1.2

• Added wagtail.contrib.settings, a module to allow administrators to edit site-specific settings
• Core templatetags (pageurl, image, wagtailuserbar, etc) are now compatible with Jinja2
• Redirects can now be created for specific sites
• The Page.get_latest_revision_as_page method now returns the live page object if there are no draft changes to the page
• Image and document models now provide a search method on their QuerySets
• Search methods now accept an operator argument to determine whether multiple terms are ORed or ANDed together
• Search methods now accept an order_by_relevance argument, which can be set to False to preserve the original QuerySet ordering
• InlinePanel now accepts max_num and min_num arguments to limit the number of inline items
• 'Add' button on inline panels is disabled when max_num is reached (Salvador Faria)
• StreamField blocks now provide a get_context method for passing additional variables to the block template
• Wagtail API now incorporates the browsable front-end provided by Django REST Framework
• Python 3.5 support
• WagtailRedirectMiddleware can now ignore the query string if there is no redirect that exactly matches it (Michael Cordover)
• Order of URL parameters now ignored by redirect middleware (Michael Cordover)
• Added SQL Server compatibility to image migration (Timothy Allen)
• Added classnames to Wagtail rich text editor buttons to aid custom styling (Rob Shelton)
• Simplified body_class in default homepage template (Josh Barr)
• page_published signal now called with the revision object that was published (Josh Barr)
• Added an overrideable favicon to the admin interface
• Added spinner animations to long-running form submissions
• The EMBEDLY_KEY setting has been renamed to WAGTAILEMBEDS_EMBEDLY_KEY (Anurag Sharma)
• StreamField blocks are now added automatically, without showing the block types menu, if only one block type exists (Alex Gleason)
• Wagtail admin now standardises on a single thumbnail image size, to reduce the overhead of creating multiple renditions
• The first_published_at and latest_revision_created_at fields on page models are now available as filter fields on search queries
• Rich text fields now strip out HTML comments
• Page editor form now sets enctype="multipart/form-data" as appropriate, allowing FileField to be used on page models (Petr Vacha)
• Explorer navigation menu on a completely empty page tree now takes you to the root level, rather than doing nothing
• Added animation and fixed display issues when focusing a rich text field (Alex Gleason)
• Added a system check to warn if Pillow is compiled without JPEG / PNG support
• Page chooser now prevents users from selecting the root node where this would be invalid
• New translations for Dutch (Netherlands), Georgian, Swedish and Turkish (Turkey)
• Fix: Page slugs are no longer auto-updated from the page title if the page is already published
• Fix: Deleting a page permission from the groups admin UI does not immediately submit the form
• Fix: Wagtail userbar is shown on pages that do not pass a page variable to the template (e.g. because they override the serve method)
• Fix: request.site now set correctly on page preview when the page is not in the default site
• Fix: Project template no longer raises a deprecation warning (Maximilian Stauss)
• Fix: PageManager.sibling_of(page) and PageManager.not_sibling_of(page) now default to inclusive (i.e. page is considered a sibling of itself), for consistency with other sibling methods
• Fix: The "view live" button displayed after publishing a page now correctly reflects any changes made to the page slug (Ryan Pineo)
• Fix: API endpoints now accept and ignore the _ query parameter used by jQuery for cache-busting
• Fix: Page slugs are no longer cut off when Unicode characters are expanded into multiple characters (Sævar Öfjörð Magnússon)
• Fix: Searching a specific page model while filtering it by either ID or tree position no longer raises an error (Ashia Zawaduk)
• Fix: Scrolling an over-long explorer menu no longer causes white background to show through (Alex Gleason)
• Fix: Removed jitter when hovering over StreamField blocks (Alex Gleason)
• Fix: Non-ASCII email addresses no longer throw errors when generating Gravatar URLs (Denis Voskvitsov, Kyle Stratis)
• Fix: Dropdowns for ForeignKeys are now styled consistently (Ashia Zawaduk)
• Fix: Date choosers now appear on top of StreamField menus (Sergey Nikitin)
• Fix: Fixed a migration error that was raised when block-updating from 0.8 to 1.1+
• Fix: Page copy no longer breaks on models with a ClusterTaggableManager or ManyToManyField
• Fix: Validation errors when inserting an embed into a rich text area are now reported back to the editor

