News and Updates - July 2026

Unoptimized images are often what drag down your website's performance. With large catalogs, it's easy to lose track of what's been optimized and what's yet to be covered. 

The Magefan Magento 2 AVIF Images extension offers a reliable solution. It allows you to convert every image in your store into the next-gen format automatically, improving the loading speed without compromising image quality.

• Convert images to AVIF using 3 generation modes.
• Monitor the conversion process in the stats dashboard.
• Fall back to original images in unsupported browsers.
• Exclude specifc folders from conversion.
• Convert images in picture tag, page builder, REST API & GraphQL requests, and more...

Many Magento 2 merchants regularly deal with bot traffic to their stores. While there's no harm in useful bots, the bad ones overload your store with fake requests, waste server resources, distort analytics, and even scrape your content.

The Magefan Magento 2 Bot Blocker extension helps you automatically detect and block unwanted bot traffic to prevent DDoS attacks, search spam, and server overload. This keeps your website fast, secure, and focused on real visitors.

• Block unwanted traffic based on user agents, IP addresses, countries, or request patterns.
• Whitelist specific user agents and crawlers.
• Enable reCAPTCHA for suspected bots.
• Restrict bot access to specific URLs and block certain search keywords.
• Monitor the blocked bots, user agents, countries, etc. from the Magento admin panel and more...

General:

• Important! Facebook Pixel Basic has become paid for Magento Open Source.

Features:

• Added a new "Lead" event on the contact/newsletter/[data-mf-fbp-lead] form submission (Extra).

Improvements:

• Enhanced the event matching quality (Plus and Extra).
• Improved the Conversion API access token security (Extra).
• Added translations for Conversions API messages (Extra).
• Performance optimization.

Fixes:

• Resolved the issue where the "Contact" event was fired on page load instead of the contact form submission (Extra).

Features:

• Added a new "File Scan Checks" section with the "Paths Excluded From File Scan" option.

Improvements:

• Implemented AJAX requests to update security reports.

Compatibilities:

• Added support for Microsoft Consent Mode (UET) and Microsoft Clarity Consent Mode.

Improvements:

• Performance optimization. Resolved the forced reflow issues.
• Minor code improvements.

Improvements:

• Performance optimization.
• Minor code improvements.

Fixes:

• Resolved customer session emulation issues in cases when customer data is restricted or the customer account is not approved.

Improvements:

• Optimized the process of replacing deployed files.

Fixes:

• Resolved an issue where the background images with the data-original attribute were not lazy-loaded.

General:

• Updated the google/apiclient dependency.

Improvements:

• Performance optimization.