Issue 356 - September, 13th 2018

News

Dries Buytaert: Drupal 8.6.0 Released

"I firmly believe this is the most significant Drupal 8 release to date. It is significant because we made a lot of progress on all twelve of Drupal 8 core's strategic initiatives. As a result, Drupal 8.6 delivers a large number of improvements for content authors, evaluators, site builders and developers."

Drupal Blog: Drupal 8.6.0 Is Available

..."includes two new easy ways to install Drupal, a cooking magazine demo, oEmbed media support, stable upgrades for monolingual Drupal sites, a new media library and workspaces experimental modules, significant layout improvements, various REST fixes and testing improvements."

Drupal.org Blog: What's New on Drupal.org? - August 2018

The big highlight here is the announced migration of the Drupal.org developer tools to GitLab.

Config Installer Now Installs Optional Configuration with Recursive Dependencies

HAL and JSON Normalizers Now Support Map Field and Property Types

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Dries Buytaert: Who Sponsors Drupal Development? (2017-2018 Edition)

The annual report from Dries Buytaert about how Drupal development is supported and promoted.

Drupal Association Blog: Privileged to Serve

From Hestenet (https://www.drupal.org/u/hestenet), "I am privileged and humbled to have been asked to serve as interim Executive Director. I take on this new responsibility with great care - care that is at the core of who I am and how much I hope that I have demonstrated to you over the years as an active member of our community and staff. I also continue to have tremendous confidence that both Drupal itself and the Association are poised to do great things."