Shopify's API version 2026-07 introduces independent publishing control for product variants. Variants now implement the Publishable interface, allowing merchants and app developers to publish or unpublish individual variants per channel or catalog without deleting variants or duplicating products. The change is additive and non-breaking: product-level publishing still takes precedence, variants default to published, and existing apps require no modifications. New API fields support creating variants in an unpublished state, and product feed webhooks fire on variant publish/unpublish events.
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