Our roadmap for the next 6 months
11 new roadmap items with a wide range of improvements
With Wagtail 7.3 and autosave recently released, we’ve just updated our our project roadmap for the next two releases of the CMS. Here’s an overview of the 11 improvements we’ve just added.
May 2026, Wagtail 7.4 LTS
As the next release is earmarked for Long Term Support (LTS), we want to focus on fundamental UX improvements and unlocking future customizations.
Autosave UX enhancements
Follow-up improvements to the Autosave MVP based on user feedback and real-world usage, including being able to skip required fields in StreamField blocks, and UI polish based on feedback from our latest release.
Page editor UX
A range of UX improvements to the editing experience, focusing on addressing known pain points and clearing our backlog of UX issues. One of the big goals will be to introduce a content linking or "content sync" capability, with synchronized scrolling and easy navigation between the live preview and CMS form fields:
Model search improvements
We're continuing our work on the new django-modelsearch package extracted from Wagtail’s search backends, with incremental improvements including search permission handling, and filtering on related objects. Vector indexing if possible too!
Customizable page explorer
Support for customizations such as additional columns and filters in the main page explorer, reducing the need for developers to create custom views for pages. This will make it easier to tailor the page listing to specific project needs.
Independent security audit
An independent security audit of the product and project to identify and populate a backlog of security improvements. This will help ensure Wagtail continues to meet high security standards.
Package maintainers guide
A revamp of our Python Package Maintenance Guidelines, adding more content and reflecting the work on Wagtail Nest to support package maintainers in the ecosystem.
Content quality checker enhancements
Building on our AI checker concepts, we're implementing generic qualitative checkers including SEO search description automated content checks, a universal content comparison interface, and checker error highlights within the preview panel.
August 2026
SEO power tools
New built-in SEO and content quality assurance features, with opportunities for integration with SEO and analytics tools, as well as generative AI.
Choosers UI improvements
Iterative improvements towards a new design for choosers, bringing them closer to the "Universal listings" UX that we've rolled out across listing views.
Customizable base page model
Introduction of an overridable AbstractPage class to allow base page fields to be customized per-project, addressing long-standing requests for swappable page models.
Starter kit relaunch
Overhaul of the wagtail start support for custom templates and the news template for higher usability and maintainability, with simpler support for multiple starter kits and tooling to guarantee starter kits are always up-to-date with latest releases.
Future
Last but not least, we’ve also added Multilingual content lifecycle to our "Future" improvements on the roadmap. We really want to work on this, but need more feedback on what exactly to tackle. This will likely get refined as a range of improvements over multiple releases, to make sure our multilingual support is top notch across a wide range of site setups.
We hope you like those roadmap additions, and look forward to any feedback! And if you have a minute, take a moment to vote for Wagtail in the CMS Critic Awards ❤️. We’re elated to have been nominated, this is an excellent way to make our CMS more well-known.
