Wagtail 6.3 release notes - IN DEVELOPMENT

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What's new

This release adds formal support for Django 5.1.

Redirect to the last viewed listing page after deleting form submissions (Matthias Brück)
Provide getTextLabel method on date / time StreamField blocks (Vaughn Dickson)
Purge frontend cache when modifying redirects (Jake Howard)

Prevent page type business rules from blocking reordering of pages (Andy Babic, Sage Abdullah)
Improve layout of object permissions table (Sage Abdullah)
Fix typo in aria-label attribute of page explorer navigation link (Sébastien Corbin)
Reinstate transparency indicator on image chooser widgets (Sébastien Corbin)
Remove table headers that have no text (Matt Westcott)

Upgrade Sphinx to 7.3 (Matt Westcott)
Document how to customize date/time format settings (Vince Salvino)
Create a new documentation section for deployment and move fly.io deployment from the tutorial to this section (Vince Salvino)
Clarify process for UserViewSet customisation (Sage Abdullah)

Removed support for Python 3.8 (Matt Westcott)
Drop pytz dependency in favour of zoneinfo.available_timezones (Sage Abdullah)
Relax django-taggit dependency to allow 6.0 (Matt Westcott)
Improve page listing performance (Sage Abdullah)
Phase out usage of SECRET_KEY in version and icon hashes (Jake Howard)
Audit all use of localized and non-localized numbers in templates (Matt Westcott)
Refactor StreamField get_prep_value for closer alignment with JSONField (Sage Abdullah)
Move search implementation logic from generic IndexView to BaseListingView (Sage Abdullah)
Upgrade Puppeteer integration tests for reliability (Matt Westcott)
Restore ability to use .in_bulk() on specific querysets under Django 5.2a0 (Sage Abdullah)
Add generated test-media to .gitignore (Shlomo Markowitz)

Python 3.8 is no longer supported as of this release; please upgrade to Python 3.9 or above before upgrading Wagtail.