API Updates and Announcements for February 2, 2023

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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
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API Updates & Announcement for December 15, 2022

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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
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API Update & Announcement for July 28, 2022

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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
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Node 12 End-of-life on April 30th

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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

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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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API Updates and Announcements for February 24, 2022

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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
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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
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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
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Required Stencil-CLI version set to 3.5.0

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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
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