Shopify is removing the "--force" flag from the CLI this month. Every CI/CD pipeline using "shopify app deploy --force" or "shopify app release --force" will break when the update ships. Now here is why this matters beyond just fixing a script. "--force" skips all confirmation prompts, including the ones that confirm extension deletions. Extensions that get deleted remove merchant data permanently across every store that has the app installed. There is no undo. Shopify replaced it with two flags. "--allow-updates" adds and updates extensions, blocks deletions. Use this as the default in every automated pipeline. "--allow-deletes" enables deletions only when explicitly intended. My take: this is the right change. A single flag that treats adding a new field and deleting merchant data as equally low-risk was always a problem. Good that it is fixed. Bad that most teams will find out when a deployment fails in production. How to deal with it: Search every deployment script for "--force". Replace it with "--allow-updates". Done.