Release notes of Vario app ‑ Variation Swatches for Shopify

2025-10-09 – version 2.8.4

• New: App dashboard design
• Improved: Built for Shopify enhancements
• Improved: Theme compatibility

2025-08-14 – version 2.8.3

• New: Dual color swatches
• Improved: App performance

2025-06-07 – version 2.8.2

• Updated: Shopify Version to 2025-07

2025-03-01 – version 2.8.1

• Improved: App performance

2024-6-6 – version 2.8

• Added: Display color swatches on Home page
• Added: Custom CSS box
• Updated: Selector for displaying color swatches on Collection page
• Improved: Various UI elements

2024-1-17 – version 2.7

• Updated: Automatically delete inactive stores’ data
• Updated: Shopify asset version 2023-04 (as a result, app developers must have access to the store theme permissions in order to edit theme files)
• Improved: webhooks shop/updated & app/uninstalled
• Improved: In-app Refresh button
• Improved: Server performance

2023-9-18 – version 2.6

• Updated: GraphQL Admin API from version 2022-07 to 2023-01
• Fixed: Currency switching
• Fixed: Some minor bugs

2023-2-21 – version 2.5

• Improved: Swatch hover effect for image thumbnail (Due to deprecating support in newer mobile browser versions, swatch hover effect now only works on desktop devices)

2022-12-30 – version 2.4

• New feature: Built-in translation fields to allow you to translate variant label strings into different languages

2022-12-19 – version 2.3

• Optimized: Refresh/update variant options

2022-11-14 – version 2.2.1

• Updated: Updates required for embedded apps to work on the new Shopify admin domain admin.shopify.com

2022-04-05 – version 2.2

• New feature: Limit the number of swatches/buttons on collection page

2022-03-03 – version 2.1

• New feature: Collection page swatch customizer
• New feature: Enhanced product picture on collection page
• New feature: Add bigger size for swatches on product page

2022-02-11 – version 2.0

• New feature: Hide out-of-stock variant swatches (once a customer interacts with a variant swatch)
• New feature: Sold-out designer tool to allow you to change the appearances of sold-out variant swatches
• Updated: Subscription plans which allow premium users to use the latest features added to version 2.0 and above
• Optimized: Collection pages’ swatches
• Optimized: Swatch live preview in admin dashboard

2021-12-14 – version 1.5

• Optimized: Compatible with T Lab ‑ AI Language Translate app
• Optimized: Work with Shopify Plus store site redirect

2021-10-15 – version 1.4

• New feature: Collections page support to help variant swatches show on category level
• Optimized: Compatible with Transcy – Language Translate & Currency app
• Optimized: Theme class detection to cover and support more third-party themes

2021-09-24 – version 1.3

• New feature: Enhanced image size options for automated variant image swatches
• New feature: Preset color HEX for standard color names
• New feature: SVG filetype to upload to custom image swatches

2021-08-28 – version 1.2

• New feature: Background sync to automatically allow product variant updates without manually clicking Refresh button
• Optimized: Faster element loading performance

2021-07-23 – version 1.1

• New feature: Automated variant image swatches
• Optimized: New swatch border double style

2021-07-08 – version 1.0

• Initial release