Changelog

5.9.6

Release Date – 20 May 2021

• Enhancement – Added ‘position’ setting compatibility for Options Page submenus.
• Enhancement – Visually highlight “High” metabox area when dragging metaboxes.
• Fix – Fixed compatibility issue between Block matrix alignment setting and the latest version of Gutenberg (10.6).
• Fix – Fixed bug breaking WYSIWYG field after reordering a child block via the block’s toolbar up/down buttons.
• Fix – Added missing “readonly” and “disabled” attributes to DateTime and Time picker fields.
• Fix – Fixed bug incorrectly validating Email field values containing special characters.
• Fix – Fixed missing “dashicons” asset dependency from front-end forms.
• Fix – Fixed bug causing Review JSON diff modal to appear with narrow column since WP 5.7.
• Dev – Added label elements to Repeater, Flexible Content and Clone field’s table header titles.
• Dev – Added new ACF_EXPERIMENTAL_ESC_HTML constant. Read more

5.9.5

Release Date – 11 February 2021

• Fix – Fixed regression preventing blocks from loading correctly within the editor in WordPress 5.5.
• Fix – Fixed bug causing incorrect post_status properties when restoring a Field Group from trash in WordPress 5.6.
• Fix – Fixed edge case bug where a taxonomy named “options” could interfere with saving and loading option values.
• Fix – Fixed additional PHP 8.0 warnings.
• i18n – Updated Finnish translation thanks to Mikko Kekki

5.9.4

Release Date – 14 January 2021

• Enhancement – Added PHP validation for the Email field (previously relied solely on browser validation).
• Fix – Added support for PHP 8.0 (fixed logged warnings).
• Fix – Added support for jQuery 3.5 (fixed logged warnings).
• Fix – Fixed bug causing WYSIWYG field to appear unresponsive within the Gutenberg editor.
• Fix – Fixed regression preventing “blog_%d” and “site_%d” as valid $post_id values for custom Taxonomy terms.
• Fix – Fixed bug causing Radio field label to select first choice.
• Fix – Fixed bug preventing preloading blocks that contain multiple parent DOM elements.
• i18n – Updated Japanese translation thanks to Ryo Takahashi.
• i18n – Updated Portuguese translation thanks to Pedro Mendonça.

5.9.3

Release Date – 3 November 2020

• Fix – Fixed bug causing Revision meta to incorrectly update the parent Post meta.
• Fix – Fixed bug breaking “Filter by Post Type” and “Filter by Taxonomy” Field settings.

5.9.2

Release Date – 29 October 2020

• Enhancement – Added experiment for preloading block HTML and reducing AJAX requests on page load.
• Fix – Added boolean attribute value detection to JSX parser (fixes issue with templateLock=”false”).
• Fix – Added “dateTime” attribute to JSX parser ruleset.
• Fix – Fixed unresponsive Select2 instances after duplicating a row or layout.
• Fix – Added missing Color Picker script translations for previous WordPress versions.
• Fix – Fixed bug in Clone Field causing potential PHP error if cloning a Field Group that no longer exists.
• Fix – Fixed PHP warning logged when comparing a revision that contains values for a Field that no longer exist.
• Dev – Added $wp_block parameter to block render_callback and render_template (unavailable during AJAX preview requests).
• Dev – Deprecated acf_get_term_post_id() function.

5.9.1

Release Date – 8 September 2020

• Fix – Fixed guten-bug causing “Preview Post” button to publish changes.
• Fix – Fixed guten-bug causing JS errors when editing with Elementor or Beaver Builder.
• Fix – Fixed bug in Color Picker field causing JS error on front-end forms.
• Fix – Fixed bug in Post Taxonomy location rule causing incomplete list of rule choices.
• Fix – Reverted Local JSON “save to source path” enhancement due to DX feedback.
• i18n – Updated Indonesian translations thanks to Rio Bahtiar.
• i18n – Updated Turkish translation thanks to Emre Erkan.

