magento2-40872: Swatch data being deleted when updating an attribute option through REST
Community fix magento2-40872 merged into magento/magento2 on 2026-07-28, not in a release yet; applies cleanly to 34 releases from 2.4.6 to 2.4.9.
Fixes swatch data being deleted when updating an attribute option through REST edited
- Pull request title
- Visual Swatch is deleted when updating option through REST API
- Pull request
- magento/magento2#40872
- Issues
- #37794 human
- Author
- @aasim110
- Merged
- 2026-07-28
- Fixed in
- no release yet
- Reported on
- —
- Categories
- Catalog/Product, Web API
- Components
- magento/module-swatches
Labels
- Area
- APIs
- Component
- Attributes
- Priority
- P2
- Severity
- —
- Reported on (labels)
- 2.4.x
Issue
Title and steps come from the upstream issue and pull request.
Description
Steps to reproduce
2. Update option value through REST API /rest/all/V1/products/attributes/[attribute_code]/options/[option_id] (for example to update translations)
Expected result
Actual result
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.
| Line | Code match per tag | Tests |
|---|---|---|
| 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: fails before, passes afterunit: fails before, passes after |
| 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: fails before, passes afterunit: fails before, passes after |
| 2.4.9 | 2.4.9 clean | 2.4.9: fails before, passes afterunit: fails before, passes after |
Triage
Model @cf/cloudflare/clef. Probability this is a bug fix: 98.3%. Probability it is security relevant: 0.5%.
Show the model's answers and probabilities
| Question | Answer | Probabilities | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Change kind | bugfix | bugfix 96.8%, refactor 1.0%, tests_only 0.8%, feature 0.7%, dependency 0.4%, docs_only 0.4% | 92.5% |
| Area | catalog | catalog 66.1%, graphql_api 19.8%, admin 4.9% | 40.7% |
| Reported version | unspecified | unspecified 39.8%, 2.4.7-p4 1.5%, 2.4.6 1.5% | 15.3% |
| Scope | 0.48 of 2 | 0 61.6%, 1 28.8%, 2 9.6% | 20.7% |
| Risk | 0.19 of 2 | 0 83.5%, 1 13.7%, 2 2.8% | 57.5% |
| Worth backporting | 1.65 of 2 | 2 71.7%, 1 21.5%, 0 6.8% | 34.7% |
Download
For cweagans/composer-patches, choose a version below and download the bundle. Copy its magento2-40872/ 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.
Bundle README (what the ZIP ships)
# magento2-40872 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/40872 Issue: https://github.com/magento/magento2/issues/37794 Author: @aasim110 Source commit: 67caa994a018c56f7c35019bd55f5ddaacfda8dc 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.
