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API Updates and Announcements for August 11, 2022

by BigCommerce
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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Enhancement
Developer Blog

Node 12 End-of-life on April 30th

by BigCommerce
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

by BigCommerce
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

by BigCommerce
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`
Storefront API
Warning

Upcoming changes to HTTP header casing

by BigCommerce
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

by BigCommerce
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

by BigCommerce
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

by BigCommerce
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

by BigCommerce
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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Storefront API
Announcement
Enhancement