Unreleased

Unreleased - only on Staging

IMPROVED

• assign and function tags accept arguments in multiline, for example:

{% liquid
  assign outer_key = "user"
  assign inner_key = "name"
  assign hash = {
    outer_key: {
      inner_key: "Alice"
    }
  }
  echo hash
%}

• assign tag supports string interpolation inside hash values, for example:

{% liquid
  assign email = "[email protected]"
  assign contact = { "email": "{{ email | downcase }}", "name": "{{ email | split: '@' | first }}" }
  echo contact
%}

• [] and {} empty array/hash literals can be used as argument values, for example:

{% assign arr = value | default: [] %}

{% function result = 'my/function', array: [], hash: {} %}

• pos-cli deploy improvements:

  • Significantly faster cold deploys: Deploying a ~1,000-file application is now approximately 3× faster. Benchmarked against a real-world pos application (5,883 files): cold deploy time dropped from ~11.8s to ~3.9s. Warm deploys (no file changes) are slightly faster thanks to better algorithm of skipping unchanged files. It also affects Instance Clone feature.
  • All validation errors reported at once: When a deploy contains multiple invalid files, all errors are now collected and reported together in a single response instead of stopping at the first failure. This means you can fix all issues in one round rather than discovering them one by one.
  • Deploy report: Each deploy now returns a structured report listing which files were upserted or deleted per resource type (partials, GraphQL queries, pages, assets, etc.), making it easier to understand exactly what changed. Requires pos-cli 6.0.0+.
  • pos-cli deploy --dry-run now includes assets: Dry-run mode reports which assets would be added or removed without uploading them. Requires pos-cli 6.0.0+.
  • Automatic cleanup for public-only modules (opt-in, requires auto_manage_public_only_modules: true in config.yml): platformOS can now detect when a module contains only public files and, when it does, treat those files with the same lifecycle rules as regular application files - meaning files removed from the deploy are automatically deleted from the instance. Previously, module files were never deleted on deploy, which required adding each module name individually to modules_that_allow_delete_on_deploy setting in the config. Because this changes deletion behaviour, it is disabled by default and must be explicitly opted into.

• Improved asset_manifest generation during pos-cli pull - greatly improves internal memory management and performance of generating asset_manifest (which includes all Assets). This also affects Instance Clone feature.

• Module handling:

  • Warning when a declared module is missing: If a module is listed in pos-modules.lock.json but its source files are missing from the deploy, a warning is now emitted.

• Unknown app/config.yml properties are now warnings, not errors: If your config.yml contains a feature flag that does not exist in the target environment (for example when deploying from staging to a production environment that hasn't received that flag yet), the deploy no longer fails.