The document summarizes recent Magento news including updates to make composer installs faster in Magento 2.3, end of life dates for older Magento versions, a new composer plugin for easier updates, Magento market shares, planned patch releases in 2020, PSD2 compliance, an alternative checkout flow, Hacktoberfest/Squashtoberfest events, MageDerby, a new PWA Studio release, more end of life dates, and upcoming Magento events.

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2. WHAT HAPPENED
SINCE THE LAST MEETUP?
>= 28.05.2019

3. Faster „composer require/update“
for Magento 2.3
Jun 12th 2019
https://github.com/fooman/composer-magento2-optimizations

4. Magento 2.3.2, 2.2.9, 2.1.18, … EOL 2.1.x!
Jun 26th 2019
https://www.matthias-zeis.com/magento-2/magento-2-3-2

5. Composer plugin for easier updates
Jul 9th 2019
https://github.com/magento/composer-root-update-plugin

6. Shop software market shares
Sep 2nd 2019
https://twitter.com/tomik99/status/1168558757061812230?s=09
https://twitter.com/tomik99/status/1166241819706953728

7. Patches in 1st month of quarter, starting 2020
Sep 6th 2019
https://twitter.com/ChrisHedge4/status/1169990200900104192

8. PSD2
Sep 14th 2019
https://docs.magento.com/m2/ce/user_guide/stores/compliance-
payment-services-directive.html

9. Alternative checkout flow coming
Sep 16th 2019
https://www.slideshare.net/IevgenSentiabov/alternative-checkout-flow

10. Alternative checkout flow coming
Sep 16th 2019
https://www.slideshare.net/IevgenSentiabov/alternative-checkout-flow

11. Hacktoberfest / Squashtoberfest
Oct 1st - 31th 2019
https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/
https://opensource.adobe.com/squashtoberfest/

12. MageDerby
Oct 6th 2019
https://magederby.com/

13. PWA Studio 4.0.0
Oct 7th 2019
https://github.com/magento/pwa-studio/releases/tag/v4.0.0

14. Magento 2.3.3, 2.3.2-p1, 2.2.10, … EOL 2.2.x!
Oct 8th 2019
https://magento.com/security

15. More News:
https://www.matthias-zeis.com/magento-2/aktuelles

16. WHAT’S NEXT?
UPCOMING

17. MagentoLive Europe 2019
October 22nd+23rd 2019
https://live-eu.magento.com/

18. Magento Unconference DE
Nov 30th - Dec 1st 2019
https://www.mageunconference.org/mageuc19/

19. Magento Imagine Summit
Mar 29th - Apr 2nd 2020
https://twitter.com/brentwpeterson/status/1128727618625331200?s=0
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