When a Magento Patch Breaks Checkout: The 5-Minute Rollback Recipe
You pushed a patch on a Saturday morning. Checkout is now blank, the place-order button does nothing, and Stripe webhooks have stopped firing. This is the 5-minute rollback recipe, four commands, in order, plus the three breakage patterns that cause 90% of post-patch checkout outages on Magento 2.4.4-2.4.9 stores, real var/report excerpts, the moment you should stop trying to forward-fix on production, and a 4-item pre-patch staging checklist that prevents the next Saturday call. Written from production incidents I have rolled back at kishansavaliya.com clients between 2024 and 2026.