Wagtail 4.0.4 release notes

October 18, 2022

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What's new

• Render help_text when set on FieldPanel, MultiFieldPanel, FieldRowPanel, and other panel APIs where it previously worked without official support (Matt Westcott)
• Update special-purpose FieldPanel deprecation message to add clarity for developers (Matt Westcott)

Bug fixes

• Add back rendering of help_text for InlinePanel (Matt Westcott)
• Ensure that AbstractForm & AbstractEmailForm page models correctly pass the form to the preview context (Dan Bentley)
• Use the correct custom font for the Wagtail userbar (Umar Farouk Yunusa)
• Ensure that buttons on custom chooser widgets are correctly shown on hover (Thibaud Colas)