Issue 287 - April, 27th 2017

News

Drupal Core - Critical - Access Bypass - SA-CORE-2017-002

This is a critical access bypass vulnerability, but only sites that meet the conditions listed on the page are affected.

Supporting the Next Evolution of Drupal's Community Governance

What's New on Drupal.org? - March 2017

From Our Sponsor

Articles

Drupal, We Need to Talk

Dave Hall shares his thoughts on the current status of Drupal and ideas about it's direction for the future. His points are ones I have been hearing for the past two years. I highly recommend you read this today.

Dries Buytaert: Drupal Is API-First, Not API-Only

"Headless is important, but supporting both headless and traditional approaches is one of the biggest advantages of Drupal."

5 Steps to Start Interacting with Drupal.org Issues: Practical Tips for Beginners

Cross-Pollination Between Drupal and WordPress

Lullabot's Mike Herchel shares his experience speaking at WordCamp Miami. Mike offers some interesting insights from the Wordpress community and project.

Drupal 6 in 2019? Yes, Really :-)

Still on Drupal 6? It's nothing to be ashamed of! We'll be right there with you.

Ngconf 2017 - Build with Us

Matt Davis shares his experiences as a Drupal developer at ngconf, a large AngularJS conference.

Tutorials

Drupal Views: The Power of Contextual Filters

A nice tutorial covering how to use the power of Views to create REST endpoints.

Installing Drupal 8 from Configuration

Debug Drupal PHP in Vim with Vdebug

If you use Vim and would like to debug your Drupal code in this post yours truly shows you how to accomplish this. The post also includes a screencast where I walk through the Vdebug plugin for Vim.

Documenting Web APIs with the Swagger / OpenAPI Specification in Drupal

Empowering Drupal 8 Content Editors with EVA: Attach All the Displays!

Migrate Translations from CSV, JSON or XML to Drupal 8

Replacing hook_boot and hook_init Functionality in Drupal 8

Using BrowserSync with Drupal 8

Projects

Drupal 8 Field Layout Alternative to the Display Suite

Introducing the Drupal Extrafield Settings Module

The User Personas Module in Drupal 8: Perfect Order in Roles and Permissions

Releases

Devel 8.x-1.0-Rc2

Drupal 8.2.8

Drupal 8.3.1

Ds 8.x-3.0-Beta3

Lightning 8.x-2.12

Media 7.x-3.0-Alpha2

Rules 7.x-2.10

Salesforce 8.x-3.0-Rc1

Scheduler 8.x-1.0-Rc1

search_api 8.x-1.0-Rc4

Social 8.x-1.0-Rc3

Thunder 8.x-1.4

Vimrc 7.x-1.2

Vimrc 8.x-1.2

Webform 8.x-5.0-Beta12

Video

Drupal Modules: The One Percent — Toolbar Menu (Video Tutorial)

Workspaces, Deploy, and Relaxed Web Services

Tim Millwood demos the Workspace, Deploy, and Relaxed Web services modules.

Podcasts

Hacking Culture - Clayton Dewey on Drutopia

Insert Content Here - Noz Urbina on Domain Models and Journey Maps

Lullabot Podcast - Drupalcon Baltimore Edition

Mediacurrent: Dropcast: Episode 31 - DRUPALCON

Talking Drupal #141 - Working with MySQL

Talking Drupal #142 Pushing the Design Limits with Paragraphs