Improved Configurable Product for Magento 2 – the complete enhancement for configurable product, allowing for dynamic content updates, custom options for configurable products and many more.
1.6.0 (released 29.06.2022)
Features
Compatibility with Magento 2.4.4 and PHP 8.1
Name of the configurable product displayed in the cart now reflects the selected options
The salable quantity can now be displayed as a ‘Left in stock’ quantity
Replaced dependencies of jquery/ui
Reworked AJAX requests for getting information about the variations of the configurable products
Bugfixes
Fixed issue with di:compile (compatibility with Magento 2.4.4 and PHP 8.1)
Fixed issue with ‘A Configurable Product in a bundle product’ functionality (compatibility with Magento 2.4.4 and PHP 8.1)
Fixed issue with opening configurable product page when a child product has tier prices (compatibility with Magento 2.4.4 and PHP 8.1)
Fixed issue with opening a product list page with a configurable product when its child products has tier prices (Compatibility with magento 2.4.4 and php8.1)
Fixed issue with “Show how many products left in stock” functionality
Fixed issue with saving a configurable product variation with custom options
Fixed issue with mixed prices of custom options
Fixed issue with wrong SKU of the custom options
Fixed issue with incorrect display of products quantity in the matrix
Fixed compatibility issue with some third party extensions during re-indexing
Fixed conflict with REST API
Fixed issue where the swatches were unselected
Fixed issue with placing orders related to the manageable product stock for configurable products
Fixed issue with updating item information in the summary block on a bundle product page
Fixed issue with opening a shopping cart page after adding a bundle product to it
Fixed issue with adding bundle products with radio type options to the shopping cart
Fixed issue with updating summary block on a bundle product page
Fixed issue with opening a bundle product with a configurable product with custom options in a bundle option
Fixed issue with updating a base image on a configurable product page
Fixed issue with updating a qty of a bundle product option in a summary block
Fixed issue with updating a configurable product price when a custom option of a configurable product variation was selected
Fixed issue with opening a configurable product page with tier prices in a matrix grid
Fixed issue with displaying a file custom option in the shopping cart
Fixed “Area code is not set” exception when loading custom options
Fixed some class definitions
Fixed issue with adding a configurable product with custom options to the shopping cart when the matrix is enabled but product attributes are not matrix elements
Fixed issue with updating a price of a bundle product option in a summary block
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