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Stencil Announcement for April 27, 2023

Stencil Added the Incompatible Directives article. This article covers the known divergent behavior and describes how to avoid unexpected compiler errors until the node-sass fork sunsets.

API Announcement for April 13, 2023

Announcement Added new Stencil videos to the Additional resources sections in the following articles: Live Previewing a Theme Localization Tutorial Using Translation keys Defining Global Styles Stencil Technology Stack Transitioning

API Updates and Announcements for February 2, 2023

API Added new endpoints (Get all metafields, Create a cart metafield, Get a cart metafield, Update a cart metafield, Delete a metafield) to the Carts API. Stencil Added getPageByGQL to the Stencil Utils documentation. WordPress Added

API Updates & Announcement for December 15, 2022

Announcement Added documentation on StagingPro, which provides a full-service sandbox, testing, staging, and CI/CD solution for Enterprise-level BigCommerce stores. Stencil Updated stencil start logging options with —verbose to enable

API Update & Announcement for July 28, 2022

API Added the external_order_id field to the Orders API. Stencil We've added new custom handlebar helpers for get, getObject, moment, and option to replace the corresponding standard helpers. The new custom handlebar helpers are backward

Node 12 End-of-life on April 30th

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

Change to number of product images returned in Stencil home page resources on April 15

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

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

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