Wagtail

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* 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 no redirect 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 overridable 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 an 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

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* 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)
* Several 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

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* Added StreamField, a model field for freeform page content
* Added Wagtail API, a module for creating a RESTful API for your content
* MySQL support
* Django 1.8 support
* 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 customizing link / embed handling within rich text fields
* Added hook `construct_homepage_summary_items` for customizing 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 and Finnish

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* 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: Search no longer crashes when auto-indexing a model that doesn't have an id field (Scot Hacker)
* Fix: Resizing single pixel images with the "fill" filter no longer raises `ZeroDivisionError` or "tile cannot extend outside image"

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[release withdrawn due to packaging issues]

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* Fix: Formbuilder no longer raises TypeError when submitting unchecked boolean field (Arne Schauf)
* Fix: Image upload form no longer breaks when using i10n thousand separators (signalkraft)
* Fix: Multiple image uploader now escapes HTML in filenames (Mac Chapman)
* 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