27 March 2020

Previous issue: Issue 32

News and Blog Posts

• Wagtail 2020 Roadmap Survey — We're asking for feedback from people who are using Wagtail to help develop our roadmap for the year.
• Visit Sweden launched their website and went from ~10 page types with minor StreamField use to only 2 page types with more StreamField use and migrated about 3500 articles into those two page types.
• Adding a latest-changes list to your Wagtail site — a simple way to add a latest-changes list in your Wagtail site.

Wrote a blog post? Released a new plugin? Let us know by tweeting to @WagtailCMS with the hashtag #ThisWeekInWagtail.

Latest changes

wagtail

• Wagtail review notifications compatibility
• Reports docs
• Fixed image resizing failing on slim images
• Fetch deferred stream fields from db
• Documentation: AdminOnlyMenuItem in hooks documentation
• Documentation: Complete report example
• Documentation: How to add custom reports

wagtail-whoosh

• Add more tests against recent Wagtail versions to ensure compatibility
• change install_requires

wagtail-review-ui

• Hide moderation bar when submitted
• Add colours into annotator.scss

wagtail-transfer

• Check for value / return empty set
• wagtail-transfer 0.2 released

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

• Wagtail Space US 2020 will be a virtual conference this year sometime around August. We'll keep you updated on that as it develops in the coming months.

Running an event or meetup? Let us know about it by tweeting to @WagtailCMS.