History of Magento 2
Nowadays, Magento 2 is the most popular e-commerce platform. Magento was released on August 31, 2007. Its development started by Roy Rubin and Yoav Kutner under Varien Inc. Initially, Magento is considered as a sub-system of the famous e-commerce and osCommerce. In the year 2012 Yoav Kutner left the Magento.
The founder developers felt that the osCommerce could not accommodate all the functionalities they wanted in the new system. So, they branched out from it and developed a completely new system from scratch. The brief history of Magento is given below:
| Years | Description |
|---|---|
| 2007 | First Public Beta Version released by Roy Rubin and Yoav Kutner. |
| 2008 | First Community Edition was launched. |
| 2009 | Magento gained popularity, and first Enterprise Edition released. |
| 2010 | 1.5 Million downloads of Magento. Magento mobile and Magento Professional Edition are also released. |
| 2011 | eBay takes a 100% stake in Magento. Magento Go and Magento U are announced. |
| 2012 | The co-founder Yoav left the Magento, and Magento Professional Edition canceled. |
| 2013 | eBay and Magento joined together. |
| 2014 | Now, Magento supports PHP 5.4. |
| 2015 | The official version of Magento 2 was released on 17 November 2015. |
| 2016 | Magento Luma theme was released, and Magento CE and EE offer official support to PHP 7. It also announced the partnership with Adobe. |
| 2017 | Launched Magento 2.2, Magento shipping, and Magento Business Intelligence. |
| 2018 | Adobe acquires Magento, and Magento 2.3 to be launched. |
The detailed history of Magento is given below table:
| Year | Released Versions |
|---|---|
| 2007 | |
| August 31 | First Public Beta Version released by Roy Rubin and Yoav Kutner. |
| 2008 | |
| March 31 | The first stable release of Magento 1.0 Community Edition was released. |
| June 24 | Magento Community Edition is launched. |
| December 29 | Magento CE 1.2 |
| 2009 | |
| March 30 | Magento CE 1.3 was released. |
| April 15 | Magento Enterprise Edition was launched. |
| October 20 | Magento EE 1.6 |
| 2010 | |
| January 19 | Magento EE 1.7 |
| January 12 | Magento CE 1.4 |
| April 14 | Magento EE 1.8 |
| May 1 | Magento Professional Edition launched |
| May 28 | Magento Mobile released |
| July 19 | Magento 1.9 |
| 2011 | |
| February 7 | Magento Go and Magento U announced |
| February 8 | Magento CE 1.5 and EE 1.10 released |
| June 6 | eBay owns Magento 100% |
| August 8 | Magento CE 1.6, EE 1.11, and PE 1.11 released |
| September 28 | Magento Developer Certification announced |
| October 12 | Magento U free course introduced |
| November 30 | Magento 2.0 development was started. |
| 2012 | |
| February 1 | 4 million downloads completed |
| April 24 | Magento CE 1.7 and EE 1.12 |
| May 1 | Magento Professional Edition canceled |
| 2013 | |
| October 11 | Magento EE 1.13 released |
| November 21 | eBay and Magento Enterprise join together |
| December 11 | Magento CE 1.8 |
| 2014 | |
| January 21 | Magento supported PHP 5.4 |
| May 13 | Magento CE 1.9 and EE 1.14 released. |
| 2015 | |
| July 15 | Magento 2 Merchant Beta version released. |
| November 17 | Magento 2 released |
| 2016 | |
| January 20 | Magento CE and EE offer support to PHP 7. |
| March 31 | Magento Luma theme launched. |
| April 12 | Magento Enterprise Cloud Edition released. |
| June 23 | Magento CE 2.1 and Magento EE 2.1 |
| September 26 | Magento announces the partnership with Adobe. |
| 2017 | |
| June 28 | Magento CE becomes Magento Open Source. Magento EE: Magento Commerce Magento Enterprise Cloud Edition: Magento Commerce Magento Commerce Order Management: Magento Order Management |
| September 26 | Magento Open Source 2.2 |
| 2018 | |
| June 4 | Magento Commerce 2.2 |
| June 19 | It is now an Adobe company |
| October 9 | Magento Payment is declared. |
| November 7 | Magento Commerce 2.3 |