Release Changelog

The new major release contains an update to Angular 14, as well as an update of the ESLint Rules in terms of accessibility and an upgrade to Cypress 10.
It is now possible to create product reviews on the product detail page. In addition, users can now navigate faster using the new “Back To Top” button. In terms of SEO optimization, full hierarchy is available in the paths of content, product, and category URLs. The footer is now manageable via CMS. Furthermore, the basket performance has been improved for large baskets by means of several adaptions.

The PWA 2.4 displays product reviews on the product detail page and dynamic promotion messages in the shopping cart. Additionally, you can selectively activate source maps on runtime.

Our new 2.3 release introduces price update strategies, makes product service default attributes easily overridable, and provides clean localizations on used sources.

With PWA 2.2 customers can set a desired delivery date for their order. The display of scaled prices is also supported. For better operations we introduced a new logging format, and developers can now better reuse existing form fields to improve development efficiency and avoid duplicate code.

PWA 2.1 supports personalization via catalog views, customer-specific assortments and customer-specific pricing. The navigation can now be extended via CMS without development effort. For more efficient deployment in cloud environments we now provide a Helm chart for PWA via Github and all released PWA versions as containers via Docker Hub.

The new major release contains an update to Angular 13, updates of all 3rd party libraries as well as a migration from TSLint to ESLint for better development support.
Content Editors can now manage content for many additional pages like product pages, category pages, cart and checkout pages, and my account pages.
The store finder allows customers to search for nearby stores to support online and offline customer journeys in a better way.

With PWA 1.4 B2B customer organisations can manage cost centers, define and monitor cost center budgets, and assign users with admin or buyer roles to cost centers. Improved caching results in better page performance, and server side rendering can be enabled or disabled for end users and web crawlers separately.

The new release supports cost center approval for B2B customers in order to allow for more sophisticated purchasing processes. To ease quick order via CSV file, a sample file is now available for this type of order.

Release 1.2 is focused on performance improvements. Loading times of many pages were reduced and enhanced caching results in much better overall performance. For developers we provide more convenience when working with multiple themes and multiple branches.

The new version allows B2B customers to select a cost center during checkout, display and download of documents related to products, and several improvements for Punchout support, single sign on and translation handling.

Our first major release comes with better multi-theme and customization support, improved operations, several new business features and new CMS components. It is also the first long term support version of PWA, receiving ongoing updates for critical issues for the next 12 months.

In the new PWA release localization management via Intershop Commerce Management is supported. Further improvements were made in the handling of locales as well as multi-channel setup.

The new release contains improvements for Single Sign On. New users can now be added to existing company accounts by using external Identity Management solutions. For cXML Punchout we now support self-service configuration of connections to procurement systems.

The new PWA version now supports cXML Punchout (creating a cXML Punchout session, creating a basket, cXML Punchout to a procurement system) as well as additional OCI Punchout features. B2B companies can now also register accounts using external identity providers. Developers can now use an overwriting mechanism to specifically overwrite any file in order to ease customization and upgrading.

With the new release developers can easily build complex forms with the help of the Formly library. Multi-system configuration support allows using one PWA for any number of Interhop Commerce Management systems, saving operational costs. PWA is now even faster as well through an optimized bundle size.

Next to Cybersource credit card payment support, this release comes with Punchout functionality. Including user management, basket transmission and functions routing (OCI Punchout). And we have even more features, follow the link below for all details.

In the newest version order approval for B2B customers is supported, enabling more complex purchasing processes. B2C customers can now login via external identity providers like Facebook, Google etc. and use checkout acceleration for more convenient shopping.

This Long Term Support release contains various improvements in the Product & Category REST API in connection with the search index for stabilization and better performance. Furthermore, the handling of scale price quantities as well as price list deletion in the back office have been reworked. The LTS release also includes jQuery framework and library updates.

