Wagtail 5.2.1 release notes

November 16, 2023

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What's new

Add a fallback background for the editing preview iframe for sites without a background (Ian Price)
Remove search logging from project template so that new projects without the search promotions module will not error (Matt Westcott)
Ensure text only email notifications for updated comments do not escape HTML characters (Rohit Sharma)
Use logical OR operator to combine search fields for Django ORM in generic IndexView (Varun Kumar)
Ensure that explorer_results views fill in the correct next_url parameter on action URLs (Matt Westcott)
Fix crash when accessing the history view for a translatable snippet (Sage Abdullah)
Prevent upload of SVG images from failing when image feature detection is enabled (Joshua Munn)
Fix crash when using the locale switcher on the snippets create view (Sage Abdullah)
Fix performance regression on reports from calling decorate_paginated_queryset before pagination / filtering (Alex Tomkins)
Make searching on specific fields work correctly on Elasticsearch when boost is in use (Matt Westcott)
Prevent snippet permission post-migrate hook from failing on multiple database configurations (Joe Tsoi)
Reinstate ability to filter on page type when searching on an empty query (Sage Abdullah)
Prevent error on locked pages report when a user has locked multiple pages (Matt Westcott)