31 March 2022

Previous issue: Issue #110

News and Blog Posts

• Four Digits is hosting Wagtail Space NL in Arnhem on 15 - 17 June 2022
• Applications for Google Summer of Code 2022 open this week
• Youtube Talks from Wagtail Space US 2022
• Video Tutorial Wagtail Blog
• Blog post PyDev of the Week: Kalob Taulien (Core team member and creator of Learn Wagtail)
• Wiki Python Package Maintenance Guidelines
• Tutorial Using Wagtail's decorate_urlpatterns utility

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Latest changes

wagtail

• Renumber Wagtail 2.17 to 3.0
• [RFC 74: Restructure] Rename wagtail.core to wagtail
• Allow `StreamField` to use `JSONField` internal type via `use_json_field` kwarg
• Pinterest embed support
• Prevent refresh on enter in header search (documents and images)
• EditHandler rewrite
  • Rename edit handlers to panels
• Introduce get_form_options to EditHandler API
• Page editor rewrite
  • Sidebar style updates
  • Slim sidebar interactions updates
• Github
  • Remove description of some-day milestone
  • Put PR template boilerplate in HTML comment
  • docs & github issue template - update bug issue triage
• Formatting, code cleanups and bug fixes
  • format readme with prettier
  • format migration files - black
  • Remove deprecated jinja2 references
  • Removed redundant text-transform instances
  • documentation - update node installation instructions
  • Clean up oembed providers
  • Removed outdated handling of length parameter to If-Modified-Since header.
  • Bump black to 22.3.0 to fix issue with dependency
  • Remove redundant role="main" for element
  • remove Spacing section
  • AbstractFormField.save - add to the docstring about clean name
  • Improved CTAs for complying with check in procedures
  • Fixing translations for 'Title' in listing templates
  • Added support for only-server=true and only-client-true in make lint and make format
  • Fix permission error while sorting pages

wagtail-localize

• extract.py: fix list block for empty lists

wagtail-live

• Add possibility to use secure WebSocket connections
• Gracefully handle error when deleting a missing message
• Set content-type to 'plain/text' on Slack URL verification

bakerydemo

• Fix and update Gitpod
• Remove elasticsearch

docker-wagtail-develop

• Add VSCode dev container configuration

gitpod-wagtail-develop

• Add more details to GitHub token instructions
• Add instruction on how to continue
• Make bakerydemo the current directory
• Use pipe to join commands
• Add Python extention to VSCode
• Add gitpod to trusted origins
• Fix pip modules, make them persist

cookiecutter-wagtail-package

• Update Django URLs to stable
• update cookiecutter.json - BSD as default
• add core docs contributing, changelog and security
• add .nvmrc file to cookiecutter with default node 16 version

Discussions and RFCs

Top GitHub discussions:

• GSoC 2022: Apply new page editor UX to all of Wagtail
• GSoC 2022: Toolkit for StreamField data migrations in Wagtail
• A design system for the Wagtail ecosystem
• GSoC 2022: Windows High Contrast mode support
• Easier customisation of Embeds

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 RFCs have reached the final stage "Final Comment Period:

• RFC 60: Draftail Usage for General Text Entry
• RFC 46: Single paragraph rich text fields/blocks

Recent RFCs:

• 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 NL 2022 (June 15-17. Arnhem, The Netherlands)

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