Issue 444 - July, 2nd 2020
News
Dries Buytaert: Caring for Old Software - Drupal 7 EoL
"Given the impact of COVID-19 on organizations' budgets, we extended Drupal 7's end-of-life date by one year. Drupal 7 will receive security updates until November 2022, instead of November 2021."
Security Public Service Announcements: Extending Drupal 7's End-of-Life - PSA-2020-06-24
Drupal9 at DrupalCon Global
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Articles
Continuous Deployment, Infrastructure as Code, and Drupal: Part 1
Deploying Translations in Drupal
Drupal 7 End of Life and Your Options
Drupal Services Private File Access Bypass via IDOR
"There’s a feature in Drupal that not a lot of people know about, but is a great target for security research - private files. Private files allow you to upload files to a non-public directory on your server, then serve them through Drupal instead of through your HTTP server."
We Support the Mainstream Drupal: Drupal 7
The longevity of Drupal 7 is for real!
Drupal Services SQL Injection - Don't Trust Abstractions
Is It Time to Give Drupal Another Look?
The New Issue Forks Functionality Is Going to Be Awesome.
Tutorials
Drupal 8 Commerce Add Promotion Programmatically to the Order or Shopping Cart
Drupal Migrations (IV): Debugging Migrations-I
Redirect Anonymous Users to Login Page
Includes a working example D9 compatible module.
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Releases
Commerce 8.x-2.20
Lando v3.0.7
layout_builder_at 8.x-2.11
Letsencrypt 8.x-1.5
menu_link_attributes 8.x-1.1
modal_page 8.x-2.14
module_builder 8.x-3.8
permissions_by_term 8.x-2.25
role_expire 8.x-1.7
smtp_multiple 8.x-1.0
Webform 8.x-5.18
Xmlsitemap 8.x-1.0
Video
State of Drupal 9 - First Post-Release Recording from Drupal India Conclave
Upgrading DrupalEasy.com to Drupal 9, Part 4
Podcasts
DrupalEasy Podcast 233 - Ashraf Abed (Debug Academy), Drupal News Update
Tag1 TeamTalk #018: The Story of Drupal 9's Release from the inside with the Drupal Association
Talking Drupal #253 - Drupal 9.0
Events
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