• Added AI image generation to Studio Code: the agent now creates real images while it builds a site, instead of leaving placeholders behind, guided by a new imagery skill #4668
• Improved the AI credits experience: the top-up dialog now offers four credit amounts, explains what credits are and how they differ from tokens, and links to the AI credits guidelines. A new usage meter in Settings → Usage shows how much you have left #4678, #4679, #4692
• Improved the Studio Code terminal UI: tools that run at the same time now report their own progress and results live, instead of piling up under the last tool call #4653
• Studio Code: Improved the sites the agent builds — anchor links in one-page site headers now point at the home page, pill labels stay inside the content column, and styling prefers the theme's block styles over custom CSS #4655, #4677, #4680
• Fixed new sites being created in English instead of the language configured in Studio #4667
• Fixed being signed out of wp-admin every time a site restarted, such as after saving settings, changing the PHP version, or toggling Xdebug #4703
• Fixed the Publish button showing the previous user's cached remote sites after signing out and back in #4589
• Agentic UI: Fixed settings alignment in some languages, a blurred scrollbar beneath conversations, the empty-state frost clipping at the panel edge, and the About card's disk measurement thrashing when switching sites #4687, #4556, #4555, #4627
• Agentic UI: Simplified phpMyAdmin's embedded interface, improved the working timer's units and transition, and made the agent's preview refresh drop the cache like the toolbar's does #4684, #4579, #4625
• Data Liberation: Added timeouts to browser calls so extraction cannot hang, removed stub commands that shadowed their skills, and updated its dependencies #4584, #4682, #4664
• Updated multiple dependencies, including the ESLint and testing groups, RuboCop and claude-code-action #4707, #4708, #4710, #4711
• Misc and maintenance improvements #4670, #4693, #4694

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• Introduced AI credits in Studio Code: you can now purchase AI credits for your sessions. Your remaining balance now shows in the composer, in Usage settings, and in Studio Classic settings. You get a clear message and a working top-up link when you run out, and the balance refreshes as soon as you return from topping up #4604, #4602, #4636, #4609, #4619, #4628, #4639, #4624
• Added hosted AI models — Kimi, GLM and DeepSeek — available through the WordPress.com proxy #4529
• Studio Code: Improved generated themes with a content width and horizontal gutter, a registered no-title page template so designed pages no longer repeat their title, and slideshow and gallery builds steered to Jetpack blocks #4571, #4576, #4610
• Misc Agentic UI improvements #4468, #4526, #4537, #4538, #4558, #4560, #4561, #4568, #4569, #4570, #4572, #4575, #4578, #4586, #4591, #4598, #4607, #4608, #4621, #4623, #4626
• Improved Studio analytics #4535
• Updated multiple dependencies, including Electron and the ESLint, Vite, testing and Ruby groups #4547, #4631, #4548, #4633, #4549, #4632, #4566, #4661, #4546, #4629, #4630
• Misc and maintenance improvements #4531, #4654, #4581, #4600, #4665

Download Studio 1.19.0: Mac Intel (DMG), Mac Apple Silicon (DMG), Windows - x64, Windows - ARM64, Linux - x64 (DEB), Linux - ARM64 (DEB)

