source-shopify connector — upgrade to new API 2026-01

[Eric JoAchim Liese (a-liese-ext-tqgg)]

Hi,

We are running airbyte/source-shopify version 3.4.0 in our self-hosted Airbyte (OSS) production environment and are also currently evaluating Airbyte Premium. As part of a parallel-ingest proof of concept for our Shopify pipelines, we have identified that the connector is pinned to Shopify Admin API version 2025-10 in both 3.4.0 and the current latest 3.5.0 (released 2026-06-11), with no user-configurable api_version field.

Shopify released Admin API version 2026-01, which raises the bulk-operation concurrency limit from 1 to 5 per shop (per Shopify's documentation — release notes mention this change took effect in 2026-01). This change would substantially improve our throughput for high-volume shops by allowing multiple bulk operations to run in parallel against the same store.

Additional context:
We operate 9 Shopify shops (high-volume German nutrition retailer — ESN, More Nutrition, RAW Nutrition, BUM Energy brands) across both daily and 15-minute (neartime) ingestion cadences, and the 1-slot bulk-op limit is currently our binding constraint for moving more shops to sub-hourly cadence. The 2026-01 bump would directly unblock this for us and we suspect a number of other Shopify-heavy Airbyte customers.

Happy to share more about our use case if helpful.

Best,
Eric Joachim Liese
Datics Consulting / The Quality Group GmbH (TQGG)

[Airbyte Support Bot (airbyte-support-bot)]

Hi Eric JoAchim Liese (@a-liese-ext-tqgg), thank you for this detailed and well-motivated feature request!

The ask to bump source-shopify from Shopify Admin API 2025-10 to 2026-01 — specifically to unlock the higher bulk-operation concurrency limit (5 concurrent bulk ops per shop instead of 1) — is clear and well-documented. We appreciate the concrete context about your multi-shop, sub-hourly ingestion use case.

We have an existing internal tracking issue that covers the Shopify API version upgrade path for source-shopify, and we've added your request and the bulk-op concurrency motivation there. The team will evaluate this as part of the next version bump.

A few notes in the meantime:

• The connector was recently upgraded from API version 2025-01 to 2025-10 in v3.2.3. The next planned bump targets 2026-01.
• The api_version is currently not user-configurable by design, as version changes can involve schema-level breaking changes that need validation.
• We've escalated the concurrency benefit as additional motivation for prioritizing the 2026-01 upgrade.

This is being tracked internally: https://github.com/airbytehq/oncall/issues/11712

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