GriffinForms – Form Builder with Multi-Step and Registration Forms

Stable tag: 3.0.2.0

3.0.2.0 – 2026-04-19

Griffin Assist — AI Form Drafting

• New: Griffin Assist is now available directly inside the form builder. Type a prompt in the right sidebar to draft a new form or make targeted changes to an existing one.
• New: Create a form from a plain-English prompt in the Create Form modal. Griffin Assist drafts the structure for you in seconds, then opens it in the builder so you can refine it.
• New: “Create with AI” on the All Forms page now opens the Griffin Assist tab in the Create Form modal with the prompt input ready to go.
• New: Existing forms can be opened in AI draft mode using the “AI Edit” row action, letting Griffin Assist make targeted changes without affecting your published form.
• New: AI drafts live in a separate draft state. Review the result, then choose Publish to make it live or Discard to throw it away — your original form is never touched until you confirm.
• New: Undo and Reset are available while editing with Griffin Assist, letting you step back one change or return the draft to its original state.
• New: Griffin Assist now supports Chat Mode. Toggle it on to ask questions, explore ideas, and get suggestions with clickable action buttons — without modifying the form directly.
• New: In Chat Mode, Griffin Assist proactively suggests structural improvements such as adding new pages, sections, rows, and fields alongside copy and content advice.
• New: Dedicated AI Settings tab for connecting your preferred AI provider (OpenAI, Anthropic, and others) with encrypted API key storage.
• New: AI data-sharing consent gate — Griffin Assist checks for explicit acknowledgement before sending any form data to an external AI provider.

Surgical Patch-Based Mutation

• New: Griffin Assist now edits forms surgically instead of rebuilding the whole schema. Field IDs, conditional logic references, and integration settings are preserved across every AI edit.
• New: Scoped editing — when a field, row, column, or page is selected in the builder, Griffin Assist targets that element directly without touching the rest of the form.
• New: Suggestion pills appear in the sidebar based on what is currently selected. Each field type has its own context-aware set of one-tap actions such as improving a label, polishing a description, or updating placeholder text.
• New: Full suggestion pill support across all field types: text, email, phone, address, number, date, textarea, file upload, dropdown, checkbox, radio, time, password, terms and conditions, and payment.
• New: File upload fields support AI-generated upload requirement descriptions that reference your actual file type, size, and count constraints.
• New: Date fields support AI-generated date window hints that describe your configured date range in plain language.
• New: Number fields support AI-generated range hints based on your configured min, max, and step validations.
• New: Address fields support AI-improved sub-field labels (Street, City, State, etc.) derived from the form context.
• New: Dropdown, checkbox, and radio fields support option refinement and grouping via dedicated suggestion pills.
• New: Payment fields support AI-improved product name and description rewrites that preserve prices and product IDs.
• New: Full form translation — a Translate pill sends the entire form through a bulk mutation pass that rewrites all labels, placeholders, descriptions, options, and button text into your target language while keeping the structure intact.

Form Drafting Quality

• Improvement: Form names and headings derived from your prompt are now cleaned up automatically — imperative phrases like “Create a” or “I need a” are stripped so the resulting name is user-facing and professional.
• Improvement: Griffin Assist no longer fills the form description with the raw prompt text.
• Improvement: Opening a form via AI Edit no longer re-submits the original creation prompt on every visit — the one-shot flag is consumed correctly at page load.
• Improvement: Advisory action buttons and choice buttons now always commit directly when clicked — clicking a suggested action in Chat Mode no longer loops back into another advisory panel.
• Improvement: “Add a new section called X” requests now correctly create a new page with the given name and heading, rather than a blank unnamed row.
• Improvement: Newly inserted rows always include a heading derived from the requested topic or fields.
• Improvement: Chat mode is automatically turned off when a form is created from the modal prompt, ensuring the initial draft is generated rather than handled as a chat conversation.

