September 2025: Ghost admin upgrade flow stabilized with real-time feature entitlement. Delivered real-time upgrade reflection for subscription changes by implementing React Query cache invalidation, reloading the limit service, and correcting memoization in useLimiter to ensure immediate feature access post-upgrade. Fixed UI refresh latency so plan changes reflect without manual refresh. This work improved UX, reduced support friction, and strengthened state management and performance.

June 2025 performance summary: Delivered comprehensive plan-based access controls and feature-gating across TryGhost/SDK and TryGhost/Ghost to strengthen monetization, reduce feature misuse, and improve UX for pricing tiers. Key items included: 1) Limit-Service: introduced three new feature flags (limitStripeConnect, limitAnalytics, limitActivityPub) with updated docs and configuration; commits: 4473f7494cc753272c90d55ca94468b49419ac0b. 2) Web Analytics Limit Enforcement: restricted analytics features by subscription plan; commit: 71967d3854ee3da58be0a28b48eed8028a305c63. 3) Social Web Gating in Beta Labs: gate Social Web behind plan limits in Labs settings; commits: 12b48ea8a48e5a50a00e3a8ad8051eda0f44e17a and 6e990fcb4a4897de6368ee71777e27db5b2083da. 4) Stripe Connect Limit Enforcement: restrict Stripe Connect functionality and prompt upgrades when limits are exceeded; commit: 90882b3de501929906faad5f1479e50f72853381. 5) Ghost Admin Theme Limit Enforcement: enforce theme-related limits via a centralized hook and upgrade prompts; commit: bb9a04decb2ba93ccf58f4c0fecbe26651fa113e.

May 2025 monthly summary for TryGhost/Ghost: Implemented a security-preserving fix in the data-import workflow to protect the email_verification_required setting against being overwritten. This ensures migration/imports cannot alter critical security flags, preserving integrity across environments. The change adds the key to ignoredSettings and includes a unit test to verify correct behavior. No new user-facing features released this month; the focus was on robustness and security of the import process.