Emerge

Added

• New "Accent 3" color option, giving you more ways to style highlights, backgrounds, and text across your theme.
• New Footer bar section with customizable blocks for localization, payment icons, social icons, and more.
• New Image with text overlay section for creative layouts.

Changed

• Footer has a new "Overlap" feature which creates a parallax effect at the bottom of the page.
• Updated Slideshow dot styles to be more consistent with the theme.
• Option to use white text on mobile for improved readability.
• Labeled sections in Liquid to make finding code easier from markup.
• Option to limit the number of color swatches shown in product grids.
• Carousel arrows and quick add buttons have been updated to be more consistent with the theme.
• Changed Image comparison drag indicator to be more consistent with the theme.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where endpoints wouldn't work in some locales.
• Solved a problem when the highlight text feature in the header wouldn't work with multi-word menus.
• Fixed an issue where product options wouldn't work well in the editor.
• Fixed an issue where double-quotes (") would break product variant titles when they were sold out.

Changed

• Updated to support the new Shopify theme store

Added

• New Overlapping media section with scroll animation
• New Shop the banner section with configurable hotspots
• New Collection with highlight and Media with highlight sections with sticky scroll
• New Divider section
• New Featured images section with the ability to show split images that reconfigure in mobile
• Added a mobile full width toggle to Image with text, Apps, Collapsible rows, Custom content, Featured video, Grid with overlay, Image comparison and Scrolling text on image sections
• Added a "outer background" setting to the Contact, Countdown, Featured text, Icons row, Newsletter, and Testimonials sections to create new section styles
• Added a global "border opacity" setting
• Added a global setting to disable drop shadows to achieve a flat design
• Added an option to keep menus white in the Header section

Changed

• Added options for "reverse opacity" and "underline" to the list of highlight types theme-wide
• Improved parallax images that now work in mobile
• Improved Header menu animations that expand and collapse
• Improved drawer menu animations
• Added a new border animation to the Promotion block in the Featured collection section and Collection page
• Added a mobile spacing between blocks setting to the Grid with overlay section
• Added an option to disable the border in the Header's Toolbar block
• Added highlight option to the blocks on the Scrolling content
• Expanded each section's border setting to include an option for "top", "bottom", "both" and "none"

Fixes and other improvements

• Countdown timers will pause when not in view to save memory
• Lazyloaded Map, Product recommendations and Recent products sections as well as disclosure/dropdown components
• Improved product grid hyperlinks on touch devices
• Fixed an issue where text wouldn't animate when Slideshow was set to fade
• Reduced Header "flash" when loading transparently
• Improved responsive image sizing theme-wide
• Improved quick-add and carousel accessibility
• Fixed an issue where the Product page media grid would shift on hover
• Improved quick-add drawer performance
• Patched an editor problem where the countdown would speed up when sections were reordered
• Fixed an issue where Combined listings wouldn't render