Changelog

June 26, 2026

Catalyst 1.8.0 and create-catalyst 1.1.0

Catalyst v1.8.0 is now available, along with @bigcommerce/create-catalyst@1.1.0.

  • Tax display settings - Catalyst now honors the store’s Tax Display setting (Inc. Tax, Ex. Tax, or Both) across product detail, product listing, search, compare, and home page product experiences.
  • Locale URL paths - Catalyst now reads store owner-configured Locale.path values from the Storefront GraphQL API, so locale subfolders can follow the control panel configuration instead of always using the locale code.
  • Consent-aware cookies - visitor, visit, and currency cookies now respect shopper consent, and Auth.js session tokens are now browser-session cookies without an Expires attribute.
  • Storefront fixes - variant backorder information displays on PDPs, WYSIWYG images resolve correctly on headless domains, and Catalyst now tracks its true release version in core/package.json.
  • Makeswift updates - @bigcommerce/catalyst-makeswift@1.8.0 includes Catalyst 1.8.0 and adds interaction-mode site navigation in the Makeswift builder.
  • create-catalyst deprecation - create-catalyst integration is now deprecated, hidden from --help, and remains available during the transition to catalyst upgrade.

See the full 1.8.0 release notes for migration details and release tags.