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Gutenberg blocks and website builder plugin for WordPress

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A patch-cadence month for a young block plugin, free and Pro in lockstep

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◆Current state
Spectra Blocks, the ground-up Gutenberg block plugin launched in July, is in a steady patch rhythm: 1.0.3 through 1.0.6 on the free edition and 1.0.1 through 1.0.3 on Pro, usually within days of each other. The substance is Global Styles and Style Guide plumbing — theme colour sync, Style Guide colour sync on Pro, and now Global Styles variables plus button alignment fixes in 1.0.6. Crawled bodies truncate the What's Fixed lists, so the version titles carry most of the signal.
◆Where it's heading
Nothing here changes direction; this is the stabilisation phase a plugin goes through after a from-scratch launch, with the free and Pro editions patched as one cycle rather than two products. The recurring theme is styling consistency — colours and variables flowing correctly between theme, Style Guide and blocks — which is the part of a block plugin that breaks most visibly on real sites. Feature work has not resumed since launch.
◆Prediction
Expect the patch cadence to continue until Global Styles and Style Guide behaviour settles, after which the next named feature should land on Pro first given how the editions have been sequenced. The truncated bodies mean feature direction cannot be read from this feed with confidence.

◆Recent moves

  1. 9d ago

    Spectra Blocks 1.0.6 — Global Styles variables & button alignment

    Two fixes covering Global Styles variables and button alignment. It continues the styling-consistency thread running through every release since launch, and like its siblings the detailed fix list is truncated out of the crawled body.

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  2. 15d ago

    Spectra Blocks Pro 1.0.3 syncs Style Guide colours

    Pro 1.0.3 improves Style Guide colour sync, continuing the theme-inheritance thread that the free edition's 1.0.3 started. The body lists no specifics beyond the heading, so the extent of the change is not readable from the feed.

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  3. 17d ago

    Spectra Blocks 1.0.5 ships two bug fixes

    Two unnamed fixes in the free edition. Routine post-launch patching with no user-visible capability change.

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  4. 18d ago

    Spectra Blocks Pro 1.0.2 fixes Global Styles

    A Global Styles fix in Pro, flagged as important but unspecified in the body. Part of the same stabilization run as the free edition's patches.

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  5. 20d ago

    Spectra Blocks 1.0.4 fixes Button and Icon blocks

    Button and Icon fixes plus onboarding and Learn tab tweaks. Small corrective work on the blocks shipped at 1.0.0.

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  6. 26d ago

    Spectra Blocks Pro 1.0.1 ships two fixes

    Two fixes in Pro's first patch after launch, unnamed in the body. The free and Pro editions are patching in lockstep.

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