wagtail/docs/releases/6.0.md

Wagtail 6.0 release notes - IN DEVELOPMENT

Unreleased

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What's new

Other features

• Added search_index option to StreamField blocks to control whether the block is indexed for searching (Vedant Pandey)
• Remember previous location on returning from page add/edit actions (Robert Rollins)
• Update settings file in project settings to address Django 4.2 deprecations (Sage Abdullah)
• Improve layout and accessibility of the image URL generator page, reduce reliance on JavaScript (Temidayo Azeez)
• Allow UniqueConstraint in place of unique_together for {class}~wagtail.models.TranslatableMixin's system check (Temidayo Azeez, Sage Abdullah)

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, Christer Jensen)
• Add a fallback background for the editing preview iframe for sites without a background (Ian Price)
• Preserve whitespace in rendered comments (Elhussein Almasri)
• 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• Use the latest draft when copying an unpublished page for translation (Andrey Nehaychik)
• Make Workflow and Aging Pages reports only available to users with page-related permissions (Rohit Sharma)

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)
• Adopt the usage of of translate string literals using arg=_('...') in all wagtailadmin module templates (Chiemezuo Akujobi)
• Migrate the contrib styleguide index view to a class-based view (Chiemezuo Akujobi)
• Update djhtml to 3.0.6 (Matt Westcott)
• Migrate the contrib settings edit view to a class-based view (Chiemezuo Akujobi, Sage Abdullah)
• Remove django-pattern-library upper bound in testing dependencies (Sage Abdullah)
• Split up functions in Elasticsearch backend for easier extensibility (Marcel Kornblum, Cameron Lamb, Sam Dudley)
• Relax draftjs_exporter dependency to allow using version 5.x (Sylvain Fankhauser)
• Refine styling of listings, account settings panels and the block chooser (Meli Imelda)
• Remove icon font support (Matt Westcott)
• Remove deprecated SVG icons (Matt Westcott)
• Migrate account editing view to a class-based view (Kehinde Bobade)
• Upgrade frontend tooling to use Node 20 (LB (Ben) Johnston)

Upgrade considerations - changes affecting all projects

Support for Elasticsearch 5 and 6 dropped

The Elasticsearch 5 and 6 backends have been removed. If you are using one of these backends, you will need to upgrade to Elasticsearch 7 or 8 before upgrading to Wagtail 6.0.

Upgrade considerations - deprecation of old functionality

Upgrade considerations - changes affecting Wagtail customisations

Upgrade considerations - changes to undocumented internals