• Implemented a new database search backend that supports the FTS features of the database in use (Developed by Aldán Creo. Mentored by Karl Hobley and Cynthia Kiser. Funded by Google Summer of Code)
• Added bulk actions in the Wagtail Admin for Pages, Users, Images and Documents (Developed by Shohan Dutta Roy. Mentored by Dan Braghis, Jacob Topp-Mugglestone, and Storm Heg.)
• Extended audit logging to all models and added a history view for snippets and ModelAdmin (Matt Westcott. Sponsored by The Motley Fool)
• Allow granting collection management permissions over individual collections (Cynthia Kiser)
• Added TypedTableBlock block type for StreamField, for building tables with mixed data types (Matt Westcott, Coen van der Kamp, Scott Cranfill. Sponsored by YouGov)
• Add the ability for the page chooser to convert external urls that match a page to internal links (Jacob Topp-Mugglestone. Sponsored by The Motley Fool)
• Added "Extending Wagtail" section to documentation (Matt Westcott)
• Introduced template components, a standard mechanism for renderable objects in the admin (Matt Westcott)
• Support min_num / max_num options on ListBlock (Matt Westcott)
• Implemented automatic tree synchronisation for contrib.simple_translation (Mitchel Cabuloy)
• Added a background_position_style property to renditions (Karl Hobley)
• Added a distinct wagtail.copy_for_translation log action type (Karl Hobley)
• Add a debug logger around image rendition generation (Jake Howard)
• Convert Documents and Images to class based views for easier overriding (Matt Westcott)
• Isolate admin URLs for Documents and Images search listing results with the name 'listing_results' (Matt Westcott)
• Removed request.is_ajax() usage in Documents, Image and Snippet views (Matt Westcott)
• Simplify generic admin view templates plus ensure page_title and page_subtitle are used consistently (Matt Westcott)
• Extend support for collapsing edit panels from just MultiFieldPanels to all kinds of panels (Fabien Le Frapper, Robbie Mackay)
• Add object count to header within modeladmin listing view (Jonathan "Yoni" Knoll)
• Add ability to return HTML in multiple image upload errors (Gordon Pendleton)
• Upgrade internal JS tooling; Node v14 plus other smaller package upgrades (LB (Ben Johnston))
• Add support for non_field_errors rendering in Workflow action modal (LB (Ben Johnston))
• Support calling get_image_model and get_document_model at import time (Matt Westcott)
• When copying a page, default the 'Publish copied page' field to false (Justin Slay)
• Open Preview and Live page links in the same tab, except where it would interrupt editing a Page (Sagar Agarwal)
• Added ExcelDateFormatter to wagtail.admin.views.mixins so that dates in Excel exports will appear in the locale's SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT (Andrew Stone)
• Add TIDAL support to the list of oEmbed providers (Wout De Puysseleir)
• Add label_format attribute to customise the label shown for a collapsed StructBlock (Matt Westcott)
• User Group permissions will now show all custom object permissions in one row instead of a separate table (Kamil Marut)
• Create ImageFileMixin to extract shared file handling methods from AbstractImage and AbstractRendition (Fabien Le Frapper)
• Add before_delete_page and register_permissions examples to Hooks documentation (Jane Liu, Daniel Fairhead)
• Add clarity to modeladmin template override behaviour in the documentation (Joe Howard, Dan Swain)
• Add section about CSV exports to security documentation (Matt Westcott)
• Add initial support for Django 4.0 deprecations (Matt Westcott, Jochen Wersdörfer)
• Move translations in nl_NL to nl (Loïc Teixeira, Coen van der Kamp)
• Add documentation for how to redirect to a separate page on Form builder submissions using RoutablePageMixin (Nick Smith)
• Refactored index listing views and made column sort-by headings more consistent (Matt Westcott)
• The title field on Image and Document uploads will now default to the filename without the file extension and this behaviour can be customised (LB Johnston)
