Catalog API Updates for October 8, 2020

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API Category is no longer required to create a product in Catalog API. Developer Blog How to Add Custom Theme Styles to BigCommerce Page Builder
Developer Blog
Enhancement
API

Stencil CLI 3.0 Release

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Stencil CLI 3.0 has released, with these improvements: Node 12 support Much improved stencil pull with better merging logic and drastically improved performance Many CLI commands have been improved to work better with automated...
Announcement
Enhancement
Stencil

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...
API
Warning
Announcement

Cornerstone 4.10.0 for October 1, 2020

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Theme Return heading to product card. #1848 Quick search query param needs to be fixed while navigating to search page. #1832 Create unified focus styling in Cornerstone. #1812 Review link in quick modal focused twice. #1797 Fixed...
Cornerstone
Bug Fix
Maintenance

Stencil-utils versions below 2.0.0 are deprecated

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As of stencil-utils 2.0.0, the storefront API which returns the status of the cookie notification feature was removed: https://github.com/bigcommerce/cornerstone/pull/1380 This API is now deprecated, and will return a hardcoded...
Warning
Stencil

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...
Announcement
Stencil
Warning

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...
Announcement
Warning

Cornerstone 4.9.0

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Added correct alt text on image change in product view. #1747 Description tab is hidden in case of empty product description. #1746 Stencil CLI updated to the latest version. #1744 Added immediate keyboard focus for quick view modal...
Cornerstone
Bug Fix
Maintenance

GraphQL Storefront API Complexity Scoring Adjusted

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Based on feedback from our developer community, we've adjusted the weighting of our GraphQL Storefront API's complexity scoring in order to be more permissive. As a result, queries which may have previously been rejected on the basis of...
Storefront API
Enhancement