Hi all,
The first Release Candidate of 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, and much more. For the full details, see the release notes:
https://docs.wagtail.org/en/latest/releases/5.1.htmlWe'd like to invite all Wagtail users to try this release candidate on their development and staging sites and give us your feedback, to help us catch any issues ahead of the final 5.1 release (scheduled for the start of August). To install, set wagtail==5.1rc1 in your requirements file. For general notes on upgrading, see
https://docs.wagtail.org/en/latest/releases/upgrading.htmlCheers,
Sage