new site by April.

This has all been achieved thanks to our team of regular contributors. Special thanks to Sergej Derzap (and the Amasty team), Roland Haselager, Indraneil Khedekar, Aaron Moss, and John Prendergast for their recent contributions. We would not have gotten this far without them.

If you want to get involved, please reach out in the #content room or join our weekly meetings on Mondays at 4 PM CET (10 AM EST) at chat.mage-os.org. Right now we’re looking for help with:

Technical content writing about Magento Open Source as a platform/product, and platform comparisons
Non-technical content writing about the Magento community
Collating and populating useful resources for merchants, developers, and other Magento professionals
Creating/adding images, screenshots, and videos to pages to make them visually more appealing
Some small frontend development tasks to tidy up the theme and improve performance
301 Redirects from the old site

If there is something else you feel you can contribute with, please let us know!

Community Update

As of today, over 600 of you have joined our Discord community, and nearly 900 are following us on LinkedIn.

A number of localized channels have been created in Discord for the following communities: Netherlands, Ukraine, Poland, France, India, and Italy. If you have a local ecommerce community you’re interested in giving a home in Mage-OS, let us know!

The Dutch community has gone a step further, by founding a new Dutch Magento community organization under the name of Mage-OS: Mage-OS Nederland. This organization was formally created in December 2022. During the general meeting of Mage-OS Netherlands on January 19th 2023, its new board was installed and consists of Jisse Reitsma, Sanne Bolkestein, Sander de Graaf, Jeroen Boersma, Roland Haselager, Core de Reeper, and Michiel Gerritsen. We hope that the success of Mage-OS NL can serve as a blueprint for other regional groups going forward.

Mage-OS in the World

Community events and outreach have stepped up in a big way recently, and we thank you all for your interest!

We were delighted to meet many of you at recent events, and thank you for all the great chats and feedback you’ve given us. Here are some happenings you may have missed:

Meet Commerce Spain
JetRails podcast: Mage-OS - A New Magento Non-Profit For a New Era
CenturiaLive: A new way to connect with Magento Community: Mage-OS
Magento Meetup Mainz
Magento Meetup Poznan
The first ever Mage-OS Meetup, India
The foundation of Mage-OS Nederland

Where will we be next?

3rd February 2023: Meet Magento India – Vinai will give a remote talk about Mage-OS
8th February 2023: Magento Meetup Stuttgart, Germany
1st April 2023: MageTitans UK 2023, Manchester, UK

That’s all for now. Thanks for reading! 🙌🏻

The Mage-OS folks

Meet you soon in Madrid!

mage-os-team — Fri, 02 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Meet Commerce Spain is taking place on Tuesday 13th December, in Madrid, Spain.

For a couple of months, the team at Mage-OS has been preparing for this event with much enthusiasm and excitement.

Why? Because it felt so good to catch up in person at Meet Magento New York 2022, we wanted to do it again. Also, this event is strongly connected with Mage-OS as Ignacio Riesco is CEO of the organizing agency Interactiv4, and also sits on the board of Mage-OS.

Mage-OS at Meet Commerce

Mage-OS Presentation

Vinai Kopp, Board President and founding member of Mage-OS, will be presenting at Meet Commerce Spain: “Mage-OS: Fork it, Own it, Grow it, Better”.

This talk is inspired by all the conversations we’ve had with you, people and friends from the Magento Community, who have been expressing support, giving constructive feedback, and asking questions (lots of questions).

The talk will cover Mage-OS’s vision and goals, purpose, plans and progress. You won’t want to miss it!

Fun fact: Even the presentation title came up from Discord casual conversation with our community!

Mage-OS Booth

As a Silver Sponsor, we’ll have a nice booth at the conference. Come find us to chat Mage-OS, hang out, and get your Mage-OS button badge!

Here is a list of Mage-OS board members and contributors who are confirmed at this stage. Some also have talks in their own fields of expertise (see the agenda).

Vinai Kopp
Ignacio Riesco
John Hughes
Maciej Kalkowski
Peter Jaap Blaakmeer
Willem Wigman

As a nice thank-you gift, Interactiv4 has offered free tickets to individuals who are contributing to Mage-OS efforts, whether on the technical, content, or organizational side. If this is you and you’re interested in attending, let us know!

Join our Mage-OS Discord to find and connect with other attendees!

Meet Commerce Spain: what else is different?

This event is brand new and filling a gap. This conference is open to all eCommerce Platforms, not just Magento and Adobe Commerce, but also:

Shopware
Salesforce
BigCommerce
Shopify

For merchants (who can attend for free), it’s a unique opportunity to get multiple perspectives on ecommerce. They will be able to compare Open Source and SaaS, different offerings and technologies, and see what platform works better for their life stages, size, organizational structure, industry verticals, and markets.

Unlike massive multi-platform shows such as NRF, IRCE, eCommerce Berlin, or Paris Retail Week, this event will have a friendly feel with hundreds of participants, not thousands, and you will get quality time to catch up with old friends. We expect people from the Magento community to attend from all over Europe and the world, and we look forward to seeing you there.

The weather should be nice and sunny, which might be a good change if you live in other parts of the Northern Hemisphere.

We can’t wait to see you. Try and arrive on Monday for the PreParty!

Get your tickets for Meet Commerce Spain here

Merchant Focused Content

mage-os-team — Wed, 23 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMT

While a lot of the focus of Mage-OS to date has been on forming our organization and moving things forward technically, there has also been work ongoing around content for Magento Open Source. In this update we want to share what we’ve been up to, why, what we’re planning next, and finally, how you can get involved!

Why does Mage-OS care about Magento content?

Since acquiring Magento, Adobe has stopped publishing the magento.com domain, and now forwards that to information about their paid Adobe Commerce product, with no mention of Magento Open Source at all. In the process, they removed valuable information about Magento Open Source and made it difficult to learn about the platform or start using it. Our aim is to create a replacement site where merchants, developers, and other professionals can find out key information about the platform in one central location.

Furthermore, with the inaccurate ‘Magento is Now Adobe Commerce’ marketing still being used by Adobe, we feel it’s more important than ever that information about Magento Open Source is made publicly available.

What is Mage-OS’ vision for a Magento content site?

In addition to creating a replacement for content from the old magento.com site, we want to make it a proper community portal. We want this content site to be a gateway and repository to everything you could want to know about Magento as a platform, product, and community. The website should allow you to discover the entire ecosystem.

These are the areas we want this site to contain:

A strong landing page that explains what Magento Open Source is and helps direct visitors to the right place to learn more based on their needs (e.g. merchants, developers, etc.)
Multiple product pages with technical (but merchant friendly) details about the different features Magento Open Source offers, e.g. multistore, CMS/Page Builder, catalog and search, checkout, SEO, marketing, etc.
Platform comparison pages, e.g. how Magento Open Source compares against other eCommerce platforms, including an unbiased comparison with Adobe Commerce (the paid version of Magento that Adobe offers)
Multiple links for developers, merchants (such as documentation sites) and community resources (such as the various forums and chat groups)
A community directory where agencies, technology providers, and merchants can list their businesses, sites, and services
News and event listings
A blog with merchant case studies and industry best practice articles

Note: we’re also open to further suggestions!

Our Journey So Far

There’s obviously a lot we want to achieve. So far we’ve focused on getting a development site set up that we can add content to, and have made progress in the following areas:

The main landing page
An initial draft of the site navigation, including many external resources
A number of product/functional pages
The community directory

We certainly won’t launch with all the above listed areas, and we will be taking an MVP (Minimum Viable Product) approach to ensure we can launch something useful, given the harm caused to the ecosystem by not having an informative magento.com site.

On Adobe, the Magento Association, the Magento branding, and the magento.com domain

Our initial intention was to create a non-Mage-OS-specific site that could replace magento.com, ideally on the same domain or a similar one such as magento.org, and utilize the Magento branding (e.g., the Magento logo) on that informational site. Additionally, we offered to hand over control of that site to the Magento Association (MA) or even Adobe, should they wish to maintain it.

Many discussions were held during the Magento Association Task Force and Content Committee meetings over the past year, with Adobe representatives present on multiple occasions. However, after almost a year of attempting to make this happen, and due to the lack of movement, interest, and willingness (from Adobe, not the MA), we’ve unfortunately accepted this will probably never happen. As a result, we are putting the site fully under the Mage-OS brand rather than Magento (though references to Magento Open Source as a product will still remain).

Next Steps

Up until the past few weeks, we’ve only had a handful of people involved, focused on getting a site up and running and adding content. However, recently we’ve had additional help offered that should improve and accelerate our progression going forward.

First, maxcluster (a Germany-based hosting company) have kindly offered their support. They are currently undertaking a strategic review of what we’ve done to date and how we can better move forward in terms of architecture, content, audience, and messaging. We hope to have the results of this in the coming weeks.

Second, we’ve had assistance offered by Amasty to help organize and manage the content effort better! They’ve set up a Trello board and planned all the current tasks we have to work through, so we can better see progress and meet deadlines.

After the strategic review, we’ll further update the tasks and deadlines and have a much clearer roadmap to launch.

