Impact

Added

• The "Feature chart" section, used to create both specification and comparison tables, have confused a lot of merchants due to its complex configuration. To make it easier for merchants to use those sections, we have split this section into two more specific sections: the "Specification table" (which is used to create a list of specifications for a given product), and the "Comparison table". Because each section only do one thing instead of two, the settings have been simplified, which should reduce confusion from merchants.

The old "Feature chart" section is still inside the code for compatibility reason (so that merchants who upgrade do not have their work lost), but can't be added anymore.

• When set, unit price will now also be visible on complementary products and cart recommendations. This change has been done to comply with local regulations such as Germany or France, where the unit price is legally required.

• We have added a new "desktop text alignment" on the tabs section, so you can change the default "center" alignment.

Improved

• Several minor performance improvements have been done. The theme now uses the section position in the page to not lazyload images that are above the fold or high in the page. This approach can help reducing the LCP.

Fixed

• The "Alignement" for the Share buttons block on product page is now working as expected.

• Fixed an edge case in the slideshow section where video slide is on the first position with autoplay enabled. Under very rare circumstances, the autoplay could not work properly, but this should now be fixed.

Added

• The slideshow section now has a new "Show initial transition" setting. Turning off the initial transition can help to reduce the LCP performance metric. During our internal testing, we found that when the slideshow is positioned as the top of the page (which is often the case), removing the initial transition can divide the LCP by 2, on average. To ensure that merchants get the best performance score out of the box, we turned off the initial transition by default.

Merchants who want to prioritize animation over performance will now need to manually enable the "Show initial transition" setting on slideshow section.

Removed

• Shopify has deprecated the usage of multiple colors for metaobject collection filtering, and this feature has been removed from our theme. This feature was launched a few months ago but has not been adopted by merchants yet, so this removal should not impact most of the merchants.

Fixed

• Buy now button will now appear correctly. This issue is due to a recent regression that Shopify introduced, and that required a small code change.

Changed

• We have turned off the "Show page transition" setting by default on all presets. This effect allows to add a fade-in / fade-out transition effect whenever you navigate to a different page. Unfortunately, such transition effect requires adding artificial delay, which can impact performance negatively. Merchants who still want this effect will need to manually re-enable it in the "Animation" global setting.

Fixed

• Fixed an issue where the floating filter button on mobile could not show properly when using a slideshow section on collection pages.

Improved

• We have renamed heading sizes to use "Large/Medium/Small" naming instead of "H1, H2..." as it was confusing to some merchants who believed this was also changing the HTML tag, while it is only changing the visual size.