what is the difference between magento 2.1.7 and 2.1.8?

Question

I chose magento 2.1.7 for a project. Now during the project my client asked me to upgrade it to magento 2.1.8. Can someone explain the difference?

Answer 1

It's one better.

Magento 2.1.8 is a maintenance release, featuring over 100 bug fixes and improvements.

As Abhishek Panchal noted, you can view the full 2.1.8 release notes here with the list of bugs fixed: http://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v2.1/release-notes/ReleaseNotes2.1.8CE.html

Highlights

• multiple enhancements to static content deployment and generation

• improvements to indexing of large catalogs, cache tuning, and **URL re-writes

• reduction in the amount of memory that mass actions require, and performance optimization

• faster deployments for multi-language sites

Answer 2

I've noticed 2 differences since upgrading from 2.1.7 to 2.1.8.

Navigation to subcategories in admin is now broken in Chrome and IE (thankfully still works in Firefox).

Also on the category page if you try to filter by manufacturer it always displays 0 results.

I wouldn't recommend upgrading personally.