How Can You Get Involved?

If you want to help us create this Mage-OS/Magento ecosystem content site, there are many ways you can be involved, listed below. But first off, you’ll need to join the Mage-OS’ Discord server (as this is used as our main communication method) and be in agreement with our contribution guidelines.

Here’s how you can contribute:

Join the conversation and discussion on the #content channel on our Discord server
Share your views and input on our weekly meetings
- These take place on Mondays at 15:00 UTC (07:00 PST, 10:00 EST, 15:00 GMT, 16:00 CET, 17:00 EET, 20:30 IST) on our Discord server
Help write or review content for pages on the site
Create/provide assets we can utilize on the site (e.g. screenshots, imagery, diagrams, and videos)
Contribute to the overall site structure and content required
Help with organizing and planning content and other tasks
Aid with the overall strategy and vision of the site
Undertake frontend development (theming) to help improve the look and feel of the site
Add your organization, site, or service offering to the community directory section of the site

Alternatively, if you just want to keep up to date with the ongoing progress, then please ensure you are subscribed to the Mage-OS newsletter.

Thanks

Finally, we wouldn’t have gotten this far without the help of many folks in the community. So, a big thank you to Arron Moss, Barbaros Selim Büyükelçi, Benno Lippert, Bernard Robbins, Brent Peterson, Damien Retzinger, Dominik Rammert, Nicole Mentzen, Sergej Derzap, Willem Wigman and many others (plus, of course, all the Mage-OS Board members who’ve been involved).

Once again, we’ll have more to share soon. Thanks for reading! 🙌🏻

The Mage-OS folks

Going beyond the Mirror - Mage-OS Nightlies

mage-os-team — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMT

As we all are busy bees, a lot has been happening!

The Mage-OS community is growing!

New faces are joining the meetings and more and more people are eager to contribute. Very exciting!

Please join the fun and chime in on Discord. The volume of messages still is very manageable.

Mage-OS Distribution Repositories

The GitHub repositories forming the foundation of the independent Mage-OS distribution have been set up.

GitHub workflows automatically merge upstream changes. In case of a merge conflict, notifications are sent out and the automatic merge process is paused until the conflict is resolved by a human.

Special thanks to Daniel Sloof for creating the workflow, and Damien Retzinger as well as Vinai Kopp for helping to set them up for all the repos!

GitHub Permissions

Mage-OS GitHub access permissions and PR review rules are now enforced by Terraform. This automation helps avoid human error and eases the overall maintenance burden on contributors.

Thank you to Simon Sprankel for leading the effort, and also (in no particular order) Jakub Pieńkowski, Vitaliy Golomoziy, Andreas Mautz, and Alexander Buch (cartware.de) for contributing!

Roadmap

The immediate next step is to finalize CI for the nightly builds for the distribution repositories, and to set up testing.

We then are looking forward to starting accepting pull requests by the end of December 2022! Figuring out the best way to handle them will take time, so please be patient with us!

If you are interested in helping with our work in setting up the Mage-OS Distribution, please review the Path to PRs project, and join us in the #tech channel on Discord.

(Much) more soon, thanks for reading! 🙌🏻

The Mage-OS folks

Magento 2.4.5-p1 release

mage-os-team — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Adobe has released updates to Magento Open Source today, versions 2.4.5-p1 and 2.4.4-p2.

Those same updates are now also available if you’re using our Magento mirror composer repository, mirror.mage-os.org. Our validation has confirmed the mirror releases are installable and match the official releases.

Thanks to Vinai Kopp and Damien Retzinger for managing the release process.

If you’re not yet using the Mage-OS Magento mirror, you can do that today by swapping repo.magento.com to mirror.mage-os.org in your composer.json (unless you require any Magento Marketplace packages). This is a public repository, built by our independent open source build process from the Magento 2 source code. For more info on the Mage-OS nightly and mirror repositories, see: https://mage-os.org/distribution

We have plans to launch the Mage-OS Distribution and start accepting pull requests by the end of this year. Stay tuned for more!

Diversity and Inclusion!

mage-os-team — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Diversity and Inclusion is an important and complex topic that is close to our heart. We strongly believe that a wide array of perspectives are a key factor in the success of any business, and can only bring richer insights and fairer decisions.

Today we want to share our thoughts and address early feedback we received, in particular regarding the lack of geographical diversity in the governance of Mage-OS Association.

Today, our board is made up of seven males and one female who serves as the Vice President with responsibilities to make decisions on behalf of the President.

Our Business Control Committee has gender parity with one male and one female.

The ten individuals are spread between seven countries in Europe and North America. It is not yet the role model for diversity and inclusion that we are aiming for. We need your help to get there.

How did we get to this situation?

When we decided to take an active role in the Magento Open Source ecosystem, the conversations happened to be between friends and business partners clustered in Europe.

We felt an urgent need to move fast, and in order to do that we kept the group small and agile.

We, the Mage-OS Association, do not believe we represent the whole ‘Magento Community’. We are just one part of it. But we also believe we can grow that part.

Where to now?

The strategy of keeping the steering group small enabled us to move fast and create results. However, now that we have a solid foundation, we want to grow to represent more of the Magento Community, while continuing our momentum.

The Mage-OS Association is founded, but still very young. We have technical processes and infrastructure, but they are far from complete. We have Discord as a community hub, but it is still small.

These foundational key stones will enable us to grow and evolve, and include everyone in the Magento Community that agrees with our core values and our purpose.

Leadership & Board Membership

Several times already we’ve heard that the Mage-OS Board should have representation from other geographic regions. And we agree, this would be ideal.

However, it is not practical to have a board position only to represent.

Being on the board right now means doing whatever work is required for Mage-OS, without compensation, in addition to a regular job. This commitment enables Mage-OS to achieve its goals.

Anybody who takes it on themselves to do that work will naturally become influential within Mage-OS as it continues to take form.

Even without a position on the board, the direction of Mage-OS can be influenced significantly by engaged individuals who take responsibility and put in the hours.

Aside: Board members are elected by the general assembly, which consists of all Mage-OS Association members. Half of the board member positions will be up for election in two years, the other half in three. After this initial cycle the term of office for all board members is two years.

Overcoming Privilege

Putting in many hours into open source work for free is only possible when being in a privileged position. Creating a diverse and inclusive board with global representation, while also requiring work for free, is a dilemma. We believe it can be resolved over time through constant care and attention.

In the ideal scenario, the Mage-OS Association is able to pay members from less privileged situations to work on Mage-OS, and allow them to gain influence and take on official roles. This will allow real diversity, and has been part of the vision for Mage-OS from the beginning.

Right now we don’t have funds to distribute for that purpose. Acquiring funds is the next step for the Mage-OS Association. Because one of the key values of Mage-OS is independence, the majority of funds will come through membership fees. (Join the discussion in #membership.)

Soon we will be able to hire a Chief Operating Officer, who will work full time on running the association and grow it further. After that we can start funding members to work on Mage-OS. There is still a way to go, but by taking one step at a time, we will get there.

We are aware that Diversity is not just about geography and culture, and we are eager to also hear your thoughts and ideas on how we can be improved further in other areas such as Gender Equality.

We look forward to working with you on creating the future of Mage-OS!

Local Representation

The Magento family is a global network made up of business and friendship.

The Mage-OS Association Board can’t travel to all events. Constant travel is unsustainable for individuals and for the environment. Even so, we feel local and physical representation of Mage-OS within the Magento Community is super important.

This is why we need local Mage-OS representatives!

Representatives would be people that attend Magento and eCommerce events in their region to give Mage-OS visibility, answer questions, and gather ideas and feedback from their local community (merchants, developers, agencies, and service providers). Then they share this information in the Mage-OS Discord to raise awareness of their local situation.

If time allows and if interested, representatives could also organize Magento meetups or give presentations about Mage-OS at events.

Representatives from different regions can support each other by sharing slides, processes, and experiences.

We invite you to become a Mage-OS representative for your local community!

What you can do today

Please help us:

Develop the Mage-OS local representation and global community by letting us know you are interested in Discord!
Share best practices for tech companies and organizations to be more inclusive and diverse by highlighting the resources you’ve found useful, via Discord or email: info@mage-os.org

The Mage-OS Association has been founded!

mage-os-team — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 00:00:00 GMT

It finally happened!

We have founded Mage-OS as an official association registered in Poland. Huge thanks to Maciej Kalkowski, who took care of the legal matters with the lawyers and organized everything, and also thank you to everyone who gathered in Warsaw as the initial signing members. Now Mage-OS can register a bank account, get members, and employ people. This is an important step toward much bigger things for this Magento-based open source project.

Our goal is to strengthen the Magento ecosystem, and see it thrive for years to come!

We intend to do that by giving everyone in the community the opportunity to get involved and make a difference.

We believe that by providing the opportunity and resources for people to get started easily, we can revitalize the platform. We want to introduce a whole new generation of merchants and developers to their own journey with ecommerce’s most powerful open source platform.

Mage-OS is an independent, community-driven initiative, but we look forward to collaborating with Adobe and the Magento Association wherever possible to make this dream a reality.

