Wagtail 5.0.2 release notes¶

New features¶

• Added TitleFieldPanel to support title / slug field synchronisation (LB (Ben) Johnston)

Bug fixes¶

• Prevent JS error when reverting the spinner on a submit button after a validation error (LB (Ben) Johnston)

• Prevent crash when comparing page revisions that include MultipleChooserPanel (Matt Westcott)

• Ensure that title and slug continue syncing after entering non-URL-safe characters (LB (Ben) Johnston)

• Ensure that title and slug are synced on keypress, not just on blur (LB (Ben) Johnston)

• Add a more visible active state for side panel toggle buttons (Thibaud Colas)

• Use custom dark theme colors for revision comparisons (Thibaud Colas)

Use of TitleFieldPanel for the page title field¶

This release introduces a new TitleFieldPanel class, which is used by default for the page title field and provides the mechanism for synchronising the slug field with the title. Prior to Wagtail 5.0, this happened automatically on any field named ‘title’.

If you have used FieldPanel("title") directly in a panel definition (rather than extending Page.content_panels as standard), and wish to restore the previous behaviour of auto-populating the slug, you will need to change this to TitleFieldPanel("title"). For example:

from wagtail.admin.panels import FieldPanel, MultiFieldPanel

    # ...
    content_panels = [
        MultiFieldPanel([
            FieldPanel("title"),
            FieldPanel("subtitle"),
        ]),
    ]

should become:

from wagtail.admin.panels import FieldPanel, MultiFieldPanel, TitleFieldPanel

    # ...
    content_panels = [
        MultiFieldPanel([
            TitleFieldPanel("title"),
            FieldPanel("subtitle"),
        ]),
    ]