3 February 2022

Previous issue: Issue #104

News and Blog Posts

• Wagtail Space US 2022 (March 24-26. Cleveland, Ohio and online)
• Wagtail migrates from wagtail.io to wagtail.org
• Google sponsors Wagtail CMS's next-generation web content management experience
• 2022 will be an Exciting Year for Wagtail
• Plugin update Wagtail Headless Preview v0.2.0 and v0.2.1

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Latest changes

wagtail

• update a few wagtail.io references to wagtail.org
• Fix #7884 Redirects: 'target page route' with non-RoutablePageMixin pages
• Front-end tooling upgrade
• Update email addresses for new .org domain
• Add 2.17 release notes + changelog for #7876
• update project template requirements to 2.16rc2
• Fetch new translations from Transifex
• Mention email change in changelog
• Update email addresses for new .org domain

vagrant-wagtail-develop

• Upgrade to Node 16

wagtail-personalisation

• Use get_context_data override instead of get_context for Wagtail >= 2.15

wagtail-localize

• Fix `edit_string_translation` and `edit_override` views when DRF is configured with explicit permission/authentication classes
• Reset the has error flag on po import

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.

New RFC: RFC 75: Live-only specific models

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.

Upcoming Events

• Wagtail Space US 2022 (March 24-26. Cleveland, Ohio and online)

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