Release notes for #10056

CHANGELOG.txt

@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ Changelog
  * Expand a collapsed form section when navigating to it with the minimap (Thibaud Colas)
  * The minimap and "Collapse all" button now appear next to side panels rather than underneath, so they can be used at any time (Thibaud Colas)
  * Allow `panels` / `edit_handler` to be specified via `SnippetViewSet` (Sage Abdullah)
+ * Introduce dark mode support for the Wagtail admin interface, with a toggle in account preferences (Thibaud Colas)
  * Fix: Ensure `label_format` on StructBlock gracefully handles missing variables (Aadi jindal)
  * Fix: Adopt a no-JavaScript and more accessible solution for the 'Reset to default' switch to Gravatar when editing user profile (Loveth Omokaro)
  * Fix: Ensure `Site.get_site_root_paths` works on cache backends that do not preserve Python objects (Jaap Roes)
@@ -127,6 +128,7 @@ Changelog
  * Maintenance: Update `w-action` controller to support a click method (Suyash Srivastava)
  * Maintenance: Migrate the site settings switcher select from jQuery to a refined version of the `w-action` controller usage (Aadi jindal, LB (Ben) Johnston)
  * Maintenance: Always use expanded Sass output so CSS processing is identical in development and production builds (Thibaud Colas)
+ * Maintenance: Refactor admin color palette to semantic, theme-agnostic design tokens (Thibaud Colas)
 
 
 4.2.2 (03.04.2023)

docs/releases/5.0.md

@@ -65,6 +65,12 @@ Following its introduction in Wagtail 4.1, we have made a number of improvements
 
 Thank you to everyone who provided feedback on this new addition to the editor experience. Those changes were implemented by Thibaud Colas.
 
+### Dark mode
+
+Wagtail’s admin interface now supports dark mode. The new dark theme can be enabled in account preferences, as well as configuring permanent usage of the light theme, or following system preferences.
+
+We hope this new theme will bring accessibility improvements for users who perfer light text on dark backgrounds, and energy usage efficiency improvements for users of OLED monitors. This feature was developed by Thibaud Colas, with designs from Ben Enright.
+
 ### Other features
 
  * Add `WAGTAILIMAGES_EXTENSIONS` setting to restrict image uploads to specific file types (Aman Pandey, Ananjan-R)
@@ -183,6 +189,7 @@ Thank you to everyone who provided feedback on this new addition to the editor e
  * Update `w-action` controller to support a click method (Suyash Srivastava)
  * Migrate the site settings switcher select from jQuery to a refined version of the `w-action` controller usage (Aadi jindal, LB (Ben) Johnston)
  * Always use expanded Sass output so CSS processing is identical in development and production builds (Thibaud Colas)
+ * Refactor admin color palette to semantic, theme-agnostic design tokens (Thibaud Colas)
 
 
 ## Upgrade considerations