Gravity Forms v1.8 Beta 4 Released
By Carl Hancock
Published December 17, 2013
Gravity Forms v1.8 Beta 4 is now available for download and testing. Beta 4 implements a variety of updates to better work with WordPress v3.8 as well as refinements and fixes to the core plugin.
Gravity Forms incorporates both the Add-On Framework and the API, so any updates to both of those developer features will also be part of Gravity Forms core releases going forward. We’ve added and fixed some features related to both the Add-On Framework and API in this release.
If you haven’t seen what is new in Gravity Forms v1.8, please read the Gravity Forms v1.8 Beta 1 release announcement.
Please report any bugs or issues you may encounter to our support team and make it clear it is in reference to the Gravity Forms v1.8 Beta 4 release when doing so.
If you are currently using any prior beta release of Gravity Forms v1.8, you will need to manually update your install in order to install Beta 4. We highly recommend all beta testers do so. Automatic updates only work with public releases. Beta and development releases must be updated manually.
We will be releasing v1.8 via automatic upgrade once it has undergone beta testing to our satisfaction. Own Gravity Forms and want to take it for a spin and help us test out the new features? Grab a copy on the downloads page!
Please Note: This is a beta release and as such you should use at your own risk. We are still actively working on UI enhancements and refinements for the final public release. Gravity Forms 1.8 requires WordPress 3.7+.
Documentation for the features and functionality in Gravity Forms v1.8 is still in progress. The Gravity Forms documentation as a whole is being completely overhauled and will launch with the final release of Gravity Forms v1.8. Please be patient as we completely overhaul our documentation from the ground up. However, documentation does exist for the new Add-On Framework as well as the new API.
Below is a complete list of the additions, revisions and fixes in Gravity Forms v1.8 Beta 4…
Gravity Forms
- Updated upgrade process so that it gets aborted if database user doesn’t have the proper permission to change or create tables.
- Updated FontAwesome Webfont library to 4.0.3.
- Updated GFFormsModel::create_lead() method to correctly populate multiple total fields.
- Updated the credit card field HTML5 markup to use an HTML text input with a pattern instead of a number input.
- Updated the styles of the form list and entry list to emphasize alternate rows.
- Updated icons to use webfont where possible.
- Updated CSS file removing IE 7 hacks and removed inline style blocks.
- Updated the formatting for the Danish Krone.
- Updated the text “Enable access to the API” so it can be translated.
- Replaced icon images.
- Replaced image-based icons with webfont icons where possible.
- Removed IE7 CSS hacks from CSS files.
- Removed several deprecated icon images.
- Removed several inline style blocks and took care of some general code cleanup.
- Fixed issue with license validation when upgrading from 1.7 to 1.8.
- Fixed duplicate IDs for the credit card field.
- Fixed various whitespace issues.
Gravity Forms Add-On Framework
- Added Payment Add-On to help and provide consistency when creating payment processors.
- Added remove_field() method to simplify removing a setting from any GFAddon settings array.
Gravity Forms API
- Fixed issue with add_entry() and update_entry() for payment entries where some values would be inserted without quotes generating errors.
- Fixed add_entry() and update_entry() for payment entries.