- Made the Agentic UI the only Studio UI, retiring Studio Classic #4988
- Added a Design system tab to the site preview #4929
- Kept every Studio window in sync with your sites: syncs, imports and preview updates now show up wherever they were started — in the Desktop app, the browser UI, the CLI or Studio Code — and sites no longer look busy after a quick operation #4955, #4956, #4975, #4978, #4985, #4977
- Blocked starting, stopping and other site actions while a sync, import or export is working on the site #4954
- Improved publishing: the site picker tells Pressable and WordPress.com sites apart, sites without a live site offer "Connect" instead of "Publish", and the sync buttons show when a site was last pulled and pushed #4968, #4969, #4972, #4909, #4982
- Added full lists of your preview sites — with create, update, rename and delete — and of your connected live sites #4983, #4986
- Added a WP Admin entry to the Open in… menu, and let the browser UI show WP Admin and phpMyAdmin in the site preview #4946, #4920
- Brought chat attachments and generated images to the
studio uibrowser app #4867, #4892 - Improved preview annotations: each annotation is now its own chat message with the element's context, and the annotation actions are clearer #4828, #4851
- Added a persistent offline indicator to the sidebar, logged sidebar cards in the notification history, and showed composer attachment and send errors as toasts #4971, #4953, #4973
- Studio Code: Images are now generated in the background while the build carries on, through the WordPress.com AI proxy, and imported into the media library #4893, #4916, #4877
- Studio Code: Moved the Balanced and Strong tiers to newer models #4957
- Studio Code: Made the agent ask its design questions unless your brief already names a design, and self-hosted the fonts picked in
DESIGN.md#4949, #4928 - Studio Code: Improved the sites the agent builds — header and footer parts render as proper header and footer elements, sidebar and other side-by-side layouts no longer start with a gap, block spacing matches how WordPress renders it, and the visual polish pass sticks to real defects #4885, #4894, #4895, #4883
- Studio Code: Fixed parallel block validations logging each other out #4874
- Removed the Desks widget catalog and the
studio_presenttool #4930 - Fixed pushes failing after 10 minutes while the live site was still importing, and pushes to WordPress.com failing on MySQL 8-only collations #4913, #4918
- Fixed pulls of large sites hanging when started without a terminal #4980
- Showed a plain-language message when a backup import fails #4966
- Fixed exports and sync skipping every folder named
cacheinstead of onlywp-content/cache#4936 studio create --fromnow accepts URLs, recreating the site through Data Liberation, and names imported sites after their captured title #3952, #4948- Native PHP runtime: Added the SOAP extension, allowed slow Blueprint downloads, converted SQLite out of WAL mode on start, and kept PHP warnings out of WP-CLI output #4888, #4937, #4912, #4731
- Fixed sites running out of file descriptors while recovering from a PHP error #4911
- Redacted admin passwords from the default
studio listJSON output #4730 - Fixed the titlebar menu and modal close button not responding on the Linux and Windows add-site screens, and kept headers clear of the window controls when the sidebar is collapsed #4944, #4921
- Kept the window draggable around the content frame and with the sidebar hidden, and aligned the macOS traffic lights with the preview toolbar in full preview #4979, #4935
- Restored PHP runtime controls in the create-site flow #4926
- Made new chats and sessions open faster by no longer scanning the whole session library #4987
- Formatted AI credit prices for your language #4915
- Polished menus, popovers, the Overview About card and the New Site flow #4942, #4964, #4965
- Updated the bundled PHP binaries #4891, #4938, #4939, #4940, #4941
- Updated multiple dependencies #4879, #4881, #4880, #4899, #4924, #4934, #4925, #4990
- Misc and maintenance improvements #4878, #4889, #4890, #4901, #4914, #4927, #4974, #4984, #4992
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