Overview

Wagtail 2.15, released on November 4, 2021, is an LTS release with extended support. It improves the content editor and search system.

Main Features

Improved editor

The rich text editor is improved with new StreamField blocks and better copy-paste handling.

python 
from wagtail.core.models import Page
from wagtail.core.fields import StreamField
from wagtail.core import blocks

class BlogPage(Page):
    body = StreamField([
        ('heading', blocks.CharBlock()),
        ('paragraph', blocks.RichTextBlock()),
        ('image', ImageChooserBlock()),
    ], use_json_field=True)

Improved search

The search backend better supports complex queries and StreamField field indexing.

python 
from wagtail.search import index

class ArticlePage(Page):
    body = RichTextField()

    search_fields = Page.search_fields + [
        index.SearchField('body'),
        index.AutocompleteField('title'),
    ]

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