Drupal 9 Porting Weekend May 22-23, 2020
Join the Drupal Community in this worldwide event focusing on Drupal 9 stability and adoption across contributed projects. Over 1600 projects are already Drupal 9 compatible a month before Drupal 9's release which is unprecedented. However, there are still thousands that only need very small changes and a release made.
The first Drupal 9 Porting Day was on April 28, 2020, led by Gábor Hojtsy, Lee Rowlands, Vladimir Roudakov, QED42, Srijan, Adam Bergstein and Mike Lutz. Altogether 126 issues were worked on that resulted in 89 newly Drupal 9 compatible releases on that day and the following two days. It was not only successful but we had a lot of fun too. So we are of course here to do another one this month!
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Drupal 9.0.0-beta1 has been released!
Huge thanks for responding to our call for contributors posted at the beginning of the month. All must-have beta requirements have been completed, so, we've released Drupal 9.0.0-beta1! Drupal 8.9.0-beta1 will be released next week (the week of March 23).
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This week is the first target release window for the Drupal 9 beta.
We’ve made significant progress on the beta requirements during the last couple of months thanks to the tremendous amount of work by the community. Based on the outstanding tasks in the meta issue, we are close to completing beta requirements, but not close enough to release it this week.
When will Drupal 9.0.0-beta1 be released?
Given how close we are to completing the beta requirements, we are considering releasing the beta in mid-March if the requirements are complete by March 13. If we do release the beta in 1-2 weeks, Drupal 9.0.0 will still be scheduled for release on June 3, 2020. We will make a final announcement by March 16 about whether there will be a June release.
If any must-have issues remain unresolved by March 13, we will move the beta target window to the first week of May, and Drupal 9.0.0 will be scheduled for August 3, 2020.
Read moreDrupal 9 meetings now every Monday at 7pm UTC, help us prepare for beta!
We started the "All things Drupal 9" meetings all the way back in October 2018 to start preparing for the new major release. Now in 2020, the year of Drupal 9, it was natural to make the meeting happen every Monday given the target dates coming up fast.
Contributed project maintainers, site owners, core developers are all welcome. If you are planning a Drupal 9 project for later in the year, this is your place as well. We open the floor with equal opportunity for people to propose topics, so we can cover your pressing questions as well! Join at 7pm UTC in the #d9readiness channel on Drupal Slack any Monday. The next meeting will be on January 13th, 2020.
We've been promoting Drupal 9's June 3rd 2020 target release date a lot, but that can only happen if the Drupal 9.0.0 beta requirements are all done by the end of February 2020, which is coming up real fast. There are still a lot to do and we need your help! If that does not happen, then the release will happen in August or December. While that would give less time for Drupal 8 users to update, we cannot compromise on the stability of Drupal 9 out of the gate.
Check out the detailed alternate timelines at https://www.drupal.org/core/release-cycle-overview
Read moreDrupal Global Contribution Weekend January 24-26, 2020
Small local contribution events everywhere (well, not everywhere, but anywhere) will be held during from (Friday) January 24 to (Sunday) 26 2020. Listed alphabetically by continent, country, locality (state, province, city; where applicable).
For general information about the event format, please visit the landing page Drupal Global Contribution Weekend.
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Drupal Security team response to recent news articles relating to SA-CORE-2018-002 and SA-CORE-2018-004
Various media outlets are reporting that a large number of Drupal sites are still vulnerable to the recent highly critical core vulnerabilities SA-CORE-2018-002 and SA-CORE-2018-004.
Those reports are all based on the same source. The source investigated the contents of CHANGELOG.txt of a large number of sites and assumed all sites reporting a version lower than 7.58 to be vulnerable.
Read moreHave your say in where Drupal 8 is going by participating in key initiatives
Maybe you have seen Dries Buytaert's DrupalCon keynote and are looking forward to all the goodies coming in future Drupal 8 versions. The truth is none of those things will happen without people who want to make them happen to solve their own challenges with implementing and showcasing Drupal solutions. Are you implementing decoupled solutions and have issues you are working on? In the middle of building up a suite of integrated media solutions? These core team meetings are ideal to bring in these issues and discuss solutions and to be part of shaping up where Drupal 8 is heading. Read on for details.
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Florida Drupalcamp 2018: February 16th, 17th, and 18th in beautiful Orlando, FL
Florida Drupalcamp 2018 is our 10th anniversary and we're going to make it extra special this year! We have three days (spread out over President's Day weekend):
| Fri, Feburary 16th | Full day of free trainings |
| Sat, February 17th | Full day of sessions (including Lightning Talks!) |
| Sun, Feburary 18th | Half day sessions / half day mentored code sprint |
This year we have three amazing featured speakers lined up:
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Angie "Webchick" Byron is a Drupal core committer, co-author of the O'Reilly book Using Drupal, Drupal Association Board Member, Acquian, and general Drupal community cat herder. |
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Sally "Justafish" Young is a Senior Technical Architect at Lullabot, and a Drupal 8 JavaScript Core Maintainer. |
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Adam "Nerdstein" Bergstein is the Associate Director of Engineering at Civic Actions. He has a masters in application security, and experience in higher education and consulting sectors. |
Session submissions are still open!
We need more sessions! We have tons of rooms to fill! The deadline to submit sessions is January 22nd. We love session submissions on topics other than Drupal including
- JavaScript frameworks (React, Vue, Angular, et al)
- Other CMS’s differences with Drupal (WP, Craft, etc)
- Integrations with Drupal
- Case studies on using Drupal
- General Web topics and technologies (free software, CSS, etc)
- Business related topics
- SysAdmin / DevOps (Containers, etc)
- Being Human (Imposter Syndrome, overcoming adversity, inclusion, etc)
If that doesn't convince you...
We also have beaches down here! And it's warm in February!
Ready, Set, Code - GSoC 2017 starts now!
Did you know Drupal was accepted into Google Summer of Code 2017 and that Drupal selected 8 projects? In other words, Google is funding 8 people to contribute to Drupal for 10 weeks worth ~$40,000 USD (thank you Google!). Congratulations to selected students who collectively became one of the top 20 contributing organizations on drupal.org (list @ https://www.drupal.org/organizations). Proud to note that all GSoC 2017 students have already become core contributors!
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Global virtual UX sprint day on December 9, 2016
On Friday, December 9 we are organizing a global virtual Drupal UX sprint. As always, many different features and projects are currently worked on. We'll use this day to work on issues that need UX input or feedback.
What will happen that day?
Join the #ux channel on drupal.slack.com (get an invite automatically at http://drupalslack.herokuapp.com/) to participate all day.
- UX mentors will be available to help onboard designers who want to contribute
- We'll pair designers and devs (as available) to work on actionable tasks
- Planning to do some ad hoc usability testing
- An introduction to the main strategic initiatives and their UX components will be provided
Have a look at this doc and let us know what you would like to learn more about.
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