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CLI NOW OWNS E2E STORE LIFECYCLE, HYDROGEN FIXES HTTP/2 HANDSHAKE

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isaacroldan gonzaloriestra fredericoo
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The CLI commands for creating and deleting development stores are live in E2E tests, cutting out Playwright provisioning entirely, while Hydrogen's local development stack now handles HTTP/2 requests without choking on pseudo-headers.

Shopify/cli merged the switch to native CLI store operations for end-to-end testing [1], replacing Playwright provisioning with `shopify store create dev --json` and cleanup with `shopify store delete --force --json`. This simplifies the test harness and lets the CLI prove its own store lifecycle operations under real conditions. On the Hydrogen side, MiniOxygen now correctly handles HTTP/2 requests by falling back to the `:authority` pseudo-header when `host` is absent [2], then exposes it as a normalized `host` header so WHATWG Headers construction doesn't fail. That fix matters because Vite HTTPS already negotiates HTTP/2, so local development was throwing "Request must contain a host header" errors. Hydrogen also shipped a new `--javascript-origin` flag for the `customer-account-push` command [2], letting you specify a portless origin for the Customer Account API while keeping your dev callback URL portful. Theme configuration test coverage landed as well, adding unit tests for `getHostTheme`, `setHostTheme`, and related helpers [3].

$ ls shopify/reviews/ # the step-back reads

the week in review Shopify CLI goes machine-readable for agent tooling the month in review Shopify CLI 5.0 ships standardized JSON output
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Quick answers

What shipped in Shopify on August 12, 2026?
The CLI commands for creating and deleting development stores are live in E2E tests, cutting out Playwright provisioning entirely, while Hydrogen's local development stack now handles HTTP/2 requests without choking on pseudo-headers. In total, 4 commits and 4 pull requests landed.
Who contributed to Shopify on August 12, 2026?
3 developers shipped this update, including isaacroldan, gonzaloriestra, and fredericoo.
What were the notable Shopify updates?
Use CLI commands for E2E store lifecycle, feat: javascript origin flag in `customer-account-push` hydrogen CLI command, and [Tests] Add coverage for theme configuration helpers.
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$ log Shopify --recent

Hydrogen moves CSP into the core package, and a Vite build fix stops 500s on Oxygen 10 shipped Hydrogen stops leaking client IPs, app dev stops crashing on bad frames 21 shipped Theme tooling goes machine-readable, docs drift breaks CI 45 shipped Theme dev server stops forcing the exit page, and GraphiQL learns JSON 12 shipped

$ log --all # elsewhere on the wire

Agent Security Quiet day in agent security as guard coverage reaches four clients Alignment & Post-training verl defaults Ascend RL mode, open-instruct unblocks SFT packing

$ ls showcases/

Safety Evals AI Red Teaming Agent Security Interpretability Alignment & Post-training

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