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Howdy folks!

PHP 8.4 was officially released to general availability on November 21, 2024. It is a major update of the PHP language and contains many new features and performance improvements.

Today, we’re happy to let you know that we’ve just released MachForm 24, which is fully compatible with PHP 8.4.

The new version of MachForm (version 24) is now available for download in the Billing Area.

PHP & MySQL Version Requirement

MachForm v24 requires the minimum version of PHP on your server to be at least PHP 7.4 and MySQL version at least MySQL 5.7. If you’re still using an older version, you’ll need to upgrade your PHP and/or MySQL version first.

This is a maintenance release and we recommend upgrading if you’re using PHP 8.4.

Changelog

• Update: PHP 8.4 Compatibility
• Update: Accessibility fixes related to email, phone field and form success message
• Update: When adding approvers to a form, non-admin users will only see approvers having permission to access the form only
• Update: Re-added the autocomplete functionality when adding form tags
• Bugfix: Error messages (signature & stripe page) when form being embedded using PHP code
• Bugfix: Can’t add email logic rules
• Bugfix: Grid entries can’t be printed completely

How to Update

This update is FREE for all users with an active support contract.
As mentioned above, you can download it in the Billing Area.

Follow this upgrade instruction:
Upgrading MachForm Self-Hosted 

We’re happy to share that MachForm 23 is here, bringing some important updates to keep your forms running smoothly and securely. In this release, we’ve upgraded the core JavaScript libraries—like jQuery, which is used across both the backend admin panel and live forms, and Kendo UI, which powers our chart generation—to their latest versions. These upgrades mean improved stability, performance, and a smoother experience for you.

 
We’ve also addressed an important security vulnerability related to PayPal’s Instant Payment Notification (IPN) to ensure your payment processing remains secure. Updating to MachForm 23 will help you stay on top of these improvements, so we recommend making the switch whenever you’re ready!

Changelog

• Update: Updated jQuery library with the latest version (v3.6.1)
• Update: Updated chart library (KendoUI) with the latest version (v2024.3.806)
• Security: Addressed potential security vulnerability related to PayPal IPN handling
• Improvement: Added search box on add/edit user permission page
• Bugfix: Index length issue on ap_session table when using MySQL 5.7
• Bugfix: Unable to connect to SMTP server using Non TLS or self-signed SSL certificate

PHP & MySQL Version Requirement

MachForm v23 requires the minimum version of PHP on your server to be at least PHP 7.4 and MySQL version at least MySQL 5.7. If you’re still using an older version, you’ll need to upgrade your PHP and/or MySQL version first.

How to Update

This update is FREE for all users with an active support contract.
As mentioned above, you can download it in the Billing Area.

Follow this upgrade instruction:
Upgrading MachForm Self-Hosted 

MachForm Cloud Users

If you’re subscribed to any of our MachForm Cloud plans, no further action is required on your part. We automatically update the MachForm version for all our cloud users with the latest version.

Howdy folks!

PHP 8.3 was officially released to general availability on November 23, 2023. It is a major update of the PHP language and contains many new features and performance improvements.

Today, we’re happy to let you know that we’ve just released MachForm 21, which is fully compatible with PHP 8.3.

The new version of MachForm (version 21) is now available for download in the Billing Area.

PHP & MySQL Version Requirement

MachForm v21 requires the minimum version of PHP on your server to be at least PHP 7.4 and MySQL version at least MySQL 5.7. If you’re still using an older version, you’ll need to upgrade your PHP and/or MySQL version first.

This is a maintenance release and we recommend upgrading if you’re using PHP 8.3.

Changelog

• Update: PHP 8.3 Compatibility
• Update: Replaced the deprecated Swiftmailer library with PHPMailer for sending emails
• Update: Now uses “UTF8MB4” as the character set for MySQL tables, to support emojis in form fields
• Bugfix: The Rating widget on the shared report doesn’t display correctly
• Bugfix: Unable to use ‘&’ on form redirect URL
• Bugfix: Approval conditions don’t work on reports and exports

How to Update

This update is FREE for all users with an active support contract.
As mentioned above, you can download it in the Billing Area.

Follow this upgrade instruction:
Upgrading MachForm Self-Hosted 

MachForm Cloud Users

If you’re subscribed to any of our MachForm Cloud plans, no further action is required on your part. We automatically update the MachForm version for all our cloud users with the latest version.

Howdy, folks! 🙂

Ever needed to create private forms that collect sensitive information and allow access only to a specific list of users? Now, you can easily do this with MachForm v20!

In addition to the existing functionality that lets you set a password for your forms, you can now specify a list of users (using their email) to restrict access to your form.

Any user attempting to access the form will be required to log in before they can view and submit it. Users will be prompted to log in using their email and a one-time password (OTP) sent to their email.

Combine this new functionality with the “Data Encryption” feature on your form, and you’ll have very secure forms built in minutes!

The new version of MachForm (version 20) is now available for download on Billing Area.

