5 December 2019

Previous issue: Issue 25

News

• Wagtail 2.7 released!
• Wagtail 2.8 will ship with support for Django 3.0

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

New and updated plugins

• Wagtail Localize - A new Internationalisation app for Wagtail sites
• Wagtail Transfer - A new app that allows copying content between instances of a Wagtail site
• Wagtail Live Preview - A new app that lets you preview your page changes as you make them in the Wagtail Admin.

Learn Wagtail

• Learn Wagtail Adding User Registration/Login To Your Wagtail Website
• Learn Wagtail Changing the Admin Display Title
• Wagtail multi-language and internationalisation
• How to build a language switcher in a Wagtail/Django multi-language project
• Initial data for Django projects - Fixtures, but better (part two)
• Django Reversion + Wagtail = magic
• Export and restore a Wagtail site

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.

There's been a lot of activity in RFCs since July. Five new RFCs have been created:

• RFC 42: Data transfer between Wagtail installations
• RFC 43: Author specific page locking
• RFC 44: Make "Custom image model" the default
• RFC 45: Workflow
• Outline RFC 46: Single paragraph rich text fields/blocks

We've also changed the RFC review process so that the review now happens in four stages:

• Stage 1 "New" is the stage an RFC is in when it is first posted
• Stage 2 "Accepted" means that the core team have accepted the idea/new feature in general, but not yet discussed or approved the general approach for implementing it
• Stage 3 "Review" means that the core team have accepted the approach for implementation of the new feature, but there are still some details to iron out. At this point, development on the feature can start
• Stage 4 "Final comment period" means the RFC is ready and will be considered complete in two weeks

The main benefit of this new approach is that RFCs don't need a detailed review to progress through the earlier stages. Stage 1 and 2 RFCs are now discussed in the weekly core team meetings so we can give an opinion on the general idea and approach much quicker than before.

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

Latest changes

Only covering the last week.

wagtail

• Add index on PageRevision approved_go_live_at field
• Update links in docs to point at stable Django version
• Fix field row padding
• Add StreamFieldPanel to Available panel types
• API refactoring
• Add formal support for nested InlinePanels
• Add ability to filter image index by a tag
• Documentation - include {{ block.super }} example in modelAdmin
• Update document size & hash when changing document file
• Mention the need to inherit from PermissionsMixin in custom user model docs
• add clarifying comment about passing a single page type

Willow

• add links to Pillow, Wand and OpenCV

wagtail-transfer

• 30 rich text field adapter
• Page chooser and import form
• handle None as destination_parent_id
• Cast page IDs to int when instantiating ImportPlanner
• Fix example chooser_api URLs
• Add installation docs
• Apply get_base_queryset refactor from https://github.com/wagtail/wagtail/commit/f0de04f0bde0a9a727ee9ac2b18e14603e97c54d

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