29 June 2021

Previous issue: Issue #80

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Latest changes

wagtail

• Split up wagtail.core.models
• Split translation models out into wagtail.core.models.i18n
• Allow a `ModelAdmin` to handle root pages
• [slim-sidebar] styling cherry picks part 1
• [slim-sidebar] styling cherry picks part 3
• [slim-sidebar] Page explorer
• Give 404 pages a meaningful HTML title in project template
• Fix issue 6664 - oEmbed cache_age
• Disable image/document Update button on click
• Apply correct HTML escaping to jinja2 include_block tag
• Apply correct HTML escaping to include_block tag output
• Add headings for all settings
• Include form media on account settings page
• Respect embed cache_until (fixes #6664)
• Warn if StreamField doesn't use StreamFieldPanel
• Move account forms into admin
• [Docs] Incorrect field name in example (tiny)
• Don't assume window.comments exists during Draftail init
• Add keyboard and screen reader support to Wagtail user bar (#6994). Fix #6108
• fix small youtube embed - allow to override max_width/max_height in EmbedBlock
• Refactor draftail ModalWorkflowSource for extensibility
• Add max_height param to Facebook and Instagram finders

wagtail.io

• Feature: Dedicated services page type

wagtail-localize

• Write final section of the tutorial on translating templates
• Finish part three (editing content) of the tutorial
• Tidy migration docs
• Docs for translatable fields configuration
• Improve the installation guide
• Copy get_version implementation from Wagtail
• Update translations
• Add script for fetching translations
• Fix title of settings model reference doc

wagtail-live

• Fixes to make sure proper wheels are generated
• Renamed wagtail_live_debug to wagtail_live_interface.
• Add documentation builds
• Add initial Github Actions test setup
• Add .envrc to gitignore
• Add Slack fixtures
• Webhook Receiver Mixin
• Add innerText
• clean js file
• Wagtail Live Interface Receiver
• Publish the revision
• Test blocks
• Added BaseMessageReceiver tests
• Fix base dir, use Path
• Added __init__.py file to wagtail_live tests folder
• Test that all needed migrations exist
• Clean pytest cache
• Add factories
• Set default option of show field on `LivePostBlock` to True
• Make `channel_id` field optional
• Remove `last_update_at` field and use `latest_revision_created_at`
• Rename block message to text
• Support Wagtail 2.12 and up
• Make `model` a property of BaseMessageReceiver

wagtail-personalisation

• Make compatible with latest wagtail version
• fix(tox): use correct format command for current package
• fix(tox): add new tox setup for github actions

stylelint-config-wagtail

• Release v0.2.0
• Switch scss/media-feature-value-dollar-variable to ignore keyword values
• Update versions of stylelint and stylelint-scss
• Update dev dependencies
• Update to Node 16

sphinx_wagtail_theme

• Fix some simple accessibility issues
• Add create and push tag to release checklist
• Back to development: 5.0.5
• Preparing release 5.0.4
• Update authors and history

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.

Two new RFCs have been published in the last two weeks:

• RFC 68 - improve the new project user experience
• RFC 69: Model audit logging

Recent RFCs:

• RFC 59: Roadmap for new StreamField development
• RFC 60: Draftail Usage for General Text Entry
• RFC 65: Adding UUIDs into ListBlock
• RFC 66: EnumBlock
• RFC 67: Collection Management

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

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