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 Updates and Announcement for April 25, 2024

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API We’re happy to announce Promotions API is Generally Available (GA). The GraphQL Storefront API now supports cart metafields. Added a Localization document that describes how to localize a Catalyst storefront. Webhooks The
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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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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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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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API Updates for December 2, 2021

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API The Add to Cart URLs example now uses promises to demonstrate using JavaScript to make serial requests to a single endpoint. The Add Consignments to Checkout endpoint now reflects limits to the number of line items a consignment can
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Moving to Sitemap Indexes

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Over the course of October, storefronts will be moving to return a Sitemap Index by default when navigating to/xmlsitemap.php, the default sitemap route for storefronts. There will be separate sitemaps for different types of pages such as
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GraphQL Storefront API can now be used to power Stencil theme context

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It is now possible to augment the data available in the theme context through the use of GraphQL queries described directly in the Front Matter of template files. Using this capability, you can fetch data a little bit more flexibly to build
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Published Widgets now appear during local development with Stencil-CLI

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As of stencil-cli version 3.4.0, any published Widgets on the storefront will appear while rendering the storefront locally with the CLI. This will allow you to have a more realistic preview of what theme changes will look like in
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