# Advanced Background Image Control & Native Background Blur

**URL:** <https://community.penpot.app/t/advanced-background-image-control-native-background-blur/10638>\
**Category:** Feature requests\
**Tags:** design, feature-request, plugins, css\
**Created:** [June 8, 2026, 7:17am UTC](https://community.penpot.app/t/advanced-background-image-control-native-background-blur/10638 "2026-06-08T07:17:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![LauraKalbag](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/community.penpot.app/laurakalbag/32/5014_2.png) [@LauraKalbag](https://community.penpot.app/u/LauraKalbag)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2026, 8:52am UTC](https://community.penpot.app/t/advanced-background-image-control-native-background-blur/10638/2 "2026-06-08T08:52:05Z")

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

> [@Not a roadmap, but… what's coming in Penpot (June 2026)](https://community.penpot.app/t/not-a-roadmap-but-whats-coming-in-penpot-june-2026/10628/1):
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> ## Track 1: Design Experience and Reliability
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> **Goal:** Make Penpot feel faster, more stable, and more trustworthy for daily work, especially on complex files.
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> ### Planned
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> - **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)](https://community.penpot.app/t/not-a-roadmap-but-whats-coming-in-penpot-june-2026/10628):
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> What’s next for Penpot? If you read our [2025 “not a roadmap”](https://community.penpot.app/t/not-a-roadmap-recent-current-and-2025-initiatives/7375), 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.…

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