Aurora

Added

• Important: added animations to the text content and images in many theme sections and blocks, you can turn them on and off in Theme settings > Appearance
• Important: added compatibility with Shopify's upgraded accelerated checkout buttons
• Important: added the option to 'Sign in with Shop' in classic customer accounts for Shopify's Shop app users
• Added collection recommendations for the empty cart drawer
• Added small teasers to all popups that appear after the popup is closed, and you can separately adjust its look on desktop and mobile
• Added consent checkbox settings to the sections, blocks, and popups with email input to improve your store's GDPR compliance
• Added the new layout 'Side' for the cart page and its blocks; note that this change may potentially affect your current cart page layout, so make sure to check the changes after the update
• Added the country search bar for the currency selectors, it shows when the country count is more than 16
• Added payment icons to the 'Buttons' and 'Subtotal' blocks of the cart page
• Added the 'Background style' setting to the 'Subtotal' block of the cart page
• Added the option to show checkout buttons in the 'Subtotal' block of the cart page and apply the block's style to them, best for the new 'Side' cart page layout
• Added 'Promo banner' blocks to the 'Featured product' section and the product page
• Added payment icons to the 'Buy buttons' block in the 'Featured product' section and the product page
• Added the 'Discount code' field to the countdown banner as well as the 'In-cart banner' and 'Countdown timer' blocks of the cart drawer and the cart page
• Added the new filtering option to the 'Price' category in filters: you can now use input fields alongside the scale to set the price range and view the currency for the filtered price
• Added the option to color the product rating stars on the product page and the product cards

Changed

• Changed the behavior of quick buy buttons on product cards to create a cleaner look; note that this change may potentially affect your current quick buy buttons on product cards, so make sure to check them after the update

Fixes and other improvements

• Fixed the breadcrumbs on the product page when accessed from the search page or drawer
• Fixed the filtering by vendor on the product page if the vendor's name has special characters
• Fixed the display of swatches in dropdown variant pickers on the product page
• Fixed the display of swatches in all variant pickers of the 'Product siblings' block on the product page
• Fixed the resizing of the sticky 'Add to cart' button on mobile
• Fixed the behavior of currency selectors in Safari
• Fixed the video controls on mobile for the videos among product media
• Multiple minor design changes throughout the theme

Added

• Added the 'Disable lazy loading' setting to the banner sections: turn it on if the section comes first on the page to increase your store performance
• Added the 'Enable video controls' setting for the media on the product page and the 'Featured product' section
• Added a slight animation to the blocks of the 'Hotspots' section

Changed

• Changed the layout of the 'Add to cart' and dynamic checkout buttons in the 'Featured product' section and on the product page back to one-column due to the unpredictable rendering of the one-row layout

Removed

• Important: Removed the theme's 'Cookie banner' popup in favor of Shopify's native and more flexible cookie banner.

Fixes and other improvements

• Fixed the flickering header menu on iPads
• Fixed the header menu items not opening on tap with large touchscreens
• Fixed the cropped video controls for the product media on iPhones
• Fixed the classic pagination on 'Collection' and 'Search' pages
• Fixed the unclickable area on product cards that appeared due to the quick-buy buttons
• Fixed the rendering of the 'Grid with horizontal cards' layout in the 'In-cart related products' block
• Fixed the behavior of the 'Testimonials' section when adding a background image
• Fixed the behavior of product cards in the search drawer on iPhones
• Fixed the behavior of the sticky 'Add to cart' button when zoomed on mobile devices
• Fixed the side paddings for product cards on the collection page
• Fixed the scrolling of product media when there is an external video among the media
• Fixed the display of cards in the 'Recently viewed' section with the global 'Color card background' setting turned on
• Multiple minor design and localization improvements

Added

• Important: Added support for empty filter values. To return to the previous theme settings, go to Settings > Filters > Empty values in the Search & Discovery App and choose 'Hide'
• Added the setting to turn on/off the sticky 'Add to cart' button on mobile

Changed

• Important: Changed the animation of carousel autoplay throughout the theme to improve performance
• Changed the naming of the 'One-at-a-time' autoplay mode to 'Classic'

Fixes and other improvements

• Fixed the display of Shopify's dynamic checkout buttons on the cart page
• Fixed the navigation for the long menu dropdown that doesn't fit into the screen
• Fixed the display of product badges for variants on the product page
• Fixed the header menu dropdown unintentional closing on hover
• Fixed the behavior of product media on the product page when the dynamic sticky header is turned on
• Multiple minor design changes throughout the theme