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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

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