FastStore Release Notes: Version 4.5.0

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FastStore v4.5.0 expands My Account for B2B Buyer Portal (closed beta) with a quotes list and contract switcher, adds CMS-configurable product recommendations and custom account pages, and improves multi-locale PDP and PLP URL resolution. It also forwards Intelligent Search Pricing Fallback tokens into Checkout and copies self-hosted fonts from public/ during CLI generation. See the sections below for more details.

⚠️ Follow the instructions in Updating the CLI package version to upgrade to v4.5.0 and keep your store up-to-date with the following improvements.

Features

New RecommendationShelf native component (PRs: #3403 | #3414)

Adds a CMS-configurable RecommendationShelf section that fetches VTEX personalization recommendations for a campaign VRN and renders them with the shared core ProductCard. After upgrading to v4.5.0, add the Recommendation Shelf section in the CMS and on the desired page with a valid campaign VRN.

Copy fonts and nested assets from public/ folder to build (PR: #3412)

@faststore/cli copyPublicFiles previously dropped nested directories and mismatched extensions, so self-hosted fonts under public/fonts/ never reached the production build. Font formats (.woff, .woff2, .ttf, .otf, .eot) and nested directories are now copied correctly.

Stores that place fonts or nested assets in public/ should upgrade to v4.5.0 and re-run the build.

Forward Pricing Fallback price token to Checkout (PR: #3415)

When Intelligent Search emits a signed price token during a Pricing System incident, FastStore now forwards it through to Checkout so shelf prices can be trusted at add-to-cart. The field is optional: when Search omits it, behavior matches previous releases.

Accounts with the Intelligent Search Pricing Fallback flag enabled after upgrade to v4.5.0 should ensure the store Pricing Fallback flag is on for the account.

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Localization feature (closed beta)

Localized product URLs and breadcrumbs on PDP and PLP (PR: #3402)

PDP and PLP slugs, breadcrumbs, and alternate-locale links now resolve correctly for multi-language catalogs.

Retiring pagetype on the collection path in favor of the typed by-linkid cascade changes two observable behaviors. Neither is a schema change (no query breaks), but both are worth calling out for stores that rely on them:

• StoreCollection.type no longer returns Cluster or SubCategory. Clusters and curated collections are both served by collection/by-linkid, so clusters now report as Collection. The category response doesn't expose tree depth beyond root, so third-level categories now report as Category. Both enum values remain declared for backward compatibility.
• Slugs that exhaust the cascade now return 404 instead of falling back to full-text search. pagetype implicitly promoted unmatched single-segment slugs to a full-text search; the new cascade returns a not-found error when category, brand, and collection resolution all miss.

Stores that branch on collection { type } or rely on the search fallback for unmatched slugs should review those paths after upgrading to v4.5.0.

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My Account for B2B Buyer Portal (closed beta)

Quotes list for B2B buyers in My Account B2B Buyer Portal (PR: #3388)

B2B buyers with an organization unit can now open /pvt/account/quotes in My Account to review submitted quotes, with filtering (status and created/expiry date ranges), pagination, status badges, and navigation to order entry.

B2B contract switcher in the account drawer (PR: #3390)

B2B buyers can now view active contracts and switch between them for their Organization Unit directly from the FastStore account drawer. Confirming a switch refreshes the webstore token and reloads the page so commercial context resets. Local development may need authenticator/vtexid rewrites for non-WebOps environments.

Prevent My Account 500s from an empty session profile and missing CMS content (PR: #3417)

My Account routes could previously return error 500 when a representative session had an empty VTEX profile or when a My Account content type had no published CMS content. Both cases are now handled, including a fallback for /pvt/account/404.

CMS-driven custom My Account pages (PR: #3411)

Stores can now declare a My Account route bound to a CMS content type so new account pages are authored in CMS Admin instead of remaining code-only. An optional contentType on each Route in navigation.ts controls the mode: content type alone generates a CMS-only page; content type plus a .tsx page keeps a hybrid of CMS sections and code; omitting contentType preserves legacy code-only routes.

After upgrading to v4.5.0, add contentType on the desired route, sync CMS schemas, publish sections in Admin, and open the route while logged in. Existing routes without contentType are unchanged.

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