25 July 2019

Previous issue: Issue 24

News

• Wagtail 2.6 Release Candidate is out!
• Wagtail Nightly launched

Wrote a blog post? Released a new plugin? Let us know by tweeting to @WagtailCMS with the hashtag #ThisWeekInWagtail.

New and updated plugins

• New! wagtail-generic-chooser
• New! wagtail-tag-manager
• New!wagtail-apiimagerendition
• Updated Joyus 0.9.0

Learn Wagtail

• Learn Wagtail: Updating Wagtail, Django and Django Debug Toolbar
• Learn Wagtail: StreamField Deep Dive: How to Find More StreamField Options
• Learn Wagtail: StreamField Deep Dive 2: Exploring Common StreamFields
• Learn Wagtail: Routable Page Categories And Years
• Blog post: Authenticating users with Azure Active Directory
• Wagtail course: Wagtail CMS Framework for Django (Udemy)

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 this week, but we've been working hard on getting the following RFCs merged:

• RFC 37: Making Wagtail Accessible for users of assistive technologies
• RFC 34: Redirects admin changes
• RFC 40: User account management changes
• RFC 35: Sub teams

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

Latest changes

wagtail

• Handle deprecations for 2.7
• Add a `construct_page_listing_buttons` hook
• Updated feature detection notes
• Search query normalisation no longer removes punctuation
• Datetime picker dispatches 'change' event
• Added missing is_stored_locally() to AbstractDocument
• Document the workaround for broken wagtailimages.Filter references in custom image migrations
• Add dedicated accessibility section to v2.6 release notes
• Clarify new three month release policy
• Re-add loading of Wagtail icon font for userbar
• Permissions checkbox labels
• Focus move to pages explorer when open
• Add more contextual information for screen readers in the explorer menu
• Add Collections section to editor's guide
• Resolves Lack of construct_hook_name for settings_menu
• Fixed Remove tab order customisations in CMS admin
• Ensure the 'add child page' icon displays when focused
• Improve voiceover experience for links on the page listing
• Adds clearer text to the close button for modals
• Voice over fixes
• Offer no delete options, as is on pages and snippets
• Change icon font implementation to be screen-reader friendly
• Accessible heading structure
• Image dimension info for screen readers
• Remove menu markup from dropdowns
• Add a "Dashboard" label for logo link in the main nav for screen reader users
• Implemented branding title prefix customization
• Added CI config to generate nightly builds from master
• Optimize admin.navigation.get_explorable_root_page
• Optimization of UserPagePermissionsProxy.revisions_for_moderation
• Refactor submenu JS to remove jquery dep and move to wagtail-client
• Don't make assumptions about the username field
• Version bump to start work on 2.7
• Datetime picker dispatches 'change' event
• Implement Page.with_content_json
• Provide the original and copied pages to process_child_object()
• Add "exclude_fields" parameter to Page.copy
• Add process_child_object method to Page.copy
• Expose Permission object in format_permssions tag
• Add support for custom search handler classes to ModelAdmin's IndexView
• Also offer no delete option on documents
• Offer no delete options, as is on pages and snippets
• Makes LICENSE recognized by GitHub.
• Make license more prominent

bakerydemo

• Add expat-dev to Dockerfile packages install
• Update Python to 3.7 in Dockerfile

wagtail-autocomplete

• Remove is_single, make target_model optional

wagtail.io

• Add deployment instructions to readme
• Amend link target for 'Contact the creators'

wagtail-review-ui

• new project!

Upcoming Events

• Wagtail Space US 2019 (Philadelphia, July 25-26)

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