Magento 2.1.6 Reviews

Magento 2.1.6 Stable release ( 11th April 2017)
Magento 2.1.6 is much better than 2.1.5 as it has been updated with 15 major enhancements. Let’s go through following reviews highlights in this release.

Enhanced performance of the category page
You can see the difference in

• Five times faster loading of configurable products from the database.
• Even price calculations are 3-5% faster in the latest version.
• 20% faster stock validation.

Excellent optimisation of image resizing

• Now you can generate images of all sizes from image resize option performed from the command line interface.
• Image resize option from the admin side is fixed.
• When the image is processed on the frontend the number of file system operations will decrease.
• Depending on your store size, caching of image metadata is up to 50% faster now.

Enhancement of layered navigation

• Due caching of attribute option layered navigation has become 3% fast.
• Indexing of operations is minimised after product import.

Other Functional fixes of Magento

Catalog

• I hope you are well aware of category_product_entity table. Here’s a good new that Magento no longer locks that table.This is going to serve best as the related number of timeouts occurring during indexing etc will be reduced.
• Now storefront will display images that Magento resizes during product save operation, rather than resizing the products on the storefront.

Configurable products

• Magento is now able to run the check of readiness for sale of configuring product has become faster now.
• Also, Magento no longer calculates the configurable product price on the category page.

Indexers

If you enable update on Schedule, Magento will run a selective partial re-indexing operation after import.

Import

Unhappy is with a disorganised manner of displaying images? now Magento displays imported product images in an organised manner. First, it will show the base image, then additional images in listed order of CVS file.

Miscellaneous

• Magento has improved its performance by reducing the number of queries to the database.
• Unnecessary file check operations have no longer being performed by Magento.
  Earlier, it use to take too long to to read the images for metadata loading but now Magento caches images metadata.

It is Reviewed that, Magento being so flexible, high at performance is loved by world’s biggest brands as today’s buying patterns are changing every second.