• Phase out special-purpose panel types (StreamFieldPanel, RichTextFieldPanel, ImageChooserPanel, DocumentChooserPanel, PageChooserPanel, SnippetChooserPanel) in favour of FieldPanel (Matt Westcott)
• Implement splitting of rich text blocks within StreamField (Jacob Topp-Mugglestone)
• Add support for image rendition prefetching (Andy Babic)
• Upgrade ESLint and Stylelint configurations to latest shared Wagtail configs (Thibaud Colas, Paarth Agarwal)
• Major updates to frontend tooling; move Node tooling from Gulp to Webpack, upgrade to Node v16 and npm v8, eslint v8, stylelint v14 and others (Thibaud Colas)
• Change comment headers’ date formatting to use browser APIs instead of requiring a library (LB (Ben Johnston))
• Lint with flake8-comprehensions and flake8-assertive, including adding a pre-commit hook for these (Mads Jensen, Dan Braghis)
• Switch the Wagtail branding font to a system font stack (Steven Steinwand, Paarth Agarwal)
• Add black configuration and reformat code using it (Dan Braghis)
• Remove UI code for legacy browser support: polyfills, IE11 workarounds, Modernizr (Thibaud Colas)
• Remove redirect auto-creation recipe from documentation as this feature is now supported in Wagtail core (Andy Babic)
• Remove IE11 warnings (Gianluca De Cola)
• Remove the legacy Hallo rich text editor as it has moved to an external package (LB (Ben Johnston))
• Increase the size of checkboxes throughout the UI, and simplify their alignment (Steven Steinwand)
• Adopt MyST for parsing documentation written in Markdown, replaces recommonmark (LB (Ben Johnston), Thibaud Colas)
• Installing docs extras requirements in CircleCI so issues with the docs requirements are picked up earlier (Thibaud Colas)
• Remove core usage of jinjalint and migrate to curlylint to resolve dependency incompatibility issues (Thibaud Colas)
• Switch focus outlines implementation to :focus-visible for cross-browser consistency (Paarth Agarwal)
• Remove most uppercased text styles from admin UI (Paarth Agarwal)
• Convert all UI code to CSS logical properties for Right-to-Left (RTL) language support (Thibaud Colas)
• Migrate multiple documentation pages from RST to MD - including the editor's guide (Vibhakar Solanki, LB (Ben Johnston), Shwet Khatri)
• Add documentation for defining custom form validation on models used in Wagtail's modelAdmin (Serafeim Papastefanos)
• Update README.md logo to work for GitHub dark mode (Paarth Agarwal)
• Avoid an unnecessary page reload when pressing enter within the header search bar (Images, Pages, Documents) (Riley de Mestre)
• Removed unofficial length parameter on If-Modified-Since header in sendfile_streaming_backend which was only used by IE (Mariusz Felisiak)
• Add Pinterest support to the list of default oEmbed providers (Dharmik Gangani)
• Update Jinja2 template support for Jinja2 3.x (Seb Brown)
• Add ability for StreamField to use JSONField to store data, rather than TextField (Sage Abdullah)
• Replace content_json TextField with content JSONField in PageRevision (Sage Abdullah)
• Remove replace_text management command (Sage Abdullah)
• Replace data_json TextField with data JSONField in BaseLogEntry (Sage Abdullah)
• Split up linting / formatting tasks in Makefile into client and server components (Hitansh Shah)
• Add support for embedding Instagram reels (Luis Nell)
• Use Django’s JavaScript catalog feature to manage translatable strings in JavaScript (Karl Hobley)
• Add a page_description to the Page model, to provide help text for a given page type (Kalob Taulien, Thibaud Colas, Matt Westcott)
• Add trimmed attribute to all blocktrans tags, so spacing is more reliable in translated strings (Harris Lapiroff)
• Add documentation that describes how to use ModelAdmin to manage Tags (Abdulmajeed Isa)
• Rename the setting BASE_URL (undocumented) to WAGTAILADMIN_BASE_URL and add to documentation, BASE_URL will be removed in a future release (Sandil Ranasinghe)
