2 April 2020

Previous issue: Issue 33

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.
• Blog post: Wagtail SEO Guide

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

Latest changes

wagtail

• Workflow implementation fixes
• Add safe filter to task and workflow names on plain text notification…

wagtail-condensedinlinepanel

• Version 0.5.3 released!

wagtail-whoosh

• benchmark testing
• Performance options

wagtail-review

• Create reviewer for user if none exists
• Group review task
• don't clobber the _ alias of ugettext_lazy

wagtail.io

• A11Y improvements on newsletter page
• Add newsletter RSS feed
• Add styling for inline code blocks
• Upgrade Wagtail to 2.8 and Django to 2.2.10 LTS

wagtail-transfer

• Include parent IDs from tree models in mappings
• Nullable RichText fix
• Look for embedtypes in RichText
• Use absolute URL for images
• Version bump to 0.2.2
• Version bump to 0.2.1

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.