Release notes

Coming Soon: New Redesigned BigCommerce Dev Center

We are planning to launch our updated DevCenter on Friday, March 3, 2023. We are on track with our updates, but decided to perform additional testing to ensure the best possible developer experience. Our commitment to providing the best developer resources and support continues, and we're confident these changes will help you build even more amazing things on the BigCommerce platform. We will keep you posted about the launch!

Coming Soon: New Redesigned BigCommerce Dev Center

We are excited to share that the new Dev Center's launch date is March 1, 2023. The dev center will have a fresh look and feel with a slightly modified architecture. We will share additional details regarding the improvements before the launch date.

Coming Soon: New Redesigned BigCommerce Dev Center

We are excited to share that we will launch a new Dev Center in the coming weeks. We aim to make it simple to find documentation and resources that empower you to think creatively and work collaboratively to develop innovative solutions for BigCommerce stores. Over the next several weeks, we’ll post more information on the official launch date.

Developer Blog

• BigCommerce Developers Community Update: We’re On Youtube!

• Recap: Multi-Location Inventory Ask Me Anything

API

• Added new endpoints (Get all metafields, Create a cart metafield, Get a cart metafield, Update a cart metafield, Delete a metafield) to the Carts API.

Stencil

• Added getPageByGQL to the Stencil Utils documentation.

WordPress

• Added current OAuth scope defaults to BC4WP Setup. For more information, see Getting your API credentials.

Theme

6.8.0

• Webpack 5, Node 18 Support. #2311

• Removed all Google AMP template files. #2308

• Refactored hide_price_from_guests logic around show_cart_action. #2304

• Removed non-working functionality from schema.json. #2301

• Bump Stencil Utils to 6.13.0. #2300

• Added integration of storefront-account-payments lib. #2288

• Fixed PDP not respecting "quantity box" display settings. #2291

• Added manual captcha to Contact Us form for additional spam protection. #2290

• Fixed en-CA translation warning in the terminal. #2278

• Set the "Show quick payment buttons" setting to true by default. #2283

• Add remote_api_scripts into the cart/preview template to let GA3 snippet to fire the Product Added event when clicking the Add to cart button on the product detail page and rendering the response in a popup. #2281

Payments

• Added Mercado Pago to the list of compatible payment gateways for raw card data.

API

• GraphQL Storefront API returns query complexity inside the response header.

• Added a maximum limit of 10 customers in one call for the Create Customers endpoint.

Announcement

• Deprecated Google AMP support from theme object schemas.

Partners

• Added Big Open Data Layer for Storefront Analytics documentation.

Developer Blog

• Wallet Buttons on Product Detail Page

Payments

• Added Bank of New Zealand (BNZ) to the list of compatible payment gateways for both stored instruments and raw card data.

API

• Shipping providers receive custom shipping address form fields when BigCommerce requests rates. See Developer Documentation for more information.  

• Updated Get All Price List Records limit for a simultaneous in-flight request to 10.

• The Get All Widgets by search endpoint is deprecated and the documentation is no longer available.

• Tax Rates and Zones are now a publicly available API endpoint. See Developer Documentation for more information. 

• Added new endpoints (Get Inventory Settings and Update Inventory Settings) to the Settings API.

Announcement

• Added documentation on StagingPro, which provides a full-service sandbox, testing, staging, and CI/CD solution for Enterprise-level BigCommerce stores.

Stencil

• Updated stencil start logging options with —verbose to enable logging of internal successful API calls in Stencil CLI. 

API

• Updated Price List Assignment batch limit to 25.

Developer Blog 

• Staging by StagingPro Now Available on BigCommerce

• BOPIS (Buy Online Pickup In Store) APIs now Available in Open Beta

• Interview with BigCommerce’s Developer Community Manager Heather Barr: A Twitter Space Recap