Wagtail CMS Releases

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{
  "source": "wagtail.releases",
  "vendor": "Wagtail",
  "id": "tag:github.com,2008:Repository/16479108/v8.0",
  "published_at": "2026-08-25T12:36:17.000Z",
  "title": "8.0",
  "url": "https://github.com/wagtail/wagtail/releases/tag/v8.0",
  "summary": "Support for custom base page models (Matt Westcott) New v3 REST API with support for read and write CMS operations (Sage Abdullah, Thibaud Colas) Create a global registry for permission policies (Sage Abdullah) Add customizability for all remaining page views to PageViewSet (Sage Abdullah) Set FieldPanel(required_on_save=True) for AbstractFormField 's field_type field (Alex Tomkins) Handle pasting of multiple tags separated by newlines or commas (Matthias Brück) Make Button component render a <button> element when no URL is supplied (Nayeli De Jesus, LB (Ben Johnston), Sage Abdullah) Show site name in site switcher dropdown in site settings editor (Jack Morgan) Improve clarity of different task states in workflow details dialog (Dan Braghis) Add submenu_hook attribute to ViewSetGroup for collecting submenu items registered via a hook (Hunzlah Malik, MariyaOT, Sage Abdullah) Respect ViewSet.menu_order when used in a ViewSetGroup (Sage Abdullah) Use a more accessible label for blank values of ChoiceBlock (Sage Abdullah) Use a more accessible label for blank values of dropdowns in locked page report filters (Sage Abdullah) Make audit log messages for scheduling/unscheduling generic (Sage Abdullah) Stop converting AVIF and WebP images to PNG by default (Thibaud Colas) Add rich text serializing to HTML support in the v2 API (Thibaud Colas) Expose the block id as a template context variable when rendering children of StreamBlock and ListBlock (Sage Abdullah) Add extension blocks for image and document stats in the edit view templates (Preeti Singh) Security fix: Improper restriction handling on Pages admin API (xuliang@QAX, Dan Braghis) Security fix: Identification of documents by SHA1 hash (Anand Himanshu, Matt Westcott) Security fix: Improper restriction handling on descendant collections in Documents and Images API (Ta Duc Thien, Matt Westcott) Security fix: Improper permission handling when copying snippets (tinyb0y, Matt Westcott) Security fix: Improper restriction handling on Page translation API endpoint (tinyb0y, Matt Westcott) Fix: Make SnippetChooserViewSet.widget_class a class instead of an instance (Amrinder Singh, Sage Abdullah) Fix: Prevent an error when approving a workflow that has been cancelled in a different session (Kailesh) Fix: Accommodate multilingual sites in skipping the \"choose parent\" step when creating a new page from a flat page listing (Amrinder Singh) Fix: Prevent error when moving a page to a destination with missing translations and WAGTAILSIMPLETRANSLATION_SYNC_PAGE_TREE = True (Sahil Kumar) Fix: Handle Pillow detecting decompression bombs when validating image pixel count (Jake Howard, Sage Abdullah) Fix: Use canonical URL for TED oEmbed provider (Marquis Nobles) Fix: Prevent icons from capturing clicks inside buttons (Maciek Baron) Fix: Prevent stale content types from breaking audit log message formatting (Thibaud Colas) Fix: Ensure form field clean_name is consistently set on form pages if autosave runs prematurely (Joey Jurjens) Fix: Enforce 'choose' permission on image chooser select-format view (Matt Westcott) Docs: Add reference documentation entry for SnippetChooserViewSet (Sage Abdullah) Docs: Fix panel classname and deprecated usage of format_html in construct_homepage_panels example (Andreas Nüßlein) Docs: Add docs for request.in_preview_panel to explain its use (Raghad Dahi) Docs: Update image format docs to encourage more intentional conversions (Thibaud Colas) Docs: Clarify Wagtail XSS protections for uploaded documents (Thibaud Colas) Docs: Add section on customizing StreamField block API output with get_api_representation (Pranith Beeram) Docs: Removed now-deprecated USE_L10N setting from internationalization and project setup documentation (Piyush Bhakuni) Docs: Add an overview page for images (Dmitry Khlopyev) Maintenance: Formalized support for Django 6.1 Maintenance: Rename request argument to cache_object in Page._get_site_root_paths() for correctness (Kailesh) Maintenance: Fix blank choice tests for Django 6.1 (Sage Abdullah) Maintenance: Ignore EMAIL_BACKEND setting deprecation on Django 6.1 when running project template tests (Sage Abdullah) Maintenance: Use uv with lockfile in CI configurations (Sage Abdullah) Maintenance: Add one and not match support to RulesController (LB (Ben Johnston)) Maintenance: Pin all GitHub Actions dependencies to specific versions (Thibaud Colas) Maintenance: Refactor pages' function-based views to class-based views (Sage Abdullah) Maintenance: Add renovate configuration to automate Python dependencies management (Sage Abdullah) Maintenance: Use Renovate to update GitHub Actions dependencies pins (Sage Abdullah) Maintenance: Enable flake8-bandit security-focused linting rules (Storm Heg) Maintenance: Add support for latest Azure SDK for frontend cache invalidation (Sage Abdullah) Maintenance: Update guide.wagtail.org links to new versioning scheme (Raghad Dahi) Maintenance: Format Python code in documentation using ruff (Thibaud Colas) Maintenance: Use Ubuntu 26.04 ARM runner for GitHub Actions workflows (Storm Heg)",
  "tags": [
    "Wagtail",
    "wagtail.releases",
    "cms",
    "python",
    "django"
  ]
}