• Add support for Python 3.10 (Matt Westcott)
• Introduce, autocomplete, a separate method which performs partial matching on specific autocomplete fields. This is useful for suggesting pages to the user in real-time as they type their query. (Karl Hobley, Matt Westcott)
• Use SVG icons in modeladmin headers and StreamField buttons/headers (Jérôme Lebleu)
• Add tags to existing Django registered checks (LB Johnston)
• Upgrade admin frontend JS libraries jQuery to 3.6.0 (Fabien Le Frapper)
• Added request.preview_mode so that template rendering can vary based on preview mode (Andy Chosak)
• Fix: Delete button is now correct colour on snippets and modeladmin listings (Brandon Murch)
• Fix: Ensure that StreamBlock / ListBlock-level validation errors are counted towards error counts (Matt Westcott)
• Fix: InlinePanel add button is now keyboard navigatable (Jesse Menn)
• Fix: Remove redundant 'clear' button from site root page chooser (Matt Westcott)
• Fix: Make ModelAdmin IndexView keyboard-navigable (Saptak Sengupta)
• Fix: Prevent error on refreshing page previews when multiple preview tabs are open (Alex Tomkins)
• Fix: Multiple accessibility fixes for Windows high contrast mode; Admin fields, Dropdown button, Editor Tabs, Icon visibility, Page Editor field panels, sidebar menu, sidebar hamburger icon, sidebar search, streamfield, checkboxes (Dmitrii Faiazov, Chakita Muttaraju, Onkar Apte, Desai Akshata, LB (Ben Johnston), Amy Chan, Dan Braghis, Thibaud Colas, Shariq Jamil)
• Fix: Menu sidebar hamburger icon on smaller viewports now correctly indicates it is a button to screen readers and can be accessed via keyboard (Amy Chan, Dan Braghis)
• Fix: blocks.MultipleChoiceBlock, forms.CheckboxSelectMultiple and ArrayField checkboxes will now stack instead of display inline to align with all other checkboxes fields (Seb Brown)
• Fix: Screen readers can now access login screen field labels (Amy Chan)
• Fix: Admin breadcrumbs home icon now shows for users with access to a subtree only (Stefan Hammer)
• Fix: Add handling of invalid inline styles submitted to RichText so ConfigException is not thrown (Alex Tomkins)
• Fix: Ensure comment notifications dropdown handles longer translations without overflowing content (Krzysztof Jeziorny)
• Fix: Set default_auto_field in postgres_search AppConfig (Nick Moreton)
• Fix: Ensure admin tab JS events are handled on page load (Andrew Stone)
• Fix: EmailNotificationMixin and send_notification should only send emails to active users (Bryan Williams)
• Fix: Disable Task confirmation now shows the correct value for quantity of tasks in progress (LB Johnston)
• Fix: Page history now works correctly when it contains changes by a deleted user (Dan Braghis)
• Fix: Add gettext_lazy to ModelAdmin built in view titles so that language settings are correctly used (Matt Westcott)
• Fix: Tabbing and keyboard interaction on the Wagtail userbar now aligns with ARIA best practices (Storm Heg)
• Fix: Add full support for custom edit_handler usage by adding missing bind_to call to PreviewOnEdit view (Stefan Hammer)
• Fix: Only show active (not disabled) tasks in the workflow task chooser (LB Johnston)
• Fix: CSS build scripts now output to the correct directory paths on Windows (Vince Salvino)
• Fix: Capture log output from style fallback to avoid noise in unit tests (Matt Westcott)
• Fix: Switch widgets on/off states are now visually different for high-contrast mode users (Sakshi Uppoor)
• Fix: Nested InlinePanel usage no longer fails to save when creating two or more items (Indresh P, Rinish Sam, Anirudh V S)
• Fix: Changed relation name used for admin commenting from comments to wagtail_admin_comments to avoid conflicts with third-party commenting apps (Matt Westcott)
• Fix: CSS variables are now correctly used for the filtering menu in modeladmin (Noah H)
• Fix: Panel heading attribute is no longer ignored when nested inside a MultiFieldPanel (Jérôme Lebleu)