18 KiB
Wagtail 6.2 release notes - IN DEVELOPMENT
Unreleased
---
local:
depth: 1
---
What's new
Alt text accessibility check
The built-in accessibility checker now enforces a new alt-text-quality
rule, which tests alt text for the presence of known bad patterns such as file extensions. This rule is enabled by default, but can be disabled if necessary.
This feature was implemented by Albina Starykova, with support from the Wagtail accessibility team.
Word count and reading time metrics
The page editor’s Checks panel now displays two content metrics: word count, and reading time. They are calculated based on the contents of the page preview.
This feature was developed by Albina Starykova and sponsored by The Motley Fool.
Other features
- Optimize and consolidate redirects report view into the index view (Jake Howard, Dan Braghis)
- Support a
HOSTNAMES
parameter onWAGTAILFRONTENDCACHE
to define which hostnames a backend should respond to (Jake Howard, sponsored by Oxfam America) - Refactor redirects edit view to use the generic
EditView
and breadcrumbs (Rohit Sharma) - Allow custom permission policies on snippets to prevent superusers from creating or editing them (Sage Abdullah)
- Do not link to edit view from listing views if user has no permission to edit (Sage Abdullah)
- Allow access to snippets and other model viewsets to users with "View" permission (Sage Abdullah)
- Skip
ChooseParentView
if only one possible valid parent page availale (Matthias Brück) - Add
copy_for_translation_done
signal when a page is copied for translation (Arnar Tumi Þorsteinsson) - Remove reduced opacity for draft page title in listings (Inju Michorius)
- Adopt more compact representation for StreamField definitions in migrations (Matt Westcott)
- Implement a new design for locale labels in listings (Albina Starykova)
- Add a
deactivate()
method toProgressController
(Alex Morega) - Allow manually specifying credentials for CloudFront frontend cache backend (Jake Howard)
- Automatically register permissions for models registered with a
ModelViewSet
(Sage Abdullah) - Implement universal listings UI for report views (Sage Abdullah)
- Make
routable_resolver_match
attribute available on RoutablePageMixin responses (Andy Chosak) - Support customizations to
UserViewSet
via the app config (Sage Abdullah)
Bug fixes
- Make
WAGTAILIMAGES_CHOOSER_PAGE_SIZE
setting functional again (Rohit Sharma) - Enable
richtext
template tag to convert lazy translation values (Benjamin Bach) - Ensure permission labels on group permissions page are translated where available (Matt Westcott)
- Preserve whitespace in comment replies (Elhussein Almasri)
- Address layout issues in the title cell of universal listings (Sage Abdullah)
- Support SVG icon id attributes with single quotes in the styleguide (Sage Abdullah)
- Do not show delete button on model edit views if per-instance permissions prevent deletion (Matt Westcott)
- Remove duplicate header in privacy dialog when a privacy setting is set on a parent page or collection (Matthias Brück)
- Allow renditions of
.ico
images (Julie Rymer) - Fix the rendering of grouped choices when using ChoiceFilter in combination with choices (Sébastien Corbin)
- Add separators when displaying multiple error messages on a StructBlock (Kyle Bayliss)
- Specify
verbose_name
onTranslatableMixin.locale
so that it is translated when used as a label (Romein van Buren) - Disallow null characters in API filter values (Jochen Wersdörfer)
- Fix image preview when Willow optimizers are enabled (Alex Tomkins)
- Ensure external-to-internal link conversion works when the
wagtail_serve
view is on a non-root path (Sage Abdullah) - Add missing
for_instance
method toPageLogEntryManager
(Matt Westcott) - Ensure that "User" column on history view is translatable (Romein van Buren)
- Handle StreamField migrations where the field value is null (Joshua Munn)
