We publish the occasional post about LiberaForms in general.
New software releases are also posted here, so we'll be referencing this site as a source of upgrade information.
Thanks for visiting.
Free Form software for all!
One of the very first features we added to LiberaForms was the possiblity for form editors to include a checkbox at the foot of the form so that their public could request confirmation via email when the form was successfully submitted.
That is a nice feature and many people have uses it over the last five or so years.
But times change.
This is the tenth release in the version 4 series.
Public facing forms have been translated to Lithuanian!
Thank you @kamiccolo :)
This release also includes lots of i18n updates from the kind translators.
Thank you too!
LiberaForms lets you enable a checkbox so that your audience may receive a confirmation email.
This feature is now disabled by default. Read why
It can be enabled in the .env file.
In version 4.9.0 we swapped the email library to fix a bug kindly reported and investigated by @mark-wieczorek.
Unfortunately we did not thoroughly read-the-docs (my bad), and many emails threw an error like, for example, the Recover password email.
This should be all good now. Please update.
Extra long URL's were throwing an error. Fixed.
To all of you who use LiberaForms. Enjoy!
Our website needed an update. It was built years ago and has been pretty much abandoned ever since.
Between then and now the initial idea of a couple of crusading Free software advocates has matured into a project that is used by people from all around the world. What a pleasure!
This gradual consilidation as a free form software alternative has prompted us to build a new website.
Starting a new website with a blank canvas is exciting, but the many different possibilities are also daunting.
A lot can be said for websites built back in the web-1.0, least they be forgotten. They were frank and hyperlinks were plentiful. They were not designed to keep you there. They were simple, static HTML. No dynamic content floating into view or UI effects to distract you, no fireworks. Arrive, get the info, and leave. Not a dark pattern in sight!
Rita Barrachina, a long time friend and collaborator to the project, works with these ideas. She proposes we think back to times when websites just got the job done because that, in itself, is to respect the visitor.
So, our new website lends from 90's, (spinning GIFs and the autoplay MIDIs not included), and incorporates some more modern features like a dark/light theme and small device responsiveness.
Let's see what you think!
The main reason for having a website is to inform our visitors.
We have clearly indexed the site to provide quick navigation and a birds-eye view of the project. Pages are divided into sections, and hyperlinks are used to make the content easily accessible.
Our old logo was functional but not very original (three horizontal lines).
LiberaForms' new logo plays with the letters to create a butterfly, an organic, lighweight and pollinating creature. Just like LiberaForms!
With v4.9.0 we changed the width of public facing forms on large screens.
Unfortunately we neglected to tweak both the form's Thank you page and Expired page.
Upgrade to this version to fix the widths of those pages.
Thanks!
Pleased to announce this release with a mixed bag of new features. 🎉
The new auto-expire form feature can enabled/disabled on a user to user basis.
When your site is Invitation only a new option Generic invitation link can optionally be enabled.
Anyone with a copy of this link can create a user account.
Form can be forced to expire and optionally, deleted after X days.
See dotenv.example and docs/expire-purge-forms.md for more info.
This release comes with backend rate limiting.
In version 4.7.0 we added rate limiting on the client, but that was only half the plan.
Sysadmins can now configure limits on public form, and user landing (such as login) endpoints.
See dotenv.example and docs/limiter.md for more info.
We've added honeypots to the new user registration form.
Thank you @barthalion for diving into the code and building the Individual answer PDF export feature.
Thank you NLnet for supporting in part this release.
We have found a bug that unfortunately causes some forms to fail to render.
With LiberaForms v4.7.0 we upgraded the upstream formBuilder (we like to keep things up-to-date).
Then, with LiberaForms v4.8.0 we upgraded again.
To our dismay, we have discovered that unexpected Header and Paragraph field parameters are saved to the database when forms created before v4.7.0 are then later edited by v4.7.0.
Consequently, after upgrading to LiberaForms v4.8.0, these fields throw and error.
v4.8.1 now looks for these rouge fields and repairs inconsistencies in the background, but this only happens when forms are edited or saved.
You should preventively repair the forms on your installation.
Follow the upgrade instructions below and then run
source ./venv/bin/activate
flask site repair-forms
Sorry about that!
We've been busy for the last few months. This version comes with new features and the usual tweaks and improvements.
We've built a new field type to insert page breaks into your forms.
Your users will be able to navigate back and forth between pages but only advance when required fields have been answered.
Pages can also be conditioned just like any other field, meaning that fields within a conditioned page are also conditioned!
The contextual help code and much of the content has been completely rewritten.
Hopefully you will find the help more ... helpful.
It is now possible to download all the files attached to the answers in a zip file.
The code that renders lists of data has been extended to list your media files too.
This makes the 'My media' much more responsive.
Most importantly, the 'Satisfaction' form field now works correctly on the latest version of Firefox.
Thank you to the people who contributed code, to all the translators who are amazing, to all of you for using LiberaForms, and to NLnet for supporting this release. ♥
Enjoy!
This version comes with a mix of new features and fixes.
Form Editors can now select the language used for the 'Send' button, messages, and notifications from LiberaForms.
The form's language can be set on a form to form basis, and the default is set on the user's settings page.
This feature already includes five new languages, Bulgarian, Dutch, Italian, Chinese (traditional) and Eesti keel
This new field includes options to display Stars Hearts and Emojis with a choice of colours.
Field conditions may also be configured using this field.
Forms now come with two anti-spam measures. Both can be enabled/disabled on the form's options page.
.env file. See dotenv.exampleHidden fields designed to trick bots.
Now also available in Dutch. Thank you @zandbelt!
Amongst the numerous fixes and tweaks:
When a form's Answer edition option was enabled, there was no way for a user to return and edit a map field.
Also, empty map marker popups were displayed when no popup fields had been defined. And popups also displayed the labels of deleted fields, which definitely should not be the case.
All fixed now.
We've added the server's hostname to the JSON object, but more importantly..
The JSON object posted on Answer deleted has changed.
The answer_id type is now a list. We have done this because an Editor may delete all the form's answers in bulk. Please check your webook's configuration for an example.
If you are using this webhook you will need to modify the consumer.
Thanks to @zandbelt for nudging us to get the new form language feature done, and to the people who submitted new translations.
Thanks to @kapis for fixing the map field.
And thank you @nlnet for supporting development.
Enjoy!
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