### Added

- There is a new filter `wpforms_builder_panel_sidebar_section_classes` to change builder panel sidebar section classes.

### Changed

- Updated DOMPurify library to 2.4.0.

### Fixed

- Placeholder text in the Dropdown field was cut off in the Form Builder.

- The Form Builder had an inconsistent text strings escaping.

- The information about "no form templates to display" did not disappear when a category was changed.

### Fixed

- Email Notifications options for completed payments were displayed in an incorrect place - below the Settings > Notifications > Advanced section in the Form Builder.

- Very long field labels were not wrapped and were breaking mid-word.

### Added

- Entries can now be checked against the Akismet API to prevent spam submissions.

- When exporting entries on the Tools > Export page all items can be selected or deselected easily with a single click in Form Fields and Additional Information sections.

### Changed

- Only 3 uploaded files are now displayed in the table on the Entries list page.

- Paragraph and multiline long values are properly truncated to improve readability on the Entries list page.

- Display fields available according to license level as active in the Form Builder, even if the required addon is not installed or activated.

- Single Item field placeholder option is now displayed only when a User Defined type is selected.

- The Date/Time field displays options from `01` to `12` instead of from `00` to `11` when the format is set to `12 H`.

- Address field' country name is now displayed instead of the country code throughout the plugin admin area.

- Empty post titles and term names in Dynamic Choices are now treated the way WordPress does.

- Modern Dropdown field fuzzy search sensitivity is adjusted to display only exact matches.

- Allow typing choices in the modern Dropdown field with the Multiple Options Selection option enabled.

- WPForms Challenge experience is improved for new users.

- Lite Connect is now disabled in non-production environments.

- Lite Connect functionality improves handling of staging and cloned sites, and changed domain names.

- Unnecessary PHP packages are no longer shipped in WPForms Lite.

- Stylesheets loaded in the Form Builder and on certain plugin pages are better optimized and shrank to improve performance.

- WPForms now better integrates with the WP Mail SMTP plugin to enable overriding From Name and From Email values in existing forms.

- Form Notifications now have better validation of From Email settings.

- Displaying and counting the total number of entries is improved across the admin area of the plugin.

- Start using new `elementor/widgets/register` hook introduced in Elementor 3.5.0.

- The intl-tel-input library has been updated to v17.0.17 to support more regions and area codes.

- Updated DOMPurify library to 2.3.10.

- Updated jquery.validate library to 1.19.5.

### Fixed

- Improved compatibility with Twenty Twenty-Two theme.

- No more missing form ID in the date dropdown `id` HTML attribute.

- Added meaningful `alt` text to form submission spinner image to stop being flagged by certain SEO scanners.

- Address field's Country value on the Entries list page was truncated with the International scheme set.

- Lite Connect import admin notice on the Tools > Scheduled Actions page was positioned incorrectly.

- Page break titles overlapped on certain screen sizes when using the Connector progress indicator.

- Single Item field Placeholder value was not updating correctly in the Form Builder preview.

- Constant Contact Authorization Code and Account Nickname fields are now required on the Settings > Integrations page.

- Constant Contact connection can now be added even if the Authorization Code is invalid.

- Error occurred upon form submission when Time in Date/Time field was set to 00AM.

- Fields that required unique answers did not work with page breaks.

- A form with a smart Phone field that requires a unique value didn't get submitted if the phone field value was invalid, even if the phone field was hidden by conditional logic.

- Form cannot be submitted now until all uploads in separate modern File Upload fields are finished.

- Conditional Logic was not working when the value was updated on paste from the clipboard.

- Modern File Upload field was not fully cleared when hidden and shown again with Conditional Logic applied.

- Validation of required fields on Marketing or Payment sections in the Form Builder was triggered even if the field is hidden.

- Action Scheduler was triggering a PHP fatal error on the Tools > Scheduled Actions page on PHP 5.6.

- Images breaking out of containers on smaller screens if Multiple Choice and Checkboxes fields were set to use image choices.

- `query_var` smart tag was not working in Confirmations and Notifications.

- Incorrect results were displayed when search by term was combined with a date filter.

- Plugin and addons could not be updated via WP CLI.

- Custom templates had an incorrect badge, "Addon" instead of "Custom".

- The Confirmation Message label overlapped the editor when WYSIWYG mode was disabled.

- A list of IP addresses forwarded by Cloudflare or some other proxies could not be parsed if it contained spaces.

- Default form title was not changed when switching form templates.

- Both `page_title` and `page_id` smart tags were returning incorrect values on non-singular pages if the form was used outside the Loop.

- WPForms Block preview (on block hover) was rendered incorrectly in Site Editor.

- Users with roles other than Administrator could not see all export options even if they had sufficient permissions.

- Display only those sections that the user has permissions to view and interact with on the WPForms > Tools page.

- Rich Text field label was misplaced if positioned below the Single Line Text field with the Address Autocomplete option enabled.

- Sorting entries by Total column worked incorrectly when combined with pagination.

