Changelog: April 2026

Highlights of the Month

Shopify App

Shopify App enhancements add custom sorting, Customer ID metafields, Blog and Page metafields, targeted recommendation blocks, plus Checkout and Customer Account recommendations.

Deeper Historical Personalization

Search now uses older views and purchases as background signals, improving ranking for returning shoppers alongside real-time intent. Read more here.

Dimensional Search

Dimensional search helps B2B and complex Product catalogs match measurement variants such as spaced, unspaced, and reordered unit formats, helping shoppers find exact-size Products more reliably. Read more here.

Contextual Prefix Matching

Contextual Prefix Matching improves Search for multi-term queries where users type partial Product IDs, model names, dimensions, or technical terms. Read more here.

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API

Changed

• Search: Improved number tokenization and normalization of measurement units. This ensures searches match regardless of spacing or order, so examples such as 1x2cm, 1cmx2cm, and 1 x 2cm can all match the same Products. Read more here.
• Search: Improved Search personalization by using historic user behavior, such as previous purchases and views, to complement existing real-time intent signals. This improves relevancy by promoting items that users with similar past actions viewed or bought. Read more here. The feature is enabled by default for both existing and new customers. It uses data already tracked in your Dataset, so it does not require additional implementation work or a new warm-up period.
• Search: Added Contextual Prefix Matching to improve results when users search with partial Product IDs, dimensions, model names, sizes, or technical terms across multiple query terms. Read more here.

Fixed

• Merchandising: Fixed an issue where the Merchandising UI stripped diacritics from Search Term filters, causing rules to fail to match terms including accents/diacritics.
• Retail Media: Fixed a bug where fetching language-bound data for display ads returned data from the wrong language.
• Search: Fixed a bug where null-valued strings were included in the list of available values for data string facets.
• Search: Fixed a bug where DistinctCondition combined with selected facet values consumed distinct slots before facet inclusion was checked, causing inconsistent result counts.
• Search: Fixed a discrepancy where facet counts could show more items than returned search results because facets were calculated before subsequent filters or post-processing were applied.

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My Relewise

Added

• Added Variant ID to the Recently Viewed Products list on the User dialog so entries now show both Product ID and Variant ID when available.

Changed

• Tracking: Moved "Feed Dwell" to Behavioral Tracking.

Fixed

• API Keys: Fixed a bug where the description was sometimes not saved correctly.
• Retail Media: Fixed an issue in Retail Media where Configure Promotions displayed an empty list of allowed display ad types and prevented selection.

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Integration

Added

• Shopify App: Added the ability to sort Product search results by Product properties, such as newest Product, in the Shopify App. Read more here
• Shopify App: Added an option to select a Shopify customer metafield to use as the Authenticated ID instead of the Shopify User ID. Read more here
• Shopify App: Added support for managing Blog and Page metafields in the Shopify App. Read more here
• Shopify App: Added support for targeting app recommendation blocks on specific pages. Read more here
• Shopify App: Now requires two new scopes: read_metaobjects and read_metaobject_definitions, enabling access to metaobjects and their definitions.
• Shopify App: Added the Checkout Extension to the Shopify App to enable Purchased With Recommendations. Read more here
• Shopify App: Added the Customer Account Extensions to the Shopify App. Read more here

Changed

• Demo Shop: Updated the storefront experience with redesigned cart and receipt pages, a more polished empty-cart flow, improved Dataset management experience, and a cleaner, more consistent visual treatment across key pages and UI elements.
• Shopify App: Changed the Web Components extension to read Server URL and API Key from shop metafields instead of block.settings, centralizing configuration and credentials.

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Documentation

Added

• Added a Best Practices article on how to ensure that Revenue Tracking is set up correctly. Available here.
• Added a How-To guide for linking synonyms with specific entity IDs, which can serve as a temporary solution when certain keywords need to match with a Product, but the entity data does not yet support it. Available here.
• Added a How-To guide for using the Data Accessor to retrieve disabled entities, which is something you cannot do with a regular search request. Available here.

Changed

• Shopify App: Updated Shopify search configuration to include support for result sorting, allowing merchants to configure sort options for storefront search queries.