3 September 2020

Previous issue: Issue #55

News and Blog Posts

• New package wagtailyoast
• New package wagtail-placeholder-images

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Latest changes

django-modelcluster

• Allow formset form override in ClusterForm
• Add prefetch_related support to ParentalManyToManyField

wagtail

• Add RoutablePage.render() to facilitate rendering of custom routes
• Specify required python versions
• Update responsive embeds docs
• Fix remove icon class from wagtail userbar icon
• Release notes for #6362
• Instantiate edit_handler and form once in ModelAdmin views
• Release note for #6370
• add missing 2.10.2 release notes file
• Add release notes for 2.10.2

wagtail-localize

• Clarify supported versions of Python, Django and Wagtail
• Edit translation view

wagtail-gitpod

• Add hit counter

gitpod-wagtail-develop

• Add hit counter

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 44: Make "Custom image model" the default
• 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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