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Oxygen

DESIGN
Velocity6.3

Visual website builder for WordPress with granular design control

The agent-driven builder is real; the beta train fixing it is still running.

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Current state
Oxygen spent the 6.2 cycle opening its object model to outside AI agents, and is now four betas deep into stabilising it. The headline capability — an agent creating and editing pages, templates, Components, selectors, variables and site settings — shipped in July and has not changed since; everything after it has been correction. Beta 3 added the other substantive item of the cycle, localisation, ending the requirement to build in English.
Where it's heading
The release rhythm has settled into long beta trains punctuated by one directional release, and 6.2's beta run is now longer than 6.1's was. Fix areas named in the latest beta — builder, Gutenberg, MCP server — show where the agent integration is costing stability: the MCP surface is being debugged in public alongside the ordinary builder regressions. Localisation arriving mid-beta rather than at 6.2's announcement suggests scope is still being added to the train.
Prediction
With Beta 4 listing fixes rather than features, an RC is the next expected step before 6.2 goes final. Whether the MCP server keeps appearing in bug-fix lists is the thing to watch — it is the part of 6.2 with no prior release history to lean on.

Recent moves

  1. 3d ago

    Fourth 6.2 beta: builder, Gutenberg and MCP server fixes

    A fourth round of beta corrections with no new capability, pointing back to the Beta 1 announcement for what 6.2 actually contains. The fix areas are the interesting part — builder, Gutenberg and MCP server — confirming the agent integration is still being shaken out rather than settled.

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  2. 10d ago

    Oxygen 6.2 Beta 3: Now in Your Language

    Oxygen becomes usable in languages other than English for the first time, having always required building in English regardless of the site being built. Landing this mid-beta rather than in the 6.2 announcement suggests the release train absorbed it late, and it broadens who can adopt the builder independently of the agent work.

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  3. 24d ago

    Oxygen 6.2 Beta 2 Is Now Available

    A bug-fix beta with a bare changelog link and no described change, deferring entirely to the Beta 1 announcement. It marks time in the 6.2 stabilisation run.

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  4. 29d ago

    Oxygen 6.2 Is Now Available

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    This is the release the rest of the window orbits. Oxygen opened its object model to an outside AI agent, so pages, templates, Components, selectors, variables, dynamic data and site settings can be written by something other than a human in the canvas. It reframes the product from a drawing surface into an addressable builder that a developer's existing agent can operate.

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  5. 1mo ago

    Oxygen 6.1.1 Is Now Available

    A maintenance release clearing regressions reported after 6.1, closing out the previous cycle days before the 6.2 work surfaced. Stability housekeeping with no user-facing addition.

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  6. 2mo ago

    Oxygen 6.1 RC 1 Is Now Available

    A release candidate addressing pre-release regressions in the 6.1 train, again pointing at the Beta 1 announcement for substance. Part of the same long beta-to-RC pattern 6.2 is now repeating.

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