2 November 2021

Previous issue: Issue #96

News and Blog Posts

• Wagtail Localize 1.0 is out!
• Wagtail 2.15 Release Candidate 2 is out!
• Highlights of Wagtail 2.15
• Google's Summer of Code 2021 Wrap-up

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Latest changes

django-modelcluster

• Use assertRaisesRegex instead of assertRaisesRegexp for Python 3.11 compatibility.

wagtail

• fix issue where nested inline panel fix broke inline panel ordering/delete
• Fix TypedTableBlock column counts causing data loss
• Formally deprecate old db search backends
• TypedTableBlock: Use SVG for add button icons; use rem units for styling
• Fetch new translations from Transifex
• Start testing against Django stable/4.0.x

wagtail-localize

• Add pre-commit and lint

wagtail-live

• Remove white, allow to copy paste snippets with correct indent
• Add changelog
• Render blocks in live post content each in their own div
• Fix richtext blocks comparison
• Change version to 1.0 final

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.

New RFC: RFC 74: Core module reorganisation

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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