v0.17.0 release notes

New features

  • NEW setting to globally force all external links to open in a new tab. See Open External Links in New Tab.

  • Upgraded Wagtail to version 2.7

  • New UI of streamfield, and other changes from Wagtail 2.7.

  • Now supports Django 2.0, 2.1, 2.2 and Python 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8

Bug fixes

  • Fix bug where form field without a selected type would cause a 500 error.

  • Render valid AMP images and iframes on ArticlePage and in RichText and Embed blocks.

Upgrade considerations

  • You will need to run python manage.py makemigrations website and python manage.py migrate after upgrading.

  • Template tag richtext_amp_formatting has been removed and should be replaced with richtext|convert_to_amp.

  • Template tag amp_formatting has been replaced with convert_to_amp.