Release notes for #12400. Fixes #9030, #9869

CHANGELOG.txt

@@ -23,6 +23,9 @@ Changelog
  * Implement incremental dashboard design enhancements (Albina Starykova, Ben Enright)
  * Add support for specifying different preview modes to the "View draft" URL for pages (Robin Varghese)
  * Add a new enhanced contrast admin theming option for the admin interface (Albina Starykova, Victoria Ottah)
+ * Implement new designs for the footer actions dropdown with more contrast and larger text (Sage Abdullah)
+ * All create/edit admin forms now use a sticky submit button, for consistency and to speed up edits (Sage Abdullah)
+ * Secondary form actions such as "Delete" are now in the header actions menu (Sage Abdullah)
  * Fix: Prevent page type business rules from blocking reordering of pages (Andy Babic, Sage Abdullah)
  * Fix: Improve layout of object permissions table (Sage Abdullah)
  * Fix: Fix typo in aria-label attribute of page explorer navigation link (Sébastien Corbin)
@@ -41,6 +44,8 @@ Changelog
  * Fix: Update email notification header to the new logo design (rahulsamant37)
  * Fix: Change `file_size` field on document model to avoid artificial 2Gb limit (Gabriel Getzie)
  * Fix: Ensure that `TypedTableBlock` uses the correct API representations of child blocks (Matt Westcott)
+ * Fix: Footer action buttons now include their `media` definitions (Sage Abdullah)
+ * Fix: Improve the text contrast of the bulk actions "Select all" button (Sage Abdullah)
  * Docs: Upgrade Sphinx to 7.3 (Matt Westcott)
  * Docs: Document how to customize date/time format settings (Vince Salvino)
  * Docs: Create a new documentation section for deployment and move fly.io deployment from the tutorial to this section (Vince Salvino)
@@ -68,6 +73,8 @@ Changelog
  * Maintenance: Deprecate `window.wagtailConfig.BULK_ACTION_ITEM_TYPE` usage in JavaScript to reduce reliance on inline scripts (LB (Ben) Johnston)
  * Maintenance: Remove `window.fileupload_opts` usage in JavaScript, use data attributes on fields instead to reduce reliance on inline scripts (LB (Ben) Johnston)
  * Maintenance: Remove `image_format_name_to_content_type` helper function that duplicates Willow functionality (Matt Westcott)
+ * Maintenance: Improve code reuse for footer actions markup across generic views (Sage Abdullah)
+ * Maintenance: Deprecate internal `DeleteMenuItem` API for footer actions (Sage Abdullah)
 
 
 6.2.2 (24.09.2024)

docs/releases/6.3.md

@@ -33,16 +33,24 @@ The new "More contrast" theming can be enabled in account preferences, or will o
 
 This feature was designed thanks to feedback from our blind and partially sighted users, and was developed by Albina Starykova based on design input from Victoria Ottah.
 
+### Universal design
+
+This release follows through with "universal listings" user experience and design consistency improvements earlier in 2024, with the following features.
+
+ * All create/edit admin forms now use a sticky submit button, for consistency and to speed up edits
+ * Secondary form actions such as "Delete" are now in the header actions menu, for consistency and to make the actions more easily reachable for keyboard users
+ * Documents and Images views now use universal listings styles
+ * Page type usage, workflow usage, and workflow history views views also use universal listings styles
+ * The forms pages listing now supports search and filtering
+
+These features were developed by Sage Abdullah.
+
 ### Other features
 
  * Formalize support for MariaDB (Sage Abdullah, Daniel Black)
  * Redirect to the last viewed listing page after deleting form submissions (Matthias Brück)
  * Provide `getTextLabel` method on date / time StreamField blocks (Vaughn Dickson)
  * Purge frontend cache when modifying redirects (Jake Howard)
- * Migrate workflow history views to universal listings (Sage Abdullah)
- * Refactor documents views to use universal designs (Sage Abdullah)
- * Refactor images views to use universal designs (Sage Abdullah)
- * Implement universal listings for workflow usage and page type usage views (Sage Abdullah)
  * Add search and filters to form pages listing (Sage Abdullah)
  * Deprecate the `WAGTAIL_AUTO_UPDATE_PREVIEW` setting, use `WAGTAIL_AUTO_UPDATE_PREVIEW_INTERVAL = 0` instead (Sage Abdullah)
  * Consistently use `capfirst` for title-casing model verbose names (Sébastien Corbin)
@@ -50,6 +58,7 @@ This feature was designed thanks to feedback from our blind and partially sighte
  * Add support for an image `description` field across all images, to better support accessible image descriptions (Chiemezuo Akujobi)
  * Prompt the user about unsaved changes when editing snippets (Sage Abdullah)
  * Add support for specifying different preview modes to the "View draft" URL for pages (Robin Varghese)
+ * Implement new designs for the footer actions dropdown with more contrast and larger text (Sage Abdullah)
 
 ### Bug fixes
 
@@ -74,6 +83,8 @@ This feature was designed thanks to feedback from our blind and partially sighte
  * Update email notification header to the new logo design (rahulsamant37)
  * Change `file_size` field on document model to avoid artificial 2Gb limit (Gabriel Getzie)
  * Ensure that `TypedTableBlock` uses the correct API representations of child blocks (Matt Westcott)
+ * Footer action buttons now include their `media` definitions (Sage Abdullah)
+ * Improve the text contrast of the bulk actions "Select all" button (Sage Abdullah)
 
 ### Documentation
 
@@ -109,6 +120,8 @@ This feature was designed thanks to feedback from our blind and partially sighte
  * Deprecate `window.wagtailConfig.BULK_ACTION_ITEM_TYPE` usage in JavaScript to reduce reliance on inline scripts (LB (Ben) Johnston)
  * Remove `window.fileupload_opts` usage in JavaScript, use data attributes on fields instead to reduce reliance on inline scripts (LB (Ben) Johnston)
  * Remove `image_format_name_to_content_type` helper function that duplicates Willow functionality (Matt Westcott)
+ * Improve code reuse for footer actions markup across generic views (Sage Abdullah)
+ * Deprecate internal `DeleteMenuItem` API for footer actions (Sage Abdullah)
 
 
 ## Upgrade considerations - changes affecting all projects
@@ -177,3 +190,9 @@ The upgrade notification panel can still be removed with the [`WAGTAIL_ENABLE_UP
 ### `SiteSummaryPanel` is no longer removable with `construct_homepage_panels`hook
 
 The summary items can still be removed with the [`construct_homepage_summary_items`](construct_homepage_summary_items) hook.
+
+### Deprecation of `DeleteMenuItem`
+
+The undocumented `DeleteMenuItem` API will be removed in a future release.
+
+The delete option is now provided via `EditView.get_header_more_buttons()`, though this is still an internal-only API.