5.9.0

Release Date – 17 August 2020

• Enhancement – New Field Groups admin.
  • Added toolbar across all ACF admin pages.
  • Added new table columns: Description, Key, Location, Local JSON.
  • Added popup modal to review Local JSON changes before sync.
  • Added visual representation of where Field Groups will appear.
  • Added new help tab.
  • Simplified layout.
• Enhancement – New ACF Blocks features.
  • Added support for Inner Blocks.
  • Added new “jsx” setting.
  • Added new “align_text” settings.
  • Added new “align_content” settings.
• Enhancement – Added duplicate functionality for Repeater and Flexible Content fields.
• Enhancement – Added PHP validation support for Gutenberg.
• Enhancement – Added ability to bypass confirmation tooltips (just hold shift).
• Enhancement – Local JSON files now save back to their loaded source path (not “save_json” setting).
• Tweak – Replaced all custom icons with dashicons.
• Tweak – Changed custom post status label from “Inactive” to “Disabled”.
• Tweak – Improved styling of metaboxes positioned in the block editor sidebar.
• Fix – Improved AJAX request efficiency when editing block className or anchor attributes.
• Fix – Fixed bug causing unresponsive WYSIWYG fields after moving a block via the up/down arrows.
• Fix – Fixed bug causing HTML to jump between multiple instances of the same Reusable Block.
• Fix – Fixed bug sometimes displaying validation errors when saving a draft.
• Fix – Fixed bug breaking Image field UI when displaying a scaled portrait attachment.
• Fix – Fixed bug in Link field incorrectly treating the “Cancel” button as “Submit”.
• Fix – Fixed bug where a sub field within a collapsed Repeater row did not grow to the full available width.
• Fix – Ensured all archive URLs shown in the Page Link field dropdown are unique.
• Fix – Fixed bug causing incorrect conditional logic settings on nested fields when duplicating a Field Group.
• Fix – Fixed bug causing license activation issues with some password management browser extensions.
• Dev – Major improvements to ACF_Location class.
• Dev – Refactored all location classes to optimize performance.
• Dev – Extracted core JavaScript from “acf-input.js” into a separate “acf.js” file.
• Dev – Field Group export now shows “active” attribute as bool instead of int.
• Dev – Added filter “acf/get_object_type” to customize WP object information such as “label” and “icon”.
• Dev – Added action “acf/admin_print_uploader_scripts” fired when printing uploader (WP media) scripts in the footer.
• Dev – Added filters “acf/pre_load_attachment” and “acf/load_attachment” to customize attachment details.
• Dev – Added filter “acf/admin/toolbar” to customize the admin toolbar items.
• Dev – Added new JS actions “duplicate_fields” and “duplicate_field” fired when duplicating a row.
• i18n – Changed Croatian locale code from “hr_HR to “hr”.
• i18n – Updated Portuguese translation thanks to Pedro Mendonça.
• i18n – Updated French Canadian translation thanks to Bérenger Zyla.
• i18n – Updated French translation thanks to Maxime Bernard-Jacquet.
• i18n – Updated German translations thanks to Ralf Koller.

5.8.14

Release Date – 13 August 2020

• Fix – Fixed bug breaking ACF Block $is_preview parameter in WordPress 5.5.
• Fix – Fixed bug breaking seamless postbox style in WordPress 5.5.

5.8.13

Release Date – 10 August 2020

• Tweak – Added styling compatibility for WordPress 5.5.
• Fix – Implemented new wp_filter_content_tags() function in “acf_the_content” filter.
• i18n – Updated Arabic translation thanks to Karim Ramadan.

5.8.12

Release Date – 10 June 2020

• Fix – Improved string escaping in Select2 drop-downs to address XSS concerns.
• Fix – Fixed bug causing PHP error when updating the settings of a Checkbox field.
• Fix – Fixed bug causing WYSIWYG field to hide when toggling between Document and Block tabs within the Block editor.
• Fix – Fixed bug incorrectly validating the length of Text and Textarea field values that contained HTML entities.

