wagtail/docs/releases/2.9.rst

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Wagtail 2.9 release notes
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*May 4, 2020*

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What's new
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Report data exports
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Data from reports, form submissions and ModelAdmin can now be exported to both XLSX and CSV format. For ModelAdmin, this is enabled by specifying a ``list_export`` attribute on the ModelAdmin class. This feature was developed by Jacob Topp-Mugglestone and sponsored by `The Motley Fool <https://www.fool.com/>`_.


CVE-2020-11037: Potential timing attack on password-protected private pages
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This release addresses a potential timing attack on pages or documents that have been protected with a shared password through Wagtail's "Privacy" controls. This password check is performed through a character-by-character string comparison, and so an attacker who is able to measure the time taken by this check to a high degree of accuracy could potentially use timing differences to gain knowledge of the password. (This is `understood to be feasible on a local network, but not on the public internet <https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-developers/iAaq0pvHXuA/fpUuwjK3i2wJ>`_.)

Many thanks to Thibaud Colas for reporting this issue.


Other features
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* Added support for creating custom reports (Jacob Topp-Mugglestone)
* Skip page validation when unpublishing a page (Samir Shah)
* Added :ref:`MultipleChoiceBlock <streamfield_multiplechoiceblock>` block type for StreamField (James O'Toole)
* ChoiceBlock now accepts a ``widget`` keyword argument (James O'Toole)
* Reduced contrast of rich text toolbar (Jack Paine)
* Support the rel attribute on custom ModelAdmin buttons (Andy Chosak)
* Server-side page slug generation now respects ``WAGTAIL_ALLOW_UNICODE_SLUGS`` (Arkadiusz Michał Ryś)
* Wagtail admin no longer depends on SiteMiddleware, avoiding incompatibility with Django sites framework and redundant database queries (aritas1, timmysmalls, Matt Westcott)
* Tag field autocompletion now handles custom tag models (Matt Westcott)
* ``wagtail_serve`` URL route can now be omitted for headless sites (Storm Heg)
* Allow free tagging to be disabled on custom tag models (Matt Westcott)
* Allow disabling page preview by setting ``preview_modes`` to an empty list (Casper Timmers)
* Add Vidyard to oEmbed provider list (Steve Lyall)
* Optimise compiling media definitions for complex StreamBlocks (pimarc)
* FieldPanel now accepts a 'heading' argument (Jacob Topp-Mugglestone)
* Replaced deprecated ``ugettext`` / ``ungettext`` calls with ``gettext`` / ``ngettext`` (Mohamed Feddad)
* ListBlocks now call child block ``bulk_to_python`` if defined (Andy Chosak)
* Site settings are now identifiable/cacheable by request as well as site (Andy Babic)
* Added ``select_related`` attribute to site settings to enable more efficient fetching of foreign key values (Andy Babic)
* Add caching of image renditions (Tom Dyson, Tim Kamanin)
* Add documentation for reporting security issues and internationalisation (Matt Westcott)
* Fields on a custom image model can now be defined as required ``blank=False`` (Matt Westcott)


Bug fixes
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* Added ARIA alert role to live search forms in the admin (Casper Timmers)
* Reordered login form elements to match expected tab order (Kjartan Sverrisson)
* Re-added 'Close Explorer' button on mobile viewports (Sævar Öfjörð Magnússon)
* Added a more descriptive label to Password reset link for screen reader users (Casper Timmers, Martin Coote)
* Improved Wagtail logo contrast by adding a background (Brian Edelman, Simon Evans, Ben Enright)
* Prevent duplicate notification messages on page locking (Jacob Topp-Mugglestone)
* Rendering of non field errors for InlinePanel items (Storm Heg)
* ``{% image ... as var %}`` now clears the context variable when passed None as an image (Maylon Pedroso)
* ``refresh_index`` method on Elasticsearch no longer fails (Lars van de Kerkhof)
* Document tags no longer fail to update when replacing the document file at the same time (Matt Westcott)
* Prevent error from very tall / wide images being resized to 0 pixels (Fidel Ramos)
* Remove excess margin when editing snippets (Quadric)
* Added ``scope`` attribute to table headers in TableBlock output (Quadric)
* Prevent KeyError when accessing a StreamField on a deferred queryset (Paulo Alvarado)
* Hide empty 'view live' links (Karran Besen)
* Mark up a few strings for translation (Luiz Boaretto)
* Invalid focal_point attribute on image edit view (Michał (Quadric) Sieradzki)
* No longer expose the ``.delete()`` method on the default Page.objects manager (Nick Smith)
* ``exclude_fields_in_copy`` on Page models will now work for for modelcluster parental / many to many relations (LB (Ben Johnston))
* Response header (content disposition) now correctly handles filenames with non-ascii characters when using a storage backend (Rich Brennan)
* Improved accessibility fixes for ``main``, ``header`` and ``footer`` elements in the admin page layout (Mitchel Cabuloy)
* Prevent version number from obscuring long settings menus (Naomi Morduch Toubman)
* Admin views using TemplateResponse now respect the user's language setting (Jacob Topp-Mugglestone)
* Fixed incorrect language code for Japanese in language setting dropdown (Tomonori Tanabe)


Upgrade considerations
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Removed support for Django 2.1
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Django 2.1 is no longer supported as of this release; please upgrade to Django 2.2 or above before upgrading Wagtail.


``SiteMiddleware`` and ``request.site`` deprecated
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Wagtail's ``wagtail.core.middleware.SiteMiddleware``, which makes the current site object available as the property ``request.site``, is now deprecated as it clashes with Django's sites framework and makes unnecessary database queries on non-Wagtail views. References to ``request.site`` in your code should be removed; the recommended way of retrieving the current site is ``Site.find_for_request(request)`` in Python code, and the ``{% wagtail_site %}`` tag within Django templates.

For example:

.. code-block:: python

    # old version

    def get_menu_items(request):
        return request.site.root_page.get_children().live()

    # new version

    from wagtail.core.models import Site

    def get_menu_items(request):
        return Site.find_for_request(request).root_page.get_children().live()

.. code-block:: html+django

    {# old version #}

    <h1>Welcome to the {{ request.site.site_name }} website!</h1>


    {# new version #}
    {% load wagtailcore_tags %}
    {% wagtail_site as current_site %}

    <h1>Welcome to the {{ current_site.site_name }} website!</h1>


Once these are removed, ``'wagtail.core.middleware.SiteMiddleware'`` can be removed from your project's ``MIDDLEWARE`` setting.

Page / Collection managers no longer expose a ``delete`` method
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For :ref:`consistency with standard Django models <django:ref/models/instances:deleting objects>`, the ``delete()`` method is no longer available on the default Page and Collection managers. Code such as ``Page.objects.delete()`` should be changed to ``Page.objects.all().delete()``.