Deftform Changelog

You can now see every webhook Deftform has sent, or tried to send, to your endpoints over the last 30 days.

What's new

• Event list per endpoint. Go to Settings → Notifications / Connections and click the new "View events" icon next to an endpoint. You can filter the list by succeeded or failed events.
• Event details. Click an event to open the details panel. It shows:
  • the exact JSON payload that was sent, with a copy button
  • every delivery attempt with its status code, how long it took and what triggered it (initial delivery, automatic retry or manual resend)
  • the response headers and body your endpoint returned, or the connection error if it couldn't be reached
• Manual resend. Click "Resend" to deliver an event again straight away. It sends the original payload, signed with your current webhook secret, and the result appears in the panel immediately. A successful resend also clears the endpoint's error state.

Improvements

• Timeouts and connection errors are now recorded as failed attempts instead of going unreported.
• Automatic retries now send the same payload as the first delivery, including number, number_formatted and referrer.
• The failure alert email now shows the most recent error.

Webhook events are deleted automatically after 30 days.

Today's update includes German translation, bug fixes and maintenance updates.

Hallo aus Deutschland

Since we're based in Germany, many customers have asked us why Deftform isn't available in German. Initially, we made a personal decision to offer all our products only in English. However, the more we received these inquiries, the clearer it became that addressing this priority was necessary.

We are happy to announce that Deftform is now available in German. This update includes most of the marking pages and the log-in area. Existing customers can switch the language in their account settings.

This update will also pave the way for additional languages, as we now have the codebase ready for it. We'll just need to determine which language would be a good fit next.

Bug fixes worth mentioning

We also fixed a dozen small-ish bugs. Worth mentioning are the following:

• Color picker showing black
  A recent maintenance update (about 6 days ago) caused the color picker to always show the color black, even after setting a custom color.
• ⚠️ [BREAKING] Form attachments not always sending
  This issue was a frustrating one, and it took us a while to identify the actual problem. Admins can upload files to a form that are sent to respondents after successfully submitting the form. However, due to various automations running in the background, some of those files were deleted one hour after they were uploaded. As a result, testing this feature would always work initially, but after about an hour, the files could be deleted from storage, while our internal database still had these files on record. The settings would show a linked file that no longer existed. We have now split various background jobs, so this issue cannot happen again. Consequently, files need to be uploaded again, as any reference to the uploaded files was incorrect. We sincerely apologize for this issue.
• Pre-filling "Dropdown" not working
  Using the URL parameter to pre-fill a "Dropdown" element wasn't working correctly. We have restored this functionality.

On September 27, our queues stopped processing background jobs. Our system did not flag any issues and marked the jobs as processing. Unfortunately, that was not the case.

Earlier today, we discovered that background jobs were not being processed at all, which prompted us to restart all queues. Around 1.4 million jobs had accumulated in the queues and are now being processed again. Nothing went missing, and any pending webhook events, emails, AI generations, etc., will be delivered or completed shortly.

We apologize for this incident and are working on a better internal notification system to ensure it does not happen again.

Today, we released a maintenance update and fixed various smaller bugs.

We're currently putting more energy into marketing and plan to release new features and improvements soon. This includes an option to increase the file size that can be uploaded via the "File upload" element, API improvements, additional webhook options and much more.

Webhooks are now cryptographically signed so you can be certain each request genuinely came from Deftform and wasn't tampered with in transit.

What's new

• Every webhook now includes an X-Deftform-Signature-256 header — an HMAC-SHA256 signature of the raw request body, keyed with your workspace's webhook secret.
• You can now rotate your webhook secret anytime from Settings → Connections → Webhook.

Do I need to change anything?
No. The existing secret header is still sent, so current integrations keep working. When you're ready, we recommend switching to signature verification for stronger, tamper-proof security.

Read the guide: Verifying webhooks

Today's update includes 2 bug fixes and new fonts.

We resolved an issue in Google Chrome where interacting with a conditional single choice (radio) or multiple choice (checkbox) field would cause the form to automatically scroll to the top of the page.

We also resolved a custom CSS rendering issue where characters such as `>` were incorrectly converted to their HTML entities, which prevented the applied CSS from functioning as intended.

