Wagtail 5.1 released

[Sage Abdullah]

Hi all,

We are very pleased to announce that Wagtail 5.1 is now available! Major new features in this release include:

• AVIF image support
• ElasticSearch 8 support
• Search query boosting for ElasticSearch 6+
• Custom template support for wagtail start
• Read-only FieldPanels
• Performance improvements

And more.

For the full details, see the release notes: https://docs.wagtail.org/en/stable/releases/5.1.html

For general notes on upgrading, see https://docs.wagtail.org/en/stable/releases/upgrading.html

Cheers,

Sage