5.8.11

Release Date – 12 May 2020

• Fix – Fixed bug in ACF Blocks where “inserter examples” and “block templates” did not load the defined “data”.
• Fix – Reverted “fix” in 5.8.9 regarding Taxonomy fields saving terms to non “post” objects.
• Fix – Fixed bug allowing the Image field to save the value of a deleted attachment.
• Fix – Improved Select field format_value() behaviour to correctly cast value types depending on the “multiple” setting.
• Tweak – Changed language fallback for “zh_HK” to “zh_TW”.
• Tweak – Changed Time Picker field settings to display in a localized format via date_i18n().
• Tweak – Improved CSS styling of menu item fields.
• i18n – Updated Finnish translation thanks to Mikko Kekki
• i18n – Updated French translation thanks to Maxime Bernard-Jacquet.
• i18n – Updated Turkish translation thanks to Emre Erkan.

5.8.10

Release Date – 12 May 2020

• See hotfix version 5.8.11 for release notes.

5.8.9

Release Date – 26 March 2020

• Fix – Fixed bug in ACF Blocks causing default “align” property to be ignored.
• Fix – Fixed bug allowing Taxonomy field to save terms to a non “post” object.
• Tweak – Improved User field AJAX query performance.
• Tweak – Improved logic that determines width of Range field input.
• Tweak – Improved styling of ACF Blocks components.
• Dev – Added new “acf/register_block_type_args” filter.
• Dev – Added new generic ACF_Ajax_Query and ACF_Ajax_Query_Users classes.
• i18n – Updated French Canadian translation thanks to Bérenger Zyla.
• i18n – Updated Traditional Chinese translation thanks to Audi Lu.
• i18n – Updated German translation thanks to Ralf Koller.
• i18n – Updated Portuguese translation thanks to Pedro Mendonça.

5.8.8

Release Date – 4 March 2020

• Fix – Fixed bug in have_rows() function causing a PHP warning when no value is found.
• Fix – Fixed bug in Google Maps field causing marker to snap to nearest address.
• Fix – Avoid Nav Menu items displaying twice in WordPress 5.4.
• Tweak – Added place name data to Google Maps field value.
• Tweak – Improved performance of PHP registered fields.
• Dev – Added new “acf/prepare_field_group_for_import” filter.
• i18n – Added Traditional Chinese translation thanks to Audi Lu.
• i18n – Added Catalan translation thanks to Jordi Tarrida.
• i18n – Updated French translation thanks to Maxime Bernard-Jacquet & Bérenger Zyla.

5.8.7

Release Date – 12 November 2019

• New – Updated admin CSS for new WordPress 5.3 styling.
• Fix – Fixed various issues affecting dynamic metaboxes in the block editor (requires WordPress 5.3)
• Fix – Fixed performance issue when checking network sites for upgrades.
• Fix – Fixed Select2 clones appearing after duplicating a Relationship field.
• Tweak – Repeater field “Add row” icons will now hide when maximum rows are reached.
• Tweak – Removed ACF Blocks keyword limit for later versions of Gutenberg.

5.8.6

Release Date – 24 October 2019

• New – Added more data to Google Maps field value including place_id, street_name, country and more.
• Fix – Fixed bug in Gallery field incorrectly displaying .pdf attachments as icons.
• Fix – Fixed bug in Checkbox field missing “selected” class after “Toggle All”.
• Dev – Added compatibility for Attachments in the Post Taxonomy location rule.
• Dev – Added missing return statement from acf_get_form() function.
• Dev – Added “google_map_result” JS filter.

5.8.5

Release Date – 8 October 2019

• New – Added new choice “Add” to the User Form location rule.
• New – Optimized acf_form() logic when used in combination with acf_register_form().
• Fix – Fixed bug causing incorrect field order after sync.
• Fix – Fixed bug reverting the first field type to Text in Firefox version 69.0.1.
• Fix – Fixed bug causing tinymce issues when changing between block modes.
• Fix – Fixed bug preventing block registration when category does not exist.
• Fix – Fixed bug preventing block registration when no icon is declared.
• Dev – Added RegExp compatibility for innerBlocks.

5.8.4

Release Date – 3 September 2019

• New – Optimized Relationship field by delaying AJAX call until UI is visible.
• Fix – Fixed bug incorrectly escaping HTML in the Link field title.
• Fix – Fixed bug showing Discussion and Comment metaboxes for newly imported field groups.
• Fix – Fixed PHP warning when loading meta from Post 0.
• Dev – Ensure Checkbox field value is an array even when empty.
• Dev – Added new ACF_MAJOR_VERSION constant.