UI Polish

• Improvement: The chat input area is now a unified composer card — textarea, divider, and toolbar sit together in one bordered card that highlights when focused.
• Improvement: The Chat Mode toggle is redesigned as a compact pill button with an animated dot indicator that turns blue when active.
• Improvement: Suggestions panel is hidden while Chat Mode is on to keep the interface focused.
• Improvement: Status line updates dynamically to reflect whether Griffin Assist is in mutation mode or chat mode.
• Improvement: Undo and Reset buttons are now disabled until the first successful change is made in a session, so they are never shown in an actionable state when there is nothing to undo.
• Improvement: Suggestion pills are disabled while a request is in flight and re-enable cleanly after the response is received.
• Improvement: Advisory action and choice buttons are now left-aligned for easier scanning.
• Improvement: Undo and Reset buttons are more compact to reduce toolbar height.
• Fix: Griffin Assist tab in the Create Form modal now renders correctly — the tab pane was previously missing from the modal content area.
• Fix: “Draft with Griffin Assist” in the Create Form modal was returning a network error due to a mismatched AJAX action name. Now fixed.
• Fix: The Griffin Assist avatar in the Create Form modal now uses the same icon as the builder sidebar.

3.0.1.0 – 2026-04-07

• Added: Foundational infrastructure for Griffin Assist AI assistant.
• Added: Secure encrypted storage for OpenAI API keys.
• Added: AI Broker and request normalization layer.
• Added: Token usage tracking and model routing logic.
• Fixed: Improved integration configuration UI and validation.

3.0.0.0 – 2026-04-07

• Major: GriffinForms now uses a stronger package-aware internal architecture that makes future upgrades and extensions safer without disrupting current Core workflows.
• Improvement: Core now handles missing, inactive, incompatible, or unavailable extension-owned behavior more safely with clearer fallback and preservation paths.
• Improvement: Diagnostics, logging, and state handling are now more consistent behind the scenes, which improves troubleshooting and long-term reliability.
• Improvement: Form building, connected features, and future extension points now behave more reliably behind the scenes, giving GriffinForms a cleaner foundation for long-term growth.

2.4.4.0 – 2026-04-02

• Fix: Standard text fields now preview correctly in Gutenberg instead of looking like address fields.
• Improvement: Spam protection is now more reliable for live forms with stronger honeypot handling behind the scenes.
• Improvement: The empty Forms screen now feels cleaner and easier to follow when you are getting started.
• Improvement: The guided onboarding flow now feels more focused with a calmer, less cluttered admin experience.

2.4.3.1 – 2026-03-30

• Fix: Restored the final guided User Registration review step so the step label renders correctly as Review and the review content appears during new workflow creation.
• Fix: Corrected the guided workflow editor request contract so unsaved drafts are no longer misclassified as persisted workflows.
• Hardening: Prevented the undefined persisted-flag fatal in the User Registration editor AJAX path.

2.4.3.0 – 2026-03-28

• Improvement: User Registration now uses a guided workflow-creation experience that is easier to follow for first-time setup.
• Improvement: Existing User Registration workflows are now faster to review and edit with a clearer direct-edit layout.
• Improvement: Submission-side User Registration actions now use native GriffinForms confirmation UI instead of browser alerts.
• Improvement: Submission logs and User Registration status now refresh together more reliably after admin follow-up actions.
• Improvement: User Registration terminology is now clearer and more consistent across the builder, submission view, checks, and summary surfaces.

2.4.2.0 – 2026-03-27

• New: Registration forms now travel much more cleanly across your workflow, with stronger links between submissions and created WordPress users.
• New: Submission detail API responses now include account-registration outcome data, making companion and custom integrations much more useful.
• Improvement: Registration forms now get smarter setup warnings for missing CAPTCHA protection and weak mapped-password flows.
• Improvement: It is now easier to spot registration-enabled forms from the Forms list and understand which submitted email field powered account creation.
• New: Onboarding now includes a dedicated User Registration starter, so new users can build signup forms much faster.
• Improvement: Registration-enabled forms now keep their Accounts setup when exported and imported, with safer fallback handling for linked confirmation messages.