From this version it is possible to export orders without changing their status, which is useful when transferred to systems such as BI Data Hub. In addition, this release includes several REST API updates, such as for the Requisition Approval REST API and the Quoting REST API.

This release features updates related to cXML - a global setting to define the locale to be used for cXML Punchout baskets, as well as new attributes for user-specific adjustments. For the storefront's main navigation, it is now possible to define the subcategory depth. Furthermore updated versions of the Promotion REST API and the Product & Category REST API are available.

This release contains a unit of measure code mapping in the cXML Punchout, an improved data replication error handling, and a Promotion API update which allows for the consideration of code-based promotions in the retrieval of promotion lists.

This release introduces the buying context for baskets and orders in a B2B context. This feature allows to have a more fine-grained structuring of a business customer and its users to reflect the customer's organization structure.

This is our second Long-term-support release, coming with a new REST API which allows to retrieve scaled prices, an improved Contact Us e-mail, and the Responsive Starter Store being optimized for Core Web Vitals metrics. Further improvements include an option to disable the A/B test function and a new batch process cleanup job.

With this release new database views were introduced for easier product data querying, Cloudinary CDN is available for image management, and it is possible to enable/disable the Subscription feature now. Furthermore, an update to Tomcat 9 is included, and the latest cXML order injection implementation allows for easy customization of the provided functionality.

This release provides pipelets for accelarating the product import, further fine-grained roles have been added to the user management in the Intershop Organization Management (Operations), and cXML user management is available in the Punchout API now. Furthermore, we solved some replication-related issues.

With this release more specific roles for system administration users have been introduced in Intershop Organization Management (Operations). Furthermore, cXML Punchout is now supported, product import has been enhanced, and the SQL Script Preparer uses UTF-8 character sets, so it is possible to prepare names and descriptions for multiple locales. For details, follow the link below.

As of this release, it is possible to customize the customer REST API to transfer additional attributes. Further changes include support for more OCI functions in the OCI Punchout REST API as well as a validation when importing synonym files for the search index configuration

Now you can configure Single Sign-On in a way that allows to maintain user data in external systems. Further updates include configurable CORS filters as well as a new job and process chains to maintain search indexes in a more convenient way.

Our Business Intelligence Data Hub is now available and provides features like real-time tracking, reports & dashboards with ready-to-use templates.

This is our first Long-term-support release and features new promotion conditions, MSSQL database optimizations and some changes in the REST API documentation. Furthermore, B2B buyers can now invite other personas to their customer organization.

Make use of our Customer Engagement Center and connect with your customers, help them find what they need, and increase the value of every order.

Intershop Order Management 4.0 features a single Docker image only, which reduces operational efforts for deployments. Optimized execution of database initialization steps and enhanced project image builds result in faster and more reliable processes.

The Intershop Order Management 3.1 is delivered in form of Docker-images, which can be used directly. Additionally, Helm-charts are provided, allowing the automated operation in Kubernetes. To see all further enhancements and updates, follow the link below.

We extended the product data with the product type to realize more differentiated filtering options for product data. As a result of customer feedback, the structure and format of customer and user data have been optimized to improve data handling with data warehouses.

BI Data Hub now uses the NVARCHAR data type which supports both Unicode and non-Unicode characters.

We added a new data source to the BI Data Hub - information about registered corporate customers and users. For e-commerce and marketing managers there are reports with KPIs as well as detailed customer information available now. Which part of your customers has not yet logged-in, not bought, or was inactive over the last month? Which ones should you contact? Take control of the e-commerce audience of your digitization project!

For sales and customer support agents we added a customer-related report that helps in customer communication with detailed, customer-related order data, filterable over time period, company customer, and buyer. On the first page, a sales agent may compare customer behavior related to products, payment methods and product categories over two time periods. The second page offers detailed order information about which products have been bought in which order and date.

Our Business Intelligence Data Hub is now available and provides features like real-time tracking, reports & dashboards with ready-to-use templates.