# Wagtail 7.4 (LTS) release notes

_Unreleased_

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Wagtail 7.4 is designated a Long Term Support (LTS) release. Long Term Support releases will continue to receive maintenance updates as necessary to address security and data-loss related issues, up until the next LTS release (typically a period of 12 months).

## What's new


### Other features

 * Add `is_deferred_validation` flag to support skipping custom validation when saving drafts (Daniel Kirkham)
 * Update project template Dockerfile to build dependencies in a separate stage (Brylie Oxley, Akshat Gupta)
 * Add `include_root` parameter to admin pages API endpoint (Divyansh Mishra)

### Bug fixes

 * Handle nested inline models when displaying object usage information (Sage Abdullah, Kacper Walęga, Tian Jie Wong)
 * Avoid duplicate `get_object()` DB query in API detail view (Siddheshwar Kadam)
 * Ensure `ImageBlock` alt text populates on choosing a new image after unchecking decorative state (Pratham Jaiswal)
 * Set `verbose_name_plural` for Query model in search promotions app (Saptami)
 * Truncate overly long task names in workflow admin view (Gaurav Takhi)
 * Hide "Add child page" button when no child pages can be created as per `max_count` or `max_count_per_parent` (Lasse Schmieding)

### Documentation

 * Add documentation for the `filter_spec` parameter of `ImageRenditionField` (Soumya-codr)
 * Add guide for testing document upload forms (Wenli Tsai, Bhavesh Sharma)
 * Document the `nested_default_fields` attribute on API viewsets (Deepanshu Tevathiya)
 * Replace `http` with `https` in example URLs (Kunal Gupta)
 * Use `pathlib.Path` for settings in "Integrating into Django" documentation (Kunal Gupta)
 * Clarify example of how to implement custom embed finders (Naman Sharma S)
 * Add documentation for using the `ReferenceIndex` API (Saptami)
 * Retitle documentation page for settings contrib module to "Settings models" (Karl Hobley)
 * Fix typos and minor grammar issues (Kunal Gupta)

### Maintenance

 * Removed support for Django 4.2
 * Fix LocaleController test failures caused by differing timezone representations between Node versions (Saptami, Matt Westcott)
 * Fix frontend coverage upload to Codecov (Sage Abdullah)
 * Update semgrep to 1.150.0 (Pravin Kamble)
 * Fix `hash_filelike` test case to account for line break differences on Windows (Mustansir Dabhiya)
 * Fix temporary file handling in redirect import tests on Windows (Mustansir Dabhiya)
 * Fix use of platform-specific date formatting in edit handler tests (Mustansir Dabhiya)
 * Bump Node.js to 24 (active LTS), upgrade Jest and Storybook (Sage Abdullah)
 * Use Docker Elasticsearch images for GitHub CI instead of unofficial actions (Matt Westcott)
 * Make LocaleController tests robust against changes to timezone data in Node (Sage Abdullah)
 * Fix `PermissionError` on document serve tests under Windows (Matt Westcott)


## Upgrade considerations - changes affecting all projects

## Upgrade considerations - deprecation of old functionality

### Removed support for Django 4.2

Django 4.2 is no longer supported as of this release; please upgrade to Django 5.2 or above before upgrading Wagtail.

## Upgrade considerations - changes affecting Wagtail customizations

## Upgrade considerations - changes to undocumented internals