Advanced Custom Fields v6.1.6

Release Date 4th May 2023

• Security Fix - This release resolves an XSS vulnerability in ACF’s admin pages (Thanks to Rafie Muhammad for the responsible disclosure)
• Fix - Duplicating fields in a new field group with field setting tabs disabled now behaves correctly

Advanced Custom Fields v6.1.5

Release Date 2nd May 2023

• Enhancement - Creating a new field group from the post-save actions for a post type or taxonomy will automatically populate the field group title
• Enhancement - Empty values in list tables now display as a dash, rather than blank
• Enhancement - The Generate PHP export tool for field groups now displays the code wrapped in the acf/include_fields action hook to match the recommended way of using acf_add_local_field_group, and the code is formatted correctly
• Enhancement - Post count and Term count values in list tables now link through to the matching posts or terms
• Enhancement - Added post-save actions to post type and taxonomies to create another
• Enhancement - Selecting existing taxonomies when registering a Custom Post Type is now available in the Basic settings section rather than Advanced
• Fix - Exclude From Search setting for custom post types now behaves correctly
• Fix - Duplicating fields with sub fields no longer results in JS errors
• Fix - Select2 field settings now render correctly when duplicating fields
• Fix - Checkbox fields allowing custom values which use integer keys can now be updated over the REST API
• Fix - Using the No Permalink rewrite setting for post type will no longer generate PHP warnings
• Fix - The minimum rows not met validation message for the Repeater field type now correctly states the minimum rows are not met
• Fix - The Range field type no longer cuts off three digit values
• Fix - Created on and Delete Field Group now correctly only appear on the Group Settings tab of a field group
• Fix - Padding for field settings tabs is now correct
• i18n - Updated all PRO translation files, removing legacy free strings which are now handled through translate.wordpress.org
• i18n - Updated PRO translations with the latest contributions from GitHub (Thanks to @MilenDalchev, @Xilonz and @wiliamjk)

Advanced Custom Fields v6.1.4

Release Date 12th April 2023

• Fix - ACF now detects when another plugin or theme is loading an incompatible version of Select2, and will fallback to a basic select field for the field type selection
• Fix - Post Object, Page Link and Relationship field types now use a default post_status filter of any, matching the behavior prior to ACF 6.1. This can be edited per field in the field group admin or via the acf/fields/$field_type/query filters
• Fix - Post Type and Taxonomy key generation now uses dashes rather than underscores
• Fix - The "add first" text no longer appears when no search results are found for ACF field groups, post types or taxonomies

Advanced Custom Fields v6.1.3

Release Date 5th April 2023

• Fix - 'Create Terms' button for taxonomy fields now displays correctly
• Fix - ACF JSON field group files which have unsupported keys (not beginning with group_) will now load as field groups
• Fix - Renaming capabilities for post types will now set map_meta_cap to true solving an issue with assigning permissions to roles for that post type

Advanced Custom Fields v6.1.2

Release Date 4th April 2023

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• Fix - Calls to acf_add_options_page after acf_add_local_field_group before acf/init will now behave correctly
• i18n - All new ACF 6.1 strings are now correctly English (United States) by default, along with the following changes from ACF 6.1.1 and 6.1.0:
• Fix - Calls to acf_add_local_field_group before acf/init now behave correctly
• New - Register Custom Post Types and Taxonomies using ACF. View the release post for full information
• New - A new field type selection browser providing details on each type of field. View the release post for full information.
• New - PHP 8.1 and 8.2 support
• Security Fix - ACF's data serialization system will now prevent classes being unserialized. This prevents a potential security issue should an attacker know a vulnerable class is available, and can write malicious data to the database.
• Enhancement - Post Object, Page Link and Relationship fields now support filtering by post status
• Enhancement - Checkbox fields which allow custom entries can now be filtered to set custom text for the “Add New Choice” button using the custom_choice_button_text property
• Fix - ACF Block field edit view buttons now work correctly inside reusable blocks
• Fix - An empty callback function in now passed to scripts to prevent JS warnings when using Google Map fields
• Fix - Checkbox field values now support keys indexed as 0
• Fix - Automatic deactivation of the free or PRO plugin when activating the other now displays the correct message in the admin notice
• Fix - Empty Flexible Content fields will no longer cause an error when used in the block editor on save
• Fix - Admin notices now behave correctly and are closable in RTL languages

