Add Solidus 4.5 release notes

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- [ ] I have followed the Diátaxis framework in my PR.

• I have verified that the preview environment works correctly.

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Meta Data for all your transactional resources

We are striving to make Solidus a better citizen in your ecommerce ecosystem:
till today, if you didn't rely on our solidus IDs as primary key for your customers, products or transactions like orders and payments, you had to implement custom fields to keep track of your invoices or delivery notes, now you can write your own meta data straight into the transactions by yourself. The new admin_meta_data fields can be written by your admin accounts via API at any state of the order. You can use this fields to keep track of information such as serial numbers of the items you sell or also just leaving a note on your customer.

In addition, to allow matching your orders to your customers record or allow more efficient handling of customisations for example, your customers can add their own customer_metadata to their orders and order line items and edit or create them up to completing the payment. Tracking PO numbers or storing that romantic letters your customer wants to see engraved on the jewellery line item can now be added easier than ever before by customising solely the frontend.

All metadata (customer and admin) is fully API accessible.
We will add some documentation in the guides soon.

PR #6118

Updates for SEO & Structured Data on Solidus

4.5 comes with some great additions to products and taxons allowing you to create more refined structured data for everything from Google and Facebook to your social cards on X.

Product Details

You can now assign GTIN and Conditions to products allowing you to fully comply with structured data for merchant offerings and aim for free google shopping ads. Future versions of the starter frontend will bring all these fields by themselves and build our structured data examples on it.

Taxon Brands functionality

We took first steps to making brands are more distinguished aspect of your products, allowing your in multi brand scenarios to return them separately.
PR #5989

Breadcrumbs & Primary Taxons

We also supercharged breadcrumbs: you can now pick your primary taxon to reliably render the breadcrumbs you want on your product even if the product is owned by multiple taxons. If you find other applications for them, keep us updated on slack, we'd love to know them :).

[tvdeyen]

Meta Data for all your transactional resources

We are striving to make Solidus a better citizen in your ecommerce ecosystem: till today, if you didn't rely on our solidus IDs as primary key for your customers, products or transactions like orders and payments, you had to implement custom fields to keep track of your invoices or delivery notes, now you can write your own meta data straight into the transactions by yourself. The new admin_meta_data fields can be written by your admin accounts via API at any state of the order. You can use this fields to keep track of information such as serial numbers of the items you sell or also just leaving a note on your customer.

In addition, to allow matching your orders to your customers record or allow more efficient handling of customisations for example, your customers can add their own customer_metadata to their orders and order line items and edit or create them up to completing the payment. Tracking PO numbers or storing that romantic letters your customer wants to see engraved on the jewellery line item can now be added easier than ever before by customising solely the frontend.

All metadata (customer and admin) is fully API accessible. We will add some documentation in the guides soon.

PR #6118

Updates for SEO & Structured Data on Solidus

4.5 comes with some great additions to products and taxons allowing you to create more refined structured data for everything from Google and Facebook to your social cards on X.

Product Details

You can now assign GTIN and Conditions to products allowing you to fully comply with structured data for merchant offerings and aim for free google shopping ads. Future versions of the starter frontend will bring all these fields by themselves and build our structured data examples on it.

Taxon Brands functionality

We took first steps to making brands are more distinguished aspect of your products, allowing your in multi brand scenarios to return them separately. PR #5989

Breadcrumbs & Primary Taxons

We also supercharged breadcrumbs: you can now pick your primary taxon to reliably render the breadcrumbs you want on your product even if the product is owned by multiple taxons. If you find other applications for them, keep us updated on slack, we'd love to know them :).

This is great, thanks. But I think it is better placed on the Blog instead of the developer release notes. The release notes should be a short brief note.

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[fthobe]

@tvdeyen it was meant for that ;) The developer release notes are spot on. I would add one phrase though that meta data of customers can't be written after an order has been paid for.

[tvdeyen]

@tvdeyen it was meant for that ;) The developer release notes are spot on. I would add one phrase though that meta data of customers can't be written after an order has been paid for.

@kennyadsl can we get access to the website and blog please?

[kennyadsl]

@fthobe I think the metadata feature deserves a proper section in the edge guides, which might be linked in the changelog. Is this something you can take care of? Maybe it's not that time consuming with the AI help. Let me know!

[fthobe]

@fthobe I think the metadata feature deserves a proper section in the edge guides, which might be linked in the changelog. Is this something you can take care of? Maybe it's not that time consuming with the AI help. Let me know!

LOL.... writing long paragraphs of text is the only thing giving me joy here 🗡️

[kennyadsl]

Right, if you want I can pretend we are still in the phase where I don't want to merge the feature and the doc is done in 5 minutes! ❤️

[fthobe]

@kennyadsl I can do it tomorrow

[fthobe]

Where do you folks want to allocate meta in the guides?