8 October 2020

Previous issue: Issue #59

News and Blog Posts

• New Blog Post: Telepath — the next evolution of StreamField
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Latest changes

wagtail

• Add a check for elasticsearch URLS
• Update wagtail app list to match installed apps in documentation.
• (FIX): Page Copy does not trigger page_published signal
• Change docs code block style to 'default'
• Fix incorrect reference to edit fields in image documentation
• Spelling fixes
• Flake8 all other Python files
• Add validation for file extension in AbstractDocument
• Add missing bind_to(instance) to ModelAdmin edit view
• Fixed an issue with copying unsaved Pages
• Allow ignoring a page when finding an available slug
• Open preview in new window
• django 3.1 deprecated django-admin.py
• added documentation for placeholder text in Field Panels
• Changelog / Release notes for #6434 and #6442
• Release note / additional fix for #6339
• remove trailing whitespace to placate doc8
• Add changelog and contributor for #6423
• Changelog / Release note / Contributor for #6420

wagtail-bakery

• Fix Factory-Boy incompatibility
• Add Circle CI config for Nightly Builds
• Fix Wagtail 2.8 Deprecation Warnings
• Fix indentation
• Update docs url

wagtail-factories

• Update supported Django and Wagtail version information
• Fix github actions tests
• Bump version: 2.0.0 → 2.0.1
• Add `make format`
• Update README.rst
• Update README.rst
• Update README.rst
• Replace travis badge with github actions
• Remove travis
• Add release workflow

wagtail.io

• Wagtail image import
• Import/Export Apps Setup
• Correct features airtable using settings for blog

wagtail-transfer

• Multi table inheritance support
• Add deliberate failing test to test out nightly CI
• Add nightly test script
• tinker with circleci config
• Add .circleci/config.yml

docker-wagtail-develop

• Add command for updating repos
• Drop unnecessary user from web container

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.

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