27 January 2022

Previous issue: Issue #103

News and Blog Posts

• Wagtail 2.16 RC1 released
• Survey Wagtail Headless Survey (closes on February 2nd)
• New Package wagtail-stock-images
• Podcast Django Chat - Django at UC Berkeley - Mohammed Shamma and Matthew Newton

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Latest changes

wagtail

• Fix Sqlite FTS5 compatibility check
• Update Pillow dependency on Wagtail 2.11.x to allow 9.x
• Skip creating pipfile.lock on circleci for wagtail 2.11
• Pin psycopg2 to <2.9 to fix ci on stable/2.11.x
• hooks - update unnecessary format_html to mark_safe
• Images in PR #7872 were unfortunately swapped
• Remove errant greater than
• Update test_account_management.py
• A Jinja2 version of wagtail_site tag
• Adding documentation for grouped custom menu items
• update documentation - third party tutorials
• Switch slim sidebar to be on by default
• Add locale labels in reports
• Django 4.0 support
• Add automatic redirect creation (lite)
• Add RevertToPageRevisionAction class and Admin API for reverting to a previous revision
• Implement CreatePageAliasAction and admin API for creating pages aliases
• Use admin tables framework on snippet and document choosers
• Implement CopyForTranslationAction and add Admin API to submit page translations
• Display the select option's text instead of value in telepath
• Added a section to deployment docs re configuring serving files
• Change webmaster to admin
• Version bump to 2.16rc1
• List NHS as sponsor
• Generate new strings for Transifex
• Add plural to image/document confirm delete string
• Fetch new translations from Transifex
• Improve locale_label_from_id caching
• Add locale labels to admin home summary panels
• Add locale label to aging pages report
• Add locale label to locked pages report
• page.locale.get_display_name should be parent.locale.get_display_name

vagrant-wagtail-develop

• Upgrade to ubuntu/focal64 - partial
• Ubuntu 21.10 is not LTS

bakerydemo

• format (prettier) readme & fix backtick usage

wagtail-transfer

• Fix urlconfs for Django 4.0 support
• Release note for #104

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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