API Updates for August 15, 2024

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API We are happy to announce that the Cart and Checkout API now supports optimistic concurrency control. This feature helps prevent lost updates caused by concurrent requests overriding changes made by others. If the version number
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API Announcement for January 26, 2024

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Announcement BigCommerce for WordPress Plugin Update Required! We have deployed a fix for a recent vulnerability found with the BigCommerce for WordPress plugin. To prevent security vulnerabilities, please upgrade your plugin by
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API internal migration on August 7, 2023

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API We are implementing an internal migration for GET v3/catalog/categories and GET v3/catalog/categories/{category_id} endpoints to enhance our API’s performance. If you experience any unexpected API behavior on the following endpoint,
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API Updates and Announcements for August 11, 2022

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API Added gift_certificate_id to Get an Order Product endpoint. Added original_price, a new attribute for return items in the Storefront Cart and Storefront Checkout APIs. Partners Added the ability for Impartner users to create sandbox
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Node 12 End-of-life on April 30th

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Node 12 enters End-of-life on April 30, 2022 ( https://endoflife.date/nodejs). From this date, new versions of Stencil CLI will drop support for Node 12, and add support for Node 14. In order to provide time for developers to update their
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Change to number of product images returned in Stencil home page resources on April 15

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On April 15, 2022, the number of product images returned by the Featured Products, New Products, and Popular Products panels on Stencil storefronts is changing. These panels will now return up to 10 images per product, instead of returning
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Change to default number of product images returned by GraphQL on April 15

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On April 15, 2022, the behavior of the product.images node in the GraphQL storefront API will be changing to only return 10 images by default. If you wish to request a different number of product images, you should specify the`first`
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Upcoming changes to HTTP header casing

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Infrastructural changes to BigCommerce over the next 2 weeks may result in some HTTP headers being returned as lowercase which previously had a mixture of uppercase and lowercase characters. For example, HTTP header names such as
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API Updates for December 9, 2021

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API Added store/order/transaction/created and store/order/transaction/updated webhook events. Please note that if your application uses the store/order/* scope to create webhooks, it will start receiving this event and should be prepared to
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