Figma adds version history for generative plugins and shaders

Figma’s [October 27 release notes](https://www.figma.com/release‑notes/) say that editing a generative plugin or shader now creates a new version while preserving previous versions. Users can revisit and restore those earlier versions. The update is marked as rolling out this week, so the announcement is not confirmation that every account already has it. For someone iterating on an AI‑generated tool, that changes the recovery question: an earlier result can remain available to return to as the tool is edited. The release describes version history for the plugin or shader itself; it does not announce a general backup policy for every file or generated asset.

Each new version receives an agent‑generated description, forming a change log. Figma says that history also shows which version is currently published.

Those are two related pieces of information: what changed between saved versions and which version is published. The note does not say that restoring a previous version automatically publishes it. A user checking what others will receive should therefore distinguish the restored or edited version from the published‑version indicator. That is a reading of the documented states, rather than a tested sequence of interface steps.

The [release note](https://www.figma.com/release‑notes/) does not specify a history‑retention period, a plan‑by‑plan eligibility table or a separate price for this update. It also does not document the controls for publishing a restored version. Those details should remain open questions rather than being filled in from assumptions about other Figma features. Figma co‑founder and CEO Dylan Field at TechCrunch Disrupt on October 20, 2022. Archive company context, not this update or its interface. Photo: Kimberly White/Getty Images for TechCrunch, [via Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dylan_Field_TechCrunch_Disrupt_2022_1435088564.jpg), [CC BY 2.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/). Cropped and downscaled; no artificial upscaling.