2.4.0.0 – 2026-03-21

• New: GriffinForms now includes a full WordPress user-registration workflow built directly into the form builder.
• New: You can create registration forms with flexible account-creation rules, profile mappings, password strategies, confirmation emails, and duplicate-account handling.
• New: Registration can now run through immediate create, pending admin activation, or manual-review flows depending on how your site needs to work.
• New: The submission view now includes a dedicated Accounts panel so admins can see exactly what happened for each registration target and take follow-up action when needed.
• Improvement: The builder now highlights risky registration setups earlier with checks for mapping problems, password issues, iterable constraints, and role guardrails.
• Improvement: Registration-enabled forms are now easier to identify from the builder and admin list surfaces.
• Hardening: Administrator role assignment remains blocked for registration setups in V1 for safer default behavior.

2.3.9.0 – 2026-03-19

• Improvement: Refreshed single-item edit pages with cleaner WordPress-style layout, stronger section hierarchy, and easier scanning on longer settings screens.
• Improvement: Finished the new builder toolbar flow with persistent selected-state controls, integrated drag and move actions, and a cleaner overall editing rhythm.
• Feature: Added a new builder overflow menu for secondary actions, giving the toolbar a more scalable and polished Gutenberg-inspired feel.
• Fix: Restored Gutenberg field preview parity so supported field types render correctly in the editor instead of falling back to plain text inputs.
• Improvement: Continued builder polish with more consistent action visibility, selection behavior, and interaction feedback across pages, rows, columns, and fields.
• Hardening: Expanded companion device-limit QA coverage and verified that per-user and global active-device guardrails behave correctly.

2.3.8.0 – 2026-03-15

• New: Added a guided onboarding flow so new users can create and publish their first form more easily.
• New: Added goal-based starter forms with optional fields, so you can begin with a useful form instead of a blank screen.
• New: Added a clearer publish flow with options to keep the form unpublished, add it to a new page, or place it in existing content.
• Improvement: Added clearer success screens, documentation links, and next-step actions after form creation.
• Improvement: Added safer handling for builder-managed pages such as Elementor, so GriffinForms avoids automatic placement where manual placement is the better choice.
• Improvement: Refined onboarding copy, layout, and controls to make the first-run experience calmer and easier to follow.

2.3.7.0 – 2026-03-07

• Feature: Added companion device registry endpoints and admin device-management UI (list/remove) with per-user and global active-device guardrails.
• Feature: Added notification fan-out/token lifecycle foundation for submission.created webhook delivery across active registered devices.
• Hardening: Completed webhook verification gates for signature validation, retry behavior, and receiver idempotency with release evidence artifacts.
• Fix: Prevented webhook dispatch-guard transient from being set when job enqueue fails, avoiding silent suppression of later queue attempts.
• Improvement: Added explicit webhook queue observability audits for skipped, queued, and enqueue-failed paths.
• Fix: Unblocked Gutenberg form picker by removing device-enforcement from editor form-catalog routes while keeping capability/rate-limit checks.
• Improvement: Enhanced Authorized Devices admin table UI with platform icons + fallback, state badges, normalized timestamps, fixed column widths, and improved user identity typography.

2.3.6.1 – 2026-03-05

• Fix: Restored Gutenberg form-preview theme rendering by re-attaching theme payload fields on the form-structure API response.
• Fix: Resolved block sidebar form selector regressions by hardening wrapped REST response parsing and increasing block-only form fetch page size.
• Improvement: Updated block metadata to API version 3 for modern editor compatibility.

2.3.6.0 – 2026-03-05

• Feature: Added companion-app API contracts for form structure, submission detail enrichment, attachment binaries, and image thumbnails.
• Feature: Added signed outbound submission.created webhook delivery contract for companion notification workflows.
• Hardening: Added strict API guardrails for attachment token limits, trusted file-source enforcement, and thumbnail dimension validation with typed errors.
• Hardening: Expanded API audit coverage for failure branches and idempotency replay visibility.
• Improvement: Refined capability matrix behavior and normalized API/webhook audit channel semantics for cleaner triage.
• Fix: Hardened Gutenberg block registration timing/path to avoid editor registration regressions.

