New feature releases of Wagtail are released every three months. These releases provide new features, improvements and bugfixes, and are marked by incrementing the second part of the version number (for example, 2.6 to 2.7).

Here are planned future releases and currently-supported Wagtail versions. View the Wagtail roadmap to learn about upcoming improvements.

• *: Future version numbers are provisional. These may receive a major version number increment, depending on the extent of backwards-incompatible changes and significant UI differences.
• [1]: End date of fixes for security issues, data loss bugs, crashing bugs, major functionality bugs in newly-introduced features, regressions from older versions of Wagtail, and specific user interface & accessibility bugs.
• [2]: End date of fixes for security issues and data loss bugs.

For more details on what fixes are applied during the “active support” and “security support” periods, refer to the supported versions in Wagtail’s release process.

All of Wagtail’s major and minor releases to date, in support and out of support.

Exceptionally, with 2.0 introducing breaking changes, 1.13 was designated as LTS in addition to 1.12.

The actual release date will be on the closest working day (in the UK), also avoiding Fridays, and depend on the successful testing of release candidates, which are made available at least three weeks ahead of the planned final release date.

Additionally, patch releases will be issued as needed, to fix bugs and security issues. These are marked by incrementing the third part of the version number (for example, 2.6 to 2.6.1). Wherever possible, these releases will remain fully backwards compatible with the corresponding feature and not introduce any breaking changes.

A feature release will usually stop receiving patch release updates when the next feature release comes out. However, selected feature releases are designated as Long Term Support (LTS) releases, and will continue to receive maintenance updates to address any security and data-loss related issues that arise. Typically, a Long Term Support release will happen once every four feature releases and receive updates for six feature releases, giving a support period of eighteen months with a six month overlap.

Also, Long Term Support releases will ensure compatibility with at least one Django Long Term Support release. View our Wagtail and Django release timeline to compare supported versions over time.