Captcha disappeared after updating to 3.3.1

[arunas111]

After updating Engage to 3.3.1 Captcha field disappeared from the front end. Nothing has changed in the back-end, it still shows Captcha as enabled for all users... Any ideas?

[nikosdion]

We have not actually touched the CAPTCHA-related code since December 2021 when I was converting Akeeba Engage 2 to Joomla 4 core MVC into what became Engage 3.0.0.

I ran three quick tests on two different development sites (on different computers with different server configurations) and a test site on a live host. The CAPTCHA displays just fine.

Is it possible that you're using Invisible reCAPTCHA which does not render anything on the page?

[arunas111]

No, it's in invisible reCAPTCHA (there are two, neither works). Possibly related - I updated Joomla 3 to 4 yesterday. Engage worked fine after that, including both CAPTCHAs.
Today, I updated Engage using Joomla's updater and CAPTCHA immediately disappeared.

Maybe I should try removing and reinstalling Engage? I assume this would not delete existing comments?

[arunas111]

Not sure if this is related to the Joomla 4 update or the dev version of Engage, but new comments now include special HTML tags instead of certain characters. I.e. some spaces in text appear as   less than < symbol as < etc...

[nikosdion]

Check your Text Filtering options in your site's Global Configuration.

[arunas111]

It says "No HTML" for Public. Don't think I changed anything in there recently.

[nikosdion]

You didn't… but Joomla sets this by default on update. That's why I had you check that. I know almost nobody reads the Joomla Post-Update Messages, and even fewer understand WTF they are trying to say. But I digress. Set it to "Default Forbidden List".

[arunas111]

Yeah, who would have time for that :)
This did the trick. Thanks again!

[MossieurBallon]

Thank You! I also had that problem for months and never could figure what caused it.
This did the trick for me as well.