- Prevent incorrect menu ordering when order value is 0 (Ben Dickinson)
- Fix dynamic image serve view with certain backends (Sébastien Corbin)
Documentation
- Remove duplicate section on frontend caching proxies from performance page (Jake Howard)
- Document
restriction_type
field on PageViewRestriction (Shlomo Markowitz) - Document Wagtail's bug bounty policy (Jake Howard)
- Fix incorrect Sphinx-style code references to use MyST style (Byron Peebles)
- Document the fact that
Orderable
is not required for inline panels (Bojan Mihelac) - Add note about
prefers-reduced-motion
to the accessibility documentation (Roel Koper) - Update deployment instructions for Fly.io (Jeroen de Vries)
- Add better docs for generating URLs on creating admin views (Shlomo Markowitz)
- Document the
vary_fields
property for custom image filters (Daniel Kirkham)
Maintenance
- Use
DjangoJSONEncoder
instead of customLazyStringEncoder
to serialize Draftail config (Sage Abdullah) - Refactor image chooser pagination to check
WAGTAILIMAGES_CHOOSER_PAGE_SIZE
at runtime (Matt Westcott) - Exclude the
client/scss
directory in Tailwind content config to speed up CSS compilation (Sage Abdullah) - Split
contrib.frontend_cache.backends
into dedicated sub-modules (Andy Babic) - Remove unused
docs/autobuild.sh
script (Sævar Öfjörð Magnússon) - Replace
urlparse
withurlsplit
to improve performance (Jake Howard) - Optimise embed finder lookups (Jake Howard)
- Improve performance of initial admin loading by moving sprite hashing out of module import time (Jake Howard)
Upgrade considerations - changes affecting all projects
Specifying a dict of distribution IDs for CloudFront cache invalidation is deprecated
Previous versions allowed passing a dict for DISTRIBUTION_ID
within the WAGTAILFRONTENDCACHE
configuration for a CloudFront backend, to allow specifying different distribution IDs for different hostnames. This is now deprecated; instead, multiple distribution IDs should be defined as multiple backends, with a HOSTNAMES
parameter to define the hostnames associated with each one. For example, a configuration such as:
WAGTAILFRONTENDCACHE = {
'cloudfront': {
'BACKEND': 'wagtail.contrib.frontend_cache.backends.CloudfrontBackend',
'DISTRIBUTION_ID': {
'www.wagtail.org': 'your-distribution-id',
'www.madewithwagtail.org': 'other-distribution-id',
},
},
}
should now be rewritten as:
WAGTAILFRONTENDCACHE = {
'mainsite': {
'BACKEND': 'wagtail.contrib.frontend_cache.backends.CloudfrontBackend',
'DISTRIBUTION_ID': 'your-distribution-id',
'HOSTNAMES': ['www.wagtail.org'],
},
'madewithwagtail': {
'BACKEND': 'wagtail.contrib.frontend_cache.backends.CloudfrontBackend',
'DISTRIBUTION_ID': 'other-distribution-id',
'HOSTNAMES': ['www.madewithwagtail.org'],
},
}
Changes to permissions registration for models with ModelViewSet
and SnippetViewSet
Models registered with a ModelViewSet
will now automatically have their {class}~django.contrib.auth.models.Permission
objects registered in the Groups administration area. Previously, you need to use the register_permissions
hook to register them.
If you have a model registered with a ModelViewSet
and you registered the model's permissions using the register_permissions
hook, you can now safely remove the hook.
If the viewset has {attr}~wagtail.admin.viewsets.model.ModelViewSet.inspect_view_enabled
set to True
, all permissions for the model are registered. Otherwise, the "view" permission is excluded from the registration.
To customize which permissions get registered for the model, you can override the {meth}~wagtail.admin.viewsets.model.ModelViewSet.get_permissions_to_register
method.
This behavior now applies to snippets as well. Previously, the "view" permission for snippets is always registered regardless of inspect_view_enabled
. If you wish to register the "view" permission, you can enable the inspect view:
class FooViewSet(SnippetViewSet):
...
