Live Search Release Notes

Last update: Tue Mar 11 2025 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

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These release notes describe the latest versions of Live Search.
Support is provided for the current major released version. Release notes for older versions are provided for reference.
Updates include:

New New features
Fix Fixes and improvements
Bug Known issues

Hosted service updates

These notes describe updates that were published outside of a versioned release or improvements to the hosted service.

February 20, 2025

New Commerce supports multi-word synonyms. Learn more. Support for multi-word synonyms is only available after this February 20 release date. Any existing multi-word synonyms require a full reindex to work, which you can request by creating a support ticket.

January 31, 2025

New There is a new data retention policy for unqueried catalog data in your testing environment. Learn more.

September 19, 2024

New Released a beta version that supports three new search capabilities: layered, starts with, and contains. Learn more.

September 4, 2024

Fix Increased the maximum number of buckets that can be returned within a facet to 100.

August 7, 2024

Fix Increased the maximum interval value, or price range for price faceting from 10,000 to 40,000,000.

February 13, 2024

New Live Search now supports setting a default rule for Search Merchandising.

October 12, 2023

New Commerce administrators can now specify the language of the index for Live Search. See Settings.
Fix The “Search Rules” tab has been renamed to “Search Merchandising”.

June 13, 2023

Fix Fixed an issue where some characters such as quotes or apostrophes caused ranking issues. Reindexing solves these issues.

April 25, 2023

New Live Search customers can now take advantage of the new SaaS price indexer.

PLP widget

May 31, 2024

New Released version 2.0.0 of the PLP widget, which adds support for the following features:

  • Add to Cart buttons - Available only for simple products.
  • Multiple images per product - Image can change when a different color is chosen for a configurable product.

October 27, 2023

New The Live Search PLP widget now supports color swatches.

Live Search 4.3.0

March 11, 2025

Supported Adobe Commerce versions 2.4.4 and newer

Fix Live Search now supports PHP 8.4 for installations running Adobe Commerce 2.4.8-beta2.
Fix Fixed an issue where the Search Adapter was not compatible with psr/http-message:2.0.

Live Search 4.2.3

February 13, 2025

Supported Adobe Commerce versions 2.4.4 and newer

Fix Fixed an issue where the order detail page was missing the order number, date, and the Reorder button.

Live Search 4.2.2

January 6, 2025

Supported Adobe Commerce versions 2.4.4 and newer

Fix Fixed an issue that was causing an error with the categoryList GraphqL query on Adobe Commerce version 2.4.5 and earlier.

Live Search 4.2.1

July 31, 2024

Supported Adobe Commerce versions 2.4.4 and newer

Fix Fixed an issue where certain scripts were not loading on the checkout page.
Fix Fixed a dependency version in the composer.json file.

Live Search 4.2.0

May 31, 2024

Supported Adobe Commerce versions 2.4.4 and newer

New Updated Live Search extension to use PLP widgets version 2.0.0.

Live Search 4.1.2

May 16, 2024

Supported Adobe Commerce versions 2.4.4 and newer

Updates

Fix Fixed the productSearch GraphQL query to correctly filter based on the categoryPath and categoryList for categories.

Live Search 4.1.1

March 19, 2024

Supported Adobe Commerce versions 2.4.4 and newer

New Features

New Added language support for Polish.
New Live Search now supports PHP 8.3 for installations running Adobe Commerce 2.4.4.

Live Search 4.1.0

February 22, 2024

Supported Adobe Commerce versions 2.4.4 and newer

New Features

New The Data Management Dashboard is now available. This revamped dashboard provides insights into data streams for Product Recommendations, Live Search, and Catalog Service.

Updates

Fix Fixed an issue that caused an error when guest users added products to a cart in non-default store views.
Fix Fixed an issue that caused the search popover to always display the currency symbol in front of the price value regardless of locale settings.
Fix Removed unnecessary type definitions for disabled core plugins to fix compatibility issues on installation.