Breakdance 2.5 has entered beta. One of the new features is the ability to edit components from inside the editor, so that you don’t have to go out to a special page to edit them. There are lots of other features mentioned in the changelog.

Breakdance 2.3 has several new features, including the new revamped Quick Navigator, which allows you to create new pages, templates, and global blocks directly in the builder.

Breakdance 2.1 beta is now available for testing. It includes a large number of fixes and enhancements. Some of the enhancements include the ability for third party template designers to allow template import in one click, a rewritten Image Element that has leaner output on the fronted and more options in the backend, and a new display condition variable.

Here is a tutorial from the Meta Box team on how to show upcoming events using Meta Box and Breakdance.

See the Breakdance dynamic data features in action. In this video David McCan uses the new Breakdance version 2.0, together with Meta Box, to show how to create templates for a Custom Post Type. I also show how to display the Meta Box group repeater field.

Breakdance is preparing version 2.0 with a lot of new features. In this video David McCan looks at two that he thinks will be popular: migration mode and the new layout builder. The new migration mode appears to be unique and innovative.

With the help of breakdance XSS any user can trick the admin user to execute PHP code without them knowing it. The code is written by the Editor (or any other user role) and later executed unknowingly by the administrator.

A cool feature of Breakdance is the Element Studio. It is a UI for creating your own Breakdance elements. Breakdance enthusiast Supa Mike used it to create a free ThumbSlider element.

Security vulnerabilities were reported for two WordPress page builders – Oxygen and Breakdance. In an unusual move the developers pushed back. This article has the details.