4 April 2019

Previous issue: Issue 18

News and blog posts

• All presentations from Wagtail Space 2019
• Learn Wagtail: Headless Wagtail CMS: Fetching Specific Fields from the v2 API
• Learn Wagtail: Headless CMS: Exposing Orderable Data and StreamFields
• Open Sourced: Wagtail.io (source code)
• Open Sourced: SecureDrop.org (source code)
• Tutorial Video: Deploying Wagtail to App Engine with Python 3

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RFCs

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.

No new RFCs have been proposed in the last two weeks, the most recent RFCs are as follows:

• RFC 32: Extensible view restrictions
• RFC 33: Inline script deprecation
• RFC 34: Redirects admin changes

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

Latest changes

django-modelcluster

• Version 4.4 released!
• Remove Django 1.x and Python 3.4 support
• Test against Django 2.2
• Remove Python 2 support
• Add class method for child form so wagtail can override
• Remove python_2_unicode_compatible decorators
• Eliminate use of django.utils.six
• Remove Python 2 from classifiers and tests

wagtail

• Wording fixes to column/row header descriptions
• Bump django-taggit to 0.24
• Formalise support for Django 2.2
• Small wording changes
• Make the page reordering UI easier to find
• Add [email protected] to Readme
• Fix page chooser not rendering proper get_admin_display_title
• Update documentation
• Squash integration enhancement
• Recommend `npm install --no-save` when setting up node toolchain
• Improve the snippet UI by offering 'Don't delete' actions to the edit form.
• Support additional custom handler for links in Rich text editor.
• Fix/5154 add names to all action menu items
• Upgrade Draftail to v1.2.1. Fix #4985, adds more Markdown shortcuts
• Add filter string character check to jinja2 image template tag
• Update core team in CONTRIBUTORS.rst
• raise an error in tests if sub-classes of ActionMenuItem has no name
• add name attribute to all derived classes of ActionMenuItem

react-streamfield

• Improve streamfield UI
• Updates the examples.
• Splits :focus-within because Microsoft.
• Removes the CodeSandbox iframe.
• Removes layouts to only keep collapsible.
• Updates information for the ownership transfer to @wagtail.

wagtail-whoosh

• Concurrency fix
• Score order
• Concurrency fix
• Score order
• release 0.1.4
• update CI badge

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