- Added support for viewing previous revisions of pages, and previewing or rolling back to earlier versions
- Introduced collections, for image / document organisation
- The Wagtail userbar on the frontend has been redesigned, and no longer depends on an iframe (Thomas Winter, Gareth Price).
- The page editor now produces a warning if the user navigates away without saving changes
- 'Add document' interface now supports uploading multiple documents at once
- The
Document
model can now be overridden using the newWAGTAILDOCS_DOCUMENT_MODEL
setting (Alex Gleason) - Wagtail no longer depends on django-compressor
- The page search interface now searches all fields instead of just the title (Kait Crawford)
- Snippets now support a custom
edit_handler
property (Mikalai Radchuk) - Date/time pickers now respect the locale's 'first day of week' setting (Peter Quade)
- Refactored the way forms are constructed for the page editor, to allow custom forms to be used
- Notification message on publish now indicates whether the page is being published now or scheduled for publication in future (Chris Rogers)
- Server errors when uploading images / documents through the chooser modal are now reported back to the user (Nigel Fletton)
- Added a hook
insert_global_admin_css
for inserting custom CSS throughout the admin backend (Tom Dyson) - Added a hook
construct_explorer_page_queryset
for customising the set of pages displayed in the page explorer - Page models now perform field validation, including testing slugs for uniqueness within a parent page, at the model level on saving
- Page slugs are now auto-generated at the model level on page creation if one has not been specified explicitly
- The
Page
model now has two new methodsget_site()
andget_url_parts()
to aid with customising the page URL generation logic - Upgraded jQuery to 2.2.1 (Charlie Choiniere)
- Multiple homepage summary items (
construct_homepage_summary_items
hook) now better vertically spaced (Nicolas Kuttler) - Email notifications can now be sent in HTML format (Mike Dingjan)
StreamBlock
now has provision for throwing non-field-specific validation errors- Wagtail now works with Willow 0.3, which supports auto-correcting the orientation of images based on EXIF data
- New translations for Hungarian, Swedish (Sweden) and Turkish
- Fix: Custom page managers no longer raise an error when used on an abstract model
- Fix: Wagtail's migrations are now all reversible (Benjamin Bach)
- Fix: Deleting a page content type now preserves existing pages as basic Page instances, to prevent tree corruption
- Fix: The
Page.path
field is now explicitly given the "C" collation on PostgreSQL to prevent tree ordering issues when using a database created with the Slovak locale - Fix: Wagtail's compiled static assets are now put into the correct directory on Windows (Aarni Koskela)
- Fix:
ChooserBlock
now correctly handles models with primary keys other thanid
(alexpilot11) - Fix: Fixed typo in Wistia oEmbed pattern (Josh Hurd)
- Fix: Added more accurate help text for the Administrator flag on user accounts (Matt Fozard)
- Fix: Tags added on the multiple image uploader are now saved correctly
- Fix: Documents created by a user are no longer deleted when the user is deleted
- Fix: Fixed a crash in
RedirectMiddleware
when a middleware class beforeSiteMiddleware
returns a response (Josh Schneier) - Fix: Fixed error retrieving the moderator list on pages that are covered by multiple moderator permission records (Matt Fozard)
- Fix: Ordering pages in the explorer by reverse 'last updated' time now puts pages with no revisions at the top
- Fix: WagtailTestUtils now works correctly on custom user models without a
username
field (Adam Bolfik) - Fix: Logging in to the admin as a user with valid credentials but no admin access permission now displays an error message, rather than rejecting the user silently
- Fix: StreamBlock HTML rendering now handles non-ASCII characters correctly on Python 2 (Mikalai Radchuk)
- Fix: Fixed a bug preventing pages with a OneToOneField from being copied (Liam Brenner)
- Fix: SASS compilation errors during Wagtail development no longer cause exit of Gulp process, instead throws error to console and continues (Thomas Winter)
- Fix: Explorer page listing now uses specific page models, so that custom URL schemes defined on Page subclasses are respected
- Fix: Made settings menu clickable again in Firefox 46.0a2 (Juha Kujala)
- Fix: User management index view no longer assumes the presence of
username
,first_name
,last_name
andemail
fields on the user model (Eirik Krogstad)