25 February 2016

News

• Sprinting with Wagtail in Cape Town
  

New Plugins

• wagalytics
  
• wagtailmenus
• kagiso_sitemap
• kagiso_search
• kagiso_smart_404
• YAML page importer
  

Notable changes

8 pull requests were merged in the last two weeks, including these 4 significant changes

• Tooling for modern front-end components: React JS, ES6 and BEM CSS (Josh Barr, Justin van der Merwe)
• Upload multiple documents at once (Tim Heap)
  
• Hook for adding CSS to all admin pages (Tom Dyson)
  
• Tweaked repr of search results to diffrentiate them from QuerySets and lists (Karl Hobley)
  

New pull requests

24 new pull requests have been submitted in the last two weeks, including these 10 significant changes

• Fix assumptions about user model fields (Eirik Krogstad)
• Unicode slugs (Max Choi)
  
• Collections for image/document organisation (Matt Westcott)
• Catch and display OS errors that occur during document updates (Nigel Fletton)
• HTML email notifications (Mike Dingjan)
• Show a message to users who do not have permission to access admin (Tim Heap)
  
• StreamField Based Forms for Form Builder (didorothy)
• Add formal support for customising the form rendering of StructBlocks (Matt Westcott)
• Enforce slug uniqueness at the model level (Matt Westcott)
• Enable the admin to search over any searchable fields (Kait Crawford)
  

RFCs

RFCs are proposals for major new features that are open for discussion in the community. They can either be created as a GitHub issue or as a more formal document in the RFCs repository.

This week's open RFCs:

• Menus
• Proxy page models
• Collections for image/document organisation
• Admin API
• Wagtail API V2
• Revisions UI (PR #2170)
  
• Admin view sets

Contributors

• mQuadrics
• Chris May