Live Search Release Notes

These release notes describe the latest versions of Live Search and include:

Live Search 2.0

Existing Live Search installations must be upgraded to Live Search 2.0.0 to take advantage of the following new features, fixes, and improvements:

- Live Search now supports PHP 8.1 for installations running Adobe Commerce 2.4.4.
- The Magento_ElasticsearchCatalogPermissionsGraphQl module is added to the list of modules that are disabled during the installation.
- The number of available lines in the storefront popover can be configured from the Admin.
- Beta PWA compatibility for Live Search.
- The Live Search installation process is updated with advanced process changes.
- Advanced Search link removed from the storefront footer.
- The following product attributes are not supported by Magento GraphQL API when used in relation to the beta release of PWA: description, name, short_description
- The beta release of PWA for Live Search does not support event handling.

Compatible with Adobe Commerce (EE): 2.4.x
Compatible with Adobe Commerce for Cloud (ECE): 2.4.x
Stability: Stable
- Custom price attribute no longer returns an error when configured as a [facet]({% link live-search/facets-add.md %}).
- Fixed issue that caused an error to occur when no currency symbol (data-currency-symbol) is available.
- Storefront popover now shows the Special Price (minimum final price) when available.

Compatible with Adobe Commerce (EE): 2.4.x
Compatible with Adobe Commerce for Cloud (ECE): 2.4.x
Stability: Stable
- Performance reporting dashboard provides insight into search terms that shoppers use.
- Live Search Storefront Events SDK provides access to a common data layer with event publishing and subscription services, and metrics.
- The Storefront Popover has a new active class for the .search-autocomplete container that controls visibility.
- In the storefront, the Search Terms footer link is removed and its cache disabled for Live Search installations.
- Patch for Search adapter handles duplicate products.
- Live Search supports single-source (physical) inventory locations with multiple (virtual) stocks. Multiple inventory sources are not supported at this time.

Compatible with Adobe Commerce (EE): 2.4.x
Compatible with Adobe Commerce for Cloud (ECE): 2.4.x
Stability: Stable
- Storefront popover displays suggested products and thumbnail images of top search results as shoppers type queries into the Search box.
- Commerce Admin session stays open during extended periods of keyboard inactivity
- Live Search is automatically enabled after onboarding
- Initial indexing time is less than an hour
- Incremental product updates near real time (after install and setup)
- Sortable columns in Synonym editor
- Live Search no longer throws an error if search criteria contains empty sort order value
- Range filtering no longer breaks if attribute codes contain strings “to” or “from”

Compatible with Adobe Commerce (EE): 2.4.x
Compatible with Adobe Commerce for Cloud (ECE): 2.4.x
Stability: Stable
- The Live Search service supports only the base currency of the Adobe Commerce installation.
- When adding a facet, the Product Attributes Feed does not update correctly when set to Update on Save. To avoid this problem, go to Index Management and set Product Attributes Feed to Update by Schedule.
- Live Search synonyms are defined per store view, but are currently stored per website and identified with a combination of environmentId + storeViewCode. As a result, all websites and store views within the Adobe Commerce installation share the same set of synonyms. The most recently created set of synonyms for the store view takes precedence.
- If a synonym term contains multiple words, each word is treated as a separate synonym. For example, if you define “time piece” as a synonym of “watch”, both “time” and “piece” are treated as synonyms of watch.

To learn more: