2 July 2020

Previous issue: Issue #46

News and Blog Posts

• New Wagtail Release: Wagtail 2.9.1 was released this week
• Wagtail Webinar: Catch up with article importing from Google Docs and MS Word, internationalisation, enterprise workflow, accessibility tools and headless mode presented by Torchbox
• YouTube Video: 11 young people learned Wagtail and built websites for their charities in four weeks. Here they present their work

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Latest changes

wagtail

• Remove Django 2.1 from install_requires
• Fix MediaBlock SVG icon size in the rich text editor
• Purge image rendition cache on rendition deletion
• Add spacing to daterange filter inputs
• Only run checks on children for tabs that have children
• Move pages summary item hook into wagtail.admin.wagtail_hooks
• [Workflow management UI changes 5] Added workflow usage
• [Workflow management UI changes 4] Various UI tweaks to workflow management
• Disable password auto-completion on UserForm password fields.
• [Workflow management UI changes 3] Reduce usage of edit handlers for workflow management
• [Workflow management UI changes 2] Workflow pages formset
• Upgrade jquery to 3.5.1
• Update hooks.rst (#6160)
• Optimise npm install in squash for speed & logs visibility
• Add more detail to RoutablePageMixin example
• Switch messages icons to SVG
• I would like only add my own editor without to redefine a default one.
• Fix gulp watch task
• Hide "add-buttons" in StreamBlock when 'max_num' child blocks is reached
• Update Page.objects.specific() to warn instead of erroring when specific page data cannot be found
• Release note for #6183 in 2.10
• Fill in release date for 2.9.1
• Release note for #6183 in 2.9.1
• Release notes for #6125 and #6121
• Switch all header h1s icons to svg
• Display header icon in styleguide
• Switch header h1 to SVG icon
• Promote redirect importing to a major feature
• Release note for #6176 in 2.10
• Release note for #6176 on 2.9.1
• Make wagtail.contrib.sitemaps work without SiteMiddleware (#6176)
• Add release notes for Wagtail 2.9.1

wagtailtrans

• Allow page translations into non-live language

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
• RFC 52: Delete page permission
• RFC 53: Swappable Page Model

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. It will take place between Thursday July 30th through Saturday August 1st. The call for proposals is open. For more information about this years Wagtail Space event, visit us.wagtail.space!

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