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Gravity Geolocation Release Notes

Last modified: October 3, 2026

Review the latest stable Gravity Geolocation releases, including new features, improvements, compatibility changes, security updates, and fixes.

Gravity Geolocation 3.6.0

Released October 3, 2026

Version 3.6 makes connected geolocation forms easier to build with guided Quick Setups, visible field relationships, inline output, native templates, and calculation-ready travel values. Read the Gravity Geolocation 3.6 release post.

  • New: Quick Setups for Location & Map, Distance & Travel Time, Directions & Route, and Nearby Locations.
  • New: Native Gravity Forms templates for Location & Map, Distance & Travel Time, and Directions & Route.
  • New: Field connection summaries and contextual create-and-connect actions for supporting Geocoder, Map, Directions Panel, and Nearest Locations Panel fields, with undo support.
  • Improvement: Inline, separate-panel, and disabled Directions and Nearby output, with independent route summary and turn-by-turn display preferences.
  • Improvement: Fixed endpoint choices, starter-map positions, and optional estimated pricing in Distance and Directions Quick Setups. Generated price equations use meters and seconds with per-mile, per-kilometer, and per-minute conversion.
  • Improvement: Numeric distance and duration values for Gravity Forms calculations, notifications, and merge tags.
  • Improvement: New Directions fields calculate automatically when their connected locations change. Existing saved trigger settings remain unchanged.
  • Improvement: Unavailable Quick Setups remain visible with Gravity's native upgrade dialog, and empty relationship selectors use clearer wording.
  • Compatibility: New Dynamic travel selections use distance_meters and duration_seconds. Older saved distance_in_meters and duration_value selections remain supported without a bulk migration.
  • Compatibility: Existing Directions and Nearby panel connections retain their legacy output when the new display settings have not yet been saved.
  • Fix: Improved selector loading on fresh forms, active settings-panel preservation, and Geocoder connections for newly created route and nearby-results Maps.
  • Fix: Restored inline output after form markup replacement and selected Nearby panel details during AJAX page navigation. Nearby map markers are not reconstructed when navigating between pages.
  • Security: Hardened legacy Geocoder and Coordinates value decoding to reject serialized objects while preserving supported array formats.
  • Requirements: Gravity Forms 2.10.3 or newer and PHP 7.4 or newer.
  • Dependency: Requires and bundles WPGeo Framework 1.0.0-rc10.

Gravity Geolocation 3.5.2

Released September 21, 2026

This maintenance release fixes how stored geolocation values are read. Accented and other Unicode characters, Unicode escapes, and literal backslashes now remain intact when location data is decoded.

  • Updated the embedded WPGeo Framework to 1.0.0-rc6.

Google Maps API reminder: Gravity Geolocation 3.5 uses Places API (New) and Routes API. The temporary fallbacks introduced in 3.5.1 remain available for existing Address Autocomplete and Directions fields, but they do not cover every feature. Review the Google Maps API setup guide.

Gravity Geolocation 3.5.1

Released September 20, 2026

Version 3.5.1 is a compatibility hotfix for customers transitioning to the Google Maps services used by Gravity Geolocation 3.5.

Action required: Enable Places API (New) and Routes API for complete Gravity Geolocation 3.5 functionality. The temporary legacy fallbacks in this release cover existing Address Autocomplete and Directions fields only. Review the Google Maps API key setup guide.

  • Compatibility: Added temporary legacy Google Places autocomplete and Directions fallbacks for existing sites that have not yet enabled Places API (New) or Routes API.
  • Admin: Added a persistent, dismissible API-setup notice directing administrators to enable Places API (New) and Routes API for complete functionality.
  • Fix: Preserved readable, formatted Directions instructions when the legacy Directions fallback is active.
  • Dependency: Bundled WPGeo Framework 1.0.0-rc5 while retaining 1.0.0-rc4 as the minimum compatible shared runtime for mixed-plugin installations.
  • Maintenance: Updated the embedded EDD Software Licensing SDK to 1.0.4 for license-management hardening, improved host compatibility, and reliable WP-CLI updates.

Gravity Geolocation 3.5.0

Released September 17, 2026

Version 3.5 is the largest update in Gravity Geolocation’s history. It introduces a new package structure, expands the available location workflows, adds Gravity Search, and rebuilds the plugin on the embedded WPGeo Framework.

