This Week in Wagtail

21 January 2016

Welcome to issue 2 of This Week in Wagtail, a newsletter with weekly updates from the Wagtail core team and community.

News

Notable changes

9 pull requests were merged in the last week.

  • Aarni Koskela fixed static asset building on Windows (#2111)
  • Peter Quade made date/time pickers respect the locale's 'first day of week' setting (#2130)
  • alexpilot11 fixed a bug in ChooserBlock so they now work with models without an id field (#2131)
  • Josh Hurd fixed the oEmbed regex pattern for Wistia (#2134)

New pull requests

The following changes have been submitted to Wagtail and are awaiting review.

  • Aarni Koskela added a new setting allow Wagtail's initial data to be switched off for new projects (#2112)
  • Matt Westcott implemented 'permission policies', a new modular approach to permission handling in the admin (#2102)
  • Aarni Koskela added support for the tabbed interface on snippets (#2115)
  • Matt Westcott rewrote the "Group Page Permissions" to use checkboxes instead of dropdowns (#2126)
  • Karl Hobley improved configurability of the "wagtailembeds" module (#2127)
  • Karl Hobley removed the dependency on django-compressor (#2132)
  • Will Giddens implemented support for OpenCV 3 in Willow (Willow #33)

RFCs

RFCs are proposals for major new features that are open for discussion in the community. They can either be created as a GitHub issue or as a Wagtail Enhancement Proposal.

This week's open RFCs:

Contributors

  • Aarni Koskela
  • alexpilot11
  • Peter Quade
  • Josh Hurd
  • Matt Fozard

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