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• Made the Agentic UI the default experience for new users, removed its feature flag, and added a Beta menu to the sidebar #4389, #4485
• Agentic UI: Reworked the new-user onboarding with a first-run orientation guide and a "What's New" view #4413, #4331, #4414, #4501
• Agentic UI: Rebuilt the site preview with a new address bar and omnibox, live page and post search, responsive preview modes, and a full preview panel with Desktop + Mobile comparison #4366, #4367, #4373, #4368, #4423, #4364, #4527
• Agentic UI: Brought over the remaining site workflows from the classic UI — the site overview, backup import, Open in actions, connecting a WordPress.com site, selective sync, and cancelling an in-flight push or pull #4470, #4473, #4500, #4469, #4365, #4307, #4305, #4377, #4510, #4522, #4461, #4350
• Agentic UI: Added multi-note annotation sessions and support for your own Anthropic API key, selectable per conversation from the model menu #4521, #4460, #4455, #4503, #4550
• Agentic UI: Polished chat, settings and the create-site flow, improved RTL and reduced-transparency support, and fixed a range of preview, layout and interaction issues #4328, #4509, #4459, #4530, #4408, #4291, #4339, #4497, #4354, #4433, #4391, #4528, #4341, #4499, #4388, #4442, #4370, #4505, #4519, #4329, #4337, #4335, #4359, #4520, #4334, #4338, #4380, #4498, #4362, #4443, #4421, #4453, #4332, #4361
• Studio Code: Replaced Opus 4.8 with Opus 5, surfaced the payment-method requirement before the first prompt, and showed a clear notice when AI is disabled or the account is blocked #4342, #4422, #4386, #4463, #4493
• Studio Code: Fixed a 400 error when using a direct Anthropic API key, validated the key in the api-key and provider CLI commands, and sent a custom user agent on AI requests #4480, #4504, #4437
• Improved analytics across the app #4162, #4532, #4464, #4490, #4482, #4434, #4506, #4457, #4420, #4395, #4418, #4358
• Made site startup and creation more resilient: a site with a fatal PHP error now starts and shows the error, a failed Blueprint reports the real reason instead of the PHP exit code, and a failed creation no longer leaves a ghost site behind #4246, #4487, #4489
• Fixed sites getting into a broken state when two operations ran at once, such as starting a site while it was still stopping #4406
• Fixed a stuck Start/Stop indicator and the inverted play/pause glyphs on the site status toggle #4253, #4374
• Fixed site URLs not updating on native PHP imports and an ENAMETOOLONG error from open_basedir, raised max_execution_time, and dropped Blueprint features the native runner cannot accept #4454, #4432, #4274, #4488
• Added Spotlight keywords for improved discoverability, and dropped the restart popup when an update is ready #3255, #4405
• Updated the bundled PHP binaries and the SQLite database integration to v3.0.0-rc.8 #4438, #4440, #4439, #4436, #4417
• Updated multiple dependencies, including WP Playground, Electron and the pi (agent) packages, resolving several security alerts #4230, #4327, #4357, #4383, #4384, #4428, #4416
• Misc and maintenance improvements #4456, #4375, #4431, #4491, #4313, #4379, #4378, #4340, #4394, #4393, #4372, #4399, #4419, #4290, #4472, #4336, #4492, #4481, #4507, #4512, #4396, #4330, #4324, #4371

Download Studio 1.18.0: Mac Intel (DMG), Mac Apple Silicon (DMG), Windows - x64, Windows - ARM64, Linux - x64 (DEB), Linux - ARM64 (DEB)

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• Added support for importing WordPress export (WXR/.xml) files #4046
• Agentic UI: Redesigned application settings as an auto-saving fullscreen overlay with new tabs — Account, AI, MCP, Skills, Usage, Keyboard shortcuts, Studio CLI — plus a default site directory preference #4297, #4219, #4270, #4295, #4264, #4271, #4286, #4277, #4302, #4275, #4278
• Agentic UI: Added a site overview view, site creation from imports, suggested starter prompts, persistent update notifications, and an Xdebug indicator for Xdebug-enabled sites #4258, #4249, #4225, #4204, #4285
• Agentic UI: Improved continuity between sessions — returning to the last visited site, remembering the preview path per site — and defined the signed-out and offline experiences #4130, #4281, #4183, #4232
• Agentic UI: Separated the agentic features toggle from the classic UI switcher, and removed the theme toggle from the sidebar user menu #4312, #4263
• Agentic UI: Fixed expired previews, chat input resizing, preview button sizing, the collapsed sidebar overlapping the chat history icon, and made the WordPress version field a dropdown in site settings #4298, #4301, #4303, #4280, #4284
• Agentic UI: Brought over the Wapuu World easter egg #4299
• Studio Code: Added a global instructions config for the agent #4255
• Studio Code: Surfaced monthly AI usage limit errors across all surfaces #4310
• Studio Code: Made the agent aware of theme asset bundling #4262
• Deleted AI chat sessions when their site is deleted, continuing cleanup even if one session fails #4132, #4292
• CLI: Added aliases for the help, version and path commands, and made studio ui work in release builds #4276, #4257
• Hardened security: fixed path injection in path comparison, ReDoS in the mu-plugins loader, and HTML sanitization in AI tool result previews; restricted local imports to registered uploads and scoped CLI preview listings to the authenticated user #4267, #4254, #4260, #4308, #4252
• Updated multiple dependencies, including Electron, Sentry, tar and shell-quote, resolving security alerts for esbuild and brace-expansion #4319, #4241, #4242, #4266, #4268, #4294
• Misc and maintenance improvements #4272, #4293, #4279, #4289, #4300, #4234, #4282, #4229

Download Studio 1.17.0: Mac Intel (DMG), Mac Apple Silicon (DMG), Windows - x64, Windows - ARM64, Linux - x64 (DEB), Linux - ARM64 (DEB)

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• 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

Download Studio 1.16.0: Mac Intel (DMG), Mac Apple Silicon (DMG), Windows - x64, Windows - ARM64, Linux - x64 (DEB), Linux - ARM64 (DEB)

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• Fixed Xdebug not starting on a normal page load on the native PHP runtime #4086
• Added skipping dangling symlinks when archiving site content #4038
• Studio Code: Screenshots taken by the assistant now appear inline in the conversation, and the agent can capture pages in light or dark mode #3982, #4097
• Studio Code: Allowed editing your last message after interrupting the assistant #4094, #4123
• Studio Code: Improved the /liberate command for recreating sites from other platforms, including surfacing it when searching for "migrate" #4095, #4110, #4111
• Studio Code: Fixed the agent seeing running local sites as stopped when resuming a session, avoiding redundant site starts #4096
• Update native PHP binaries to latest versions to fix SQLite issue #4118, #4141, #4142, #4143, #4144
• Allowed more time for AI-powered plugins to receive a response before timing out #3120
• Improved an error message when a site is in maintenance mode #3948
• Improved CLI slash-command autocomplete with alphabetical sorting and match highlighting #4116, #4120
• Misc CLI and maintenance improvements #4089, #4108, #4109, #4011, #4000

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• Fixed a fatal Windows issue where native PHP sites failed to run when the username was longer than 8 characters #4082
• Studio Code: Added a /liberate command to recreate sites from other platforms (e.g. Wix) as WordPress #3940
• Studio Code: Added a /publish command to push local sites to WordPress.com #4043
• Studio Code: Updated the assistant's available model to Sonnet 5 #4024
• Studio Code: Agent file edits now show as proper line-by-line diffs in the CLI and desktop assistant #4076
• Studio Code: Improved plugin recommendations for Automattic products, and tuned agent behavior for native PHP vs Playground sites #4023, #3995
• Studio Code: Fixed an unwanted gap in block themes scaffolded by the assistant #4053
• Fixed an issue where Pressable sites were marked unsupported on the Sync tab #4078
• Fixed recreating missing db.php drop-ins and preserving custom SQLite drop-ins #3993
• Fixed occasional failures when duplicating a site #4074
• Fixed broken Central Kurdish (Sorani) text on macOS by bundling the Vazirmatn font #4062
• Updated multiple dependencies, including WP Playground and PHP-WASM, the SQLite database integration, and the pi (agent) packages #4015, #4033, #4073
  Full Changelog: v1.13.0...v1.14.0

Download Studio 1.14.0: Mac Intel (DMG), Mac Apple Silicon (DMG), Windows - x64, Windows - ARM64, Linux - x64 (DEB), Linux - ARM64 (DEB)

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• Updated native PHP packages to include necessary Windows DLLs #4042, #4045, #4050, #4055, #4049
• Added sidebar toggle keyboard shortcut (Cmd+B on macOS and Ctrl+B on Windows/Linux) #3960
• Differentiated preview sites from connected WordPress.com remote sites #3677
• Improved attachment handling in the Studio Code composer #3925
• Added copy button and selectable text to agent code blocks #3963
• Tweaked system prompt to mention database #3957
• Documented SQLite-to-MySQL migration path in STUDIO.md and publishing to supported hostings #3984
• Handle 413 push failures gracefully in Studio sync #3973
• Fixed transparent active state on attachment delete button in composer #3962
• Skip persisted tool_progress entries during session replay #3909
• Added hosting-plans-helper skill for plan and pricing answers #4010
• Fixed Studio Code annotate closing message that always referenced the CLI #4020
• Removed noop menu items from topbar context menu #4031

Download Studio 1.13.0: Mac Intel (DMG), Mac Apple Silicon (DMG), Windows - x64, Windows - ARM64, Linux - x64 (DEB), Linux - ARM64 (DEB)

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• Introduced PHP runtime and File Access options, and improved the native PHP runtime: fixed WP-CLI tool calls, asset loading for sites with a remote site URL, and blueprint creation from read-only directories, and made pull-reprint work with native PHP #3786, #3926, #3915, #3847, #3988, #3889, #3881
• Improved Studio Code: content is checked before it is applied to your site, ecommerce sites are set up more reliably, and push/pull prompts are clearer. Tool calls are easier to follow with descriptions and a detail panel, remote sign-in shows a copyable login link, multiple-choice questions appear as clickable buttons, visual annotations install their browser automatically on first use, and available models were updated #3753, #3874, #3875, #3903, #3904, #3900, #3868, #3833, #3841, #3827, #3828
• Added assistant usage limits in Settings with clearer limit messaging, and made it clearer which settings apply to a site vs the whole app #3843, #3831, #3886
• Made the standalone Studio CLI easier to install and use: one-command install and updates from the web, a clean uninstall option, shorter commands for everyday site tasks, and new terminal commands to view and change site settings #3064, #3835, #3974, #3884
• Improved pull-reprint: choose a site from a searchable list when you have several connected sites, and re-running the command now syncs remote changes to your local copy #3729, #3768
• Added a Kurdish (Sorani) locale and improved locale handling #3873, #3214, #3776
• Renamed "Copy site" to "Duplicate site" #3759
• Improved performance and packaging: faster packaging builds, smaller installers, a higher PHP memory limit, and a cap on simultaneously running sites #3785, #3943, #3936, #3887
• Fixed dark mode across Studio Code dialogs, the site preview panel, and theming, and allowed conversation text to be selected and copied #3844, #3779, #3871, #3836
• Fixed a startup crash on Node.js 22, surfaced PHP errors when a site fails to start, resolved slow .local DNS on macOS, preserved in-progress messages in Studio Code, and restored the recorded model when resuming a session by id #3885, #3813, #3912, #3824, #3819
• Fixed tooltip delay so tooltips do not pop up instantly when moving the cursor #3942
• Clarified Sync and quit-sites messaging, and fixed What's New modal copy #3929, #3837, #3924, #3946
• Misc maintenance #3849
• Updated multiple dependencies, including WP Playground, PHP-WASM, bundled PHP binaries, the SQLite database integration, and Reprint

Download Studio 1.12.0: Mac Intel (DMG), Mac Apple Silicon (DMG), Windows - x64, Windows - ARM64, Linux - x64 (DEB), Linux - ARM64 (DEB)

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• Made Studio Code the default in the Studio app, replacing the previous Studio Assistant tab #3696, #3709, #3725, #3733, #3741
• Improved site status check for json format #3485
• Improved context for errors that bubble up from wordpress-server-child #3477
• Fixed multiple issues with the Dark theme for Studio Code #3744, #3745
• Fixed CLI symlink updates after Studio app update #3713
• Adjusted error display when backup status response is unexpected #3702
• Improved onboarding ToS/Privacy notices above the login CTA #3764
• Added one-time ToS/Privacy disclaimer in Studio CLI and Studio Code #3763
• Updated multiple dependencies, including WordPress packages and React

Download Studio 1.11.0: Mac Intel (DMG), Mac Apple Silicon (DMG), Windows - x64, Windows - ARM64, Linux - x64 (DEB), Linux - ARM64 (DEB)

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