21 July 2022

Previous issue: Issue #114

News

• Build update on Wagtail's new page editor
• Wagtail Space NL 2022
• Wagtail CMS projects for Google Summer of Code 2022
• What's New in Wagtail - May 2022 - 3.0 Release
• Bakerydemo has a new look!
• Dawn Wages (Wagtail Core developer) - appointment to the PSF
• New package: wagtail-freezer, a minimal replacement for wagtail-bakery for building static sites

Tutorials and blog posts

• Wagtail 3 Upgrade (Part 1): Per User FieldPanel Permissions
• Wagtail 3 Upgrade (Part 2): Per Site Features
• Upgrading to Wagtail 3.0
• 5 simple ways anyone can contribute to Wagtail
• Wagtail live coding stream (building a news feature)
• Dealing with UNIQUE Fields on a Multi-lingual Site
• 5 Tips to Streamline Your Wagtail CMS Development

Package updates

• wagtail-localize: 1.2.1
• wagtail-headless-preview: 0.3.0
• wagtail-grapple: 0.15.0
• wagtailcodeblock: 1.28.0.0
• wagtail-content-import: 0.8.0
• wagtail-cache 1.1
• wagtail-generic-chooser: 0.4
• wagtail-2fa: 1.6.0
• wagtail-factories: 2.1.0
• wagtail-color-panel: 1.4.0
• wagtail-geo-widget: 6.2.0
• wagtail-flags: 5.2.0
• wagtail-sharing: 2.7
• django-salesman: 1.1.4
• wagtail-meeting-guide: 1.4.0
• wagtail-multi-upload: 0.1

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Latest changes

wagtail

• UI/UX Improvements
  • Add new Draftail inline toolbar and command palette
  • Implement new preview panel in page editor
  • Move page chooser changes
  • Update to Draftail v2 alpha, with link copy-paste processing & character count
  • Dialog component css version
  • Added functionality in bulk actions: ability to use shift+click to select multiple items at once
  • show different message if no page_type available
  • Fix RTL sidebar branding cropping
  • Ensure non-square avatar image will correctly show
  • Adopt new breadcrumbs within the page chooser modal
  • admin confirm before deleting page if contains multiple subpages
• Generic Choosers
  • Generic choosers (initial implementation)
  • Use generic chooser modal views for snippet chooser
  • Convert document chooser modals to generic chooser views
  • Add factory class for generating chooser modal onload handlers
  • Refactor out duplicated code from chooser modal JS
  • Refactor out duplicated code from chooser widgets
  • Convert page chooser to wagtail.admin.ui.tables framework
• Revisions, draft state, and previews for snippets
  • Extract revision-related properties and methods in `Page` into `RevisionMixin`
  • Extract drafts-related fields, methods, and properties from `Page` to `DraftStateMixin`
  • Save revision in generic and modeladmin views if the model extends from `RevisionMixin`
  • Extract generic `RevisionsCompareView` and add the ability to compare revisions for snippets
  • Implement the ability to filter revisions and revert to a previous revision for Snippets
  • Extract generic side panels from Page's side panels
  • Add breadcrumbs and new Page Editor side panels to Snippets views
  • Add publishing action to Snippets if the model extends `DraftStateMixin`
  • Extract `PreviewableMixin` from `Page` model
• UI Architecture
  • Add theming support for all admin colors
  • Use css custom properties for new font stacks (via Tailwind theme)
  • Combine all of Wagtail’s global and layout stylesheets into one + refactorings (#8419)
  • Adopted new Tabs in Workflow History Detail page
  • Removed old legacy breadcrumbs completely
  • Introduce new template fragment composition tags: BlockInclusionNode and fragment
  • added prefix w- before header classes
  • add consistent class to header & subtitle across templates
• Modeladmin
  • Added new get_primary_button_for_obj() to ButtonHelper
  • Cache model permission codenames in PermissionHelper
  • Add show to menu option
  • Remove breadcrumbs from ModelAdmin
  • Deprecate wagtail.contrib.modeladmin.menus.SubMenu in favour of wagtail.admin.menu.Menu
  • Add menu_item_name to modify MenuItem's name for ModelAdmin
• Performance
  • Use iterator() wherever PageQueryset result caching is not needed
  • Prefetch workflow states in edit page view
• Bug fixes
  • Make radio buttons / checkboxes display vertically under Django 4.0
  • Make image / document upload forms work with custom tag models
  • Fixed empty tabs showing to non admin users
  • Correctly handle missing WAGTAILADMIN_BASE_URL setting
  • fix issue with spinner icon & longrunning active state
  • Fix/splitting blocks with highlights
  • Fixing label issues on cropping image
  • Turn off SQLite `legacy_alter_table` before running `Revision` migration
  • ExcelDateFormatter generates invalid format strings
  • Documentation - topics/search section migration to markdown
• Documentation
  • replaced latin abbreviations with english phrases
  • Update documentation for the serve method override.
  • Update example code - Adding a group of menu items
  • Document the prefix_default_language parameter to i18n_patterns
  • Documentation - add field panel permissions to permissions section
• Converting the docs to markdown
  • Convert .rst to .md for /advanced_topics/api
  • Convert rst to md for ModelAdmin
  • Convert from .rst to .md for /advanced_topics
  • Stream field docs to markdown
  • Convert .rst to .md for docs/topics (direct files only)
  • Convert from .rst to .md for docs/extending
  • Updated and renamed upgrading.rst to upgrading.md (v2)
  • Documentation - support page migration to markdown
  • documentation - markdown formatting
  • migrate docs contrib redirects & searchpromotions to md
  • Updated and renamed theory.rst to theory.md
  • Convert docs from rst to md contributing section
  • rst to md migration of docs/reference
  • Convert reference pages documentation section to Markdown
• High contrast mode support
  • Progressbar made visible in high contrast
  • #8334 - chechbox visible in high contrast
  • Contrast themes: help block border styles
• Everything else
  • Add generic settings to compliment site-specific settings
  • Snippets bulk actions
  • Add Fuzzy() search query class
  • Adding multi site support to the pages API.
  • Check that `Page.save_revision()` was given a specific page object
  • Make cross-link URLs on generic model views optional
  • Allow scheduled publishing to happen when the initial editor did not have publish permission
  • Use RichText object for adding rich text blocks
  • Test against Django stable/4.1.x branch
  • Make password reset form customisable
  • Make `ReportView` extend from generic `IndexView`
  • 30 characters user names is an outdated requirement
  • Add HTML-aware max_length validation on RichTextField and RichTextBlock
  • Shortcut for accessing StreamField blocks by block name/type
  • Display data for Twitter embed blocks