1.2rc1

• Added wagtail.contrib.settings, a module to allow administrators to edit site-specific settings
• Core templatetags (pageurl, image, wagtailuserbar, etc) are now compatible with Jinja2
• Redirects can now be created for specific sites
• The Page.get_latest_revision_as_page method now returns the live page object if there are no draft changes to the page
• Image and document models now provide a search method on their QuerySets
• Search methods now accept an operator argument to determine whether multiple terms are ORed or ANDed together
• Search methods now accept an order_by_relevance argument, which can be set to False to preserve the original QuerySet ordering
• InlinePanel now accepts max_num and min_num arguments to limit the number of inline items
• 'Add' button on inline panels is disabled when max_num is reached (Salvador Faria)
• StreamField blocks now provide a get_context method for passing additional variables to the block template
• Wagtail API now incorporates the browsable front-end provided by Django REST Framework
• WagtailRedirectMiddleware can now ignore the query string if there is no redirect that exactly matches it (Michael Cordover)
• Order of URL parameters now ignored by redirect middleware (Michael Cordover)
• Added SQL Server compatibility to image migration (Timothy Allen)
• Added classnames to Wagtail rich text editor buttons to aid custom styling (Rob Shelton)
• Simplified body_class in default homepage template (Josh Barr)
• page_published signal now called with the revision object that was published (Josh Barr)
• Added an overrideable favicon to the admin interface
• Added spinner animations to long-running form submissions
• The EMBEDLY_KEY setting has been renamed to WAGTAILEMBEDS_EMBEDLY_KEY (Anurag Sharma)
• StreamField blocks are now added automatically, without showing the block types menu, if only one block type exists (Alex Gleason)
• Wagtail admin now standardises on a single thumbnail image size, to reduce the overhead of creating multiple renditions
• The first_published_at and latest_revision_created_at fields on page models are now available as filter fields on search queries
• Rich text fields now strip out HTML comments
• Page editor form now sets enctype="multipart/form-data" as appropriate, allowing FileField to be used on page models (Petr Vacha)
• Explorer navigation menu on a completely empty page tree now takes you to the root level, rather than doing nothing
• Added animation and fixed display issues when focusing a rich text field (Alex Gleason)
• Added a system check to warn if Pillow is compiled without JPEG / PNG support
• Page chooser now prevents users from selecting the root node where this would be invalid
• New translations for Dutch (Netherlands), Georgian, Swedish and Turkish (Turkey)
• Fix: Page slugs are no longer auto-updated from the page title if the page is already published
• Fix: Deleting a page permission from the groups admin UI does not immediately submit the form
• Fix: Wagtail userbar is shown on pages that do not pass a page variable to the template (e.g. because they override the serve method)
• Fix: request.site now set correctly on page preview when the page is not in the default site
• Fix: Project template no longer raises a deprecation warning (Maximilian Stauss)
• Fix: PageManager.sibling_of(page) and PageManager.not_sibling_of(page) now default to inclusive (i.e. page is considered a sibling of itself), for consistency with other sibling methods
• Fix: The "view live" button displayed after publishing a page now correctly reflects any changes made to the page slug (Ryan Pineo)
• Fix: API endpoints now accept and ignore the _ query parameter used by jQuery for cache-busting
• Fix: Page slugs are no longer cut off when Unicode characters are expanded into multiple characters (Sævar Öfjörð Magnússon)
• Fix: Searching a specific page model while filtering it by either ID or tree position no longer raises an error (Ashia Zawaduk)
• Fix: Scrolling an over-long explorer menu no longer causes white background to show through (Alex Gleason)
• Fix: Removed jitter when hovering over StreamField blocks (Alex Gleason)
• Fix: Non-ASCII email addresses no longer throw errors when generating Gravatar URLs (Denis Voskvitsov, Kyle Stratis)
• Fix: Dropdowns for ForeignKeys are now styled consistently (Ashia Zawaduk)
• Fix: Date choosers now appear on top of StreamField menus (Sergey Nikitin)
• Fix: Fixed a migration error that was raised when block-updating from 0.8 to 1.1+
• Fix: Page copy no longer breaks on models with a ClusterTaggableManager or ManyToManyField
• Fix: Validation errors when inserting an embed into a rich text area are now reported back to the editor

0.8.10

(re-release of 0.8.9 due to packaging issues)

• When copying a page, IDs of child objects within page revision records were not remapped to the new objects; this would cause those objects to be lost from the original page when editing the new one
• Search no longer crashes when auto-indexing a model that doesn't have an id field (Scot Hacker)
• Resizing single pixel images with the "fill" filter no longer raises "ZeroDivisionError" or "tile cannot extend outside image"

