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Build App Home as a UI extension

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App Home UI extensions are available for custom-distribution apps starting in API version 2026-07 . They let you build your app's App Home page as a Shopify-hosted Preact UI extension using the admin.app.home.render target, so lightweight apps can ship a primary admin workspace without hosting a separate web app.

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Protect apps in the new app builder

Live on cloud • Enterprise Public beta Apps created with the new app builder can now be protected and checked into your chosen Source Control Manager (SCM). Source Control lets organizations manage changes using remote SCM providers GitHub, GitLab, AWS CodeCommit, Bitbucket, and Azure Repos.

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App quality checks now managed in Partner Dashboard

The end-to-end review management experience previously launched for new app submissions in the Partner Dashboard now also applies to app audits. When a published app undergoes a quality check and requires changes, that feedback appears in the Partner Dashboard under App > Distribution.

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Local currency support gift cards now available in the GraphQL Admin API

Starting in API version 2026-07 , the GraphQL Admin API supports local currency gift cards. You can create gift card products that are issued in a specific currency, and control whether buyers can redeem those gift cards across currencies. If your app creates gift cards directly, migrate from the deprecated initialValue field to initialAmount .

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Customize /llms.txt, /llms-full.txt and /agents.md

Your store includes a default agents.md file accessible at /agents.md . The paths /llms.txt and /llms-full.txt also point to this content by default. Add any of the following templates under Online Store > Themes > Edit code to serve different content per path: templates/agents.md.liquid , controls /agents.md (and the default for the other two paths)...

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Next Generation Events now available in developer preview

Next Generation Events are now available in developer preview. Events give you field-level control over when a subscription fires, what data it carries, and what triggers each delivery, fixing three common friction points faced with traditional webhooks: over-delivery, fixed payloads, and no built-in signal for what changed.

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Headless checkout SSO is now documented with sso=silent

We’ve updated our headless checkout authentication docs to refer to the silent single sign-on query parameter as sso=silent instead of logged_in=true . This is a terminology and documentation update only. Existing checkout URLs that use logged_in=true will continue to work.

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