5 June 2020

Previous issue: Issue #42

News and Blog Posts

• Blog post: How to Build Scalable Websites with Wagtail and Nuxt and the repo (wagtail-nuxt)
• Blog post: Up and Running with Wagtail
• Wagtail Space 2020: Call for proposals is open!

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

Latest changes

wagtail

• Fix typo in request.site middleware deprecation warning
• Update npm packages to address reported vulnerabilities
• Strip away HTML tags from RichText searchable content
• Add note about Elasticsearch backend credentials to docs
• add gitignore to tests folder - ignore test-media sub-folder
• Tweak Wagtail logo hover animation in docs
• Update AbstractForm to use mode_name for preview mode
• Fix for IndexView to allow AdminModel methods for fields #6076
• Drop null=True from Site.site_name
• Fix ElasticsearchDeprecationWarnings
• Implement autocomplete API for PostgreSQL
• Fix _type ElasticsearchDeprecationWarning
• Fix ElasticsearchDeprecationWarnings

eslint-config-wagtail

• Eslint config project improvements

react-streamfield

• Remove unused prettier-stylelint in dependencies. Fix #11
• Version 0.9.6.
• Show test coverage in CI
• Use wagtail gitignore
• Add Travis badge in README
• Stop publishing uncompiled JS source
• List the published package’s content in CI
• Add basic Travis configuration
• Add .nvmrc

wagtail-localize

• Rename SegmentTranslationContext to TranslationContext

stylelint-config-wagtail

• Update package metadata + CI setup
• Release v0.1.1
• Whitelist only the needed files for published package's content
• Fix README logo URL
• Fix links to npm in README

wagtail-transfer

• Model import support

wagtail-airtable

• Import button on available snippet views

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
• RFC 50: Commenting in the Wagtail Editor
• RFC 51: Contextual alt text

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

Upcoming Events

• Introduction to Wagtail Thursday June 11, 2020. This is an online event.
• Wagtail Space US 2020 will be a virtual conference this year. It will take place between Thursday July 30th through Saturday August 1st. The call for proposals is open. If you're interested in giving a talk (pre-recorded or live) you can submit your proposed talk via the Call For Proposals form. Deadline is July 1st.
  
  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.