wagtail/docs/releases/4.1.md

# Wagtail 4.1 release notes - IN DEVELOPMENT

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Wagtail 4.1 is designated a Long Term Support (LTS) release. Long Term Support releases will continue to receive maintenance updates as necessary to address security and data-loss related issues, up until the next LTS release (typically a period of 12 months).

## What's new

### Other features

 * Add basic keyboard control and screen reader support for page listing re-ordering (Paarth Agarwal, Thomas van der Hoeven)
 * Add `PageQuerySet.private` method as an alias of `not_public` (Mehrdad Moradizadeh)
 * Most images in the admin will now only load once they are visible on screen (Jake Howard)
 * Allow setting default attributes on image tags [](adding_default_attributes_to_images) (Jake Howard)
 * Optimise the performance of the Wagtail userbar to remove duplicated queries, improving page loads when viewing live pages while signed in (Jake Howard)
 * Remove legacy `unbutton` styling for buttons (Paarth Agarwal)
 * Add button variations to the pattern library (Paarth Agarwal)

### Bug fixes

 * Prevent `PageQuerySet.not_public` from returning all pages when no page restrictions exist (Mehrdad Moradizadeh)

## Upgrade considerations