Magento 2.0 Release Candidate Released

On November 5, 2015, after long months of development, the first release candidate Magento 2 is published on GitHub and is waiting for both critics and active complicity in the development of its community.

A complete and rather voluminous changelog can be found here.
I will only briefly describe the main changes in the release of the candidate.

Performance improvements

• Optimization in Magento Framework, refactoring of classes- "observers"
• Catalog Search Improvements
• Optimization of the process of initializing stores and loading data

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Payment methods

• EWay payment gateway implemented
• Improvements in PayPal Express Checkout and Braintree

Payment process improvements

• Implemented consistency of user data and baskets in the purchase process
• Improved design of the payment information entry form and error handling

Improvements to the Products section

• Added a number of new features to configurable products.
• Added notifications to users about product information changes.

Magento Framework Improvements

• Refactoring "Observers"
• Compatible with HHVM and PHP 7
• A large number of improvements related to the data grid component
• Product Catalog Image Generator Improvements
• Implemented community recommendations for improving frontend and admin panel
• Improvements in JavaScript components
• Autogeneration on the fly Documentation API
• Deleting code with outdated status

In addition to the above, in the complete list there are another two dozen points of changes and improvements in CMS, WebApi, during the initial installation of Magento, Sample data and other components. And of course, the changes coming from the active part of the extensive Magento community are not forgotten: 60 pull-requests were included in the release of the candidate, correcting errors and improving much of the functionality of Magento 2.

Despite the prolonged release dates, Magento 2.0 Release is coming :)

Thanks for attention!