Hydrogen developer preview update: August 18, 2026
PreviewUnverifiedAdded Sep 24, 2026
The Hydrogen developer preview adds new capabilities to the toolkit and extends the ways developers can build Shopify storefronts: Cart session attribution: Carts and Customer Account sessions stay in step, so signed-in shoppers reach checkout with their saved details instead of a guest flow.
Topics: Observability, Developer tools, Performance
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| Aug 19 | App intents on `admin.app.intent.link` now open as a full-page navigationunverified Update | Update |
| Aug 24 | Script tags are deprecated and will stop running on March 1, 2027unverified Deprecation | Deprecation |
| Aug 25 | Oxygen is now available on trial plan storesunverified Update | Update |
| Aug 26 | Four additional topics are now available for Eventsunverified Update | Update |
| Aug 26 | Build Shopify apps in PHP and Python with new official packagesunverified GA | GA |
| Aug 26 | GitHub commits now name the last theme editorunverified Update | Update |
| Aug 10 | Shop Campaigns performance data now available via ShopifyQLunverified Update | Update |
| Aug 27 | Password Protected Shop Dev flows on Shopify Theme CLI v3.83.x and older to be deprecatedunverified Deprecation | Deprecation |
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