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POS UI extensions 2026-07 uses per-unit fixed-amount line item discounts
Starting with POS UI extensions API version 2026-07, FixedAmount line item discounts passed to setLineItemDiscount and bulkSetLineItemDiscounts from the Cart API must represent a per-unit discount.
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Object metadata column is now in Public Preview
The _object_metadata column is now in Public Preview. The _object_metadata column is a hidden metadata column that exposes object-level properties for objects in cloud storage, including MIME type, ETag, user-defined key-value metadata, system-defined metadata, and object tags. It is available starting from Databricks Runtime 18.1.
Genie products now use pay-as-you-go pricing
Starting July 8, 2026 at 00:00 UTC, Genie products, including Genie Agents , Genie Code , and Genie One , are billed following a pay-as-you-go pricing model that includes 150 Databricks units (DBUs) of free large language model (LLM) usage every month, equivalent to about $10.50 in the US East region.
Google Gemini 2.5 Flash and Pro are scheduled for retirement
Google Gemini 2.5 Flash and Gemini 2.5 Pro will be retired on October 2, 2026. The recommended replacement models are Gemini 3.1 Pro or Gemini 3.5 Flash. See Deprecated and retired models for migration guidance.
Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4 is scheduled for retirement
Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4 will be retired on October 9, 2026. Claude Sonnet 4.6 is the recommended replacement. See Deprecated and retired models for migration guidance.
Restrict access to AI Functions with Unity Catalog permissions (Public Preview)
You can now use Unity Catalog permissions to restrict which task-specific AI Functions your organization can access, independent of foundation model access. Contact your account team to enable this feature. See AI Functions Unity Catalog permissions .
Genie Agents now uses pay-as-you-go pricing
Starting July 8, 2026 at 00:00 UTC, Genie Agents is billed following a pay-as-you-go pricing model that includes 150 DBUs of free large language model (LLM) usage every month, equivalent to about $10.50 in the US East region. Usage beyond the free amount is billed in DBUs, reflecting the underlying LLM models and agents that power each Genie Agents session.
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POS Extensions now supports a background extension target
The pos.app.ready.data target runs for the entire POS session, letting your extension observe POS events and run background logic without rendering any UI surface. Use it for event observation, data storage, and calling non-visual background APIs.
Identity verification for Shopify Partners starts today
Trust is foundational to the Shopify Partner ecosystem. Partners take actions across Shopify that can directly affect merchants, and merchants need confidence when granting access to their stores.
Hydrogen developer preview update: July 8, 2026
The Hydrogen developer preview adds new capabilities to the toolkit and extends the ways developers can build Shopify storefronts: Storefront API caching for catalog data: Cache products, collections, and pages at the edge instead of hitting the Storefront API on every request.
App Pricing: more plans, no-charge plan testing, and negative and fractional App Events
We’ve made several updates to App Pricing: Increased plan limits: You can now create up to 8 public plans (previously 4) and 15 private plans (previously 10) per app.
Prepare your app for migration to Shopify App Pricing
Developers using the Billing API can now begin preparing their apps to move to Shopify App Pricing. The first part of our migration tool lets you generate, review, edit, and test Shopify App Pricing plans before moving any existing merchant subscriptions.
Shopify Flow: Changes to Action extensions result in fewer breaking changes
Your server-side code now has more control over how breaking changes to an action’s configuration fields are handled. Instead of failing validation when there’s a field mismatch, workflows that use older versions of an action will continue to execute, and Shopify will still send the request to the configured endpoint URL.
Shopify Flow: Action runtime URLs now update automatically
Shopify Flow now resolves an action’s runtime_url on every execution. When the runtime_url is changed and the app is redeployed, the new URL is automatically used by existing workflows the next time they run. Merchants no longer need to edit or re-save their workflows to use the updated URL.
Updated App Store Requirements: 1.3 Always Use Honest and Transparent Review Practices
All apps published to Shopify’s App Store are subject to policy 1.3 “Always use honest and transparent review practices”. What’s changing: The Shopify App Store requirements policy 1.3 further clarifies our enforcement on the existing Partner Program Agreement Section C.2.1 about reviews in Shopify’s App Store.