Shopify is removing the --force flag from shopify app deploy and shopify app release in a May 2026 CLI release . If your CI/CD pipeline calls either command with --force today, the first pipeline run after your next @shopify/cli bump will fail with "unknown flag." The replacement flags exist now. They don't mean the same thing --force did. Swapping blindly either breaks deploys or — worse — silently starts deleting shop data that previously required confirmation. What the failure looks like CLI drops an unknown flag with a non-zero exit and a message like: › Error: Nonexistent flag: --force › See more help with --help Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode Which then cascades through whatever GitHub Actions / GitLab CI / CircleCI job wraps the command. Most pipelines surface this as a red build; some surface it as a silent skip if the step uses continue-on-error . Either way, no new app version ships until someone touches the pipeline. The trigger isn't a calendar event — it's the CLI bump.…