We look forward to getting to know you, too! Individuals like you getting involved is the most important of all. If you are interested, look at the Get Involved page to learn more.

The founding board of Mage-OS consists of:

Board of Directors

Vinai Kopp (DE) - President
Thien-Lan Weber (FR) - Vice President
Alessandro Ronchi (IT) - Treasurer
Ryan Hoerr (US) - Actuary
Ignacio Riesco (ES)
John Hughes (UK)
Maciej Kalkowski (PL)
Peter Jaap Blaakmeer (NL)

Business Control Committee

Ensures accountability and transparency in Association operations.

Laura Folco (US)
Simon Sprankel (DE)

Founding Members

Many thanks to all individuals and companies present in person during the founding ceremony:

Borys Skraba (Strix), Rafał Gadomski (Advox), Bartosz Zakręta (Hatimeria), Marek Syrek (Virtua), Tomasz Grzemski (Macopedia), Krzysztof Ratajczyk (Panda Group), Radosław Toczek (ClawRock), Krzysztof Abram (Gate software), Cezary Kożon (Spyro soft), Łukasz Linczewski (Alekseon), Mateusz Ogonowski (Growcode), Tomasz Piotr Lis and Piotr Siejczuk!

For more info, see About the Mage-OS Association.

More about Mage-OS

We have not been standing still. In recent months we’ve:

Replicated Magento release packages with an independent build process from the source repositories;
Published a public Magento mirror composer repository using that independent process;
Released the first Magento updates since establishing the mirror (2.4.5 and related patches);
Had our first third-party mirror published by the same process;
Added validation and integrity checks to the mirror builds (thanks to Damien, Daniel, Anton, and others);
Created a nightly repository of Magento development builds, automatically generated each day from the latest Magento repositories;
Finalized the Mage-OS Code of Conduct and Association Statutes;
And more

We have much more planned for the future! Our next technical focus will be on establishing the Mage-OS Distribution itself, to allow direct community contributions and releases of Mage-OS.

You can already start using our Magento mirror repository or nightly repository today! Find more details and instructions at: mage-os.org/distribution

Nightly repository now available; Mirror improvements; and more

mage-os-team — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 00:00:00 GMT

We are moving at a quick pace — buckle up for a fresh batch of Mage-OS updates!

Milestones

We reached two milestones during the last week! 🎉🎉

✅ The Mage-OS Magento® Mirror Repository

The first step towards an independent Magento Open Source distribution was the creation of an independently built mirror repository.

We did this to learn what it takes to create an automated packaging system, and to provide an open alternative to the Adobe-managed repo.magento.com composer package repository. Even though we do not consider it a likely scenario, if something were to happen to the repo.magento.com composer repository, this ensures Magento Open Source will always be available to the public.

Thanks to the QA tools created by Damien Retzinger and Daniel Sloof, which verify file parity and ability to install successfully, we are confident that our mirror packages are a drop-in replacement for the official Magento Open Source releases. At this time, the mirror includes all packages for Magento versions 2.3.7-p3 through 2.4.5.

To install Magento Open Source from the mirror, change repo.magento.com to mirror.mage-os.org in the composer create-project command or your composer.json file.
No composer authentication is required. For example:

composer create-project --repository-url=https://mirror.mage-os.org \
    magento/project-community-edition install-dir

You can also create your own mirror repository using the Mage-OS tooling. This might be useful for hosters who want to provide a mirror for their customers, or offer their own open-access mirror to the public. For more information, please refer to the readme of the repo-generator project on github.

We have a list of mirror composer repositories we are aware of at
mage-os.org/distribution#magento-mirrors.

If you have any questions or would like us to add your mirror, please join and ask in the #tech channel of our Discord.

✅ The Mage-OS Magento® Nightly Upstream Repository

In addition to recreating previous upstream releases of Magento Open Source, we have also started to publish a nightly release based on the current development branches of Magento Open Source.

For the first time ever it is now possible to install a version close to the next upstream release with composer, matching the latest development code, without having to wait for an official beta release.

composer create-project --stability alpha \
    --repository-url=https://upstream-nightly.mage-os.org \
    magento/project-community-edition install-dir

Keep in mind that the nightly release might be broken sometimes, depending on the state of the code in the upstream Magento git repositories.

We hope this will be useful for vendors and extension providers to track compatibility of their products with upcoming releases.

It also was a great learning opportunity for us to figure out how to determine package dependencies and package versioning.

The nightly builds are available now. We will be publishing a status page to show if the current upstream version is broken or not, soon.
We will also continue to tweak the versioning and generation process as we learn more.

Please join our Discord if you have feedback or if you are interested in the release process.

Next Steps

Now these two milestones are completed, we are focusing on the next steps towards a Mage-OS distribution that we can improve on while keeping compatibility intact. This will include:

Forking our mirror repositories
Automatically merging upstream changes
Exploring ways to handle merge conflicts as efficiently as possible
Running tests in a GitHub CI pipeline
Exploring ways to reduce the runtime for tests
Cleaning up the module dependency graph
Automating the permission setup on GitHub
Setting up a nightly build repository for the Mage-OS distribution
Choosing unmerged upstream PRs we want to introduce into Mage-OS
Figuring out how to make independent releases and consolidating them with upstream releases

We look forward to working through these topics and many more over the next weeks and months.
If you are interested in helping, please join the Mage-OS Discord and start chatting! We welcome any help!

Organizational topics

Mage-OS Association

We will probably be using Open Collective as a platform to manage paid memberships for the Mage-OS Association. This is an important step to accomplish many of our goals for Mage-OS and the community as a whole. We expect the money raised through membership and donations to go to infrastructure and services, to hiring people to oversee and drive Mage-OS forward, and to directly funding development of the Mage-OS distribution through grants and other programs.

The membership levels are currently being discussed in the #membership channel on Discord. Please join and let us know your thoughts if this is of interest to you!

As always, stay safe, and keep an eye on our blog. More news is coming soon!

Best,

The Mage-OS folks!

Mirror 2.4.5 release and many contributions

mage-os-team — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Work has been progressing nicely, and we celebrate that more people are getting involved! Here is an overview of what has been happening since the last blog post.

Technical topics

Mage-OS Magento® Mirror Distribution

Adobe released Magento Open Source 2.3.7-p4, 2.4.3-p3, 2.4.4-p1 and 2.4.5 on the 9th of August! We are pleased to announce that these versions can now also be installed as independently built packages, using the Mage-OS mirror.

While preparing the releases, we discovered (very few) inconsistencies in upstream composer.json files that broke our build process. We reported these inconsistencies upstream to Adobe (for example in the security package and adobe-stock-integration repositories), and they are being addressed. At the same time, we have improved the build tool to account for these issues allowing Mage-OS to become more independent.

Finally, Damien Retzinger from Graycore contributed GitHub actions to automate testing builds in parallel. This allowed us to move much, much faster, and we are very grateful for his participation!

Daniel Sloof created GitHub actions to check the integrity of the Mage-OS packages against the upstream releases. This QA tooling is invaluable.

Many thanks to Damien and Daniel, and to all others like Anton, Daniel Fahlke and many others who participated in discussions and helped with good ideas in the #tech channel or joined a stream on Discord.

Mage-OS Magento® Mirror Nightly Builds

The new versioning scheme for the nightly build packages, as discussed in the previous post, has been implemented, and is currently being evaluated, if it indeed serves the desired purpose.
We expect the nightly builds to be available soon.

Contributing

People have been asking how to contribute. It is very encouraging to see that many people want to help, and so far we still don’t have a good answer.

Since we are currently “meta-building”, instead of building Magento features and improvements, we are in a bit of a special situation. We expect this to change once the infrastructure for the mirror, nightly builds, and the Mage-OS distribution is closer to complete.

The usual approach to encouraging contributions to open source projects is to do “Issue grooming” and then to choose tickets that are good first issues. This approach is not applicable (yet) to the Mage-OS project.

At the moment, most people have started by joining Discord, following the #tech channel, and joining streams in the #Watercooler channels, where problems are being discussed and solved together.

It has been very valuable to interact in this way.

Currently, this is the best way to get started, as it helps develop an understanding of what is required at a given moment in time, be it debugging, writing code, pairing or coming up with ideas.

So if you are interested in helping, join a stream in Discord and get an idea what is happening. It is fun, too, if you like problem-solving and coding :)

For those who simply wish to keep up, start by following the discord #tech channel.

We are welcoming and inclusive at chat.mage-os.org!

Organizational topics

Mage-OS Association

Vacation season is keeping us busy, but we are moving to complete the founding of the association.

We will form a committee to set the price for members and supporting members (companies).
If you would like to be involved, please join the Mage-OS Discord #membership channel and let us know!

For now that’s all, more updates are coming soon.

The Mage-OS folks

New Website, Mirror Distribution, Nightly Builds, Content and Community Updates (Week 30)

mage-os-team — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Lots is happening, folks!

Milestones

New website!

You can find a lot of content beyond the blog now by visiting https://mage-os.org!

Many thanks to Ryan Hoerr who spent a lot of time massaging the previous blog into this shape. Content will continue to be updated.

