Limited-Time Offer

Get Extra 20% off on FullCharge Yearly Plan — available for first 10 users only. Don’t miss out! 🚀

TrackWP

Advanced Custom Fields · Version history

Advanced Custom Fields changelog and version history

Latest version
6.2.1
Nov 9, 2026 (1 day ago)
Releases
64
since 2014
In the last year
16
about one every 23 days
Tested up to
WordPress 7.1.4
PHP 5.6 or later

Releases each year

  • 20147 releases
  • 20156 releases
  • 20162 releases
  • 201712 releases
  • 20189 releases
  • 20225 releases
  • 20232 releases
  • 20245 releases
  • 20253 releases
  • 202613 releases

202613 releases

  1. Advanced Custom Fields 6.2.1Latest

    • Security: Fixed a stored XSS vulnerability where icon values saved by low-privileged users (e.g. via a field on the user profile form) could inject HTML attributes through the ‘Icon Object’ return format. Icon data is now sanitized when saved and when output, including values saved before this upda…
    • Security: Escaped all icon object properties at output.
    • Bugfix: The default icon sets of Font Awesome 7.x fields did not include Brand icons.
    • Improvement: The Font Awesome 7.x icon chooser opens faster thanks to request caching.

  2. Advanced Custom Fields 6.2.0

    • New: When using a FontAwesome Kit, icon search and the icon showcase now only show icons and styles that are actually included in your kit, instead of the full FontAwesome library.

  3. Advanced Custom Fields 6.1.4

    • Security: Replaced the FontAwesome API query validator with a server-built request.
    • Bugfix: FontAwesome 5.x icon search results were being grouped under the wrong icon style, causing only Brand icons to appear correctly.
    • Added: FontAwesome 5.x icon search now also matches against FontAwesome’s icon search terms/aliases (e.g. searching “test” now finds the “vial” icon), not just icon names.

  4. Advanced Custom Fields 6.1.3

    • Security: Further hardened the FontAwesome API query feature.

  5. Advanced Custom Fields 6.1.2

    • Security: Hardened the FontAwesome API query feature against unauthorized use.

  6. Advanced Custom Fields 6.1.1

    • Added: Support for new FontAwesome 7.3.0 Pro+ icon families: Pixel, Mosaic, Vellum, Slab Duo, and Slab Press Duo.

  7. Advanced Custom Fields 6.1.0

  8. Advanced Custom Fields 6.0.4

    • Bugfix: Made z-index of the icon chooser popup higher to avoid conflicts with with ACF block sidebar.

  9. Advanced Custom Fields 6.0.3

    • Added: FA icon when picking a new field.
    • Bugfix: Be able to clear default icon selection.

  10. Advanced Custom Fields 6.0.2

    • Bugfix: Fixed issue when no icon family was selected.

  11. Advanced Custom Fields 6.0.1

    • Bugfix: Fixed issue with new icon chooser not allowing option to be cleared when allow null option was enabled.

  12. Advanced Custom Fields 6.0.0

    • New FontAwesome 7.x icon picker powered by the official FontAwesome Icon Chooser web component for a richer icon selection experience.
    • Deprecated the “Icon Set Builder” feature for FontAwesome 7.x users. The Icon Set Builder continues to work as before for FontAwesome 4.x, 5.x, and 6.x users.
    • Added support for the new FontAwesome “Graphite” family of icons.
    • Updated “Requires at least” compatibility: FontAwesome 7.x features require WordPress 6.5+ for script module support.

  13. Advanced Custom Fields 5.0.2

    • Note: The next bigger update will have changes to the way icons are being selected when using FontAwesome 7.x to utilize new and future features from FontAwesome. Unfortunately this means we will be deprecating the “Icon Set Builder” feature to better align this plugin with the FontAwesome ecosyste…
    • Bugfix: Added custom kit icons to Font Awesome 7.x icon set loading.
    • Security: Sanitizing and escaping more outputs.

20253 releases

  1. Advanced Custom Fields 5.0.1

    • Note: The next update will have changes to the way icons are being selected when using FontAwesome 7.x to utilize new and future features from FontAwesome. Unfortunately this means we will be deprecating the “Icon Set Builder” feature to better align this plugin with the FontAwesome ecosystem. This…
    • Bugfix: Latest FA version will be properly checked and updated when saving settings.
    • Bugfix: Field was not loading correctly when used within ACF block which used blockVersion 3.

  2. Advanced Custom Fields 5.0.0

    • Added support for FontAwesome 7.x icons and new Icon Styles
    • Updated FontAwesome GraphQL API integration to support FontAwesome 7.x icons and kits
    • Because of the long list of Icon Sets when editing the field, the checkboxes have been replaced with a select2 multi-select field.

