- Introduced Agentic UI, a new beta interface for the app, available behind a feature flag #4163, #4200, #4191, #4134, #4092, #4133, #4203, #4166, #4148, #4156, #4155, #4157, #4145, #4174, #4159, #4172, #4207
- Studio Code: Added a button to copy the full assistant message #4113
- Studio Code: Added opportunity to paste an image anywhere in the view #4208
- Studio Code: Added a recovery action to the Session not found state #4243
- Studio Code: Refreshed the composer placeholder copy #4149
- Studio Code: Added support for creating new blank or child themes #4209
- Studio Code: Fixed showing an error when the max token limit is reached #4077
- Studio Code: Fixed AskUserQuestion to support multiline input #4119
- Studio Code: Replaced GPT 5.5 with GPT 5.6 Sol and routed OpenAI models through the Responses API #4190
- Studio Code: Fixed headless runs not exiting after the turn completed #4175
- Studio Code: Made data-liberation flows more reliable with consistent AI wording, bundled driver scripts so skills work as installed plugins, and fixed the data-liberation scripts #4122, #4126, #4201
- Fixed sites showing offline after import #4106
- Fixed plugin reinstall failure after deletion in the Sandbox runtime #4044
- Fixed the macOS Trust Certificate button being hidden for untrusted CAs #4223
- Fixed native PHP sites not picking up updated Studio mu-plugins #4196
- Disabled Jetpack Stats for local sites #4035
- Simplified the "What to do with running sites" dialog shown when quitting Studio #4140
- Improved CLI sync error messages for sites that can't be synced #4202
- Added Linux to the bug report Platform field and split out Architecture #4224
- Misc and maintenance improvements #4235, #4128, #4131, #4187, #4129, #4168, #4199, #4227, #4233
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