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Brand New Release: Gravity Forms 2.9.2

Gravity Forms By Gravity Forms Published January 17, 2025

Gravity Forms 2.9.2

We’re pleased to announce the release of Gravity Forms 2.9.2. This release contains numerous additions and fixes, including accessibility and security enhancements…

  • Added a screen reader announcement to the form editor when a new field is added to a form for improved accessibility.
  • Added security enhancements. Credit: mikemyers via Wordfence.
  • Added settings for “sort column” and “sort order” to the Screen Options settings on the form list page.
  • Added the gform_check_empty_index_file_exists filter to allow developers to check whether an empty index file exists before creating a new one.
  • Added the gform_value_pre_duplicate_check filter to allow filtering a field’s value before checking if it has a duplicate value.

Note: Gravity Forms 2.9.2 includes security updates for a reported vulnerability. As always, we recommend keeping Gravity Forms updated to the most recent version. If you don’t have auto-update enabled on your WordPress website, navigate to the Plugins page within WordPress admin to update to 2.9.2, or download this latest version from your Gravity Forms Account.

What’s New in Gravity Forms 2.9?

Gravity Forms 2.9 introduced several exciting new features, along with notable design and accessibility enhancements. These additions provide you with new fields to use while also delivering a more intuitive, visually appealing, and user-friendly form editing experience.

Here’s a brief look at what’s new in version 2.9…

New Image Choice Field

With Gravity Forms 2.9, you can now enhance your forms by adding images to choices using a new field. Designed to provide additional context and information for your users, the Image Choice Field lets you display images alongside traditional text labels.

GF 2.9 Image Choice Field Settings

This new field is highly versatile, allowing for single or multiple selections, predefined ranges, or exact numbers of selections based on your settings. Customizing how the images are displayed directly within the form builder is possible, too.

For more details on how the Image Choice field works and how to integrate it into your forms, check out the Gravity Forms documentation.

New Multiple Choice Field

The new Multiple Choice field combines the features of the existing Checkboxes and Radio Buttons fields to offer greater flexibility for your forms.

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After adding this field to your form, you can configure it so that it accepts either a single option or multiple options. Based on your selection, the field then functions as a checkbox or radio button.

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The Multiple Choice field differs from the standalone Radio Buttons and Checkboxes fields as it allows you to reorder, add, or delete choices without impacting previous form entries.

More details can be found in the Multiple Choice field documentation.

Additional Features of 2.9

Version 2.9 also makes the visual preview in the form editor more accurate when you’re using the Orbital form theme. This allows you to see better how your forms will appear when published while you’re working on them in the editor.

Accessibility improvements have been made as well, including enhanced keyboard navigation and better screen reader support for navigating field settings.

For a complete list of updates and features, check out the Gravity Forms 2.9 key feature page in the documentation.

Gravity Forms 2.9.2 Changelog

  • Added a screen reader announcement to the form editor when a new field is added to a form for improved accessibility.
  • Added security enhancements. Credit: mikemyers via Wordfence.
  • Added settings for “sort column” and “sort order” to the Screen Options settings on the form list page.
  • Added the gform_check_empty_index_file_exists filter to allow developers to check whether an empty index file exists before creating a new one.
  • Added the gform_value_pre_duplicate_check filter to allow filtering a field’s value before checking if it has a duplicate value.
  • Fixed an issue that causes GFFormDisplay::is_last_page() to return the wrong result when the last page has a validation error.
  • Fixed an issue that causes a fatal error if an asset is enqueued incorrectly.
  • Fixed an issue that causes the Survey single line text field to have an invalid aria-describedby attribute.
  • Fixed an issue that prevents JS events from firing when an image in an Image Choice field is clicked.
  • Fixed an issue that prevents the Description Placement setting from showing in the form editor before the form is saved.
  • Fixed an issue that prevents the gform_progressbar_start_at_zero filter from working.
  • Fixed an issue that prevents the page dropdown on the confirmation settings page from finding pages when the permalinks are set to plain.
  • Fixed an issue where a custom progress bar implemented with the gform_progress_bar filter can throw an error in Gravity Forms 2.9.
  • Fixed a fatal error that could occur when the GFCommon::replace_variables_prepopulate() function is called with a non-string value.
  • Fixed an issue that prevents the product quantity label from matching the input field.
  • Fixed an issue that causes form validation errors if a product field has a quantity of 0 and the form includes shipping and total fields.
  • Fixed an issue that causes the repeater child fields to not use the gform_field_validation filter custom message.
  • Fixed an issue that prevents the total from being calculated in some situations, including when using a product drop down with “Enable enhanced user interface” enabled.
  • Fixed an issue where Hooks.js is not being added to the header when using certain hosting environments.
  • Fixed an issue that prevents styling from being applied to notifications.
  • Fixed an issue where an empty error message is displayed if the theme or another plugin outputs an empty line in response to a resend notification AJAX request.
  • Fixed an issue where form block theme settings are visible when the default form theme is not Orbital.
  • Fixed an issue where inserting a merge tag for a field with double quotes in the label is not working properly.
  • Fixed an issue where invalid data on a multiple file upload field can cause the entry export to break on PHP 8+. Credit: The GravityKit Team.
  • Fixed an issue where the gform_allowable_tags filter is not applied when using the filter without the optional $form_id property. Credit: The Gravity PDF team.
  • Fixed an issue where the license status messages are not being displayed correctly on the System Settings Updates page.
  • Fixed an issue where the note added by the custom anti-spam filter is overridden when the Akismet integration is enabled.
  • Fixed an issue where the total field is not calculated correctly on certain forms with conditional logic animations enabled.
  • Fixed an issue where the values of a custom generic_map settings field are not populated in the form settings page.
  • Fixed an issue where unnecessary form count queries are executed outside Gravity Forms pages.
  • Updated the number field to display the aria-describedby attribute when a range is defined and validation fails.
  • Updated the preview of the reCAPTCHA field in the form editor.
  • Removed GFForms::filter_query() method which was deprecated in 2.8.13.
  • API: Added GFAPI::maybe_process_feeds(), GFAPI::get_processed_feeds_meta(), and GFAPI::update_processed_feeds_meta().
  • API: Added the gform_allow_async_feed_reprocessing filter.
  • API: Fixed an issue where the entries endpoint “_labels” is not respecting admin label context for survey fields.
  • API: Updated the state management JS module to return a shallow copy of objects retrieved via the get method.
  • API: added an action hook to add field settings to the choice options section of the form editor sidebar.

 

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