And now a message from one of our infrastructure teams: Hi Everyone, We are pleased to share that the Photoshop’s backend infrastructure for UXP plugins has been updated and is now available in the Photoshop Beta build: 27.8 20260510.m.3537 This update ensures a more consistent look and feel for Photoshop UXP plugins across Creative Cloud applications and lays the foundation for future UI enhancements and shared capabilities. What this means for UXP plugin developers? For the UXP plugins not using Spectrum components, this update would bring your plugin’s UI to a lot closer to a Spectrum based UXP plugin. For the UXP plugins using Spectrum components, this change is largely not expected to impact UI look and feel, except for changes in text font size and placement of text with in the text area. Before this change Ps was ignoring the font size of the text field (sp-textfield) passed down from the plugin and always used a fixed size to render the text. With this change, Ps will handle the font size passed from plugins and use that. If the font size inside text fields look different in latest Ps Beta, please try updating the font size in your UXP plugin code. Our bundled UXP plugins provided a good testbed for the change, but we acknowledge that it is not exhaustive. Please test your UXP plugins in the latest Photoshop Beta and share feedback here if you notice any visual changes or functional issues. Your input is important and will help us ensure a smooth transition as we progress toward a full release. Please share your feedback, questions or any issues you encounter by replying to this thread. Thanks, Photoshop Team

With Drover It seems like sp-textfields with type=“number” now round the number values by default??? So now any plugin that used to be able to have a value like 8.5 will be forced to round to 9…which you know…BREAKS A TON OF THINGS. I can add a step=“0.001” to allow values like 8.5 but then it always shows 8.500

@samgannaway Can you tell us how to get the sp-textfield values to be cenetered vertically with these new changes instead of looking bad and uncentered? Can you tell us how to deal with the fact that sp-textfiled type=“number” values are now forced to round to the nearest whole number and every plugin that relies on that to be able to have a decimal is now not working correctly? If only several users had pointed out in the prerelease forums that Drover was causing these problems and that drover was not yet ready to be pushed into the public beta…oh wait.

Hi @JasonM, Thanks, for sharing this issue. We are looking into the reported issues and will get back if need any further information. Thanks,

Hello @Jarda , Could you please share the version number of the Kitchen Sink plugin or sample code for us to reproduce some of these issues? Thanks

Sure And then just type and hit enter until it no longer fits. And make sure you are on Windows 11

How does DroverUXP relate to Spectrum SWC? Is it a replacement? Is it an addition to SWC? GitHub - adobe/swc-uxp-wrappers: SWC UXP wrappers · GitHub

@samgannaway it would be really appreciated if you or someone at Adobe could offer some help on this. Is there somewhere else I should be posting? The pre-release forum also does not seem to be getting me any helpful replies. I am getting a bit desperate now that Drover is in the public beta and these issues are now more prevalent. It seems like Adobe is moving forward with Drover despite the issues for developers, so we could use some help on how to mitigate the issues for Adobe users.

Border styling no longer provides solid borders They’re now a bit fuzzy compared to before Drover as shown in the enlargement below. [border-ps-2026-vs-ps-beta] This is just border: 2px solid #ffffff’ in the HTML, but it renders differently with drover.

Do you have the size of the box in pixels? Are those integers or decimals?

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JasonM May 15, 2026, 9:24pm 9

Tried adding the size values as directed in the kitchen sink.
<sp-textfield type="number" size="xl" placeholder="Pick a Number"></sp-textfield>

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