Wagtail 5.1 release notes - IN DEVELOPMENT

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What's new

Read-only panels

FieldPanels can now be marked as read-only with the read_only=True keyword argument, so that they are displayed in the admin but cannot be edited. This feature was developed by Andy Babic.

Other features

Mark calls to md5 as not being used for secure purposes, to avoid flagging on FIPS-mode systems (Sean Kelly)
Return filters from parse_query_string as a QueryDict to support multiple values (Aman Pandey)
Explicitly specify MenuItem.name for all admin menu and submenu items (Justin Koestinger)
Add Embed URL provider support YouTube Shorts (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/nX84KctJtG0) (valnuro)
Add initial implementation of PagePermissionPolicy (Sage Abdullah)

Bug fixes

Prevent choosers from failing when initial value is an unrecognised ID, e.g. when moving a page from a location where parent_page_types would disallow it (Dan Braghis)
Move comment notifications toggle to the comments side panel (Sage Abdullah)
Remove comment button on InlinePanel fields (Sage Abdullah)
Fix missing link to UsageView from EditView for snippets (Christer Jensen)
Prevent lowercase conversions of IndexView column headers (Virag Jain)
Ensure that RichText objects with the same values compare as equal (NikilTn)
Use gettext_lazy on generic model views so that language settings are correctly used (Matt Westcott)
Prevent JS error when reverting the spinner on a submit button after a validation error (LB (Ben) Johnston)
Prevent crash when comparing page revisions that include MultipleChooserPanel (Matt Westcott)
Ensure that title and slug continue syncing after entering non-URL-safe characters (LB (Ben) Johnston)
Ensure that title and slug are synced on keypress, not just on blur (LB (Ben) Johnston)
Add a more visible active state for side panel toggle buttons (Thibaud Colas)

Documentation

Document how to add non-ModelAdmin views to a ModelAdminGroup (Onno Timmerman)
Document how to add StructBlock data to a StreamField (Ramon Wenger)
Update ReadTheDocs settings to v2 to resolve urllib3 issue in linkcheck extension (Thibaud Colas)
Update documentation for log_action parameter on RevisionMixin.save_revision (Christer Jensen)
Reorganise snippets documentation to cover customisations and optional features (Sage Abdullah)
Update color customisations guidance to include theme-agnostic options (Thibaud Colas)
Mark LTS releases in release note page titles (Thiago C. S. Tioma)
Revise main Getting started tutorial for clarity (Kevin Chung (kev-odin))

Maintenance

Switch to ruff for flake8 / isort code checking (Oliver Parker)
Deprecate insert_editor_css in favour of insert_global_admin_css (Ester Beltrami)
Optimise use of specific on Task and TaskState (Matt Westcott)
Use table UI component for workflow task index view (Matt Westcott)
Make header search available on generic index view (Matt Westcott)
Update pagination behaviour to reject out-of-range / invalid page numbers (Matt Westcott)
Remove color tokens which are duplicates / unused (Thibaud Colas)
Add tests to help with maintenance of theme color tokens (Thibaud Colas)
Split out a base listing view from generic index view (Matt Westcott)
Update type hints in admin/ui/components.py so that parent_context is mutable (Andreas Nüßlein)

Upgrade considerations

`insert_editor_css` hook is deprecated

The insert_editor_css hook has been deprecated. The insert_global_admin_css hook has the same functionality, and all uses of insert_editor_css should be changed to insert_global_admin_css.

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