wagtail 6.3rc2

on Python PyPI

Note: 6.3rc1 has been retracted due to packaging issues

• Add support for Python 3.13 (Matt Westcott)
• Add formal support for Django 5.1 (Matt Westcott)
• Add ImageBlock with alt text support (Chiemezuo Akujobi for Google Summer of Code, mentored by Storm Heg, Saptak Sengupta, Thibaud Colas and Matt Westcott)
• Implement incremental dashboard design enhancements (Albina Starykova, Ben Enright)
• Add a new enhanced contrast admin theming option for the admin interface (Albina Starykova, Victoria Ottah)
• Migrate workflow history views to universal listings (Sage Abdullah)
• Refactor documents views to use universal designs (Sage Abdullah)
• Refactor images views to use universal designs (Sage Abdullah)
• Implement universal listings for workflow usage and page type usage views (Sage Abdullah)
• Add search and filters to form pages listing (Sage Abdullah)
• Add support for uploading HEIC / HEIF images (Matt Westcott)
• Allow customization of preview device sizes in the live preview panel (Bart Cieliński, alexkiro, Sage Abdullah)
• Formalize support for MariaDB (Sage Abdullah, Daniel Black)
• Redirect to the last viewed listing page after deleting form submissions (Matthias Brück)
• Provide getTextLabel method on date / time StreamField blocks (Vaughn Dickson)
• Purge frontend cache when modifying redirects (Jake Howard)
• Deprecate the WAGTAIL_AUTO_UPDATE_PREVIEW setting, use WAGTAIL_AUTO_UPDATE_PREVIEW_INTERVAL = 0 instead (Sage Abdullah)
• Consistently use capfirst for title-casing model verbose names (Sébastien Corbin)
• Fire copy_for_translation_done signal when copying translatable models as well as pages (Coen van der Kamp)
• Add support for an image description field across all images, to better support accessible image descriptions (Chiemezuo Akujobi)
• Prompt the user about unsaved changes when editing snippets (Sage Abdullah)
• Make dashboard upgrade banners dismissible (Sage Abdullah)
• Add support for specifying different preview modes to the "View draft" URL for pages (Robin Varghese)
• Implement new designs for the footer actions dropdown with more contrast and larger text (Sage Abdullah)
• All create/edit admin forms now use a sticky submit button, for consistency and to speed up edits (Sage Abdullah)
• Secondary form actions such as "Delete" are now in the header actions menu (Sage Abdullah)
• Allow setting page privacy rules when a restriction already exists on an ancestor page (Bojan Mihelac)
• Automatically create links when pasting content that contain URLs into a rich text input (Thibaud Colas)
• Fix: Prevent page type business rules from blocking reordering of pages (Andy Babic, Sage Abdullah)
• Fix: Improve layout of object permissions table (Sage Abdullah)
• Fix: Fix typo in aria-label attribute of page explorer navigation link (Sébastien Corbin)
• Fix: Reinstate transparency indicator on image chooser widgets (Sébastien Corbin)
• Fix: Remove table headers that have no text (Matt Westcott)
• Fix: Fix broken link to user search (Shlomo Markowitz)
• Fix: Ensure that JS slugify function strips Unicode characters disallowed by Django slug validation (Atif Khan)
• Fix: Do not show notices about root / unroutable pages when searching or filtering in the page explorer (Matt Westcott)
• Fix: Resolve contrast issue for page deletion warning (Sanjeev Holla S)
• Fix: Make sure content metrics falls back to body element only when intended (Sage Abdullah)
• Fix: Remove wrongly-added filters from redirects index (Matt Westcott)
• Fix: Prevent popular tags filter from generating overly complex queries when not filtering (Matt Westcott)
• Fix: Fix content path links in usage view to scroll to the correct element (Sage Abdullah)
• Fix: Always show the minimap toggle button (Albina Starykova)
