---
title: "Newsletter July'25"
description: "Medusa v2.8.8, a peek into how we are building Medusa, Docs MCP, +20 new integrations, 30k GitHub stars, a webinar, and much more."
url: https://medusajs.com/blog/newsletter-jul25
last_updated: 2026-08-13T14:14:57Z
---

# Newsletter July'25

_Published 2025-08-04 by Sebastian Rindom, Oliver Juhl, Nicklas Gellner in Company_

Hope you’re enjoying the Summer! Below is an overview of our Medusa highlights from July.

## Medusa v2.8.8

Lots of improvements, including:

- Improved create-medusa-app and error logging experience
- Corrected tax calculations on orders
- Updated CSV product import functionality
- Removed over 20 bugs

![](https://assets.medusajs.com/uploads/2025/08/v2-8-8-0y3ieb34.webp)

[Read more in our Changelog](https://medusajs.com/changelog/).

## +20 additions to our Integrations Directory in July

We’ve added a bunch of new community integrations for payments, auth, notifications, and platform extensions.

![](https://assets.medusajs.com/uploads/2025/07/new-inegrations-template-bended-1-ez575sq8.webp)

[Check them out](https://medusajs.com/blog/integrations-jul25/).

## Documentation MCP Server

No need to leave your IDE or AI tools when building with Medusa. Just add our MCP server to bring Medusa’s docs right into your development workflow.

![](https://assets.medusajs.com/uploads/2025/08/mcp-video-fepq1jrb.gif)

[Learn how to use the MCP server](https://docs.medusajs.com/learn/introduction/build-with-llms-ai#mcp-remote-server).

## Building Medusa with Medusa: Billing

Explore how we built the subscription billing engine behind Medusa Cloud using our own Commerce Modules and Framework.

![](https://assets.medusajs.com/uploads/2025/08/0801f5de84a2082d42e8da9d1f32e591c70e3e58-3200x1672-ogqr51nn.webp)

[Read the story](https://medusajs.com/blog/building-medusa-with-medusa-billing/).

## Add Custom Data to Cart and Order Line Items

Learn how to add custom data to cart and order line items in Medusa with a step-by-step tutorial that walks through a practical example of collecting gift messages.

![](https://assets.medusajs.com/uploads/2025/08/order-gift-message-2-l5g4aox9.gif)

[Check out the new guide](https://medusajs.com/blog/add-custom-data-cart-order-line-items/).

## Add Newsletter with a Mailchimp integration

Learn how to add newsletters to your Medusa store using Mailchimp and let customers subscribe to company news, or automate notifications for new product updates.

![](https://assets.medusajs.com/uploads/2025/08/a414b4c3-6e38-6175-f008-9392b7ebe2cf-dd7rooaz.webp)

[Read the Guide](http://medusajs.com/blog/mailchimp-integration).

## Introducing Logs Explorer

Debug faster with structured views, real-time search, and metadata filters across runtime and build logs.

![](https://assets.medusajs.com/uploads/2025/08/f5f06ae3-bc3f-67c0-3630-41ac7649e462-67qem7cm.gif)

[Read the announcement](https://medusajs.com/blog/announcing-logs-explorer/).

## Upcoming webinar on Medusa for B2B

Join our upcoming webinar with [@Cloudflightio](https://x.com/Cloudflightio) to learn: 

- Why Medusa leads among open-source B2B platforms 
- What sets our modular architecture apart 
- How a B2B platform doing $1B+ in sales migrated to Medusa in only 6 months

![](https://assets.medusajs.com/uploads/2025/08/gwn2k5tacaaqoxe-iqjg6q5w.webp)

[Sign up here](http://cloudflight.io/en/event/webinar-medusa/).

## Crossed 30,000 GitHub stars

We were the first ecommerce platform to cross 30k stars on GitHub.

![](https://assets.medusajs.com/uploads/2025/08/gxayiqhbuaa-mk5-jp6u9sqw.webp)

[Celebrate with us](https://x.com/medusajs/status/1950114208982642878).

## Product update

A brief update on current and future work.

### **Current work**

Our top priority these weeks remains bug fixing. This is a continuous effort, and we appreciate everyone who has taken the time to report issues so far; please keep them coming. Bear in mind, with the summer period in full swing, we are operating at reduced capacity, which may lead to longer response times.

Aside from bug fixing, we are doing some housekeeping in the admin dashboard, focusing on cleaning up the UX to make it more consistent and intuitive. Finally, we are preparing the Draft Order and Loyalty plugins to be moved out of preview and into our open-source project, making them publicly available.

### **Future work**

We are still planning the roadmap for the coming months and will make sure to keep you updated when new work kicks off.

Take part in the discussion on [GitHub](https://github.com/medusajs/medusa/discussions/13105) or stay tuned on [X](https://x.com/medusajs) for frequent updates.