inspect_view_enabled = True
Alternatively, if you wish to register the "view" permission without enabling the inspect view (i.e. the previous behavior), you can override get_permissions_to_register
like the following:
from django.contrib.auth.models import Permission
from django.contrib.contenttypes.models import ContentType
class FooViewSet(SnippetViewSet):
def get_permissions_to_register(self):
content_type = ContentType.objects.get_for_model(self.model)
return Permission.objects.filter(content_type=content_type)
Deprecation of WAGTAIL_USER_EDIT_FORM
, WAGTAIL_USER_CREATION_FORM
, and WAGTAIL_USER_CUSTOM_FIELDS
settings
This release introduces a customizable UserViewSet
class, which can be used to customize various aspects of Wagtail's admin views for managing users, including the form classes for creating and editing users. As a result, the WAGTAIL_USER_EDIT_FORM
, WAGTAIL_USER_CREATION_FORM
, and WAGTAIL_USER_CUSTOM_FIELDS
settings have been deprecated in favor of customizing the form classes via UserViewSet.get_form_class()
.
If you use the aforementioned settings, you can migrate your code by making the following changes.
Before
Given the following custom user model:
class User(AbstractUser):
country = models.CharField(verbose_name='country', max_length=255)
status = models.ForeignKey(MembershipStatus, on_delete=models.SET_NULL, null=True, default=1)
The following custom forms:
class CustomUserEditForm(UserEditForm):
status = forms.ModelChoiceField(queryset=MembershipStatus.objects, required=True, label=_("Status"))
class CustomUserCreationForm(UserCreationForm):
status = forms.ModelChoiceField(queryset=MembershipStatus.objects, required=True, label=_("Status"))
And the following settings:
WAGTAIL_USER_EDIT_FORM = "myapp.forms.CustomUserEditForm"
WAGTAIL_USER_CREATION_FORM = "myapp.forms.CustomUserCreationForm"
WAGTAIL_USER_CUSTOM_FIELDS = ["country"]
After
Change the custom forms to the following:
class CustomUserEditForm(UserEditForm):
status = forms.ModelChoiceField(queryset=MembershipStatus.objects, required=True, label=_("Status"))
# Use ModelForm's automatic form fields generation for the model's `country` field.
# Alternatively, you can also define a `country` form field directly on
# `CustomUserEditForm` along with any desired options for the field, and skip
# the following custom Meta subclass.
class Meta(UserEditForm.Meta):
fields = UserEditForm.Meta.fields | {"country"}
class CustomUserCreationForm(UserCreationForm):
status = forms.ModelChoiceField(queryset=MembershipStatus.objects, required=True, label=_("Status"))
# Use ModelForm's automatic form fields generation for the model's `country` field.
# Alternatively, you can also define a `country` form field directly on
# `CustomUserCreationForm` along with any desired options for the field, and skip
# the following custom Meta subclass.
class Meta(UserCreationForm.Meta):
fields = UserEditForm.Meta.fields | {"country"}
Create a custom UserViewSet
subclass in e.g. myapp/viewsets.py
:
# myapp/viewsets.py
from wagtail.users.views.users import UserViewSet as WagtailUserViewSet
from .forms import CustomUserCreationForm, CustomUserEditForm
class UserViewSet(WagtailUserViewSet):
def get_form_class(self, for_update=False):
if for_update:
return CustomUserEditForm
return CustomUserCreationForm
Create a custom WagtailUsersAppConfig
subclass in e.g. myapp/apps.py
(or reuse the same class if you have a custom GroupViewSet
as described in ). Then, set a user_viewset
attribute pointing to the custom UserViewSet
subclass:
# myapp/apps.py
from wagtail.users.apps import WagtailUsersAppConfig
class CustomUsersAppConfig(WagtailUsersAppConfig):
user_viewset = "myapp.viewsets.UserViewSet"
# If you have customized the GroupViewSet before
group_viewset = "myapp.viewsets.GroupViewSet"
Replace wagtail.users
in settings.INSTALLED_APPS
with the path to CustomUsersAppConfig
:
INSTALLED_APPS = [
...,
"myapp.apps.CustomUsersAppConfig",
# "wagtail.users",
...,
]
Upgrade considerations - deprecation of old functionality
Upgrade considerations - changes affecting Wagtail customisations
Changes to report views with the new Universal Listings UI
The report views have been reimplemented to use the new Universal Listings UI, which introduces AJAX-based filtering and support for the wagtail.admin.ui.tables
framework.
