I have gone through all the Drupalcon sessions in Portland and selected those that I think are perfect for someone learning Drupal. Here is the result. NOTE: Did I miss anything that you think it should be highlighted here? Please let me know 😊.
Problem/Motivation Add a new Administrative Navigation Toolbar in core being current worked in the Navigation contrib module after proposing [#3364258]. Proposed resolution Add the new Navigation Toolbar in core as beta. The Roadmap to Stable can be found at [#3421969]. We tested and validated a left, vertical toolbar because it...
This is a refresh of an old article I wrote in my previous life as a Technical Solutions Manager in Acquia. The old approach uses Drush, while the 2024 version is much faster to set up and easy to use through the Drupal UI.
To fulfill our mission and to better support the availability of Drupal, the Drupal Association is re-orienting the Drupal Certified Partner program to recognize and highlight those firms who represent the “small number of contributors” that “are critical to the health and future well-being” of Drupal. In other words,...
Today, we are introducing the credit bounty program. The idea is to do an initial experiment, and if it has an impact on Drupal moving forward, we’ll tweak it if needed and continue with new iterations....
The year is coming to a close and activity is already ramping down as we approach the Christmas festivities, so this month my PitchBurgh update will cover November and December.
Beginning with Drupal 10, a new Drupal major version will be released every two years in even years (2022, 2024, etc.). Each major version will receive active support for about two years, followed by maintenance support and security coverage for about two more years. Each is supported until two more major versions have been...
The vision Dries has lined up what’s next for Drupal’s roadmap. Drupal is for ambitious site builders. At this point everyone should know or should have heard his vision. Rephrasing Dries words, Drupal “[…] has become much bigger than a CMS alone”. But what does “bigger” really mean? Is it a tool to build apps?...
Beginning today, Drupal core issues reported to the Security Team with risk levels that are "Not Critical", "Less Critical", or "Moderately Critical" may be treated as bugs in the public issue queue, not as private security issues requiring a security advisory and CVE.
This first feature release of Drupal 10 is packed with amazing improvements! It makes customizing the look of your site easier, adds support for decoupled navigation, improves content modeling and editing, block management, performance and many more.
During DrupalCon Pittsburgh 2023, the members of the Drupal Community Working Group were pleased to announce the winner of the 2023 Aaron Winborn Award, Randy Fay (rfay). About Rfay Randy joined our Drupal community more than 17 years ago and has been an engaged member ever since. Randy loves dueling with computers and his...
Join us TOMORROW, Thursday, June 15 at 1pm ET / 10am PT, for our regularly scheduled call to chat about all things Drupal and nonprofits. (Convert to your local time zone.) In this month's informal chat, we'll be talking about DrupalCon Pittsburgh. What did we learn? What went well? What could be better? Got something specific...
This blog has been re-posted and edited with permission from Dries Buytaert's blog. DrupalCon North America 2023 DriesNote presentation Last week, approximately 1,500 Drupal enthusiasts came together in Pittsburgh for DrupalCon North America. In good tradition, I delivered my State of Drupal keynote. You can watch the video of...
Using single sign-on for Drupal.org identity management has been a long term goal of the Drupal Association, as it offers a number of benefits:...
August is traditionally a month when many in the northern hemisphere go on a much needed holiday from the heat and enjoy a well-deserved break from work. However, this will not stop our Pitch-burgh contest winners, who were incredibly excited about starting the work and demonstrating how an open source competition like this can...
This is a release candidate for the next minor (feature) release of Drupal 10. Release candidates are not supported for production sites, but they are intended for widespread testing in preparation for the upcoming stable release. More information on release candidates. This minor release provides improvements and new...
Introducing a new 'main'-like branching scheme for Drupal core going forward: the 11.x branch! Read on to learn what it means.