Wagtail 5.2.1 release notes

November 16, 2023

What’s new

Bug fixes

  • Add a fallback background for the editing preview iframe for sites without a background (Ian Price)

  • Remove search logging from project template so that new projects without the search promotions module will not error (Matt Westcott)

  • Ensure text only email notifications for updated comments do not escape HTML characters (Rohit Sharma)

  • Use logical OR operator to combine search fields for Django ORM in generic IndexView (Varun Kumar)

  • Ensure that explorer_results views fill in the correct next_url parameter on action URLs (Matt Westcott)

  • Fix crash when accessing the history view for a translatable snippet (Sage Abdullah)

  • Prevent upload of SVG images from failing when image feature detection is enabled (Joshua Munn)

  • Fix crash when using the locale switcher on the snippets create view (Sage Abdullah)

  • Fix performance regression on reports from calling decorate_paginated_queryset before pagination / filtering (Alex Tomkins)

  • Make searching on specific fields work correctly on Elasticsearch when boost is in use (Matt Westcott)

  • Prevent snippet permission post-migrate hook from failing on multiple database configurations (Joe Tsoi)

  • Reinstate ability to filter on page type when searching on an empty query (Sage Abdullah)

  • Prevent error on locked pages report when a user has locked multiple pages (Matt Westcott)

Documentation

  • Fix code example for {% picture ... as ... %} template tag (Rezyapkin)