Wagtail 8.1 release notes - IN DEVELOPMENT¶

Other features¶

• Only auto-create redirects when moving or renaming live pages, not draft; use WAGTAILREDIRECTS_AUTO_CREATE = 'always' to restore previous behaviour (Sage Abdullah)

• Show allowed file types as part of document upload form help text (Bhavesh Sharma)

• Purge frontend cache when a page is moved or its slug is changed (Jake Howard)

• Add alternate links to sitemap for translated pages (Julie Rymer)

• Add PURGE_BATCH_SIZE parameter to Cloudflare backend to control number of URLs sent per purge request (Kevin Howbrook)

Bug fixes¶

• Avoid redundant writes back to the cache on get_rendition and get_renditions (Mason Lyons, Matt Westcott)

• Allow ChooserBlock.bulk_to_python() to resolve records with primary keys that need converting to their native type, such as UUIDs (Saksham Chawla)

• Prevent error when accessing the sitemap via an unknown host and no default site is configured (Jawad Khan)

• Fix excessive memory usage when copying a page with many revisions (Taras Panasiuk)

• Prevent nested submenu labels from becoming invisible when using the slim sidebar (Neda Gilanian, Sage Abdullah)

• Prevent memory exhaustion through over-long inputs to get_supported_content_language_variant (Matt Westcott)

• Use add_unredirected_header to pass authorization headers to Facebook/Instagram embed APIs (Matt Westcott)

• Prevent failures when instantiating form pages within migrations (Satyam Laheri)

• Fix audit log actions for copy, copy-for-translation and create-alias to log the page being copied rather than its parent (Waqas Ahmed)

• Respect EXIF orientation on avatar uploads (Damien Meur)

• Improve performance of instances_user_has_any_permission_for and explorable_instances in PagePermissionPolicy (Ayush Kumar)

• Make ancestor_of, child_of, descendant_of and translation_of filters in V3 API correctly handle reference pages outside of the result set criteria (Satyam Laheri)

• Prevent bulk deletion of automatically-created redirects when a slug change does not change the page URL (Sage Abdullah)

• Ensure signature check failure on redirect import raises SuspiciousOperation rather than AttributeError (Matt Westcott)

Documentation¶

• Fix broken links to Cloudflare and Handsontable documentation (Roshan Ramani)

• Update generative AI policy to require pull request descriptions to be human-written (Matt Westcott)

• Fix documentation for wagtail_update_image_renditions command to correctly describe behaviour around purging of renditions (Saksham Chawla)

Maintenance¶

• Drop support for Python 3.10

• Remove obsolete use of USE_L10N setting (DresdenGman)

• Squash testapp migrations (Sage Abdullah)

• Use format_html for submit translation form help text (Keerthi Kumar)

• Add testing section to PR template (Srishti Jaiswal)

• Remove jQuery usage in ExpandingFormset (Keerthi Kumar)

• Rewrite page privacy ancestor link formatting to verify XSS safety (Keerthi Kumar, Matt Westcott)

• Ensure ‘parent’ can be translated correctly in different contexts (Storm Heg)

Removed support for Python 3.10¶

Python 3.10 is no longer supported as of this release; please upgrade to Python 3.11 or above before upgrading Wagtail.