Live Search Release Notes

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 features
Fixes and improvements
Known issues

Hosted service updates

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

September 19, 2024

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

September 4, 2024

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

August 7, 2024

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

February 13, 2024

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

October 12, 2023

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

June 13, 2023

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

April 25, 2023

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

PLP widget

May 31, 2024

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

October 27, 2023

The Live Search PLP widget now supports color swatches.

Live Search 4.2.1 421

July 31, 2024

[Supported]{class="badge informative" title="Supported"} Adobe Commerce versions 2.4.4 and newer

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

Live Search 4.2.0 420

May 31, 2024

[Supported]{class="badge informative" title="Supported"} Adobe Commerce versions 2.4.4 and newer

Updated Live Search extension to use PLP widgets version 2.0.0.

Live Search 4.1.2 412

May 16, 2024

[Supported]{class="badge informative" title="Supported"} Adobe Commerce versions 2.4.4 and newer

Updates

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

Live Search 4.1.1 411

Mar 19, 2024

[Supported]{class="badge informative" title="Supported"} Adobe Commerce versions 2.4.4 and newer

New Features

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

Live Search 4.1.0 410

Feb 22, 2024

[Supported]{class="badge informative" title="Supported"} Adobe Commerce versions 2.4.4 and newer

New Features

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

Updates

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

Live Search 4.0.0 400

Nov 13, 2023

[Supported]{class="badge informative" title="Supported"} Adobe Commerce versions 2.4.4 and newer

New Features

Live Search now supports color swatches in the PLP widget.
Live Search now displays the category name rather than the category Id.
Live Search now supports strikethrough prices in the PLP widget.
Introduced the “Hide Filters” button to hide the filters panel.

Updates

The Live Search PLP widget is now enabled by default for new installations.
Reconfigured CSS styles to better isolate widget classes.
Minor bug fixes

After installing version 3.1.1 or higher, enable the new indexers:

After upgrading, test the updated configuration in QA or Staging before pushing the changes to production.

Previous versions