History of Magento 2
History and Version of Magento: In Early 2007, Magento officially began production. And seven months later, the first public beta version was released on August 31, 2007.
Formerly partnered with osCommerce Varien, the company owned by Magento had initially planned to fork osCommerce but later decided to redesign it as Magento.
The platform was the winner of several "Best of Open Source Software Awards" and "SourceForge Community Choice Awards" in the first years of its existence.
eBay announced in February 2011 that it invested in Magento in 2010, worth a 49 percent share of the company's shares. On June 6, 2011, eBay revealed it would buy the majority of Magento, joining the latest X. Initiatives of commerce. CEO and co-founder of Magento, Roy Rubin, wrote on the blog of Magento that "Magento will continue to operate with Yoav Kutner and me from Los Angeles.
In April 2012, Yoav Kutner left Magento, citing that Magento's vision had changed since the acquisition due to changes in high-level personnel.
After the collapse of eBay after Carl Icahn's raid, the new owner, Permira private equity fund spun out Magento as an independent company on November 3, 2015.
Yoav Kutner left Magento in April 2012, citing that the vision of Magento had changed as a result of changes in high-level personnel since the acquisition.
| Years | Description |
| 2007 | The First beta was released for all customers. |
| 2008 | First stable versions 1.0 of Magento globally available this year. |
| 2009 | This year Magento has released Enterprise Edition, and during this year, Magento has more popular. |
| 2010 | Magento Mobile was released this year and also released two more new version Enterprise Edition, 1.8 Community Edition 1.4. |
| 2011 | This year Magento was acquired by eBay. The first Magento imagine conference was held was it announced Magento Developer certification. |
| 2012 | In this year 2012 witnessed, 4 million downloads and 150,000 stores were use the Magento platform to run their online stores. |
| 2013 | This is the year of CE 1.6 and EE 1.11. The new versions bring more advanced price calculation options, while EE also gets new indexing. |
| 2014 | In this year again, two new versions launched EE 1.12, CE 1.7. |
| 2015 | The Year 2015, the Magento 2 community Edition 2.0 released, and Permira took Magento ownership. |
| 2016 | This year Magneto 2 EE Released. And also, RJMatrics was acquired by magneto. And Magento Enterprise Cloud Edition released. |
| 2017 | In the Year of 2017, the Magento renamed both of their platforms to Magento Open Source and Magento Commerce. |
| 2018 | In May, Magento was acquired by Adobe for $1.68 Billion and prepared for the integration with Adobe Experience Cloud and Enterprise CMS platform. Magento Imagine 2018 conference in Las Vegas attracted more than 3,000 attendees, across 60 countries around the world. |
All Magento Released versions:
| Date of released | Versions | Description |
| 31-Aug-2007 | Magento CE 1.0 Beta | The first public beta version released. |
| 24-Jun-2008 | Magento CE 1.0 | More products Added |
| 10-oct-2008 | Magento CE 1.1 | First Magento community Edition released. |
| 29-Dec-2008 | Magento CE 1.2 | Adobe downloadable product, Layered Navigation, FTP. |
| 30-Mar-2009 | Magento CE 1.3 | Introduced catalogs |
| 12-Feb-2010 | Magento CE 1.4 | Introduced Widgets and WYSIWYG Editor. |
| 08-Feb-2011 | Magento CE 1.5 | Added iPhone and Android to Magento Mobile. |
| Magento CE 1.6 | Multi DB support. | |
