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6.12.4

• Security: Escape variables in PHP Exceptions
• Bug: Improve PDF column support when Gravity Forms includes a spacer
• Bug: Fix display of Website field when it isn’t filled in and Show Empty Fields is enabled
• Housekeeping: Mark as compatible with WP 6.7
• Housekeeping: Update PHP dependencies

6.12.3

• Bug: Resolve PHP error when a license has not been activated for a Gravity PDF extension
• Bug: Resolve PHP error when all plugin dependencies are not met
• Housekeeping: Open canonical plugin upgrade link in new window

6.12.2

• Security: Fix bug that caused the ‘Restrict Owner’ PDF setting to be ignored when it was enabled
• Housekeeping: Adjust canonical plugin notice
• Housekeeping: Add canonical plugin check on system report
• Housekeeping: Log license check API calls (canonical only)
• Bug: Fix PHP Notices in admin area

6.12.1

• Housekeeping: Update translations

6.12.0

• Feature: Add basic support for Gravity Forms 2.9 Image Choice and Multiple Choice fields (Gravity PDF Core Booster v2.2 can show the images)
• Feature: Add support for Digital Signature for Gravity Forms plugin (https://wordpress.org/plugins/digital-signature-for-gravity-forms/)
• Housekeeping: Allow approved HTML to be displayed in the PDF for Product and Option field choices
• Housekeeping: Add gfpdf_form_data_products filter to allow entry pricing information to be modified for the PDF
• Bug: Fix column ordering issue in Blank Slate, Focus Gravity, and Rubix when the RTL setting is enabled
• Bug: Allow Password and Privileges PDF setting description to be translated

6.11.4

• Bug: Allow numbers with decimals when saving number fields in the PDF Settings

6.11.3

• Bug: Fix truncated merge tags in HTML attribute when included in PDF setting Rich Text fields

6.11.2

• Bug: Resolve race condition by skipping PDF cleanup at the end of form submission process if PDF Background Processing is enabled
• Bug: Fix issue where some Notifications with PDFs attached were not being handled in a background task when PDF Background Processing is enabled

6.11.1

• Bug: Only process enabled notifications during form submission when using PDF Background Processing. Notifications are enabled if they are active and have conditional logic that passes.

6.11.0

• Housekeeping: Limit pages admin notices are displayed on to reduce notice fatigue
• Housekeeping: Add specific check for the PHP extension Ctype when the plugin loads
• Housekeeping: Tweak admin notice text to make error messages more clear
• Housekeeping: Remove downgrade notice to unsupported Gravity PDF v5.0 if minimum system requirements are not met for v6.0
• Housekeeping: Improve log messages when creating and validating a Signed PDF URL
• Housekeeping: Improve input sanitation for textarea, number, and custom paper size fields when saving the PDF Form Settings
• Housekeeping: Improve PDF Background Processing so its compatible with Gravity Forms native async notification feature
• Housekeeping: Correctly cleanup PDFs after a PDF Background Processing queue runs
• Bug: Enforce a 1pt minimum value for the Default Font Size and Font Size settings
• Bug: Self-heal the PDF signing secret key if it becomes invalid
• Bug: Self-heal the Global PDF Settings if it becomes invalid
• Bug: Prevent the page reloading when selecting a tooltip on PDF settings pages
• Bug: Register language files early so startup errors can be translated

6.10.2

• Bug: Hydrate Nested Forms with Gravity Wiz Populate Anything data

6.10.1

• Bug: Resolve PHP error when processing shortcode with invalid entry object
• Bug: Adhere to conditional logic and exclude CSS class for Page Break fields
• Bug: In more situations the Gravity PDF settings will be refreshed before the form meta is saved to the database
• Housekeeping: Run temporary directory cleanup routine twice daily and delete files older than 12 hours
• Housekeeping: Add gfpdf_system_status_report_items filter for Gravity PDF System Status report details
• Housekeeping: Update mPDF to latest version
• Housekeeping: Allow supported HTML in field labels when displayed in PDF

6.10.0

• Feature: Add native support for the Legal Signature and Legal Consent form fields added by the Legal Signing for Gravity Forms plugin

