Release Notes

2026-11-12 — v1.0.1: Support link points at the seller

• The “Support” link in the theme editor now opens the seller’s (MISEル Store) contact page. After purchase, please send questions there
• Everything else is the same as v1.0.0

2026-11-12 — v1.0.0: First stable release

• The theme name shown in the admin and the version marker at the top of the page HTML now say Hellostore consistently
• The theme-side quiz (“Guided finder”) is retired in favour of the AI chat app’s photo board. The board follows the theme’s colors
• Fixed the issues found in the sample-book review rounds: the over-image text color setting name, the cart delivery date estimate, the product gallery behavior, and other small points
• The distributed ZIP now ships with the license notice of the Shopify reference theme it is built on

2026-11-11 — Hero cleanup and smaller fixes

• The Hero section now only lays photos or video across the full area. Side-by-side layouts moved to Shopify’s standard Image with text section, and the features under the photo moved to the new Feature band section (Hero, Feature band)
• The text backdrop on the Hero is now an overlay. Choose Left, Full, or Right in “Overlay shape” and 0–50% in “Overlay strength”. Defaults are Full and 40%
• The Hero setting “Use H1 for the first heading” now says it is for pages other than the home page. On the home page the header logo is the H1
• With the Footer set to Compact, the settings it doesn’t use (email signup, social icons, payment icons, padding, and more) are hidden in the theme editor (Footer)
• Turning off the Breadcrumbs trail keeps the page path for search engines (Breadcrumbs)
• Favorites shows “Price could not be loaded” instead of the old saved price when the latest price can’t be loaded (Favorites list)
• Recently viewed lists products in the order they were viewed (newest first)
• Cards without a product in Curated products, and buttons without a link in Multicolumn and Image with text, appear only in the theme editor, not on the storefront
• Small text is no longer faded, so text keeps enough contrast against its background

2026-11-01 — v0.10.0 released

• The product is now called Hellostore Theme. Section and setting names in the theme editor use the new name
• The hero (the large area at the top of a page) is now a single section. Images and video, side-by-side layouts, vertical headings, and the navigation position are all settings of that one section
• The Reviews section now lets you choose the source: Judge.me or Entered in the theme. Showing reviews from Hellostore AI Staff is in preparation (Reviews)
• Guided finder can now show a finder built in Hellostore AI Staff. You choose the pictogram for the result diagram, and the section can go on pages other than the product page (Guided finder)
• Photo and text story is now one layout with fewer settings. The wording follows the block name, Step (Photo and text story)
• Theme settings were tidied up. Image padding moved into Shopify’s Media group, and the color chip and favorites settings moved into Product cards. The unused icon motion setting was removed (Theme settings guide)
• Variant pills now offer four appearances in theme settings
• The footer link text size and underline are now configurable. Copyright text that was too small was raised to a readable size
• Default top and bottom section padding now matches Shopify’s standard theme. Existing values are unchanged
• Japanese typesetting was refined: spacing around brackets and punctuation, spacing between Japanese and Latin characters, and no automatic uppercasing of Latin text
• New manual pages: Comparison table, Contact, News list, Sticky add to cart, Delivery calendar
• Manual setting names and their order now match the theme editor

2026-09-29 — Search suggestions on Japanese pages; FAQ fix

• The header search now shows product suggestions on Japanese pages. Shopify’s built-in search suggestions do not support Japanese, so on Japanese pages only, suggestions come from the regular search results (Search suggestions on Japanese pages)
• Fixed the heading of the Japanese search suggestions (“商品管理” is now “商品”)
• Fixed FAQ answers dropping the text of links. Answers are now shown as written in the rich text editor, and links and bulleted lists work (Writing answers). The FAQ content the AI chat reads and the FAQ data for search engines such as Google are fixed as well
• Improved the header mega menu (visual menu): links without a photo now render as clean text tiles instead of clip-art, cards center in the panel regardless of how many there are, and the panel stays open for about 0.35 seconds after the pointer leaves the navigation item, making it easier to move onto the panel

2026-09-27 — “Find by quiz” added; Fit Playroom retired

• Added the “Find by quiz (three questions)” section. A three-question quiz decides the shopper’s type and shows a figure describing it, along with matching product picks (Find by quiz)
• Retired the Fit Playroom and replaced it with Find by quiz
• Added a consent checkbox to photo search in the AI chat. Before sending a photo, shoppers are shown that the image is sent to AI services for similar-product search and reply writing, and it is sent only after consent
• Added font size settings for product names and prices on smartphones to the typography settings
• Added an explanation of line quality (heading balance, avoiding orphaned words at the end of paragraphs) to the typography settings
• Added the “Translations” capability steps to the multilingual FAQ setup guide

2026-09-23 — Theme settings and section updates

• Rewrote theme setting descriptions across the board into shorter, beginner-friendly text
• “Spacing around photos” at 0% now fills the frame with the photo
• The “View all” link in “Curated products” now follows the shared theme style (Buttons → “View all” style)
• The comparison-related setting labels of the “Favorites list” section are now shown in Japanese
• Added the “Result note” to the “Fit playroom” (with a chat connection, a short note built from the selections appears inside the card)

2026-09-18 — Help Center launch

• Launched the official manual site in Japanese and English
• Covers the product overview, metafield setup, Japanese ecommerce essentials, AI chat integration, My Size integration, and the developer architecture chapter