2.3.5.0 – 2026-03-04

• Feature: Added companion-app-ready submissions API endpoints for folders, forms, submissions, detail, PDF export, share links, and bulk delete.
• Feature: Added capability matrix controls for scoped API permissions so read and delete access can be managed independently.
• Hardening: Added typed validation failures for API request guardrails (sort/filter/date/per-page) and enforced bulk-delete idempotency contract.
• Hardening: Added share-link single-active-token revocation behavior and stronger API access-denied/rate-limit audit events.
• Observability: Expanded audit coverage with request correlation IDs, request method/URI metadata, and API-specific audit log categorization.
• Fix: Prevented duplicate guardrail audit logs in repeated request lifecycle callbacks.
• Fix: Guarded admin language loading path against abstract class instantiation fatal in API list execution paths.

2.3.4.0 – 2026-03-03

• Feature: Enhanced Create Form modal with improved template browsing, smoother navigation accents, and clearer search-state guidance.
• Feature: Blank form creation now initializes with a starter layout by default (one page, one row, one full-width column).
• Feature: Builder now prevents deleting the last remaining page, row, or column to preserve minimum valid form structure.
• Improvement: Auto-starter layout behavior is now enforced in add-page/add-row flows with server-side safeguards and client fallback protection.

2.3.3.0 – 2026-02-28

• Fix: Isolated Gutenberg block preview theme CSS per block instance so multiple GriffinForms blocks on one page keep independent theme rendering.
• Fix: Corrected address field city/postal joined-input corner behavior in builder preview so adjoining borders remain square.
• Improvement: Refined list delete confirmation modals with clearer destructive-action hierarchy and improved guard/error behavior.
• Fix: Resolved bulk form delete fatal error by adding shared child-relation sync support used by delete cascades.
• Improvement: Replaced passive builder new-element fade with a clearer insertion animation and reduced-motion fallback.

2.3.2.0 – 2026-02-14

• Fix: Added themed/no-theme validation parity so invalid controls are clearly highlighted in themed frontend forms.
• Fix: Removed leftover frontend theme asset debug error_log() output.
• Fix: Prevented Undefined array key “email_domain” warning in excluded email domain validation messaging.
• Fix: Corrected relation sync on page delete so formpages stays consistent and form list page counts remain accurate.
• Fix: Stabilized builder form-tree toggle behavior and resolved jerky right-sidebar accordion close motion.
• Fix: Improved no-theme responsive behavior in narrow containers (row/action button stacking) and aligned Gutenberg no-theme preview button styling with frontend defaults.

2.3.1.0 – 2026-02-08

• Fix: Restored a clear phone country dropdown caret across frontend, form builder, and Gutenberg preview renderers.
• Improvement: Phone country select sizing and compact behavior refined to avoid overlap and unbalanced wide-field layouts.
• Fix: Phone input-group border sync now preserves asymmetric theme border styles (per-side width/style/color) across renderers.
• Improvement: Message editor now preserves allowlisted HTML better between Code/Visual modes.
• Improvement: Message save sanitization now uses a dedicated allowlist policy for email-safe HTML (including heading tags).
• Fix: Removed invalid frontend theme stylesheet dependency causing WP_Styles::add notices on newer WordPress versions.

2.3.0.0 – 2026-02-06

• Feature: Compliance profiles (Standard, GDPR, HIPAA‑ready) with per‑form inherit/custom overrides.
• Feature: Submission metadata timeline with page + payment events and form version context.
• Feature: Builder warnings pipeline with status bar counts and overlays.
• Feature: WordPress Tools export/erase integration for GriffinForms data.
• Improvement: Compliance downloads now include full layout snapshots for traceability.
• Improvement: GDPR profile masks IPs and stores summarized user agent details.