0.8.9

• When copying a page, IDs of child objects within page revision records were not remapped to the new objects; this would cause those objects to be lost from the original page when editing the new one
• Search no longer crashes when auto-indexing a model that doesn't have an id field (Scot Hacker)
• Resizing single pixel images with the "fill" filter no longer raises "ZeroDivisionError" or "tile cannot extend outside image"

1.1

Major features:

• specific() method on PageQuerySet
• "Promoted search results" has moved into its own module
• Atomic rebuilding of Elasticsearch indexes
• The wagtail.contrib.wagtailapi module now uses Django REST Framework
• Permissions fixes in the admin interface
• Searchable snippets

Minor features:

• Implemented deletion of form submissions
• Implemented pagination in the page chooser modal
• Changed INSTALLED_APPS in project template to list apps in precedence order
• The {% image %} tag now supports filters on the image variable, e.g. {% image primary_img|default:secondary_img width-500 %}
• Moved the style guide menu item into the Settings sub-menu
• Search backends can now be specified by module (e.g. wagtail.wagtailsearch.backends.elasticsearch), rather than a specific class (wagtail.wagtailsearch.backends.elasticsearch.ElasticSearch)
• Added descendant_of filter to the API
• Added optional directory argument to "wagtail start" command
• Non-superusers can now view/edit/delete sites if they have the correct permissions
• Image file size is now stored in the database, to avoid unnecessary filesystem lookups
• Page URL lookups hit the cache/database less often
• Updated URLs within the admin backend to use namespaces
• The update_index task now indexes objects in batches of 1000, to indicate progress and avoid excessive memory use
• Added database indexes on PageRevision and Image to improve performance on large sites
• Search in page chooser now uses Wagtail's search framework, to order results by relevance
• PageChooserPanel now supports passing a list (or tuple) of accepted page types
• The snippet type parameter of SnippetChooserPanel can now be omitted, or passed as a model name string rather than a model class
• Added aliases for the self template variable to accommodate Jinja as a templating engine: page for pages, field_panel for field panels / edit handlers, and value for blocks
• Added signposting text to the explorer to steer editors away from creating pages at the root level unless they are setting up new sites
• "Clear choice" and "Edit this page" buttons are no longer shown on the page field of the group page permissions form
• Altered styling of stream controls to be more like all other buttons
• Added ability to mark page models as not available for creation using the flag is_creatable; pages that are abstract Django models are automatically made non-creatable
• New translations for Norwegian Bokmål and Icelandic

Bug fixes:

• Text areas in the non-default tab of the page editor now resize to the correct height
• Tabs in "insert link" modal in the rich text editor no longer disappear (Tim Heap)
• H2 elements in rich text fields were accidentally given a click() binding when put insite a collapsible multi field panel
• The wagtailimages module is now compatible with remote storage backends that do not allow reopening closed files
• Search no longer crashes when auto-indexing a model that doesn't have an id field
• The wagtailfrontendcache module's HTTP backend has been rewritten to reliably direct requests to the configured cache hostname
• Resizing single pixel images with the "fill" filter no longer raises "ZeroDivisionError" or "tile cannot extend outside image"
• The queryset returned from search operations when using the database search backend now correctly preserves additional properties of the original query, such as prefetch_related / select_related
• Responses from the external image URL generator are correctly marked as streaming and will no longer fail when used with Django's cache middleware
• Page copy now works with pages that use multiple inheritance
• Form builder pages now pick up template variables defined in the get_context method
• When copying a page, IDs of child objects within page revision records were not remapped to the new objects; this would cause those objects to be lost from the original page when editing the new one
• Newly added redirects now take effect on all sites, rather than just the site that the Wagtail admin backend was accessed through
• Add user form no longer throws a hard error on validation failure

