5 October 2021

Previous issue: Issue #92

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• New Plugin wagtail-clip (search your Wagtail images using natural language queries)

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Latest changes

wagtail

• Frontend
  • Fix link to node.js download
  • Update _dropdown.legacy.scss - Styling for the dropdown
• Logging and history
  • Model audit log - snippet / modeladmin history views
  • Model audit log - site history report
  • Model audit log - add logging
  • Add object type column to site history report
  • Make PageLogEntry expose a single Page object type rather than breaking down by page type
  • Nicer labels for object type dropdown
  • Add object type filter to audit log report
  • Populate User filter from both ModelLogEntry and PageLogEntry
  • Update LogEntriesView to combine results from PageLogEntry and ModelLogEntry
• Internationalisation
  • Drop nl_NL
  • Add page synchronization to simple_translation
  • Use gettext_lazy on wagtail.users.views.groups
  • Fetch new translations from Transifex
  • fix double-pasted comment
  • Drop nl_NL, Dutch translations are moved to nl on Transifex
• Security
  • Add section about CSV exports to security docs
• Support
  • Link to Github discussion boards
• Compatibility
  • Make wagtail compatible with django 4.0
  • Fix sass build on Windows
  • update documentation & 2.15 release to drop IE11 support
  • replaced removed .is_ajax method with request.headers.get('x-requested-with') == 'XMLHttpRequest'.
  • replaced removed urlquote function with quote from standard library
• Workflow
  • workflow - only show active Tasks in the chooser modal
  • Include latest changes for hiding disabled workflow tasks
• Images
  • Use a mixin instead of properties for various image file related methods
• Search
  • SQLite Search Backend
• Admin UI
  • Generic framework for object listings
  • handle nulls in UserColumn
  • Cache compiled templates on Column
  • Add a User column type
  • Gracefully handle not specifying an edit URL on generic IndexView
  • Add a human-readable date column type
  • Don't crash on undefined index_url_name (because there's probably a lot of third-party code using IndexView already)
  • Add column ordering to groups index
  • Implement actual working column ordering
  • Add pagination to base generic index view
  • Replace wagtailusers/groups/list.html with table module
  • Reimplement wagtaillocales/index.html with wagtail.admin.tables
  • allow edit URL to be overridden from IndexView
  • Ensure media from columns is pulled through to table views
  • Reimplement wagtailsites/index.html with wagtail.admin.tables
  • Give generic IndexView a usable default listing
  • Add TitleColumn class for columns with links
  • Implement a module for formatting data into tables
  • Refactor ReportView to expose a get_filtered_queryset method
  • Add "other permissions" to group permissions
• Docs
  • Add How-To instructions for landing-page redirects
  • Docs: Include custom permissions hook documentation
  • Removing ambiguity in the Template Override ModelAdmin documentation
  • Add code example to documentation around `before_delete_page` hook.
• Modeladmin
  • Add last-updated row to modeladmin edit page header
  • history view for modeladmin
• Snippets
  • Better styling for snippets 'last updated' link
  • Add snippet history view
  • Output last log entry on snippet edit view

wagtail-localize-git

• Allow installation on Wagtail 2.14
• Bump version to 0.10.0
• Add a changelog

wagtail-algolia-search

• Add code comments
• Add FilterFields to filtering
• Add filtering implementation
• Add initial AlgoliaSearchBackend
• Add testing setup
• Initial commit

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.

Recent RFCs:

• RFC 68: improve the new project user experience
• RFC 69: Model audit logging
• RFC 70: Wagtail Vision
• RFC 71: support for responsive images & picture element
• RFC 72: Background workers

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

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