PWA Studio Release 14.5.1

NOTE:
This changelog only contains release notes for PWA Studio and Venia 14.5.1
For older release notes, see PWA Studio releases.

Highlights

The 14.5.1 release of PWA Studio provides support to PHP 8.5 and multiple bug fixes.

Additional fixes

• Bug:4604 — Updated the Axios package due to its vulnerability impact in PWA Studio
• Bug:30 — Upward connector module error resolved by updating return type
• Bug:78 — PHP 8.5 compatibility with PWA
• Bug:4607 — Fixed issue where User unable to select option for few Configurable products
• Bug:4601 — Clean up duplicated code between credit card and billing address
• Bug:4592 - Fixed where breadcrumbs sortCrumbs function uses > instead of -, causing unreliable sort order

14.5.1 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 14.5.1 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 14.5.0 to 14.5.1
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 14.5.1. The bolded versions with an asterisk (*) are the packages that were updated from PWA Studio 14.5.0.

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