hi @cillianbckneat
Overall yes, we’re still looking into and working out the best way to provide this upgrade, but admittedly it’s not as straightforward as we’d prefer.
The biggest change between Autocomplete 0.38.x and 1.x is that they converted the Autocomplete integration to look for a general <div> element like so: <div id="autocomplete"></div> where they will attach everything to that div and render things themselves. This is different from the older versions where we could look for any text input that has name="s" like all WordPress search forms use, and have their integration render on that.
What this means is that each site owner has to intentionally place and style a div themselves, to match what they need/want for the theme, instead of auto-attaching to pre-styled elements. It’s going to be more work on the site owners.
The PR linked below has work done where we’re presently planning to offer an option to switch from what will be still default 0.38.x version, and opt in to 1.x with a new, updated default template specific to version 1.x that can then be further customized/re-customized as per-site’s needs.
Let us know if you have any questions about that, and we’ll answer as best we can.
We don’t have a timeline admittedly for this, but we’re definitely aware of the need and some growing demand, because we are behind on this front.
Github issue/pending-ish PR:
