Gravity Forms v1.9.3 Released
By Carl Hancock
Published March 5, 2015
Gravity Forms v1.9.3 is now available via automatic update and the customer downloads page. This is a major maintenance and security release.
We recommend all users update as soon as possible. It is important to always keep WordPress, plugins and themes up to date as a matter of best practice. We sound like a broken record when it comes to updating WordPress, but it’s critical that WordPress users keep their sites up to date as standard procedure.
On that note, we are enabling background automatic updates for maintenance releases by default with this release. This will not change settings on existing sites. Only new installs. Background automatic update behaves exactly like it does in WordPress core and only background updates are only automatically executed when it is a maintenance release. Standard automatic update is used with feature releases. Background automatic updates are also disabled by default and cannot be enabled in Gravity Forms if you have disabled this feature in WordPress. You can also disable the feature for Gravity Forms specifically via the Settings page. However, we highly recommend not doing so unless absolutely necessary for your workflow.
If background automatic updates are enabled they will occur when WordPress checks for updates. This typically occurs every 12 hours. If you’d like to update sooner you can install the update by going to the Updates page under the Forms navigation in your WordPress Dashboard.
What’s New in Gravity Forms v1.9.3
- Added the ‘gform_post_send_entry_note’ hook to allow users to perform custom actions when an entry note has been sent.
- Added the ‘gform_entry_list_column_input_label_only’ filter to allow users to override the default behaviour of only including the input label in the entry list column header.
- Added gf_apply_filters() to allow providing a list of modifiers for a filter.
- Added logging around key validation.
- Added Faroe Islands (FO) to the country list.
- Added additional security precautions to the file upload file.
- Added the ‘gform_post_export_entries’ hook to allow users to perform custom actions when entries have been exported.
- Added context support to ‘MM’ string to allow different translations for abbreviation of minutes and month when needed.
- Updated Spanish translation.
- Updated the background updates setting to be activated by default on new installations only.
- Updated Finnish translation.
- Fixed duplicate ID attribute on multi-page forms.
- Fixed a JavaScript error in the form editor that can sometimes occur when opening the date field on a form created in 1.8 or lower.
- Fixed issue with sales page when entries are deleted or moved to trash.
- Fixed styling issues with Year input overlapping other Date field inputs when format began with year.
- Fixed a XSS issue with some legacy forms. Credit: the a3rev.com team.
- Fixed and issue with the save and continue form setting where the Save and Continue Confirmation may not get generated on some servers.
- Fixed issue where default value for Date field and Drop Down date field would not populate correctly.
- Fixed styling issue where Date field “Year” input was cut off.
- Fixed an issue with the List field in the form editor where clicking on the field label opens and then immediately closes the field.
- Fixed a security vulnerability with the multi-file upload field. Proactive security measures in place had already prevented this from being exploited.
- Fixed an issue in the conditional logic javascript which impacted loading data into the list field.
API Updates in Gravity Forms v1.9.3
- Added support for WordPress cookie authentication to the Web API. Requires nonce with the action set to gf_api passed via the _gf_json_nonce POST data or in the query for GET requests. Intended for use by JavaScript on the same site as the Gravity Forms installation.
- Removed authentication for the POST forms/[ID]/submissions endpoint.
- Fixed an issue with GFAPI::add_entry() which can result in entry values being blank for email, date and time fields.
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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