The official announcement and walkthrough of changes.

Figma will raise prices and change the billing experience next year, as explained by Tom Lowry. (My heart goes out to him for being the face of this change.) The cost of the Professional plan goes up by 33% from $15/​month or $144/​year to $20/​month or $192/​year. (Consider switching to the annual billing before the price goes up!) The seat on the Organization plan increased by 22% from $540 to $660 per year (the cost of the Dev Mode seat didn’t change), and on the Enterprise plan by 20% from $900 to $1,080.

To soften the blow, all paid seats now include FigJam and Slides. The Dev seat became available on the Professional plan for $15/​m or $144/​year (the cost of the Full seat before the price increase). Slides is now bundled with FigJam on the new Collab seat, available for $5/​month or $36/​year on the Professional plan and $60/​year on other plans.

The new admin experience finally provides an upfront control of how users get upgraded. Later next year, they plan to roll out Connected Projects announced at Config, so freelancers and agencies won’t need to pay twice for seats.

An overview of everything shipped this year. It’s a long list!

The layers panel finally supports lots of nested frames or long layer names with horizontal scrolling.

A new update to Slides lets you bring slides from Figma into a deck with one click.

Dev Mode now suggests variables when the value matches a style, color, or size, even if it wasn’t specified in the design. The new color picker also moved in this direction, and now I want this principle to be applied whenever my values overlap with a style or variable. It should be easier both for designers and developers to use the right primitives.

Selecting a variable in Dev Mode now opens a pop-up panel that includes values, properties, aliases, collection information, and more. There is also a new view for all the variable collections used in the file. Watch a demo of all the new features.

A new libraries modal optimized for adding and browsing relevant libraries. Highlights of this redesign include a new recommended tab and overall improvements to performance and navigation.

Choose a color, style (solid, dotted, or wavy), thickness, and offset of your underlines.

Is this new? Very cool.

Select multiple layers in Figma Slides and apply edits to them all at once.

Component properties can now be bound to variables, unlocking the ability to use translation strings in props. Learn how to bind them together in this video by Chad Bergman or this thread by Jacob Miller.

A fully redesigned eyedropper for UI3 now supports color variables and styles! Rotate between color formats with the Tab key — previously, that could have been changed only in the color panel. Switch between picking the raw color value or a variable/​style with a Shift key or creating and applying a new color variable/​style by using the shortcut Command-Shift. See an in-depth demo from Ana.

This update is near and dear to my heart, as I talked about color formats and working around a lack of support for styles in an eyedropper back in 2023 at Config. Love that both features are now so straightforward to use!

A few small improvements to variables, the biggest being the ability to copy and paste (but not move) variables across collections and show their values on hover. Other updates improve the authoring experience by adding new variables under selection, tabbing through fields, and resizing columns. See a video demo from Chad Bergman or read the release notes.

These improvements are very welcome, but after a year of using variables, I still rely on a mix of random plugins for most organizational tasks. My not-so-short wishlist for Config 2025: moving variables between collections and libraries, seeing where they’re used, replacing one variable with another, detecting unused variables, reviewing deleted variables still in use, and suggesting variables based on the value. Alright, 2026 might be a better target.

I covered October updates in the previous issue, but now you can watch the recording of the second episode of Release Notes with advocates Jake Albaugh and Kaitie Chambers.

New tools for managing no longer needed projects by moving them to trash, recovering, or permanently deleting.

You can now lock sections in FigJam to prevent them from accidentally being moved.

1) Add new template styles to your decks directly from the styles overview modal. 2) Rename and delete template styles. 3) Draft presenter notes with AI — ​“just add one line of text to your slide and let AI do the heavy lifting.” 4) You can now edit your presenter notes in Presenter View. 5) The Multi-edit is now available in Figma Slides.

“In the Figma desktop app, you can now double-click on the tab you’re working in to rename your file.”

You can now download your prototype or slide deck to view or present offline.

The modal you use to swap instances of a component has been upgraded in UI3 and now matches the layers panel, with folder nesting and options for list and grid views.