Orbeon Forms 2025.1.1

Monday, April 27, 2026

Today we released Orbeon Forms 2025.1.1! This maintenance release mainly contains bug-fixes and is recommended for all users of:

• Orbeon Forms 2025.1 PE

New features

This release includes the following new features:

• Option to not persist the value of a form control (blog)

• New Timestamp form control (doc)

• New International Bank Account Number (IBAN) form control (doc)

• New control-setvalue() action for simple processes (doc)

• New process-dateTime() XPath function (doc)

• Summary page: new option to show/hide metadata columns based on role (doc)

• Better feedback for rejected files with a new option to show the message inline (doc)

Performance enhancements

This release also includes an important performance enhancement related to page load time. See the blog post Page load performance for details.

Issues addressed

In this release, we have addressed over 100 issues, including:

• Form Builder

  • Form migration tests on lexical QNames (#7624)

  • HTTP Service Editor test results sometimes show on current tab instead of new tab (#7467)

  • FB: Explanatory Text no longer works (#7548)

  • fr:relevant="false" attributes on instance template (#7510)

  • HTTP Service Editor grid menu is cropped (#7463)

  • When in-place editing a control label drag-and-dropping another control cancels the label edition (#6867)

  • Some icons in Form Builder displayed in white instead of white (#7403)

  • Checkbox incorrectly shows as checked after navigating Grid Settings with Previous or Next (#7429)

  • Container Settings: completion menu truncated by dialog (#7317)

  • In Form Builder, when opening the XForms Inspector while a dialog is open, the dropdowns with search inside the XForms Inspector cannot be opened (#7259)

  • Add CSS class on cell with checkbox and text field for custom iteration name (#7484)

  • Incorrect layout in Actions Editor dialog (#7493)

  • "true is not a member of Enum (all, none, selected)" if unselecting Use default in Email Settings (#7500)

  • Menu for repeated grid positioned incorrectly in Form Builder when .fb-main is scrolled down (#7502)

  • Repeated section template sometimes crashes when removing a repetition (#7506)

  • Clicking on the right of "Delete template" in Email Settings deletes the template (#6058)

  • fr|databound-select1-search: don't evaluate resource at design-time (#7555)

  • Some walls are not positioned correctly when loading the All Form Controls form in Form Builder (#7597)

  • Form Builder scrolls to wrong position when clicking on an Explanatory Text (#7599)

  • Control Settings: roles are not read in the correct order from the form definition (#7600)

  • Configuration to show message if one form data is found for singleton forms (#7591)

  • "Cannot read properties of null" in Form Builder's Form Settings (#7587)

  • "Undeclared variable" error with itemset filter (#7504)

  • CSS class with AVT and if/then/else fails (#7625)

  • Action Editor to upgrade syntax for setting parameter names using /*/my-param syntax (#7631)

• Form Runner

  • Wizard status: mark section as completed when visited if no required fields (#7494)

  • For the form metadata API, the persistence proxy incorrectly expects implementation of the persistence of API to always return all versions (#7565)

  • Wizard pager for top-level repeated section incorrectly disables "Next" icon (#7229)

  • Dark color scheme (dark mode) enhancements (#7407)

  • HTML label with <div> shows in blue on new line in the error summary (#7410)

  • Setting oxf.fr.detail.button.lease.show-in-view-mode.visible.*.* to false makes the button readonly instead of hiding it (#7411)

  • User can submit form after losing the lease if the Review Form Validation Messages dialog is shown (#7421)

  • With flat view enabled, can't publish form with control named _ (#7433)

  • Make error messages easier to read by removing the full file size and adding a significant digit to the compact version (#7437)

  • Help for output without border and an empty value doesn't point to anything (#7440)

  • Support custom variables in template parameter formulas (#7445)

  • Remove ⌃Tab / ⌃⇧Tab as keyboard shortcuts to switch tabs (#7446)

  • Import page: callback endpoint for upload (#6940)

  • Action targeting repeated iteration on same line doesn't work (#7464)

  • When a control has multiple errors, the bullet list in the error summary shows in blue instead of red (#7469)

  • Support forcing path style in the S3 bucket config (#7466)

  • When a control's label has bullet points, the bullet list in the error summary shows in blue instead of red (#7479)

  • Readonly repeated section with paging shows a single iteration in view mode (#7481)

  • Solution to attachment in section template in view mode that does not require republishing (#7482)

  • <fr:repeat-add-iteration> doesn't handle initial values (#7491)

  • Section templates: don't embed common code in published templates (#7483)

  • fr:workflow-stage-value() formula not evaluating in section template (#7492)

  • Support non-standard region in S3 bucket configuration (#7501)

  • Navbar workflow stage margins are incorrect (#7505)

  • Workflow stage not correctly restored upon mode change (#7513)

  • Purge API not deleting files (#7517)

  • Section templates: value dependencies (#7427)

  • Process save action to ensure document is synchronized (#7533)

  • Continue button missing in Review Form Validation Messages dialog if shown from the view page (#7534)

  • Grid to annotate with a class cells on empty row (#7544)

  • Service with variable in URL AVT fails (#7550)

  • Schema generation for form with string validation with custom alert fails with "Invalid QName {}" error (#7552)

  • Nested database connections in CreateUpdateDelete.change (#7564)

  • New oxf.xforms.xbl.fr.wizard.update-url-param.*.* controlling whether fr-wizard-page is updated when switching section (#7460)

  • Handle singleton with draft (#7560)

  • History.scala uses multiple nested connections, potentially leading to connection pool exhaustion (#7561)

  • Service with variable in URL AVT does not resolve variable against action source (#7551)

  • Summary Excel export: headers and values discrepancy (#7566)

  • Email template: selection control value in template shows item value, not label (#7573)

  • Clearer feedback to users when multiple files are dragged onto a Single File Attachment control (#7575)

  • Incorrect message referring to "communicating with a backend service" when in fact just running an action (#7576)

  • Possible deadlock with concurrent search and deletes (#7503)

  • Normalize app/form name case from form definition (#7172)

  • Clarify message shown for singleton forms when multiple documents are found (#7589)

  • --orbeon-label-color doesn't change label color in PDF in 'color' PDF color mode (#7590)

  • Export: support POST so that URL limit is not exceeded (#7459)

  • In wizard TOC, hints for section labels, shown on hover, incorrectly contain HTML tags (#7595)

  • Value of hidden field doesn't show in template PDF (#3894)

  • If a draft exists, after selecting to either use it or start from scratch, the "Leave Site?" alert shows even no changes to the were made (#7606)

  • DMV form: Invalid format: [M01]-[D01]-[Y] error (#7612)

  • Review all inherit values in CSS variables (#7443)

  • Dark color scheme enhancements on Landing page (#7536)

  • Change label of validation dialog button from "Review" to "Double check" (#7545)

  • When a control's value changes, do not mark it as visited if the control is focused (#7574)

  • <xf:select>/<xf:copy> doesn't support attributes correctly (#7586)

  • fr-wizard-page does not update when switching page, even with update-url-param set to true (#7613)

  • Bookshelf: "Invalid schema type: publication-year" (#7615)

  • Uploading file, in deeply nested attachment field, or with a long name, is rejected (#7623)

• Offline

  • JS env: default attachment error action runs (#7563)

  • JS env: zero length file size constraint not checked (#7522)

  • Offline: controlVariableValueForAction() not found (#7470)

• Form controls

  • Label of the dynamic dropdown doesn't update on language change (#7401)

  • Formatted Text Area on ulterior page of wizard in cross-origin embedded form fails to loads model.min.js from incorrect host (#7400)

  • Dropdown with search creates two elements with role="combobox", one is missing aria-controls (#7442)

  • Invalid aria-readonly="true" on calculated value without border (#7448)

  • Date and Time field not to show error after date is selected (#7461)

  • Datepicker does not change to the selected language (#7520)

  • fr:tinymce: content not available in PDF template (#7537)

  • Dropdown to always show empty as the first value, instead of "Please select:" (#6389)

  • Support formatted text area / TinyMCE localization (#5085)

  • <xf:select> with appearance="full": incorrect sequence of events sent (#7607)

  • <xf:select1> with appearance="full": server sends client blank value (#7611)

  • Attachment controls to provide clearer feedback that an upload is in progress (#7288)

  • Clearer distinction in the date control between interacting with the datepicker and the field (#7518)

  • Attachment control "Cancel" link should be localized in Form Runner (#7562)

• Performance

  • Improve caching to reduce delay between request and XForms processing (#1239) (blog)

  • controlNameFromIdOpt() is a hotspot (#7432)

  • Improve <p:choose> caching (#7471)

  • Connection interruption errors not caught for static files (#7532)

  • Connection not closed after xforms-submit-error (#7571)

  • Persistent cache entries not cleared when the session expires (#7572)

• Embedding

  • Embedding: top menu hidden by content (#7418)

  • replaceState() can fail in some mobile embedded environments (#7428)

  • JavaScript error when destroying a form using a lease and embedded with the JavaScript API (#7535)

  • orbeon-embedding.jar not to contain SLF4J classes (#7337)

• Accessibility

  • Arrow for help has unintended black background (#7439)

  • Help popover too wide when shown over the control (#7462)

  • Tooltip not always hidden when moving pointer over tooltip (#7622)

  • Document does not have a main landmark (#7449)

  • Screen reader to announce section name in addition to field label (#7451)

  • Screen readers to know about incomplete sections in the wizard TOC (#7454)

  • Clicking to the right of a button inside a cell triggers the button (#7515)

• Security

  • Connection: obfuscate Authorization header with debug logging (#7521)

  • third-party libraries upgrades

• Other

  • CSS files from Webjars cannot be accessed when running tests (#7365)

  • Don't include infinispan-jcache in build (#7465)

  • Improve logging for invalid property value (#7456)

  • SecureUtilsTest can occasionally fail (#7507)

  • FormMetadataApiTest intermittently failing on Travis (#7547)

  • Infinispan cache lock conflict with multiple Orbeon instances (#7415)

  • Part of RestApiTest using S3 occasionally fails on CI (#7585)

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!