Form Engine 7.9.0

7.9.0

December 11, 2025

New

• Added FormViewerLite, a lightweight version of the form viewer that uses the noop localization engine by default.
• Added JSON Schema validation.

Changed

• Removed the explicit includes from tsconfig.json.

Fixed bugs

• Added a hint for the orientation button in mobile/tablet mode.
• Fixed an issue where the Picker property editor did not update items.

Updated internal dependencies

• Bumped next from 15.4.7 to 15.4.8 in examples.

Form Engine 7.8.0

7.8.0

December 1, 2025

New

• Added an Uploader component in a separate package.

Changed

• Improved tree shaking support for the RSuite component package.
• Removed the required flag from the action property of the RsUploader component.
• Added guide for usage Designer and RSuite components in React 19.

Fixed bugs

• Disabled the “Add rules” button when no rules are available.

Form Engine 7.7.0

New

• Added new EmbeddedForm component that allows embedding forms using the formName property instead of embedding the form name in the component type.
• Introduced useBuilderTheme hook for accessing the current BuilderStore theme from the core package and custom components.

Changed

• Templates are now rendered through the EmbeddedForm component for better compatibility and flexibility.
• Added support for building the core package without localization dependencies to reduce bundle size.
• Updated NumberFormat component types for better React 19 compatibility.

Fixed bugs

• Fixed FastQr component error: TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'length').

Updated internal dependencies

• Bumped js-yaml from 4.1.0 to 4.1.1 in examples.
• Bumped glob from 10.4.5 to 10.5.0 in examples.

Form Engine 7.6.0

New

• Added a new hook — useErrorMessage — for retrieving component errors.
• Introduced a new feature for commercial license holders: the Designer can now run inside an Electron application.
• Added documentation for displaying error messages inside custom components.

Changed

• Component descriptions and localization have been moved to separate files. See the documentation for details.
• @react-form-builder/core is now a required peer dependency for dependent packages.

Internal Updates

• Node.js updated from 20.19.4 to 24.11.0.
• Fluent updated from 0.18 to 0.19.1.

Form Engine 7.5.0

Changed

• After upgrading to Zod v4, some default validation error messages have changed.
• The method name initFormFields has been renamed to getEditableFormData.
• Deprecated methods: Definer.preview, Meta.customPreview, and DefinerData.customPreview.

Fixed bugs

• Fixed a bug that caused the following error to appear:
  [MobX] Since strict-mode is enabled, changing (observed) observable values without using an action is not allowed.

Updated internal dependencies

• Bumped zod from 3.22.4 to 4.0.0.
• Bumped validator from 13.11.0 to 2.1.4.

Form Engine 7.4.0

Changed

• When adding CSS properties marginLeft and marginRight in the Styles tab, the component now applies marginInlineStart and marginInlineEnd instead, for better RTL support.
• Removed stylis-plugin-rtl dependency from the core package.
• Removed lodash-es dependency from the core, designer, components-rich-text, and components-signature packages.
• The DeviceStyle.object type has been changed to any.

Fixed bugs

• Fixed a bug that caused custom components with kind: 'container' to render incorrectly in designer mode.
• Fixed a bug where the internal validation rule type was not recognized in JSON.

Form Engine 7.3.0

New

• Added Table component.
• Added the feature to override or disable the onChange and onBlur component handlers.
• Added the feature to disable styling for certain components.
• Added an interactive, editable, live-coding form example to documentation.
• Added CellInfoContextProvider for implementing table components.
• Added a standard color for svg icons in the component palette.
• Added the feature to hide property editors on the Actions tab.
• The sideEffects property has been added to packages (to better support tree-shaking).
• Added feature to disable component removal.
• Added export of individual components for the RSuite Components library.

Changed

• Replaced window with globalThis in project code.

Fixed bugs

• Fixed a bug that caused the Rich Text Editor component not being cleared.
• Fixed an issue that allowed adding items to the color pickers with a predefined list of colors.
• Fixed partially displayed error messages.
• Fixed a bug that caused duplicates in the Picker component when adding new values.

Updated internal dependencies

• Bumped tar-fs from 2.1.3 to 2.1.4.

Form Engine 7.2.0

New

• Added Add a new form action to the Designer main menu.
• Added the following keyboard shortcuts:
  • Delete delete the selected component;
  • Ctrl D / Cmd D clone the selected component;
  • Ctrl S / Cmd S save the form;
  • Ctrl Z / Cmd Z undo action;
  • Ctrl Y / Ctrl Shift Z / Cmd Shift Z redo action;
• Added the useBuilderValue hook, which allows displaying a default value in custom components if the value is undefined in form design mode.
• Added the following fields and methods:
  • Definer.skipChildrenDuringFieldCollection
  • Definer.hideTooltipEditor
  • ComponentStore.clone
  • ActionEventArgs.userDefinedProps

Changed

• Removed the readOnly property from the Button component.

Fixed bugs

• Fixed the 'Invalid prop className supplied to React.Fragment' error that occurred when using the Card component.
• Fixed the 'Check the render method of RawActionList' error that occurred when cloning a component with actions.
• Fixed an issue where the Signature component was not cleared when calling Clear on a form.

Form Engine 7.1.0

New

• Added article on how to work with form data.

Changed

• RsDatePicker prop showMeridian renamed to showMeridiem due to deprecation in RSuite.

Fixed bugs

• Fixed broken validation for dates passed as strings in initialData.
• Crash in RsNumberFormat in edge cases.

Updated internal dependencies

• rsuite from 5.83.1 to 5.83.3.

Form Engine 7.0.0

Breaking changes

• Multiple fields with the same dataKey are now updated in sync when form data changes.
• Fields from the initial data are always preserved in form data, even if not bound to form fields.
• Changed two-way data binding to one-way in the Progress component.
• Changed the return type of DataValidator.getValidationResult, IStore.localizeErrorMessages, and ErrorMessageLocalizer from string to string[].
• Changed the style editor language from SCSS to CSS.
• Removed deprecated fields and methods:
  • Store.getForm
  • ComponentKind.slot
  • ComponentKind.preset
  • FormViewerProps.erroneous
  • Meta.kind
  • BuilderView.withErrorMeta
  • BuilderView.withTooltipMeta

New

• Added a dataKey editor for fields with two-way data binding (valued).
• Added new methods for working with initialData:
  • ComponentData.setInitialData
  • ComponentData.generatedData
  • ComponentData.updateInitialData
  • Store.setInitialData
• Added clearInitialData parameter to the following methods:
  • ComponentData.clear
  • ComponentData.reset
  • IFormData.clear
  • IFormData.reset

Changed

• The calculated value button is no longer displayed for properties that are not calculable or localizable.
• Removed the incorrect hint suggesting camelCase usage in the HTML Attributes editor.

Fixed bugs

• Fixed a bug where deleting a validation rule did not remove its localized messages from the form JSON.
• Fixed an issue where IFormData.getValidationResult returned unlocalized error messages.