Advanced Custom Fields v6.3.11

Release Date 12th November 2024

• Enhancement - Field Group keys are now copyable on click
• Fix - Repeater tables with fields hidden by conditional logic now render correctly
• Fix - ACF Blocks now behave correctly in React StrictMode
• Fix - Edit mode is no longer available to ACF Blocks with an WordPress Block API version of 3 as field editing is not supported in the iframe

Advanced Custom Fields v6.3.10

Release Date 29th October 2024

• Security - Setting a metabox callback for custom post types and taxonomies now requires being an admin, or super admin for multisite installs
• Security - Field specific ACF nonces are now prefixed, resolving an issue where third party nonces could be treated as valid for AJAX calls
• Enhancement - A new “Close and Add Field” option is now available when editing a field group, inserting a new field inline after the field being edited
• Enhancement - ACF and ACF PRO now share the same plugin updater for improved reliability and performance
• Fix - Exporting post types and taxonomies containing metabox callbacks now correctly exports the user defined callback
• Fix - ACF Free no longer causes a fatal error when WPML is active
• Fix - ACF Free no longer causes a fatal error when any unsupported legacy ACF addons are active

Advanced Custom Fields v6.3.9

Release Date 15th October 2024

• Security - Editing an ACF Field in the Field Group editor can no longer execute a stored XSS vulnerability. Thanks to Duc Luong Tran (janlele91) from Viettel Cyber Security for the responsible disclosure
• Security - Post Type and Taxonomy metabox callbacks no longer have access to any superglobal values, hardening the original fix from 6.3.8 further
• Fix - ACF fields now correctly validate when used in the block editor and attached to the sidebar

Advanced Custom Fields v6.3.8

Release Date 7th October 2024

• Security - ACF defined Post Type and Taxonomy metabox callbacks no longer have access to $_POST data. (Thanks to the Automattic Security Team for the disclosure)

Advanced Custom Fields v6.3.7

Release Date 2nd October 2024

• Security - ACF Free now uses its own update mechanism from WP Engine servers

Advanced Custom Fields v6.3.6

Release Date 28th August 2024

• Security - Newly added fields now have to be explicitly set to allow access in the content editor (when using the ACF shortcode or Block Bindings) to increase the security around field permissions. See the release notes for more details
• Security Fix - Field labels are now correctly escaped when rendered in the Field Group editor, to prevent a potential XSS issue. Thanks to Ryo Sotoyama of Mitsui Bussan Secure Directions, Inc. for the responsible disclosure
• Fix - Validation and Block AJAX requests nonces will no longer be overridden by third party plugins
• Fix - Detection of third party select2 libraries will now default to v4 rather than v3
• Fix - Block previews will now display an error if the render template PHP file is not found

Advanced Custom Fields v6.3.5

Release Date 1st August 2024

• Fix - The ACF Shortcode now correctly outputs a comma separated list of values for arrays
• Fix - ACF Blocks rendered in auto mode now correctly re-render their previews after editing fields
• Fix - ACF Block validation no longer raises required validation messages if HTML will automatically select the first value when rendered
• Fix - ACF Block validation no longer raises required validation messages if a default value will be rendered as the field value
• Fix - ACF Block validation no longer raises required validation messages for fields hidden by conditional logic when adding a new block

Advanced Custom Fields v6.3.4

Release Date 18th July 2024

• Security Fix - The ACF shortcode now prevents access to fields from different private posts by default. View the release notes for more information
• Fix - Users without the edit_posts capability but with custom capabilities for a editing a custom post type, can now correctly load field groups loaded via conditional location rules
• Fix - Block validation no longer validates a field’s sub fields on page load, only on edit. This resolves inconsistent validation errors on page load or when first adding a block
• Fix - Deactivating an ACF PRO license will now remove the license key even if the server call fails
• Fix - Field types returning objects no longer cause PHP warnings and errors when output via the_field, the_sub_field or the ACF shortcode, or when retrieved by a get_ function with the escape html parameter set
• Fix - Server side errors during block rendering now gracefully displays an error to the editor

Advanced Custom Fields v6.3.3

Release Date 27th June 2024

• Enhancement - All dashicons are now available to the icon picker field type
• Fix - The True/False field now correctly shows it’s description message beside the switch when using the Stylized UI setting
• Fix - Conditional logic values now correctly load options when loaded over AJAX
• Fix - ACF PRO will no longer trigger license validation calls when loading a front-end page
• i18n - Fixed an untranslatable string on Option Page previews

Advanced Custom Fields v6.3.2

Release Date 24th June 2024

• Security Fix - ACF now generates different nonces for each AJAX-enabled field, preventing subscribers or front-end form users from querying other field results
• Security Fix - ACF now correctly verifies permissions for certain editor only actions, preventing subscribers performing those actions
• Security Fix - Deprecated a legacy private internal field type (output) to prevent it being able to output unsafe HTML
• Security Fix - Improved handling of some SQL filters and other internal functions to ensure output is always correctly escaped
• Security Fix - ACF now includes blank index.php files in all folders to prevent directory listing of ACF plugin folders for incorrectly configured web servers