5 May 2022

Previous issue: Issue #111

News and Blog Posts

• Four Digits is hosting Wagtail Space NL in Arnhem on 15 - 17 June 2022
• Blog post How we came to love Wagtail at Berkeley
• Blog post How to try Wagtail CMS without coding
• Blog post and video How you'll get your best work done with Wagtail 3 (YouTube video here)
• New Wagtail YouTube Channel Join us on YouTube for future videos about Wagtail
• What's New in Wagtail Webinar More details in this blog post. There are two dates to accommodate multiple time zones.

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Latest changes

wagtail

• Separate tab focus and selection to avoid always setting URL hash
• Page explorer regression fixes
• Vertically center footer actions and preview buttons
• Add horizontal padding back to inline panels
• Allow external tab triggers - Underline tab issue
• Design review updates - Remove tab animation, adjust tab spacing and high contrast support, sidebar alignment
• Fix test migrations for django-taggit 3.0.0
• Ensure `wagtail updatemodulepaths` works when system locale is not UTF-8
• Re-add Pages explorer focus trap.
• Restyle badge for tab errors
• Status sidebar design review and fixes
• Resize textareas onload and tab-changed event
• Header styling tweaks
• Breadcrumbs & Slim header design review styling
• Sidebar animation fixes
• Make new font stacks available as CSS custom properties (3.0)
• Regenerate translation strings
• Fix last integration test failure

wagtail-autocomplete

• Increment minor version number for release

wagtail-localize

• Limit width of segments editor
• Support further `ListBlock` nesting
• [Wagtail mainline] keep up with mainline
• Translatable ModelAdmin
• Update translations

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 72: Background workers
• 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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