• Validate to and from email addresses within form builder pages when using AbstractEmailForm (Jake Howard)
• Add WAGTAILIMAGES_RENDITION_STORAGE setting to allow an alternative image rendition storage (Heather White)
• Add wagtail_update_image_renditions management command to regenerate image renditions or purge all existing renditions (Hitansh Shah, Onno Timmerman, Damian Moore)
• Fully remove the legacy sidebar, with slim sidebar replacing it for all users (Thibaud Colas)
• Add support for adding custom attributes for link menu items in the slim sidebar (Thibaud Colas)
• Implement new slim page editor header with breadcrumb (Steven Steinwand, Karl Hobley)
• Add the ability for choices to be separated by new lines instead of just commas within the form builder, commas will still be supported if used (Abdulmajeed Isa)
• Add internationalisation UI to modeladmin (Andrés Martano)
• Support chunking in PageQuerySet.specific() to reduce memory consumption (Andy Babic)
• Implement new tabs design across the admin interface (Steven Steinwand)
• Move page meta information from the header to a new status side panel component inside of the page editing UI (Steven Steinwand, Karl Hobley)
• Add useful help text to Tag fields to advise what content is allowed inside tags, including when TAG_SPACES_ALLOWED is True or False (Abdulmajeed Isa)
• Change AbstractFormSubmission's form_data to use JSONField to store form submissions (Jake Howard)
• Add image duplicate detection on upload (Tidiane Dia, with sponsorship from The Motley Fool)
• Add a system font stack for monospace fonts (Rishank Kanaparti)
• Fix: When using simple_translations ensure that the user is redirected to the page edit view when submitting for a single locale (Mitchel Cabuloy)
• Fix: When previewing unsaved changes to Form pages, ensure that all added fields are correctly shown in the preview (Joshua Munn)
• Fix: When Documents (e.g. PDFs) have been configured to be served inline via WAGTAILDOCS_CONTENT_TYPES & WAGTAILDOCS_INLINE_CONTENT_TYPES ensure that the filename is correctly set in the Content-Disposition header so that saving the files will use the correct filename (John-Scott Atlakson)
• Fix: Improve the contrast of the “Remember me” checkbox against the login page’s background (Steven Steinwand)
• Fix: Group permission rows with custom permissions no longer have extra padding (Steven Steinwand)
• Fix: Make sure the focus outline of checkboxes is fully around the outer border (Steven Steinwand)
• Fix: Consistently set aria-haspopup="menu" for all sidebar menu items that have sub-menus (LB (Ben Johnston))
• Fix: Make sure aria-expanded is always explicitly set as a string in sidebar (LB (Ben Johnston))
• Fix: Use a button element instead of a link for page explorer menu item, for the correct semantics and behavior (LB (Ben Johnston))
• Fix: Make sure the “Title” column label can be translated in the page chooser and page move UI (Stephanie Cheng Smith)
• Fix: Remove redundant role="main" attributes on <main> elements causing HTML validation issues (Luis Espinoza)
• Fix: Allow bulk publishing of pages without revisions (Andy Chosak)
• Fix: Stop skipping heading levels in Wagtail welcome page (Jesse Menn)
• Fix: Add missing lang attributes to <html> elements (James Ray)
• Fix: Avoid 503 server error when entering tags over 100chars and instead show a user facing validation error (Vu Pham, Khanh Hoang)
• Fix: Ensure thumb_col_header_text is correctly used by ThumbnailMixin within ModelAdmin as the column header label (Kyle J. Roux)
• Fix: Page copy in Wagtail admin ignores exclude_fields_in_copy (John-Scott Atlakson)
• Fix: Translation key IntegrityError when publishing pages with translatable Orderables that were copied without being published (Kalob Taulien, Dan Braghis)
• Fix: Ignore GenericRelation when copying pages (John-Scott Atlakson)
• Fix: Implement ARIA tabs markup and keyboards interactions for admin tabs (Steven Steinwand)