Magento in 2026: 8,200 Hyvä Stores and a Full Room in Amsterdam

On 5 November 2026, about 400 people filled LIEF Amsterdam for Meet Magento Netherlands. The same day, Hyvä announced more than 8,200 live stores, after six years. If you are planning your store's budget for 2027, these are the signals worth knowing: published figures, new products and a clear update calendar.

8,200 Hyvä stores, in six years

Hyvä started as a frontend theme for Magento, lighter than Luma, the standard theme. Earlier in 2026, in its Hyvä Solstice 2026 recap, the company counted more than 7,600 live stores and more than 500 partner agencies. On 5 November 2026, in its post from Meet Magento Netherlands, the figure reached more than 8,200.

The growth has a practical reason too. Since 10 November 2025, the Hyvä theme is free and open source. The licence price no longer stands between a store on Luma and a fast frontend. The real cost is the migration work and the extensions that need adapting. We wrote about it in detail in our post on Hyvä going open source.

A full room at LIEF

Meet Magento Netherlands is run by Mage-OS Nederland, the association of the Dutch Magento community. We were there in 2024, in 2025 and again this year, for the third time in a row.

It was not the only Magento event of the year. In 2026 we were at Hyvä Developers Paradise in Marbella, Meet Magento Italy in Florence, Meet Magento France in Paris, HIVE Germany and Meet Magento Germany in Mainz, and Meet Magento Netherlands in Amsterdam. Six events, five countries, the same community that builds the platform and the stores on it.

For a store owner, this matters in a concrete way: when you have a hard question, there are people who have already solved it and who talk about it on stage, with numbers.

What 5 November brought

From Hyvä's post from the event and the day's keynotes, four things are worth keeping:

• Hyvä POS is free on the App Store, and it already installs from the Romanian App Store. Hyvä has not opened selling in Romania yet. It is Hyvä's app for selling in a physical store.
• "The 14-Day Shift". A keynote about five Shopify stores prepared to move to Magento Open Source and Hyvä, ready to launch on 14 days' notice. Before launch, 195 of their 202 category pages scored 90+ on mobile. The speed was in place before the first day live.
• Research with 8,000 European consumers on what they expect from delivery and from checkout. Delivery and checkout are where a store wins or loses the order, and a whole keynote was given to them.
• A Romanian example on the main stage. In the slot of the headline sponsors, Hyvä and Mollie, Ksenia Zvereva from Mollie picked a Romanian store as her example of "Magento, made easier": Vitacom. Its server took 15,814 ms to answer, and after the rebuild it answers in 12 ms, on 8x less hardware. The first figure is the homepage, the second a product page answered from the cache. The details are in the Vitacom case study.

Speed: Hyvä passes Google's test more often

Google publishes data on the speed real visitors experience on websites, and HTTP Archive collects it by platform. In September 2026, on mobile, 66% of Hyvä stores passed Core Web Vitals, against 45% of all Magento stores. Both figures count only the sites Google measures.

On 16 October 2026, every one of our Liquid Framework stores that Google measures passed Core Web Vitals, on phone and on desktop. Google's data always covers the last 28 days, so we check the figure before each use.

And the case that won Best Performance Improvement at HIVE Germany 2026 was a Magento store, on Hyvä, made fast without changing platform.

The platform gets updates on a calendar

A store you invest in needs predictable updates. In 2026, Magento has them:

• Monthly security patches. Since 14 July 2026, Adobe publishes isolated patches every month, on the second Tuesday. For Magento Open Source, the free monthly files are available for 2.4.7 and later.
• Releases on current PHP. According to Adobe's system requirements, updated 13 October 2026, Magento 2.4.8 runs on PHP 8.3 and 8.4, and 2.4.9 on PHP 8.5. PHP 8.5 gets security fixes until 2029.
• One date for the calendar: PHP 8.2 gets its last security fixes on 31 December 2026. We explained what that means for each Magento release in our post on PHP 8.2.

A known calendar means the upgrade can be planned, budgeted and done on time, not in a rush.

What it means for your store

If your store is on Magento and you are deciding where to invest in 2027, five steps give you a clear picture:

1. Check the release. On Magento Open Source 2.4.7 or later, you get the monthly security files for free.
2. Check PHP. If you run PHP 8.2, plan the move before 31 December 2026.
3. Redo the frontend sums. The Hyvä theme has been free since November 2025, so the decision rests on the migration work, not on a licence.
4. Look at real data. The Core Web Vitals report in Google Search Console shows how the store loads for your shoppers, not in a test.
5. Keep what is yours. On Magento Open Source you pay no commission on sales, and your data stays with you.

On Magento and Hyvä

Liquid Framework is our Hyvä Accelerator. Its foundation is Hyvä Theme, Hyvä Checkout and Magento Open Source. Security patches are part of the service, next to nightly database backups, error tracking and health checks.

Want to know where your Magento store stands against the calendar above? Book a free 30-minute strategy call. We will look together at the release, PHP and real-user speed, and tell you what is worth doing first.