Issue 329 - March, 8th 2018

Headlines

Drupal 8.5.0

Big Steps for Migrations in Drupal 8.5.0

Drupal Association 2018 Execution Plan

The 2018 goal is growing Drupal adoption.

API-First Drupal: What's New in 8.5?

Wim Leers provides a summary of the most important API-First Initiative improvements.

From Our Sponsor

Articles

Applying Lessons from the User Guide to Drupal Documentation

Drupal 8: Hooks, Events, and Event Subscribers

DDEV - a Local Development Environment That Just Works.

Adam Bergstein tells us why he uses DDEV-local. It’s easy to use, easy to learn, and it’s FAST.

Queuing Private Messages in Drupal 8

Quick Look at Acquia Reservoir, a Headless Drupal Distribution

Three Ways We Can Improve Drupal's Evaluator Experience

Tutorials

Daily Drupal Backups with Jenkins in Five Lines

Drupal and Docker the Easy Way with Lando

Favicons: Easy Effort for Big Branding Benefits

Even if you are a beginner, a couple of key modules and a little effort can really improve your site with favicons, which not only help to build your brand, but also improve user experience.

How to Create a Responsive Off-Canvas Menu in Drupal 8

Manage URL Redirects Using Redirect Module in Drupal 8

Migrating to a Drupal 8 Date Range

The Simplest Path to a Drupal Local Environment

Andrew Berry shows us how to use our Drupal and PHP tools to quickly spin up a Drupal site without Vagrant or Docker.

Using Lando for Drupal 8 Core Issue Patch Testing

Releases

config_installer 8.x-1.6

Features 8.x-3.7

Honeypot 7.x-1.24

Jsonapi 8.x-1.12

jsonapi_extras 8.x-1.0-Rc7

Pathauto 8.x-1.1

Video

Mediacurrent: Friday 5: 5 Ways to Secure Your Drupal Site

Podcasts

Behind the Screens with Nate Lampton

Talking Drupal #160 - Config Split

Talking Drupal #161 HTTPS

Events

Drupal Drop-In

March 12th in Austin, Texas.

SANDcamp

March 21-24 in San Diego, California

Drupal Europe

September 10–14, in Darmstadt, Germany.