Partner Deprecations and Deadlines

If you build on Shopify, Stripe, or Salesforce, deprecations hit your clients before they hit you. An agency with 50 Shopify stores needs to know about script tag deprecations months before the hard deadline.

Watch Changelog surfaces deprecations with changeKind: "deprecation" and sunsetAt dates.

The Deprecation Problem

Shopify publishes: “Script tags will stop running on March 1, 2027.”

Your agency learns about it:

• 3 months before the deadline (if someone was watching the feed)
• 1 week before the deadline (if nobody was watching)
• After the deadline (when client stores break)

You need automated alerts, not manual blog scanning.

The sunsetAt Field

When a vendor publishes a hard deadline, we store it in sunsetAt:

{
  "title": "Script tags are deprecated and will stop running on March 1, 2027",
  "changeKind": "deprecation",
  "sunsetAt": "2027-03-01T00:00:00.000Z",
  "isImportant": true
}

Query for deprecations:

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer wcl_..." \
  "https://watchchangelog.com/api/v1/entries?sources=shopify-api-updates" \
  | jq '.items[] | select(.changeKind == "deprecation")'

Partner Use Cases

Shopify Agencies

Track /sources/shopify-api-updates for:

• Theme CLI deprecations
• API version sunset dates
• Script tag removals

Send client alerts when a deprecation affects their store.

Stripe Integration Partners

Track /sources/stripe-changelog for:

• Payment method deprecations
• API version sunset dates
• Webhook changes

Know before your customer support inbox fills up.

Salesforce ISVs

Track Salesforce release notes for:

• API version retirements
• Feature deprecations
• Required migrations

Plan migration work months in advance, not days.

The Important Flag

isImportant: true catches deprecations, breaking changes, and GA launches. Use it to filter out patch notes and minor doc updates.

Deadline Tracking

Sort entries by sunsetAt (when available) to see upcoming deadlines. Not every deprecation has a hard date, but when vendors publish one, we store it.

Next

Learn about Agent Workflows to see how AI agents use the stdio MCP server to reason over changelog data.