I read that it will be with the release of XD 36, but when will that be?
According to @kerrishotts Spectrum component support for XD, rather soon (“November release”) 
but the October version was 34 
It’s coming soon as part of one of the monthly updates from XD. As you can tell, there has been some motion on which release it will be.
Is there anything you’d like to know about this other than which release it will ship with?
(@pklaschka I’m not certain that XD plugins in Creative Cloud Desktop and full Spectrum UXP support are necessarily tied together.)
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True, but the question said it will be in XD 36, and the thread at least gave a release date on XD 36. So if
is true, according to the thread linked above, it would be in November 
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An October 21 post in the Adobe Tech Blog said:
- XD Plugins are targeted to arrive in the new Plugin Marketplace with the release of XD 36.
- Publisher profiles are coming soon to the Plugin Marketplace aggregating extensions and plugins from the same developer.
- Paid XD plugins are arriving in 2021.
Does this mean that when XD plugins first arrive in the new Plugin Marketplace, they can only be free (not paid)? If so, that seems odd, because there are already many paid plugins in the new Plugin Marketplace.
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You can have free. You can have paid plugins outside of the marketplace sold through your own stores (and then installed or licensed) but not inside of it with any native support because from what was mentioned elsewhere on the forums PS already had an existing paid licensing support model for plugins that UXP was able to hook into. XD does not have that currently and it has to be built.
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Do we have an estimation beginning 2021 / middle / end of 2021 ?
I don’t want to speculate on timing. A lot has to happen perfectly, and any guess I make now is likely to be wrong. So I don’t want to set the wrong expectations.
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I just got the latest Creative Cloud Developer Newsletter and it said, in part:
XD 39 Moves the Marketplace to the Creative Cloud Desktop App
We’ll be moving XD plugin distribution to the Creative Cloud Desktop Marketplace this month. If you’d like to see how it looks, check out the prerelease of XD 39 now.
Can anyone on these forums say more about that?
Thanks for reading the newsletter! (I work hard sending it each month!)
You can preview what this change will look like by downloading the XD 39 prerelease, if you’re in the prerelease group. (And if you’re not in it, I can invite you.)
From the release notes:
Migrating Plugins from XD to the Creative Cloud Desktop App
As of XD 39, will begin to use the Plugin Marketplace (PMP) accessible in the recently released
Creative Cloud Desktop app (CCD).When you first open the XD 39 prerelease build, any installed plugins will move to the new common
Creative Cloud Desktop plugin location. After the migration is complete, XD will continue to use the
XD in-app plugin manager/marketplace (XD PMP) until you relaunch XD. From that point forward, XD will drive to the new CCD plugin marketplace interface.Note: This migration will have no impact on either the shipping version of Adobe XD 38, or the
current way you go about interacting with plugins.
Do you have specific questions we can answer?
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Yes, I wonder when Creative Cloud users will be able to find paid XD plugins in the Creative Cloud Desktop App, similar to how they can find paid Photoshop plugins there today (in addition to free ones). I guess this is a step in that direction, but I don’t know how far.
The answer is, unfortunately, “not in this particular release”.
Paid XD plugins (as well as paid UXP plugins for Photoshop) are certainly on the roadmap, but I don’t know when they are supposed to arrive. We have been talking about being more open about our roadmap lately (especially in the last two weeks)… perhaps @afuchs can say more?
On June 28, @afuchs published a blog post in the Adobe Tech Blog:
(If you can’t read that, the headline is, “XD Plugins Moving to the Marketplace in Creative Cloud Desktop”.)
“Over the next few weeks, users of XD 40 (and above) will start seeing XD plugins appear in the Marketplace tab in Creative Cloud Desktop…”
I’m not seeing any XD plugins there yet (as I write this), but I look forward to it 
Also from that blog post: “Note: while this release doesn’t enable monetization of XD plugins, it does bring us one step closer.”
I guess that’s tied up with monetization of UXP plugins in general. Is there any word on when that might happen?
Hey Troy! The rollout is still in very much in progress, but it’ll come to some user’s devices later than others.
Regarding XD plugin monetization, unfortunately I don’t have an ETA on that just yet, but as mentioned in the post, this was a critical gate for us to get through to create an ownership relationship btw XD users and their plugins.