wagtail/docs/releases/2.5.rst

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Wagtail 2.5 release notes
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What's new
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Django 2.2 support
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This release is compatible with Django 2.2.  Compatibility fixes were contributed by Matt Westcott and Andy Babic.


New Markdown shortcuts in rich text
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Wagtail’s rich text editor now supports using Markdown shortcuts for inline formatting:

* ``**`` for bold
* ``_`` for italic
* ``~`` for strikethrough (if enabled)
* ````` for code (if enabled)

To learn other shortcuts, have a look at the `keyboard shortcuts <https://www.draftail.org/docs/keyboard-shortcuts>`_ reference.


Other features
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* Added support for customising EditHandler-based forms on a per-request basis (Bertrand Bordage)
* Added more informative error message when ``|richtext`` filter is applied to a non-string value (mukesh5)
* Automatic search indexing can now be disabled on a per-model basis via the ``search_auto_update`` attribute (Karl Hobley)
* Improved diffing of StreamFields when comparing page revisions (Karl Hobley)
* Highlight broken links to pages and missing documents in rich text (Brady Moe)
* Preserve links when copy-pasting rich text content from Wagtail to other tools (Thibaud Colas)
* Rich text to contentstate conversion now prioritises more specific rules, to accommodate ``<p>`` and ``<br>`` elements with attributes (Matt Westcott)
* Added limit image upload size by number of pixels (Thomas Elliott)
* Added ``manage.py wagtail_update_index`` alias to avoid clashes with ``update_index`` commands from other packages (Matt Westcott)
* Renamed ``target_model`` argument on ``PageChooserBlock`` to ``page_type`` (Loic Teixeira)
* ``edit_handler`` and ``panels`` can now be defined on a ``ModelAdmin`` definition (Thomas Kremmel)
* Add Learn Wagtail to third-party tutorials in documentation (Matt Westcott)
* Add a Django setting ``TAG_LIMIT`` to limit number of tags that can be added to any taggit model (Mani)
* Added instructions on how to generate urls for ``ModelAdmin`` to documentation (LB (Ben Johnston), Andy Babic)
* Added option to specify a fallback URL on ``{% pageurl %}`` (Arthur Holzner)
* Add support for more rich text formats, disabled by default: ``blockquote``, ``superscript``, ``subscript``, ``strikethrough``, ``code`` (Md Arifin Ibne Matin)
* Added ``max_count_per_parent`` option on page models to limit the number of pages of a given type that can be created under one parent page (Wesley van Lee)
* ``StreamField`` field blocks now accept a ``validators`` argument (Tom Usher)
* Added edit / delete buttons to snippet index and "don't delete" option to confirmation screen, for consistency with pages (Kevin Howbrook)
* Added name attributes to all built-in page action menu items (LB (Ben Johnston))
* Added validation on the filter string to the Jinja2 image template tag (Jonny Scholes)
* Changed the pages reordering UI toggle to make it easier to find (Katie Locke, Thibaud Colas)
* Added support for rich text link rewrite handlers for ``external`` and ``email`` links (Md Arifin Ibne Matin)
* Clarify installation instructions in documentation, especially regarding virtual environments. (Naomi Morduch Toubman)


Bug fixes
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* Set ``SERVER_PORT`` to 443 in ``Page.dummy_request()`` for HTTPS sites (Sergey Fedoseev)
* Include port number in ``Host`` header of ``Page.dummy_request()`` (Sergey Fedoseev)
* Validation error messages in ``InlinePanel`` no longer count towards ``max_num`` when disabling the 'add' button (Todd Dembrey, Thibaud Colas)
* Rich text to contentstate conversion now ignores stray closing tags (frmdstryr)
* Escape backslashes in ``postgres_search`` queries (Hammy Goonan)
* Parent page link in page chooser search results no longer navigates away (Asanka Lihiniyagoda, Sævar Öfjörð Magnússon)
* ``routablepageurl`` tag now correctly omits domain part when multiple sites exist at the same root (Gassan Gousseinov)
* Added missing collection column specifier on document listing template (Sergey Fedoseev)
* Page Copy will now also copy ParentalManyToMany field relations (LB (Ben Johnston))
* Admin HTML header now includes correct language code (Matt Westcott)
* Unclear error message when saving image after focal point edit (Hugo van den Berg)
* Increase max length on ``Embed.thumbnail_url`` to 255 characters (Kevin Howbrook)
* ``send_mail`` now correctly uses the ``html_message`` kwarg for HTML messages (Tiago Requeijo)
* Page copying no longer allowed if page model has reached its ``max_count`` (Andy Babic)
* Don't show page type on page chooser button when multiple types are allowed (Thijs Kramer)
* Make sure page chooser search results correspond to the latest search by cancelling previous requests (Esper Kuijs)
* Inform user when moving a page from one parent to another where there is an already existing page with the same slug (Casper Timmers)
