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Multiple new features  and new long-awaited File Upload question type allows users to attach files to surveys.

• Feature: new setting 'Alternative Layout' for survey Questions Options allows to setup separate layout.
• Feature: new setting 'Limit For Submitters Only' for survey Results Options allows to limit results display only for users who passed survey.
• Feature: added user details into XLS submissions export and 'detailed' submissions PDF layout with user details.

New behavioral rule 'Submit Survey' and new settings for better question visibility control and PDF layouts. User can download PDF with his answers from frontend now.

• Feature: ability to clone surveys with their questions.
• Fix: Rating Table answers are missed in XLS export of submissions.
• Feature: new survey setting ''Control Next Page'. If enabled, user can only move to the next page or previously completed page but not to any further page. It helps to ensure that survey pages are completed one by one.
• Feature: custom XLS layouts.
• Feature: 'Survey Submissions' menu item type and ability to view survey submissions in frontend (requires 'View Submissions' permission).

Few bugs and new features as well:

• Fix: missed pagination if first question is not a page-break.
• Fix: broken chart type reload on survey results page.
• Feature: keep questions page after saving question in backend.
• Fix: wrong survey taken time for logged users on single page surveys.
• Feature: options to display uploaded images in answers for File Upload question.

• Fix: {results_link_backend​} tag was not parsed in email templates.
• Feature: 'Images Min Width' and 'Images Max Width' settings for File Upload question. Help to control the sizing of uploaded images for frontend answers layout and frontend answers PDF file.
• Feature: 'Validation Rule' setting for Text Line question allows to validate answer as email address or a number.
• Feature: ability to mark question behavioral rule as Final and no further rules will be applied.
• Feature: 'Disable Previous Page' setting helps to restrict user navigation and allow to pass to next page only.
• Feature: 'Revise Surveys' permission allows to revise a survey: the difference with retake is that user's answers are emptied once a user retakes a survey. Once a user revises a survey his previous answers are preserved.

• Feature: new advanced setting "Continue Survey From Last Page" allows to resume survey from last visited page.
• Fix: IP-based and cookie-based flood control issues.
• Fix: edit of Columns question in backend submission.
• Feature: new 'Rating Table' question setting 'Results Options -> Frontend Results -> Expand Sub-Questions': displays separate results chart for each sub-question. Single chart with aggregated answers from all sub-questions is displayed if disabled (previous behavior).
• Fix: Priority List improvements for mobile devices.
• Feature: ability to delete previously uploaded file on survey revise.
• Feature: new submit setting 'Multiple User Submissions' allows a user to pass survey multiple times.

• Feature: new question type 'Rating Scale' allows to select single number from a range.
• Fix: incorrect submission answers in frontend view by admin.
• Feature: if moderated, new submissions are created with new Pending status (previously with Unpublished status).
• Fix: impossible to continue moderated submissions.

• Feature: DOMPDF library update.
• Feature: new survey setting 'Auto Number Questions' helps to automatically prefix question titles with numbers.
• Feature: new setting 'Require Changes' for 'Priority List' question helps to force user to re-order options.
• Feature: new question rule action 'Remove page' helps to remove a whole page with questions.

• Feature: new setting "Show Question Descriptions" for horizontal/vertical question sections. Both "Show Question Titles" and "Show Question Descriptions" have new option "Question Setting" for individual question control.
• Feature: new question rules  'Answer is empty' and 'Answer is not empty'.
• Feature: custom stored values from dropdowns, checkboxes and radio buttons.
• Feature: download submission PDF from backend.
• Feature: custom layouts for frontend and backend submission PDFs.
• Fix: significantly improved question rules processing.
• Change: PHP 7 as minimum.
• Change: Joomla 3.9 as minimum.
• Change: new layouts, custom layouts should be updated
• Change: new locations of custom question answer and results layouts (/templates/your-template/com_asurveys/questions/question-type/answers/ and ./results/ folders).
• Change: new location of custom question wrappers (/templates/your-template/com_asurveys/questions/default/wrapper folder)
• Change: "related surveys" feature removed.

• Fix: uploaded files not saved for guest submissions.
• Change: global configuration option "Keep Intermediate Results" removed, intermediate results are always kept now.

• Feature: new question results setting "Empty Answers" to show or hide empty answers.
• Feature: new survey submit setting "Save Submission" to show "Save results" button. Answers are just saved and can be submitted later.

• Fix: uploaded files are lost on submit of invalid survey page.
• Feature: new setting "Multiple User Submissions Usergroups" to allow multiple submissions for specific usergroups only.
• Feature: new permission rules "View Own Submissions", "Update Submissions", "Update Own Submissions" and frontend submission update functionality.

• Feature: Joomla 4 compatibility.
• Feature: Joomla custom fields support for surveys, questions and submissions in backend.
• Feature: custom colors for each answer in charts.
• Change: Horizontal and Vertical Sections questions auto-changed to new Aggregator question type which has default (horizontal) and vertical layouts.

• Feature: new survey setting "Bind Initial Answers" allows to pre-setup answers from request parameters by question IDs.
• Feature: new settings "Show Open Date" and "Show Close Date" for category and survey pages.
• Fix: questions not copied on survey save as copy.
• Fix: survey tags not saved in Joomla 4.
• Feature: new setting "Data Options > Unique Section Answers" for the aggregator question allows to require unique answers per question.
• Feature: import/export of surveys.