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Wagtail 4.0 release notes - IN DEVELOPMENT
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What's new
Image renditions can now be prefetched by filter
When using a queryset to render a list of images, you can now use the prefetch_renditions()
queryset method to prefetch the renditions needed for rendering with a single extra query, similar to prefetch_related
. If you have many renditions per image, you can also call it with filters as arguments - prefetch_renditions("fill-700x586", "min-600x400")
- to fetch only the renditions you intend on using for a smaller query. For long lists of images, this can provide a significant boost to performance. See for more examples. This feature was developed by Tidiane Dia and Karl Hobley.
Other features
- Add clarity to confirmation when being asked to convert an external link to an internal one (Thijs Kramer)
- Convert various pages in the documentation to Markdown (Khanh Hoang, Vu Pham, Daniel Kirkham, LB (Ben) Johnston, Thiago Costa de Souza, Benedict Faw, Noble Mittal, Sævar Öfjörð Magnússon, Sandeep M A)
- Add
base_url_path
toModelAdmin
so that the default URL structure of app_label/model_name can be overridden (Vu Pham, Khanh Hoang) - Add
full_url
to the API output ofImageRenditionField
(Paarth Agarwal) - Use
InlinePanel
's label when available for field comparison label (Sandil Ranasinghe) - Drop support for Safari 13 by removing left/right positioning in favour of CSS logical properties (Thibaud Colas)
- Use
FormData
instead of jQuery'sform.serialize
when editing documents or images just added so that additional fields can be better supported (Stefan Hammer) - Add informational Codecov status checks for GitHub CI pipelines (Tom Hu)
- Make it possible to reuse and customise Wagtail’s fonts with CSS variables (LB (Ben) Johnston)
- Add better handling and informative developer errors for cross linking URLS (e.g. success after add) in generic views
wagtail.admin.views.generic
(Matt Westcott) - Introduce
wagtail.admin.widgets.chooser.BaseChooser
to make it easier to build custom chooser inputs (Matt Westcott) - Introduce JavaScript chooser module, including a SearchController class which encapsulates the standard pattern of re-rendering the results panel in response to search queries and pagination (Matt Westcott)
- Add ability to select multiple items at once within bulk actions selections when holding shift on subsequent clicks (Hitansh Shah)
- Upgrade notification, shown to admins on the dashboard if Wagtail is out of date, will now link to the release notes for the closest minor branch instead of the latest patch (Tibor Leupold)
- Upgrade notification can now be configured to only show updates when there is a new LTS available via
WAGTAIL_ENABLE_UPDATE_CHECK = 'lts'
(Tibor Leupold) - Implement redesign of the Workflow Status dialog, fixing accessibility issues (Steven Steinwand)
- Add the ability to change the number of images displayed per page in the image library (Tidiane Dia, with sponsorship from YouGov)
- Allow users to sort by different fields in the image library (Tidiane Dia, with sponsorship from YouGov)
- Add
prefetch_renditions
method toImageQueryset
for performance optimisation on image listings (Tidiane Dia, Karl Hobley) - Add ability to define a custom
get_field_clean_name
method when definingFormField
models that extendAbstractFormField
(LB (Ben) Johnston) - Migrate Home (Dashboard) view to use generic Wagtail class based view (LB (Ben) Johnston)
- Combine most of Wagtail’s stylesheets into the global
core.css
file (Thibaud Colas) - Add new Breadcrumbs and Tabs to the Wagtail pattern library (Paarth Agarwal)
- Adopt new Page Editor UI tabs in the workflow history report page (Paarth Agarwal)
- Update
ReportView
to extend from genericwagtail.admin.views.generic.models.IndexView
(Sage Abdullah) - Introduce a
wagtail.admin.viewsets.chooser.ChooserViewSet
module to serve as a common base implementation for chooser modals (Matt Westcott) - Add documentation for
wagtail.admin.viewsets.model.ModelViewSet
(Matt Westcott) - Enhance new breadcrumbs so they can be added to any header or container element (Paarth Agarwal)
- Adopt new breadcrumbs on the page explorer (listing) view and the page chooser modal, remove legacy breadcrumbs code for move page as no longer used (Paarth Agarwal)
- Added multi-site support to the API (Sævar Öfjörð Magnússon)
- Add
add_to_admin_menu
option for ModelAdmin (Oliver Parker) - Implement Fuzzy matching for Elasticsearch (Nick Smith)
- Cache model permission codenames in
PermissionHelper
(Tidiane Dia) - Selecting a new parent page for moving a page now uses the chooser modal which allows searching (Viggo de Vries)
- Add clarity to the search indexing documentation for how
boost
works when using Postgres with the database search backend (Tibor Leupold) - Rename
explorer_breadcrumb
template tag tobreadcrumbs
as it is now used in multiple locations (Paarth Agarwal) - Updated
django-filter
version to support 23 (Yuekui) - Use
.iterator()
in a few more places in the admin, to make it more stable on sites with many pages (Andy Babic) - Migrate some simple React component files to TypeScript (LB (Ben) Johnston)
- Deprecate the usage and documentation of the
wagtail.contrib.modeladmin.menus.SubMenu
class, provide a warning if used directing developers to usewagtail.admin.menu.Menu
instead (Matt Westcott) - Remove legacy (non-next) breadcrumbs no longer used, remove
ModelAdmin
usage of breadcrumbs completely (Paarth Agarwal)
Bug fixes
- Fix issue where
ModelAdmin
