Wagtail 6.2 release notes - IN DEVELOPMENT¶

Other features¶

• Optimize and consolidate redirects report view into the index view (Jake Howard, Dan Braghis)

• Support a HOSTNAMES parameter on WAGTAILFRONTENDCACHE 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)

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)

Documentation¶

• Remove duplicate section on frontend caching proxies from performance page (Jake Howard)

• Document restriction_type field on PageViewRestriction (Shlomo Markowitz)

Maintenance¶

• Use DjangoJSONEncoder instead of custom LazyStringEncoder to serialize Draftail config (Sage Abdullah)

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'],
    },
}