5.8.3

Release Date – 7 August 2019

• Tweak – Changed Options Page location rules to show “page_title” instead of “menu_title”.
• Fix – Fixed bug causing Textarea field to incorrectly validate maxlength.
• Fix – Fixed bug allowing Range field values outside of the min and max settings.
• Fix – Fixed bug in block RegExp causing some blocks to miss the “acf/pre_save_block” filter.
• Dev – Added $block_type parameter to block settings “enqueue_assets” callback.
• i18n – Added French Canadian language thanks to Bérenger Zyla.
• i18n – Updated French language thanks to Bérenger Zyla.

5.8.2

Release Date – 15 July 2019

• Fix – Fixed bug where validation did not prevent new user registration.
• Fix – Fixed bug causing some “reordered” metaboxes to not appear in the Gutenberg editor.
• Fix – Fixed bug causing WYSIWYG field with delayed initialization to appear blank.
• Fix – Fixed bug when editing a post and adding a new tag did not refresh metaboxes.
• Dev – Added missing $value parameter in “acf/pre_format_value” filter.

5.8.1

Release Date – 3 June 2019

• New – Added “Preview Size” and “Return Format” settings to the Gallery field.
• Tweak – Improved metabox styling for Gutenberg.
• Tweak – Changed default “Preview Size” to medium for the Image field.
• Fix – Fixed bug in media modal causing the primary button text to disappear after editing an image.
• Fix – Fixed bug preventing the TinyMCE Advanced plugin from adding < p > tags.
• Fix – Fixed bug where HTML choices were not visible in conditional logic dropdown.
• Fix – Fixed bug causing incorrect order of imported/synced flexible content sub fields.
• i18n – Updated German translation thanks to Ralf Koller.
• i18n – Updated Persian translation thanks to Majix.

5.8.0

Release Date – 8 May 2019

• New – Added ACF Blocks feature for ACF PRO.
• Fix – Fixed bug causing duplicate “save metabox” AJAX requests in the Gutenberg editor.
• Fix – Fixed bug causing incorrect Repeater field value order in AJAX requests.
• Dev – Added JS filter 'relationship_ajax_data' to customize Relationship field AJAX data.
• Dev – Added $field_group parameter to 'acf/location/match_rule' filter.
• Dev – Bumped minimum supported PHP version to 5.4.0.
• Dev – Bumped minimum supported WP version to 4.7.0.
• i18n – Updated German translation thanks to Ralf Koller.
• i18n – Updated Portuguese language thanks to Pedro Mendonça.

5.7.13

Release Date – 6 March 2019

• Fix – Fixed bug causing issues with registered fields during switch_to_blog().
• Fix – Fixed bug preventing sub fields from being reused across multiple parents.
• Fix – Fixed bug causing the get_sub_field() function to fail if a tab field exists with the same name as the selected field.
• Fix – Fixed bug corrupting field settings since WP 5.1 when instructions contain < a target="" >.
• Fix – Fixed bug in Gutenberg where custom metabox location (acf_after_title) did not show on initial page load.
• Fix – Fixed bug causing issues when importing/syncing multiple field groups which contain a clone field.
• Fix – Fixed bug preventing the AMP plugin preview from working.
• Dev – Added new ‘pre’ filters to get, update and delete meta functions.
• i18n – Update Turkish translation thanks to Emre Erkan.

5.7.12

Release Date – 15 February 2019

• Fix – Added missing function register_field_group().
• Fix – Fixed PHP 5.4 error “Can’t use function return value in write context”.
• Fix – Fixed bug causing wp_options values to be slashed incorrectly.
• Fix – Fixed bug where “sync” feature imported field groups without fields.
• Fix – Fixed bug preventing get_field_object() working with a field key.
• Fix – Fixed bug causing incorrect results in get_sub_field().
• Fix – Fixed bug causing draft and preview issues with serialized values.
• Fix – Fixed bug causing reversed field group metabox order.
• Fix – Fixed bug causing incorrect character count when validating values.
• Fix – Fixed bug showing incorrect choices for post_template location rule.
• Fix – Fixed bug causing incorrect value retrieval after switch_to_blog().
• i18n – Updated Persian translation thanks to Majix.

5.7.11

Release Date – 11 February 2019

• New – Added support for persistent object caching.
• Fix – Fixed PHP error in determine_locale() affecting AJAX requests.
• Fix – Fixed bug affecting dynamic metabox check when selecting “default” page template.
• Fix – Fixed bug where tab fields did not render correctly within a dynamic metabox.
• Tweak – Removed language fallback from “zh_TW” to “zh_CN”.
• Dev – Refactored various core functions.
• Dev – Added new hook variation functions acf_add_filter_variations() and acf_add_action_variations().
• i18n – Updated Portuguese language thanks to Pedro Mendonça.
• i18n – Updated German translation thanks to Ralf Koller.
• i18n – Updated Swiss German translation thanks to Raphael Hüni.

5.7.10

Release Date – 16 January 2019

• Fix – Fixed bug preventing metaboxes from saving if validation fails within Gutenberg.
• Fix – Fixed bug causing unload prompt to show incorrectly within Gutenberg.
• Fix – Fixed JS error when selecting taxonomy terms within Gutenberg.
• Fix – Fixed bug causing jQuery sortable issues within other plugins.
• Tweak – Improved loading translations by adding fallback from region to country when .mo file does not exit.
• Tweak – Improved punctuation throughout admin notices.
• Tweak – Improved performance and accuracy when loading a user field value.
• Dev – Added filter ‘acf/get_locale’ to customize the locale used to load translations.
• Dev – Added filter ‘acf/allow_unfiltered_html’ to customize if current user can save unfiltered HTML.
• Dev – Added new data storage functions acf_register_store() and acf_get_store().
• Dev – Moved from .less to .scss and minified all css.
• i18n – Updated French translation thanks to Maxime Bernard-Jacquet.
• i18n – Updated Czech translation thanks to David Rychly.

5.7.9

Release Date – 17 December 2018

• Fix – Added custom metabox location (acf_after_title) compatibility with Gutenberg.
• Fix – Added dynamic metabox check compatibility with Gutenberg.
• Fix – Fixed bug causing required date picker fields to prevent form submit.
• Fix – Fixed bug preventing multi-input values from saving correctly within media modals.
• Fix – Fixed bug where acf_form() redirects to an incorrect URL for sub-sites.
• Fix – Fixed bug where breaking out of a sub have_rows() loop could produce undesired results.
• Dev – Added filter ‘acf/connect_attachment_to_post’ to prevent connecting attachments to posts.
• Dev – Added JS filter ‘google_map_autocomplete_args’ to customize Google Maps autocomplete settings.

5.7.8

Release Date – 7 December 2018

• Fix – Fixed vulnerability allowing author role to save unfiltered HTML values.
• Fix – Fixed all metaboxes appearing when editing a post in WP 5.0.
• i18n – Updated Polish translation thanks to Dariusz Zielonka.
• i18n – Updated Czech translation thanks to Veronika Hanzlíková.
• i18n – Update Turkish translation thanks to Emre Erkan.
• i18n – Updated Portuguese language thanks to Pedro Mendonça.

5.7.7

Release Date – 1 October 2018

• Fix – Fixed various plugin update issues.
• Tweak – Added ‘language’ to Google Maps API url.
• Dev – Major improvements to the acf.models.Postbox model.
• Dev – Added JS filter ‘check_screen_args’.
• Dev – Added JS action ‘check_screen_complete’.
• Dev – Added action ‘acf/options_page/submitbox_before_major_actions’.
• Dev – Added action ‘acf/options_page/submitbox_major_actions’.
• i18n – Updated Portuguese language thanks to Pedro Mendonça

5.7.6

Release Date – 12 September 2018

• Fix – Fixed unload prompt not working.
• Dev – Reduced number of queries needed to populate the relationship field taxonomy filter.
• Dev – Added ‘nav_menu_item_id’ and ‘nav_menu_item_depth’ to get_field_groups() query.
• Dev – Reordered various actions and filters for more usefulness.
• i18n – Updated Polish language thanks to Dariusz Zielonka

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