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Changelog: September 2026
Highlights of the Month
Agent Gateway
Agent Gateway gains five new Areas for AI assistants and automations, expanding your Relewise workflows. OAuth and Connected Apps simplify connections while keeping access under your control. Read more here
Agent Plugins
Turn your AI assistant into a Relewise specialist. Agent Plugins help commercial teams uncover insights and optimize shopping experiences, while developers get guidance for building integrations. Read more here
Universal Search on Shopify
Help shoppers find Products, Product Categories, and Content in one Shopify search experience, with suggestions and recommendations that keep discovery moving even when searches return no results. Read more here
Adaptive Discovery on Shopify
Inspire shoppers with a personalized feed of Products and Content that adapts as they explore. Add Adaptive Discovery to your Shopify store and help shoppers discover more. Read more here
API
Fixed
- Search: Fixed a bug where processing synonyms could alter the original word weights, resulting in incorrect Search rankings.
- Search: Fixed a bug where words containing special characters, such as umlauts, did not always register as exact matches.
- Search: Fixed synonym validation errors that incorrectly reported missing language-specific words when the words were indexed in a language-invariant field.
My Relewise
Added
- Agent Gateway: Added the Administration, Entities, and Triggers Areas for read-only access to Jobs and execution history, Products, Variants, Content, Brands, Product Categories, Content Categories, and Trigger configurations. Added the Search Tools Area for inspecting Search rules and Search Indexes and managing rule approval, and the Retail Media Area for accessing Advertisers, Campaigns, Display Ads, settings, and performance reports.
- Agent Gateway: Added OAuth authorization for REST and MCP connections as an alternative to Personal Access Tokens, plus support for blocking Personal Access Tokens and Connected Apps to prevent access to Agent Gateway.
- Billing: Added a Billing page where authorized users can view invoices and detailed consumption specifications.
- Marketing Automation: Added a Trigger Log graph and summary showing completed Trigger executions by configuration and HTTP response status. Added response-status filtering to the log list to help investigate downstream responses.
- Retail Media: Added support for copying Campaigns within the same Advertiser.
- Marketing Automation: Added the Manage Triggers permission, allowing permitted users to edit, enable, disable, and delete existing Trigger configurations while retaining read-only access for other users. Read more here.
Changed
- Agent Gateway: Unified MCP access into one connection, with a
get_metool for discovering available Datasets. Read more here.
Fixed
- Search Index: Fixed an incorrect tooltip for ISO aliases on the Search Index configuration page.
- Personal Access Tokens: Fixed a bug in the Dataset search field that caused the cursor to leave the field while typing.
- Search Analytics: Fixed channel attribution for searches without a channel and subchannel filtering for Datasets with one channel and multiple subchannels.
Integration
Added
- Agent Plugins: Released version 1.0, helping teams use their AI assistant to understand performance, manage merchandising, and identify opportunities to improve shopping experiences. The Relewise plugin supports these workflows, while Relewise Developer helps developers build and troubleshoot integrations. Relewise Developer is also available in the official OpenAI Plugin Directory for ChatGPT and Codex. Explore Relewise and Relewise Developer.
- Shopify App: Added the Adaptive Discovery app block for continuous, personalized feeds of Products and Content on Content and Product detail pages.
- Shopify App: Added support for faceting on metaobject values, mapped with a
_valuessuffix on the metaobject name, without duplicating values across Products. - Shopify App: Added support for filtering Product detail page recommendations using metafields from the viewed Product.
- Shopify App: Added support for managing inventory synchronization directly through the app.
- Shopify App: Added Universal Search, applying configured facets and sorting with improved, theme-configurable storefront styling.
- Shopify App: Added configurable debounce time and minimum query length to Search Configurations.
- Umbraco: Added an example demonstrating how to create a custom mapper in the Umbraco integration. Available here.
- Web Components: Added Adaptive Discovery components for continuous feeds of Product and Content Recommendations.
- Web Components: Added support for Data Object facets.
Changed
- Developer MCP Server: Improved guidance and SDK support across .NET, JavaScript/TypeScript, PHP, and Java to help AI assistants build more reliable Relewise integrations. Read more here.
- Shopify App: Improved styling options for checkout recommendations, making original and discounted prices easier to distinguish.
- Umbraco: Upgraded the Umbraco integration to version
18.2.0. Read more about the integration.
Fixed
- .NET SDK: Fixed error reporting for unsuccessful API requests on .NET Framework and older .NET Core versions, preventing disposed-content exceptions from masking the original API error message.
- Shopify App: Fixed a bug where Products and Variants available in multiple markets could be excluded from recommendations for the visitor's current market.
- Shopify App: Fixed a bug where selecting Popularity: high to low incorrectly changed the sorting option to Brand: A to Z before saving.
- Shopify App: Fixed an issue where typing or pasting a Property Key into Search Configuration could save a facet without the metadata needed for it to work correctly.
Documentation
Changed
- Search: Updated the documentation for Search Index language settings and ISO aliases.
- Updated the Privacy page with information about Agent Gateway and AI integrations, including credential handling, permissions, request logging, revocation, and AI-host data policies, and Ask AI conversations in My Relewise, including retention, AI providers, and sensitive information guidelines.