23 April 2020

Previous issue: Issue 36

News and Blog Posts

• Wagtail 2.9 release candidate 1 now available (release notes)
• Wagtail draftail snippet package supports embedding snippets by The Motley Fool
• Theming a Wagtail Website
• Wagtail multi-language and internationalization

Lastly, we'd like to give a huge shoutout to everyone who has helped translate Wagtail! Thank you for your work!

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

Latest changes

wagtail

• Housekeeping to start work on 2.10
• Handle translations for 2.9rc1
• Set date/time fields to autocomplete="off"
• Hide preview / view draft buttons throughout admin UI when preview_modes is empty
• Docs & readme - remove references to now closed developers forum
• Add tutorials Q1 2020
• Filtering for locked page report
• Add placeholder docs for internationalisation
• Add documentation for reporting security issues
• Split page-specific definitions out from base report view
• Fix/disabling workflows
• Set TreeQueryset.delete.queryset_only = True
• Settings menu version number
• Fix user preferred language override not working with TemplateResponse
• Improve Dockerfile in the new project template
• Admin landmark fixes
• Update admin views to consistently return a TemplateContext and ensure preferred language applies when rendering
• Fix non-ascii content disposition
• Support required fields on custom image models in the multiple image uploader
• page.copy to use `exclude_fields_in_copy` for child & parental m2m relations
• Fix incorrect language code for Japanese in language choice dropdown
• Make only the list part of the nav submenu scroll
• Move and rename nav variables

vagrant-wagtail-base

• Bump version to 1.1.0
• Update versions in README.md
• Update NodeJS to 12.16
• Update Python to 3.8.2
• Fix the PostgreSQL locale errors
• Update OpenJDK to 11
• Update base image

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
• RFC 47: Proposal for supporting comments when submitting pages for moderation
• RFC 48: Nested collections

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. The official dates are July 30th and July 31st. 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.