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Wagtail 0.4 release notes
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Whats new
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Front-end permissions
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TODO
Python 3 support
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Wagtail now supports Python 3.2, 3.3 and 3.4.
Scheduled publishing
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Editors can now schedule pages to be published or unpublished at specified times.
A new management command has been added (``publish_scheduled_pages``) to publish pages that have been scheduled by an Editor.
TODO: Link to docs
Search on QuerySet with Elasticsearch
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Its now possible to perform searches with Elasticsearch on ``PageQuerySet``s.
Example:
>>> from wagtail.wagtailcore.models import Page
>>> Page.objects.live().descendant_of(events_index).search("Hello")
[<Page: Event 1>, <Page: Event 2>]
Sitemap generation
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A new module has been added (``wagtail.contrib.wagtailsitemaps``) which produces XML sitemaps for Wagtail sites.
TODO: Link to docs
Front-end cache invalidation
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A new module has been added (``wagtail.contrib.wagtailfrontendcache``) which invalidates pages in a frontend cache when they are updated or deleted in Wagtail.
TODO: Link to docs
Notification preferences
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Users can now decide which notifications they recieve from Wagtail using a new "Notification preferences" section located in the accound settings section.
Minor features
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Core
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* Any extra arguments given to ``Page.serve`` are now passed through to ``get_context`` and ``get_template``
* Added ``in_menu`` and ``not_in_menu`` methods to ``PageQuerySet``
* Added ``get_next_siblings`` and ``get_prev_siblings`` to ``Page``
* Added ``page_published`` signal
* Added ``copy`` method to ``Page`` to allow copying of pages
* Added ``construct_whitelister_element_rules`` hook for customising the HTML whitelist used when saving ``RichText`` fields
* Support for setting a ``subpage_types`` property on ``Page`` models, to define which page types are allowed as subpages
Admin
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* Removed the "More" section from the admin menu
* Added pagination to page listings in admin
* Added a new datetime picker widget
* Updated hallo.js to version 1.0.4
* Aesthetic improvements to preview experience
* Login screen redirects to dashboard if user is already logged in
* Snippets are now ordered alphabetically
* Added ``init_new_page`` signal
Images
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* Added ``original`` as a resizing rule supported by the ``{% image %}`` tag
* ``image`` tag now accepts extra keyword arguments to be output as attributes on the img tag
* Added an ``attrs`` property to image rendition objects to output ``src``, ``width``, ``height`` and ``alt`` attributes all in one go
Other
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* Added styleguide (mainly for wagtail developers)
Bug fixes
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* Animated GIFs are now coalesced before resizing
* Wand backend clones images before modifying them
* Admin breadcrumb now positioned correctly on mobile
* Page chooser breadcrumb now updates the chooser modal instead of linking to Explorer
* Embeds - Fixed crash when no HTML field is sent back from the embed provider
* Multiple sites with same hostname but different ports are now allowed
* No longer possible to create multiple sites with ``is_default_site = True``
Backwards incompatible changes
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ElasticUtils/pyelasticsearch has now been replaced with elasticsearch-py
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TODO
Deprecated features
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* Renamed some template tag libraries
TODO: Write some more about renamed template tags
TODO: Search wagtail codebase for any new DeprecationWarnings