13 January 2022

Previous issue: Issue #101

News and Blog Posts

• Blog post WordPress to Wagtail migration kit
• Tweet Work begins on Wagtail's new page editor!
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• Adventures on Wagtail The Motley Fool
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• Blog post An exciting opportunity to help drive the next phase of Wagtail’s growth

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Latest changes

django-modelcluster

• Test against Django 4.0
• Fix tests for django-taggit >= 2.0

wagtail

• Slim sidebar UI and accessibility fixes, plus mobile support
• Redirect to collection listing after editing/deleting an item from it
• feature: Login remember me functionality
• Improve workflow modal formatting
• Add secondary actions menu in edit page headers
• Add UUIDs to ListBlock items (RFC 65)
• Implement UnpublishPageAction and Admin API for un-publishing pages
• Implement PublishPageRevisionAction and admin API for publishing pages
• Implement MovePageAction and admin API for moving pages
• Implement ConvertAliasPageAction and admin API for converting an alias page
• Implement DeletePageAction and admin API for deleting pages
• Solved missing `invert` attribute bug
• add check for correct search_fields on pages
• Update breadcrumb dropdown button style
• Add aria-label to dropdown link
• Add icon-only dropdown class and style it
• Set dropdown font-size directly in dropdown_item class
• Add register_page_header_buttons hook documentation
• Add test for register_page_header_buttons hook
• Display header buttons in page edit breadcrumb
• Add page header buttons hook
• Ensure bulk publish action picks up latest revisions
• Refresh page on create before passing to hooks
• Fix: Define default_app_config only for Django < 3.2
• Remove woff fonts
• update stylelint & config-stylelint-wagtail
• Set default_app_config only for Django < 3.2
• Remove revisions_index view
• Drop Python 3.6 support

wagtail-bakery

• Add 'alias_of' field to tests

eslint-config-wagtail

• Release v0.4.0
• Reformat code with Prettier
• Replace stylistic rules with eslint-config-prettier
• Update to ESLint v8 and compatible dependencies
• Upgrade to latest Jest and Prettier
• Upgrade to Node 16 and npm v8

stylelint-config-wagtail

• Release v0.3.2
• Tweak SCSS import rules for Wagtail codebase compatibility
• Switch from stylelint-scss to stylelint-config-recommended-scss
• Update missing version number
• Update project dependencies
• Simplify CI builds
• Rename branch from master to main

wagtail-localize

• Sync source page privacy settings with translated page
• Handle text field clearing when syncing

wagtail-localize-git

• pre-commit, linting and some tidy ups

areweheadlessyet

• A new project!
• Silence Vercel GitHub integration
• Add Powered by Vercel message
• Add "Powered by Vercel" badge

Discussions and RFCs

Discussions:

• UI architecture technical debt
• Auto-save
• Version numbering
• Wagtail page editor 2022
• Background workers RFC

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.

Recent RFCs:

• RFC 68: improve the new project user experience
• RFC 69: Model audit logging
• RFC 70: Wagtail Vision
• RFC 71: support for responsive images & picture element
• RFC 74: Core module reorganisation

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

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