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August 17, 2021

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* Action Required
* Themes

# Removing the @global block type in favour of the @app block type in theme sections

In order for theme sections to accept app blocks, the section must define a block of type `@app` in its schema.

A number of development shops have been created using a pre-release version of Shopify's Dawn theme. The pre-release defines blocks of type `@global` in some of the sections (`sections/apps.liquid`, `sections/main-product.liquid`) to indicate that those sections support app blocks.

Moving forward, `@global` is removed and being replaced by `@app`. For more information about the `@app` block type, refer to [add support for app blocks to sections](https://shopify.dev/themes/migration#step-8-add-support-for-app-blocks-to-sections). In order to make sure your theme sections work correctly, follow one of the recommendations:

* Download the latest version of [Dawn](https://github.com/Shopify/dawn) and upload it to your store.
* Update the affected theme sections to use the `@app` instead of the `@global` block type.