Magento Commerce one of the leading open source eCommerce platform released its much awaited Magento 2 which has a significant re designing of its eCommerce platform – The Magento 2 platform further builds on Open source platform that enables eCommerce merchant with all new shopping experience to its customers.

Magento 2 features  includes modular based architecture that allows flexibility in customizing different areas on a public or private cloud environment. It also helps to add channels, product lines and capabilities in the front end as per the business needs and requirements

Following are the New features of Magento eCommerce 2 platform : 

1. New platform architecture: Magento 2 features easier customisation, faster time to market, and greater code quality than ever before.
2. The new architecture includes an updated technology stack, a more modular code base, and new service contracts.
3. There is also automated testing and extensive APIs to integrate to third-party systems.
4. Improved performance and scalability: Magento 2 offers higher performance capabilities, including faster page load times.
5. Additionally, merchants benefit from the scalability of Magento 2 Enterprise Edition to support enterprise-level site traffic and order volumes as they grow.
6. Newer, better shopping experiences: Magento 2 offers faster checkout and an updated responsive design reference theme and blank theme.
7. Business agility and productivity improvements: Magento 2 offers a new simplified admin user interface, guided product onboarding, customized views, and faster import/export capabilities.

With the Magento 2 release, Magento Commerce is moving to a new, tiered licensing and pricing model that will go into effect Jan. 1.