6.9.1

• Security: Disable the Signed URL feature in the [gravitypdf] shortcode when a URL parameter provides the entry ID (e.g. Page Confirmations)
• Bug: Gracefully handle invalid conditional logic rules when adding date entry meta support
• Bug: Display field for entry metadata PDF conditional rule when there are no form fields compatible with conditional logic
• Bug: Ensure the template cache is correctly cleared when PDF Debug Mode is enabled
• Bug: Flush the template cache after installing new templates via the PDF Template Manager
• Bug: Clear template cache when plugin deactivated
• Housekeeping: Small improvement to performance when reading template and font files from disk

6.9.0

• Feature: Add new conditional logic options to PDFs eg. Payment Status, Date Created, Starred (props: Gravity Wiz)
• Feature: Add support for Show HTML Fields, Show Empty Fields, Show Section Break Description, and Enable Conditional Logic PDF settings when displaying Gravity Wiz Nested Forms field
• Bug: Fix Form Editor saving problem for Gravity Forms v2.6.*
• Bug: Fix Drag and Drop Column layout issue when the GF Styles Pro plugin is enabled
• Bug: Fix issue sending PDF URLs with Gravity Wiz Google Sheets
• Bug: Improve display of Rich Text Textarea fields by removing top margin on individual paragraphs
• Bug: Resolve compatibility issue that corrupted PDFs when using Weglot
• Housekeeping: Exclude popular WordPress staging environments from site count when activating Gravity PDF licenses
• Housekeeping: Improve Gravity PDF license activation success and error messages
• Security: Improve security of network requests to Gravity PDF licensing server
• Developer: Add set_pdf_config( $config ) and get_pdf_config() methods to PDF Field classes
• Developer: In the PDF field blacklist, check using the original type and not with $field->get_input_type()

6.8.0

• Feature: Add PDF Download metabox to Gravity Flow Inbox for logged-in users with appropriate capability
• Feature: Add AI-generated translations for French, Spanish, Italian, German, Dutch, Russian, and Chinese
• Security: Only show PDF view/download links on entry list and details page if logged-in user has appropriate capability
• Housekeeping: Improve performance on admin pages by caching the list of available templates
• Housekeeping: When permalinks are enabled, generate the PDF URL with/without a trailing slash
• Bug: Remove whitespace from textarea fields in the PDF settings

6.7.4

• Bug: Resolve PHP error for specific GravityView / GravityChart combo
• Bug: Render supported HTML in labels/choices for the PDF Pricing table
• Bug: Fix PHP error while viewing a PDF when running an older version of WordPress (< 5.9) and PHP (< 8.0)

6.7.3

• Bug: Fix 3rd party conflict when different version of PSR-7 library is loaded

6.7.2

• Bug: Resolve fatal error when using Gravity Forms Google Analytics Pagination feature with the PDF URL included in the parameters.
• Housekeeping: Update PDF library to latest version
• Housekeeping: Update help search API details

6.7.1

• Bug: Improve dependency conflicts with third party plugins who bundle PSR Log v2 or v3
• Housekeeping: Use 4xx HTTP Status Codes for non-server related errors when generating PDFs

6.7.0

• Feature: Add support for multiple PDFs with the same Filename on a single form
• Feature: Use secure links for File Upload and Post Image fields in Core and Universal PDFs
• Dev Feature: Include secure links in $form_data array for File Upload and Post Image fields
• Bug: Fix backwards compatibility error when running a version of Gravity Forms less that 2.6
• Bug: Allow sanitized HTML in the labels of Radio and Checkbox admin settings
• Bug: Remain editing current PDF if a hard refresh occurs after adding a new PDF to the form

6.6.1

• Bug: Prevent PDF settings being override if multiple browser windows are open, and both are updating different settings of the same form concurrently
• Bug: Gracefully handle license key deactivation if an error occurs
• Housekeeping: Bump WordPress Tested Up To v6.3

