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Brand New Release: Gravity Forms 2.5.3

By Gravity Forms Published May 26, 2021

Today we are pleased to announce the release of Gravity Forms 2.5.3. Packed with a number of updates, fixes, and improvements, our team has been working hard to ensure the smooth roll out of Gravity Forms 2.5.

Updates include…

• Added accessibility warnings to the datepicker and fields with hidden labels in the form editor.
• Added enhanced support for plugins that concatenate scripts.
• Added support for translations for all strings in the file upload field.

What’s New With Gravity Forms?

The major release of 2.5 has seen some impressive changes to our form builder. With a beautiful redesigned form editor UI, the introduction of drag-and-drop column control, and a shift to accessible forms, Gravity 2.5 gives you a range of new features and intuitive ways of working.

Here’s how Gravity Forms 2.5 can improve your form building experience…

• Create Forms Faster – With our revamped form editor, 2.5 provides a streamlined and extremely user-friendly form creation process. Creating new forms has never been easier or quicker.
• Create Custom Layouts – Now with built-in intuitive drag-and-drop column control, you can use our form builder to create custom form layouts to fit your exact specifications. No code needed!
• Create Accessible Forms – 2.5 sees a key focus on accessibility, enabling you to be able to create totally accessible, WCAG 2.1 AA compliant, forms for your users.

Have any questions about Gravity Forms? Contact our friendly and knowledgeable Support team – they are always happy to help!

Gravity Forms 2.5.3 Changelog

• Added accessibility warnings to the datepicker and fields with hidden labels in the form editor.
• Added enhanced support for plugins that concatenate scripts.
• Added support for translations for all strings in the file upload field.
• Fixed gf_hidden class to also apply to non legacy forms for backwards compatibility.
• Fixed an issue where JavaScript errors which prevent form display when jQuery is included in the footer or deferred.
• Fixed an issue which can prevent forms functioning when included by ajax after the page has loaded.
• Fixed an issue which causes forms to become non-responsive when Total Field calculations are being performed.
• Fixed an issue where the total field HTML does not keep the legacy markup when legacy markup is enabled for a form.
• Fixed an issue with the choices ui that breaks its layout when more than 2 input columns are inserted.
• Fixed an issue in JavaScript that causes errors with price calculation.
• Fixed an issue that causes some add-ons to be unable to load the feed settings screen.
• Fixed an issue which causes some forms to throw JavaScript errors due to missing head tag in the DOM.
• Fixed an issue which causes JavaScript events not to fire when a form is loaded via AJAX.
• Fixed an issue which causes some performance optimization plugins to break certain form JavaScript methods.
• Fixed an issue where the gf_list_*col ready classes for radio and checkbox fields are showing the wrong number of columns.
• Fixed an issue that causes sites with HTML5 disabled to have it enabled after updating to 2.5.
• Fixed an issue which allows greater-than and less-than operators for Conditional Logic to be more useful.
• Fixed an issue which causes custom values in the Conditional Logic flyout in the form editor to be overwritten.
• Fixed an issue where confirmations redirect to the selected page even if page isn’t selected as the redirect type.
• Fixed an issue where a JavaScript errors on the last page of a paginated form with conditional logic.
• Fixed an issue which prevents setting custom classes for the form editor fields’ buttons.

Gravity Forms v2.5.3 API Changelog

• API: Updated the settings API to automatically save custom form settings fields added with the gform_form_settings_fields filter.
• API: Fixed an issue which causes some filters not to fire when on certain Admin screens.