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Drupal core security release window on Wednesday, May 15
The monthly security release window for Drupal 6 and Drupal 7 core will take place on Wednesday, May 15.
This does not mean that a Drupal core security release will necessarily take place on that date for either the Drupal 6 or Drupal 7 branches, only that you should prepare to look out for one (and be ready to update your Drupal sites in the event that the Drupal security team decides to make a release).
There will be no bug fix release on this date; the next window for a Drupal core bug fix release is Wednesday, June 5.
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Getting the Twig initiative done
Per Dries's post about Drupal 8 release risk, this post outlines a plan jointly developed by the Drupal core maintainers (Dries, webchick, catch, and alexpott) for getting Twig into core safely. See that post for more background information.
What's up with Twig?
Read moreNo Drupal core release on Wednesday, May 1
The monthly Drupal core bug fix release window is scheduled for this Wednesday. However, since the last Drupal 7 bug fix release was only one month ago and there haven't been many changes added to the 7.x development version since then, there won't be a release this week.
Upcoming release windows include:
- Wednesday, May 15 (security release window)
- Wednesday, June 5 (bug fix release window)
Drupal Dev Days Dublin sprints coming up with final chance for Drupal 8 API changes
Drupal Dev Days Dublin is ideally timed to be at the very last minute when developers can still come together and make API changes to Drupal 8 core as per the current timeline.
The event is looking for sponsors, awaiting session submissions and people to register (only €25 for a standard ticket).
This is also a first of a kind event where extended sprinting is built into the planning. The generous folks at DIT (Dublin Institute of Technology) are providing space for the sprints the whole week before the event as well as the sessions. There are already Multilingual, Views and Field API/Entity API sprints proposed. Do you want to lead a sprint on Mobile, Performance or some other favorite topic or join existing sprints? Sign up for the event (on the site) and for the sprints (in the sheet linked below).
Practical details
- Dates
- 24th (Mon) to 28th (Fri) of June 2013 (may also continue all the way to 30th of June depending on space and interest, parallel to sessions).
- Times
- We start each day at 9am and plan to wind down sprinting at 7pm to go for food. Exact schedules depend on teams, hunger, etc.
- Location
- Dublin Institute of Technology; DIT Aungier Street, Dublin 2 (only a few minutes walk from Stephen's Green).
HELP! Drupal 8 issues need summaries
+ Needs issue summary update
The main body of a Drupal.org issue is its editable issue summary. Clear issue summaries are recommended for most Drupal core issues, and core maintainers can require them before an issue is considered for a commit.
We need more up-to-date summaries for Drupal 8 issues. Read on for how you can help, or start right away by updating the summary of an issue tagged with Needs issue summary update.
Read moreDrupal core security release window on Wednesday, April 17
The monthly security release window for Drupal 6 and Drupal 7 core will take place on Wednesday, April 17.
This does not mean that a Drupal core security release will necessarily take place on that date for either the Drupal 6 or Drupal 7 branches, only that you should prepare to look out for one (and be ready to update your Drupal sites in the event that the Drupal security team decides to make a release).
There will be no bug fix release on this date; the next window for a Drupal core bug fix release is Wednesday, May 1.
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Removing region and position from block theming
In Drupal 7, not only do you have region.tpl.php in which there's ample opportunity to customize wrapper markup around blocks, you are also able to override block markup on a per-region basis via a block--REGION_NAME.tpl.php file, as well as alter any block variable based on $region within your THEME_NAME_preprocess_block() function.
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D8 Q&A - Recap + watch the live broadcast!
Hey Dreeps,
We held our D8 live Q&A session today! Despite a few bumps in the road (google decided to mute everyone for a little while lol), it was a great success :)
Thanks to everyone who sent in questions, and to the IO's for answering them and giving their time so generously :)
Below is a recap of helpful timestamps to check out, a list of resources mentioned, and questions that were answered.
Please tell us if you liked this and would like more!
Best,
Shan
Watch the Q&A Session!
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Twig Status Update and Call for Contributors
In the beginning, there was a huge outpour of support for Twig and a lot of people helped with the conversion. However, as various issues blocked it, most people have understandably disappeared. Now that Twig is available during Drupal installation, we can continue with conversion of core theme functions and templates.
We’ve got about 2 weeks to finish up conversion (mid-April) so we can move on to things like implement Twig’s autoescape functionality and consolidate similar templates and theme functions.
Read moreJoin us for a live Drupal 8 question & answer session on April 11th 10am EDT !
Recap + Q's + timestamps + resources noted here for you
LIVE BROADCAST: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=dIP8u2xYQps
Drupal 8 is the first development cycle introducing Drupal core initiatives, which are key focus areas for improving Drupal. Each core initiative is led by an individual or small team, and these initiative leads guide the efforts of other core contributors around their initiative. The initiatives are only a part of all Drupal 8 development, but most of the big Drupal 8 changes have been worked on by these initiative teams. (Read more about the core initiatives.)
