12 October 2021

Previous issue: Issue #93

News and Blog Posts

• Tutorial Branching Workflows in Wagtail
• Stack Overflow How to customise Wagtail's edit form

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Latest changes

wagtail

• MySQL Search Backend
• Updates to docs for new database search backend
• Documentation for autocomplete API [RFC 27]
• Upgrade modernizr and jquery
• Capture log output from style fallback unit test
• Add support for Python 3.10
• Windows high contrast mode css fix
• update hooks documentation to use mark_safe as no variables are used
• Deployment docs - update wagtail getting started
• add tags to existing Django registered checks
• Use SVG icon in StreamField buttons and headers
• Use SVG icon instead of font icon in modeladmin index view
• Fix toggle switch bug in high-contrast mode
• Add ability to customise the pre-filled Image title (image uploads)

rfcs

• RFC 65: Adding UUIDs into ListBlock

stylelint-config-wagtail

• option name fix & package updates

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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