Commerce Integration Framework GitHub Release Overview
Release Date: November 2020
What’s New what-is-new-november
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Template inheritance added to a specific category page. This feature improves business user efficiency because it makes it possible for all subcategories to inherit the template that was created for a specific top category.
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Venia reference storefront updated to use Experience Fragment for the footer. Business users can edit the page footer using AEM authoring tools.
What’s Improved what-is-improved-november
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Checkout component improved to provide shoppers with the ability to enter the destination country to allow billing/shipping addresses outside the United States.
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Navigation component extended to hydrate Adobe Client Data Layer.
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Multiple bug fixes.
Release Date: October 2020
What’s New what-is-new-october
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A new Category carousel component was added to enable business users to drag and drop this component on AEM content pages to enrich content pages with commerce data.
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CIF core components extended to hydrate the Adobe Client Data Layer by sending commerce data. The Adobe Client Data Layer is a standardized method to collect data and communicate the data to Digital Analytics and reporting servers. For more details, see Adobe Client Data Layer.
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Product Detail and Product List pages extended to automatically populate SEO metadata (such as title, meta description, meta keywords) configured from within the Adobe Commerce admin UI
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Commerce teaser component bug fixed.
Release Date: September 2020
What’s New what-is-new-september
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Supports queries for Adobe Commerce 2.4.0 Schema.
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Account information features added to allow shoppers to update personal information.
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A lazy loading pagination style is implemented for Product list and Search results pages to allow developers to configure these components to display the “Load more” button as the pagination style.
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The password reset page is implemented to allow shoppers to be able to update/reset their account password.
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Support for Bundled products types is available.
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Developers can configure the HTML tags for Product Carousel, Related Products, and Featured Category List components to follow SEO best practices.
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My Account bugs fixed.
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Multiple bug fixes.
Release Date: August 2020
What’s New what-is-new-august
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Breadcrumb component added to support content and commerce pages.
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Commerce tab added on Page properties to expose CIF properties for Landing Page and Experience Fragments.
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The Searchbar component is improved to support the option to display placeholder text
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Added flexibility to Product and Product Teaser components to support easy customizations.
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Added flexibility to override and configure the default CTA button label for the Product Teaser component.
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The Address Book component is improved to allow registered shoppers to choose shipping and billing addresses saved in the address book during checkout.
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Multiple bug fixes.
Release Date: July 2020
What’s New what-is-new-july
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CIF Venia Reference Site was extracted from the CIF Archetype repo and is now a standalone GitHub repository.
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CIF Archetype merged with AEM Project Archetype. For new projects, use AEM Project Archetype as the starting point.
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Address book management was added to allow signed-in users to manage their addresses.
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CIF Cloud Configuration UI supports publish/unpublish actions.
What’s Improved what-is-improved-july
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Sign-in component moved to user drop-down for easy access.
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Simplified the aem-core-cif-react-components package.
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Multiple bug fixes.
Release Date: June 2020
What’s New what-is-new-june
This is the first version of CIF Core Components that is supported on Adobe Experience Manager.
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Added product sorting on the Product List page and Search Results page to allow shoppers to sort based on relevance, price, and product name.
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Added category filtering as a facet to allow shoppers to filter based on category.
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Added service user mapping as part of security requirement to ensure access to /conf via service users and not by directly manipulating ACLs. CIF Core Components must use a service user to access configurations.
What’s Improved what-is-improved-june
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The Product List page and Search Result page display the total number of items. The number of items is updated when shopper applied filters.
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Faceted search is optimized by combining a category query with a product search query.
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Category/Product pickers for page preview honor cq:catalogPath.
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Multiple bug fixes.
Release Date: May 2020
What’s New what-is-new-may
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Supports queries for Adobe Commerce 2.3.5 Schema.
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Faceted Search support added to Search Page and Product List Page to allow shoppers to filter search results based on Product facets.
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New OSGi service added to customize PDP/PLP URLs for SEO purposes. For more details, see the documentation.
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Product Binding is automatically created when a Cloud Configuration is created.
What’s Improved
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Cloud Configuration extended to display the “Create Folder” action.
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Multiple bug fixes applied.
Release Date: April 2020
What’s New what-is-new-april
- Configuration settings for CIF Connector are unified and simplified. For more details checkout Getting Started or New AEM CIF Project Setup
What’s Improved what-is-improved-april
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Shopping cart and checkout flow extended to support registered shoppers.
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Extended internationalization support across all components.
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Support for Grouped Products and Virtual Products is available.
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Related Products, Product Carousel, and Featured Category components improved to support optional title.
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Multiple bug fixes applied.
Release Date: February 2020
What’s New what-is-new-february
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Supports queries for Adobe Commerce 2.3.4 Schema.
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Added search support in Category Picker.
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Pagination in the Category List component to support large catalog sets.
What’s Improved what-is-improved-february
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Shopping cart enhanced to display discounts.
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Product Detail, Product Teaser, and Product List components support display of advanced pricing information.
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Product search in Product Console and Product Picker improved.
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Multiple bug fixes applied.
Release Date: January 2020
What’s New what-is-new-january
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Experience Fragment (XF) component added to enable customers to create XF in their commerce project.
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Change the password functionality available in my account.
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i18n support for AEM CIF server-side core components.
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Generic related product component is available.
What’s Improved what-is-improved-january
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Support to display CTA button on product teaser.
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Option to change/select images in the Featured Category List component.
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Option to hide/display title/banner in the Product List component.
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Drag and drop feature applied to the Product Carousel component.
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Multiple bug fixes applied.