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Wagtail 7.2.1 release notes

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Wagtail 7.2.1 release notes

November 26, 2025

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What's new

Bug fixes

  • Allow userbar in page previews to render without needing to configure site record (Sage Abdullah)
  • Disable usage count ordering when searching on documents and images listing views, to prevent unsupported search query (Sage Abdullah)
  • Do not replace existing document or image title when uploading a new file (Sage Abdullah)
  • Use a more efficient query for fetching usage counts on image and document listings when not ordering by usage count (Sage Abdullah)
  • Add composite indexes to improve reference index performance (Sage Abdullah)

Maintenance

  • Remove use of _WAGTAILSEARCH_FORCE_AUTO_UPDATE in search tests (Matt Westcott)

Upgrade considerations

Addition of composite indexes to ReferenceIndex table

This release includes a migration to add composite indexes to the wagtailcore_referenceindex table on the fields base_content_type and object_id, and on to_content_type and to_object_id. If you have already created these indexes manually on your database, you should skip this migration by passing the option --fake to the migrate management command.

Running this migration may hang if there are existing long-running queries in progress on the table. If so, you are advised to stop and restart the database service before rerunning the migration.