5 updates across 3 platforms, 1 needing action. Here’s everything in one place.
The WooCommerce PHP version requirement is going up: WooCommerce 11.6, planned for February 2027, will need PHP 8.1 or newer. Stores on PHP 7.4 or 8.0 can keep updating up to version 11.5, and WooCommerce 11.3 now shows a warning in your admin if your store is affected.
You can now add discounts to Rollouts, Shopify's built-in tool for scheduling and testing store changes. That means you can show a new offer to part of your online store traffic, compare it against your current offer using conversion results, or launch a discount alongside theme and checkout changes in one go.
You can now add your own annotations to time-series reports in Shopify Analytics. Each note can have a title, description, date or date range and a type, so you can mark things like a campaign launch, an influencer post, a supplier change or a promotion right on the chart.
Canvas is a new way to design your Shopify store. You see every page of your store laid out together, click to edit anything, or ask Sidekick, Shopify's AI assistant, to make changes for you. You'll find it under Online Store > Themes, where you can start a new theme or duplicate an existing one into Canvas.
Stripe's Endive API version (2026-09-30.endive) removes the payment_method_types setting from Checkout Sessions and the matching option from Elements. It also deprecates the payment request button. These are breaking changes, so they only affect you when your developer upgrades to this API version.