• Fix: Ensure that dropdown button toggles show with a border in high contrast mode (Ishwari8104, LB (Ben) Johnston)
• Fix: Update email notification header to the new logo design (rahulsamant37)
• Fix: Change file_size field on document model to avoid artificial 2Gb limit (Gabriel Getzie)
• Fix: Ensure that TypedTableBlock uses the correct API representations of child blocks (Matt Westcott)
• Fix: Footer action buttons now include their media definitions (Sage Abdullah)
• Fix: Improve the text contrast of the bulk actions "Select all" button (Sage Abdullah)
• Fix: Fix error on workflow settings view with multiple snippet types assigned to the same workflow on Postgres (Sage Abdullah)
• Fix: Fix datetime fields overflowing its parent wrapper in listing filters (Rohit Singh)
• Fix: Prevent multiple URLs from being combined into one when pasting links into a rich text input (Thibaud Colas)
• Fix: Improve layout of report listing tables (Sage Abdullah)
• Docs: Upgrade Sphinx to 7.3 (Matt Westcott)
• Docs: Document how to customize date/time format settings (Vince Salvino)
• Docs: Create a new documentation section for deployment and move fly.io deployment from the tutorial to this section (Vince Salvino)
• Docs: Clarify process for UserViewSet customization (Sage Abdullah)
• Docs: Correct WAGTAIL_WORKFLOW_REQUIRE_REAPPROVAL_ON_EDIT documentation to state that it defaults to False (Matt Westcott)
• Docs: Add an example of customizing a default accessibility check (Cynthia Kiser)
• Docs: Demonstrate access protection with TokenAuthentication in the Wagtail API v2 Configuration Guide (Krzysztof Jeziorny)
• Maintenance: Removed support for Python 3.8 (Matt Westcott)
• Maintenance: Drop pytz dependency in favour of zoneinfo.available_timezones (Sage Abdullah)
• Maintenance: Relax django-taggit dependency to allow 6.0 (Matt Westcott)
• Maintenance: Improve page listing performance (Sage Abdullah)
• Maintenance: Phase out usage of SECRET_KEY in version and icon hashes (Jake Howard)
• Maintenance: Audit all use of localized and non-localized numbers in templates (Matt Westcott)
• Maintenance: Refactor StreamField get_prep_value for closer alignment with JSONField (Sage Abdullah)
• Maintenance: Move search implementation logic from generic IndexView to BaseListingView (Sage Abdullah)
• Maintenance: Upgrade Puppeteer integration tests for reliability (Matt Westcott)
• Maintenance: Restore ability to use .in_bulk() on specific querysets under Django 5.2a0 (Sage Abdullah)
• Maintenance: Add generated test-media to .gitignore (Shlomo Markowitz)
• Maintenance: Improve debounce util's return type for better TypeScript usage (Sage Abdullah)
• Maintenance: Ensure the side panel's show event is dispatched after any hide events (Sage Abdullah)
• Maintenance: Migrate preview-panel JavaScript to Stimulus & TypeScript, add full unit testing (Sage Abdullah)
• Maintenance: Move wagtailConfig values from inline scripts to the wagtail_config template tag (LB (Ben) Johnston, Sage Abdullah)
• Maintenance: Deprecate the {% locales %} and {% js_translation_strings %} template tags (LB (Ben) Johnston, Sage Abdullah)
• Maintenance: Ensure multi-line comments are cleaned from custom icons in addition to just single line comments (Jake Howard)
• Maintenance: Deprecate window.wagtailConfig.BULK_ACTION_ITEM_TYPE usage in JavaScript to reduce reliance on inline scripts (LB (Ben) Johnston)
• Maintenance: Remove window.fileupload_opts usage in JavaScript, use data attributes on fields instead to reduce reliance on inline scripts (LB (Ben) Johnston)
• Maintenance: Remove image_format_name_to_content_type helper function that duplicates Willow functionality (Matt Westcott)
• Maintenance: Improve code reuse for footer actions markup across generic views (Sage Abdullah)
• Maintenance: Deprecate internal DeleteMenuItem API for footer actions (Sage Abdullah)