Dev changelog RSS feed issue(s)

Changelog
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Hello,

The Shopify Dev changelog RSS feed https://shopify.dev/changelog/feed.xml should probably include the <published> and <updated> fields from the Atom namespace to distinguish when an article has been, well, first published and later updated.

For example the - at the moment supposedly latest - item about Bots and Agents has a pubDate May 30, but it was actually published already on May 7.

On the other hand, some items appear “backdated”, like for example the previous announcement about expiring access tokens Expiring offline access tokens required for new public apps as of April 1, 2026 - Shopify developer changelog which has March 20, 2026 on the article itself, but <pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate> in the feed.

There’s some other minor things in the content itself too (relative links etc.) but probably would be good to include a guid element at least Feed Validator Results: https://shopify.dev/changelog/feed.xml

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Hey @mropanen :waving_hand: thanks for the detailed writeup, the specifics here make this easy to dig into.

I’m looking at the feed on our end now and will follow up in this thread once I have more to share.

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Hey @mropanen - circling back on this. We shipped some changes based on your feedback and the feed now covers the main things you flagged:

  • Every item has a <guid isPermaLink="true"> pointing at its changelog permalink, so each entry has a stable identity.
  • There are now Atom <published> and <updated> fields per item, so you can tell first-published from later-updated.
  • <pubDate> now follows the date shown on the changelog page itself, which clears up the mismatches you spotted. The Bots and Agents item reads May 7 now, and the April 1, 2026 access tokens post reads March 20 to match its page.

These are already live, so a fresh pull of the feed should show them.

Hope this helps!

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Sweet! Looks good.

Thank you!