2 October 2020

Previous issue: Issue #58

News and Blog Posts

• Wagtail 2.10.2 released. Read the release notes here
• What's new in Wagtail Webinar (October 15th)
• New Package: Wagtail Font Awesome SVG
• New Package: Wagtail API Image Rendition
• New Blog Post: Wagtail SEO
• Checkout Wagtail Packages on djangopackages.org

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Latest changes

wagtail

• Pass chooser URLs to widgets via data attributes instead of global JS vars
• Make the API's get_base_url tests use Django TestCase
• Add a comment to describe why _filtered_by_child_of exists
• Update urlify.js to retain stopwords and fix handling of Turkish Ä°
• Skip content comparison in create_log_entries where revision cannot be restored
• Support SVG icons in ModelAdmin menu items
• Issue #6388 --> Changed to
• Consistently show user's full name (where available) in reports
• Performance improvements for page copy
• Force string url before passing to urlparse
• Stronger check on blocks names
• Add icon sprite via local storage
• Serve PDFs inline in the browser and make content-type / content-disposition configurable
• [RFC 54] Internationalisation API changes
• Use get_admin_display_title in PageChooserPanel
• Remove note about MSSQL being known to work
• Update BaseLogEntry docs to reference user_display_name. Fixes #6418
• Revert "Force string url before passing to urlparse (#6341)"
• Changelog / release note for #6341
• Inline PDF serving doesn't only apply on the edit view
• Take out stopword removal, as per https://github.com/django/django/commit/62f1655a64795d055f72e53557fb8404c5430963
• Replace urlify with Django's version from https://github.com/django/django/commit/b2bd08bb7a912a1504f5fb5018f5317e6b5423cd
• Fill in release date for 2.10.2

bakerydemo

• Fix collection paths for alphabetical ordering

wagtail-localize

• Add script to report nightly build errors to Wagtail Slack
• Don't crash when a related object segment is missing
• Remove a stray comma
• Support internationalised Streamfield block names
• Support internationalised Streamfield block names

wagtail-transfer

• Fix test for compatibility with Wagtail 2.11 i18n support
• Nullable file fields
• Version bump to 0.5.1

wagtail-airtable

• Fix typo in README.md
• Add catch for MultipleObjectsReturned

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 52: Delete page permission
• RFC 53: Swappable Page Model
• RFC 54: Internationalisation of Wagtail content
• RFC 58: Alias pages
• RFC 59: Roadmap for new StreamField development

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

Upcoming Events

• What's coming next in Wagtail CMS? Find out what the Torchbox team has been working on (including a full demo of wagtail-localise) on Oct 15th at 5pm BST / 12pm EST. Register here to save your place in the webinar.

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