UPSTREAM FIX

magento2-38474: Shop By Category filter showing when Show Category Filter is set to No

Community fix magento2-38474 merged into magento/magento2 on 2026-05-19, not in a release yet; applies cleanly to 34 releases from 2.4.6 to 2.4.9.

Fixes the Shop By Category filter showing when Show Category Filter is set to No edited

Pull request title
Shop By Category Filter Visible On Non-Anchor Categories
Pull request
magento/magento2#38474
Issues
#38379 human
Author
@rogerdz
Merged
2026-05-19
Fixed in
no release yet
Reported on
—
Categories
Catalog/Product
Components
magento/module-catalog

Labels

Area
Catalog
Component
Catalog
Priority
P2
Severity
—
Reported on (labels)
2.4.x

Issue

Title and steps come from the upstream issue and pull request.

Description

Category layered navigation filter is showing

Steps to reproduce

1. Create a category with a sub category. Set Is Anchor - No for both
2. Navigate to admin > Stores > Configuration > Catalog - Show Category Filter - No
3. Navigate to frontend > Go to parent category and check for Shop By category filter

Expected result

No category layered navigation filter showing

Actual result

Category layered navigation filter is showing

Taken from the upstream issue.

Code match per tag

Each tag was checked with git apply --check against that tag's files. A clean match means the change applies; it is not a test result. Tags that already contain the fix are marked.

LineCode match per tagTests
2.4.6
2.4.6 clean 2.4.6-p1 clean 2.4.6-p2 clean 2.4.6-p3 clean 2.4.6-p4 clean 2.4.6-p5 clean 2.4.6-p6 clean 2.4.6-p7 clean 2.4.6-p8 clean 2.4.6-p9 clean 2.4.6-p10 clean 2.4.6-p11 clean 2.4.6-p12 clean 2.4.6-p13 clean 2.4.6-p14 clean 2.4.6-p15 clean
2.4.6: no test data 2.4.6-p1: no test data 2.4.6-p2: no test data 2.4.6-p3: no test data 2.4.6-p4: no test data 2.4.6-p5: no test data 2.4.6-p6: no test data 2.4.6-p7: no test data 2.4.6-p8: no test data 2.4.6-p9: no test data 2.4.6-p10: no test data 2.4.6-p11: no test data 2.4.6-p12: no test data 2.4.6-p13: no test data 2.4.6-p14: no test data 2.4.6-p15: no test data
2.4.7
2.4.7 clean 2.4.7-p1 clean 2.4.7-p2 clean 2.4.7-p3 clean 2.4.7-p4 clean 2.4.7-p5 clean 2.4.7-p6 clean 2.4.7-p7 clean 2.4.7-p8 clean 2.4.7-p9 clean 2.4.7-p10 clean
2.4.7: no test data 2.4.7-p1: no test data 2.4.7-p2: no test data 2.4.7-p3: no test data 2.4.7-p4: no test data 2.4.7-p5: no test data 2.4.7-p6: no test data 2.4.7-p7: no test data 2.4.7-p8: no test data 2.4.7-p9: no test data 2.4.7-p10: no test data
2.4.8
2.4.8 clean 2.4.8-p1 clean 2.4.8-p2 clean 2.4.8-p3 clean 2.4.8-p4 clean 2.4.8-p5 clean
2.4.8: no test data 2.4.8-p1: no test data 2.4.8-p2: no test data 2.4.8-p3: no test data 2.4.8-p4: no test data 2.4.8-p5: no test data
2.4.9
2.4.9 clean
2.4.9: no test data

Triage

Model @cf/cloudflare/clef. Probability this is a bug fix: 97.2%. Probability it is security relevant: 0.6%.

Show the model's answers and probabilities
QuestionAnswerProbabilitiesConfidence
Change kindbugfixbugfix 96.4%, refactor 1.5%, feature 0.8%, tests_only 0.5%, docs_only 0.4%, dependency 0.4%91.6%
Areacatalogcatalog 70.8%, frontend 22.0%, admin 2.9%48.6%
Reported versionunspecifiedunspecified 43.1%, 2.4.9 1.5%, 2.4.6 1.5%18.1%
Scope0.23 of 20 81.6%, 1 13.9%, 2 4.5%53.1%
Risk0.34 of 20 69.0%, 1 28.4%, 2 2.6%33.6%
Worth backporting1.58 of 22 67.7%, 1 23.1%, 0 9.2%28.0%

Download

For cweagans/composer-patches, choose a version below and download the bundle. Copy its magento2-38474/ folder into patches/composer/, merge composer.patches.json into composer.json, then run composer install. Test files are always removed; paths are relative to each package root, using the default -p1 level.

Packages (1): magento/module-catalog
Bundle README (what the ZIP ships)
# magento2-38474

Community fix merged upstream into magento/magento2, adapted by magento.watch.
This is not a patch published by Adobe.

Pull request: https://github.com/magento/magento2/pull/38474
Issue: https://github.com/magento/magento2/issues/38379
Author: @rogerdz
Source commit: c2e9b23e4397c5d37fafe91e3c8ab1164a2ca713
Modifications: test files and documentation removed, paths rewritten relative to each Composer package.
Licence: OSL-3.0 / AFL-3.0, as the original Magento Open Source code.
Maintainer: Łukasz Bajsarowicz (@lbajsarowicz)

Licence: Magento Open Source code under OSL-3.0 and AFL-3.0. The bundle carries the original author, source commit and the list of modifications.

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Magento and Adobe Commerce architecture, upgrades, performance and audits for merchants and agencies since 2015; magento.watch is the tooling I use on those projects.

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