Advanced Custom Fields v5.12

Release Date 23rd February 2022

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• New - ACF blocks now support the new Full Site Editor included in WordPress 5.9
• New - ACF blocks now support the WordPress Query Loop block
• New - Added block caching system to reduce the number of AJAX calls in the block editor
• Enhancement - Block preloading can now be disabled by using "acf_update_setting( 'preload_blocks', false );" in the "acf/init" action hook
• Enhancement - ACF and ACF PRO will now detect if each other are active and deactivate the other plugin on plugin activation
• Fix - Fixed an issue with the media library not working correctly in ACF Blocks in WordPress 5.9.1
• Fix - Fixed an issue where anchors weren't working correctly in WordPress 5.9
• Fix - Fixed an issue where the "unfiltered_html" capability wasn't being used by ACF blocks
• Fix - Fixed an issue where it was impossible to update an ACF block inside the widget block editor
• Fix - Fixed an issue where ACF fields might not appear in REST API calls made via internal WordPress functions
• Fix - Warnings and PHP 8.1 deprecation notices in REST API
• Fix - Better support for double byte characters in "acf_get_truncated()" (props @cabradb)
• i18n - Broken link in the Croatian translation
• i18n - Automated building of acf.pot for translators in each release

Advanced Custom Fields v5.11.4

Release Date - 2nd December 2021

• Fix - Fixed several Select2.js conflicts with other plugins
• Fix - Fixed an issue where block name sanitization could change valid block names containing double hyphens
• Fix - Fixed an issue where blocks with integer IDs could fail to load example field data

Advanced Custom Fields v5.11.3

Release Date - 24th November 2021

• Fix - Fixed a bug when accessing field values for options pages registered with a custom post_id

Advanced Custom Fields v5.11.2

Release Date - 24th November 2021

• Fix - Previously implemented data access changes for get_field() and the_field() are now limited to the ACF shortcode only. Learn more
• Fix - get_field() and the_field() functions can once again access meta values regardless of being registered with ACF, restoring functionality that existed before 5.11
• Fix - get_field() and the_field() functions now are only able to access site options which are ACF fields
• Fix - UI issues for select boxes related to Yoast and WooCommerce’s select2 versions by upgrading our select2 version, and updating our CSS to support older versions
• Fix - User fields failed to load values when using the legacy select2 v3 option
• Fix - acf_slugify() now correctly supports special characters which solves issues with block names or field group names (during imports) containing those characters
• Fix - PHP Notice generated while processing a field group’s postbox classes

Advanced Custom Fields v5.11.1

Release Date - 18 November 2021

• Enhancement - Added "acf/admin/license_key_constant_message" filter to allow changing of the "Your license key is defined in wp-config.php" message
• Fix - Added warning for when get_field() or similar functions are called before ACF has initialized. Learn more
• Fix - Fixed fields not appearing on user REST API endpoints if their field group location was set to a user form other than "all"
• Fix - Fixed warning in REST API if a custom field type did not have the "show_in_rest" property
• Fix - Fixed an error that could occur if value of WYSIWYG field was not a string

Advanced Custom Fields v5.11

Release Date - 10 November 2021

• New - Fields can now be viewed and updated with the WordPress REST API (props @mishterk)
• New - License key can now be defined in code with the "ACF_PRO_LICENSE" constant
• Enhancement - Improved error handling for expired or deactivated licenses
• Enhancement - Improved support for various block editor features, such as block styles and padding/spacing
• Enhancement - Added support for using WordPress "Screen Options" to hide field groups in Classic Editor
• Enhancement - Support filters adding custom classes on date and time field inputs
• Enhancement - Support filtering ACF shortcode attributes (with the "shortcode_atts_acf" filter)
• Fix - Removed usages of PHP "extract()" function
• Fix - Fixed a security issue with user field
• Fix - Fixed a security issue with "acf_get_value()"
• Fix - Correctly set ".acf-block-preview" wrapper when previewing a block in auto mode
• Fix - Resolved an issue with select2 rendering for nav menu fields
• Fix - Fixed an issue with file validation that occurred when removing a file that failed validation
• Fix - Fixed a notice in "acf_prepare_field()"
• Fix - Prevented an issue where setting an empty string for the return format of date and time fields would cause JS errors
• Fix - Fix issues with conditional logic for multi-select fields (props @bhujagendra-ishaya)
• Fix - Added support for Google Maps schema change which prevented Google Maps fields from correctly saving the city for some areas
• Fix - Fixed an issue where removing the collapsed property of a repeater prevents viewing previously collapsed rows
• i18n - Updated Polish Translations (props @Webnatural)
• Dev - Formatted JavaScript to WordPress code standards

Advanced Custom Fields v5.10.2

Release Date - 31 August 2021

• Fix - Fixed block duplication issues which created blocks with duplicate block IDs
• Fix - Fixed an issue with ACF errors displaying in the media library outside of ACF fields
• Fix - Changed label of "Enable Opacity?" to "Allow transparency" in the colour picker
• Fix - Revert "style" attributes of ACF Blocks to 5.9.x behaviour for template compatibility
• Fix - Allow safe HTML inside select2 field labels
• Fix - Don't render the "acf-block-preview" div when preloading blocks in edit mode

Advanced Custom Fields v5.10.1

Release Date - 26 August 2021

• Fix - Fixed conflict with WooCommerce loading SelectWoo which is not directly compatible with Select2.

Advanced Custom Fields v5.10

Release Date - 25 August 2021

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Enhancement - Improved security by running all user-generated content through wp_kses() by default
Enhancement - New ACF Blocks features
* Switched to v2 of the Blocks API for WordPress 5.6+
* Block preloading now enabled by default
* Block preloading now supports blocks set to "Edit" mode
* Add support for full height alignment setting
Enhancement - Added setting to color picker field to enable an opacity slider
Enhancement - Allow deletion of first field group location rule if multiple rules have been added thanks to Arthur Shlain
Fix - Fixed vulnerability with acf_shortcode() where users with subscriber role could view arbitrary ACF data, thanks to Keitaro Yamazaki
Fix - Fixed vulnerability where users with subscriber role could move fields and view field groups, thanks to Keitaro Yamazaki
Fix - Fixed issue where fields in legacy widgets weren't saving in new widget block editor
Fix - Fixed issue with custom field validation in scheduled posts
Fix - Fixed warnings thrown by clone field if the cloned field group is empty
Fix - Fixed issue where Select2 search input wouldn't have focus in WordPress 5.8+
Fix - Fixed issue with Select2 value sorting when Yoast SEO is installed
Fix - Fixed deprecation warnings in block editor in WordPress 5.6+
i18n - Updated Swedish translation thanks to Erik Betshammar

Advanced Custom Fields v5.9.9

Release Date - 20 July 2021

Fix - Fixed warning when deleting fields which don't exist
Fix - Fixed issues with older browsers and the blocks JavaScript
Fix - Fixed file size & file type validation for front end forms using the basic uploader