Advanced Custom Fields v6.1.1

Release Date 3rd April 2023

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• Fix - Calls to acf_add_local_field_group before acf/init now behave correctly, along with the following changes included in ACF 6.1.0:
• New - Register Custom Post Types and Taxonomies using ACF. View the release post for full information
• New - A new field type selection browser providing details on each type of field. View the release post for full information.
• New - PHP 8.1 and 8.2 support
• Security Fix - ACF's data serialization system will now prevent classes being unserialized. This prevents a potential security issue should an attacker know a vulnerable class is available, and can write malicious data to the database.
• Enhancement - Post Object, Page Link and Relationship fields now support filtering by post status
• Enhancement - Checkbox fields which allow custom entries can now be filtered to set custom text for the “Add New Choice” button using the custom_choice_button_text property
• Fix - ACF Block field edit view buttons now work correctly inside reusable blocks
• Fix - An empty callback function in now passed to scripts to prevent JS warnings when using Google Map fields
• Fix - Checkbox field values now support keys indexed as 0
• Fix - Automatic deactivation of the free or PRO plugin when activating the other now displays the correct message in the admin notice
• Fix - Empty Flexible Content fields will no longer cause an error when used in the block editor on save
• Fix - Admin notices now behave correctly and are closable in RTL languages

Advanced Custom Fields v6.1.0

Release Date 3rd April 2023

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• New - Register Custom Post Types and Taxonomies using ACF. View the release post for full information
• New - A new field type selection browser providing details on each type of field. View the release post for full information.
• New - PHP 8.1 and 8.2 support
• Security Fix - ACF's data serialization system will now prevent classes being unserialized. This prevents a potential security issue should an attacker know a vulnerable class is available, and can write malicious data to the database.
• Enhancement - Post Object, Page Link and Relationship fields now support filtering by post status
• Enhancement - Checkbox fields which allow custom entries can now be filtered to set custom text for the “Add New Choice” button using the custom_choice_button_text property
• Fix - ACF Block field edit view buttons now work correctly inside reusable blocks
• Fix - An empty callback function in now passed to scripts to prevent JS warnings when using Google Map fields
• Fix - Checkbox field values now support keys indexed as 0
• Fix - Automatic deactivation of the free or PRO plugin when activating the other now displays the correct message in the admin notice
• Fix - Empty Flexible Content fields will no longer cause an error when used in the block editor on save.
• Fix - Admin notices now behave correctly and are closable in RTL languages

Advanced Custom Fields v6.1.0-beta1

Release Date 16th March 2023

• New - Custom Post Type and Taxonomy registration support via the ACF Admin UI. View the release post for full information
• New - A new field type selection browser providing details on each type of field. View the release post for full information
• New - PHP 8.1 and 8.2 support
• Enhancement - Post Object, Page Link and Relationship fields now support filtering by post status
• Enhancement - Checkbox fields which allow custom entries can now be filtered to set custom text for the “Add New Choice” button via the custom_choice_button_text property
• Fix - ACF Block field edit view buttons now work correctly inside reusable blocks

Advanced Custom Fields v6.0.7

Release Date 18th January 2023

• Improvement - Removed unnecessary “Layout” prefix for Flexible Content field layouts
• Fix - Dragging and dropping fields containing settings rendered as radio button groups no longer removes the selected value
• Fix - Using the WordPress default_page_template_title filter with two parameters no longer causes a fatal error
• Fix - Select2 inputs in the content editor are no longer receiving styles from the ACF 6 admin UI
• Fix - acf_add_local_field_group() now works with field group titles containing non-ASCII characters
• Fix - Flexible Content field no longer has a missing icon for the “Duplicate” button
• Fix - Clicking the “Add Field” button in a Flexible Content layout no longer adds an invalid field if there are other Flexible Content fields in the layout
• Fix - Edit buttons for ACF blocks now behave correctly inside reusable blocks
• Fix - Field settings rendered as a select2 field now correctly reinitialize when changing between field types

Advanced Custom Fields v6.0.6

Release Date 13th December 2022

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• New - Flexible Content field now has a new admin user experience when editing layouts
• New - Tabs for field settings in the field group editor can now be disabled via a new “Field Settings Tabs” screen option or with the new acf/field_group/disable_field_settings_tabs filter
• Improvement - General field settings tab now selected by default when a field is opened
• Fix - Sub fields are no longer initialized by their parent, resolving performance issues when field groups contain many nested sub fields
• Fix - Frontend forms now disable the submit button after click to prevent multiple submissions
• Fix - Unknown field types no longer display broken HTML in the field group editor
• Fix - Returning an empty string via the acf/blocks/no_fields_assigned_message filter will no longer result in blocks without fields assigned having an extra wrapping div
• Fix - Sites with WPML enabled no longer experience failed ACF updates due to license errors
• Fix - Buttons featuring icons no longer have display issues when using RTL languages