Technical topics

Mage-OS Magento® Mirror Distribution

Quite some work went into stabilizing older releases of the mirror distribution. All supported releases install cleanly and quickly now.

Also, we added release 2.3.7-p3 to the list of supported releases because it is still being used in some CI pipelines to test modules against it. Now all relevant versions can be installed from the https://mirror.mage-os.org composer repository.

Thank you to Daniel Sloof, Daniel Fahlke, and Damien Retzinger for helping to debug some of the issues! Your input was invaluable.

Please join our Discord, say hi in the #tech channel, and join the conversation!

Mage-OS Magento® Mirror Nightly Builds

So far we haven’t really made the nightly release repository public, and for good reason. Until now every package in a nightly release was given a new version built from the git branch prefix and the current date (YYYYMMDD) as a alpha package number, for example 2.4-a20220721.

This worked and resulted in an installable release, however, it breaks most composer version constraints of packages built for Magento. The primary use case for nightly builds is testing, and this is very cumbersome with this naming scheme.

So we decided to change this, and instead use the last release version of a package, followed by a fourth part .1 version, followed by the date. For example, the last release for the magento/framework package is 103.0.4. The nightly builds of this package will in future have the version 103.0.4.1-a20220721. This satisfies commonly used composer version constraints like ^103.0.4, and any package under test can simply be installed without any hassle.

Thanks to Anton, Willem, Simon, Daniel F., and Daniel S. (and others whom we might have forgotten) for providing input on this topic. So far most of the implementation has been done by our own Vinai, but we’re very open to helping hands. If you’re interested in joining the effort, please don’t hesitate to reach out!

Once this change is implemented we will post details on how to install a build nightly release, and also how to build nightly releases yourself.

Organizational topics

Magento Open Source Content

The content team continues to work on creating content for a Magento Open Source focused website. More content creators are very welcome! Every Monday at 4pm CET we meet to coordinate. Please join our Discord and visit the #content channel to participate.

Community

The Mage-OS Discord is becoming more lively, which is lovely. Please join and introduce yourself, it is great to see people are interested in an independent Magento Open Source.

Also, we want to have online meetups or town hall hangouts, soon. These will be a great place to get to know each other, ask questions, and hear about what is happening.

Finally, we are using Discord’s audio and video channels to stream longer dev sessions about once a week. This usually is rather spontaneous, usually during the weekend. Keep an eye out for Vinai or others hanging out in the Watercooler chats, if you are interested to discuss technicalities, pair program, or just watch.

That’s all for today! Enjoy the week, and keep an eye on this blog - more news coming soon,

The Mage-OS folks

Week 20 - 25 of 2022

mage-os-team — Sun, 26 Jun 2022 00:00:00 GMT

We see a bright future for Magento Open Source.

Technical Topics

We’ve been working on establishing nightly builds from the public Magento source repositories. This is an important stepping stone toward increased testability and community involvement.

There are still details and parts of the process to be finalized. Ultimately you will be able to use the Mage-OS nightly repository to install Magento’s latest published development progress for a given day, such as:

composer create-project --stability alpha magento/product-community-edition:2.4-a20220624

More to come. Please join us on Discord in #tech if you’d like to get involved.

Organizational Topics

The Mage-OS Association

Our by-laws and founding process have all been finalized, and we are on track to form the Association in the next month or so.

As mentioned in our previous post, we nominated members of the Board of Directors and well as the Control Committee.

Meet Magento UK gave many of us an opportunity to meet in real life, sign a couple of legal documents, and celebrate.

Mage-OS Brand Identity

We confirmed our name, Mage-OS, that both stands for our Association and our distribution system, and brought it to life with a logo (see header above) that captures the vibrant spirit of the Magento Community, and, through the blocks emphasizes how everyone can rise, connect and contribute to building this bright future for Magento Open Source.

Community Topics

Getting the Pulse of the Magento Community

The recent Meet Magento UK event allowed us to gather in London and reconnect in person with the Community. We shared ideas and discussed point of views with all parts of the Magento Community including Adobe staff, the UK Community, and people who flew from as far as Argentina or Canada to get those Magento hugs again.

As we knew all along, Magento is alive and well, and there are many more merchants and agencies still using the platform and rooting for it than one may think. This lack of visibility is one challenge we hope to tackle. If you’re interested in helping, whatever you can contribute, please join us on Discord!

https://twitter.com/wsakaren/status/1539918577272328198

You can connect with us, share ideas, or follow our progress on…

Twitter: @mage_os
LinkedIn: Company page and handle to tag us: @mage-os
Discord

That’s all for today! Stay safe and prosper,

The Mage-OS folks

Week 15 - 19 of 2022

mage-os-team — Thu, 19 May 2022 00:00:00 GMT

We see a bright future for Magento Open Source.

Technical topics

Work was on hold a bit while some of the group were busy with HyväCmp, but expect news on this front soon!

Organizational topics

The Mage-OS Association

In the last few days, we’ve been busy defining the final details to found the Mage-OS Association.
It will collect and distribute the resources to make our vision come true.

As mentioned in our previous post, we defined the initial Board of Directors.
It will include seven people (president, vice-president, treasurer, actuary, and three more members).

A Business Control Committee of two more people will review the work of the Board of Directors.

In addition, we already have committees set up and running such as:

Mage-OS Technical committee
Magento Content Resource committee

Some more forming committees will also contribute to other necessary areas, like branding, marketing, and strategy. Planning, work, and discussion on those tasks are already taking place in our Discord chat.

To set the initial board and committees, we chose people that devoted their time to the cause from the beginning. The following is an alphabetically-ordered list; we will disclose the assigned roles soon:

Peter Jaap Blaakmeer (NL)
Ryan Hoerr (US)
John Hughes (UK)
Maciej Kalkowski (PL)
Vinai Kopp (DE)
Ignacio Riesco (ES)
Alessandro Ronchi (IT)
Simon Sprankel (DE)
Wouter Steenmeijer (NL)
Thien-Lan Weber (FR)

Anyone who wants to contribute can join us on Discord (https://discord.gg/nvZDVA2NdC).

That’s all for today! Stay safe and prosper,

The Mage-OS folks

Week 12 - 14 of 2022

mage-os-team — Sat, 09 Apr 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Seeing the horror of the slaughter of Bucha in Ukraine took its toll on productivity.
Keeping up the motivation despite everything going on was tough for some of us.
At the same time, it feels very uplifting to be able to provide support to our friends and family in Ukraine. It also is wonderful to see others selflessly provide shelter, money, material and time to help those who managed to flee, and to those who stayed to fight.

Here are the updates relating to Mage-OS we made over the last couple of weeks.

Technical topics

Mage-OS Magento® Mirror Repository

Hypernode created the first Mage-OS mirror using the mirror-repo-generator image and wrote about it! To our surprise they are already using their mirror to provision client instances, which means Mage-OS is already being used in the wild!

Other hosting companies have also started to experiment with the mirror repo generator and plan on publishing their findings soon. Also, we have received some first PRs, which is wonderful.

As soon as 2.4.4 will be released next Tuesday it should be possible to make it available in mirrors, too, by running the mirror generator again.

If you have questions or ideas, please join our discord and say hi in the #tech channel.

Mage-OS Distributions

Creating a mirror repository is not our main objective. That’s only the first step towards creating our own distribution. Now that the mirror repository is fully functional, we move our focus to the first steps in creating our first custom distribution.

The first step for this is to figure out the automatic generation of the base package dependencies. First experiments have been done to get that information using static code analysis without the need for a full Magento installation.

Figuring out this puzzle will allow the creation of nightly builds based on the current develop branch, which in turn will give us an opportunity to set up continuous integration.

GitHub permissions

We have now collected all the knowledge to implement Terraform to manage GitHub permissions for the Mage-OS organization repositories. We expect to complete this step soon.

Organizational topics

The Mage-OS Association

The founding of the Mage-OS association is moving along swiftly.
The initial board has been decided on and the last details of the bylaws are being cleared by lawyers. As soon as the association is founded, we will publish all details.

Here is a sneak peek into part of the bylaws:

Art. 3 - Purpose

The purpose of the Mage-OS Association is to enable the long-term success of the Magento ecosystem by empowering the community to maintain and develop the Mage-OS platform (based on Magento Open Source) through communication, coordination, and funding.

In particular, the Mage-OS Association has the following goals:

Increase the number of people involved
Nurture good vibes and values
Increase the market share
Increase confidence in the Magento ecosystem
Sustain Magento Open Source position as a leading platform for custom e-commerce development

Art. 4 - Tasks

In particular, the Mage-OS Association has the following tasks:
Coordinating and funding the Mage-OS development and long-term support
Creating quality content that supports the long-term livelihood of the platform
Providing documentation and education/certification paths
Supporting organizations empowering the Magento Open Source ecosystem (both regional, like OpenGento and global, like the Magento Association)
Provide insights, research, and materials to support those outcomes

We look forward to seeing you soon, hopefully even at an in-person event!

