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Improved concurrency handling in the Cart AJAX API and Storefront Cart GraphQL API
As of October 10, 2025, the Cart AJAX API and Storefront Cart GQL API now processes simultaneous requests. For example, when sending two cart add requests at the same time, the Cart AJAX API executes both requests. Previously, the Cart AJAX and GraphQL APIs were inconsistent in handling concurrent requests. This sometimes resulted in requests being dropped.
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AI-Powered User Feedback Summary and Categories in Open Beta
With the new AI-generated Feedback Summary, you’ll see a concise overview of your feedback trends, highlighting 2–3 recurring themes so you can quickly understand what users are saying, without reading every comment.
AI Crawl Control - New Robots.txt tab for tracking crawler compliance
AI Crawl Control now includes a Robots.txt tab that provides insights into how AI crawlers interact with your robots.txt files. What's new The Robots.txt tab allows you to: Monitor the health status of robots.txt files across all your hostnames, including HTTP status codes, and identify hostnames that need a robots.txt file.
Next.js 16 is ready to deploy on Netlify
The Next.js 16 release is here and Netlify is ready. Deploy the latest version, including Turbopack, React Compiler, and enhanced caching APIs, with zero configuration.
Enforce Git-based workflows for production deploys
Now you can require all production deploys to go through a Git-based workflow. When enabled in your project settings, this setting prevents: Accidental production publishes from the Netlify CLI, MCP server, or API Promoting Deploy Previews or branch deploys to production through the Netlify UI This ensures that both team members and AI agents follow your...
Favorite data sources
Finding the right data source among dozens of similar options wastes precious time and disrupts your workflow. As Grafana instances grow, data source discovery becomes increasingly frustrating. Favorite data sources solves this with a simple star icon ⭐️ which is available in the data source picker and when editing a data source.
Web Vitals Metrics Collection
Description: Collect web vitals metrics (INP, FCP, LCP, CLS) as Amplitude events. Analyze this data to get insights into your web site's performance and SEO ranking. Just set autocapture.webVitals = true (or autocapture=true ) in the latest SDK version (>= 2.27.0) and our SDK will start capturing Web Vitals data.
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New: Unlisted Product Status
UNLISTED is available as a new product status value in the 2025-10 GraphQL Admin API and REST Admin APIs, as well as in the Webhooks API. The Unlisted status hides products from store search and recommendations (including collections), all sales channels, internet searches and Shopify Catalog , while still allowing access via a direct URL.
Updated online store promotion app store requirement
Effective Wednesday, November 5th, 2025, the following requirement for the online store has been revised: Your app must not use theme app extensions or blocks to promote your app, promote related apps, or request reviews.
New `notify` parameter available on the `storeCreditAccountCredit` mutation
The storeCreditAccountCredit mutation now includes an optional notify parameter. When this parameter is set to true , the account owner will receive a "store credit issued" email notification. If the parameter is not provided, no email will be sent. To enable email notifications, you must explicitly set this flag to true .
New ACH support for deferred payments
The 2026-01 Admin GraphQL API introduces support for ACH payment methods, enabling merchants to accept and manage bank account-based payments through Shopify Payments. This means new types of PaymentInstrument and CustomerPaymentInstrument are now available for B2B company locations, supporting payment terms and draft orders.
Increased limits in metafield and metaobject definitions
We've increased the limits for metafield and metaobject definitions, providing you with more flexibility when building custom data structures for your apps and stores. For app developers : Each app has its own allocation, so apps aren't competing with each other for definition space.
Optional location inputs for inventory transfers
You can now create inventory transfers without specifying an origin or destination location. Previously, the InventoryTransferCreateAsReadyToShip mutation required both origin and destination location IDs. Now, these inputs are optional. This change supports workflows where the transfer's origin or destination is unknown at creation time.
POS UI extensions: Developer experience Improvements
We’ve released a major update to POS UI extensions, aimed at reducing friction and speeding up your workflow. Key improvements include: Hot reloading improvements: We've made hot reloading faster and smoother. Code changes appear on your POS test device instantly without flickering.
The product variant limit is now 2048 for all merchants
It is now possible for all Shopify merchants to create products with up to 2,048 variants in Shopify, exceeding our historical variant limit of 100. Please note that merchants using apps that are not using the in-support GraphQL product APIs may have a downgraded or broken experience when creating or viewing products with more than 100 variants.