| Magento 2.0 Development start | The new transformed version of Magento. | |
| 24-Apr-2012 | Magento CE 1.7 | Added Mobile theme, Auto coupon code, group pricing. |
| 11-Dec-2013 | Magento CE 1.8 | Enhanced the tax calculations and redis cache in core. |
| 2014 - 2015 | Magento CE 1.9.x | We have added more themes and Emails. |
| 18-Nov-2015 | Magento CE 2.0.0 | Transformation flexibility, Scalability, and performance. |
| 20-Jan-2016 | Magento CE 2.0.1 | Functions updates, included official support for php 7.0.2. |
| 29-Jan-2016 | Magento CE 2.0.2 | Fixed issues upgrading from Magento 2.0.0 to 2.0.1. |
| 31-Mar-2016 | Magento CE 2.0.3 | Version replaced by 2.0.4. |
| 01-Apr-2016 | Magento CE 2.0.4 | Security and performance improvements of Magento 2.0.3. |
| 28-Apr-2016 | Magento CE 2.0.5 | Miscellaneous Functional Fixed |
| 17-May-2016 | Magento CE 2.0.6 | Security Enhancements, several functional fixes. |
| 24-May-2016 | Magento CE 2.0.7 | One function fixed in payment gateway. |
| 19-Jul-2016 | Magento CE 2.0.8 | Several functions fixes |
| 11-Aug-2016 | Magento CE 2.0.9 | Several functions fixes. |
| 31-Oct-2016 | Magento CE 2.0.10 | Multiple security & sales API enhancement |
| 01-Dec-2016 | Magento CE 2.0.11 | Over 70 bugs fixed & Enhancements. |
| Feb-2017 | Magento CE 2.0.12 | Over 20 functions & security fixes |
| 17-Apr-2017 | Magento CE 2.0.13 | Several functions fixes |
| 31-May-2017 | Magento CE 2.0.14 | Magento software security critical enhancements |
| 21-Jun-2017 | Magento CE 2.0.15 | Support for changes in PayPal’s IPN |
| 23-Jun-2016 | Magento CE 2.1.0 | Numerous functional fixes and enhancement |
| 30-Aug-2016 | Magento CE 2.1.1 | Functional fixes and static content deploy enhancement. |
| 12-Oct-2016 | Magento CE 2.1.2 | Security enhancements and functional fixes. |
| 14-Dec-2016 | Magento CE 2.1.3 | Functional enhancement and fixes |
| 07-Feb-2016 | Magento CE 2.1.4 | Functional fixes and enhancement. |
| 21-Feb-2017 | Magento CE 2.1.5 | Several functional fixes. |
| 28-Apr-2017 | Magento CE 2.1.6 | Category pages & image resizing performance enhancement. |
| 31-May-2017 | Magento CE 2.1.7 | Critical enhancement to the security |
| 04-Aug-2017 | Magento CE 2.2.0 -RC | Release 2.2.0 with new features & fixes. |
| 09-Aug-2017 | Magento open source 2.1.8 | Magento open source (formally community edition). |
| 14-Dec-2017 | Magento CE 2.1.9 | Include security fixes and enhancements to Magento software. |
| 07-Nov-2017 | Magento CE 2.2.1 | Include functional fixes and enhancement to Magento. |
| 12-Dec-2017 | Magento CE 2.2.2 | Include new tools, functional fixes and enhancements, along with number of contributions. |
| 27-Feb-2018 | Magento CE 2.2.3 | Enhancement to product security and to ACL control for cache management through Magento Admin. |
| 02-May-2018 | Magento CE 2.2.4 | New tools and numerous functional bug fixes and enhancements. |
| 01-Jul-2018 | Magento CE 2.2.5 | Improvement in product security bug fixes and enhancement. |
| 18-Sep-2018 | Magento CE 2.2.6 | The Critical improvements in product security, core code fixes and enhancement. |
| Oct-2018 | Magento CE 2.2.7 | Improvements in products security core code fixes and enhancement. |
| 28-Nov-2018 | Magento CE 2.3.0 | Includes numerous functional fixes and enhancements. |
| 26-Mar-2019 | Magento CE 2.2.8 | The Critical improvements in product security core code fixes and enhancements. |
| 2019 | Magento CE 2.3.1 | Functional fixes to the core products over 500, pull requests contributed by the community & security enhancements. |