ACF PRO 5.8.0 Beta3 is now available for download 🎉🎸🤘! This includes all the new awesome features shown in the ACF 5.8 – Introducing ACF Blocks for Gutenberg announcement.

To test ACF PRO 5.8.0-beta3, please login to your store account and click the See all versions link alongside your license. Download, extract and replace ‘advanced-custom-fields-pro’ plugin folder contents.

Think you’ve found a bug? Please post in detail a new support ticket.

What’s new for Gutenberg

  • Fixed bug preventing default align setting from working in acf_register_block().
  • Added alias function acf_register_block_type() for better naming consistency.
  • Added $post_id parameter to render_callback and render_template.
  • Fixed pesky “unload prompts” after publishing a post in Gutenberg.
  • Fixed bug showing all field groups as empty metaboxes in Gutenberg.
  • Improved validation error message compatibility with Gutenberg.
  • Added loading block when first fetching block preview.
  • Improved styling of accordions when displayed in Gutenberg sidebar (now looks like core panels).
  • Added “all” setting to the block type location rule.
  • Various CSS improvements for metaboxes and fields in Gutenberg.

Other Improvements

  • Added post_type data to the dynamic metabox screen check.
  • Added new acf/connect_attachment_to_post filter to prevent connecting attachments to posts during save.
  • Added new google_map_autocomplete_args JS filter to customize the Google Maps autocomplete settings.

Bug fixes

  • Fixed bug in Gallery field causing excessive SQL queries for attachment metadata.
  • Fixed bug where WYSIWYG field is not correctly initialized when resetting the “add new taxonomy term” form.
  • Fixed conflict with WPML causing acf_form() to redirect incorrectly.
  • Fixed bug preventing attachments from saving checkbox values correctly.
  • Fixed bug in have_rows() affecting nested loops when breaking out early.