Wagtail 6.1

[katdom13]

Notes

• No significant changes related to Wagtail 6.1
• Drop support for Django < 4.2 as those have reached EOL

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What’s new

• Universal listings continued
• Information-dense admin interface
• Custom per-page-type listings
• Keyboard shortcuts overview
• Better guidance for password-protected content
• Favicon images generation
• Cve-2024-32882: permission check bypass when editing a model with per-field restrictions through wagtail.contrib.settings or modelviewset
• Other features
• Bug fixes
• Documentation
• Maintenance

Changes affecting wagtail customizations

• Changes to submissionslistview class
• Register_user_listing_buttons hook signature changed
• Password_required_template has changed to wagtail_password_required_template
• Document_password_required_template has changed to wagtaildocs_password_required_template

Changes to undocumented internals

• Deprecation of user_listing_buttons template tag
• Deprecation of wagtailusers_groups:users url pattern
• Deprecation of window.chooserurls within draftail choosers
• Deprecation of window.initblockwidget to initialize a streamfield block
• Old
• New
• Removal of jquery from base client-side widget and boundwidget classes
• Window.urlify deprecated
• Window.xregexp polyfill removed

[katdom13]

Closing because the changes have been made here:
#66