  3. Advanced Custom Fields 4.1.2

    • Bugfix plugin textdomain can load too early if ACF fields are used before WordPress ‘init’

20245 releases

  1. Advanced Custom Fields 4.1.1

    • Bugfix icon sets not saving properly when editing FontAwesome icon field

  2. Advanced Custom Fields 4.1.0

    • Added support for Duotone Sharp icons

  3. Advanced Custom Fields 4.0.9

    • Bugfix certain SVG icons that were previously before 4.0.8 update not outputting properly.
    • Bugfix certain custom icons that were previously selected before 4.0.8 update not outputting properly.
    • Bugfix resolve potential PHP warning in admin post edit screens when downgrading from FontAwesome 6 to 5 icon sets.

  4. Advanced Custom Fields 4.0.8

    • Bugfix php warning when returning some custom icons as an object
    • Added support for returning the FontAwesome formatted SVG on custom icons and duotone icons instead of generating it in the plugin. Previously selected icons must be reselected to use this enhanced SVG.

  5. Advanced Custom Fields 4.0.7

    • Added support for FontAwesome “Sharp” family icons
    • Added support for user uploaded duotone icons in kits
    • Updated icon initialization for better compatibility with REST API, and a variety of third party site builder plugins that integrate with ACF fields.
    • Added filter (ACFFA_fa_api_key) to allow for the ability to programmatically set the FontAwesome API key.
    • Added filter (ACFFA_fa_kit_token) to allow for the ability to programmatically set the FontAwesome kit token.
    • Limited role of Select2 ‘dropdownCssClass’ and ‘containerCssClass’ arguments to avoid conflicts with other plugins using older/non full feature versions of Select2

20232 releases

  1. Advanced Custom Fields 4.0.6

    • Fixed php 8.2 related warning

  2. Advanced Custom Fields 4.0.5

    • Fixed compatibility issue with ACF 6.1+ causing this plugins settings page to break
    • Fixed bug with logic for theme ‘bundling’ of this plugin that caused issues loading assets in some environments

20225 releases

  1. Advanced Custom Fields 4.0.4

    • Fixed bug where queries to the FontAwesome API were timing out for some users, causing issues with searching for icons in the backend

  2. Advanced Custom Fields 4.0.3

    • Automatically refresh 4.x and 5.x icon caches when saving the settings
    • Additional strings for translation

  3. Advanced Custom Fields 4.0.1

    • Fixed bug where FontAwesome settings page would not properly load CSS/JS assets on internationalized WordPress installations.
    • Added support for theme authors to bundle this plugin with a theme ( see install instructions )
    • Increased ‘fallback’ FontAwesome 6 version number to match the 6.0.0 release

  4. Advanced Custom Fields 4.0.0

  5. Advanced Custom Fields 3.1.2

20189 releases

  1. Advanced Custom Fields 3.0.0

  2. Advanced Custom Fields 2.1.2

  3. Advanced Custom Fields 3.0.0-rc2

  4. Advanced Custom Fields 3.0.0-rc1

  5. Advanced Custom Fields 3.0.0-beta3

  6. Advanced Custom Fields 3.0.0-beta2

  7. Advanced Custom Fields 3.0.0-beta1

  8. Advanced Custom Fields 2.1.1

  9. Advanced Custom Fields 2.1.0

201712 releases

  1. Advanced Custom Fields 2.0.9

  2. Advanced Custom Fields 2.0.8

  3. Advanced Custom Fields 2.0.7

  4. Advanced Custom Fields 2.0.6

  5. Advanced Custom Fields 2.0.5

  6. Advanced Custom Fields 2.0.4

  7. Advanced Custom Fields 2.0.3

  8. Advanced Custom Fields 2.0.2

  9. Advanced Custom Fields 2.0.1

  10. Advanced Custom Fields 2.0.0

  11. Advanced Custom Fields 1.7.4

  12. Advanced Custom Fields 1.7.3

20162 releases

  1. Advanced Custom Fields 1.7.2

  2. Advanced Custom Fields 1.7.1

20156 releases

  1. Advanced Custom Fields 1.7

  2. Advanced Custom Fields 1.6.4

  3. Advanced Custom Fields 1.6.3

  4. Advanced Custom Fields 1.6.2

  5. Advanced Custom Fields 1.6

  6. Advanced Custom Fields 1.5

20147 releases

  1. Advanced Custom Fields 1.4

  2. Advanced Custom Fields 1.3

  3. Advanced Custom Fields 1.2

  4. Advanced Custom Fields 1.1.2

  5. Advanced Custom Fields 1.1.1

  6. Advanced Custom Fields 1.1.0

  7. Advanced Custom Fields 1.0.0

Questions about Advanced Custom Fields’s releases

What is the latest version of Advanced Custom Fields?

6.2.1, released on Nov 9, 2026 (1 day ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 7.1.4 and needs PHP 5.6 or later.

How often is Advanced Custom Fields updated?

16 releases in the last year, about one every 23 days. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from February 2014.

Know when your rivals ship

Track your plugin and its rivals: TrackWP sees each new release in the nightly snapshot and alerts you, with what it did to their rank.

Start free

Release dates come from the day each version’s folder was made in Advanced Custom Fields’s WordPress.org SVN repository; the notes from its readme’s changelog, as its authors wrote it.