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Issue 212 - October, 22nd 2015

News

Drupal 7.40 Released

Drupal 7.40 is a maintenance release with numerous bug fixes (no security fixes) and several new features.

Drupal 8 Core Updates for October 19, 2015

This update is chocked full with info and links about Drupal 8.

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Articles

Integrating Multisite Drupal with Apache Solr

Sean Hamlin addresses the pros and the cons of using a single shared Apache Solr core and separate cores.

Drupal 8

Build a Blog in Drupal 8: Managing Blocks

Deploy: How It'll Work in D8

Tim Millwood gives us an update on the deploy module for Drupal 8.

Drupal 8: Programmatically Adding a Views Footer

Introducing Drupal 8's Entity Validation API

Let's Get It Translated! Drupal 8 RC1 Is Here!

Learn how you can help translate Drupal 8.

The Drupal 8 Theming Guide - a Free Book

The stated goal of this book is to "... provide you with a complete overview of the front-end changes made in Drupal 8 and to get you started with creating a custom Drupal 8 theme."

Tutorials

Drupal 7 Node Access Grants

John Ennew shows us two methods for controlling access to nodes.

Headless Drupal | a Simple Contact Form in Node.js

In this installment of their headless Drupal & Node.js series Joris Snoek discusses building a contact form with Node.js.

Managing Users with Drush

Yep, you can in fact manage users using Drush and it's often my favorite way to do it.

Why and How We Migrated Comments to Disqus

Juampy discribes how and why Lullabot moved their site's comments out of Drupal and into Disqus.

Releases

Address 8.x-1.0-Beta1

admin_toolbar 8.x-1.10

commerce_backoffice 7.x-1.5

commerce_kickstart 7.x-1.39

composer_manager 8.x-1.0-Rc1

Drupal 7.40

Features 7.x-2.7

Flag 7.x-3.7

Openchurch 7.x-2.2

Openoutreach 7.x-1.24

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