Fixed an issue where inserting a new notification routing rule will sometimes overwrite the following rule.

Fixed an issue which causes some {today} merge tags from displaying the correct value.

Fixed an issue for non-legacy forms where the required field legend is not displaying if form title or description aren't enabled.

- Fixed an issue which can cause providers to be registered more than one time on some hosting environments.

- Fixed an issue where the default value of an email field with confirmation enabled does not display.

- AF: Fixed a fatal error that can occur with PHP 8+ if an error occurs during background feed processing.

- API: Fixed an issue where GF_Field_Time::is_value_submission_empty() could return the wrong result.

Fixed a fatal error that can occur on some hosting environments when the license is validated.

- Added the [gform_cleanup_target_dir](https://docs.gravityforms.com/gform_cleanup_target_dir/) filter to support async uploads on servers with opendir() disabled.

- Fixed an issue where the REST request to get additional pages fails on translated sites when configuring the form confirmation.

- Fixed an accessibility issue by adding an alert role to the notice on the uninstall page.

- Fixed an accessibility issue where the search field in the form detail has no connected label.

- Fixed several PHP 8.1 deprecation notices. Note: There are still a number of notices from WordPress 6.0.

- Updated the minimum WordPress version on the System Status page to 5.9.

- Updated the database upgrade and System Status page to check for and fix auto increment issues which can cause "duplicate entry 0" errors.

- AF: Updated `GFPaymentAddOn::maybe_validate()` to include `$context` as the second parameter.

- API: Added gform/merge_tag/initialize event to allow merge tag drop downs to be manually initialized after page load.

- API: Updated the REST API v2 [forms/[FORM_ID]/submissions](https://docs.gravityforms.com/submitting-forms-with-rest-api-v2/) endpoint to support the `?_validate_only=1` query argument.

- API: Added [GFAPI::validate_form()](https://docs.gravityforms.com/validating-forms-with-the-gfapi/) to validate form field values without triggering other submission events such as saving the entry, sending notifications, add-on feeds, or confirmations.

- API: Added the [forms/[FORM_ID]/submissions/validation](https://docs.gravityforms.com/validating-forms-with-rest-api-v2/) endpoint to REST API v2.

- API: Updated the `gform_field_validation` and `gform_validation` filters to include a new `$context` parameter indicating how the current request was triggered: form-submit, api-submit, or api-validate.

- Added the [gform_cleanup_target_dir](https://docs.gravityforms.com/gform_cleanup_target_dir/) filter to support async uploads on servers with opendir() disabled.

- Fixed an issue where the REST request to get additional pages fails on translated sites when configuring the form confirmation.

- Updated the database upgrade and System Status page to check for and fix auto increment issues which can cause "duplicate entry 0" errors.

- Fixed an accessibility issue where the notice in the uninstall page doesn't have an alert role.

- Fixed several PHP 8.1 deprecation notices. Note: There are still a number of notices from WordPress 6.0.

- API: Added gform/merge_tag/initialize event to allow merge tag drop downs to be manually initialized after page load.

- API: Updated the REST API v2 [forms/[FORM_ID]/submissions](https://docs.gravityforms.com/submitting-forms-with-rest-api-v2/) endpoint to support the `?_validate_only=1` query argument.

- API: Added [GFAPI::validate_form()](https://docs.gravityforms.com/validating-forms-with-the-gfapi/) to validate form field values without triggering other submission events such as saving the entry, sending notifications, add-on feeds, or confirmations.

- API: Added the [forms/[FORM_ID]/submissions/validation](https://docs.gravityforms.com/validating-forms-with-rest-api-v2/) endpoint to REST API v2.

- API: Updated the gform_field_validation and gform_validation filters to include a new `$context` parameter indicating how the current request was triggered: form-submit, api-submit, or api-validate.

- AF: Updated `GFPaymentAddOn::maybe_validate()` to include `$context` as the second parameter.

Fixed bug that sometimes results in a fatal error when the license key is empty.