ACF post preview and revisions completely broken about acf HOT 8 OPEN

Thanks @ConnorWedia - I'll raise it with the team here today and see the updates we made to fix (some) revisions made it worse for autosaves.

I will also note, we're prioritising a more immediate fix to this issue now given how recent WordPress updates have made things much worse for revisions and autosaves with ACF metadata.

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I am also experiencing an issue similar to the above where if I add some text and let it autosave (without modifying any ACF fields), when I go to revisions and view the autosave, ALL ACF fields get removed.

Paragraph added for autosave test:

Autosave Response result:

Revision of the autosave, showing the removed ACF fields:

Is there ANY fix for this please as our content writers are constantly re-writing & re-adding ACF content whenever the post autosaves.

Thanks

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@lgladdy is there any movement on previews and revisions with ACF Fields?

It works for me always after the first time, but the first time I hit preview after changing some ACF flexible fields, it never displays. Super frustrating!

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Hey there,

We're aware of this issue, and there are a few long standing issues in this repo for it.

We have a plan to resolve this issue, but it requires us to remove the legacy meta box and transition to a whole new system for updating ACF fields in the block editor, this is a long term project for us.

We'll keep you updated on our progress over the next several releases of ACF.

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Hey there,

We're aware of this issue, and there are a few long standing issues in this repo for it.

We have a plan to resolve this issue, but it requires us to remove the legacy meta box and transition to a whole new system for updating ACF fields in the block editor, this is a long term project for us.

We'll keep you updated on our progress over the next several releases of ACF.

What can I do to help? I'm happy to do some development work if you can point me in the right direction. Thanks!

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@ConnorWedia Just to clarify, is this a recent change with an ACF or WordPress update, or has this always been the case for you in the block editor?

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@lgladdy The issue has only been happening for a couple of weeks now, and we have since updated Wordpress to 6.5 (thinking it was related), PHP to 8.3, and obviously latest version of ACF.

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@ConnorWedia did you find a solution or workaround to the problem of all ACF values being cleared on autosaves? We're experiencing the same problem...

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