Orbeon Forms 2024.1.2

Friday, June 20, 2025

Today we released Orbeon Forms 2024.1.2! This maintenance release contains more than a hundred bug-fixes and some new features, and is recommended for all users of:

New features

Components with built-in validation

Orbeon Forms is built on top of a component system which allows adding new form controls with a little bit of programming. In fact, this is how most of the form controls which whip with Orbeon Forms are made. In this release, we are improving support for components which provide their own validation, and introducing new components.

New components with builtin validation

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Custom PDF template field names

Orbeon Forms supports PDF templates. This feature requires mapping form fields to PDF fields. To achieve this, until now, you had to name the fields in the PDF to match the Form Runner fields.

Custom PDF field name

The "Control Settings" dialog now lets you set a custom PDF field name for each form field. This makes it easier to manage the mapping between form fields and PDF fields.

See also:

Redis configuration

We now provide a configuration for Redis. This setup is best for cloud deployments where instances of Orbeon Forms typically can't use multicast for discovery, and Redis is provided as a service.

See Redis configuration for details.

OIDC with WildFly

We now provide an integration with WildFly OIDC.

See OIDC with WildFly for details.

New localizations and translations

Thanks to contributors, we have updated localizations and translations for Catalan, and added new translations for Spanish and Arabic. The latter remains a work in progress.

Other features

The following small features have been added in this release:

  • Form Builder to support properties to hide buttons based on formula (#6805)

  • Add FormRunnerForm.getControlValue() (doc)

  • Dynamic Dropdown With Search: option to store label in all cases (doc)

  • Reindexing API: ability to reindex a specific form (doc)

New demo form

We are continuing to add to our collection of demo forms, which you can use directly, as templates for your own forms, or to learn about Orbeon Forms features and capabilities. In this release, we are adding the following demo forms, which makes use of the new SSN and EIN components, as well as the custom PDF field names feature:

In addition, we have updated the following demo forms which showcase features:

Performance improvements

We have made a number of performance improvements in this release, including:

  • Add dependency support for fr:app-name(), etc. (#7000)

  • Add dependency support for pure functions (#6999)

  • Add dependency support for xxf:property() (#6998)

  • Add dependency support for xxf:repeat-position() (#6981)

  • fr:grid/fr:section: don't depend on * (#6995)

  • Add dependency support for fr:component-param-value() (#6980)

  • Cache BindingIndex (#6972)

  • Reindex: don't attempt to reindex data upon DELETE of form definition (#6915)

  • Reindex is triggered for attachments (#6913)

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Issues addressed

In this release, we have addressed many issues, including:

  • Form Builder

    • In Control Settings, set focus on Control Name after clicking "Use suggestion" (#7060)

    • Variable completion in formulas doesn't show after $a+ (#6874)

    • Control Settings: long title causes fat dialog title (#7035)

    • Repeated grid menu incorrectly positioned in PDF Templates and Edit Choices dialogs (#7034)

    • "java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: -1" in Form Builder (#7031)

    • Duplicate "Dropdown" appearance in Control Settings (#7026)

    • FB: Repeated grids in dialogs don't show (#7005)

    • "Service supports paging" option doesn't show correctly (#7003)

    • Dynamic Dropdown: "Service performs search" missing (#7002)

    • Actions Editor to make it clear why the Set Control Value isn't available (#6994)

    • Control Settings Next sometimes switches tab (#6973)

    • Appearance/description missing for Component/Schema type (#6967)

    • Support binding appearance and another attribute (#2479)

    • Number: user must not be able to select same decimal and grouping separator (#6961)

    • Dropdown with search empty in Actions Editor (#6959)

    • Form Settings: add language selector for title/description (#3613)

    • FB: crash when passing valid app/form names in URL (#6957)

    • Browser not to suggest email in Email Settings Email Subject field (#6944)

    • Test PDF dialog: show PDF template filename (#6941)

    • FB: icons occasionally showing in the wrong place (#6928)

    • FB: crash when pasting a section containing a section template (#6925)

    • "Generate token URL parameter" option in email template parameters not persisted correctly (#6919)

    • Form Builder doesn't show repeated grid or section iterations with custom name (#7067)

    • After pasting form definition, Actions Editor dialog appears partially empty (#7010)

    • Keyboard shortcuts to switch tabs to work also outside of dialogs (#6964)

  • Form Runner

    • Initial value not set when coming from service with a request parameter (#7083)

