17 February 2022

Previous issue: Issue #106

News and Blog Posts

• Wagtail's source code has been reformatted with Black
• Blog post Syracuse University takes flight from Wordpress to Wagtail
• Event The Wagtail Space US 2022 website has now been updated with some handy travel advice and places to stay if you can make it in person
• New Plugin wagtail-hallo (Wagtail's pre-2.0 rich text editor, which will be removed form Wagtail 3.0)
• Plugin update wagtail-trash v0.2

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Latest changes

wagtail

• Draft:Update system font stack value
• Black reformat
• Add missing import statement in code example
• Add new version fo Wagtail Space docs banner.
• reorder nav (sidebar) imports so that hooks can still override them
• Prevent error on creating automatic redirects for sites with non-standard ports
• Fix remaining warnings from flake8-comprehensions.
• Improve asserts in wagtail.
• djhtml formatting
• slim sidebar - use sameSite lax by default
• Djhtml install and configure with pre-commit
• Add ESlint & Stylelint to pre-commit hooks
• Legacy UI code cleanup
• Apply unlocalize filter to bulk action object ids
• Add and configure black
• Add djhtml reformatting commit sha to .git-blame-ignore-revs
• Add changelog for #7946, #7947, #7951
• Add flake8-comprehensions to setup.py

wagtail-localize

• Redirect to newly translate page's edit view when submitting a translation for a single locale
• Fix nightly test failure due to HTML changes in Wagtail main

wagtail-hallo

• New project!
• README tweaks
• update github actions
• update readme with additional release checklist items
• update version - 0.1.0 alpha
• clean up readme & add links/emails
• Revert "remove circleci"
• format python files
• Readme - update temporary instructions
• Python tests basically running
• update readme & add project files
• add Django 4.0 compatibility
• add source reference to all JS files

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 69: Model audit logging
• RFC 71: support for responsive images & picture element
• RFC 74: Core module reorganisation
• RFC 75: Live-only specific models

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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