1.1rc1

• Implemented the specific() method on PageQuerySet, to return pages as their most specific type
• "Promoted search results" has moved into its own module
• Elasticsearch backend now supports an experimental ATOMIC_REBUILD flag to keep the existing index available while the update_index task is running
• The wagtailapi module has been refactored to use Django REST Framework (Tom Christie)
• A number of permissions fixes have been made to the Wagtail admin interface. See release notes for a list of specific changes made.
• Snippets that inherit from wagtail.wagtailsearch.index.Indexed now appear as searchable within the Wagtail admin
• Implemented deletion of form submissions (Kyungil Choi)
• Implemented pagination in the page chooser modal
• Changed INSTALLED_APPS in project template to list apps in precedence order (Piet Delport)
• The {% image %} tag now supports filters on the image variable, e.g. {% image primary_img|default:secondary_img width-500 %}
• Moved the style guide menu item into the Settings sub-menu
• Search backends can now be specified by module (e.g. wagtail.wagtailsearch.backends.elasticsearch), rather than a specific class (wagtail.wagtailsearch.backends.elasticsearch.ElasticSearch)
• Added descendant_of filter to the API (Michael Fillier)
• Added optional directory argument to "wagtail start" command (Mitchel Cabuloy)
• Non-superusers can now view/edit/delete sites if they have the correct permissions
• Image file size is now stored in the database, to avoid unnecessary filesystem lookups
• Page URL lookups hit the cache/database less often (Michael van Tellingen)
• Updated URLs within the admin backend to use namespaces
• The update_index task now indexes objects in batches of 1000, to indicate progress and avoid excessive memory use
• Added database indexes on PageRevision and Image to improve performance on large sites
• Search in page chooser now uses Wagtail's search framework, to order results by relevance
• PageChooserPanel now supports passing a list (or tuple) of accepted page types
• The snippet type parameter of SnippetChooserPanel can now be omitted, or passed as a model name string rather than a model class (Joss Ingram)
• Added aliases for the self template variable to accommodate Jinja as a templating engine: page for pages, field_panel for field panels / edit handlers, and value for blocks
• Added signposting text to the explorer to steer editors away from creating pages at the root level unless they are setting up new sites
• "Clear choice" and "Edit this page" buttons are no longer shown on the page field of the group page permissions form
• Altered styling of stream controls to be more like all other buttons
• Added ability to mark page models as not available for creation using the flag is_creatable; pages that are abstract Django models are automatically made non-creatable
• New translations for Norwegian Bokmål and Icelandic
• Fix: Text areas in the non-default tab of the page editor now resize to the correct height
• Fix: Tabs in "insert link" modal in the rich text editor no longer disappear (Tim Heap)
• Fix: H2 elements in rich text fields were accidentally given a click() binding when put insite a collapsible multi field panel
• Fix: The wagtailimages module is now compatible with remote storage backends that do not allow reopening closed files
• Fix: Search no longer crashes when auto-indexing a model that doesn't have an id field (Scot Hacker)
• Fix: The wagtailfrontendcache module's HTTP backend has been rewritten to reliably direct requests to the configured cache hostname
• Fix: Resizing single pixel images with the "fill" filter no longer raises "ZeroDivisionError" or "tile cannot extend outside image"
• Fix: The queryset returned from search operations when using the database search backend now correctly preserves additional properties of the original query, such as prefetch_related / select_related
• Fix: Responses from the external image URL generator are correctly marked as streaming and will no longer fail when used with Django's cache middleware
• Fix: Page copy now works with pages that use multiple inheritance (Jordi Joan)
• Fix: Form builder pages now pick up template variables defined in the get_context method (Christoph Lipp)
• Fix: When copying a page, IDs of child objects within page revision records were not remapped to the new objects; this would cause those objects to be lost from the original page when editing the new one
• Fix: Newly added redirects now take effect on all sites, rather than just the site that the Wagtail admin backend was accessed through
• Fix: Add user form no longer throws a hard error on validation failure

1.0

Major features:

• StreamField, a model field for freeform page content
• Wagtail API, a module for creating a RESTful API for your content
• MySQL support
• Django 1.8 support

Minor features:

