- SQLite support added
- Internationalisation of the admin backend
- Translations for Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Galician, German, Greek, Polish, Romanian and Spanish. Partial translations for Basque and Mongolian.
- Stylesheets ported from Less to Sass, to eliminate dependency on an external CSS compiler
- Coffeescript replaced by vanilla Javascript
- OEmbed supported as an alternative backend for wagtailembeds, eliminating dependency on Embedly
- Database supported as an alternative search backend, eliminating dependency on ElasticSearch
- Background tasks now fall back on in-process handling if Celery is not available (also eliminating Redis as a dependency)
- Users decoupled from Django default user model, to allow custom user models
- Added explicit 'Can access Wagtail admin' permission, rather than treating all logged-in users as Wagtail users
- Date fields now work with USE_L10N=True
- "Your most recent edits" only shows the latest edit per page
- Unified search view configurable in urls.py
- Support for searching within a subtree
- Added initial documentation
- Added Ubuntu / Debian installation scripts
- Extensive tests and test runner infrastructure
- Numerous bugfixes