PHP & MySQL Version Requirement

MachForm v20 requires the minimum version of PHP on your server to be at least PHP 7.4 and MySQL version at least MySQL 5.7. If you’re still using older version, you’ll need to upgrade your PHP and/or MySQL version first.

We strongly recommend upgrading due to improved compatibility and bugfixes within this release.

Changelog

• Feature: Require form users to login before submitting forms
• Feature: Added option to do range limit by ‘digits’ on Single Line Text field, to accept only numbers and allow leading zeros
• Feature: Added option to set max rows per page on entries page
• Improvement: Form builder page now able to fix and cleanup malformed HTML tags
• Improvement: Added option to specify MySQL SSL Cert and custom port number
• Improvement: Automatically-enabled CAPTCHA and submission limit on form receiving high amount of bot submissions
• Improvement: Allows advanced CSS on theme editor to use @import statement
• Update: Removed ‘Javascript jQuery’ embed code
• Update: Added configuration to enforce backend tables to use MyISAM engine
• Update: On forms having CAPTCHA enabled, CAPTCHA is now enforced on every submission, not just the first one
• Bugfix: On the form manager page, the search doesn’t work properly when the form is having character ‘#’ as part of the title
• Bugfix: Syntax error on mf.js, particulary inside the try..catch block, preventing the form from being loaded on web view of windows app
• Bugfix: When success message contains any HTML tag, it won’t be enclosed with H2 tag to allow custom formatting
• Bugfix: Dompdf compatibility with PHP 8.1
• Bugfix: Export entries failure on some specific conditions when entries are sorted
• Bugfix: Digits validation on Number field can be bypassed using leading zeroes
• Bugfix: User able to submit additional multiple payments (Braintree, Authorizenet) on existing entries
• Bugfix: Major incompatibility change with new Stripe API as of version 2023-08-16. Related with payment_method_types parameter
• Bugfix: User shouldn’t be automatically logged-in after doing password reset
• Bugfix: Unable to save form edits due to ‘column already exist’ SQL error
• Bugfix: Image alignment not being set on PDF and email content
• Bugfix: Entries not being highlighted correctly when selected
• Bugfix: “X-Forwarded-For” header abused by spam bots to bypass ip address submission limit
• Bugfix: Validation to disable future dates selection on date field is not working

How to Update

This update is FREE for all users having an active support contract.
As mentioned above, you can download it on Billing Area.

Follow this upgrade instruction:
Upgrading MachForm Self-Hosted 

MachForm Cloud Users

If you’re subscribed to any of our MachForm Cloud plans, there is no further action required on your side. We automatically update MachForm version on all our cloud users with the latest version.

All forms generated by MachForm have been responsive, mobile-friendly design, since a long time ago. However, the admin panel dashboard never receives an update on this area.

Mobile-friendly Admin Panel

Today we’ve improved the admin panel dashboard and made it accessible through mobile devices. You can easily access your forms and data using interfaces optimized for your smartphone.

You still can’t build/edit your forms through the mobile-friendly interface but you can easily access your form entries (edit/delete) or change settings (notifications) or approve/deny entries when you have the approval workflow feature enabled.

Customizable Address Field

We’ve also made some improvements with the address field.

We received many feedback (a lot of it!) regarding the subfields label placement and now we’ve moved the subfields label to be above the field (instead of below). This should avoid any confusion with your users when filling the address field.

You can also completely adjust the subfields labels and individual subfield visibility! You can choose to show/hide any part of the address field.

So here you go, a fully customized Address field 🙂

These new features are part of the latest version of MachForm (Version 18) which we’ve just released today and it is now available for downloads on Billing Area.

This update added several new features, improvements, and bug fixes. We recommend you to upgrade due to improved functionalities within this release.

Changelog

• Feature: Mobile-friendly Admin Panel Dashboard
• Feature: Fully Customized Address Field Labels and Visibility
• Update: Added Romanian Lei currency
• Update: Added Kosovo into the country list
• Bugfix: Using empty date as condition on entries page display error message under MySQL 8
• Bugfix: “Admin only” dropdown fields doesn’t populate the option when creating the filter on entries page
• Bugfix: Updating Dropdown/Multiple Choice values doesn’t update keywords on Logic rules and report filters as well
• Bugfix: On a form with ‘edit entry’ enabled, file upload fields always display “required” error message on live form edit entry page, even if there is file exist already
• Bugfix: Garbled email content (raw text) when running under PHP 8.x
• Bugfix: Edit link doesn’t work when form limit submission enabled and reached the limit
• Bugfix: Filtering entries using the first field on the form as the condition doesn’t work
• Bugfix: Chrome and Firefox blocked cross domain session cokies. Embedding forms across different domain caused session expiry issue
• Bugfix: Pressing enter on ‘decrypt entry’ dialog generate some error message

How to Update

This update is FREE for all users having an active support contract.
As mentioned above, you can download it on Billing Area.

Follow this upgrade instruction:
Upgrading MachForm Self-Hosted 

MachForm Cloud Users

If you’re subscribed to any of our MachForm Cloud plans, there is no further action required on your side. We’ve automatically updated MachForm version on all our cloud users with the latest version. You can use the new features right now!