Enfold ALB save routine strips closing tags from _aviaLayoutBuilderCle

Hi,

We are running Enfold 7.1.4 on PHP 8.4.17 and are experiencing a critical bug where the Advanced Layout Builder silently truncates page content on save.

Root cause identified: Enfold’s save routine sometimes strips closing tags when writing to _aviaLayoutBuilderCleanData postmeta. This creates unclosed tags in the stored data. On subsequent saves, Enfold’s shortcode parser encounters the unclosed tag and only processes/saves the content up to that point — everything after is silently deleted.

Create a page with multiple textblocks containing bold text (…)
Edit and save the page several times in the visual ALB editor
Check _aviaLayoutBuilderCleanData in the database — some closing tags are missing
Save the page again — all content after the unclosed tag is deleted

Post 152: 154 shortcode elements reduced to 16 on save (94,643 → 15,929 bytes). Cause: unclosed tag at position 8311 in cleandata.
Post 1688: 7 unclosed tags found in cleandata, all introduced by the save routine.
Post 14: post_content had balanced tags but _aviaLayoutBuilderCleanData had unclosed — proving the save routine is stripping the closing tag.
Key observation: The visual editor shows the content correctly with proper bold formatting. The is present in the editor. But after save, _aviaLayoutBuilderCleanData is missing the closing tag. This means the bug is in Enfold’s content processing/save pipeline, not user error.

Workaround: We are manually fixing the database by adding the missing tags to both post_content and _aviaLayoutBuilderCleanData, but the problem recurs on every edit.

Request: Please investigate the ALB save routine that processes HTML within textblocks and ensure (and other closing tags) are preserved when writing to _aviaLayoutBuilderCleanData.

Thank you.