Roadmap / Changelog

Welcome to the Scrollsequence v2 Roadmap and Changelog. Here you’ll find a detailed list of planned features, improvements, and bug fixes for the Scrollsequence plugin. This document is regularly updated to reflect the latest developments and priorities.

2.0.0-beta.52 Breaking Changes

Major Architectural Overhaul: From Plugin to Universal Engine

Scrollsequence v2.0.0-beta.52 marks the complete transformation from a WordPress-only plugin into a framework-agnostic, universal scroll animation engine.

Framework-Agnostic Core Library

• Standalone scrollsequence NPM Package: The core animation and rendering engine is now decoupled from WordPress and distributed via npm (release pending).
• Universal Framework Support: Native support for Vanilla JS, React / Next.js (scrollsequence/react), and headless environments with full TypeScript types exported directly from the package root.
• Replaced GSAP with motion: Migrated entirely from GSAP/ScrollTrigger to a lightweight, modern motion core with custom scroll interpolation (motionExt), eliminating commercial licensing friction and SPA lifecycle memory leaks.

Next-Gen Asset Pipeline & CLI (vid2ssq)

• Automated CLI (vid2ssq): Run npx scrollsequence vid2ssq video.mp4 to process raw video into multi-resolution WebP sequences with bundled ffmpeg-static and sharp (zero system dependencies).
• Framework Detection: CLI auto-detects Next.js public/ directories and outputs sequences and ready-to-use component snippets directly into your app.
• Unified Manifest Specification: Switched to scrollsequence-manifest.json supporting responsive viewport sizes and transparent WebP/PNG frames.

AI Cloud Pipeline & 3D Depth Maps (SSQ_API)

• 3D Depth Maps & Parallax: Hardware-accelerated WebGL depth displacement with real-time mouse/gyro tilt and zoom.
• AI Subject Tracking & Vision: Automatically track subjects across video frames to anchor interactive HTML overlays and extract camera motion data.
• Decoupled Cloud Proxy: Dedicated cloud API proxy authenticated with SSQ_API keys and integrated credit management.

Content Animations & Timeline System

• MediaGroup Scoped Timelines: Animations can now bind directly to individual media clips. Rearranging or trimming clips automatically keeps text and button animations in sync without breaking keyframes.
• Flexible Keyframes: Support for 0.0–1.0 progress, percentage (%), and exact frame-number addressing across onScroll, autoplay, and interactive events.
• Visual Timeline Dock: Dockable, multi-track editor in WordPress with draggable keyframe handles and JSON copy/paste support.

WordPress Plugin Modernization (v2)

• Native Gutenberg Blocks: Rebuilt Scene, Layer, and Canvas2d blocks to consume the shared core library with context-driven attributes.
• Seamless v1/v2 Coexistence: Full backward compatibility allowing legacy v1 sequences and modern v2 sequences to coexist on the same site without CSS or class collisions.

2.0.0-beta.7

** 16/01/2026 ** ( no breaking changes )

☑ Added drag and drop support for image and video uploads in Canvas 2D media tool input

☑ Updated patterns and added a few new ones showcasing different layout methods and effects

☑ Scene Block: Added min-width and overflow-x: clip to prevent horizontal scrollbars when content overflows horizontally

2.0.0-beta.6

** 30/12/2025 ** ( no breaking changes )

☑ Scene block now can be posinitioned to it flows with the content

☑ Scene Block updated to allow absolute positioning

☑ Scene Block updated to enable custom top and bottom margins

☑ Elementor compatibility improvements

☑ New Blocks Pattern: “Drop” Canvas 2D with flow and fixed content animations.

2.0.0-beta.5

** 09/12/2025 ** ( no breaking changes )

☑ Beta Release of Scrollsequence v2

2.0.0-alpha.43

** 02/12/2025 ** ( no breaking changes )

☑ Removed unnecessary container blocks from most patterns in Canvas 2D block to improve performance and rendering speed.

☑ Fixed issue with patterns for display with Free version limits.

☑ Performance improvements for Gutenberg editor

☑ Improvement on starter patterns and patterns inserter for Gutenberg editor

☑ Updated default 3D model for Canvas 3D block.

2.0.0-alpha.42

** 01/12/2025 ** ( no breaking changes )

☑ Fixed wrong plan title rendering in dashboard page

2.0.0-alpha.41

** 30/11/2025 ** ( no breaking changes )

☑ Spline is now loaded from CDN instead of being bundled with the plugin, reducing the plugin size significantly.

2.0.0-alpha.40

** 30/11/2025 ** ( no breaking changes )

☑ Removed unnecessary Lottie files, reducing the plugin size.

2.0.0-alpha.39

** 30/11/2025 ** ( no breaking changes )

☑ Updated Dashboard

2.0.0-alpha.38

** 28/11/2025 ** ( CAUTION: breaking changes - please read below )

☑ Moved from separate plugin to a sub-folder of the main Scrollsequence plugin

☑ Scrollsequence-v2 plugin is no longer needed, all v2 functionality is included in the main plugin

☑ Major API changes - please move to the main plugin to access the API and AI agent functionality

☑ Renamed “Viewport” Block to “Scene” Block

☑ Added free version functionality and limits

☑ Credits system is now applying limits based on the plan.

☑ a LOT of internal changes and optimizations

2.0.0-alpha.22

** 11/11/2025 **

☑ Fixed styling issue

☑ New Freemius SDK version integrated

2.0.0-alpha.21

** 11/11/2025 **

☑ Removed extra wrapper divs for animatied blocks inside Scene and Container Blocks

☑ Updated shortcode functionality and display in the Scroll Sequence CPT admin list

☑ Container Block - overflow-x set to ‘clip’ to prevent horizontal scrollbars when content overflows horizontally

☑ Video generator minor bug fix

☑ Added a hook for the shortcode to work in Elementor back end editor

2.0.0-alpha.20

** 31/10/2025 ** ( CAUTION: breaking changes - please read below )

☑ AI API changes, older versions will not generating images and videos correctly. Please update to start using the latest version of the plugin.

☑ Scene block no longer needs to be nested inside Container block. It can be used standalone.

☑ Media Tools are now in the Canvas 2D block toolbar under “Media Tools” button

☑ Tools include: img2img, img2vid, img2ssq, and more coming soon

☑ New ssq-media custom post type for managing media files generated by media tools

☑ Outputs from Video to Scrollsequence tool are now stored as ssq-media custom post type entries in WordPress wp-content/uploads/scrollsequence/*

☑ Canvas 2D has a new empty state, with suggested Templates (Patterns) to get started quickly, adder buttons, and Media Tools button.

☑ Build process cleanup

☑ Bugfix: Canvas 2D block - works with single image

☑ Code cleanup and optimizations

☑ Internal: Venovani

2.0.0-alpha.17

** 19/08/2025 ** ( no breaking changes )

☑ Fixed Feedback button (did not work on localhost )

☑ Improved error messages for AI Agent and API calls

☑ Updated patterns (robot)

2.0.0-alpha.16

** 19/08/2025 ** ( no breaking changes )

☑ Pointer Events support for Canvas 1D, 2D, 3D blocks and Content Animation nested inside Container and Scene blocks

☑ GSAP Context added for on scroll content animations - improved cleanup of initial values set() at the begning.

☑ Content animation controls for Canvas 1D, 2D, 3D blocks removed

☑ Scene Controls for “Send to Background”

☑ Template (Patterns) added.

2.0.0-alpha.15

** 11/08/2025 ** ( no breaking changes )

☑ Canvas 2D preview performance improvements

☑ Auto-refresher and Resize observer for Canvas 2D

2.0.0-alpha.14

** 08/08/2025 ** ( breaking change - animations nested inside scene block may have different starts/ends )

☑ Bugfix: Scroll animations of blocks nested inside scene block had wrong starting and ending trigger points. Fixed by attaching the triggers to scene element.

☑ On Scroll Content Animation now can be precisely triggered

☑ On Scroll Content Animation pinned when not inside scene, so it will not scroll with the rest of the content.

☑ Bugfix: Removed unnecessary Animation Settings from Canvas Blocks

☑ Canvas 2D now renders immediately once the first image finishes loading.

☑ Canvas - “Wrap in Scene” option to automatically wrap the canvas in a scene block

2.0.0-alpha.13

** 27/07/2025 ** ( no breaking changes )

☑ Better Getting Starter Guide and instructions for testers.

2.0.0-alpha.12

** 24/07/2025 ** ( no breaking changes )

☑ Improved version of image to video (img2img002) media tool.

2.0.0-alpha.11

** 23/07/2025 ** ( no breaking changes )

☑ Fixed issue with cache busting in the build process, which was causing the old version to be loaded when no changes were made to the view-asset.php file.

2.0.0-alpha.9

** 23/07/2025 ** ( no breaking changes )

☑ When canvas is nested inside scene, it will use the scene element size (duration) for the start/end of the scroll sequence.

☑ Canvas 2D media sorting by name, id and image filtering

2.0.0-alpha.8

** 22/07/2025 ** ( no breaking changes )

☑ Media files are now attached to correct post id when adding through Gutenberg Editor

☑ Corrected media convert, which was buggy for some video encodings

☑ Removed adding scroll_sequence_flag to media files, as it is slow and not used at the moment

2.0.0-alpha.7

** 17/07/2025 ** ( no breaking changes )

☑ AI Agent can generate animations for Inner Blocks of Container and Scene blocks

☑ AI Agent can generate animations for all standard WordPress blocks with that have Inner Blocks that are nested inside Container

☑ AI Agent can generate blocks, edit them and delete them

☑ AI Agent can generate animations for all standard WordPress blocks

2.0.0-alpha.6

** 11/07/2025 ** ( no breaking changes )

☑ Content Animation can be generated using AI agents

☑ Canvas 2D block supports image url prefix and suffix for image sequences

2.0.0-alpha.2

** 13/06/2025 ** ( no breaking changes )

☑ Initial release of Canvas 2D, Canvas 3D Container and Scene blocks

☑ Media Tools for preparing and generating media content and generating animations using AI agents

☑ 2D - Basic image sequence support

☑ 3D - Spline integration

☑ Content Animation using GSAP Keyframes