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Magento 2.4.9 explained: PHP 8.5 and Symfony 7.4 support, Composer 2.4, security changes for PCI DSS 4.0, API behaviour changes, support dates and how to plan your upgrade from 2.4.6, 2.4.7 or 2.4.8.
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