API Updates for September 5, 2024

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API The Store Information API now includes the infrastructure_region of the store so you can determine the hosted store’s geographical location. This location is helpful when deploying supporting infrastructure for the store so you can
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Catalyst
Bug Fix

API Updates for August 22, 2024

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Payments We are happy to announce the update of the Braintree SDK version from 3.95.0 to 3.104.0 as of 4 PM EEST, August 22, 2024. See the Checkout SDK JS in GitHub for more information. API Updated the Create a Refund Quote endpoint of
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Bug Fix
Enhancement

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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Theme
Bug Fix
Enhancement

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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Announcement
Developer Blog
GraphQL
Webhooks

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
API
Enhancement
Developer Blog

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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Announcement
Developer Blog
Maintenance
Enhancement

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
Storefront API
Bug Fix
Enhancement
Announcement

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
Announcement
Stencil
Enhancement

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
Stencil
Storefront API
Announcement
Enhancement