wagtail/wagtail v6.0

6.0

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🎉 Special 10th anniversary release! 🎉

• Added support for Django 5.0
• Implemented universal listings – a unified listing and filtering interface for Pages, Snippets, Forms (Ben Enright, Matt Westcott, Thibaud Colas, Sage Abdullah)
• Add the accessibility checker within the page and snippets editor (Thibaud Colas)
• Added search_index option to StreamField blocks to control whether the block is indexed for searching (Vedant Pandey)
• Remember previous location on returning from page add/edit actions (Robert Rollins)
• Update settings file in project settings to address Django 4.2 deprecations (Sage Abdullah)
• Improve layout and accessibility of the image URL generator page, reduce reliance on JavaScript (Temidayo Azeez)
• Allow UniqueConstraint in place of unique_together for TranslatableMixin's system check (Temidayo Azeez, Sage Abdullah)
• Make use of IndexView.get_add_url() in snippets index view template (Christer Jensen, Sage Abdullah)
• Allow Page.permissions_for_user() to be overridden by specific page types (Sébastien Corbin)
• Improve visual alignment of explore icon in Page listings for longer content (Krzysztof Jeziorny)
• Add extra_actions blocks to Snippets and generic index templates (Bhuvnesh Sharma)
• Added page types usage report (Jhonatan Lopes)
• Add support for defining panels / edit_handler on ModelViewSet (Sage Abdullah)
• Use a single instance of PagePermissionPolicy in wagtail.permissions module (Sage Abdullah)
• Add max tag length validation for multiple uploads (documents/images) (Temidayo Azeez)
• Ensure expanded side panel does not overlap form content for most viewports (Chiemezuo Akujobi)
• Add ability to modify the default ordering for the page explorer view (Shlomo Markowitz)
• Remove overly verbose image captions in image listings for screen readers (Sage Abdullah)
• Ensure screen readers and dictation tools can more easily navigate bulk actions in images, documents and page listings by streamlining labels and descriptions (Sage Abdullah)
• Remove support for Safari 14 (Thibaud Colas)
• Add ability to click to copy the URL in the image URL generator page (Sai Srikar Dumpeti)
• Add ability to filter by page type and date updated in the page listing view (Matt Westcott)
• Add ability to filter by owner and site in the page listing view (Matt Westcott)
• Improve right-to-left support by using flow-relative float styles (Thibaud Colas)
• Improve right-to-left support by mirroring Wagtail icons as needed (Sage Abdullah)
• Add support for mirroring third-party icons added in Wagtail (Sage Abdullah)
• Show edit as a main action in generic history and usage views (Sage Abdullah)
• Make styles for header buttons consistent (Sage Abdullah)
• Improve styles of slim header's search and filters (Sage Abdullah)
• Change page listing's add button to icon-only (Sage Abdullah)
• Add sublabel to breadcrumbs, including history, usage, and inspect views (Sage Abdullah)
• Standardise search form placeholder to 'Search…' (Sage Abdullah)
• Use SlugInput on all SlugFields by default (LB (Ben) Johnston)
• Show character counts on RichTextBlock with max_length (Elhussein Almasri)
• Move locale selector in generic IndexView to a filter (Sage Abdullah)
• Add ability to customise a page's copy form (Neeraj Yetheendran)
• Add optional caption field to TypedTableBlock (Tommaso Amici, Cynthia Kiser)
• Switch the TableBlock header controls to a field that requires user input (Bhuvnesh Sharma, Aman Pandey, Cynthia Kiser)
• Add WAGTAILADMIN_LOGIN_URL setting to allow customising the login URL (Neeraj Yetheendran)
• Replace legacy dropdown component with new Tippy dropdown-button (Thibaud Colas)
• Add ability to filter by existence of child pages in the page listing view (Matt Westcott)
• Polish dark theme styles and update color tokens (Thibaud Colas, Rohit Sharma)
• Keep database state of pages and snippets updated while in draft state (Stefan Hammer)
• Add DrilldownController and w-drilldown component to support drilldown menus (Thibaud Colas)
• Add support for caption on admin UI Table component (Aman Pandey)
• Add API support for a redirects (contrib) endpoint (Rohit Sharma, Jaap Roes, Andreas Donig)
• Add the default ability for all SnippetViewSet & ModelViewSet to support being copied (Shlomo Markowitz)
• Support dynamic Wagtail guide links in the admin that are based on the running version of Wagtail (Tidiane Dia)
• Fix: Update system check for overwriting storage backends to recognise the STORAGES setting introduced in Django 4.2 (phijma-leukeleu)
• Fix: Prevent password change form from raising a validation error when browser autocomplete fills in the "Old password" field (Chiemezuo Akujobi)
• Fix: Ensure that the legacy dropdown options, when closed, do not get accidentally clicked by other interactions on wide viewports (CheesyPhoenix, Christer Jensen)
• Fix: Add a fallback background for the editing preview iframe for sites without a background (Ian Price)
• Fix: Preserve whitespace in rendered comments (Elhussein Almasri)
• Fix: Remove search logging from project template so that new projects without the search promotions module will not error (Matt Westcott)
• Fix: Ensure text only email notifications for updated comments do not escape HTML characters (Rohit Sharma)
• Fix: Use the latest draft when copying an unpublished page for translation (Andrey Nehaychik)
• Fix: Make Workflow and Aging Pages reports only available to users with page-related permissions (Rohit Sharma)
• Fix: Make searching on specific fields work correctly on Elasticsearch when boost is in use (Matt Westcott)
• Fix: Use a visible border and background color to highlight active formatting in the rich text toolbar (Cassidy Pittman)
• Fix: Ensure image focal point box can be removed (Gunnar Scherf)
• Fix: Ensure that Snippets search results correctly use the index_results.html or index_results_template_name override on initial load (Stefan Hammer)
• Fix: Avoid error when attempting to moderate a page drafted by a now deleted user (Dan Braghis)
• Fix: Do not show multiple error messages when editing a Site to use existing hostname and port (Rohit Sharma)
• Fix: Avoid error when exporting Aging Pages report where a page has an empty last_published_by_user (Chiemezuo Akujobi)
• Fix: Ensure Page querysets support using alias and specific (Tomasz Knapik)
• Fix: Ensure workflow dashboard panels work when the page/snippet is missing (Sage Abdullah)
• Fix: Ensure ActionController explicitly checks for elements that allow select functionality (Nandini Arora)
• Fix: Prevent a ValueError with FormSubmissionsPanel on Django 5.0 when creating a new form page (Matt Westcott)
• Fix: Avoid duplicate entries in "Recent edits" panel when copying pages (Matt Westcott)
• Fix: Prevent TitleFieldPanel from raising an error when the slug field is missing or read-only (Rohit Sharma)
• Fix: Ensure that the close button on the new dialog designs is visible in the non-message variant (Nandini Arora)
• Fix: Ensure the sidebar account toggle has no duplicate accessible labels (Nandini Arora)
• Fix: Avoid text overflow issues in comment replies and scroll position issues for long comments (Rohit Sharma)
• Fix: Ensure that page listing re-ordering messages and accessible labels can be translated (Aman Pandey, LB (Ben) Johnston)
• Fix: Resolve multiple issues with page listing re-ordering using keyboard and screen readers (Aman Pandey)
• Fix: Remove 'Page' from page types filter on aging pages report (Matt Westcott)
• Fix: Prevent page types filter from showing other non-Page models that match by name (Matt Westcott)
• Fix: Ensure MultipleChooserPanel modal works correctly when USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR is True for pages with ids over 1,000 (Sankalp, Rohit Sharma)
• Fix: When using an empty table header (th) for visual spacing, ensure this is ignored by accessibility tooling (V Rohitansh)
• Fix: Ensure the panel anchor button sizes meet accessibility guidelines for minimum dimensions (Nandini Arora)
• Fix: Raise a 404 for bulk actions for models which don't exist instead of throwing a 500 error (Alex Tomkins)
• Fix: Raise a SiteSetting.DoesNotExist error when retrieving settings for an unrecognised site (Nick Smith)
• Fix: Ensure that defaulted or unique values declared in exclude_fields_in_copy are correctly excluded in new copies, resolving to the default value (Elhussein Almasri)
• Fix: Ensure that default_ordering set on IndexView is preserved if ModelViewSet does not specify an explicit ordering (Cynthia Kiser)
• Fix: Ensure that TableBlock cells are accessible when using keyboard control only (Elhussein Almasri)
• Fix: Resolve issue where clicking Publish for a Page that was in workflow in Safari would block publishing and not trigger the workflow confirmation modal (Alex Morega)
• Fix: Fix pagination links on model history and usage views (Matt Westcott)
• Fix: Fix crash when accessing workflow reports with a deleted snippet (Sage Abdullah)
• Docs: New developer tutorial (Damilola Oladele, Meagen Voss, Thibaud Colas)
• Docs: Document, for contributors, the use of translate string literals passed as arguments to tags and filters using _() within templates (Chiemezuo Akujobi)
• Docs: Document all features for the Documents app in one location (Neeraj Yetheendran)
• Docs: Add section to testing docs about creating pages and working with page content (Mariana Bedran Lesche)
• Docs: Add more nuance to the database recommendations in performance page (Jadesola Kareem)
• Docs: Add clarity that MultipleChooserPanel may require a chooser viewset and how the functionality is expected to work (Andy Chosak)
• Docs: Clarify where documentation build commands should be run (Nikhil S Kalburgi)
• Docs: Add missing import to tutorial BlogPage example (Salvo Polizzi)
• Docs: Update contributing guide documentation and GitHub templates to better support new contributors (Thibaud Colas)
• Docs: Add more CSS authoring guidelines (Thibaud Colas)
• Docs: Update MyST documentation parser library to 2.0.0 (Neeraj Yetheendran)
• Docs: Add documentation writing guidelines for intersphinx / external links (LB (Ben) Johnston)
• Docs: Add Page model reference get_children documentation (Salvo Polizzi)
• Docs: Enforce CI build checks for documentation so that malformed links or missing images will not be allowed (Neeraj Yetheendran)
• Docs: Update spelling on customizing admin template and page model section from British to American English (Victoria Poromon)
• Docs: Add documentation for how to override the file locations for custom image models via get_upload_to methods (Osaf AliSayed, Dharmik Gangani)
• Docs: Update documentation theme (Sphinx Wagtail Theme) to 6.2.0, fixing the incorrect favicon (LB (Ben) Johnston, Sahil Jangra)
• Docs: Refactor promotion banner without jQuery and use sameSite cookies when storing if cleared (LB (Ben) Johnston)
• Docs: Use cross-reference for compatible Python versions in tutorial instead of the out of date listing (mirusu400)
• Maintenance: Update BeautifulSoup upper bound to 4.12.x (scott-8)
• Maintenance: Migrate initialization of classes (such as body.ready) from multiple JavaScript implementations to one Stimulus controller w-init (Chiemezuo Akujobi)
• Maintenance: Adopt the usage of translate string literals using arg=_('...') in all wagtailadmin module templates (Chiemezuo Akujobi)
• Maintenance: Migrate the contrib styleguide index view to a class-based view (Chiemezuo Akujobi)
• Maintenance: Update djhtml to 3.0.6 (Matt Westcott)
• Maintenance: Migrate the contrib settings edit view to a class-based view (Chiemezuo Akujobi, Sage Abdullah)
• Maintenance: Remove django-pattern-library upper bound in testing dependencies (Sage Abdullah)
• Maintenance: Split up functions in Elasticsearch backend for easier extensibility (Marcel Kornblum, Cameron Lamb, Sam Dudley)
• Maintenance: Relax draftjs_exporter dependency to allow using version 5.x (Sylvain Fankhauser)
• Maintenance: Refine styling of listings, account settings panels and the block chooser (Meli Imelda)
• Maintenance: Remove icon font support (Matt Westcott)
• Maintenance: Remove deprecated SVG icons (Matt Westcott)
• Maintenance: Remove icon font styles (Thibaud Colas)
• Maintenance: Migrate account editing view to a class-based view (Kehinde Bobade)
• Maintenance: Upgrade frontend tooling to use Node 20 (LB (Ben) Johnston)
• Maintenance: Upgrade ruff and replace black with ruff format (John-Scott Atlakson)
• Maintenance: Update Willow upper bound to 2.x (Dan Braghis)
• Maintenance: Removed support for Django < 4.2 (Dan Braghis)
• Maintenance: Refactor page explorer index template to extend generic index template (Sage Abdullah)
• Maintenance: Replace template components implementation with standalone laces library (Tibor Leupold)
• Maintenance: Refactor snippets index view and template to make better use of generic IndexView (Sage Abdullah)
• Maintenance: Introduce an internal {% formattedfield %} tag to replace direct use of wagtailadmin/shared/field.html (Matt Westcott)
• Maintenance: Update Telepath dependency to 0.3.1 (Matt Westcott)
• Maintenance: Allow ActionController to have a noop method to more easily leverage standalone Stimulus action options (Nandini Arora)
• Maintenance: Upgrade to latest TypeScript and Storybook (Thibaud Colas, Sage Abdullah)
• Maintenance: Turn on skipLibCheck for TypeScript (LB (Ben) Johnston)
• Maintenance: Refactor documents listing view to use generic IndexView (Sage Abdullah)
• Maintenance: Support for the Stimulus CloneController to auto clear the added content after a set duration (LB (Ben) Johnston)
• Maintenance: Refactor images listing view to use generic IndexView (Sage Abdullah)
• Maintenance: Refactor form pages listing view to use generic IndexView (Sage Abdullah)
• Maintenance: Update Stylelint, our linting configuration, Sass, and related code changes (LB (Ben) Johnston)
• Maintenance: Simplify browserslist and browser support documentation (Thibaud Colas)
• Maintenance: Relax django-taggit dependency to allow 5.0 (Sylvain Fankhauser)
• Maintenance: Fix various warnings when building docs (Cynthia Kiser)
• Maintenance: Upgrade sphinxcontrib-spelling to 7.x for Python 3.12 compatibility (Matt Westcott)
• Maintenance: Move logic for django-filters filtering into BaseListingView (Matt Westcott)
• Maintenance: Remove or replace legacy CSS classes: visuallyhidden, visuallyvisible, divider-after, divider-before, inline, inline-block, block, u-hidden, clearfix, reordering, overflow (Thibaud Colas)
• Maintenance: Prevent future issues with icon.html end-of-file newlines (Thibaud Colas)
• Maintenance: Rewrite styles using legacy c-, o-, u-, t-, is- prefixes (Thibaud Colas)
• Maintenance: Remove invalid CSS styles / Sass selector concatenation (Thibaud Colas)
• Maintenance: Refactor listing views to share more queryset ordering logic (Matt Westcott)
• Maintenance: Remove initTooltips in favour of Stimulus controller (LB (Ben) Johnston)
• Maintenance: Enhance the Stimulus InitController to allow for custom event dispatching when ready (Aditya, LB (Ben) Johnston)
• Maintenance: Remove inline script usage for comment initialization and adopt an event listener/dispatch approach for better CSP compliance (Aditya, LB (Ben) Johnston)
• Maintenance: Migrate styleguide ad-hoc JavaScript to use styles only to avoid CSP issues (LB (Ben) Johnston)
• Maintenance: Update Jest version - frontend tooling (Nandini Arora)
• Maintenance: Remove non-functional and inaccessible auto-focus on first field in page create forms (LB (Ben) Johnston)
• Maintenance: Migrate the unsaved form checks & confirmation trigger to Stimulus UnsavedController (Sai Srikar Dumpeti, LB (Ben) Johnston)
• Maintenance: Reduce gap between snippets and generic views/templates (Sage Abdullah)
• Maintenance: Migrate page listing menu re-ordering (drag & drop) from jQuery inline scripts to OrderableController with a more accessible solution (Aman Pandey, LB (Ben) Johnston)
• Maintenance: Clean up scss variable usage, remove unused variables and mixins, adopt more core token variables (Jai Vignesh J, Nandini Arora, LB (Ben) Johnston)
• Maintenance: Migrate Image URL generator views to class-based views (Rohit Sharma)
• Maintenance: Use Django's FileResponse when serving files such as Images or Documents (Jake Howard)
• Maintenance: Deprecated WidgetWithScript base widget class (LB (Ben) Johnston)
• Maintenance: Remove support for Django 4.1 and below (Sage Abdullah)