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Gravity Forms v1.9.16 Released

By Carl Hancock Published February 3, 2016

Gravity Forms v1.9.16 is now available via automatic update and the downloads page.

This is a major maintenance and developer focused release that includes security enhancements, new hooks/filters, updates to the Gravity Forms Add-On Framework and the Gravity Forms API.

This release also includes updates to make it compatible with new Gravity Forms Add-Ons that are in development and nearing public release.

What’s New in Gravity Forms v1.9.16

• Added logging of form import failures.
• Added “Email Service” field to notifications to allow for sending email notifications via third party services. Defaults to WordPress.
• Added “gform_notification_services” filter to add custom notification email services.
• Added “gform_notification_validation” filter to apply custom validations when saving notifications.
• Added action “gform_post_notification_save” which fires after notification is successfully saved.
• Added data-label attribute to the list field to support more responsive styles.
• Added security enhancements. Credits: Allan Collins of 10up.com and Henri Salo from Nixu.
• Updated Spanish (es_ES) translation.
• Updated French translation. Credit: Yann Gauche.
• Updated plugin settings tab links to only include the page and subview query arguments.
• Updated Danish translation. Credit: WPbureauet.dk/Georg Adamsen.
• Updated “gform_notification_ui_settings” filter with the validation state as the fourth parameter.
• Updated “gform_pre_send_email” filter with the notification object as the third parameter.
• Updated Finnish translation. Credit: Aki Björklund.
• Updated Font Awesome to version 4.5.0.
• Updated Portuguese Brazilian translation. Credit: Dennis Franck.
• Updated the arguments used to retrieve the users to improve performance when populating the entries page filters. Credit: the GravityView team.
• Updated GFExport::get_field_row_count() to be a public method.
• Updated the gform_list_item_pre_add filter to include $group (the tr) as the second parameter.
• Fixed a layout issue effecting tabbed settings pages and the bulk add/predefined choices modal.
• Fixed an issue which could cause an incorrect result for the calculated product field.
• Fixed an issue with the restoring of the Email field default values by conditional logic when the email confirmation setting is enabled.
• Fixed an issue with the merge tag drop down for the default value setting containing some merge tags which are not replaced when the default value merge tags are processed.
• Fixed an issue with the fieldId parameter of the gform_format_option_label hook being undefined for radio and checkbox type fields.
• Fixed a PHP notice for the Address field which would occur if the selected address type does not exist.
• Fixed an issue with Number field validation of decimal values without a leading zero.
• Fixed fatal error which could occur on the entry detail page.
• Fixed an issue with the {embed_url} merge tag when notifications are resent from the admin.
• Fixed an issue which could cause an incorrect calculation result for the number field when using the decimal comma format.
• Fixed an issue with the embed_post and custom_field merge tags when the form is not located on a singular page.
• Fixed a PHP notice which could occur during post creation if the postAuthor property is not set in the form object.
• Fixed an issue causing some values to be encoded before being saved.
• Fixed an issue with the database permissions check.
• Fixed PHP warning when using GFCommon::replace_variables() without providing a form object.
• Fixed a PHP notice if the form CSS Class Name setting was not configured.
• Fixed missing Font Awesome file.
• Fixed an RTL layout issue with the Time field.
• Fixed an issue which could cause an incorrect calculation result during submission when using values from fields which don’t have the number format setting.
• Fixed an issue where on some occasions the Post Category field choices could be missing from the field filters value dropdown on the entry list page.
• Fixed an issue with the entry list field filters where searching by the Post Category field would not return any entries.
• Fixed issue where division by zero generated warnings in calculation formulas.
• Fixed PHP notice on the entry list page which could occur for multi-file enabled fields if the field value was modified post submission using a custom method.
• Fixed PHP warning on the entry detail page which could occur if the file upload field value was cleared post submission using a custom method.
• Fixed an issue creating the post when the category name includes the colon character.
• Fixed issue with entry list sorting on certain mySQL installations.
• Fixed PHP notice which could occur during merge tag replacement if the form id or title are not set in the supplied form object. Credit: the GravityView team.
• Fixed an issue with the Post Image field not retaining the title, description or caption values when the form fails validation. Credit: the GravityView team.
• Rolled back change to the entry count query for the Forms page made in 1.9.14.24 for performance reasons.

API Updates in Gravity Forms v1.9.16

• Updated title to “Gravity Forms Web API”.
• Fixed an issue with the contains and like operators when searching entry meta.

Add-On Framework Updates in Gravity Forms v1.9.16

• Added gform_addon_field_value, a generic filter for overriding the mapped field value.
• Added GFAddOn::maybe_get_tooltip().
• Added support for tooltips to the child fields of the field_map setting.
• Added “after_select” property to select field setting to show text after the select field.
• Added GFFeedAddOn::get_single_submission_feed_by_form() to return a single active feed for the current entry (evaluating any conditional logic).
• Updated GFFeedAddOn::get_single_submission_feed() to use GFFeedAddOn::get_single_submission_feed_by_form().
• Updated GFAddOn::get_field_value() to support calling a get_{$input_type}_field_value function if defined by the add-on.
• Updated ‘add’ callback to include ‘index’ as a fourth parameter.
• Updated bulk actions for feed list able to no longer include the duplicate action.
• Updated checkbox and radio settings fields to support choices with icons. Icon can be an image URL or Font Awesome icon class.
• Updated GFAddOn::single_setting_label() to not display PHP notice when label is not provided.
• Fixed issue where templates with leading whitespace generated a jQuery warning in repeater.js
• Fixed an issue whith cancelling subscription when multiple payment addons are installed.
• Fixed an issue with the version number being appended to the script/style src attribute when using scripts()/styles() and the version parameter is set to null.
• Fixed an issue with the feed add-on setup routine. Use the ‘setup’ query string parameter (ie. ?page=gf_settings&setup) on the settings page to force table creation if required.
• Fixed an issue with the input for the radio type setting having two id attributes if an id was configured for the choice in feed_settings_fields().
• Fixed an issue with the field label markup for the field_map type setting.
• Fixed a fatal error which could occur when processing callbacks if the RGCurrency class is not available.

You can update to the latest version of Gravity Forms using Automatic Update. Just visit the Updates page under the Forms navigation in your WordPress Dashboard. Update deployment is staged so if you do not see the update available, try again in a few hours. You can also download the latest version of the plugin from the Downloads page.

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