Advanced Background Image Control & Native Background Blur

[LauraKalbag]

Hey @Cimi_Larkes. You might want to check out Andy’s post from last week. I’ve highlighted the relevant parts below:

@myfunnyandy

Track 1: Design Experience and Reliability

Goal: Make Penpot feel faster, more stable, and more trustworthy for daily work, especially on complex files.

Planned

• Design deal-breakers → In progress
  Design improvements we deliberately held back while the new renderer was still the big bet. With WebGL in beta, that backlog is unblocked and we can ship them (for example: Background blur, Stroke per side, PDFs export improvement, Numbered lists, Image crop, Video player).

Not a roadmap, but… what's coming in Penpot (June 2026)

[Cover for "Roadmap (Updated in June 2026)"] What’s next for Penpot? If you read our 2025 “not a roadmap”, you already know the deal: this is not a promise list. It is an open window into what we are working on now, what is coming up, and why. A lot has happened since that post. We shipped native design tokens and variants. We worked through a long list of design deal-breakers (the small and medium fixes that make daily work less painful). Tokens sync with external tools is still in progress.…