That’s all for today! Stay safe and prosper,

The Mage-OS folks

Week 10 and 11 of 2022

mage-os-team — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMT

The ongoing horrific war in Ukraine means we continue to prioritize supporting our friends, family members and coworkers there. We nevertheless have managed to make progress with Mage-OS, too.

Technical topics

Mirror distribution

The mirror distribution available at mirror.mage-os.org is now fully functional. It can be used to install Magento Open Source versions 2.4.0 up to 2.4.3-p1 using independently built composer packages.

Try it:

mkdir mage-os-243p1
composer create-project --repository-url=https://mirror.mage-os.org/ magento/project-community-edition mage-os-243p1 2.4.3-p1

Build your own mirror:

It is easy to host your very own mirror with self-built packages using the mirror repository generator found at github.com/mage-os/generate-mirror-repo-js.

The generation from scratch takes about 1.5 hours on a low-end server (2G RAM, no swap). We are actively improving the tool to make it faster and more usable, however, alternative implementations will be the primary tools in the future. The current JavaScript based implementation was started as a research project.

If you have questions of ideas, please join our discord at discord.gg/nvZDVA2NdC and say hi in the #tech channel.

GitHub permissions

No progress has been made on this topic because of real life matters. Work will continue in the coming week.

Organizational topics

Operations management

We discussed two ways to bootstrap the organization behind Mage-OS:

Find a person to act as the COO, who’s first task will be to create the organization and their own role. This would be a lot quicker, but it also would require someone who is able to work full time without immediately requiring compensation.
Found the organization ourselves, which then allows us to collect funds. Then hire a COO.

We will take this second option as this allows us to make faster progress and deal with filling COO and other roles in near future. So far we have drafted by-laws which are being verified independently by two lawyers.

We are very excited about the prospect that soon there will be an organization to provide a solid foundation for Mage-OS!

Magento Association

We do not see the supporting organization around Mage-OS in conflict with the Magento Association.
Each is distinct. The Mage-OS organization moves quicker and brings a much-needed external point of view to the table, while the Association is able to work with Adobe through established channels and can rely on the support provided by a big company.

Mage-OS future-proofs Magento Open Source by providing an independent distribution. We envision Mage-OS, the Magento Association STS and Adobe LTS/Commerce distributions collaborating closely.

Should at one time in the future Mage-OS become obsolete because of the Magento Association STS distribution, they can be merged.

We continue to believe speed is of an essence, so we will continue to move forward without being held back by established processes.

That’s all for today! Stay safe and prosper,

The Mage-OS folks

Week 8 and 9 of 2022

mage-os-team — Fri, 04 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Because of the shock of Russia invading Ukraine there was no progress during week 8. Many friends, co-workers and employees and their families in the Ukraine are affected. It seems nothing we are doing matters compared to our dear ones fighting for their life and country.

However, we have to continue to function, despite the crisis. Like a good friend said: “it’s business as usual, but we also have to do more, we have to help”.

Technical topics

Mirror distribution

The purpose of the mirror distribution is to provide an independent installation source for Magento Open Source, and to facilitate learning about building a Magento composer repository. The mirror repository can be used to install Magento Open Source independently of the Adobe owned repositories.
Each new Magento Open Source release will be added when it becomes available.

We are able to create a Magento Open Source composer package repository from our forked repositories at github.com/mage-os.
All the forked repositories used to build the composer repository start with the name mirror-* (for example mirror-magento2).
It is generated by a docker image, so everybody can create and host their own mirror repository if they want.
We hope over time, hosters will use this to provide local mirrors to their customers.

There are still two issues to solve, but in general an installation of 2.4.3-p1 is now possible if the magento/composer-dependency-version-audit-plugin is disabled (answer no when asked during the installation).
These remaining issues should be fixed soon, too.

The composer repository for our Mage-OS mirror distribution can be found at mirror.mage-os.org.
At a later time we will be providing additional packages that go beyond Magento Open Source at repo.mage-os.org.

Please note: currently they still are to be considered experimental. We will post an update here when they can be considered stable.

More details on how the composer repository is generated and how to install Magento Open Source from such a mirror repo can be found at github.com/mage-os/generate-mirror-repo-js.

A big thank you to Raffael Kassner! The research he provided at github.com/magefm/repository-generator has been very helpful!

GitHub permissions

We have set up a plan and are in the process of learning how to use terraform to apply the desired set of permissions to all repositories at github.com/mage-os.

Discord

New members are now required to register with a verified email address and agree to the code of conduct hosted at mage-os.org/code-of-conduct.

We now welcome anybody interested in our discord at discord.gg/nvZDVA2NdC.
This is probably the best place to go if you are interested in helping to set up Mage-OS.

Organizational topics

Operations management

We agreed we need to invest into the organization behind Mage-OS in order to be able to make this a sustainable long term project. For this, we developed the profile for a full time chief operating officer.

Organizing documents

The amount of both technical and organizational documents are growing, and we need to organize things.
We decided to share Google Drive folders with everyone in the organization. Some of those folders will become public, so documents like for example the product vision can be easily linked to and discovered.

Week 7 of 2022

mage-os-team — Sun, 20 Feb 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Welcome to an update fresh out of the Mage-OS kitchen.

Technical topics

Mirror distribution

We are able to run a full local installation based on self-generated packages, but it doesn’t work remotely yet, because the package URLs in the packages.json file generated by satis still need to be prefixed with the repository URL. This should be fixed over the coming weekend.

The JavaScript based build tool is bundled as a docker image which will be used to create a Mage-OS mirror repository on any server with docker (or podman).
This will allow us to change the underlying implementation of the tool creating the packages without impacting the mirror provider - they only need to pull the latest version of the image.

We agreed to host the initial mirror distribution on a server rented by us, because we don’t want to favor a specific hosting provider.
We hope many hosting providers will use the opportunity to provide fast local package mirrors to their customers.

Opening up to the wider community

We want to open up our Discord and the mage-os GitHub organization once we have a fully functioning self built package mirror running. We are looking forward to collaborating with many developers from all over the world in building up the Mage-OS distributions. Before we open things up, we decided to publish a Code of Conduct on our website and ask everyone to agree with our shared base values before joining. We also need to set up team based access rights in the GitHub organization.

Organizational topics

Magento Association

We discussed our individual relationship with the Magento Association and agreed there is no conflict of interest if members of our group also fulfill tasks in the MA. We also agreed that by continuing to work independently of the MA as part of the Mage-OS community alliance, we also serve the community by helping move the status quo.

Magento STS vs LTS

We discussed how STS and LTS security updates might be handled, and who might be able to provide vendor based support.
Since Adobe wants to hand ownership of Magento STS to the community, they might not be able to provide security patches.
We are convinced there is a shared interest in collaboration on this topic, and that a way to coordinate the release of security related patches can be found.
This will be a topic for further discussion in the Magento Open Source Task Force.

Magento Open Source Content

We assembled a content plan for the promotional, informational and branding related content for merchants about Magento Open Source. Several members of the community have agreed to help create this content. As soon as we have at least ten meaningful articles we will publish them on the to be created mage-os.org website. Should Adobe or the Magento Association also decide to provide such content, we will be happy to move content there.

Magento and Adobe Commerce Support

During the last Magento Open Source Task Force meeting we discussed the lack of publicly available long term support information for both Adobe Commerce and Magento Open Source. Adobe members of the task force agreed that should be made available and stated they would look into it.

Docker Hub Username

Sadly “mageos” is not available. Only characters and numbers are allowed, which means “mage-os” is not valid there. The next best free username we found on docker hub is “magece”.

That’s all for this week. More coming soon,

The whole Mage-OS team

Week 5 and 6 of 2022

mage-os-team — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Every Tuesday we have a meeting to discuss technical topics, and every Wednesday we have a meeting regarding organizational topics.

This is the first post of the new bi-weekly status updates we will be publishing to be more transparent regarding the work we are doing. Please expect these updates will be less polished but more frequent than our prior posts.

Technical topics

Package generation

We are continuing to work on the package splitting functionality. A reference implementation regarding the general package generation is complete. We are building multiple implementations using different languages in order to increase the bus-factor. Noteworthy is that all mage-os composer packages will have stable checksums. We are close to being able to create a mirror distribution, but are still missing:

The composer.json file for the magento/magento2-base package. The question of how to get a base package composer.json is solved, but not yet implemented. More information on why that isn’t straight forward and what is required can be found in a google doc.
A public repository with all relevant composer.json files can be found at
github.com/mage-os/magento2-base-composer-json
The meta-package and project-package generation.

We expect the meta- and project-package composer.json generation to be simpler than the base-package composer.json and intend to complete these tasks until the next meeting, at least with the JavaScript package splitter implementation.

Preparing the GitHub organization for being open to the public

We discussed how to handle write privileges to the repositories and who will implement the necessary configuration.

