Wagtail 6.5 release notes - IN DEVELOPMENT¶

Other features¶

• Add WAGTAIL_ prefix to Wagtail-specific tag settings (Aayushman Singh)

• Implement normalize on TypedTableBlock to assist with setting default and preview_value (Sage Abdullah)

• Apply normalization when modifying a StreamBlock’s value to assist with programmatic changes to StreamField (Matt Westcott)

• Allow a custom image rendition model to define its unique constraint with models.UniqueConstraint instead of unique_together (Oliver Parker, Cynthia Kiser, Sage Abdullah)

• Default to the standard tokenizer on Elasticsearch, to correctly handle numbers as tokens (Matt Westcott)

• Add color-scheme meta tag to Wagtail admin (Ashish Nagmoti)

• Add the ability to set the default privacy restriction for new pages using get_default_privacy_setting (Shlomo Markowitz)

• Improve performance of batch purging page urls in the frontend cache, avoiding n+1 query issues (Andy Babic)

Bug fixes¶

• Take preferred language into account for translatable strings in client-side code (Bernhard Bliem, Sage Abdullah)

• Support translating with the preferred language for rich text formatting labels (Bernhard Bliem, Sage Abdullah)

• Make “Actions” label translatable within the rich text toolbar (Bernhard Bliem, Sage Abdullah)

• Do not show the content type column as sortable when searching pages (Srishti Jaiswal, Sage Abdullah)

• Support simple subqueries for in and exact lookup on Elasticsearch (Sage Abdullah)

• Force preview panel scroll behavior to instant to avoid flickering (Sage Abdullah)

• Fix incorrect “Views (past week)” heading on promoted search results listing (Baptiste Mispelon)

• Ensure InlinePanel will be correctly ordered after the first save when min_num is used (Elhussein Almasri, Joel William)

• Avoid deprecation warnings about URLField assume_scheme on Django 5.x (Sage Abdullah)

• Fix setup.cfg syntax for setuptools v78 (Sage Abdullah)

• Ensure ImproperlyConfigured is thrown from db_field on unbound FieldPanels as intended (Matt Westcott)

Documentation¶

• Add missing django.contrib.admin to list of apps in “add to Django project” guide (Mohamed Rabiaa)

• Add tutorial on deploying on Ubuntu to third-party tutorials (Mohammad Fathi Rahman)

• Document that request_or_site is optional on BaseGenericSetting.load (Matt Westcott)

Maintenance¶

• Migrate away from deprecated Sass import rules to module system (Srishti Jaiswal)

• Apply Sass mixed declarations migration in preparation for CSS nesting (Prabhpreet Kaur)

• Refactor styles for Draftail, minimap, and comments to fix remaining Sass migration warnings (Thibaud Colas)

• npm package updates; downshift, focus-trap-react, immer, redux, uuid (LB (Ben) Johnston)

• Validate against invalid characters in Lexeme values (Matt Westcott)

• Split up wagtail.models module into submodules (Matt Westcott)

• Update ruff to 0.9.6 (Sage Abdullah)

• Fix up stubs & adapter contents to better support Jest testing (LB (Ben) Johnston)

• Cleanup Stimulus controller imports, JSDoc & linting (LB (Ben) Johnston)

• Rename SkipLinkController to FocusController with improved reusability, updated unit tests, and added story (LB (Ben) Johnston)

• Fix CI testing issues with the Stimulus LocaleController time zones & non-deterministic page ordering tests (Sage Abdullah)

• Make GitHub highlight .html files as Django templates (Jake Howard)

Page.save() no longer automatically calls full_clean for draft pages¶

In previous releases, the save() method on page models called the full_clean method to apply model-level validation rules, regardless of whether the page was in a draft or live state, unless this was explicitly disabled by passing clean=False. As of this release, saving a page in a draft state (live=False) will only perform the minimum validation necessary to ensure data integrity: the title must be non-empty, and the slug must be unique within the parent page. Saving a page with live=True will apply full validation as before. If you have user code that creates draft pages and requires them to be validated, you must now call full_clean explicitly.

TAG_LIMIT and TAG_SPACES_ALLOWED settings renamed to WAGTAIL_TAG_LIMIT and WAGTAIL_TAG_SPACES_ALLOWED¶

The TAG_LIMIT and TAG_SPACES_ALLOWED settings have been renamed to WAGTAIL_TAG_LIMIT and WAGTAIL_TAG_SPACES_ALLOWED respectively. The old settings will continue to work for now, but will be removed in a future release.