Issue 471 - January, 28th 2021
Headlines
Security Advisories: Drupal Core - Critical - Third-Party Libraries - SA-CORE-2021-001
DrupalCon News: Submit Your Interest to Serve on a DrupalCon Committee
A Non-Code Community Contribution Opportunity: Become a Site Moderator
All Databases Must Support JSON Functionality
Change of Behavior for File Uploads Involving Insecure File Formats Being Renamed to .txt Files
New hook_entity_form_mode_alter() Added
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