Organizational topics

Magento Open Source Marketing Content Creation

Since Adobe has effectively removed next to all content on the brand Magento and shut down the magento.com domain, we feel it is super urgent to provide an alternative portal where merchants can inform themselves about Magento Open Source.
Until that exists, a lot of companies who have built their business around Magento Open Source are suffering from Adobe’s decision to redirect magento.com to their Adobe commerce landing page.
We decided to reach out to individuals in the community asking for help in creating content. Feature descriptions, key value propositions and case studies are the most important.
Once we have a reasonable amount of content compiled, we will set up a website.
We want to do this independently of the Magento Association and Adobe since they probably will take a lot more time to get it done. And we think time is of essence.
If a better website is set up later under a better domain, we will be happy to share or hand over any Magento Open Source marketing content that is relevant to merchants. We are very willing to collaborate, but do not want to wait idle.

Magento Open Source STS

The biggest topic was news shared by Adobe at the Open Source Task Force meeting that they intend to create a Magento Open Source Short Term Support (STS) distribution, which would run in parallel with a LTS version.

This is amazing good news if it is realized. Adobe offered to share their build processes and tools as part of this.

We welcome this wholeheartedly, but at the same time feel it is very important to continue on our path to create independent distributions, since we all have experienced the time it takes for things in big companies to happen. We want to move faster.

Once the STS release exists, all the work we will have done can benefit it.

Right now, the STS version of Magento is a proposal, and many things are still unclear or not yet decided on. It is a very positive outlook, but we’re cautious to celebrate too early.

Thank you,

The whole Mage-OS team

Mage-OS update January 2022

mage-os-team — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Mage-OS update January 2022

Dear Magento community members,

It has been a while since you last heard from us. Apart from updates on social media and conferences/discussion panels we haven’t communicated much publicly.

This will finally change today. You may expect regular updates from us, in short or long form. Even if there is little to report on, we will let you know what is being worked on.

There are a couple of things we would like to update you on, and tell you what happened over the course of the past four months.

There was a lot of talking

When we wrote our letter, it came from concerns around the future of Magento Open Source. There was no clear direction on the Open Source product, especially compared to the amount of communication and marketing around Adobe Commerce.

The community seemed to be slipping away, vanishing into the dark. We believe, in retrospect, that this is the result of two things:

Leadership at Adobe changed and core members with strategic positions left. There was no replacement for these figures and a lack of business case for further investment into Open Source.
A growing disconnect between Adobe and the Community has risen, as a result of dissatisfaction around the Open Source contribution model, a lack of communication and a lack of a clear roadmap

We very much believe these two factors played into each other and created a downward spiral.

It seems the open letter broke that spiral. Adobe noticed the community still cared and had a real need for an open strategy around open source and a commitment to the long-term support of Magento Open Source.

As a result, the Open Source Task Force was created by the Magento Association, where the community and Adobe get together to voice these concerns, discuss the future of Magento and find common ground on important issues, to make sure the community can get back on their feet and close the gap between Adobe and the Community.

During a one hour meeting every second week, several topics are being discussed, with mixed results. So far eight calls have taken place, usually joined by about 10 people, of which almost half are Adobe employees. The rest consists of community members (those that are able to join) under which three of our Mage-OS members; Bartek Igielski, Vinai Kopp and Willem Wigman.

Even though there is little publicly visible output coming from these efforts, we believe it has been extremely valuable just to get an alignment on what the community needs from Adobe, and what Adobe is willing to provide.

Commitment has been made by Adobe to keep investing into Magento Open Source, and ensure us there is no plan for deprecation of the monolith
The community engineering team will get more resources in the near future
Adobe has proposed a Community maintained “Short Term Support” (STS) version of Magento Open Source. The plans are still at a very early stage, but they look quite promising. This is a clear signal that awareness of the Community and the importance of Magento Open Source is growing inside Adobe, and - if followed through - would demonstrate Adobe’s long term commitment to Open Source. There are many open questions which are being discussed in the task force.
Luma will be deprecated, but not on short term
Discussions are ongoing around the possibility of slimming down the core of the Magento Framework to allow multiple distributions in the future.
Adobe will not provide any marketing around Magento Open Source towards merchants from either magento.com, or the adobe.com website. The magento.com domain now redirects to a landing page at adobe.com with resources around Magento.

It is much clearer now what Adobe’s strategy is regarding Open Source, and that is a big win.

We now feel a lot more confident that Adobe will take care of the basic needs to be able to keep using Magento Open Source for the next couple of years. We can expect full vendor support for critical bugs, stability upgrades and security support.

When Adobe follows through with their suggestion of a Community owned STS version of Magento Open Source, the power of the community and the backing of a large enterprise will enable innovation and growth of the Magento eco-system for many years into the future.

This is all of great value, and an investment from Adobe we should not oversee or underestimate. We are thankful for this support.

It is also now very clear that, even though Adobe takes care of the platform’s basic needs, it will not invest heavily in any innovation or feature development on it. The focus is very much on Adobe Commerce and it’s position in the Adobe ecosystem, building out integrations with other Adobe products and microservices, rather than building new features using Magento (PHP) extensions.

If we want the platform and community to flourish and grow, it will have to come from the community.

So now we know what we are planning for.

The Fork

A fork was indeed created. Which is not a big thing in itself, since many developers fork Magento on a daily basis. It is even a requirement to be able to contribute to the platform.

What is special about this fork, is that it is tracking changes on the official Magento repositories and automatically updates, then creates meta-packages from the repository and puts these into a distributed repository that can be used with Composer.

Figuring out how to split out the mono-repo from Magento’s repositories and creating packages out of those, mirroring exactly the same output as Magento’s official repository took some time to reverse engineer. And to find the most performant and efficient way to get this done.

We will publish both the fork, the build scripts and all documentation on the process we went through publicly soon. Even though we’ve worked on this in the background, our goal is to be as transparent as possible about what we did and why.

These processes will be up for discussion as soon as we’ve published it and invited anyone interested into our Discord (see “The Community” below).

The Fork is just a contingency fallback for when the day comes when large deprecations might happen on the official Magento repository or when those would go away all at once. You might remember when Magento 1 was deprecated, not only the repository was gone, but also the merchant documentation.

We want to be prepared for any scenario in the future, and have complete ownership over a copy of the product and have the knowledge to maintain such an infrastructure.

This also includes the merchant documentation.

The Distribution

The interesting part will be the work on our own distribution. We imagine building a version of Magento that allows us a lot more flexibility to evolve.

This would include:

Removing optional functionalities in core, such as a choice between MySQL search or Elasticsearch, or removing MSI (Multi Stock Inventory) by default
Implement bug fixes faster
Implement performance improvements faster
Include new features
Repackage Luma into an LTS version, removing Luma from core by default

And many other things we can’t even think of at this stage. It should allow us to do experiments again, and bring back innovation to the platform.

Since the proposed Magento Open Source STS version is not yet realized, we believe we need to move forward with Mage-OS. Any work we do will be able to flow back into Magento STS when it exists and is in the hands of the community.

The community needs an initiative to keep the dialog with Adobe alive and growing.

The Community

The community needs a big shift. We’ve gotten caught up in negativity and got tired of the push back we got from those that got burned by the release of Magento 2.

Yes, we can safely state that the initial release of Magento 2 was premature and caused damage to many members of our community. Merchants, agencies and developers all alike.

Many of those that were hurt during that period are no longer part of our community, based on their experiences from that moment in time, which is understandable.

Today however, Magento 2 is in fantastic shape, thanks to a lot of effort put in by both Adobe and the community. The platform has never been more flexible and stable, filling all merchants’ needs.

So what our community needs is a new sound that resonates with today’s state. And leave the past behind us.

We have a vibrant community with businesses, people and families that are building their livelihoods on Magento offering Integrations, Extensions, Hosting, Payments, Marketing services and so much more.

We have everything we need, right in front of us. Positivity in our ecosystem will go a long way. New merchants are offered the choice for a platform every day, new students become professionals and new agencies grow out of those students every day.

The eCommerce industry keeps growing, and every platform keeps growing. The only thing we need to do is to get together and start moving.

We need Magento events to make a comeback, educate and welcome newcomers, celebrate our victories and help each other out, sharing solutions to our common problems as we’ve done for over a decade.

Mage-OS will open up to the public using Discord.com as a communication platform, where we would like to welcome you and exchange ideas on how to start defining the future of Magento.

We will publish the access information to this environment on our website and newsletter as soon as we’ve made it available.

The Magento Brand

Adobe owns the rights to the Magento brand. They also decided not to market the Magento brand any longer. The Magento Association owns the rights to a subset of the Magento brand, for a limited amount of time. This means that we have very limited control over the brand.

And that is okay. We will make our best effort to provide the branding around the product and make it clear it is the same product without violating intellectual property.

Mage-OS will be the name of our initiative, and the distribution we will build. Additionally, we’ve started working on a branding and content strategy.

We will make sure merchants have a place to go to and learn about the Magento platform and its capabilities.

The Mage-OS entity

We’ve also set up a working group to focus on an official entity for Mage-OS. This will include the organization structure, strategy, funding, partnerships and all that comes with that.

There are currently two weekly meetings: one technical meeting and one organizational. The form in which these meetings are being held is temporary until we’ve set up the basics and feel we have the capacity to expand more globally. When we open Discord up to everybody, we welcome new members to participate in these meetings, too.