6.6.0

• Feature: Improve display of ungrouped product fields in Core and Universal templates
• Dev Feature: Add gfpdf_hide_consent_field_if_empty filter, to remove the Consent field from Core and Universal templates if a user hasn’t consented.
• Bug: Remove Section Break description container is there is not a description included
• Bug: Fix potential PHP error when using GravityView and PDF for GravityView
• Housekeeping: Update PHP and JS dependencies

6.5.5

• Bug: Ensure PDF conditional logic is run through the correct sanitization function upon save
• Bug: Ensure Gravity Wiz Populate Anything live merge tags are correctly processed in the $form_data array
• Bug: Fix Monolog error when running PHP8.1

6.5.4

• Bug: Fix duplicate notifications when using PDF Background Processing while looping over GFAPI::submit_form()

6.5.3

• Bug: Fix HTTP(S) image/stylesheet loading problem in PDFs for SiteGround customers

6.5.2

• Bug: Fix PHP error when a non-string is passed to the Kses sanitizing class
• Bug: Resolve memory problem generating Core PDFs if an HTML element contains more than 10+ classes (field CSS Classes are now truncated to 8 user-defined classes)
• Bug: Fix Slim Image Cropper display problems in Core PDFs
• Housekeeping: Update mPDF to the latest version
• Housekeeping: Update QueryPath to the latest version

6.5.1

• Housekeeping: Update mPDF to the latest version
• Bug: Resolve custom font installation issue for some .ttf files

6.5.0

• Housekeeping: Update Global Extension Settings UI to be Gravity Forms 2.5 compatible
• Housekeeping: Adjust how admin Notices are handled on Gravity PDF pages
• Housekeeping: Update JavaScript package bundle
• Dev: Validate template filename when uploading via the PDF Template Manager (A-Za-z0-9_-)
• Dev: Add filterable CSS class names to the PDF links in the admin area
• Dev: Pass context to the gfpdf_core_template hook
• Dev: Add gfpdf_core_template_{form_id} hook to target specific forms
• Bug: Fix undefined rtl notice in Core PDF templates
• Bug: Fix PHP8.1 notice when saving PDF settings

6.4.7

• Bug: Resolve blank PDF problem when a large HTML block is processed by mPDF
• Bug: Resolve QueryPath deprecation notice about passing null to trim()
• Housekeeping: Update mPDF and URL Signer library to latest version

6.4.6

• Bug: Adjust Nested Forms and Repeater field PDF markup to ensure a unique ID attribute for any HTML tags
• Bug: Prevent duplicate grid css classes being added to Nested Forms HTML tags
• Bug: Process merge tags in Background Image PDF setting before late escaping in the PDF HTML markup
• Housekeeping: Remove initialized message from Gravity PDF logs

6.4.5

• Bug: Fix image display problem if filename had a space in it
• Bug: Fix Background Image display problem on Windows OS
• Developer: Added HTML field content to Repeater Field $form_data array

6.4.4

• Bug: Resolve HTML encoding issue in PDF when displaying Coupon field in Gravity Wiz eCommerce Perk’s Product Table
• Bug: Remove coupon line item in PDF when Gravity Wiz eCommerce Perk’s Product Table in use
• Bug: Resolve duplicate product table displayed in a legacy v3 template
• Bug: Resolve PHP notice when displaying product table in legacy v3 template
• Bug: Resolve PHP notice when displaying Section Break field in legacy v3 template

6.4.3

• Bug: Open PDF “view” link in a new browser tab on Entry List page
• Bug: Only hide Select field in Core/Universal templates if the saved value is an empty string, not a falsey value
• Bug: Prevent PHP notice when displaying Repeater field in PDFs with a Number sub-field
• Bug: Prevent HTML attribute content from having their entities decoded if they were previously encoded
• Bug: Fix Core/Universal template image display issues on servers running Windows

6.4.2

• Bug: Allow data protocol so Base 64-encoded images can be correctly displayed in Core/Universal templates
• Bug: Fix Core Font Installer problem when running older versions of WordPress (5.3 to 5.8)
• Bug: Fix fatal return type mismatch error if safe_style_css filter has been implemented incorrectly

6.4.1

• Bug: Fix PDF display issues with the Survey, Poll, Post Category, and Post Custom Fields

