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Liquid templates can now compose pages with blocks and partials
The Liquid July ’26 developer preview introduces a simpler way to build theme pages. Page structure can live directly in a Liquid template, where developers and coding agents can read and edit everything in one place. The peview adds two Liquid tags: {% block %} renders a reusable theme block directly from a template.
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CoCo Desktop - General availability
CoCo Desktop is now generally available. CoCo Desktop is a native Mac and Windows desktop application that brings CoCo’s full agentic capabilities into an IDE-like surface, with a file editor, integrated terminal, agentic AI loop, agentic browser, agentic notebook, and deep Snowflake awareness.
Consuming Delta Shares in Horizon Catalog (General availability)
Snowflake builds for interoperability. Horizon Catalog is the metadata hub for your entire data estate, giving every team a single, unified window into every data asset regardless of where it lives or what format it uses. Today we expand that commitment. Consuming Delta Shares as a Catalog Linked Database in Horizon Catalog is now generally available.
Tag-based data protection policies (Public Preview)
Tag-based policy support is now available in public preview for aggregation policies, row access policies, projection policies, and join policies. This feature allows you to assign data protection policies to tags, automatically protecting any objects that have the tag assigned to them.
Warehouse-level statement timeouts (Beta)
You can now set a statement timeout on a single SQL warehouse so that different warehouses can apply different timeouts to their queries. Set the timeout with the statement_timeout field in the Create or Update warehouse APIs. This feature is in Beta and is API-only. See Warehouse-level timeout .
Reddit Ads connector is now available in Beta
The managed Reddit Ads connector in Lakeflow Connect is now available in Beta. You can use the connector to ingest advertising campaign data and performance metrics from Reddit Ads into Databricks. See Reddit Ads connector .
Context-based ingress control for workspaces public access is now generally available
Context-based ingress control for workspaces public access is now generally available. Control who can reach your workspace endpoints using allow and deny rules that allow you to combine identities, network sources, and request types. See Context-based ingress control .
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Metafield triggers and additional topics are now available for Events
Apps can now subscribe to events for Order , Collection , InventoryItem , InventoryShipment , Location , and can subscribe to metafield changes on Product , Order , Customer , Collection and Location . ProductVariant metafields are supported through the Product topic. This gives apps a precise way to react to more objects and custom data changes.
Full-stack capabilities to power app analytics
For app developers, building merchant-facing analytics has always meant standing up your own stack: a charting library, a data warehouse to sync merchant data into, handling currencies and locales, and a UI that never quite matched the Shopify admin.
Invalid metafield queries now return errors in the GraphQL Admin API
Starting in API version 2026-10, the GraphQL Admin API returns an error when a query filters by a metafield that isn't set up for filtering, instead of silently returning incorrect results. This is a breaking change. It affects apps that filter resources by metafield on version 2026-10 or later, and you'll need to update affected queries before you upgrade.
Physical inventory feature preview
The physical inventory feature preview gives you early access to a new set of inventory APIs in the unstable version of the GraphQL Admin API. Enable it on a development store to build and test against the core primitives merchants use to organize a stockroom: bins, counts, and purchase orders.
Card deposit endpoint now requires mTLS certificate
Shopify's card-deposit endpoint now requires a Shopify-issued mTLS client certificate. Apps that store cardholder data with the customerPaymentMethodCreditCardCreate and customerPaymentMethodCreditCardUpdate GraphQL Admin API mutations must first deposit that data at Shopify's /sessions card-deposit endpoint to receive a session identifier.
POS UI extensions can now print directly to hardware receipt printers
POS UI Extensions 2026-07 introduces the Printing API ( shopify.printing ), which enables extensions to discover hardware printers with getPrinters() and send documents directly to a connected receipt printer with print() . The Printing API supersedes shopify.print , which is now deprecated.
SubscriptionContractCalculation API now available in early access
The new SubscriptionContractCalculation object on the GraphQL Admin API is now available in early access on the 2026-10 release candidate API version. It's the successor to the GraphQL Admin API's SubscriptionDraft object for creating, updating, and editing subscription contracts, replacing the multi-step draft workflow with a stateless calculate → poll →...
Updated App Store requirements: 4.1.2 Use a unique name for your app
Your app's name is what merchants use to discover, identify, and remember your app. We've added requirement 4.1.2, "Use a unique name for your app," to reduce merchant confusion over identical and copycat app names in Shopify’s App Store. We know that changing an app name isn't easy , it affects your brand, your discoverability, and your existing merchants.