We are very much aware of the closed nature of our current organizational structure, which is absolutely not meant for the long term. It merely exists in this form because we tried to stay small and regional to be able to move fast and plan meetings in the same time zone. We’re implementing a code of conduct and will focus on diverse representation in the organization as soon as possible.

Next steps

We’re planning to start bringing out regular updates on progress. Please make sure you are on our mailing list if you want to be updated on our next steps, which will include:

Open access to Mage-OS Discord
Public access to the Mage-OS fork
A new website to replace the current mage-os.org site with background information, a blog and merchant information about Magento
Progress updates on the Mage-OS distribution

Thank you,

The Mage-OS team,

Willem Wigman, Hyvä Themes B.V.
Vinai Kopp, Hyvä Themes B.V.
Andreas von Studnitz, integer_net GmbH
Fabian Schmengler, integer_net GmbH
Ignacio Riesco, Interactiv4 S.L.
Óscar Recio, Interactiv4 S.L.
Peter Jaap Blaakmeer, elgentos
Wouter Steenmeijer, elgentos
Jeroen Boersma, elgentos
Kuba Zwolinski, snow.dog
Kamil Balwierz, snow.dog
Bartek Igielski, snow.dog
Simon Sprankel, CustomGento GmbH
Ryan Hoerr, ParadoxLabs, Inc
Thien-Lan Weber, OneStepCheckout
Alessandro Ronchi, Magento Community Maintainer
John Hughes, Fisheye Media Ltd.
Tomas Gerulaitis
Ivan Chepurnyi, EcomDev B.V.
Maciej Kalkowski, Centuria sp. z o.o.

Status Update 2021-09-28

mage-os-team — Tue, 28 Sep 2021 00:00:00 GMT

The Future of Magento Open Source - Status Update

Since we posted the initial open letter on September 14th a lot has happened.

Thank you

First, we would like to thank all the people who added their names to support the initiative and who have reached out personally to encourage.

Thank you also to everyone who spent time with us at Meet Magento Poland. We came with the intention to listen, you came with the open-mindedness to share your point of view and many productive discussions came out of it!

Because technically already thousands of forks exist for the Magento 2 project on GitHub, we decided to name our thing a “distribution”.

Introducing the Mage-OS distribution

Mage-OS will be an upstream compatible, lightweight, composition of Magento Open Source packages. Some of those packages will contain changes, and some will be entirely new. It will be compatible with all existing Magento 2 extensions and integrations.

What differentiates Mage-OS from Magento Open Source and Adobe Commerce?

It will be more accessible to developers
It will be composed of a default lightweight package selection
It will allow faster integration of PRs
It will allow simple migration to Magento Open Source and Adobe Commerce

Our Value Proposition

If the cake gets bigger, the whole ecosystem wins.

We see the following value propositions for the five key pillars of our Magento ecosystem:

Mage-OS for Merchants

Faster time to market: our technology is simpler and more accessible to a majority of developers.
Provides a growth path from the small beginning up to Adobe Commerce and Experience Manager
Reduced hosting costs due to simpler environmental requirements
Access to the big pool of Integrations and Extensions for Magento and Adobe Commerce

Mage-OS for Agencies / Service Integrators

Reduced build time and less complexity to optimize your project costs
Easier to onboard new talent thanks to a more accessible codebase
Ability to target the lower SMB market with attractive margins thanks to lower project cost
Developers happiness: less frustration, more wins to motivate your teams and boost your talent retention

Mage-OS for Technology Partners (Extension Vendors, Hosting, SaaS providers)

Business growth as the Magento market share increases
Access to the lower end SMB market section of merchants and agencies
Bigger return on investment for existing products due to a longer Magento lifespan

Mage-OS for Developers

Improved sense of ownership
Faster moving distribution
Easier to contribute
Simpler to set up a development environment
Good entry point for a developer career in the Magento / Adobe Commerce ecosystem
Bigger return on investment for acquired Magento development knowledge due to a longer Magento lifespan

Mage-OS for Adobe

Reduced pressure on the Magento Open Source GitHub PR/Issue list.
Breeding ground for innovations: create a protective buffer between community contributions and Adobe Commerce to safeguard stability. Community contributions can be evaluated in production environments without the risk of introducing instability to Magento Open Source or, by extension, Adobe Commerce.
Create a funnel for merchants exhibiting the biggest growth from Mage-OS into Adobe Commerce and Adobe Experience Manager.
Protect and grow the lower-end Magento SMB market market share.
Competitive advantage vs other eCommerce platforms due to a vibrant and active community.

The next steps

The Magento Association is moving to take a larger role representing the whole community. We are hopeful that in time it will become the organization to take ownership of the Mage-OS distribution. As such, the next couple of weeks will be spent running conversations with the right people in the Association and within Adobe.

In the meantime, we are engaged in the design and setup of the infrastructure and processes to make Mage-OS a sustainable long-term project. When we are satisfied with it, we will open it up to the public.

As soon as there are further newsworthy developments, we will communicate them timely.

Thank you, The Mage Open Source Community Alliance (MOSCA)

Willem Wigman, Hyvä Themes B.V.
Vinai Kopp, Hyvä Themes B.V.
Andreas von Studnitz, integer_net GmbH
Fabian Schmengler, integer_net GmbH
Ignacio Riesco, Interactiv4 S.L.
Óscar Recio, Interactiv4 S.L.
Peter Jaap Blaakmeer, elgentos
Wouter Steenmeijer, elgentos
Jeroen Boersma, elgentos
Kuba Zwolinski, snow.dog
Kamil Balwierz, snow.dog
Bartek Igielski, snow.dog
Simon Sprankel, CustomGento GmbH
Ryan Hoerr, ParadoxLabs, Inc
Thien-Lan Weber, OneStepCheckout
Alessandro Ronchi, Magento Community Maintainer
John Hughes, Fisheye Media Ltd.
Tomas Gerulaitis
Ivan Chepurnyi, EcomDev B.V.
Maciej Kalkowski, Centuria sp. z o.o.

The Future of Magento

mage-os-team — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 00:00:00 GMT

Open letter to the Magento Community

Dear Magento community,

With this open announcement we are letting you know that there will be a community organization driven fork of Magento. The purpose is to secure Magento’s long term viability for all the businesses depending on it.

Why do we believe this is the right step?

The Magento ecosystem is big. It’s been the dominant platform for eCommerce for a decade. It has driven innovation in eCommerce and empowered businesses of all sizes. Full of novel ideas born through a vibrant community, it is still unparalleled by any other eCommerce ecosystem out there.

The eCommerce landscape has changed over the years, now offering a wealth of SaaS, PaaS, and other off-premise solutions. Magento under Adobe has determined to do the same. The community is still there, but the enterprise product - now called Adobe Commerce - is moving towards composable microservices hosted in the cloud, only suitable for the largest merchants.

There has been talk about decomposition of the PHP Monolith by Adobe’s technical architects, meaning all parts of the PHP platform will be replaced by (Adobe) microservices. Ultimately, the entire Magento platform as we know it will be replaced.
For reference, this was presented at Adobe Summit 2021 in the talk “Extending Magento Commerce with Adobe I/O”.

This makes for a lot of unknown variables. There is no public roadmap for Magento Open Source, and this has left a lot of the community (who believe the monolith is a very valid approach in many cases) feeling uneasy about the future of Magento.

So, we want to move forward. We believe we, the community, can maintain and evolve a fork in a way that will carry us into the future.

We intend for this to be a collaborative effort, ideally together with the Magento Association, and (through them) with Adobe. We have already reached out to the Magento Association to work with them, but it will take time to build a common understanding of how to move forward.

The fork will be upstream-compatible with Magento Open Source as long as it is supported by Adobe. That means, when the monolith is ultimately deprecated, all companies who want to remain on the monolith platform will be able to do so.

We want to earn the trust of the Magento ecosystem. We truly believe we can not only keep Magento alive, we can give it a bright future by putting the focus on merchants, big AND small.

This is only the beginning. Magento has a bright future ahead. We invite you to join us.

This initiative has been started by the companies and individuals signed below. If you want to publicly show your endorsement and be informed on future updates, please sign this open letter using the form below.

