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)
 * Add a fallback background for the editing preview iframe for sites without a background (Ian Price)

### 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
Update version number to 6.0 2023-10-26 09:29:31 +00:00			`# Wagtail 6.0 release notes - IN DEVELOPMENT`
Set up release notes for 5.3 2023-10-20 13:27:19 +00:00
			`_Unreleased_`

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			`## What's new`


			`### Other features`

Add search_index option to control search indexing of StreamField blocks (#11135) 2023-10-26 09:11:49 +00:00			* Added `search_index` option to StreamField blocks to control whether the block is indexed for searching (Vedant Pandey)
Set up release notes for 5.3 2023-10-20 13:27:19 +00:00
			`### Bug fixes`

Update checks.py (#10462) Prevent "RemovedInDjango51Warning: The DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE setting is deprecated. Use STORAGES instead." 2023-05-22 14:03:08 +00:00			* Update system check for overwriting storage backends to recognise the `STORAGES` setting introduced in Django 4.2 (phijma-leukeleu)
fix validation error on save from autocomplete (#11113) 2023-10-22 16:44:36 +00:00			`* Prevent password change form from raising a validation error when browser autocomplete fills in the "Old password" field (Chiemezuo Akujobi)`
Update changelog contributors for #11101 2023-10-26 12:07:48 +00:00			`* Ensure that the legacy dropdown options, when closed, do not get accidentally clicked by other interactions wide viewports (CheesyPhoenix, Christer Jensen)`
Add a background on the preview iframe Ensures that when the iframe content is loaded there is a background on the iframe. So that transparent websites show correctly in the preview panel. Fixes #11174 2023-11-05 00:33:35 +00:00			`* Add a fallback background for the editing preview iframe for sites without a background (Ian Price)`
Set up release notes for 5.3 2023-10-20 13:27:19 +00:00
			`### Documentation`

Update contributing translation docs - template usage Closes #10126 2023-10-21 20:21:25 +00:00			* Document, for contributors, the use of translate string literals passed as arguments to tags and filters using `_()` within templates (Chiemezuo Akujobi)
Set up release notes for 5.3 2023-10-20 13:27:19 +00:00
			`### Maintenance`

update beautifulsoup pin (#11096) 2023-10-19 16:09:55 +00:00			`* Update BeautifulSoup upper bound to 4.12.x (scott-8)`
Add changelog for #11120 Closes #11071 2023-10-24 21:14:34 +00:00			* Migrate initialization of classes (such as `body.ready`) from multiple JavaScript implementations to one Stimulus controller `w-init` (Chiemezuo Akujobi)
Use use _() over interim template vars for translations as args (wagtailadmin) Closes #10126 2023-10-21 13:19:03 +00:00			* Adopt the usage of of translate string literals using `arg=_('...')` in all `wagtailadmin` module templates (Chiemezuo Akujobi)
Migrate styleguide contrib index view to a class based view - Relates to #8365 2023-10-26 14:16:10 +00:00			`* Migrate the contrib styleguide index view to a class based view (Chiemezuo Akujobi)`
Bump djhtml to 3.0.6 (#11158) Notably, this changes the behaviour of multi-line HTML tags so that attributes are aligned (https://github.com/rtts/djhtml#new-multi-line-html-elements). The pre-commit hook was already set to use djhtml 3.0.6, which meant that it was making changes that conflicted with the formatting rules enforced by the Makefile and CI. 2023-10-30 15:49:41 +00:00			`* Update djhtml to 3.0.6 (Matt Westcott)`
Set up release notes for 5.3 2023-10-20 13:27:19 +00:00

			`## Upgrade considerations - changes affecting all projects`

Drop support for Elasticsearch 5 and 6 2023-10-23 16:16:34 +00:00			`### 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.`

Set up release notes for 5.3 2023-10-20 13:27:19 +00:00			`## Upgrade considerations - deprecation of old functionality`

			`## Upgrade considerations - changes affecting Wagtail customisations`

			`## Upgrade considerations - changes to undocumented internals`