Shopify Changelog, Grouped and Searchable

Every change Shopify has made to the platform, newest first, grouped by month and filterable by what it touches. 180 entries here out of 783 published, read from Shopify's own changelog feed on 14 September 2026.

Shopify ships changes constantly and announces them in one place, which is good, except that the place is a JavaScript application that shows a handful of entries at a time and offers no way to scan a quarter. If you have ever tried to work out when a field was deprecated, or what changed between two API versions, you know the problem. This is the same content in a form you can read and search.

Most of what appears here is for developers, and it says so: an API version, a webhook, a GraphQL field. Some of it reaches merchants directly, usually under themes, products or checkout. The topic label on each entry is matched on the words the entry itself uses, so you can filter down to the part of Shopify you actually run.

Every entry links to Shopify's own note, which is the authoritative version and usually carries the migration detail this summary does not. Nothing on this page is our opinion about what a change means. It is Shopify's announcement, sorted so you can find it.

September 2026 (6)

  • Discounts Allocator Function API developer preview has ended
    10 Sep 2026 · Products and variants
    The Discounts Allocator Function API, available only through the Discounts Allocator developer preview, has been removed and won't be released.
  • Create and delete dev stores in Shopify CLI
    9 Sep 2026 · Themes and storefront
    Shopify CLI 4.8 adds shopify store commands that let you create and manage dev stores from your terminal or coding agent.
  • Variants now support multiple barcodes
    8 Sep 2026 · Products and variants
    Merchants often sell the same variant under more than one identifier: a manufacturer UPC alongside a private-label EAN, a GTIN, a reissued ISBN, or an ASIN for a marketplace listing.
  • Customer Address APIs now support countryCode
    8 Sep 2026 · Admin and APIs
    Starting with Customer Account API version 2026-10, customer address inputs and objects support countryCode .
  • Shopify storefronts now support UCP 2026-08-25
    4 Sep 2026 · Themes and storefront
    Shopify storefronts now advertise support for Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) version 2026-08-25 in their discovery profiles at /.well-known/ucp .
  • Hydrogen developer preview update: September 2, 2026
    3 Sep 2026 · Products and variants
    The Hydrogen developer preview adds new capabilities to the toolkit and extends the ways developers can build Shopify storefronts: Variant links: Links that name a variant, like the ones Shopify submits to a Google Shopping feed, now open on that variant inste

August 2026 (18)

July 2026 (42)

June 2026 (39)

May 2026 (24)

April 2026 (50)

March 2026 (1)

How to use a changelog without reading all of it

Search the thing you own. If you run a theme, search "theme" or "liquid". If you sell configurable products, search "variant" or "metafield". Most entries will not apply to you and that is the normal state of a platform changelog.

Watch for the word deprecated. That is the only category with a deadline attached. Everything else is something you may adopt; a deprecation is something that will stop working whether you adopt it or not.

Check the API version, not the date. Shopify ships quarterly API versions and a change announced in one month usually lands in a version named after another. The official note carries the version; this summary does not.

An app you installed may be affected before you are. Most platform changes reach a merchant through an app that has to update for them rather than directly, which is why an app going quiet after a Shopify release is worth a support message rather than a reinstall.

Source: shopify.dev/changelog, read on 14 September 2026. Newest entry here is dated 10 September 2026. Shopify's note is the authoritative version of every one of these.