6.4.0

• Security (Hardening): Move from early escaping to late escaping variables on output
• Security (Hardening): Add additional validation checks to the Core Font installer
• Security (Hardening): Escape text returned from WordPress l10n functions
• Security (Hardening): Escape any and all strings from the Gravity Forms form object, in any context (including PDFs)
• Security (Hardening): Move to earlier sanitizing of user input
• Security (Hardening): Custom PDF template filenames are now limited to the following characters: A-Za-z0-9_-
• Security (Hardening): The ?html=1 and ?data=1 developer helper parameters now only work in non-production environments (WP_ENVIRONMENT_TYPE !== 'production'), or when Gravity PDF Debug Mode is explicitly enabled
• Security (Hardening): Prevent directory traversal when loading the various Gravity PDF UI components
• Security (Hardening): Change PDF Form Settings capability check from gravityforms_edit_settings to gravityforms_edit_forms
• Security (Hardening): Change Font Manager CRUD capability check from gravityforms_view_entries to gravityforms_edit_forms
• Security (Hardening): Switch to sodium_crypto_secretbox_keygen() function with modified fallback to wp_generate_password() when generating new PDF URL signing secret key
• Security (Hardening): Switch from a Text to Password field for the Gravity PDF License Keys
• Security (Hardening): Update PHP and JavaScript dependencies
• Developer: Added \GFPDF\Statics\Kses::output($html) and \GFPDF\Statics\Kses::parse($html) methods for use with escaping/sanitizing HTML in PDFs (as an alternative to wp_kses_post()).
• Performance: Register JavaScript in the footer on Gravity PDF admin pages
• Privacy: Added “Get more info” link in the Core Font Installer instructions, and disclaimer to plugin’s README.txt installation section
• Bug: Fix issue passing PDF URL to Gravity Forms Mailchimp add-on
• Bug: Allow hyphen in custom font key when updating or deleting to remain backwards compatible
• Bug: Fix PHP8.1 type conversion warning in the template cache when transient’s are flushed
• Bug: Remove empty repeater sections from Core PDFs when not filled in by the user

6.3.1

• Security: Prevent potential XSS attack by escaping URL returned from add_query_args() on the PDF List or PDF Form Settings pages
• Developer: Apply gfpdf_current_form_object filter added in 6.3.0 to the form object in Helper_Abstract_Fields.php using the $type helper_abstract_fields.
• Bug: Correctly display the file path in the logs when cleaning up PDFs from disk or flushing the mPDF cache
• Performance: reduce I/O operations when flushing the mPDF cache by excluding the top-level directory

6.3.0

• Feature: Support for mapping PDF URLs to your favorite services using Gravity Forms feeds. This includes (but is not limited to): PayPal, MailChimp, HubSpot, Stripe, Square, ActiveCampaign, Agile CRM, Capsule, CleverReach, Constant Contact, EmailOctopus, Zoho CRM
• Feature: Support for the Zapier add-on: PDF URLs can now be passed to your zaps
• Feature: Add [gravitypdf] shortcode rendering support to Gravity Wiz’s Entry Block perk
• Housekeeping: Change “document” icon used for settings menus to the “Gravity PDF” icon
• Housekeeping: duplicating PDFs on a form will now have the correct alternating background color in the table
• Housekeeping: Process the [gravitypdf] shortcode when merge tags get processed so that it can be used where ever merge tags are supported
• Developer: Add new gfpdf_current_form_object filter to manipulate the $form array when processing PDFs
• Bug: Fix a race condition when using Background Processing that could see the PDF deleted before being attached to notifications
• Bug: Do not strip the backslash character when used in PDF settings

6.2.1

• Bug: Always generate a new PDF when using the GPDFAPI::create_pdf() method
• Bug: Fix fatal error during PDF generation when using the gform_address_display_format filter

6.2.0

• Feature: Add support for Gravity Forms 2.6 (see Housekeeping below)
• Housekeeping: Add alternate background color on PDF List page
• Housekeeping: Add styles/support for new merge tag selector
• Housekeeping: Add styles for Copy to Clipboard shortcode button on PDF List page
• Housekeeping: Update help search API to query v6 documentation
• Bug: Fix error message display issue on Form PDF add/edit page
• Bug: Fix missing styles on multi-PDF view/download menu on Entry List page

