Orbeon Forms 2023.1.4

Thursday, August 22, 2024

Today we released Orbeon Forms 2023.1.4 PE! This maintenance release contains bug-fixes and new features and is recommended for all users of:

• Orbeon Forms 2023.1.3 PE

• Orbeon Forms 2023.1.2 PE

• Orbeon Forms 2023.1.2 PE

• Orbeon Forms 2023.1.1 PE

• Orbeon Forms 2023.1 PE

New features

This maintenance release introduces support for Friendly Captcha, an alternative to Google's reCAPTCHA and, in their own words, "GDPR-Compliant Bot Protection". For more information, see the documentation. Thanks to the kind users who have sponsored this enhancement!

Friendly Captcha

The following small features have also been added:

• edit-to-new process action (doc)

• captcha-reset process action (doc)

Issues addressed

This release addresses the following issues since Orbeon Forms 2023.1.3 PE:

• Security

  • CVE-2018-18531 in Kaptcha (#6382)

  • Support Friendly Captcha (#6439)

  • Control cleared upon xforms-disabled doesn't recalculate (#6370)

  • MIPs fail to evaluate after send() then save() (#6436)

• Form Builder

  • Form Builder displays gray zone below form in some cases (#6376)

  • Control label editor sometimes appears below the control (#6384)

  • Control for Simplified appearance in Section/Grid Settings is missing (#6301)

  • Email templates: prevent saving if there are duplicate parameter names (#6415)

  • Dynamic Dropdown not to call service at design-time (#6422)

• Form Runner

  • Narrow layout: bottom buttons hide content (#6417)

  • Reflow/responsive repeated grids on devices with narrow screens (#4491)

  • Failed to execute 'add' on 'DOMTokenList': The token provided must not be empty (#6383)

  • PDF button on summary page doesn't do anything (#6386)

  • Excel file can't be opened in Excel when the language is set to German (#6391)

  • ORBEON.fr.API.destroyForm() throwing java.lang.IllegalArgumentException (#6397)

  • Mask for Error Panel and other dialogs stays after destroyForm() (#6396)

  • Finnish resources for attachment controls (#6401)

  • Automatic PDF to produce put produced CSS first, so it can be overridden (#6402)

  • NPE if no cookies are sent (#6406)

  • On Windows, option in dropdown showing "Please select" is gray (#6407)

  • Warnings presented as errors in Error Summary (#6410)

  • open-rendered-format parameters to support XVTs (#6419)

  • Attachment control not visible on iOS (#6420)

  • Upload fails with exception (#6421)

  • Lease expiration doesn't cause lease state change (#6424)

  • Improve autosave buttons appearance (#6430)

  • Don't show form description when a document message is present (#6431)

  • Process action to create a new document id (#6435)

  • Support save then email for users without the read permission (#5768)

  • Possible rebuild followed by refresh but without recalculate (#6442)

  • Model RRRR must force previous actions (#1660)

  • Add captcha-reset process action (#6441)

  • Offline: if captcha property is enabled, crash on isNewOrEditMode() (#6451)

  • JavaScript error when Dynamic dropdown with search becomes non-relevant (#6446)

• Other

  • Update slf4j-api to 2.0.16 (#6437)

  • Refactor persistence layer permissions (#5741)

  • ProcessorService: log HTTP method and URL parameters (#6414)

  • Landing page images must not be stored under WEB-INF (#6449)

You can download the latest version of Orbeon Forms from the downloads page.

Don't forget to grab a trial license for the PE version.

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We hope you enjoy this release!