As a result, a number of changes have been made to the ReportView
and PageReportView
classes, as well as their templates.
If you have custom report views as documented in , you will need to make the following changes.
Change title
to page_title
The title
attribute on the view class should be renamed to page_title
:
class UnpublishedChangesReportView(PageReportView):
- title = "Pages with unpublished changes"
+ page_title = "Pages with unpublished changes"
Set up the results-only view
Set the index_url_name
and index_results_url_name
attributes on the view class:
class UnpublishedChangesReportView(PageReportView):
+ index_url_name = "unpublished_changes_report"
+ index_results_url_name = "unpublished_changes_report_results"
and register the results-only view:
@hooks.register("register_admin_urls")
def register_unpublished_changes_report_url():
return [
path("reports/unpublished-changes/", UnpublishedChangesReportView.as_view(), name="unpublished_changes_report"),
+ # Add a results-only view to add support for AJAX-based filtering
+ path("reports/unpublished-changes/results/", UnpublishedChangesReportView.as_view(results_only=True), name="unpublished_changes_report_results"),
]
Adjust the templates
If you are only extending the templates to add your own markup for the listing table (and not other parts of the view template), you need to change the template_name
into results_template_name
on the view class.
For a page report, the following changes are needed:
- Change
template_name
toresults_template_name
, and optionally rename the template (e.g.reports/unpublished_changes_report.html
toreports/unpublished_changes_report_results.html
). - The template should extend from
wagtailadmin/reports/base_page_report_results.html
. - The
listing
andno_results
blocks should be renamed toresults
andno_results_message
, respectively.
class UnpublishedChangesReportView(PageReportView):
- template_name = "reports/unpublished_changes_report.html"
+ results_template_name = "reports/unpublished_changes_report_results.html"
{# <project>/templates/reports/unpublished_changes_report_results.html #}
-{% extends "wagtailadmin/reports/base_page_report.html" %}
+{% extends "wagtailadmin/reports/base_page_report_results.html" %}
-{% block listing %}
+{% block results %}
{% include "reports/include/_list_unpublished_changes.html" %}
{% endblock %}
-{% block no_results %}
+{% block no_results_message %}
<p>No pages with unpublished changes.</p>
{% endblock %}
For a non-page report, the following changes are needed:
- Change
template_name
toresults_template_name
, and optionally rename the template (e.g.reports/custom_non_page_report.html
toreports/custom_non_page_report_results.html
). - The template should extend from
wagtailadmin/reports/base_report_results.html
. - Existing templates will typically define a
results
block containing both the results listing and the "no results" message; these should now become separate blocks namedresults
andno_results_message
.
Before:
class CustomNonPageReportView(ReportView):
template_name = "reports/custom_non_page_report.html"
{# <project>/templates/reports/custom_non_page_report.html #}
{% extends "wagtailadmin/reports/base_report.html" %}
{% block results %}
{% if object_list %}
<table class="listing">
<!-- Table markup goes here -->
</table>
{% else %}
<p>No results found.</p>
{% endif %}
{% endblock %}
After:
class CustomNonPageReportView(ReportView):
results_template_name = "reports/custom_non_page_report_results.html"
{# <project>/templates/reports/custom_non_page_report_results.html #}
{% extends "wagtailadmin/reports/base_report_results.html" %}
{% block results %}
<table class="listing">
<!-- Table markup goes here -->
</table>
{% endblock %}
{% block no_results_message %}
<p>No results found.</p>
{% endblock %}
If you need to completely customize the view's template, you can still override the template_name
attribute on the view class. Note that both ReportView
and PageReportView
now use the wagtailadmin/reports/base_report.html
template, which now extends the wagtailadmin/generic/listing.html
template. The wagtailadmin/reports/base_page_report.html
template is now unused and should be replaced with wagtailadmin/reports/base_report.html
.
If you override template_name
, it is still necessary to set results_template_name
to a template that extends wagtailadmin/reports/base_report_results.html
(or wagtailadmin/reports/base_page_report_results.html
for page reports), so the view can correctly update the listing and show the active filters as you apply or remove any filters.