Willem Wigman, Hyvä Themes B.V.
Vinai Kopp, Hyvä Themes B.V.
Andreas von Studnitz, integer_net GmbH
Fabian Schmengler, integer_net GmbH
Ignacio Riesco, Interactiv4 S.L.
Óscar Recio, Interactiv4 S.L.
Peter Jaap Blaakmeer, elgentos
Wouter Steenmeijer, elgentos
Jeroen Boersma, elgentos
Kuba Zwolinski, snow.dog
Kamil Balwierz, snow.dog
Bartek Igielski, snow.dog
Simon Sprankel, CustomGento GmbH
Ryan Hoerr, ParadoxLabs, Inc
Thien-Lan Weber, OneStepCheckout
Alessandro Ronchi, Magento Community Maintainer
John Hughes, Fisheye Media Ltd.
Tomas Gerulaitis

1641 Companies & individuals signed this letter

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Anonymous
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Bohdan Chernyk
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Nainshi Shah @ Elsner Technology
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Dimple
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Anonymous
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Marieta B @ Interactiv4
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Ervin Borici
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Jerke Combee @ Elgentos
David Slater @ Interactiv4
Paul Donnelly
Gilmar Ferreira @ Soulmkt
Dariusz Maciejewski
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Suneet Kumar
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Antonis Galanis @ gladd.gr
Jerry Lopez
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Max Pronko @ Pronko Consulting
Mustafa Palavar @ Internetsan Ltd
Frans Hoekstra @ FG Hoekstra Development
Andrej Parovel @ Elitek d.o.o.
Ramkishan Suthar @ WebbyTroops
Iurasog Stefan @ Green Art Business
Stefan @ Axpo
Robert Kent @ RKD DIGITAL
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Nathan Morgan @ Fisheye Media Ltd.
Rick van de Loo @ Hypernode
Rafał Kos
Eric Landmann @ Earthling Interactive
Misso Marchewsky
Marko Ambrožič @ WebAM s.p.
Kalen Jordan @ Magetalk & Commerce Hero
Zohaib Wasim
Guido Meulendijks @ UseeY BV
Fabrizio Branca @ AOE
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Daniel Dragic @ Guaranteed Software
Sunil Patel @ NextBits WebSolutions
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Saul DSC Ferreira @ Ezzy Ecommerce, LLC
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Ricardo Prudon @ Youwe
Melinda Humphrey @ ParadoxLabs
Neelesh Bhansali @ QualDev Inc.
Vladislav Slesarenko @ Lachestry
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John Davis @ Netalico
Maatten Deboo @ Baldwin
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Jonathan Trojahn
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Paul Maas @ E-Tailors BV
Kenneth Bonte @ Phpro
Juver @ agence Dn’D
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Robbie Thompson @ Ruroc
Mariano Botti
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Jonathan Hiltser @ Blue Badger
Anonymous
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Magno Gaspar @ Beer Drop/Craft Alley
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Damian Cabrera @ CD
Asim Munshi @ Krish Technolabs
Rene Donkers @ Tinx-IT
Bennet Klarhölter
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Ronak Patel @ Ecommistry
Giap Phan @ Beehexa Corp
Pradip Sutariya
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Anonymous
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Artemii Karkusha @ Magevalley E-Commerce Solutions
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Toni Kontkanen @ Pinja
Karan Adhikari
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Vadym Kusakin @ Guidance
Ralf Guggeis @ twofour digitale Agentur
Priyal @ Navigate Commerce
Matthias Boulliung
Beth Wond @ Kitroyale
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Daniel C @ Tom&Co
Tsvetan Dachev @ deveins.de
Thorsten Essig @ Omnevo
Oshan Perera
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Joni K @ Accolade Partners
Rahul Agarwal @ Dots
Oleksandr Kravchuk @ vConnect
Lalit Kaushik @ Seven Webepower (webepower.biz)
Dharmendra Kumar
Muhammad Shakeel @ Folio3
David Arteaga
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Yurii Sapiha @ Transoftgroup
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Peter @ Convert Group AS
Rukshan Fernando @ Kemana
Isuru Dilshan
Joachim Vanthuyne @ Starring Jane
Gaurav Jaiswal @ Kraftors Web Solutions Pvt. Ltd
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Tomasz Gregorczyk @ Left Curly Bracket
Denis Metzler @ DENIS_METZLER
Mohit Kumar Arora
Dimtiris Giouzelis @ webo2
Vyacheslav Shmal @ WebO2
Martin Elderman @ FysioSupplies B.V.
Benjamin Schut @ FysioSupplies B.V.
Dusan Dikovic @ Ecommistry
Wouter Stulp
Romain Ruaud @ ElasticSuite
Robert Schmidt @ mageing
Vishal Nyati @ magento360.com
Ate Bontjer @ X-Interactive Internetdiensten B.V.
Sanjay
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Harm van Schaik @ X-Interactive
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Wesley Pruim @ X-Interactive
Sander de Jonge @ X-Interactive Internetdiensten B.V.
Basel
Wouter Carabain @ X-Interactive
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Marien Pflaum @ X-Interactive
Kajal Rathour
Paweł Szafrański @ snow.dog
AP Shah
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Olivier HAESEN @ ATI4 Group
Shaik Imran
Michael Dibbets @ BigBridge B.V.
Tschallacka
Patrick van Bergen @ BigBridge B.V.
Robert Mulder @ X-Interactive
Chanchal @ I95dev
Devendra kushwah
Paresha @ Aidith.com
Parth @ Navigate Commerce
Wojtek Jachowski @ snow.dog
Anonymous
Islamuddin
Jayanta Roy @ Phase3 Commerce
Karl Spies
Gabriel Somoza @ Ancor\‘d
Taras Demianchenko @ Flagbit
Geraldo M
Samson Anand JJM @ Cognizant
Fabio Ros @ FROSIT
Justin H @ X-Interactive
Baber Ahmed
Olga Maksymova @ VanMoof
Waruna Perera @ Swivel Tech
Raoul JJ Oliemuller @ Skyberate / Savvii / MageHost
Rok Delak @ Elitek d.o.o.
Faran @ Aware Digital
yogesh @ seepossible
Jignesh Seepossible @ Seepossible Innovative Solutions LLP
Constantine Gosteev @ Elad Commerce
Jayanka Ghosh @ Codilar
Dhiren Vasoya @ MageComp
Mayur Sisodiya @ Magecomp LLP
Brian Essig @ Creating Digital LLC
Nikola Lardev
Alkrenawi zid @ ZID
Dimitar Ivanov
Volodymyr Rudakov
Kevin Boerland @ X-Interactive
Justin @ Exetail
Zsolt Szalay
Bharat Desai @ MageComp
Alex Dinca @ AYG Romania
Dennis Berends @ X-Interactive
Danny Uranka
Rabindra Shrestha @ 3xcel Solutions
Alessandro Gnola @ alessandrognola.com
Navaneeth @ Codilar
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Leogent Haromunthe @ Moxalabs
Jaya Chandra @ Codilar
Angel Villa @ On4u
Mark Gadala-Maria @ Lucid Digital
Kike Martinez @ interactiv4
Tiago Moura @ Soul MKT
Alexsandro Queiroz @ Soulmkt
Rajeev K Tomy @ Integer_Net
Illia Sergeevich Pushnov @ PushSoft
Artur @ Perspective Studio
Jose Luis Oronoz Troconis
Alejandro Marroni
Cristian Galletti @ Webgriffe
André Weber @ neusta GmbH
Kathiravan Balu
Sebastián De Cicco
Adam Walter @ Vital
Mak Velusamy
Valentyn Velykyi
Pradeep Kumar @ @Vital
Bhavanaditya D R @ Vital
Mitchell @ Mighty Big Data
Basyrov Airat @ Alphagreen.io
Daniel Gohlke
Abdul Rahuman @ Vital Design
Vadivel Angamuthu @ Vital
Murali Yoga @ Vital.
Kostadin Bashev @ Webcode
Marcus Pontim @ @ Soulmkt
Ram @ Vital
Ronald Do @ MageWorld
Pranav @ Pivotal
Sanjay Kumar Das @ Codilar
prabakaran @ Mandy technologies
Anonymous
Alexey Suchalkin
Alexander Gran @ bobbie
Adam Marcinkowski @ Macopedia.com
Puneet Mittal
Pradeep Agnihotri
Jeppe @ Wilke Promotion
Andrei Curduman @ Unique Concept
Facundo Capua
Michael van Eijden
Qaisar Satti
kaleem
jignesh sorathiya @ Magedevlab
Juan Alcantara
Miroslav Petrov
Oleksandr Chebernin @ Orba
Vladimir Samsonov @ mabigo
Alex Perez
Anthony Mixides @ Bond Media
Enamul Haque @ Harris Web Works
Alain Landry Noutchomwo
Lucas Campanella
Ben Vaughan
Noel Barrera @ Bbg
Bence Kiss @ Blue Badger
Max Souza
Rathina D @ Vital.
Adam Randazzo
Allan Mac Gregor
Arthur Vogel @ Blue Badger
Jesus Herrera
William Tran
Alex Borysenko
Fernando Molina
Sandesh S @ Codilar
Thomas Reichhart @ twofour
Pratik Khamar
Hitesh Suthar @ Firebear Studio
Rajbir Sharma
Marush Denchev
Iván Bermejo
Bart Beekman @ Hypernode
Jigisha Pandya
Kuntal Dalal
Artem Shklyarik @ Amasty
Daniel Zohm @ Omnevo
Jigisha @ Codilar
Valentin Boyanov Rusev @ Onestic
MeenakshiSundaram R
Vishal Kumar Singh
Arno Kristiaan @ PeterPrint
Igor Vinokurov @ Firebear Studio GmbH
Ingmar de Vos @ Mountain iT B.V.
mahesh paliwal
dipen
Dipen Vyas @ Rackspace
Beau
Milan Bosman @ Hipex
Dominique de Maa @ E-Tales B.V.
Ruben Zantingh @ e-Tales
Thomas Van @ CoffeeMug Magento Outsourcing
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