Added a new global setting to select the default form theme. On new sites, “Orbital” will be the default theme.
Added a ‘theme’ parameter to the Gravity Forms shortcode.
Added a new [`gform_default_styles`](https://docs.gravityforms.com/gform_default_styles/) filter to apply the same styles to all forms on a site.
Fixed an issue where the setup wizard saves an empty license key if the user clicks the “Skip” button.
Fixed an issue that causes fatal errors on some sites during the background processing of telemetry data.
Fixed an issue where feed settings for ActiveCampaign, Agile CRM, Breeze, Mailchimp, Trello, Twilio, and ZohoCRM display a deprecation warning when using PHP 8.1.
Updated the appearance of the template library.
Updated the name of “Gravity” theme to “Gravity Forms 2.5 Theme.”
AF: Fixed the `Creation of dynamic property CLASS::$delayed_payment_integration is deprecated` notice with PHP 8.2.
AF: Fixed an issue where the background feed processor uses a stale instance of the add-on to process the feed preventing the {apc_media} merge tags from outputting values.

Fixed jQuery deprecation notices in the form preview for the following fields: email, product, total, and stripe fields, as well as some conditional logic.
Fixed “undefined index” errors that sometimes appear when a form is embedded with a shortcode. Credit: The GravityKit team.
AF: Updated the background processor to include additional logging statements around batch processing.

Updated the API endpoint for telemetry data.
Fixed a bug that causes values of checkbox fields to appear twice on the entry list page.
Fixed a bug that prevents form block style settings from being applied.
Fixed jQuery deprecation notices in the form preview for the following fields: email, product, total, and stripe fields, as well as some conditional logic.
Fixed “undefined index” errors that sometimes appear when a form is embedded with a shortcode. Credit: The GravityKit team.
AF: Updated the background processor to include additional logging statements around batch processing.
API: Added a new JavaScript action hook [gform_post_set_field_property](https://docs.gravityforms.com/gform_post_set_field_property/) in the form editor to listen for field property changes

Added the Salesforce icon to the Gravity Forms icon kit.
Fixed an issue that prevents the post category selector from appearing correctly in WordPress 6.4.
Fixed an issue where multipage forms with conditional logic display the wrong text on the “next” button.

Added a compact view to the form editor.
Added the default theme to the system report.
Added performance improvements by only enqueueing necessary styles on the front end.
Added support for field sidebar messages.
Added the `gform_display_disable_css_setting` filter to allow the display of the Output Default CSS setting.
Updated the telemetry background processor to log when it fails to send data.
Updated the field accordions in the form editor to all be open by default.
Updated the minimum WordPress version on the System Status page to 6.3.
Removed deprecated function `string.format()`.
Removed several unused images.
Removed the “Output Default CSS” setting from the settings page and replaced it with the [`gform_disable_css`](https://docs.gravityforms.com/gform_disable_css/) filter.
Removed the HTML5 setting from the settings page.
API: Removed the deprecated form Theme Framework global CSS API color system properties.
API: Updated and refactored the form Theme Framework CSS API to reduce stylesheet size for better performance.

Added support for conditional logic rules based on Survey fields for confirmations, notifications, and feeds.
Fixed various warnings and notices in PHP 8.1 and 8.2.
Fixed an issue where address inputs are sometimes vertically mis-aligned in the Gravity Forms 2.5 theme.
Fixed display issues with the merge tag dropdown in Firefox.
Fixed the display of tooltips in the form editor in Safari.
Fixed an issue that prevents conditional logic from working on the submit button on multi-page forms if the last page is also hidden with conditional logic.
Fixed an issue that prevents the conditional logic UI from displaying on duplicates of the default confirmation.
Fixed an issue where it is difficult to access the field admin icons with the mouse in the form editor.
Fixed an issue where users without the `gravityforms_edit_entries` capability can mark entries as read/unread.
Fixed conditional logic on the product option field.
Updated the format of telemetry data.
AF: Added feed processing when entries are marked as “not spam”.

Added security enhancements.
Fixed an issue where the datepicker does not work in the repeater field.
Fixed an issue that sometimes causes extra spacers to be added to forms.
Fixed an issue where conditional logic rules based on anything but the first choice of a radio or checkbox field do not work in forms created in Gravity Forms 2.8.1. Users will need to delete and re-create the conditional logic rules to fix the issue.
AF: Fixed an issue where the readonly attribute is not added to settings fields.

Fixed a bug where total calculation and post conditional logic events sometimes aren’t called when using the `gform_abort_conditional_logic_do_action` filter.
Fixed a fatal error that sometimes occurs when deleting entries.
Fixed a bug that causes the plugins page to display “Auto-updates disabled” for Gravity Forms when auto-updates are turned on with the `auto_update_plugin` filter.

 Fixed a bug that prevents the `gform_pre_validation` filter from running when an individual field is validated, such as in a conversational form.
Updated JavaScript and CSS from the assets directory to always load minified versions.
Updated the minimum WordPress version (for support) on the System Status page to 6.4.