Installation and upgrade

• You can now run MARKDOWN_HASH23080a9a3bcb4c8aafe453aba5cf55e5MARKDOWN_HASH in production mode. Previously, Magento would throw an error when you ran MARKDOWN_HASH2bd2a3134ce4c017373f6aeb9de82db5MARKDOWN_HASH after compiling DI. (This significantly curtailed your ability to deploy continuous integration.) (GITHUB-4795)

• You can now upgrade 2.0.9 with sample data to 2.1.1.

Pricing

• The Category page now displays current, rather than outdated, product prices.

• Tier pricing now works correctly with full page cache. (GITHUB-5364)

• Cart Price rules are now applied as expected to payment method conditions. Previously, discounts set in Cart Price rules were not applied during checkout.

Shopping cart

• Magento now implements the minicart maximum display recently added item setting to your shopping cart. Previously, Magento displayed all the items in the shopping cart, even when the number of items exceeded this limit. (GITHUB-4750)

Performance

• You can now quickly generate or preview multiple variations of a configurable product. (Saving these variations to the database can be time-consuming, if you have several thousand product options, and they efforts to improve performance continue.) Previously, Magento threw an Invalid Form key error is thrown while you tried to save a configurable product with variations.

• They  improved the speed of static asset deployment.

• The MARKDOWN_HASHe5b7c4de07767bba014e42523605238dMARKDOWN_HASH command now provides flags that you can use to exclude or include individual themes, areas, and locales. For more information, see (GITHUB-4294).

• They improved storefront performance when creating 2500 or more product variants.

Miscellaneous

• You can now save products using the multiple select attribute value. Previously, you could not save values if using this attribute.

• Magento now displays configurable products as expected after creation.

• You can now save a product with images multiple times.

• You can now log in successfully after creating a custom attribute. Previously, Magento would display an error message, and you could not log in, after first creating a custom attribute, then logging out.

• You can now successfully place orders when the Enable and Configure Website Payments Standard Payment Action attribute is set to Sale. Previously, under these conditions, Magento would display an error message and not allow you to complete the purchase. (GITHUB-4785)

• Attributes of the MARKDOWN_HASHd249df7fd5ecb2e0650d85d43196cf63MARKDOWN_HASH methods are now more appropriately type cast. (The datatype is now a nullable float.) Previously, due to the use of an incorrect datatype, Magento would produce an error when calling the MARKDOWN_HASH0e5f5d03646b19385bfd5bdb8b29079cMARKDOWN_HASH method. (GITHUB-3605)

• Magento now correctly displays customer address during account creation. Previously, when you selected a default billing address during creation of a new customer account, Magento would not display the address.

• You can now use Braintree as a payment method when applying reward points or store credit to an order.

• The category page now shows the current price after Magento runs a scheduled update. Previously, the category page would not update the price after running a scheduled update. (GITHUB-4945)

Known issue

The Sales API does not currently support all the update operations on objects that you can execute from the Admin. (Objects in this context include orders, invoices, shipments, credit memos, and return merchandise authorizations.)   The Sales API

• supports create, read, delete, and search operations on objects
• does not support updates to order status or payment status. (Order status includes changes to processing, shipped, processed, and hold, while payment status includes authorized, charged, reject, and refund.)