14 August 2020

Previous issue: Issue #52

News and Blog Posts

• Wagtail 2.10 was released 🎉Possibly the biggest Wagtail release. Details in the release notes and on Twitter.
• New Blog Post: A story of how I built this website in Wagtail
• Wagtail Space 2020 Videos:
  • Learning from mistakes – decision making in Wagtail – Matt Westcott
  • Publish Statuses for a Headless CMS – Nick Ivons
  • Lightning Talks Jul 31
  • Gatsby + Wagtail + Netlify (with a little GitPod) – Dawn Wages
  • Internationalization in Wagtail – Brady Moe
  • Accessibility wins for Wagtail projects – Thibaud Colas
  • Wagtail under the hood - Coen van der Kamp

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

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Latest changes

wagtail

• Stop ignoring Flake8 `First argument of a method should be named 'self'`
• Fix all `E303: Too many blank lines` Flake8 errors
• Workflow docs update
• Add missing translation for workflow
• Django 3.1 support for 2.10
• Split up wagtail.admin.views.pages
• Use https oembed endpoints where available
• Add hooks.register_temporarily for testing hooks
• Add hooks for snippet listing buttons
• Replace unidecode with anyascii in wagtail.core.utils.string_to_ascii
• Fill in release date for 2.10
• Fetch new translations from Transifex
• Fix underline lengths to prevent Sphinx warnings
• Update editor manual images where they show the old edit/workflow admin views before revamp
• Add a use case example for WAGTAIL_WORKFLOW_CANCEL_ON_PUBLISH=False
• Update descriptions of the editing interface and workflow management for consistency. Note that screenshots are not yet updated
• Release notes for #6267 and #6268
• Release note for Django 3.1 support
• Formalise Django 3.1 support
• Test against Django 3.1 final and django-rest-framework 3.11.1

wagtail-localize

• Add Django 3.1 to Tox/Travis
• Update translation view
• Add TranslationSource.get_or_create_from_instance
• Only allow one source per object/locale
• Submit translation views
• Remove unneeded comments from tox.ini
• Tighten up Flake8 config
• Fix a test
• Rename test_translationsource => test_translationsource_model

how-to-run-a-wagtail-space

• Suggested updates to the COC section of the README

wagtail-gitpod

• Delete Procfile

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.

The latest RFCs to be submitted are:

• 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
• RFC 47: Proposal for supporting comments when submitting pages for moderation
• RFC 48: Nested collections
• RFC 50: Commenting in the Wagtail Editor
• RFC 51: Contextual alt text
• RFC 52: Delete page permission
• RFC 53: Swappable Page Model
• RFC 54: Internationalisation of Wagtail content
• RFC 58: Alias pages

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

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