- User-uploaded files remained in the /uploads/wpforms/ directory when an Entry was deleted.

- Partially uploaded user files were not deleted when the upload was interrupted or canceled.

- Files with extensions containing an underscore or a hyphen were not supported by the File Upload field.

- Custom validation errors were not displayed with hCaptcha enabled upon AJAX form submission.

- Validation errors were not shown when the field with an input mask was not fully filled.

- Duplicated entries were created in the database when an entry of the form with more than 30 fields was edited.

- Smart Tags could be added to Sender Email and Sender Name if the fields were managed by the WP Mail SMTP plugin.

- The Confirmation message block had incorrect margins in the Twenty Twenty-Two theme.

- Occasional errors during migration were fixed when upgrading from some older versions of WPForms.

- The Confirmation Redirect URL can no longer be saved with an empty value.

- Default choices were displayed on the frontend if a Dynamic Choices source had no objects (Dropdown, Multiple Choice, and Checkboxes fields were affected).

### Fixed

- Migrations logic was broken in certain cases when addons have their own migrations.

- Security-related improvements around email generation for notifications.

### Fixed

- Some users were not able to use templates when creating a form.

### Added

- New filter to modify CSS classes of the form submit button on the frontend.

### Changed

- The PayPal Standard transaction URL now uses a new format on the Entry details page.

- Improve cached templates handling in the Form Builder.

### Fixed

- Retrieving a current URL should not strip a custom port.

- "JavaScript file not found" error when the "Load Assets Globally" option was enabled in Settings > General.

- WordPress database error when upgrading from WPForms Lite to WPForms Pro.

- Do not cache an incorrect or empty response from the Templates API.

- PHP warning raised in certain notifications configuration when PayPal payment status is changed to Completed.

### Fixed

- Increase chances for the templates inside the Form Builder to load properly, so occasional empty form creation from a template should be gone.

- PHP fatal error was generated in some cases when Lite Connect attempted to generate site key too many times.

### Fixed

- v1.7.5 migration did not complete when a database prefix other than `wp_` was used.

- Form Tags: incorrect links to filter by tags were generated right after saving tags.

### Added

- Form Tags: add tags to forms with an ability to filter by them; bulk add/edit/delete tags for multiple forms.

- Payment details stored in entries are now searchable.

- Display the status of the Lite Connect setting and the date-time when it was enabled (Tools > System Info).

- New `{unique_value}` smart tag.

### Changed

- The sodium library is now included in WordPress core, so we removed it from the plugin.

- Action Scheduler library was updated to 3.4.2 to fix deprecation notices with PHP 8.1.

- The jquery.validate library updated to 1.19.4.

- Conditional logic can now be applied to custom fields.

- Do not allow not completed Challenge to appear in the regular Form Builder.

### Fixed

- For some fields, their default values were not always previewed in the Form Builder.

- Regularly clean up additional information we store for each task we run within the plugin.

- No fatal error anymore in Allow/Deny email lists with very long or international emails.

- Correctly handle additional CSS classes for each WPForms block on the same page (Block Editor).

- Properly process survey field values when they were updated to become empty.

- Modals order was incorrect when the Lite Connect feature was enabled or disabled on mobile.

- Notification for the last step of the WPForms Challenge was not displayed on the Posts Page with the Gutenberg plugin.

- Some Form Templates could be empty upon fresh installation.

- Several minor issues in the Challenge flow are now fixed.

- Total value for items with a cost lower than 1 dollar was calculated incorrectly.

- Color Palette was not shown in the Form Builder for duplicated fields.

- Do not register Gutenberg block styles on the front end when no form is present on a page.

- Access Controls: Entries list showed all forms with the 'View Others Forms' capability.

- Form Builder exited automatically when a user with allowed permissions created a form.

- Limit the number of attempts to get the site key in Lite Connect.

- Multiple Items (Radio) choice showed "Empty" on a single entry page if a selected choice value is undefined/empty.

- Search results didn't show old abandoned and partial entries after the latest addon update.

- Entries Search on the Entries Table page was not fully cleared when a user cleared the search.

- Several issues were fixed with the ability to move certain fields (Page Break and Entry Preview).

- Elementor popup was not processing conditional logic on the initial load.

- Added focus state indication for admin tabs.

- Duplicated column name appeared in the columns configs on the Entries Table page when a user tried to change settings.

- Edit Entry: the Date field with a custom format was shown improperly.

- GDPR sub-settings remained enabled if GDPR is disabled and sub-setting was left enabled.

- Duplicate/Trash form actions did not work after sorting forms by Name, Author, or Created Date.

- Improved styling of the warning/loading message for the Modern File Upload field.

- Notices appeared in the debug.log when the user created a Custom Template and used it in the Form Builder.

- Entries Overview: search attributes were removed when searching for an empty HTML tag.

- Empty license was shown improperly in some cases inside the Site Health.

- Fatal error on PHP 8 after a PayPal payment.

- hCaptcha pointer had a weird thick dark border since WordPress 6.0.

- Check GDPR settings before trying to use a cookie.