wagtail/docs/releases/4.2.md

Wagtail 4.2 release notes - IN DEVELOPMENT

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What's new

Other features

• Switch to using Willow instead of Pillow for images (Darrel O'Pry)
• Test assertion WagtailPageTestCase.assertCanCreate now supports the kwarg publish=True to check publish redirection (Harry Percival, Akua Dokua Asiedu)
• Ensure that the rebuild_references_index command can run without console output if called with --verbosity 0 (Omerzahid Ali, Aman Pandey)
• Add full support for secondary buttons with icons in the Wagtail design system - button bicolor button--icon button-secondary including the button-small variant (Seremba Patrick)
• Add purge_embeds management command to delete all the cached embed objects in the database (Aman Pandey)
• Make it possible to resize the page editor’s side panels (Sage Abdullah)

Bug fixes

• Make sure workflow timeline icons are visible in high-contrast mode (Loveth Omokaro)
• Ensure authentication forms (login, password reset) have a visible border in Windows high-contrast mode (Loveth Omokaro)
• Ensure visual consistency between buttons and links as buttons in Windows high-contrast mode (Albina Starykova)
• Ensure ChooserBlock.extract_references uses the model class, not the model string (Alex Tomkins)
• Incorrectly formatted link in the documentation for Wagtail community support (Bolarinwa Comfort Ajayi)
• Ensure logo shows correctly on log in page in Windows high-contrast mode (Loveth Omokaro)
• Comments notice background overflows its container (Yekasumah)
• Ensure links within help blocks meet colour contrast guidelines for accessibility (Theresa Okoro)
• Ensure the skip link (used for keyboard control) meets colour contrast guidelines for accessibility (Dauda Yusuf)
• Ensure tag fields correctly show in both dark and light Windows high-contrast modes (Albina Starykova)
• Ensure new tooltips & tooltip menus have visible borders and tip triangle in Windows high-contrast mode (Juliet Adeboye)
• Ensure there is a visual difference of 'active/current link' vs normal links in Windows high-contrast mode (Mohammad Areeb)
• Avoid issues where trailing whitespace could be accidentally removed in translations for new page & snippet headers (Florian Vogt)
• Make sure minimap error indicators follow the minimap scrolling (Thibaud Colas)
• Remove the ability to view or add comments to InlinePanel inner fields to avoid lost or incorrectly linked comments (Jacob Topp-Mugglestone)

Documentation

• Add custom permissions section to permissions documentation page (Dan Hayden)
• Wagtail's documentation (v2.9 to v4.0) has been updated on Dash user contributions for Dash or Zeal offline docs applications (Damilola Oladele, Mary Ayobami, Elizabeth Bassey)
• Add documentation for how to get started with contributing translations for the Wagtail admin (Ogunbanjo Oluwadamilare)
• Officially recommend fnm over nvm in development documentation (LB (Ben) Johnston)
• Mention the importance of passing request and current_site to get_url on the performance documentation page (Jake Howard)
• Add documentation for register_user_listing_buttons hook (LB (Ben Johnston))
• Add development (contributing to Wagtail) documentation notes for development on Windows (Akua Dokua Asiedu)

Maintenance

• Upgrade to Node 18 for frontend build tooling (LB (Ben) Johnston)
• Run Python tests with coverage and upload coverage data to codecov (Sage Abdullah)
• Clean up duplicate JavaScript for the escapeHtml function (Jordan Rob)
• Ensure that translation file generation ignores JavaScript unit tests and clean up unit tests for Django gettext utils (LB (Ben Johnston))
• Migrated initButtonSelects from core.js to own TypesScript file and add unit tests (Loveth Omokaro)
• Migrated initSkipLink util to TypeScript and add JSDoc & unit tests (Juliet Adeboye)
• Clean up some unused utility classes and migrate unlist to Tailwind utility class w-list-none (Loveth Omokaro)
• Clean up linting on legacy code and add shared util hasOwn in TypeScript (Loveth Omokaro)
• Remove unnecessary box-sizing: border-box declarations in SCSS (Albina Starykova)
• Migrated initTooltips to TypeScript add JSDoc and unit tests (Fatuma Abdullahi)
• Migrated initTagField from core.js to own TypeScript file and add unit tests (Chisom Okeoma)
• Added unit tests & JSDoc to initDissmisibles (Yekasumah)

Upgrade considerations

Wagtail-specific image field (WagtailImageField)

The AbstractImage and AbstractRendition models use a Wagtail-specific WagtailImageField which extends Django's ImageField to use Willow for image file handling. This will generate a new migration if you are using a custom image model

Comments within InlinePanel not supported

When the commenting system was introduced, support for InlinePanel fields was incorrectly added. This has lead to issues where comments can be lost on save or in most cases will be added to the incorrect item within the InlinePanel. The ability to add comments here has now been removed and as such any existing comments that were added will no longer show.

See https://github.com/wagtail/wagtail/issues/9685 for tracking of adding this back officially in the future.