v0.16.0 release notes¶

New features¶

NEW spam protection on forms (ON by default). We have been piloting this out for several months and have seen a 100% success rate so far. See Form Pages.
NEW support for Sass via a new starter template. See Installation.
Upgraded Wagtail to version 2.6. Now supports Django versions 2.0, 2.1, and 2.2; Python versions 3.5, 3.6, and 3.7.
Now supports page translation via wagtail-modeltranslation. See new how-to guide: Translation & Multi-Language Support.

Improved HTML5 validity by removing space within tags and href attributes.
Improved accessibility by adding title attribute to embedded iframes.
Specify language in HTML tag. See Translation & Multi-Language Support.
The commonly crawled URL /favicon.ico now issues a redirect to the Favicon set in Layout Settings.

Major code cleanup to conform to Python best practices.
New continuous integration to enforce code quality standards outlined in Contributing.

You might need to run python manage.py makemigrations website and python manage.py migrate after upgrading.
Use of content delivery network for Bootstrap and jQuery has been replaced with local files. This will improve local development and use behind firewalls/offline environments. To continue using a CDN, override {% block frontend_assets %} , {% block required_scripts %} , and {% block frontend_scripts %} in your base.html file.
Python 3.4 support has been dropped by Wagtail.
CoderedFormPage.get_form() method signature has changed.