23 January 2020

Previous issue: Issue 30

News and Blog Posts

• Wagtail 2.8 RC1 released!
• Learn Wagtail: Installing Wagtail using venv

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Latest changes

wagtail

• Disable responsive embeds by default
• Add an empty block area on the search results listing.
• fix minor typos in changelog/2.8 release notes
• Version bump to 2.8rc1
• Generate new source strings for translation
• Fetch new translations from Transifex
• Abort unfinished ajax before new calls in all search ajax
• dropdown on search page by initing dropdowns on ajax success
• Responsive embed setting
• Mark nested InlinePanels as experimental for now
• Revert "Fix submenu footer blocking items in admin" (#5606)

vagrant-wagtail-develop

• Update requirements so VirtualBox compatibility is mentioned

wagtail.io

• Black formatting
• Version bumps: Django 2.1.13, Wagtail 2.3, Pillow 5.4.1
• Primary MenuSnippet Exception
• Update Wagtail to 2.5 and Django to 2.2

wagtail-localize

• Test on Wagtail 2.8 release candidate
• Bump version to 0.4

wagtail-localize-pontoon

• Bump version to 0.2
• Update wagtail-localize dependency to 0.4

wagtail-transfer

• Pre-select source site if there is only one option

RFCs

RFCs (Requests For Comments) are proposals for larger changes in Wagtail. They are submitted as a pull request on the RFCs repository and everyone is welcome to participate in the discussion until the RFC is approved.

The latest RFCs to be submitted are:

• RFC 42: Data transfer between Wagtail installations
• RFC 43: Author specific page locking
• RFC 44: Make "Custom image model" the default
• RFC 45: Workflow
• Outline RFC 46: Single paragraph rich text fields/blocks

If you want to know more about the RFC process, you can read about it here.

Upcoming Events

• Bristol Sprint 2020 (UK)

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