11 September 2022

Previous issue: Issue #115

News and blog posts

• How you can make content soar with Wagtail 4.0
• New Book: Wagtail CMS in Action (read an excerpt of the book here)
• Videos from Wagtail Space NL 2022
• Where we're at for Google Summer of Code 2022
• Tutorial Wagtail Overview – Python’s most prominent CMS
• Tutorial Wagtail in Docker
• Tutorial PyHost: Wagtail CMS, Deployment, Hosting and Dev
• Tutorial Deploying Wagtail to AWS with AppPack
• Tutorial Hosting a Wagtail site on Digital Ocean with CapRover.
• Plugin Update wagtail-trash v0.3.0
• Plugin Update wagtail-grapple v0.17.0
• Plugin Update wagtail-seo v2.2.0

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Latest changes

wagtail

• Adopted non collapsible breadcrumbs for root page
• add links to styleguide help blocks for easier validation
• Updated help block colors
• Added translate button to header actions dropdown along with some cleanup
• Extract queryset filtering code from `ReportView` to generic `IndexView`
• Add preview support for Snippets that extend `PreviewableMixin`
• Clean up - documentation - reference contrib section convert to markdown
• Port image chooser widget to use generic chooser JS
• Port document chooser widget to use generic chooser JS
• Skip two Axe tests currently timing out
• Remove `DeleteMenuItem` in `PageActionMenu`
• Add third party tutorials
• Implement combined rich text split and block insertion
• Updated summary panels in Dashboard
• Updated page listings header to new designs
• Ensure consistent sidebar icon position whether expanded or collapsed
• Cleanup for privacy dialog toggles
• Port page chooser widget to use generic chooser JS
• Fixed #8813 -- Correctly validate from/to column index in redirect import
• Convert image chooser modal to generic chooser views
• Eliminate duplicated code on image / document creation
• Fix query search in filtered image admin listing
• Make InvokeViaAttributeShortcut pickleable (rebase of #6411)
• Update base Draftail/TextField form styles to match designs
• The overflow in the viewport of report filters is fixed Issue#8929
• Fix layout issue for sidebar page explorer on small devices #8939
• add documentation for overriding the password reset form content
• Improve organisation of settings reference page Issue #8863
• Fix MySQL search on Django 4.1
• Allow all CSS system colors in stylesheets without variables usage
• Fixed empty variable issue in header template
• 4.0 release notes - add GSoC UX Unification section
• fix issue for string representation of FormSubmission
• Formalise support for Django 4.1
• Update chooser widget styles across all types
• Implement max length UI for RichTextField, with identical client & server character count. Fix #2268
• Adopt new designs for the authentication pages (log in, password reset, etc)
• Implement page editor redesign for widget styles and forms layout
• update can-i-use-lite library for browserslist
• Added a forced-color media query to disabled buttons in high contrast
• Added border to tooltip dropdown for high contrast
• Add Updated and Status columns to Snippets listing and other improvements
• Support DRF / non-model-based choosers
• Provide a StreamField chooser block for generic choosers
• Fix bulk actions issue where non-number object ids would break
• Decorating RoutablePageMixin routes using path and re_path pattern types
• Fix #6408: InvokeViaAttributeShortcut makes it impossible to pickle objects
• Ensure telepath adapter gets registered for document chooser widget
• Use correct classnames for showing/hiding edit button on chooser widget
• Fix DocumentChooserBlock deconstruction for custom document models
• Fixed init method of legacy BaseSetting class, fixes #8996, fixes #9006
• remove stray console-log from page-editor.js
• Ensure DocumentChooserBlock can be deconstructed for migrations
• Add missing chevron-down.svg
• Add reference docs for `RevisionMixin`, `DraftStateMixin`, and `PreviewableMixin`
• Fixed console error for breadcrumbs
• Set BaseSetting deprecation to 5.0
• Update InlinePanel and StreamField styles for new designs
• documentation - extending generic views - fix typo
• Documentation & code tests - update spelling of colour
• Changed a reference to deprecated BASE_URL to the new WAGTAILADMIN_BASE_URL
• Fix tests for lock message to account for timezones
• Extract generic UnpublishView and add unpublish action to snippets with DraftStateMixin
• Show Status column in snippet chooser view if `DraftStateMixin` is applied
• Set atomic = False when renaming PageRevision table
• Only use hidden until-found in panels if browsers supports it
• Lock pages when they are scheduled for publishing
• Simplify page chooser views with class-based views
• Mention WAGTAILADMIN_RICH_TEXT_EDITORS on admin customization page.
• Run collectstatic as part of CI
• Fix FieldBlocks commenting
• Add some missing translated labels to the bulk actions
• fixing Page queryset.not_public issue.
• Update admin_views.md
• Fixed padding and close button bugs for chooser modal
• fixing a small typo in the documentation.
• Clear existing preview data on initial load of the create/edit view
• Only show locale filter in choosers when i18n is enabled in settings
• backport flake8-print fix to 3.0.x
• Update readme screenshot for Wagtail 4.0
• Fix `PublishRevisionAction` and `UnpublishAction` for models with custom primary key
• Adjust hoverable area for add block (+) Drafttail editor
• Hide anchors and toggles for page titles from screen readers
• Fix dead Transifex links
• added role equal to status to messages
• Fix plural handling for "no permission to delete these snippets" errors
• Fix live preview error banner overlapping with preview mode selector
• Add usage guide for using `RevisionMixin`, `DraftStateMixin`, and `PreviewableMixin` with snippets
• Add more items to 4.0 release notes
• Upgrade to latest Draftail RC, fixing command palette selection issue #9017
• Explicitly specify `get_preview_template` and `get_preview_context` parameters
• Fix error insertion logic for modal upload forms
• Update Sphinx Wagtail Theme to 5.3.0
• Fix updatemodulepaths for Python 3.7
• Keyboard support for sort menu order

wagtail-factories

• Add support for stream block
• Bump version: 2.1.0 to 3.0.0
• Bump version: 3.0.0 to 3.1.0
• Add factory for `PageChooserBlock` and `DocumentChooserBlock`

bakerydemo

• add styleguide to bakerydemo
• Add `.git-blame-ignore-revs` and fix CI
• Format codebase with Black, isort, djhtml, Prettier, ESLint, and Stylelint
• Set max_length on homepage promo text
• Add a util script to create large amounts of random data
• Upgrade to Wagtail 4
• lint create_random_data.py

wagtail-localize

• Bump terser from 4.8.0 to 4.8.1

wagtail-hallo

• Django 4.1 support

sphinx_wagtail_theme

• Darkmode color fixes
• Fix - focusable button for toc expand toggle
• Prepare for 5.3.0
• Dark mode
• Use font and color of Wagtail brand
• Replace hard-coded '/' with link to master doc if empty
• Set language to English for our own docs
• Fix multiple minor styling issues
• update Wagtail domain (now a .org)

wagtail-editable-help

• Initial commit

wagtail-review

• Test against Postgres 12
• Fix SubmitForReviewMenuItem for Wagtail 3.0
• Bring github actions config up to date
• chore: support Django v4.0

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 80: References Index

Recent RFCs:

• RFC 75: Live-only specific models
• RFC 77: Support for SVG images
• RFC 78: Adopt Stimulus (lightweight JS framework)
• RFC 79: Wagtail's Public Roadmap

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

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