Gravity Forms v2.4 Release Candidate 1 is now available via the downloads page. It is available for auto-update if you already have a v2.4 Beta version installed. Version 2.4 is a major feature release that includes a variety of enhancements and improvements especially in the areas of data protection, accessibility and performance.

Gravity Forms v2.4 Highlights

• Powerful tools for data protection regulatory (GDPR) compliance:
  • Define a data retention policy – entries can be deleted or trashed automatically after a specified number of days.
  • Integration with the WordPress Personal Data Export and Erase tools, including granular control over fields that will be exported and erased.
  • Option to prevent the IP Address from being stored with the entry.
  • A new Consent field which will store the agreement text with the form entry in order to track what the user has consented to.
• Improved accessibility: better support for field labels and fixed missing aria-required attributes.
• Uploaded files can now be attached to notification emails.
• Added performance enhancements to the way multiple entries are retrieved from the database.
• API: Added the REST API v2, now supporting both Basic and OAuth1 authentication for external clients.
• API: Repeater Fields containing sets of other fields can be added programmatically (beta feature).

Gravity Forms v2.4 Release Candidate 1 Changelog

• Updated the country list to match ISO 3166-1.
• Fixed an issue with the display of empty repeater values on the entry detail page.
• Fixed an issue with the integration with the User Role Editor plugin where the Gravity Forms group is being nested under other custom groups rather than on its own level.
• Fixed an issue with conditional logic involving countries and provinces with special characters e.g. ampersands.
• Fixed an issue where the Consent field will fail validation if the description is changed after saving a draft submission with the “Save and Continue” feature.
• AF: Added the gform_max_async_feed_attempts filter to allow the number of retries to be modified before the async feed is abandoned.

Gravity Forms v2.4 Beta 2 Changelog

• Updated all translations.
• Updated notification services to support disabled state and disabled message.
• Fixed custom personal data item settings not saving.
• API: Fixed an issue where the confirmation cache is not cleared when updating form meta.
• API: Fixed an issue with the multi-column list field when getting the value using GFFormsModel::get_field_value().
• API: Fixed an issue with the Personal Data settings where custom items are not saved.
• AF: Fixed merge tag icon overlapping custom value input field in generic map settings field.

Gravity Forms v2.4 Beta 1 Changelog

• Added security enhancements.
• Added Personal Data form settings to define a data retention policy. Entries can be deleted or trashed automatically after a specified number of days.
• Added integration with the WordPress Personal Data Export and Erase tools, including granular control over fields that be exported and erased.
• Added the option to prevent the IP Address from being stored with the entry.
• Added the Consent field which will store the agreement text with the form entry in order to track what the user has consented to.
• Added the gform_personal_data_identification_fields filter to allow fields containing user IDs to be added to the list of available options. e.g. created_by or fields where the default value is {user:ID}.
• Added the gform_entry_ids_automatic_deletion filter to allow entries to be rescued at the last minute before deleting automatically according to the retention policy.
• Added a new notification setting below the message setting for attaching uploaded files to the notification email.
• Added a non-dismissible notice on every WordPress admin page when logging is enabled, recommending it is disabled it once it’s no longer needed.
• Added the GF_LOGGING_DISABLE_NOTICE constant to allow the logging notice to be suppressed.
• Added performance enhancements to the way multiple entries are retrieved from the database.
• Added the gform_display_field_select_columns_entry_list filter to allow list fields to be added to and removed from the select fields UI on the entry list.
• Added the ability to sort confirmations and notifications by their name rather than only by the default sort order of the ID.
• Added enhanced support for Members 2.0+ and User Role Editor plugins.
• Added an error notice above the form when an expired Save & Continue link is used.
• Added “Authorized” as an available choice for the entry Payment Status filters on the entry list.
• Added the Date Updated to the entry detail page when the entry has been updated. Applies to entries updated after the installation of this version.
• Added the admin label setting to Product fields using the Single Product input type.
• Updated the payment statuses to be translatable in the entry list filter.
• Updated the validation message for the number field.
• Fixed multiple accessibility issues with field labels and missing aria-required attributes.
• Fixed an issue with the validation of the website field fails when the protocol contains uppercase letters.
• Fixed an issue with the submit button conditional logic where the logic is checked in the browser but not on the server.
• API: Added the REST API v2.
• API: Added the Repeater field which can be used to add repeating sets of fields. The Repeater field is currently a beta feature and currently can only be added programmatically. Repeater fields can be nested and can contain the following field types:
  • Single Line Text
  • Paragraph
  • Dropdown
  • Multiselect
  • Number
  • Checkboxes
  • Radio Buttons
  • Name
  • Date
  • Time
  • Phone
  • Address
  • Website
  • Email
  • List
  The following are not yet supported:
  • Conditional Logic
  • Calculations
  See the documentation for further details.
• API: Added helper methods to GF_Field to return the settings for the field filters UI: GF_Field::get_filter_settings(), GF_Field::get_filter_operators(), GF_Field::get_filter_values and GF_Field::get_filter_sub_filters()
• API: Added support for parsing and replacing merge tags in the browser before the form is submitted. Use GFMergeTag.getMergeTagValue() and GFMergeTag.replaceMergeTags(). Most field types are supported. The post image, file upload and multi-file upload are currently not supported.
• API: Fixed an issue when searching for entries always returns empty when a column value (e.g. created_by) is NOT IN an array of values.
• API: Fixed an issue where the submit button may fail to submit when custom code has been used to create the submit button.
• AF: Added support for processing feed conditional logic in the browser.

Once you have installed and activated Gravity Forms v2.4 Beta 2 you will have access to beta release updates via automatic update.