    • /reindex API should be a POST, not a GET (#6174)

    • In case of XPath error, log expression even if we don't know in which file is came from (#7059)

    • User without create but with update permission can't attach new files to existing data (#7057)

    • $form-resources doesn't point to the form resources (#7056)

    • Simple Actions: ability to call async submission provider (#7053)

    • Draft filesystem attachments are not supported (#7051)

    • SocketException, IOException, "Broken pipe" in request/response must not pollute log files (#1992)

    • Option not to kill form session if request sequence number is unexpected (#6965)

    • Test formatting Chinese time failing (#6986)

    • Demo forms: Use WebP for thumbnails (#6979)

    • Search API response doesn't include Content-Type (#6974)

    • If properties initialization fails, a missing license error also shows (#6968)

    • Error with "{a}" in message template (#6962)

    • Control variables in email template parameter formulas not interpreted (#6899)

    • Action Syntax: custom <xf:var> doesn't work (#6943)

    • Form metadata API: make <created> element optional (#6942)

    • Can't use doc() in Calculated Value (#6836)

    • Icon to copy link with token doesn't show right after saving (#6926)

    • Mark data unsafe for field being edited (#6960)

    • Allow list of choices to come from @fr:itemsetid (#7058)

    • Offline: ability to pass user credentials (#7072)

    • Processes: support $foo and fr:control-string-value() (#7068)

    • Purge deletes first 100 items and then stops (#7025)

    • Import

      • Excel Import: progress shows incorrectly during large import (#7029)

      • Import: error when choosing to delete existing records (#7022)

    • PDF

      • Input field with character counter doesn't show in PDF template output (#5025)

      • Calculated value doesn't show in PDF template (#6951)

      • PDF templates: signature field is not populated (#6922)

      • PDF: Empty optional signature can overflow (#6954)

    • Form controls/components

      • Dynamic Dropdown With Search: option to store label in all cases (#7014)

      • Support fr:is-readonly-mode() outside of Form Runner, to support fr:section in plain XForms (#6983)

      • Dynamic dropdown with search not to auto-select when readonly (#6958)

      • Dynamic dropdown with "With Search" and "Auto-select unique choice" doesn't show readonly (#6955)

      • Hint doesn't work for Dynamic Dropdown (#6920)

    • Embedding

      • Embedding demo to show Form Builder with JavaScript embedding API (#7028)

      • Embedding: Form Builder icons don't show upon hover (#7009)

      • Embedding: error when loading Form Builder (#7008)

      • Java embedding API doesn't work with Tomcat 10+ / WildFly 27+ (jakarta vs javax) (#7004)

      • Add Angular and React demos (#6938)

    • Offline

      • Offline: edit mode fails to load data (#7021)

      • Offline: attachments don't work anymore (#7006)

      • Offline: exception when running on the default HTTP port (#6987)

  • WebSphere, WildFly, DB2

    • WebSphere: missing current servlet error (#7052)

    • Async I/O requests can fail in Jakarta EE environment (#7030)

    • Support getting context path of the original request in Tomcat 10+ (#6990)

    • Db2: add indexes to DDL (#6985)

    • WildFly: exception when saving (#7033)

    • Integration with WildFly OIDC to support Keycloak and Cognito in addition to Entra ID (#6871)

  • Infrastructure

    • Run local HTTPBin during tests (#7039)

    • Docker error when mounting context.xml (#6904)

    • orbeon-embedding.war missing some dependencies (#7011)

    • XML test comparison to treat non-breaking spaces as equivalent to regular spaces (#6984)

    • Include JARs for Redis replication in Docker images (#6966)

    • Create PDF template with all controls (#1993)

    • Error with ResizeObserver in tests (#6952)

    • Build failing, maybe after Update fs2-core, fs2-io to 3.12.0 (#6939)

    • "showModal is not a function" error when running a replication test on 2024.1-pe branch (#6905)

    • Test result of PDF output (#5670)

    • third-party library updates

Compatibility and upgrade notes

Support of POST for /reindex API

The Reindexing API responds to a GET request at /fr/service/persistence/reindex. This was in error and is now deprecated. The service now responds also to a POST request at the same endpoint, which is the correct HTTP method for a side-effecting operation. The GET method is still supported for backward compatibility, but it is recommended to use POST instead.

You can download the latest version of Orbeon Forms from the downloads page, or use our Docker images.

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

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We hope you enjoy this release!

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