Dev Center Updates

TLS 1.2+ required for API connections beginning October 31, 2020

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BigCommerce will be deprecating the use of Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.1 on October 31, 2020 and customers will be required to utilize TLS versions 1.2 or greater. Any access to services that currently rely on TLS 1.1 or older will...
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Deprecation of JSPM in stencil-cli for September 17, 2020

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Theme The new stencil-cli version (2.0.0) no longer supports JSPM. Developer Blog How to Build Your First BigCommerce App
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Required stencil-cli version is now 2.0.0

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As of August 11, 2020, the required stencil-CLI version for local development is now 2.0.0. To update to the latest version of stencil-cli, simply run npm install -g @bigcommerce/stencil-cli. We recommend using the latest Node 10.x...
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Per-Device Image Resizing based on user agent has been disabled; use srcset

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As of August 11, 2020, the BigCommerce CDN will no longer downscale the resolution of images when it detects that an end user is shopping from a mobile device with a small screen. In order to make sure that file size & quality is...
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Control Panel URL change now live

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The URL used in all store Control Panels will now reflect the store's Permanent Address (i.e. store-abc123.mybigcommerce.com). Previously, if a store had an SSL certificate installed, the store URL (i.e. my-store.com) and the Control...
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Maintenance

API & Theme Updates for May 7, 2020

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API New Themes configuration endpoints now available Clarified documentation to note store/cart/abandoned will fire whether or not a store has the Abandoned Cart Saver feature enabled. GET Customers V3 endpoint includes new sort...
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API and Theme Updates, April 16, 2020

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API Updated Payments API sample app diagram Adyen removed from list of providers compatible with Payments API BigCommerce for Wordpress New article Multi-Channel Capabilities with Wordpress Theme %%GLOBALTrackingLink_List%% variable...
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Extend the BigCommerce Page Builder with custom Widgets!

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Beginning April 8, BigCommerce stores will have improved content management capabilities in the new Page Builder feature. This new capability is being slowly rolled out, starting with new BigCommerce stores. BigCommerce provides several...
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Chrome's SameSite changes have been temporarily reverted by Google

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In a previous changelog entry, we warned you about changes to Chrome's handling of cookies via the new SameSite attribute, which affects the behavior of cookies in iframes, and thus affects the loading of BigCommerce apps. Google has...
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