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RFC 114: Wagtail 8.0 roadmap updates - #114

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Wagtail 7.4 is out! Come review the new features with us at the What’s New in Wagtail webinar in a couple of weeks!

View the RFC in HTML. Once reviewed with enough feedback and approved by the core team, those changes will go live on the Wagtail Roadmap.

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@thibaudcolas thibaudcolas moved this from 🔖 Ready to ❌ Blocked in Wagtail 8.0 release planning Jun 2, 2026
@thibaudcolas thibaudcolas changed the title Draft: RFC 114: Wagtail 8.0 roadmap updates RFC 114: Wagtail 8.0 roadmap updates Jun 10, 2026
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thibaudcolas marked this pull request as ready for review June 10, 2026 13:43
@thibaudcolas thibaudcolas added the 4:Final Comment Period A 10-day final review window before the RFC is merged ('active') or rejected label Jun 10, 2026
@thibaudcolas thibaudcolas moved this from ❌ Blocked to 👀 In review in Wagtail 8.0 release planning Jun 16, 2026
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Now updated with more details on CRA readiness, based on convos with @Stormheg @zerolab. Thank you!

@abigail-hampson abigail-hampson moved this from 👀 In review to ✅ Done in Wagtail 8.0 release planning Jun 16, 2026
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I'm not 100% sure it is necessary to be included in the roadmap, but I am curious what breaking changes are going to be included (just removals of deprecated functionality, if I recall correctly) that necessitate the major version increment.

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@Scotchester good question! We didn’t go about it super precisely but the rationale was:

  1. Lots of deprecated features to remove. All pretty minor but they accumulate over time so we got 13 of them.
  2. Swappable base page model has a lot of potential for breakage.
  3. And to a lesser degree, the write API is a big change so it’s nice to have a big version number for that.

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Now updated to add more concrete start command DX improvements #14350 thanks to feedback from @lasse-cs.

This has been open for a little while so would appreciate any further reviews / approval so we can proceed!

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🚢 🇮🇹

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thibaudcolas merged commit cf0619e into wagtail:main Jun 23, 2026
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next one 👉 RFC 116: Wagtail 8.1 roadmap updates

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