wagtail/docs/releases/5.1.md

Wagtail 5.1 release notes - IN DEVELOPMENT

Unreleased

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What's new

Read-only panels

FieldPanels can now be marked as read-only with the read_only=True keyword argument, so that they are displayed in the admin but cannot be edited. This feature was developed by Andy Babic.

Other features

• Mark calls to md5 as not being used for secure purposes, to avoid flagging on FIPS-mode systems (Sean Kelly)
• Return filters from parse_query_string as a QueryDict to support multiple values (Aman Pandey)

Bug fixes

• Prevent choosers from failing when initial value is an unrecognised ID, e.g. when moving a page from a location where parent_page_types would disallow it (Dan Braghis)
• Move comment notifications toggle to the comments side panel (Sage Abdullah)
• Remove comment button on InlinePanel fields (Sage Abdullah)
• Fix missing link to UsageView from EditView for snippets (Christer Jensen)
• Prevent lowercase conversions of IndexView column headers (Virag Jain)

Documentation

• Document how to add non-ModelAdmin views to a ModelAdminGroup (Onno Timmerman)
• Document how to add StructBlock data to a StreamField (Ramon Wenger)
• Update ReadTheDocs settings to v2 to resolve urllib3 issue in linkcheck extension (Thibaud Colas)
• Update documentation for log_action parameter on RevisionMixin.save_revision (Christer Jensen)

Maintenance

• Switch to ruff for flake8 / isort code checking (Oliver Parker)

Upgrade considerations

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