Release Notes 2024: October Edition | Figma

We’re back with our second episode of Release Notes—a look at all the latest Figma updates to help you make your greatest work yet. Join us live as we drop brand new features and recap everything we shipped in October ICYMI.

00:00 Release Notes intro
0:15 Intro with Jake Albaugh (Developer Advocate) and Kaitie Chambers (Designer Advocate)
1:08 Figma Design updates
1:12 UI3 updates
1:40 Swap instance improvements
2:03 Resizable Prototyping modal
2:23 Offline Prototypes and Slides
2:50 Variables details in branch view
3:30 Typography updates with Kari Bancroft (Software Engineering Manager)
3:53 Underline styles
5:58 Local font detection
6:34 Missing fonts upgrade
7:08 Dev Mode updates (Code Connect)
12:43 Figma Slides updates
17:23 Tips, tricks, and treats
20:19 Figma Design recap
20:59 Dev Mode recap
21:10 Figma Slides recap
21:52 Tips, tricks, and treats recap

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[shreyaskulkarni]

This is a great way to share updates! Understanding how the updates work like this really makes a better mental model for the features.

These updates are pretty cool!

[robertanicastro]

Really enjoying this form of release notes — much easier than written updates IMO! Thanks for sharing

[michaelreddington]

The two features I'd love to see added are:
1. Percentages for width (for responsive columns)
2. Text background-color

[hlnhd]

In the variables panel, please allow us to adjust the column width. Currently, it’s very inconvenient to work with long tokens in a fixed-width column. Actually, allow us to adjust the width of any modal. This is extremely important.

[janknudsen]

When are the updates going live for everyone? Waiting for those new underline features ___

[paqalodniq]

Updates for the Underline text and Paragraph are amazing!
The only thing I wish for underline is the ability to change its opacity.

[Lukas-es]

With UI3 nested a lot of functionality behind icon buttons. Makes it really annoying to use

[krycek]

Awesome updates 👏👏 Aside from that I'll never stop saying - Dev mode is simply too expensive

[decocentric]

Still haven’t had the chance to go through the September edition and here are are, having a new 20+ minutes video with October updates. The is is like a never catching up race 😢

[waleedatwork]

great initiative i think you guys should keep this going

[LovepreetSingh-ijb]

Great updates! It's more useful for designers.

[ScottLeapman]

I have a feature request - is there a way to determine if it's already been received and prioritized or perhaps a better place than here to submit it?

[blaskotron]

I've needed the dotted underline multiple times. Nice to not make it with a separate frame and stroke.

Great updates.

[rohitjadhav]

Great updates!!
Is there a way we can move a page from one file to another?

[Tech_Ups]

Cool updates 🔥


Just that some of these updates are released a little too slowly for some of us.

[selzbbl]

I wrote about customizing underlines in text a couple of years ago. I wonder if the connectors in Figma, which are already in FigJam, will also take us a couple more years to wait for?

[debruehe]

I've got some of the features but not the underline styling – aren't they all part of the same update?

[francemarzo]

Loving Slides and resizable + offline prototype updates

[pilarfernandezrenaldi]

Hello. I have the figma last version but I cant see undeline option for example. Whys that?.. I have to set something?

[RockyRoark-xzuh]

I doubt this is possible, but can we add comments to an embedded Figma file—without going into the file itself?