11 April 2019

Previous issue: Issue 19

News and blog posts

• Release Candidate: Wagtail 2.5 RC1 released! (release notes for 2.5)
• Learn Wagtail: Restricting parent and child pages
• Learn Wagtail: Enabling Wagtail's styleguide

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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 week, 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

wagtail

• Rearrange SCSS structure according to ITCSS
• Housekeeping to start work on 2.6
• Update and clarify installation instructions
• Fix typo. Small grammar changes.
• Add consistent whitespace around sortable table headings
• Improved rich text rewrite handlers
• Reuse the label_for_field function for fields in the InspectView
• Rotate deprecation warnings
• Add 2.6 section to changelog and release notes
• Version bump to start work on 2.6
• Typo fix in release notes
• Update project template requirements to Django 2.2
• Generate new source files for translation
• Fetch new translations and update config for Chinese (#3668)
• Add documentation of rewrite handlers
• Standardize embeds rich text tests
• Reorganise image/document rich text tests into separate classes for frontend and editor HTML
• Define identifier attribute on LinkHandler / EmbedHandler
• Implement get_model / get_instance on link/embed handlers
• Make top-level *_linktype_handler / *_embedtype_handler functions into classes
• Move editorhtml/contentstate specific logic into submodules of rich_text

react-streamfield

• Fixes the vertical overflow of block types.
• Fixes the block type width on mobile.

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