Release notes

API

• Storefront GraphQL Carts & Checkout is now available. The API Reference is included in the GraphQL Storefront API Reference.

• Added a GraphQL query example for listing brands by popularity.

WordPress

• Added additional WordPress Troubleshooting documentation.

API

• Updated maximum inventory levels in the Inventory and Catalog APIs

WordPress

• Added additional BigCommerce for WordPress Troubleshooting documentation.

Theme

• Added limits to the banners object.

6.11.0

• Reverted fix for sold-out badge appearance. #2354

• If the gift is a variant, the button "Change" shows in the cart, and other variants are visible. #2349

• Removes URL encoding from the 'description' in the product-rich snippet schema. #2350

• Running the Lighthouse npm script fails in the terminal. #2345

• Removed accelerated checkout integration. #2341

• Added CSS classes for ApplePay Button. #2344

• Added styling config for the Bolt smart payment button. #2356

• Remove default whitespace from multiline input. #2355

• Refresh the page if there are no more items in the cart. #2360

API

• Added date created filter on the Store Logs API.

• Added Inventory and Locations Webhooks for Buy Online, Pick up in Store

Announcement

BigCommerce is preparing to deprecate our current SASS compiler, node-sass fork, in favor of the more modern node-sass, which will allow us to support the latest versions of Node (Node 18) in Stencil CLI.

BigCommerce is sunsetting node-sass on 11/1/2023. This deprecation means that after this date, your live storefront will run into styling issues if these issues are not addressed.

To ensure your storefront is up to date, please do the following:

• Using the latest version of Stencil CLI, run the stencil bundle command to validate your theme’s code and note any errors in the console output.

  • stencil bundle

• For a majority of issues, we have supplied an option to run a script that will update your files with the correct formatting. This option can be done by running the following:

  • To see what changes will be made without actually changing/saving said changes, we have created a dry run option.

    • stencil -scss-autofix.js --dry

  • To make the changes and revalidate, run the following:

    • stencil -scss-autofix.js

    • stencil bundle

  • You can test your site after making these changes to ensure there are no visual regressions. You can run stencil start as usual to preview the site.

  • If everything looks good, you can run stencil push (or follow your normal theme deployment workflow) to push the changes live to your storefront.

API

• Added should_subtract_store_tax field to Tax Settings API for tax-inclusive price calculations.

• Updated the list of available protected UI sections for channel menus.

• Added limit information for html field to Script API endpoints.

• Added User scopes to API Accounts & OAuth Scopes.

Stencil

• Added EarlyHint handlebar helper to the Handlebars Helpers Reference.

API

• Added a 400 error code to Get all customer groups and Delete a customer group endpoints.

• We’ve rewritten our article on the Scripts API to better support upcoming product releases. 

Stencil

• B2B Edition, formerly BundleB2B, released its new Buyer Portal framework last week. We’ve extensively revised our article on B2B Edition for Stencil to clarify the differences.

Announcements

• We’re excited to announce that we’ve split the Catalog API spec file into seven parts: Brands, Categories, Category Trees, Products, Product Modifiers, Product Variants, and Product Variant Options. This split should solve performance issues, as the old file was > 27k lines. This change also moves the Catalog API into its own section of the menu. We plan to delete the old spec file in two weeks. We welcome your feedback through our feedback collector in the lower right corner of the site or through any of our Dev Community channels.

• We’ve also reorganized the Payments API files. Each Payments endpoint is now its own file. We chose to handle spec parsing issues that obscured the correct payment processing server and authentication mechanism. This change also clarifies the Payments API section of the menu.

API

• Deprecated the Get Events endpoint.

• Deprecated the events_history_enabled field in the Create a Webhook and Update a Webhook endpoints.

Developer Blog

• BigCommerce Launches Three Major Enhancements to B2B Edition

Stencil

• Added the Incompatible Directives article. This article covers the known divergent behavior and describes how to avoid unexpected compiler errors until the node-sass fork sunsets.

API

• Updated Orders V2 to support the limit parameter for the DELETE all orders endpoint.

• Data Solutions is now available. The API reference is included in the GraphQL Admin API reference.

• Added show_pre_order_stock_levels and show_out_of_stock_message fields to Inventory Settings in the Settings API and GraphQL Storefront API.

• Added assignVar handlebars helpers limit of 50 unique keys.

• The Apps Quick Start article now provides instructions to configure your app’s remove_user callback. 

• Pages V2 is officially deprecated. If you haven’t switched to Pages V3, now is the time!

• Updated the About our APIs article, including a note that our response headers are case-insensitive.

• Updated the Catalog API. We’re excited about the upcoming changes to make the Catalog specification more pull request friendly. See the following bigcommerce/api-specs pull requests:

  • PR 1275

  • PR 1267

  • PR 1259

Announcement

Added new Stencil videos to the Additional resources sections in the following articles:

• Live Previewing a Theme

• Localization Tutorial

• Using Translation keys

• Defining Global Styles

• Stencil Technology Stack

• Transitioning to Stencil