---
title: "Filter Bar 5.2.1"
source: "https://docs.nexcess.com/software/the-events-calendar/release-notes-filter-bar-5-2-1/"
description: "Summary Maintenance Release Filter Bar 5.2.1 is a maintenance release that brings a bug fix. As always, we recommend updating on a staging site, just to be safe…"
vertical: "Software"
area: "The Events Calendar"
date: "2021-09-14"
last_modified: "2026-07-06"
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# Filter Bar 5.2.1

### Summary

Maintenance Release

Filter Bar 5.2.1 is a maintenance release that brings a bug fix.

As always, we recommend updating on a [staging site](https://docs.nexcess.com/software/the-events-calendar/creating-and-using-a-wordpress-staging-site/), just to be safe, but it should all be smooth sailing.

? Please note that Filter Bar 5.2.1 is only compatible with The Events Calendar 5.9.0 and higher.

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#### ✅ Fixed

Bugs that were squashed in this release:

- Filterbar no longer urldecodes the filter labels – which was breaking options with special characters.

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