PWA Studio Release 14.5.0

NOTE:
This changelog only contains release notes for PWA Studio and Venia 14.5.0
For older release notes, see PWA Studio releases.

Highlights

The 14.5.0 release of PWA Studio provides multiple bug fixes and updated Documentation for Live Search, Prex and multistore setup.

Additional fixes

• Story:4587 — Robots meta tag are added in head tag from magento configuration
• Bug:4597 — Canonical link tags are getting generated now.
• Bug:4586 — Cart items are now visible on return visit until a new item is added
• Bug:4574 — fixed Homepage UI breaking in venia.magento.com
• Bug:4552 — The 404 page renders as expected
• Bug:4471 - Fixed Lighthouse Test Failures in PR.
• Bug:4589 - Fixed webpack path resolver.
• Bug:4588 - Issue on IOS while installing app is resolved
• Bug:29 - UPWARD PHP Resolver Throwing 500 Error for Disabled Products is fixed
• Bug:73 - Mobile image dimensions changes when using the PWA PageBuilder Image component issue is fixed
• Bug:4583 - Stale cartId after guest user logs in is fixed
• Bug:4576 - Links do not open in new window when added using WYSIWYG Editor on PageBuilder Text element is fixed
• Bug:4579 - PDP add to cart action refetching the query getProductDetailForProductPage multiple times has been fixed

14.4.0 Lighthouse scores

With each new release of PWA Studio, we perform Lighthouse audits on four Venia page types, each representing a different level of complexity.
Shown below are the Lighthouse scores for the 14.5.0 release of these pages on desktop and mobile devices.

Desktop scores

	Home Page	Product Category	Product Details	Search Results
Desktop
Performance
Accessibility
Best Practices
SEO
PWA

Mobile scores

	Home Page	Product Category	Product Details	Search Results
Mobile
Performance
Accessibility
Best Practices
SEO
PWA

Known issue

When a user logs out, that user's local storage session persists. As a result, the cart ID from the logged-out user is retrieved and assigned to the guest user on the same computer.
This causes the following error when the guest user tries to check out:
An error has occurred. Please check the input and try again.

To resolve this issue, try disabling graphql session sharing as described in the GraphQL documentation on session cookies here: https://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v2.4/graphql/authorization-tokens.html#session-cookies.

Upgrading from a previous version

Use the steps outlined in this section to update your scaffolded project from 14.4.0 to 14.5.0
See Upgrading versions for more information about upgrading between PWA Studio versions.

Updated package dependencies

Open your package.json file and update the PWA Studio package dependencies to the versions associated with this release.
The following table lists the latest versions of each package as of 14.5.0. The bolded versions with an asterisk (*) are the packages that were updated from PWA Studio 14.4.0.

NOTE:
Your project may not depend on some packages listed in this table.