Issue 245 - June, 23rd 2016

News

Drupal 8.1.3 and 7.44 Released

Drupal 8.1.3 and 7.44, maintenance releases which contain fixes for security vulnerabilities, are now available for download.

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Articles

Dries Buytaert: The Long Path to Being Understood

Ensuring Drupal 8 Block Cache Tags Bubble Up to the Page

Evaluating the Security of Drupal Contrib Modules

Introduction to GraphQL for Drupal Developers

The Risks and Rewards of Fully Decoupling Drupal

Lightning Distro for Drupal: Build Advanced Authoring Experiences in Drupal 8

Developers gain a massive head-start when building great authoring experiences with Lightning, but it has not been a simple development roadmap. In this webinar, learn about some of the decisions we had to tackle, the roadmap for Lightning including the Workplace Preview System and Decoupled Blocks integration, and a demo of all 18 user stories so you understand the intent and operation of the features we have implemented.

Tutorials

5 Mistakes to Avoid on Your Drupal Website - Number 2: Security

Creating Content Builder Using Paragraphs

Debug Site Performance Using Web Profiler in Drupal 8

Github's New Unlimited Private Repositories + Automated Deployments!

Now that Github is offering unlimited private repositories for only $7, it couldn't be more affordable to start leveraging deployment automation. Stop deploying manually and instead focus more on innovating!

How to Fix a Testbot Bug When Adding New Tests

Learn Views in Drupal 8

Let’s Debug in Drupal 8!

Nice overview of Drupal specific tools and methods for debugging in Drupal 8 from Karine Chor.

Reusable Media in Drupal 8 - It's a Reality, Here's How!

Using XHProf to Profile Your Drupal Module

Projects

Drupal 8 Module of the Week: Rules

Native PHPStorm Drupal Test Runner

Releases

Drupal 7.44

Drupal 8.1.3

Guardr 7.x-2.30

Iframe 7.x-1.8

Iframe 8.x-1.5

Lightning 8.x-1.00

media_entity_instagram 8.x-1.1

menu_block 8.x-1.0

Openatrium 7.x-2.64

Panopoly 7.x-1.37

Plugin 8.x-2.2

Restful 7.x-2.11

Speedy 7.x-1.24

video_embed_field 8.x-1.1

Views 7.x-3.14

Podcasts

Acquia Podcast: Drupal 8 for Beginners - Meet Brandon Relph

DrupalEasy Podcast 179 - Need to Pee (Michael Schmid, amazee.io, Drupal Community Keynote)

Lullabot Podcast: Lullabot Project Manager Roundtable

Mediacurrent: Dropcast: Episode 21- Finally Oscar Menjivar

Talking Drupal #121 - Changing of the Guard