Dev Center Updates

The qty_in_cart property is removed from the Stencil Common Product Card object

by BigCommerce
As part of an effort to improve the performance of BigCommerce storefronts, the qtyincart property is no longer supported on the Stencil Common Product Card Model. This property will return 0 from now on, and its use is discouraged. The...
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Inventory levels are no longer returned in Stencil context based on settings

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Inventory Levels will no longer be returned in the Stencil context data if your store's Inventory settings are set to "Don't show Stock Levels". Previously, this setting would only hide the stock levels on individual product pages...
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Bug Fix

TLS 1.2+ required for API connections beginning October 31, 2020

by BigCommerce
BigCommerce will be deprecating the use of Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.1 on October 31, 2020 and customers will be required to utilize TLS versions 1.2 or greater. Any access to services that currently rely on TLS 1.1 or older will...
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Stencil-utils versions below 2.0.0 are deprecated

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As of stencil-utils 2.0.0, the storefront API which returns the status of the cookie notification feature was removed: https://github.com/bigcommerce/cornerstone/pull/1380 This API is now deprecated, and will return a hardcoded...
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Required stencil-cli version is now 2.0.0

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As of August 11, 2020, the required stencil-CLI version for local development is now 2.0.0. To update to the latest version of stencil-cli, simply run npm install -g @bigcommerce/stencil-cli. We recommend using the latest Node 10.x...
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Per-Device Image Resizing based on user agent has been disabled; use srcset

by BigCommerce
As of August 11, 2020, the BigCommerce CDN will no longer downscale the resolution of images when it detects that an end user is shopping from a mobile device with a small screen. In order to make sure that file size & quality is...
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Cart Suggestions removed from Stencil context Cart model

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As of June 16, the ability to request a list of suggested products relevant to the user's current shopping cart has been removed. If this information is requested using Front Matter or a stencil-utils call, it will not be returned. This...
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API & Theme Updates for May 7, 2020

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API New Themes configuration endpoints now available Clarified documentation to note store/cart/abandoned will fire whether or not a store has the Abandoned Cart Saver feature enabled. GET Customers V3 endpoint includes new sort...
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API and Theme Updates, April 16, 2020

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API Updated Payments API sample app diagram Adyen removed from list of providers compatible with Payments API BigCommerce for Wordpress New article Multi-Channel Capabilities with Wordpress Theme %%GLOBALTrackingLink_List%% variable...
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