AdvancedCustomFields/acf 6.3.0

Advanced Custom Fields v6.3.0

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Release Date 22nd May 2024

• New - ACF now requires WordPress version 6.0 or newer, and PHP 7.4 or newer.
• New - ACF Blocks now support validation rules for fields. View the release notes for more information
• New - ACF Blocks now supports storing field data in the postmeta table rather than in the post content
• New - Conditional logic rules for fields now support selecting specific values for post objects, page links, taxonomies, relationships and users rather than having to enter the ID
• New - New Icon Picker field type for ACF and ACF PRO
• New - Icon selection for a custom post type menu icon
• New - Icon selection for an options page menu icon
• New - ACF now surfaces debug and status information in the WordPress Site Health area
• New - The escaped html notice can now be permanently dismissed
• Enhancement - Tab field now supports a selected attribute to specify which should be selected by default, and support class attributes
• Fix - Block Preloading now works reliably in WordPress 6.5 or newer
• Fix - Select2 results loaded by AJAX for post object fields no longer double encode HTML entities
• Fix - Custom post types registered with ACF will now have custom field support enabled by default to better support revisions
• Fix - The first preview after publishing a post in the classic editor now displays ACF fields correctly
• Fix - ACF fields and Flexible Content layouts are now correctly positioned while dragging
• Fix - Copying the title of a field inside a Flexible Content layout no longer adds whitespace to the copied value
• Fix - Flexible Content layout names are no longer converted to lowercase when edited
• Fix - ACF Blocks with attributes without a default now correctly register
• Fix - User fields no longer trigger a 404 when loading results if the nonce generated only contains numbers
• Fix - Description fields for ACF items now support being solely numeric characters
• Fix - The field group header no longer appears above the WordPress admin menu on small screens
• Fix - The acf/json/save_file_name filter now correctly applies when deleting JSON files
• i18n - All errors raised during ACF PRO license or update checks are now translatable
• Other - The ACF Shortcode is now disabled by default for new installations of ACF as discussed in the ACF 6.2.7 release notes