Several of the initiative leads participated in a Drupal 8 question & answer session at DrupalCon Sydney and it went very well, so we want to repeat that experience by providing another opportunity to talk with the global Drupal community!
Goals of the session:
- Share the status, milestones, and next steps for each Drupal 8 initiative.
- Answer your questions: Want to know what’s going on, or how you can get involved? Now’s your chance to talk with us!
Looking for sponsors to help make the Portland extended core sprints amazing!
DrupalCon Portland includes a community sprint Friday that is probably the most organised DrupalCon sprint ever. The sprints cover three different groups of contributors and span four rooms! Isn't that amazing?
Well, for core developers there is never enough core development opportunities, so we top this off with a whole lot more sprinting possibilities for those who arrive early and/or leave late and are already well entrenched or want to get involved in a core initiative. We have 5 (five!) extra sprint days in total, 3 before and 2 after DrupalCon, so counting the DrupalCon sprint day, that is 6 days of sprinting. There is a great number of people who signed up, topics include Views, Configuration management, Mobile, Multilingual, Twig, Web services, Plugins, Field API, etc. Its a real all-encompassing sprint for core developers.
We already have some great sponsors who made it possible to provide the sprint space nearby the DrupalCon venue, but we would love to be able to have drinks and snacks for sprinters to let them focus on making Drupal 8 the best release ever. Therefore we are looking to have more sponsors to help cover additional costs.
See http://groups.drupal.org/node/281033 for more information and sponsorship contact details! Thanks to sprinters and sponsors for making a dent with Drupal 8!
Read moreDrupal 7 core release on Wednesday, April 3
The monthly Drupal core bug fix release window is this Wednesday, and since it has been a while since the last Drupal 7 bug fix release, I've decided to go ahead and plan to release Drupal 7.22 on that date. Per our release policy, this will be a bug fix release only (no security fixes).
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Making the D8 Toolbar meet contrib's needs now and into the future
TL;DR -- Drupal 8 Toolbar code improvements are moving along. Let's discuss contrib DX improvements, propose solutions and build them.
Near the end of 2012 we updated the Drupal Toolbar with a mobile first design approach.
http://drupal.org/node/1137920
We accepted many followups as the cost of getting this improvement committed to core. I'm happy to say that a large number of these, including the most pressing, have already been addressed.
https://drupal.org/node/1846970
Read moreD8 Initiatives Updated!
Hi guys,
I spent a chunk of my sunday updating the initiatives for us, go check out the latest news post-feature freeze and all the top issues here:
http://drupal.org/community-initiatives/drupal-core
Thanks to Ashleigh Thevenet and Shyamala for your help with these :)
Happy Monday!
Shannon
Drupal core security release window on Wednesday, March 20
The monthly security release window for Drupal 6 and Drupal 7 core will take place on Wednesday, March 20.
This does not mean that a Drupal core security release will necessarily take place on that date for either the Drupal 6 or Drupal 7 branches, only that you should prepare to look out for one (and be ready to update your Drupal sites in the event that the Drupal security team decides to make a release).
There will be no bug fix release on this date; the next window for a Drupal core bug fix release is Wednesday, April 3.
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The road ahead for SCOTCH
We've posted an overview of where the SCOTCH initiative is at, and our plans for the remainder of the Drupal 8 cycle. Initially it was posted here, but that's not policy, so we've moved it out of this group.
Drupal 8 requires PHP 5.3.10 starting March 15
On March 15, the PHP version requirement for Drupal 8 will be increased to 5.3.10. (We are giving developers a week's advance notice so that they can update their Drupal 8 development environments.)
For background information on this change, see the Drupal 8 issue: http://drupal.org/node/1800122
The Web Services inititiave at feature freeze
I've posted a status update for the WSCCI Initiative, and where we stand as of Drupal 8 Feature Freeze. We've gotten a ton done, but we still have a ton to do before we can really close the deal on Drupal 8 being an earth-shattering success. If you want Drupal 8 to be an earth-shattering success, see that post for the various places that we could use help right now, and how you can get involved.
Possible Drupal 7 core release on Wednesday, March 6 (focusing on image style followups from Drupal 7.20)
The monthly Drupal core bug fix release window is scheduled for this Wednesday. However, there will be not be a standard bug fix release of Drupal 7 on that date. Instead, there might be a limited release focusing only on fixing problems introduced in Drupal 7.20. Stay tuned for more details on that.
Read moreDrop PUT support from REST.module
The REST team believes it's in Drupal's best interest to back off from supporting PUT requests directly in the rest.module. While it is still supportable by the core routing system, the semantics of PUT and the complexity of Drupal entities are just too incompatible to be viable at this time.
Feedback on this decision is welcome in the announcement thread until 4 March, but at this time we don't believe it is possible to support well.
