Highlights

Litium 8.16

• Ability to give free delivery for selected delivery methods
• Ability to use a marketing discount
• Redis connection improvement for stability
• Performance improvement in price and discount calculator
• Performance improvement in URL generation

React accelerator 1.1

• Ability for global block preview
• Content security improvements from OWASP

Storefront API

• Ability to fetch field template metadata
• Ability to modify field values for person and organization
• Support for Google analytics and Google tag manager
• Ability to preview thumbnails for blocks
• Performance improvement for fetching variants for the product result

​Storefront CLI

• Ability to manage address types, roles and relationship types with the Storefront CLI

Litium

Ability to give free delivery for selected delivery methods

With this ability it is possible for merchants to give free delivery only for selected delivery methods.

Ability to use a marketing discount

In some cases there is a need to use the Litium campaigns without offering any discount. One scenario is when a merchant does not use discounts for marketing, for example in B2B, but still finds it useful to follow up sales of a particular set of products. Another situation is when you need all the settings for a discount, like product selection, target groups and other conditions, but you want to add your own custom action for a buyer when the discount is valid. It can be adding extra bonus points to a loyalty system or any other custom action.

Redis connection improvement for stability

With this ability the Litium platform reuses the connection for the Redis server communication.

Performance improvement in price and discount calculator

The purpose is to improve performance and avoid unnecessary lookups for the list price when a discounted price is calculated. With this new ability, the price list lookup is reused between the list price and the discount price calculations.

Performance improvement in URL generation

With this improvement the system generates URLs for base products that contains hundreds of variants in a more efficient way.

React accelerator

The React accelerator is only available to customers running Litium Commerce Cloud and note that you can run it locally and in Litium serverless cloud.

The headless React accelerator is built on React and Next.JS and has all the tools and frameworks you would expect from a modern single page application. It is designed mobile first for a better and updated user experience.

The new react accelerator has its own description and release notes, but here are some of the new things delivered in this release.

React accelerator roadmap

Ability for global block preview

With this ability, a backoffice user is able to preview React accelerator blocks in the Litium backoffice. To be able to preview global blocks, the React Accelerator need the ability to fetch and render the block.

Content security improvements from OWASP

Prevent sending the "Kestrel" server header for the storefront proxy.

Provide the X-Frame-Options header to avoid click-jacking and prevent that site is loaded inside an iframe.

X-Frame-Options - HTTP | MDN (mozilla.org)

Provide the X-Content-Type-Options header to avoid spoofing of the content-type that is sent from server.

X-Content-Type-Options - HTTP | MDN (mozilla.org)

Provide the Referrer-Policy header to avoid leak of information in the current browser address when linking to another site.

Referrer-Policy - HTTP | MDN (mozilla.org)

Provide Permissions-Policy header to avoid usage of sensitive devices from the web application.

Permissions-Policy - HTTP | MDN (mozilla.org)

Provide X-DNS-Prefetch-Control header to allowing browsers to proactively perform domain name resolution on external links, images, CSS, JavaScript, and more.

X-DNS-Prefetch-Control - HTTP | MDN (mozilla.org)

Read more about the headers that can be set directly in next.config.js Options: headers | Next.js (nextjs.org), example if you want to implement the Configuring: Content Security Policy | Next.js (nextjs.org)

Litium Storefront API

Ability to fetch field template metadata

With this ability developers can fetch metadata about fields in a field group for the field template.

Ability to modify field values for person and organization

With this ability it is possible to modify field values for person and organization through the Storefront API. This ability is used for the self service functions in the My account section to offer self service to customers.

Support for Google analytics and Google tag manager

The purpose is to expose the Google Analytics 4 and Google Tag Manager settings from the channel in Storefront API, this allows developers to implement analytics tracking in storefronts.

Ability to preview thumbnails for blocks

To be able as a merchant to preview blocks on a website marked as a headless storefront.

Performance improvement for fetching variants for the product result

With this improvement, the performance is improved when fetching product variants based on if they are activated on the channel.

Learn more:

Storefront API introduction

Storefront API roadmap

Bug fixes and improvements

All bug fixes and smaller improvements are found in the release notes.

See the release notes here