New Package Options

  • Gravity Location: Collect addresses, coordinates, map-selected locations, and users’ current positions.
  • Gravity Directions: Calculate distance and travel time, display routes, and provide directions.
  • Gravity Geolocation Toolkit: Use the complete set of form-focused geolocation features and entry maps.
  • Gravity Search: Search, filter, map, and display Gravity Forms entries on the frontend.
  • All Access: Combine Gravity Geolocation Toolkit and Gravity Search in one plugin package and license.

New and Expanded Features

  • Added address autocomplete, synchronized geocoding, map selection, coordinates, current-location tools, and dynamic location data through Gravity Location.
  • Added focused distance, duration, route-map, and turn-by-turn direction workflows through Gravity Directions.
  • Added Google Address Validation workflows for reviewing and standardizing submitted addresses.
  • Added Nearest Locations workflows for finding and selecting nearby stores, branches, offices, providers, and other configured destinations.
  • Added geographic Drawing Tools for collecting points, lines, polygons, rectangles, circles, and freehand shapes.
  • Added Single Entry Map and Mashup Map tools for displaying saved Gravity Forms entries.
  • Added Gravity Search for building frontend searches, directories, listings, maps, portals, and entry-details pages directly from Gravity Forms entries.

Architecture, Compatibility, and Reliability

  • Rebuilt the plugin on the embedded WPGeo Framework, removing the need to install a separate framework plugin.
  • Added package-aware feature loading so each package exposes the features included with that license.
  • Added a migration for existing license data, plugin settings, Auto Locator configuration, and legacy field options.
  • Preserved existing customer license terms and entitlements through the new package structure.
  • Added compatibility with Gravity Forms 3 while retaining supported legacy Gravity Forms behavior.
  • Improved migration reliability so incomplete settings or license migrations remain retryable.
  • Updated plugin settings, dashboard integration, account connections, installation, and package-switching workflows.

Existing customers should use the package provided in their account for their license. Package names describe the capabilities included in each build and do not replace existing customer entitlements.

Gravity Geolocation 3.2.3

Released August 4, 2026

  • Added support for the Gravity Forms 3 spinner API while maintaining compatibility with older Gravity Forms versions.
  • Updated custom geolocation fields to support the current Gravity Forms input-saving method.
  • Normalized formatted international phone values when synchronizing contact information with GEO my WP.
  • Updated the Gravity Geolocation 3.5 beta notice to highlight Gravity Search.

Gravity Geolocation 3.2.2.3

Released November 28, 2025

  • Improved escaping and sanitization across multiple areas.

Gravity Geolocation 3.2.2.2

Released October 13, 2025

  • Fixed an issue that could prevent geolocation fields from initializing correctly when a form loaded.

Gravity Geolocation 3.2.2.1

Released October 13, 2025

  • Fixed an issue that could prevent geolocation fields from loading properly.

Gravity Geolocation 3.2.2

Released October 12, 2025

  • Added a dedicated product identifier for the plugin updater.
  • Added Gravity Geolocation 3.5 beta notices to the WordPress dashboard and Plugins screen.

Gravity Geolocation 3.2.1

Released September 24, 2024

  • Improved script loading so Gravity Geolocation initializes after the Google Maps library and avoids related loading errors.
  • Fixed a PHP warning.

Gravity Geolocation 3.2.0

Released February 24, 2024

  • Added Directions Field options to avoid tolls, highways, and ferries.
  • Added Place ID options for dynamic and custom fields.
  • Fixed map-marker responsiveness while dragging.
  • Fixed quotation-mark handling in selected address-autocomplete results.
  • Fixed map zoom behavior when using the mouse wheel.
  • Fixed the unavailable-geolocation-options notice.
  • Fixed GEO my WP post-location updates through Gravity Forms Advanced Post Creation feeds.
  • Added the gfgeo_address_autocomplete_options JavaScript filter.
  • Improved Geocoder Field labels, Gravity Forms loading-spinner integration, Orbital theme compatibility, coordinate preservation, settings-page naming, and JavaScript reliability.

Earlier release history remains available in the changelog included with the Gravity Geolocation plugin package.

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