6.1.1

• Bug: Allow number field to show a thousand separator by using the ‘gform_include_thousands_sep_pre_format_number’ filter.
• Bug: Fix PHP Notice when displaying Repeater field caused by processing field’s not present in $form_data['field'] array key
• Housekeeping: Add logging to file/directory cleanup method
• Housekeeping: Add additional checks and logging when processing background tasks

6.1.0

• Feature: Add Copy to Clipboard feature for PDF Shortcode on the PDF List page
• Bug: Fix empty check on the Radio field so a zero (0) value is not considered empty

6.0.3

• Bug: Reduce the Focus Gravity template column widths by a fraction to prevent edge-case display issues (props Hiwire Creative)
• Bug: Fix Help page results text encoding problems
• Bug: Prevent multiple font files being uploaded to a single dropzone
• Bug: When checking if a Radio/Select field is empty in the PDF context, only look at the value property.

6.0.2

• Bug: Fix up 404 link for Outdated Templates in System Status
• Bug: Revert vendor aliasing for mPDF and querypath (back to the original namespace) as it caused more problems than is solved. Developers: see https://docs.gravitypdf.com/v6/users/v5-to-v6-migration#changed-namespace-for-composer-packages

6.0.1

• Bug: When displaying the minimum Gravity Forms version not met error, remove beta-1 as the minimum to prevent confusion.

6.0.0

This major release is designed specifically for Gravity Forms 2.5+ and includes breaking pages that may affect you. You are strongly encouraged to review the upgrade guide before attempting to update to v6.

BREAKING CHANGES

• New minimum requirements PHP7.3+, WordPress 5.3+, Gravity Forms 2.5+
• Removed Gravity PDF v3 template stylesheet (swap legacy PDF template to Focus Gravity template)
• Removed Gravity PDF v3 to v4 migration code (upgrade to v4/v5 before attempting v6 upgrade)
• (Dev) Moved all vendor (Packagist) packages to new GFPDF_Vendor/ namespace (BC aliasing for common classes included). Prevents all vendor conflicts with other plugins.
• (Dev) Removed “Setup Custom Templates” tool (manually copy over template files to PDF Working Directory)
• (Dev) Removed shortname property from custom_fonts global PDF options, and removed the requirement for the font_name to be unique (use id instead of shortname).
• (Dev) Changed the first parameter $font_name in GPDFAPI::delete_pdf_font() to $font_id instead. You can no longer delete the font by
  its name, as it is no longer a unique identifier.
• (Dev) Majority of admin user interface markup (UI) changed to suit new GF2.5 UI ()
• (Dev) Renamed \GFPDF\Helper\Fields\Field_CreditCard class to Field_Creditcard
• (Dev) Change \GFPDF\Model\Model_Install __construct signature by removing Helper_Abstract_Forms dependancy from the start and adding Model_Uninstall at the end
• (Dev) Change \GFPDF\Model\Model_System_Report __construct signature by adding new Helper_Templates dependancy at the end
• (Dev) Removed \GFPDF\View\View_Settings::system_status method. Replaced by Controller_|Model_|View_System_Report classes for direct integration with Gravity Forms System Status page
• (Dev) Removed undocumented gfpdf_entry_detail_pre_container_markup and gfpdf_entry_detail_post_container_markup actions
• (Dev) Adjusted ID from #tab_pdf to #tab_PDF for container on Global PDF settings page. This ensures both the Global and Form PDF settings use a consistent ID.
• (Dev) Change \GFPDF\Model\Model_Install __construct signature by removing Helper_Abstract_Forms dependancy from the start and adding Model_Uninstall at the end
• (Dev) Change \GFPDF\Model\Model_System_Report __construct signature by adding new Helper_Templates dependancy at the end
• (Dev) Removed \GFPDF\View\View_Settings::system_status method. Replaced by Controller_|Model_|View_System_Report classes for direct integration with Gravity Forms System Status page
• (Dev) Removed undocumented gfpdf_entry_detail_pre_container_markup and gfpdf_entry_detail_post_container_markup actions
• (Dev) Adjusted ID from #tab_pdf to #tab_PDF for container on Global PDF settings page. This ensures both the Global and Form PDF settings use a consistent ID.
• (Dev) Deprecate Helper_Abstract_Options::get_font_short_name(). No direct replacement as the font ‘shortname’ has been phased out (using unique ID now).
• (Dev) Updated field description markup to use DIVs instead of SPANs. Matches Gravity Forms RC1
• (Dev) Deprecate these methods from \GFPDF\Model\Model_Install: uninstall_plugin, remove_plugin_options, remove_plugin_form_settings, remove_folder_structure, deactivate_plugin. All moved to Model_Uninstall.

