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Brand New Release: Gravity Forms 2.6.2

By Gravity Forms Published May 5, 2022

We are pleased to announce the release of Gravity Forms 2.6.2. With this update you’ll find a number of additions and enhancements that will further support and improve your form building experience. These include…

• Added performance improvements to the confirmation settings page for sites with lots of pages.
• Added a performance improvement to the AJAX save process in the form editor that increases performance significantly, especially for forms that contain a large number of fields.

Install Gravity Forms 2.6 Today!

Last month we released Gravity Forms 2.6, and we have already seen this latest version of our WordPress form plugin installed on hundreds of thousands of websites. 2.6 is packed with new and improved features that make a significant difference to the form editor experience – we are now calling on all our customers to install 2.6(.2) if you are still yet to do so!

New 2.6 features include:

• Embed Form Flyout – The new Embed Form flyout utilizes the WordPress Block editor, enabling you to add a form to a page or post from directly within the Form editor. Simply open the Embed Form flyout and select where you would like a form to be displayed – this can include a new or existing page, post, or custom post type (with the use of filters).

• Inline Submit Button – With Gravity Forms 2.6 you will now find the Submit Button and its settings relocated to the form editor. This means you will be able to easily set your Submit button to be inline with the last row of fields, without having to rely on CSS Ready Classes.

• Choices Flyout – Up until now, editing the options within a multichoice field could be difficult due to the narrow sidebar. To make viewing and editing values and large numbers of choices smoother, Gravity Forms 2.6 ships with an expandable Choices flyout that is responsive to page width. This gives you all the space you need to create, edit, and manage your Choices’ options within the form editor.

• Ajax Form Saving – With 2.6, the form editor will save any form changes using Ajax. This will give you a faster and smoother experience when making updates, saving your form edits automatically without the need for a full page refresh.

• Merge Tag Search – An improved merge tag UI sees search functionality added in, enabling you to easily search for the merge tags you need.

Any questions on any of the new features available with 2.6? Contact our friendly and knowledgeable Support team, they love to help!

Gravity Forms 2.6.2 Changelog

• Added security enhancements.
• Added performance improvements to the confirmation settings page for sites with lots of pages.
• Added a performance improvement to the AJAX save process in the form editor that increases performance significantly, especially for forms that contain a large number of fields.
• Added improvements to the message that appears when saving a form fails.
• Fixed a bug that sometimes prevents entries from being updated. Credit: GravityView.
• Fixed an issue where the forms list is not in alphabetical order.
• Fixed a performance issue where queries are being run on admin pages that do not need them.
• Fixed an issue where the submit button settings are reset to their default values when saving the form settings.
• Fixed the “Allowed memory exhausted in gravityforms.php on line 147” fatal error that is impacting a small number of sites.
• Fixed an issue with the license detail section displaying an inaccurate renewal date for certain licenses.
• Fixed a few dozen PHP 8.1 deprecation notices. Note: WordPress won’t be compatible with PHP 8.1 until version 6.0 at the earliest, so there are still many notices from WP functions.
• Fixed a bug that prevents users without form editing capabilities from exporting entries.
• Fixed a bug that prevents editing the First Name and City sublabels.
• Fixed a fatal error that occurs on plugin activation with WordPress 4.9 and earlier.
• Fixed a bug that causes form editor settings panels to close when any button in the sidebar is clicked.
• Fixed an issue where field values that contain non-Latin characters are not displayed correctly after AJAX save in the form editor.

Gravity Forms 2.6.2 API Changelog

• API: Added the gform_abort_conditional_logic_do_action javascript filter to allow add-ons to abort the conditional logic action before fields are displayed or hidden.
• API: Added the gform_embed_edit_post_link filter.
• API: Added the gform_rule_source_value filter to allow the source value of a conditional logic rule to be filtered.