wagtail.org

• Move deploy signal handler outside function to avoid it being garbage collected
• Adding email notification setting to stop spamming superusers.
• Updating Heroku CLI in Dockerfile to address build error

wagtail-localize

• Fix page chooser widget extraction in orderables
• Fix duplicate locale defintion in TranslatableCreateView template
• Add note about `translatable_fields` support in `StructBlock`
• Update snippet chooser URL routing for Wagtail 4
• Use the core header with locale selector in modeladmin inspect view template

bakerydemo

• Restore glyphicons font files referenced by bootstrap.min.css
• Upgrade to Wagtail 3
• Handle deprecations from Wagtail 3
• Change BASE_URL to WAGTAILADMIN_BASE_URL to silence Wagtail 3.0.1 warning
• Upgrade base image to wagtail/buster64
• Add a demo of ModelAdmin InspectView on most complex model
• Update form submission data in fixture to be valid for JSONField

wagtail-transfer

• Fix/listblock new representation

Willow

• remove some older python versions

docker-wagtail-develop

• Add documentation about contributing to Willow

Discussions and RFCs

Top GitHub discussions:

• Greener coding - Making a 'gold' reference configuration with the Wagtail bakery app
• Please help me choose a time for a Wagtail community meetup
• Enforce prettier formatting for documentation
• One-click deployment of wagtail
• Is there a way to customize the create_form for the document chooser?

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 RFCs:

• RFC 78: Adopt Stimulus (lightweight JS framework)
• RFC 79: Wagtail's Public Roadmap

Recent RFCs:

• RFC 72: Background workers
• RFC 74: Core module reorganisation
• RFC 75: Live-only specific models
• RFC 77: Support for SVG images

If you want to know more about the RFC process, you can read about it here.

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