index listings with export list enabled would show buttons with an incorrect layout (Josh Woodcock) - Fix typo in
ResumeWorkflowActionFormatter
message (Stefan Hammer) - Throw a meaningful error when saving an image to an unrecognised image format (Christian Franke)
- Remove extra padding for headers with breadcrumbs on mobile viewport (Steven Steinwand)
- Replace
PageRevision
with genericRevision
model (Sage Abdullah) - Ensure that custom document or image models support custom tag models (Matt Westcott)
- Ensure comments use translated values for their placeholder text (Stefan Hammer)
- Ensure the upgrade notification, shown to admins on the dashboard if Wagtail is out of date, content is translatable (LB (Ben) Johnston)
- Only show the re-ordering option to users that have permission to publish pages within the page listing (Stefan Hammer)
- Ensure default sidebar branding (bird logo) is not cropped in RTL mode (Steven Steinwand)
- Add an accessible label to the image focal point input when editing images (Lucie Le Frapper)
- Remove unused header search JavaScript on the redirects import page (LB (Ben) Johnston)
- Ensure non-square avatar images will correctly show throughout the admin (LB (Ben) Johnston)
- Ignore translations in test files and re-include some translations that were accidentally ignored (Stefan Hammer)
- Show alternative message when no page types are available to be created (Jaspreet Singh)
- Prevent error on sending notifications for the legacy moderation process when no user was specified (Yves Serrano)
- Ensure
aria-label
is not set on locale selection dropdown within page chooser modal as it was a duplicate of the button contents (LB (Ben Johnston)) - Revise the
ModelAdmin
title column behaviour to only link to 'edit' if the user has the correct permissions, fallback to the 'inspect' view or a non-clickable title if needed (Stefan Hammer) - Ensure that
DecimalBlock
preserves theDecimal
type when retrieving from the database (Yves Serrano) - When no snippets are added, ensure the snippet chooser modal would have the correct URL for creating a new snippet (Matt Westcott)
ngettext
in Wagtail's internal JavaScript internationalisation utilities now works (LB (Ben) Johnston)
Upgrade considerations
base_url_path
keyword argument added to AdminURLHelper
The wagtail.contrib.modeladmin.helpers.AdminURLHelper
class now accepts a base_url_path
keyword argument on its constructor. Custom subclasses of this class should be updated to accept this keyword argument.
Dropped support for Safari 13
Safari 13 will no longer be officially supported as of this release, this deviates the current support for the last 3 version of Safari by a few months and was required to add better support for RTL languages.
PageRevision
replaced with Revision
The PageRevision
model has been replaced with a generic Revision
model. If you use the PageRevision
model in your code, make sure that:
- Creation of
PageRevision
objects should be updated to createRevision
objects using the page'sid
as theobject_id
, the defaultPage
model's content type as thebase_content_type
, and the page's specific content type as thecontent_type
. - Queries that use the
PageRevision.objects
manager should be updated to use theRevision.page_revisions
manager. Revision
queries that usePage.id
should be updated to cast thePage.id
to a string before using it in the query (e.g. by usingstr()
orCast("page_id", output_field=CharField())
).Page
queries that usePageRevision.page_id
should be updated to cast theRevision.object_id
to an integer before using it in the query (e.g. by usingint()
orCast("object_id", output_field=IntegerField())
).- Access to
PageRevision.page
should be updated toRevision.content_object
.
If you maintain a package across multiple Wagtail versions that includes a model with a ForeignKey
to the PageRevision
model, you can create a helper function to correctly resolve the model depending on the installed Wagtail version, for example:
from django.db import models
from wagtail import VERSION as WAGTAIL_VERSION
def get_revision_model():
if WAGTAIL_VERSION >= (4, 0):
return "wagtailcore.Revision"
return "wagtailcore.PageRevision"
class MyModel(models.Model):
# Before
# revision = models.ForeignKey("wagtailcore.PageRevision")
revision = models.ForeignKey(get_revision_model(), on_delete=models.CASCADE)
Page.get_latest_revision_as_page
renamed to Page.get_latest_revision_as_object
The Page.get_latest_revision_as_page
method has been renamed to Page.get_latest_revision_as_object
. The old name still exists for backwards-compatibility, but calling it will raise a RemovedInWagtail50Warning
.
AdminChooser
replaced with BaseChooser
Custom choosers should no longer use wagtail.admin.widgets.chooser.AdminChooser
which has been replaced with wagtail.admin.widgets.chooser.BaseChooser
.
get_snippet_edit_handler
moved to wagtail.admin.panels.get_edit_handler
The get_snippet_edit_handler
function in wagtail.snippets.views.snippets
has been moved to get_edit_handler
in wagtail.admin.panels
.
explorer_breadcrumb
template tag has been renamed to breadcrumbs
, move_breadcrumb
has been removed
The explorer_breadcrumb
template tag is not documented, however if used it will need to be renamed to breadcrumbs
and the url_name
is now a required arg.
The move_breadcrumb
template tag is no longer used and has been removed.
wagtail.contrib.modeladmin.menus.SubMenu
is deprecated
The wagtail.contrib.modeladmin.menus.SubMenu
class should no longer be used for constructing submenus of the admin sidebar menu. Instead, import wagtail.admin.menu.Menu
and pass the list of menu items as the items
keyword argument.