We’re pleased to inform our Community that version 2.5 of OroPlatform and OroCRM has been released. Both applications have been upgraded with a number of improvements aimed at streamlined performance and better usability. Let’s take a glimpse of the enhancements rolled out in OroPlatform and OroCRM 2.5.

OroPlatform: What’s New in 2.5

The release 2.5 of OroPlatform provides improved MessageQueue jobs execution and enhanced REST API filtering capabilities.

MessageQueue Jobs

Message Queue engine received numerous improvements that allow it to better balance application workload and task processing. Additionally, the users can now promptly alert their system administrators of an issue, asa warning message is now displayed when no consumers are running.

REST API

REST API now supports alternative syntax for filtering operators and allows to filter records by date range.

Datagrids

It’s now possible to properly handle currencies that use no decimals (e.g., Japanese Yen) due to the datagrids that support monetary values represented by integers.

Miscellaneous Improvements

To improve the initial functional test run performance, the Oro configuration cache warm-ups were moved to cache cleaners/warmers.
To improve the internal consumers caching, the internal cache tree was removed from AbstractOwnerTreeProvider.

OroCRM: What’s New in 2.5

The newest version 2.5 of OroCRM introduces further Magento integration improvements.
Due to the Magento Purchases tab that has been added to both Magento Customer and Account views, it’s now possible to quickly view the list of recent purchases made by a specific customer.

To get more details on these updates, check out the release notes: