Bricks 2.3.8 was just released. This and 2.3.7 were bug fix and improvement releases. Personally, I’m very happy to see releases focusing on fixes. They make the builder more stable.

Congrats to the FluentCart team on the release of 1.5.0. They added advanced variations, which makes it much easier to create a product catalog when you have variations. Two other nice things about this are that it is in the free version and you don’t have to add a mishmash of plugins from different vendors.

The latest Elementor editor v4.2 adds Atomic CSS Grid and Atomic Loop (in the pro version), among other features.

Builderius has released a new remote sync feature. It enables the types of workflows that many site builders and developers want, but that are difficult with WordPress.

After several years of almost silence, the Toolset team today released a version that is fully compatible with the Full Site Editor and block based themes. A little late, but I am glad to see the update.

Beaver Builder is adding AI features. Not the first to the party, but the features look well thought-out.

WP Org plugin updates being delayed up to 24 hours for AI security scanning.

React was updated from version 18 to 19 in the Gutenberg plugin as a step in shipping the update with WordPress 7.1. However, issues surfaced due to Gutenberg addons that include their own version.

The targeted use cases are for contact form and mailing list sign-up. You will be able to use the styling and dynamic data features of GenerateBlocks. This is currently in the 2.6 beta.