Wagtail 5.3 release notes - IN DEVELOPMENT

Unreleased

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What's new

Other features

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Bug fixes

Update system check for overwriting storage backends to recognise the STORAGES setting introduced in Django 4.2 (phijma-leukeleu)
Prevent password change form from raising a validation error when browser autocomplete fills in the "Old password" field (Chiemezuo Akujobi)
Ensure that the legacy dropdown options, when closed, do not get accidentally clicked by other interactions wide viewports (CheesyPhoenix)

Documentation

Document, for contributors, the use of translate string literals passed as arguments to tags and filters using _() within templates (Chiemezuo Akujobi)

Maintenance

Update BeautifulSoup upper bound to 4.12.x (scott-8)
Migrate initialization of classes (such as body.ready) from multiple JavaScript implementations to one Stimulus controller w-init (Chiemezuo Akujobi)

Upgrade considerations - changes affecting all projects

Upgrade considerations - deprecation of old functionality

Upgrade considerations - changes affecting Wagtail customisations

Upgrade considerations - changes to undocumented internals