Magento Commerce 2.1.7 Release Notes

Release date: May 31, 2017

Page updated: June 1, 2017

We are pleased to present Magento Commerce (formerly Enterprise Edition) 2.1.7. This release includes important enhancements to the security of your Magento software.

While there are no confirmed attacks related to these vulnerabilities to date, certain vulnerabilities can potentially be exploited to access customer information or take over administrator sessions. We recommend that you upgrade your existing Magento software to the latest version as soon as possible.

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Highlights

Magento 2.1.7 contains over 15 security enhancements as well as one significant functional enhancement. Look for the following highlights in this release:

  • Resolution of multiple high priority and critical security issues. These critical issues include remote code execution for authenticated Admin users, access control bypass, and cross-site request forgery issues. See Magento 2.0.14 and 2.1.7 Security Patches for a comprehensive discussion of these issues.

  • Reversion of the changes to image resizing that we introduced in 2.1.6. Unfortunately, certain image resizing changes introduced unanticipated problems. We have reverted these changes in this release, and will provide improvements to image resizing in a future product update.

Currently installed Magento version Upgrade to ... Additional actions
2.1.0 - 2.1.5 2.1.7 none needed
2.1.6 without image resizing hot fix (CE-MAGETWO-67805.patch and EE-MAGETWO-67805.patch) 2.1.7 After upgrading, run the bin/magento catalog:images:resize command.
2.1.6 with image resizing hot fix (CE-MAGETWO-67805.patch and EE-MAGETWO-67805.patch) 2.1.7
  1. Delete the image resizing patch before upgrading to 2.1.7.
  2. After upgrading, run the bin/magento catalog:images:resize command.

Note: As of June 30, 2017, MasterCard may fine merchants who do not support cards that use their recently expanded range of BIN numbers. Transactions for customers that use cards with these new BINs will fail if your software does not support these new BIN numbers. MasterCard describes the issue here. If you are running Magento 2.1.3 or later, your Magento software already provides support for these new BINs.

System requirements

Our technology stack is built on PHP and MySQL. For more information, see System Requirements.

Install the Magento software

See one of the following sections:

Get Magento Commerce using Composer

Magento Commerce (formerly Enterprise Edition) is available from repo.magento.com. Before installing the Magento Commerce software using Composer, familiarize yourself with these prerequisites, then run:

composer create-project --repository-url=https://repo.magento.com/ magento/project-enterprise-edition=<version> <installation directory name>

where <version> is 2.1.0, 2.1.1, and so on

For example, to install 2.1.1 in the magento2 directory:

composer create-project --repository-url=https://repo.magento.com/ magento/project-enterprise-edition=2.1.1 magento2

Get Magento Commerce using a compressed archive

The following table discusses where to get the Magento software. We provide the following downloads:

  • Magento Commerce software only
  • Magento Commerce software with sample data (designed to help you learn Magento faster)

These packages are easy to get and install. You don’t need to use Composer, all you need to do is to upload a package to your Magento server or hosted platform, unpack it, and run the web-based Setup Wizard.

Archives are available in the following formats: .zip, .tar.bz2, .tar.gz

To get the Magento Commerce archive:

  1. Go to your account on magento.com.
  2. Log in with your Magento user name and password.
  3. In the left navigation bar, click Downloads.
  4. In the right pane, click Magento Commerce 2.X > Full Release or Magento Commerce 2.X > Full Release + Sample Data for the software.
  5. Follow the instructions on your screen to complete the Magento Commerce download:

    • Magento-EE-<version>.* (without sample data)
    • Magento-EE-<version>+Samples.* (with sample data)
  6. Transfer the installation package to your development system.

Complete the installation

After you get the Commerce software:

  1. Set file system ownership and permissions.
  2. Install the software:

Upgrade from an earlier version

To upgrade to Magento Commerce 2.1 from an earlier version, see Upgrade to Magento version 2.1 (June 22, 2016).

Migration toolkits

The Data Migration Tool helps transfer existing Magento 1.x store data to Magento 2.x. This command-line interface includes verification, progress tracking, logging, and testing functions. For installation instructions, see Install the Data Migration Tool. Consider exploring or contributing to the Magento Data Migration repository.

The Code Migration Toolkit helps transfer existing Magento 1.x store extensions and customizations to Magento 2.0.x. The command-line interface includes scripts for converting Magento 1.x modules and layouts.

Credits

Dear community members, thank you for your suggestions and bug reports.