Wagtail 8.0 release notes - IN DEVELOPMENT¶

Other features¶

• Add customizability for all remaining page views to PageViewSet (Sage Abdullah)

• Set FieldPanel(required_on_save=True) for AbstractFormField’s field_type field (Alex Tomkins)

• Handle pasting of multiple tags separated by newlines or commas (Matthias Brück)

• Make Button component render a <button> element when no URL is supplied (Nayeli De Jesus, LB (Ben Johnston), Sage Abdullah)

• Show site name in site switcher dropdown in site settings editor (Jack Morgan)

• Improve clarity of different task states in workflow details dialog (Dan Braghis)

• Add submenu_hook attribute to ViewSetGroup for collecting submenu items registered via a hook (Hunzlah Malik, MariyaOT, Sage Abdullah)

• Respect ViewSet.menu_order when used in a ViewSetGroup (Sage Abdullah)

• Use a more accessible label for blank values of ChoiceBlock (Sage Abdullah)

• Use a more accessible label for blank values of dropdowns in locked page report filters (Sage Abdullah)

• Make audit log messages for scheduling/unscheduling generic (Sage Abdullah)

Bug fixes¶

• Make SnippetChooserViewSet.widget_class a class instead of an instance (Amrinder Singh, Sage Abdullah)

• Prevent an error when approving a workflow that has been cancelled in a different session (Kailesh)

• Accommodate multilingual sites in skipping the “choose parent” step when creating a new page from a flat page listing (Amrinder Singh)

• Prevent error when moving a page to a destination with missing translations and WAGTAILSIMPLETRANSLATION_SYNC_PAGE_TREE = True (Sahil Kumar)

• Handle Pillow detecting decompression bombs when validating image pixel count (Jake Howard, Sage Abdullah)

• Use canonical URL for TED oEmbed provider (Marquis Nobles)

• Prevent stale content types from breaking audit log message formatting (Thibaud Colas)

• Prevent icons from capturing clicks inside buttons (Maciek Baron)

Documentation¶

• Add reference documentation entry for SnippetChooserViewSet (Sage Abdullah)

• Fix panel classname and deprecated usage of format_html in construct_homepage_panels example (Andreas Nüßlein)

Maintenance¶

• Rename request argument to cache_object in Page._get_site_root_paths() for correctness (Kailesh)

• Fix blank choice tests for Django 6.1 (Sage Abdullah)

• Ignore EMAIL_BACKEND setting deprecation on Django 6.1 when running project template tests (Sage Abdullah)

• Use uv with lockfile in CI configurations (Sage Abdullah)

• Add one and not match support to RulesController (LB (Ben Johnston))

• Refactor pages’ function-based views to class-based views (Sage Abdullah)

• Add CI job for testing with latest versions of all dependencies (Sage Abdullah)

• Set up zizmor to lint GitHub Actions for security gotchas (Dan Braghis)

• Pin all GitHub Actions dependencies to specific versions (Thibaud Colas)

• Add renovate configuration to automate Python dependencies management (Sage Abdullah)

• Use Renovate to update GitHub Actions dependencies pins (Sage Abdullah)

SnippetChooserViewSet.widget_class is now a class¶

The SnippetChooserViewSet.widget_class attribute now correctly returns a widget class instead of an instance, consistent with ChooserViewSet.widget_class. This change may require updates to any customizations that relied on the previous behavior, such as an override in a SnippetChooserViewSet subclass that uses super().widget_class.

ViewSet.menu_order is now respected when used in a ViewSetGroup¶

ViewSets that are registered as part of a ViewSetGroup now have their menu_order respected instead of always using its position in ViewSetGroup.items.

If you rely on the previous behavior that used the items ordering, remove menu_order in your ViewSet definition.

request argument to Page._get_site_root_paths is now cache_object¶

The request argument to the undocumented method Page._get_site_root_paths() is renamed to cache_object to reflect the fact that it is not always a request object, but may be any object that can be used for caching purposes.

If you pass request as a positional argument, no changes are needed. If you pass request as a keyword argument to this method, you will need to update the argument name to cache_object in your code or turn it into a positional argument.

Passing a request keyword argument will continue to work for now and raise a deprecation warning, but support for this will be removed in a future release.