wagtail/docs/releases/6.0.md

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