NEW FEATURES

• Brand new admin user interface (UI) to seamlessly match the Gravity Forms (GF) 2.5 UI.
• Added support for new GF columns feature in Core PDFs
• Add PDF column support for Gravity Perks Nested Forms
• Added RTL support for new GF columns feature in Core PDFs
• Refreshed Font Manager with better validation, error handling, and automatic support for fonts that include Open Type Layout features.
• Added new PDF metabox on Entry Details page. Includes a better user experience for forms with a lot of PDFs configured.
• Added new merge tag modifiers :download, :print, :signed, :signed:expiry to enhance existing PDF mergetag (modifiers can all be used in conjunction)
• Add PDF URL to Webhook add-on “All Fields” request body
• Add ability to include PDF URLs in Entry exports
• Add Gravity PDF info to Gravity Forms System Status page
• Show plugin downgrade prompt when minimum WordPress, Gravity Forms, or PHP requirements aren’t met so users can easily roll back to the latest supported v5.x version.
• Add support for WordPress’ native Background Updates
• Add accessibility improvements for keyboard users and screen readers on all Gravity PDF UIs
• Display warning on System Status page when Core template overrides are out of date
• Include Add/Update PDF button below each section on PDF creation page to make it easy to save
• Improve RTL support on admin pages

UX IMPROVEMENTS

• Remove the Always Save PDF setting from the UI.
• Switch all Radio PDF settings to new Toggle setting
• Switch all Multiselect PDF settings to Checkbox field (better accessibility)
• Rename PDF setting “Name” to “Label”
• Replace asterisk * to text (required) to signify required fields (better accessibility)
• Rename PDF setting “Orientation” to “Paper Orientation”
• Refine PDF settings descriptions.
• Removed Welcome Page
• Move Paper Size global settings below the Template / Font settings
• Removed rich Select functionality (using Chosen) in UI for greater accessibility
• Remove WP Dialog prompts in UI for greater accessibility
• Move Gravity PDF uninstaller from Tools tab to Gravity Forms Uninstall settings page

BUG FIXES

• Ignore content-type header API response when running the Core Font installer
• Make all GFPDFAPI API class error responses translatable
• Fix PHP8 notice
• Prevent background queue from continuing if retry limit reached on unrecoverable task (like generating the PDF)
• Adjust custom paper size sanitize logic to fix PHP error
• Check for invalid relative date when using Signed PDF URLs and fallback to default timeout
• Fix border display issue in Core Product table
• Show error message in Template Manager when maximum file size limit is reached

DEVELOPER IMPROVEMENTS

• Rewritten all CSS in SASS
• Add GPDFAPI::get_entry_pdfs( $entry_id ) method to API. Acts like GPDFAPI::get_form_pdfs( $form_id ) but filters out any PDFs that don’t pass conditional logic checks for the current entry.
• Added Helper_Abstract_Config_Settings class which template config files can extend to automatically have the current PDF settings injected into the class.
• Adjusted some logged items to use less severe alerts (when template config file doesn’t exist, and when native PDF support for a field doesn’t exist)
• Upgrade vendor packages to latest versions
• Remove all backbone.js and underscore.js Font Manager code from Gravity PDF admin pages
• Remove gulp as dependency (build is done using only webpack now)
• Add better error log messages for PDF Merge tag processing
• Pass additional information to the gfpdf_field_container_class filter

See CHANGELOG.txt for version 5/4/3 changelog history.