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Shopify Editions

Shopify Editions is Shopify's biannual product release event where they announce new features, tools, and platform updates. It typically runs in January (Winter Edition) and June (Summer Edition), with each release containing 100+ updates across the platform.

For Shopify Plus merchants and agencies, Editions is where you learn about upcoming capabilities that affect build decisions. Recent editions have introduced features like Shopify Magic (AI tools), enhanced checkout extensibility, expanded Markets capabilities, and improvements to Hydrogen and Oxygen.

Understanding what's coming in the next Edition can save you from building custom solutions for problems Shopify is about to solve natively. Our Shopify Plus team tracks Editions releases to inform build vs wait decisions for our clients.


Think: the twice-yearly preview of what Shopify is about to make your roadmap obsolete.

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