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May 3, 2022

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# Support added for compressed GIF images

A much wider range of optimized GIFs, including LZW compression, are now accepted for upload.

To learn more about which image formats Shopify accepts refer to: <https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/online-store/images/theme-images#image-formats>