• Added StreamField, a model field for freeform page content
• MySQL support
• Javascript includes in the admin backend have been moved to the HTML header, to accommodate form widgets that render inline scripts that depend on libraries such as jQuery
• Improvements to the layout of the admin menu footer.
• Added thousands separator for counters on dashboard
• Added contextual links to admin notification messages
• When copying pages, it is now possible to specify a place to copy to (Timo Rieber)
• FieldPanel now accepts an optional 'widget' parameter to override the field's default form widget (Alejandro Giacometti)
• Dropped Django 1.6 support
• Dropped Python 2.6 and 3.2 support
• Dropped Elasticsearch 0.90.x support
• Search view accepts "page" GET parameter in line with pagination
• Reversing django.contrib.auth.admin.login will no longer lead to Wagtails login view (making it easier to have front end views)
• Removed dependency on LOGIN_URL and LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL settings
• Password reset view names namespaced to wagtailadmin
• Removed the need to add permission check on admin views (now automated)
• Added cache-control headers to all admin views
• Added validation to prevent pages being crated with only whitespace characters in their title fields (Frank Wiles)
• Page model fields without a FieldPanel are no longer displayed in the form
• No longer need to specify the base model on InlinePanel definitions
• The project template Vagrantfile now listens on port 8000
• The external link chooser in rich text areas now accepts URLs of the form '/some/local/path', to allow linking to non-Wagtail-controlled URLs within the local site (Eric Drechsel)
• SCSS files in wagtailadmin now use absolute imports, to permit overriding by user stylesheets (Martin Sanders)
• Bare text entered in rich text areas is now automatically wrapped in a paragraph element
• Added pagination to the snippets listing and chooser (Martin Sanders)
• Page / document / image / snippet choosers now include a link to edit the chosen item
• The document_served signal now correctly passes the Document class as sender and the document as instance
• Image/Document edit page no longer throws OSError when the original image is missing
• Page classes can specify an edit_handler property to override the default Content / Promote / Settings tabbed interface
• The Page model now records the date/time that a page was first published, as the field first_published_at
• Increased the maximum length of a page slug from 50 to 255 characters
• Plain text fields in the page editor now use auto-expanding text areas
• Date / time pickers now consistently use times without seconds, to prevent Javascript behaviour glitches when focusing / unfocusing fields
• Added hooks register_rich_text_embed_handler and register_rich_text_link_handler for customising link / embed handling within rich text fields