* User add/edit forms now support form widgets with JS/CSS media (Damian Grinwis)
* Rich text processing now preserves non-breaking spaces instead of converting them to normal spaces (Wesley van Lee)
* Prevent autocomplete dropdowns from appearing over date choosers on Chrome (Kevin Howbrook)
* Prevent crash when logging HTTP errors on Cloudflare cache purging (Kevin Howbrook)
* Prevent rich text editor crash when filtering copy-pasted content and the last block is to be removed, e.g. unsupported image (Thibaud Colas)
* Removing rich text links / documents now also works when the text selection is backwards (Thibaud Colas)
* Prevent the rich text editor from crashing when copy-paste filtering removes all of its content (Thibaud Colas)
* Page chooser now respects custom ``get_admin_display_title`` methods on parent page and breadcrumb (Haydn Greatnews)
* Added consistent whitespace around sortable table headings (Matt Westcott)
* Moved locale names for Chinese (Simplified) and Chinese (Traditional) to ``zh_Hans`` and ``zh_Hant`` (Matt Westcott)


Upgrade considerations
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``EditHandler.bind_to_model`` and ``EditHandler.bind_to_instance`` deprecated
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The internal ``EditHandler`` methods ``bind_to_model`` and ``bind_to_instance`` have been deprecated, in favour of a new combined ``bind_to`` method which accepts ``model``, ``instance``, ``request`` and ``form`` as optional keyword arguments. Any user code which calls ``EditHandler.bind_to_model(model)`` should be updated to use ``EditHandler.bind_to(model=model)`` instead; any user code which calls ``EditHandler.bind_to_instance(instance, request, form)`` should be updated to use ``EditHandler.bind_to(instance=instance, request=request, form=form)``.


Changes to admin pagination helpers
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A number of changes have been made to pagination handling within the Wagtail admin; these are internal API changes, but may affect applications and third-party packages that add new paginated object listings, including chooser modals, to the admin. The ``paginate`` function in ``wagtail.utils.pagination`` has been deprecated in favour of the ``django.core.paginator.Paginator.get_page`` method introduced in Django 2.0 - a call such as:

.. code-block:: python

  from wagtail.utils.pagination import paginate

  paginator, page = paginate(request, object_list, per_page=25)

should be replaced with:

.. code-block:: python

  from django.core.paginator import Paginator

  paginator = Paginator(object_list, per_page=25)
  page = paginator.get_page(request.GET.get('p'))

Additionally, the ``is_ajax`` flag on the template ``wagtailadmin/shared/pagination_nav.html`` has been deprecated in favour of a new template ``wagtailadmin/shared/ajax_pagination_nav.html``:

.. code-block:: html+django

  {% include "wagtailadmin/shared/pagination_nav.html" with items=page_obj is_ajax=1 %}

should become:

.. code-block:: html+django

  {% include "wagtailadmin/shared/ajax_pagination_nav.html" with items=page_obj %}


New rich text formats
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Wagtail now has built-in support for new rich text formats, disabled by default:

* ``blockquote``, using the ``blockquote`` Draft.js block type, saved as a ``<blockquote>`` tag.
* ``superscript``, using the ``SUPERSCRIPT`` Draft.js inline style, saved as a ``<sup>`` tag.
* ``subscript``, using the ``SUBSCRIPT`` Draft.js inline style, saved as a ``<sub>`` tag.
* ``strikethrough``, using the ``STRIKETHROUGH`` Draft.js inline style, saved as a ``<s>`` tag.
* ``code``, using the ``CODE`` Draft.js inline style, saved as a ``<code>`` tag.

Projects already using those exact Draft.js type and HTML tag combinations can safely replace their feature definitions with the new built-ins. Projects that use the same feature identifier can keep their existing feature definitions as overrides. Finally, if the Draft.js types / HTML tags are used but with a different combination, do not enable the new feature definitions to avoid conflicts in storage or editor behavior.


``register_link_type`` and ``register_embed_type`` methods for rich text tag rewriting have changed
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The ``FeatureRegistry.register_link_type`` and ``FeatureRegistry.register_embed_type`` methods, which define how links and embedded media in rich text are converted to HTML, now accept a handler class. Previously, they were passed an identifier string and a rewrite function. For details of updating your code to the new convention, see :ref:`rich_text_rewrite_handlers`.


Chinese language locales changed to ``zh_Hans`` and ``zh_Hant``
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The translations for Chinese (Simplified) and Chinese (Traditional) are now available under the locale names ``zh_Hans`` and ``zh_Hant`` respectively, rather than ``zh_CN`` and ``zh_TW``. Projects that currently use the old names for the ``LANGUAGE_CODE`` setting may need to update the settings file to use the new names.