Additionally, we added two new fonts: Inclusive Sans and Literata.

Today's update is mainly a maintenance update with minor bug fixes and improvements – nothing major.

We also updated the API endpoint /api/v1/responses/{formID} to better distinguish between complete and incomplete submissions.

We added a new is_incomplete attribute to the response, which is either true or false. You can optionally filter the responses and append ?incomplete=false or ?incomplete=true to the endpoint URL to get a filtered response. The change/addition is documented here.

Of course, this only makes sense when the "Track incomplete submissions" toggle is active within the form settings. If it's disabled, is_incomplete will always be false.

Today we released a maintenance update and also a few fixes and improvements. The most notable are mentioned below.

Conditional fields no longer stick around after changing an answer

We fixed a bug affecting forms with chained conditional logic (where a conditional field reveals another field, which reveals another, and so on). Previously, changing an earlier answer could leave a stale field on screen — so both the old and new conditional fields showed at the same time.

Now, when a field is hidden by a selection, any fields that depended on it are hidden too, and their values are no longer saved with the submission.

Multi-page progress bar now shows your position

The progress bar on multi-page forms now reflects which page you're on, rather than tracking completed fields. On landing, you'll see the bar partially filled (e.g. step 1 of 3), giving an immediate sense of how long the form is and how many pages remain — filling completely on the final page.

We also fixed an edge case where pages hidden by conditional logic could throw off the progress calculation; the bar now always matches your actual position through the form.

Form duplication now includes field conditions

Duplicating a form now copies conditional logic along with its fields. Previously, conditions were dropped during duplication, so any fields configured to show/hide based on another field's value lost that behavior in the copy.

Conditions are now remapped to point at the newly created fields, so conditional visibility works immediately in the duplicated form — no need to reconfigure it by hand.

Today's update includes a new "Address" field and some subtle improvements.

New "Address" element

It's now possible to add an address element to your form, which will generate various address-based fields like "Street Address," "City," "Zip Code," and more.

You can enable and disable fields individually to display only the ones important for your needs. Additionally, you can enable autocomplete, allowing visitors to search for their address and have the fields auto-filled.

The new "Address" element is documented here.

Improvements

We also implemented a few minor improvements in the backend. For example, the "Element" selector, which is shown when adding a new field or element to a form, has been restructured.

At some point, we plan to add a search feature as well.

Additionally, we improved the PDF export feature. It will now respect the widths you set for each field. Before the change, all fields in the PDF export were placed in a new row, even when your layout had different sizes for individual fields, such as a 50/50 layout.

Today, we shipped an update to improve accessibility on public-facing forms. We followed general guidelines and best practices and ran tests through multiple tools to ensure no critical issues were left.

Additionally, as a form admin, you now have the ability to add various aria-* attributes such as aria-label, aria-describedby, and more. New field options were added to the general form settings, as well as to each individual field setting.

Please let us know if there was any oversight on our end, and we will gladly make it right.

Four days ago, one of our CDN providers was experiencing DNS issues, see here: https://status.bunny.net/incidents/j1syhng2crfy

This was causing an issue with the SSL certificate for the CDN URL we were using. We reported the issue with our CDN domain shortly after. Their suggested fix was to re-issue the SSL certificate.

Unfortunately, some of our customers still reported issues with files using the CDN domain. Because of that, we now switched the domain from df-cdn.com to userdata.deftform.com, which should fix the issue as the "userdata" domain is managed by Cloudflare.

Sorry again for the inconvenience.

Today, we released a minor update to further improve our AI-assisted form builder. First, we set a limit of 20,000 characters for the prompt to ensure a reasonable response time. We also increased the timeout window allowed for the AI to respond. Additionally, in case a request still fails, we have added an "Edit Prompt" button. This way, you're not stuck if the first request fails.

Missing images and SSL error

In the past two days, some customers experienced issues with uploaded images not being displayed when viewing forms. This issue was likely related to an incident with one of our CDN providers. Resolving the issue may have taken longer due to DNS change propagation. We have issued a new SSL certificate for the CDN domain and hope this is now resolved for all our customers.

Sorry for the inconvenience.