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API Updates and Announcements for February 24, 2022

API Added new endpoint: Update Customer Messages Added new limits: Checkout V3- 50 character limit for coupon codes Marketing V2- 250 character limit for messages Orders V2- 65535 character limit for order shipment comments Orders V3- 50

API Updates for December 9, 2021

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

API Updates for December 2, 2021

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

Moving to Sitemap Indexes

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

GraphQL Storefront API can now be used to power Stencil theme context

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

Required Stencil-CLI version set to 3.5.0

A bug affecting users of stencil-CLI has been fixed as of CLI version 3.5.0. As this bug was resulting in CLI requests incorrectly redirecting which resulted in a degradation of the local development experience, we have bumped the required

Published Widgets now appear during local development with Stencil-CLI

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

Theme Updates for July 1, 2021

Theme Added ability to embed a GraphQL query in the front matter of a Stencil theme. See GraphQL attributes for examples and a complete list of available variables. Localization- Added ability to localize the control panel, system messages,

GraphQL Storefront API now supports sorting products within categories

The GraphQL Storefront API’s now supports sorting the products on a Category node, using the sortBy parameter. This will match the equivalent sorting behaviors on the BigCommerce Storefront (Stencil). Consider this query: query