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Remove your app from the Shopify App Store yourself
You can now start sunsetting your app and remove it from the Shopify App Store yourself, from the Partner Dashboard. You no longer need to contact Shopify Support. What's new In the Partner Dashboard, go to Apps > your app > Distribution , and click Remove from App Store . Choose a sunset date at least 30 days from now.
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Genie ZeroOps is available in Beta
Genie ZeroOps is now in beta, providing automated monitoring for jobs, pipelines, and tables. It detects failures and data quality issues, investigates root causes, and proposes fixes.
You can track table-level data lineage in Knowledge Catalog for BigQuery pipelines
You can track table-level data lineage in Knowledge Catalog for BigQuery pipelines. For more information, see Track data lineage . This feature is generally available (GA).
BigQuery generative AI functions now support the gemini-4-hydrogen model
BigQuery generative AI functions now support the gemini-4-hydrogen model. This model is generally available .
Amazon Aurora and RDS now support Graviton5-based R9g database instances
AWS Graviton5-based R9g database instances are now generally available for Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility and MySQL compatibility, and for Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB.
[In preview] Public Preview: SQL performance monitoring for Azure SQL Managed Instance
The public preview of Microsoft-managed performance monitoring for Azure SQL Managed Instance is now available. Customers monitoring business-critical SQL Managed Instance workloads often rely on custom scripts and disconnected monitoring tools. This requ
Gemini Enterprise: Gemini 4 Hydrogen available in web app, mobile app, Workflow Builder, and AI developer tools
Gemini 4 Hydrogen is generally available (GA) for the Gemini Enterprise web app, mobile app, Workflow Builder, and AI developer tools. Location availability : Supported in global , us , and eu multi-regions, with data residency and ML processing support in us and eu . For more information, see Data residency for Gemini Enterprise .
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IP allowlists are now required for custom apps installed outside your organization
We're enhancing protection of merchants by requiring IP allowlists for custom apps, if those apps are installed on stores outside of the organization that owns them. Starting November 20, 2026 at 11:59 PM ET: Apps must have an IP allowlist for new installs. Starting January 1, 2027 at 11:59 PM ET: Allowlists are required for existing installs.
App IP allowlists now support IP addresses and ASNs together, and up to 250 IPs
Your app's IP allowlist in the Dev Dashboard can now include IP addresses and autonomous system numbers (ASNs) in the same allowlist. This helps apps whose requests come from a mix of static and dynamic IP addresses. You can also now configure up to 250 IP addresses or ranges, up from 100.
Storefront MCP policies and FAQs tool is being deprecated in favor of UCP MCP Ask tool
The search_shop_policies_and_faqs tool is deprecated in favor of the UCP Ask MCP tool. Developers must migrate to the ask_business tool by January 15, 2027.
Customer data erasure requests updated from 10 days to 5
As of November 10, 2026, customer data erasure requests will no longer be held in a pending state for 10 days. Erasure requests will now be processed 5 days after the request was submitted, regardless of when the customer's most recent order was placed.
Shopify App Store submission requirements: build, grow, then expand
Shopify has updated its App Store submission policies, requiring existing apps to have at least 10 installs on full-priced stores before listing additional apps. It also introduced escalating cooldown periods for rejected submissions.
Redesigned Partner Directory with profiles built on Shopify data
The Shopify Partner Directory has been redesigned. We've made it easier for merchants to explore and evaluate Partners based on a definitive, Shopify-confirmed record of their work, while making profiles easier for Partners to maintain.
Partner apps must enable bulk operations before use
Apps must now explicitly enable access to bulk queries or mutations in the Partner Dashboard to use them with the GraphQL Admin API. Unauthorized requests will return an access denied error.
Apps must enable bulk operations before use
Apps must now explicitly enable access to bulk queries or mutations in the Partner Dashboard to use them with the GraphQL Admin API. Unauthorized requests will return an access denied error.