# 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)

### 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)

### 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)


## 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