Advanced Custom Fields v6.2.2

Release Date 25th October 2023

• Enhancement - ACF Blocks which have not been initialized by the editor will now render correctly
• Enhancement - Added a new acf/filesize filter to allow third party media plugins to bypass ACF calling filesize() on attachments with uncached file sizes, which may result in a remote download if offloaded
• Enhancement - ACF PRO license status and subscription expiry dates are now displayed on the “Updates” page
• Fix - Product pages for WooCommerce version 8.2 or newer now correctly support field group location rules
• Fix - Relationship field items can now be removed on mobile devices
• Fix - Color picker fields no longer autocomplete immediately after typing 3 valid hex characters
• Fix - Field settings no longer appear misaligned when the viewport is something other than 100%
• Fix - Select fields without an aria-label no longer throw a warning
• Fix - CPTs and Taxonomies with a custom text domain now export correctly when using PHP export

Advanced Custom Fields v6.2.1

Release Date 7th September 2023

• New - Options Pages created in the admin UI can now be assigned as child pages for any top-level menu item
• New - Added a "Title Placeholder" setting to ACF Post Types which filters the "Add title" text when editing posts
• Enhancement - ACF PRO will now warn when it can’t update due to PHP version incompatibilities
• Enhancement - ACF PRO will now work correctly with WordPress automatic updates
• Enhancement - The internal ACF Blocks template attribute parser function parseNodeAttr can now be shortcut with the new acf_blocks_parse_node_attr filter.
• Enhancement - Removed legacy code for supporting WordPress versions under 5.8
• Fix - The "Menu Position" setting is no longer hidden for child options pages
• Fix - The tabs for the "Advanced" settings in Post Types and Taxonomies are now rendered inside a wrapper div
• Fix - Options pages will no longer display as a child page in the list view when set to a top level page after previously being a child
• Fix - Conflict with Elementor CSS breaking the ACF PRO banner
• Fix - Errors generated during the block editor’s savePost function will no longer be caught and ignored by ACF

Advanced Custom Fields v6.2.0

Release Date 9th August 2023

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• New - ACF now requires WordPress version 5.8 or newer, and PHP 7.0 or newer. View the release post for more information
• New - Bidirectional Relationships now supported for Relationship, Post Object, User and Taxonomy fields. View the release post for more information
• New - Options Pages can now be registered and managed by the admin UI in ACF PRO
• New - Link to the product feedback board added to the plugin footer
• Enhancement - ACF JSON now supports multiple save locations (props Freddy Leitner)
• Enhancement - ACF Post Types and Taxonomies can now be duplicated
• Enhancement - The filename for JSON files can now be customized with the acf/json/save_file_name filter
• Fix - REST updates of fields with choices containing integer or mixed keys now behave correctly
• Fix - Using the block_type_metadata_settings PHP filter to add usesContext values no longer breaks ACF blocks
• Fix - Notice to import post types/taxonomies from CPTUI no longer flashes on page load
• Fix - Various buttons for fields in blocks now display correctly
• Fix - The settings for the DateTime field are no longer cut off when nested in several fields in the field group editor
• Fix - The newline added to the end of JSON files will now use PHP_EOL to detect the correct newline character with a filter acf/json/eof_newline to alter it.
• i18n - Updated French and Portuguese translations (Thanks to pedro-mendonca and maximebj)

Advanced Custom Fields v6.2.0-RC1

Release Date 3rd August 2023

• Security Fix - This release resolves a stored XSS vulnerability in admin screens with ACF post type and taxonomy labels (Thanks to Satoo Nakano and Ryotaro Imamura)
• Enhancement - The filename for JSON files can now be customized with the acf/json/save_file_name filter
• Fix - The newline added to the end of JSON files will now use PHP_EOL to detect the correct newline character
• Fix - The acf/settings/enable_options_pages_ui filter now works as expected
• Fix - Using the block_type_metadata_settings PHP filter to add usesContext values no longer breaks ACF blocks
• Fix - Notice to import post types/taxonomies from CPTUI no longer flashes on page load
• Fix - Various buttons for fields in blocks now display correctly
• Fix - The settings for the DateTime field are no longer cut off when nested in several fields in the field group editor

Advanced Custom Fields v6.1.8

Release Date 3rd August 2023

• Security Fix - This release resolves a stored XSS vulnerability in admin screens with ACF post type and taxonomy labels (Thanks to Satoo Nakano and Ryotaro Imamura)

Advanced Custom Fields v6.2.0-beta1

Release Date 27th July 2023

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• New - Bidirectional Relationships now supported for Relationship, Post Object, User and Taxonomy fields. View the release post for full information
• New - Options Pages can now be registered and managed by the admin UI
• Enhancement - ACF JSON now supports multiple save locations
• Enhancement - ACF Post Types and Taxonomies now support duplication
• Fix - REST updates of fields with choices containing integer or mixed keys now behave correctly

Advanced Custom Fields v6.1.7

Release Date 27th June 2023

• New - Added new capability settings for ACF taxonomies
• Enhancement - Added a new acf/field_group/auto_add_first_field filter which can be used to prevent new field groups from automatically adding a field
• Enhancement - Field setting labels now have standard capitalization in the field group editor
• Enhancement - Clone field now has a tutorial link
• Enhancement - "Exclude From Search" CPT setting now has an improved description
• Enhancement - The acf_get_posts() function now has acf/acf_get_posts/args and acf/acf_get_posts/results filters
• Enhancement - Added a new acf/options_page/save action hook that gets fired during save of ACF Options Pages
• Fix - Taxonomies are now initialized before post types, preventing some permalink issues
• Fix - Increased the taxonomy slug maximum length to 32 characters
• Fix - Extra tabs are no longer added to PHP exports with field settings containing multiple lines
• Fix - ACF admin assets now load when editing profile and users for a multisite network
• Fix - Blocks with recursive render_callback functions will no longer crash the editor
• Fix - JSON files now end in a new line for better compatibility with code editors
• i18n - layout(s) strings in Flexible Content fields are now translatable
• i18n - Updated Polish translations

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