Magento 2 Developer Release Candidate

On March 12, 2015 Magento Inc. announced the availability of Magento 2 Developer Release Candidate. The Developer Release Candidate is the next major milestone in Magento 2 development, and it incorporates important feedback that Magento received from the community. It also includes new capabilities, and represents further stabilization of the platform.

"Major platform changes are complete" #magento2 #developer #releasecandidate #webinar

— Nick Weisser (@nickweisser) March 24, 2015

On Tuesday, March 24 Magento invited developers for a platform update on the Developer Release Candidate in order to dig into frontend and composer changes, show how they’ve simplified services, discuss performance enhancements, and examine data migration tools that will be available in the near future.

#magento2 Webinar starting NOW! pic.twitter.com/CVmhfzF4P2

— Phillip Jackson (@philwinkle) March 24, 2015

The Magenticians already posted an extensive recap which was also commented on by Magento 2 lead architect Alan Kent himself regarding the migration tool.

One point that might not have come across during the webinar clearly is that the plan is to use DB triggers to capture incremental updates – so you do full dump and load into new site, but with your main site still up. Then you can do a faster «catch up» phase for orders that arrived during the main dump.

Pretty cool stuff. If it will work as promised.

"Fundamentals of Magento 2 Development" starting in April 2015 #MagentoU #magento2 #developerRC #webinar pic.twitter.com/VYwgPqARc4

— Nick Weisser (@nickweisser) March 24, 2015

As outlined in the Magento 2 roadmap Magento 2 Developer Release Candidate was released as announced at Imagine 2014 in Las Vegas. After Magento 2 Developer Beta in December 2014, this is already the 2nd release that was delivered as promised and the whole team seems to be focussed on making Magento 2 Merchant Beta and Merchant General Availability happen in 2015 just as planned.