• Removed dependency on libsass (Tim Heap)
• Users without usernames can now be created and edited in the admin interface (Tim Heap)
• Added update notifications
• Javascript includes in the admin backend have been moved to the HTML header, to accommodate form widgets that render inline scripts that depend on libraries such as jQuery
• Improvements to the layout of the admin menu footer.
• Menu items of custom apps are now highlighted when being used (Josh Barr)
• Added thousands separator for counters on dashboard
• Added contextual links to admin notification messages
• When copying pages, it is now possible to specify a place to copy to (Timo Rieber)
• FieldPanel now accepts an optional 'widget' parameter to override the field's default form widget (Alejandro Giacometti)
• Page URL paths can now be longer than 255 characters
• Dropped Django 1.6 support
• Dropped Python 2.6 and 3.2 support
• Dropped Elasticsearch 0.90.x support
• Serving documents will now use django-sendfile if it's configured (Jordi Joan)
• Documents are now served with correct mime-type (Jordi Joan, Damian Moore)
• Support for If-Modified-Since HTTP header (Jordi Joan)
• Search view accepts "page" GET parameter in line with pagination
• Reversing django.contrib.auth.admin.login will no longer lead to Wagtails login view (making it easier to have front end views)
• Removed dependency on LOGIN_URL and LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL settings
• Password reset view names namespaced to wagtailadmin
• Removed the need to add permission check on admin views (now automated)
• Added cache-control headers to all admin views
• Page model fields without a FieldPanel are no longer displayed in the form
• No longer need to specify the base model on InlinePanel definitions
• The project template Vagrantfile now listens on port 8000
• The external link chooser in rich text areas now accepts URLs of the form '/some/local/path', to allow linking to non-Wagtail-controlled URLs within the local site (Eric Drechsel)
• SCSS files in wagtailadmin now use absolute imports, to permit overriding by user stylesheets (Martin Sanders)
• Bare text entered in rich text areas is now automatically wrapped in a paragraph element
• Added pagination to the snippets listing and chooser (Martin Sanders)
• Page / document / image / snippet choosers now include a link to edit the chosen item
• The document_served signal now correctly passes the Document class as sender and the document as instance
• Image/Document edit page no longer throws OSError when the original image is missing
• Page classes can specify an edit_handler property to override the default Content / Promote / Settings tabbed interface
• The Page model now records the date/time that a page was first published, as the field first_published_at
• Increased the maximum length of a page slug from 50 to 255 characters
• Plain text fields in the page editor now use auto-expanding text areas
• Date / time pickers now consistently use times without seconds, to prevent Javascript behaviour glitches when focusing / unfocusing fields
• Added hooks register_rich_text_embed_handler and register_rich_text_link_handler for customising link / embed handling within rich text fields
• Added hook construct_homepage_summary_items for customising the site summary panel on the admin homepage
• No longer automatically tries to use Celery for sending notification emails
• Added "Add child page" button to admin userbar (Eric Drechsel)
• Renamed the construct_wagtail_edit_bird hook to construct_wagtail_userbar
• 'static' template tags are now used throughout the admin templates, in place of STATIC_URL
• Added a new decorator-based syntax for RoutablePage, compatible with Django 1.8
• Collapsible blocks stay open on any form error (Salvador Faria)
• Document upload modal no longer switches tabs on form errors (Salvador Faria)
• Added AUTO_UPDATE flag to search backend settings to enable/disable automatically updating the search index on model changes
• Made the built-in project template follow the Django one, with several Wagtail-specific additions. The template comes with two apps (home and search)
• with_metaclass is now imported from Django's bundled copy of the six library, to avoid errors on Mac OS X from an outdated system copy of the library being imported
• Added new translations for Croatian, Finnish and Hebrew (Israel)

1.0rc2

Changes since 1.0rc1:

• Added missing translations
• Adjusted deprecation warnings for features deprecated in 1.0, to indicate that they will be removed in 1.2
• Added StreamField support to the wagtailapi module

0.8.8

• Fix: Formbuilder no longer raises TypeError when submitting unchecked boolean field
• Fix: Image upload form no longer breaks when using i10n thousand separators
• Fix: Multiple image uploader now escapes HTML in filenames
• Fix: Retrieving an individual item from a sliced BaseSearchResults object now properly takes the slice offset into account
• Fix: Removed dependency on unicodecsv which fixes a crash on Python 3
• Fix: Submitting unicode text in form builder form no longer crashes with UnicodeEncodeError on Python 2
• Fix: Creating a proxy model from a Page class no longer crashes in the system check
• Fix: Unrecognised embed URLs passed to the |embed filter no longer cause the whole page to crash with an EmbedNotFoundException
• Fix: Underscores no longer get stripped from page slugs

1.0rc1

Changes since Beta 2:

• StreamField design updates
• Users without usernames can now be created and edited in the admin interface (Tim Heap)
• Added update notifications
• Page URL paths can now be longer than 255 characters
• Added AUTO_UPDATE flag to search backend settings to enable/disable automatically updating the search index on model changes
• Made the built-in project template follow the Django one, with several Wagtail-specific additions. The template comes with two apps (home and search)
• with_metaclass is now imported from Django's bundled copy of the six library, to avoid errors on Mac OS X from an outdated system copy of the library being imported
• Added new translations for Croatian and Finnish
• Fix: Retrieving an individual item from a sliced BaseSearchResults object now properly takes the slice offset into account
• Fix: Removed dependency on unicodecsv which fixes a crash on Python 3
• Fix: Submitting unicode text in form builder form no longer crashes with UnicodeEncodeError on Python 2
• Fix: Creating a proxy model from a Page class no longer crashes in the system check (Nar Chhantyal)
• Fix: Unrecognised embed URLs passed to the |embed filter no longer cause the whole page to crash with an EmbedNotFoundException
• Fix: Underscores no longer get stripped from page slugs