<gradient:#54b2ff:#ff5ecc>Text <gradient:#00fffb:#00ffc3>longotherteeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeext</GRADIENT> ugly</gradient>

As you can see, by default, a gradient in v4.2.0 does not interrupt. For my own plugin, that's annoying, as it makes it look as if the continuation of the gradient is a completely new color:

Solution:
Having an option to make the gradient continuous like this: <gradient:continuous:red:blue> and making it interrupt by default (or the other way around with <gradient:interrupt:red:blue>, depending on what you think should be default.)

I, personally, think, making it interrupt by default would be preferred over the current solution by the majority of people, but that can be discussed