8.3.0

Release date

• February 3rd, 2025

Download links

• ⇩ formcycle (master server)
• ⇩ Frontend server
• ⇩ Checksums

During the 8.3 update, all CSS templates (Files & templates -> Layout (CSS)) are migrated to the new form themes. As such, a subsequent downgrade to version 8.2 is not possible in general. If in doubt, we recommend you take a database backup beforehand.  

New features

Form themes

We reworked the theming for forms and replaced the menu Layout (CSS) with the new menu form themes. You can still select the theme in the form designer.

Previously, a form's theme applied only to the form itself. Now you can apply the theme to response pages as well. This lets you reuse the same HTML template for different forms with different stylings.

You may set a default theme for the entire system or for each client. A new option Auto in the form designer lets forms use the current default theme.

Each theme allows uploading image and font files, and JavaScript files for advanced use cases.

PDF conversion

For each upload element, the form designer gives you an option to convert uploaded files to a PDF document.

This may be useful for security related purposes or when you wish to archive uploaded documents.

Supported file types are text files, images, as well as PDF, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents. The corresponding OASIS Open Document Format file types and Numbers spreadsheets are also supported.

Changes

• Recognize more image formats and be more tolerant, including JPEG files with faulty color profiles (e.g. when there is a mismatch between the color channels of the color profile and the image).
• When creating a new OpenID Connect login service, the option Expire session with token is now enabled by default; so that expired tokens get refreshed automatically.
• Change default for I18N variable  lettersLeft from %length of %maxlength remaining characters to %remaining of %maxlength remaining.
  • On existing systems, you may have to reset the I18N variables to their default or apply the change manually.

Fixes

• Resolve issue when importing forms with an imprint or privacy policy link enabled, but without any HTML template selected.
• When a license's validity date was removed and the license gets updated, it is correctly shown as valid indefinitely.
• Fix display of available error logs when sending a support request.

For plugin developers

• Added new plugin type IPluginFormTheme that allows you to provide custom form themes. These themes can be set as the system's or the client's default theme, or can be selected as the theme for a particular form in the form designer.
• Add new plugin type IPluginFormResourcesthat allows you to provide additional resources (such as images, scripts, or styles) to forms.
  • The existing plugin type IPluginFormResource required one plugin class for each file, and was also limited to scripts and styles. Also, those styles and scripts were always included in all forms. The new plugin lets you decide whether the resource should be included automatically in all forms. You may not want to include resources automatically, but only reference those resources from other files, such as custom form themes (IPluginFormTheme).
• formcycle includes some additional Aspose libraries such as PDF or Cells, that you do not have to include in your plugin anymore (if you need them).