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What's New

Release notes for PapaThemes BigCommerce Widgets. Newest changes first.

2026-05-04

AI HTML Widget

  • Max tier upgraded to Claude Opus 4.7 — the highest-quality AI model is now powered by Anthropic's latest Opus release for sharper code generation, better long-context reasoning, and improved instruction-following.

2026-04-28

Infrastructure

  • Faster widget delivery via jsDelivr CDN — 19 widgets now load from jsDelivr with automatic S3 fallback. Expect lower latency for storefront visitors worldwide. No action required.

2026-04-18

Stability

  • SMTP delivery hardening — welcome and renewal emails now retry transient failures automatically.
  • Credit promotion grant retry — improved resilience under DB contention.

2026-03-25

Dinosaur — Product Tags

  • Per-item style controls — set icon size, wave size, and wave color on individual product-tag items.

2026-03-17

AI HTML Widget

  • Compact conversation button — collapse long chat history into a summary to reduce API token costs while keeping context.

2026-03-09

Promotions

  • Free credit gift on first install — eligible new users automatically receive promotional credit. A one-time banner confirms the grant.

2026-03-07

AI HTML Widget

  • Image generation upgraded to Nano Banana 2 (Gemini Flash Image) — faster, higher-fidelity image generation for the chatbot's image-paste workflows.

2026-03-02

AI HTML Widget

  • Stop streaming + message queue — interrupt long AI responses mid-stream; queued messages send automatically when the current response finishes.

2026-02-24

AI HTML Widget

  • Claude Sonnet upgraded from 4.5 to 4.6 — improvements to the Standard tier: more accurate code, better instruction-following.
  • Streaming dots animation keeps animating throughout the response.
  • Version 1.0.1 — uses actual column values and floors slidesToScroll for correct layout on all breakpoints.

2026-02-16

AI HTML Widget

  • AI image generation in chatbot — generate images via prompt directly in the conversation.

2026-02-15

Section Templates

  • 22 new popup templates (263–284) — Page Builder compatible, with screenshots and API-compliant configuration.

2026-02-06

AI HTML Widget

  • Welcome modal for first-time users.
  • Starter prompt buttons for quick actions.
  • First-time tooltip + module-based refactor.
  • Analytics event tracking system — measure widget usage.
  • Script Manager integration — expose GraphQL token to generated code.
  • Code-extraction hardening — only <generated_code> blocks are applied.
  • Truncated response handling + improved code review.
  • Sandboxed script execution — try/catch around onContentUpdate.

Documentation

  • SEO — meta descriptions and FAQ added across all widget docs.
  • AI HTML Widget guide — screenshot illustrations added.