wagtail/docs/releases/5.0.md

Wagtail 5.0 release notes - IN DEVELOPMENT

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What's new

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Other features

• Add WAGTAILIMAGES_EXTENSIONS setting to restrict image uploads to specific file types (Aman Pandey, Ananjan-R)
• Update user list column level to Access level to be easier to understand (Vallabh Tiwari)
• Migrate .button-longrunning behaviour to a Stimulus controller with support for custom label element & duration (Loveth Omokaro)
• Implement new simplified userbar designs (Albina Starykova)
• Add more Axe rules to the accessibility checker (Albina Starykova)

Bug fixes

• Ensure label_format on StructBlock gracefully handles missing variables (Aadi jindal)
• Adopt a no-JavaScript and more accessible solution for the 'Reset to default' switch to Gravatar when editing user profile (Loveth Omokaro)
• Ensure Site.get_site_root_paths works on cache backends that do not preserve Python objects (Jaap Roes)

Documentation

• Add code block to make it easier to understand contribution docs (Suyash Singh)
• Add new "Icons" page for icons customisation and reuse across the admin interface (Coen van der Kamp)

Maintenance

• Removed features deprecated in Wagtail 3.0 and 4.0 (Matt Westcott)
• Update djhtml (html formatting) library to v 1.5.2 (Loveth Omokaro)
• Re-enable strictPropertyInitialization in tsconfig (Thibaud Colas)
• Refactor accessibility checker userbar item (Albina Starykova)
• Removed unused Page.get_static_site_paths method (Yosr Karoui)
• Provisional Django 5.0 compatibility fixes (Sage Abdullah)

Upgrade considerations

Removal of deprecated features

The following features deprecated in Wagtail 3.0 have been fully removed. See Wagtail 3.0 release notes for details on these changes, including how to remove usage of these features:

• The modules wagtail.core, wagtail.tests, wagtail.admin.edit_handlers and wagtail.contrib.forms.edit_handlers are removed.
• The field panel classes StreamFieldPanel, RichTextFieldPanel, ImageChooserPanel, DocumentChooserPanel and SnippetChooserPanel are removed.
• StreamField definitions must include use_json_field=True (with the exception of migrations created prior to Wagtail 5.0).
• The BASE_URL setting is no longer recognised.
• The ModelAdmin.get_form_fields_exclude method is no longer passed a request argument.
• The ModelAdmin.get_edit_handler method is no longer passed a request or instance argument.
• The widget_overrides, required_fields, required_formsets, bind_to, render_as_object and render_as_field methods on Panel (previously EditHandler) are removed.

The following features deprecated in Wagtail 4.0 have been fully removed. See Wagtail 4.0 release notes for details on these changes, including how to remove usage of these features:

• The wagtail.contrib.settings.models.BaseSetting class is removed.
• The Page.get_latest_revision_as_page method is removed.
• The page and page_id properties and as_page_object method on Revision are removed.
• The JavaScript functions createPageChooser, createSnippetChooser, createDocumentChooser and createImageChooser are removed.
• The wagtail.contrib.modeladmin.menus.SubMenu class is removed.
• Subclasses of wagtail.contrib.modeladmin.helpers.AdminURLHelper are now required to accept a base_url_path keyword argument on the constructor.
• The wagtail.admin.widgets.chooser.AdminChooser class is removed.
• The wagtail.snippets.views.snippets.get_snippet_edit_handler function is removed.

Page.get_static_site_paths method removed

The undocumented Page.get_static_site_paths method (which returns a generator of URL paths for use by static site generator packages) has been removed. Packages relying on this functionality should provide their own fallback implementation.